2001 US Code
Title 40 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
CHAPTER 3 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY
Sec. 296 - Transfer of administrative expenses into special account

In the prosecution of construction projects or planning programs assigned to the Administrator of General Services for which funds are provided by direct appropriation or transferred under authority contained in section 265 of this title, an amount administratively determined as necessary for the payment of salaries and expenses of personnel engaged upon the preparation of plans and specifications, field supervision, and general office expense, may be transferred and consolidated on the books of the Treasury Department into a special account for direct expenditure in the prosecution of said work, such expenditures to be subsequently allocated and reported upon by projects in accordance with procedures prescribed by the General Accounting Office.

(June 14, 1946, ch. 404, §9, 60 Stat. 259; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, §103(a), 63 Stat. 380.)

Section 265 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 86–249, §17(11), Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 485.

Functions of office of Commissioner of Public Buildings and Public Buildings Administration transferred to Administrator of General Services by section 103(a) of act June 30, 1949, which is classified to section 753(a) of this title. Office of Commissioner of Public Buildings and Public Buildings Administration abolished by section 103(b) of act June 30, 1949.

Transfer of functions by act June 30, 1949, effective July 1, 1949, see section 605 of act June 30, 1949, set out as an Effective Date note under section 471 of this title.

This section is referred to in sections 490, 490a of this title.