66 CCMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 13, No. 7 



Defense Production Administration 



GLAIMAMT AGENCIES DBSIGNAIIED ; Government agencies which will be responsible 

 to the Defense Production Administration (DPA) for estimating basic material require- 

 ments of various segments of the nation's econony were announced by that agency in 

 the Federal Register of May 24, which also was the effective date. 



Among the claimant agencies designated by DPA Administration Order 1 are the 

 following of interest to the fishery and allied industries: 



"the secretary of agriculture with respect to (a) farm production, (b) farm 

 construction, and (c) food processing and distribution within the limits 

 of the memorandum of agreement between the administrator of the production 

 and marketing administration and the administrator of the national produc- 

 tion authority.. . 



"the secretary of THE INTERIOR, OR HIS DESIGNEES, WITH RESPECT TO. ..(e) THE 

 PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING OF FISHERY PRODUCTS AS SET FORTH IN THE SECRETARY 

 OF agriculture's DELEGATION DATED OCTOBER 13, 1950, ..1/ 



"the SECRETARY OF COMMERCE WITH RESPECT TO (a) MARITIME ADMINISTRATION PRO- 

 GRAMS FOR COASTWISE, I NTERCOASTAL, AND OVERSEAS SHIPPING, AND MERCHANT SHIP 

 CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR... 



"the DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE (DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE) 

 WITH RESPECT TO ALL EXPORTS NOT ELSEWHERE DESIGNATED... 



The various claimant agencies are required to provide estimated delivery 

 schedules by quarters for selected products for each program, and the amounts of 

 basic materials which will be needed during the next 12 months in order to carry 

 out the proposed levels of production, a DPA news release states. 



These claimant agencies are to submit program recommendations to the DPA Of- 

 fice of Program and Requirements wtoere they will be reviewed and further adjust- 

 ments made if necessary to keep th e supply and demand in balance. 



1/ SEE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW. NOVEMBER 1950, PP. 82-3. 



Economic Stabilization Agency 



OFFICE OF PRICE STABILIZATION 



PRICB ROT.T.BACKS PROHIBITED BY C0NGK3SS DI3RING DEFENSE ACT EgTENSION : The tem- 

 porary extension of the Defense Production Act by Congress on June 29 (H. J. Res. 

 278 signed by the President on June 30) limited the power of the Office of Price 

 Stabilization to institute price rollbacks during the extension period. 



The tenporary extension accoii5)lishes the following: 



1. EXTENDS THE EXPIRATION DATE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTROL POWERS UNDER THE 



DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT, INCLUDING THE AUTHORITY FOR PRICE AND WAGE 

 STABILIZATION, TO JULY 31, 1951. 



2. PROHIBITS OPS FROM PUTTING INTO EFFECT, OR ALLOWING TO BECOME EFFEC- 



TIVE, ANY PRICE CEILING ON ANY MATERIAL OR PRODUCT LOWER THAN THE 

 CEILING PRICE IN EFFECT FOR THAT MATERIAL OR PRODUCT ON JUNE 30 

 1951. ' 



3. PROHIBITS THE APPLICATION OF PRICE CEILINGS TO ANY MATERIALS OR SERV- 



ICES NOT PRESENTLY SUBJECT TO PRICE CONTROL, EXCEPT THAT CEILINGS 

 MAY BE PLACED ON AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES NOW SELLING BELOW PARITY 

 WHENEVER SUCH COMMODITIES REACH THE PARITY LEVEL. 



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