Executive Order 10260—Designating Certain Agencies Pursuant to Section 103 (a) of the Renenogiation Act of 1951

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Renegotiation act of 1951 (Public Law 9, 82nd Congress), hereinafter referred to as the Act, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

1. The Federal Civil Defense Administration, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the United State Coast Guard, each of which exercises functions having a direct and immediate connection with the national defense, and hereby designated, pursuant to section 103 (a) of the Act, as agencies of the Government included within the definition of the term "Department" for the purposes of Title I of the Act.

2. In accordance with section 102 of the Act, the provisions of Title I of the Act, shall be applicable to all contracts with each agency designated in paragraph 1 of this order, and related subcontracts, to the extent of the amounts received or accrued by a contractor or subcontractor on or after the first day of July 1951, whether such contracts or subcontracts were made on, before, or after that date.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 27, 1951