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IND-51 / Property, construction and housing

Sell, transfer or donate excess/surplus defense property through disposal pathways

Dispose of property through GSA-administered or delegated processes and specific defense conservation/BRAC authorities, using competitive sales or statutory public-benefit transfers.

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At a glance

Possible toolIND-51 · Property & leases
Legal basis40 U.S.C. § 541

Authority holder: GSA Administrator for general surplus regime; Service Secretary for specific defense conveyances

Property & leases

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Excess/surplus screening and applicable disposal delegation
  • Advertising or valid negotiated/public-benefit exception
  • Conservation transfers require eligible recipient and perpetual-use/reversion protections

Limits & exclusions

  • DoD does not freely sell any needed asset or retain any proceeds
  • BRAC, environmental and homeless-assistance conditions may apply; exceptions action-specific

Funding conditions

  • Receipts handled under controlling disposal/appropriation law; no general self-financing authority.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Installation commander and Service facilities/real-estate staff
  • Service installation secretariat / ASD(EI&E) policy

Resources

  • Military Department installation budgets / project sponsor

Approval

  • Secretary concerned or properly delegated real-estate/construction official

Execution

  • USACE district real-estate/construction offices
  • NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands
  • AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates

Partners & review

  • GSA disposal officials
  • EPA / State environmental regulators
  • State/local or eligible nonprofit transferees

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.

Currentness: 2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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