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Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73not60

§713c Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation; Continuance of Existence; Purchase and Distribution of Surplus Agricultural Commodities

Title 15 › Chapter 15— ECONOMIC RECOVERY › Subchapter I— GENERALLY › § 713c

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture may transfer the money provided by clause (2) of section 612c of title 7 to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation. That Corporation will continue as a U.S. agency under the Secretary of Agriculture until June 30, 1945. The transferred money, plus the Corporation’s other funds, can be used—without following the usual rules for spending public money—to buy, trade, process, move, store, inspect, distribute, or dispose of agricultural commodities and related products. It can also pay inspection fees, commissions, and other incidental and administrative costs (like rent, printing, and hiring staff in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere). Hiring must follow the rules that apply to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Commodities bought this way may be donated for relief and for use in nonprofit children’s summer camps.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §713c

Commerce and Trade — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

In carrying out the provisions of clause (2) of section 612c of title 7, the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, which Corporation is continued, until June 30, 1945, as an agency of the United States under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, such funds, appropriated by said section, as may be necessary for the purpose of effectuating clause (2) of said section: Provided, That such transferred funds, together with other funds of the Corporation, may be used for purchasing, exchanging, processing, distributing, disposing, transporting, storing, and handling of agricultural commodities and products thereof and inspection costs, commissions, and other incidental costs and expenses, without regard to the provisions of existing law governing the expenditure of public funds and for administrative expenses, including rent, printing and binding, and the employment of persons and means, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, such employment of persons to be in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to the employment of persons by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. In carrying out clause (2) of said section, the funds appropriated by said section may be used for the purchase, without regard to the provisions of existing law governing the expenditure of public funds, of agricultural commodities and products thereof, and such commodities, as well as agricultural commodities and products thereof purchased under the preceding paragraph of this section, may be donated for relief purposes and for use in nonprofit summer camps for children.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1958—Pub. L. 85–483 permitted donation of commodities for use in nonprofit summer camps for children. 1942—Act
June 27, 1942, provided for the continuance of the Corporation from
June 30, 1942, to
June 30, 1945. It read as follows: “The Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation is hereby continued as an agency of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, until
June 30, 1945.” 1938—Act Feb. 16, 1938, substituted “until
June 30, 1942” for “until
June 30, 1939”.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

of Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, see

Transfer of Functions

note set out under section 712a of this title.

Reference

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 713c

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60