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PUBLIC LAW 103-160—NOV. 30, 1993 107 STAT. 1705 "(2) to manufacture the kind, quantity, or quality of arms or ammunition, parts thereof, or necessary supplies, as ordered by the Secretary; or "(3) to furnish them at a reasonable price as determined by the Secretary. "(d) USE OF SEIZED PLANT. —The President, through the Secretary of Defense, may manufacture products that are needed in time of war or when war is imminent, in any plant that is seized under subsection (c). "(e) COMPENSATION REQUIRED. — Each person or industry from whom products or materials are ordered under subsection (a) is entitled to fair and just compensation. Each person or industry whose plant is seized under subsection (c) is entitled to a fair and just rental. "(1) CRIMINAL PENALTY. —W hoever fails to comply with this sectirin shall be imprisoned for not more than three years and fined under title 18.

    • § 2£>39. Industrial mobilization: plants; lists

"(a) LIST OF PLANTS EQUIPPED TO MANUFACTURE ARMS OR AMMUNITION.— The Secretary of Defense may maintain a list of all privately owned plants in the United States, and the territories, Commonwealths, and possessions of the United States, that are equipped to manufacture for the armed forces arms or ammunition, or parts thereof, and may obtain complete information of the kinds of those products manufactured or capable of being manufactured by each of those plants,, and of the equipment and capacity of each of those plants. "(b) LIST OF PLANTS CONVERTIBLE INTO AMMUNITION FAC- TORIES.— The Secretary of Defense may maintain a list of privately owned plants in the United States, and the territories, (Commonwealths, and possessions of the United States, that are capable of being readily transformed into factories for the manufacture of ammiuiition for the armed forces and that have a capacity sufficient to warrant conversion into ammunition plants in time of war or when war is imminent, and may obtain complete information as to the equipment of each of those plants. "(c) CONVERSION PLANS.—The Secretary of Defense may prepare comprehensive plans for converting each plant listed pursuant to subsection (b) into a factory for the manufacture of ammunition or parts thereof.

  • '§2540. Industrial mobilization: Board on Mobilization of

Industries Essential for Military Preparedness "The President may appoint a nonpartisan Board on Mobilization of Industries Essenitial for Military Preparedness, and may provide necessary cleriail assistance, to organize and coordinate operations under sections 2538 and 2539 of this title.". (2) Sections 4501, 4502, 9501, and 9502 of title 10, United States Code, are repealed. (b) AVAILABILITY OF SAMPLES, DRAWINGS, INFORMATION, EQUIP- MENT, MATERIALS, AND CERTAIN SERVICES. —(1) Subchapter V of chapter 148 of title 10, United States Code, is further amended by adding at the end the following: