Executive Order 10685—Providing for the Administration of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as Amended

By virtue of the authority vested hi me by the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended, and by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. The International Cooperation Administration is hereby designated as the Federal agency to which funds required for ocean freight costs authorized under Title II of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1721-1724), may be transferred by the Commodity Credit Corporation.

SEC. 2. Sections 5 and 6 of Executive Order No. 10560 of September 9, 1954 (19 F. R. 5927), are hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 5. Reservation of functions to the President. There are reserved to the President the functions conferred upon him by section 108 of the Act (with respect to making reports to Congress) and by the last sentence of section 203 of the Act (with respect to designating the Federal agency to which funds required for ocean freight costs may be transferred by the Commodity Credit Corporation).

"SEC. 6. Definition. As used in this order the term 'Act' means the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 454), as amended, and includes, except as may be inappropriate, the provisions thereof amending other laws."

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 27, 1956.