Executive Order 10593—Amending Executive Order No. 10296, as Amended, To Authorize the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization To Perform Additional Functions of the President

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code (65 Stat. 713), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that section 2 of Executive Order No. 10296 of October 2, 1951 (16 F. R. 10103), as amended, entitled "Providing for the Performance of Certain Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Functions", be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

2. The Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization is hereby designated and empowered to perform, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the functions vested in the President by section 104 of the Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1951, as amended (which Act, as amended, is hereinafter referred to as the Act), relative to the designation of periods during which, and relative to the designation of projects for which:

(1) Mortgages may be insured under Title IX of the National Housing Act, as amended.

(2) Agreements may be made to extend assistance for the provision of community facilities or services under Title III of the Act.

(3) The construction of temporary housing or community facilities may be begun by the United States under Title III of the Act.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 27, 1955.