Executive Order 10734—Amendment of Executive Order No. 10657, Relating to the Transfer to the Housing and Home Finance Administrator of Certain Functions Under the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 471), as amended, and particularly by section 101 thereof, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 1 of Executive Order No. 10657 of February 14, 1956, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. There are hereby transferred to the Housing and Home Finance Administrator (hereafter called the Administrator) all of the functions, duties, and responsibilities of the Atomic Energy Commission (hereinafter called the Commission) under sections 34 to 36, inclusive, sections 51 to 55, inclusive, section 57, sections 61 to 66, inclusive, and section 116, of the Act, and under the third sentence of section 32 of the Act, with the following exceptions and qualifications:

"(a) The Commission shall retain the power and duty of, and the responsibility for, (i) determining the property to be offered for disposal pursuant to section 52, the improvements to be designated as eligible for a credit under subsections 36a and 36b, the extent to which a lessee has been previously compensated for improvements under subsection 36a, and the provisions and procedures to be adopted pursuant to subsections 55b to 55e, inclusive, and (ii) removing or transferring property pursuant to subsections 52a (1) and 52a (2).

"(b) The Commission shall retain such duties and responsibilities under section 57a as it shall specify and give notice thereof to the Administrator.

"(c) The Administrator may reimburse the Federal Housing Commissioner, under the aforesaid third sentence of section 32 of the Act, from the Community Disposal Operations Fund established under section 117 of the Act."

SEC. 2. Each reference to "the Act" in the said Executive Order No. 10657, as amended, shall be deemed to include, except as may be inappropriate, a reference to the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955, as amended.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 17, 1957.