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PREDECESSOR AGENCIES

Petroleum Reserves Corporation (PRC), Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC, June-July 1943 )

PRC, Office of Economic Warfare (OEW, July-Sept. 1943 )

PRC, Foreign Economic Administration (FEA, Sept. 1943 -Sept. 1945 )

PRC, RFC (Sept.-Nov. 1945)

War Assets Corporation (WAC), RFC (Nov. 1945-Mar. 1946 )

Surplus War Property Administration (SWPA), Office of War Mobilization (OWM, Feb.-Oct. 1944 )

Surplus Property Board (SPB), Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion (OWMR, Oct. 1944 -Sept. 1945 )

Surplus Property Administration (SPA), OWMR (Sept. 1945 -Mar. 1946 ) ‘

FUNCTIONS

Disposed of surplus consumer, capital, and producer goods; industrial and maritime real property; and airports and aircraft located in the United States and its territories.

ABOLISHED

By the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act (63 Stat. 738), June 30 , 1949 .

SUCCESSOR AGENCIES

General Services Administration , as liquidator.

REFERENCE

Records of the War Assets Administration (WAA) in the holdings of the US National Archives and Records Administration.