White House Press Release, Executive Order Number 9816

512 or #949 IMEDIATE RELEASE DECEMBER 31, 1946 EXECUTIVE ORDER 9816 PROVIDING FOR !THE TRANSFER OF PROPERTIES AND PERSONNEL TO THE LATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and the Navy, it is hereby ordered and directed CS follows: 1. There are transforred to the Atomic Energy Commission all interests owned by the United Statos or any Government agency in the following property: (a) All fissionable material; all atomic weapons and parts thereof; all facilities, equip- mont, and materials for the processing, produc- tion, or utilization for fissionable material. or atomic energy; all processos and technical in- formation of any kind, and the source thereof (including data, drawings, specifications, patents, patent applications, and other sources) relating to the processing, production, or utilization, of fissionable material or atomic energy; and all contracts, agreements, leases, patents, applica- tions for patents, inventions and discoveries (whether patented or unpatented), and other rights of any kind concerning any such items. NARA (b) All facilities, equipment, and ma- terials, devoted primarily to atomic energy research and development. 2. There also are transferred to the Atomic Energy Commission all proporty, real or personal, tangible or intangible, including records, owned by or in the possession, custody or control of the Manhattan Engineer District, War Department, in addition to the property describod in paragraph 1 above. Specific items of such property, including records, amy be excepted from transfer to the Commission in the following manner: (a) The Socretary of W ar shall notify the Commission in writing as to the specific items of property or records he wishes to except; and (b) If after full examination of the facts by the Commission, it concurs in the exception, those specific items of property or records shall be excepted from transfer to the Commission; or (c) If after full examination :of the. facts by the Commission, it doos not concur in tho exception, the matter shall be referred to the President for decision. 3. The Atomic Energy Commission shall exercise full jurisdiction over all interests and property transferred to the Commission in paragraphs 1 and 2 above, in accordance with the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946: (OVER)