Draft Executive Order, Providing for the Transfer of Properties and Personnel to the Atomic Energy Commission

DRAFT December 27, 1946 EXECUTIVE ORDER PROVIDING FOR THE TRANSFER OF PROPEATIES AND PERSONNEL TO THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Statutes of the United States, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy and as President of the United States, and pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, it is ordered and directed that: 1. There are transferred to the Atomic Energy Commission, effective forthwith, all interests owned by the United States or any Government agency in the following property: (a) All fissionable material; all atomic weapons and parts thereof; all facilities, equipment, and materials for the processing, production, or utilization of fissionable material or atomic energy; all processes and technical in- formation of any kind, and the source thereof (including data, drawings, specifications, patents, patent applica- tions, and other sources) relating to the processing, production, or utilization of fissionable material or atomic energy; and all contracts, agreements, leases, patents, applications for patents, inventions and discoveries (whether patented or unpatented), and other rights of any kind concerning any such items : (b) All facilities, equipment, and materials, devoted primarily to atomic energy research and development. 2. There also are t ransferred to the Atomic Energy Commission, effective forthwith, all property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, incluiing records, owned by or in the possession, custody or control of the Manhattan Engineer District, War Department in addition to the property described in paragraph 1 above. Specific items of such property, including records, may be excepted from transfer to the Commission in the folloring manner: (a) The Secretary of War shall notify the Commission in writing as to the specific items of property or records he wishes to except and