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USC-67 / Domestic and interagency support

Transfer excess or sell surplus equipment to eligible public-safety agencies

Transfer excess DoD personal property for eligible law enforcement or firefighting/emergency-medical use, or sell specified surplus equipment to state/local public-safety agencies at fair market value.

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Authority / instrument · USC-67

Public-safety equipment transfers

Domestic and interagency support

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of Defense

What this does not authorize / hard limit

§2576 fair-market-value surplus sales differ from potentially no-charge excess transfers; neither is §281 new-equipment procurement.

Recorded executor

Authorized DoD property-disposal official (illustrative; delegation not verified)

Continue to actor →

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedRecipient reimbursement of applicable costs; distinct consideration requirements by route. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

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Authority holder: Secretary of Defense

Other statutory tools

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

Availability and verification

Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Excess-transfer routes use existing stocks, as-is/where-is acceptance and recipient payment of post-transfer costs; no procurement funds to effect the transfer.
  • §2576a controlled property requires annual local-authority-backed protocols/training certification and accountability.

Limits & exclusions

  • §2576a bars listed items including weaponized drones and weaponized tracked combat vehicles; statutory recipient and use restrictions remain.
  • §2576 fair-market-value surplus sales differ from potentially no-charge excess transfers; neither is §281 new-equipment procurement.

Funding conditions

  • Recipient reimbursement of applicable costs; distinct consideration requirements by route.

Read the funding and execution guide

Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • State/local recipient with DoD disposal office (illustrative routing lead)

Resources

  • Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified
    Office profile

Approval

Execution

  • Authorized DoD property-disposal official (illustrative; delegation not verified)

Partners & review

  • Justice/ONDCP/DHS consultation for §2576a

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

Coordination pathway

Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.

Actor and execution-role sources

October 5 statutory review

Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified.

Section coverage and review findings

Legal basis

  • 10 U.S.C. § 2576Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks.
  • 10 U.S.C. § 2576aOfficial 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks.
  • 10 U.S.C. § 2576bOfficial 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks.

What this research establishes

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedRecipient reimbursement of applicable costs; distinct consideration requirements by route. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Confidence: High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.

Currentness: Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.

Review scope: Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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