Code of Federal Regulations Title 41. Public Contracts and Property Management 41 CFR Pt. 102-37, App. A Appendix A to Part 102–37—Miscellaneous Donation Statutes

The following is a listing of statutes which authorize donations which do not require GSA's approval:

Statute:  10 U.S.C. 2572.

Donor Agency:  Any military department (Army, Navy, and Air Force) or the Coast Guard.

Type of Property:  Books, manuscripts, works of art, historical artifacts, drawings, plans, models, and condemned or obsolete combat material.

Eligible Recipients:  Municipal corporations;  soldiers' monument associations;  museums, historical societies, or historical institutions of a State or foreign nation;  incorporated museums that are operated and maintained for educational purposes only and the charters of which denies them the right to operate for profit;  posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States or of the American Legion or a unit of any other recognized war veterans' association;  local or national units of any war veterans' association of a foreign nation which is recognized by the national government of that nation or a principal subdivision of that nation;  and posts of the Sons of Veterans Reserve.

Statute:  10 U.S.C. 7306.

Donor Agency:  Department of the Navy.

Type of Property:  Any vessel stricken from the Naval Vessel Register or any captured vessel in the possession of the Navy.

Eligible Recipients:  States, Commonwealths, or possessions of the United States;  the District of Columbia;  and not-for-profit or nonprofit entities.

Statute:  10 U.S.C. 7541.

Donor Agency:  Department of the Navy.

Type of Property:  Obsolete material not needed for naval purposes.

Eligible Recipients:  Sea scouts of the Boy Scouts of America;  Naval Sea Cadet Corps;  and the Young Marines of the Marine Corps League.

Statute:  10 U.S.C. 7545.

Donor Agency:  Department of the Navy.

Type of Property:  Captured, condemned, or obsolete ordnance material, books, manuscripts, works of art, drawings, plans, and models;  other condemned or obsolete material, trophies, and flags;  and other material of historic interest not needed by the Navy.

Eligible Recipients:  States, territories, commonwealths, or possessions of the United States, or political subdivisions or municipal corporations thereof;  the District of Columbia;  libraries;  historical societies;  educational institutions whose graduates or students fought in World War I or World War II;  soldiers' monument associations;  State museums;  museums operated and maintained for educational purposes only, whose charter denies it the right to operate for profit;  posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States;  American Legion posts;  recognized war veterans' associations;  or posts of the Sons of Veterans Reserve.

Statute:  14 U.S.C. 641(a).

Donor Agency:  Coast Guard.

Type of Property:  Obsolete or other material not needed for the Coast Guard.

Eligible Recipients:  Coast Guard Auxiliary;  sea scout service of the Boy Scouts of America;  and public bodies or private organizations not organized for profit.