41 C.F.R. Subpart D—Disposition of Excess Personal Property
Title 41 - Public Contracts and Property Management
You must report excess personal property to promote reuse by the government to enable federal agencies to benefit from the continued use of property already paid for with taxpayers' money, thus minimizing new procurement costs. Reporting excess personal property to GSA helps assure that the information on available excess personal property is accessible and disseminated to the widest range of reuse customers. Report excess personal property as follows: (a) Electronically submit the data elements required on the Standard Form 120 (SF 120), Report of Excess Personal Property, in a format specified and approved by GSA; or (b) Submit a paper SF 120 to the regional GSA Personal Property Management office. (a) Generally yes, regardless of the condition code, except as authorized in §102–36.145 for direct transfers or as exempted in paragraph (b) of this section. Report all excess personal property, including excess personal property to which the government holds title but is in the custody of your contractors, cooperatives, or project grantees. (b) You are not required to report the following types of excess personal property to GSA for screening: (1) Property determined appropriate for abandonment/destruction (see §102–36.305). (2) Non-appropriated fund property (see §102–36.165). (3) Foreign excess personal property (see §102–36.380). (4) Scrap, except aircraft in scrap condition. (5) Perishables, defined for the purposes of this section as any personal property subject to spoilage or decay. (6) Trading stamps and bonus goods. (7) Hazardous waste. (8) Controlled substances. (9) Nuclear Regulatory Commission-controlled materials. (10) Property dangerous to public health and safety. (11) Classified items or property determined to be sensitive for reasons of national security. (c) Refer to part 101–42 of this title for additional guidance on the disposition of classes of property under paragraphs (b)(7) through (b)(11) of this section. Yes, you must report excess related personal property to the Office of Real Property, GSA, in accordance with part 101–47 of this title. (a) You must direct electronic submissions of excess personal property to the Federal Disposal System (FEDS) maintained by the Property Management Division (FBP), GSA, Washington, DC 20406. (b) For paper submissions, you must send the SF 120 to the regional GSA Personal Property Management office for the region in which the property is located. For the categories of property listed in §102–36.125(b), forward the SF 120 to the corresponding regions. (a) You must provide the following data on excess personal property: (1) The reporting agency and the property location. (2) A report number (6-digit activity address code and 4-digit Julian date). (3) 4-digit Federal Supply Class (use National Stock Number whenever available). (4) Description of item, in sufficient detail. (5) Quantity and unit of issue. (6) Disposal Condition Code (see §102–36.240). (7) Original acquisition cost per unit and total cost (use estimate if original cost not available). (8) Manufacturer, date of manufacture, part and serial number, when required by GSA. (b) In addition, provide the following information on your report of excess, when applicable: (1) Major parts/components that are missing. (2) If repairs are needed, the type of repairs. (3) Special requirements for handling, storage, or transportation. (4) The required date of removal due to moving or space restrictions. (5) If reimbursement is required, the authority under which the reimbursement is requested, the amount of reimbursement and the appropriate fund code to which money is to be deposited. (6) If you will conduct the sale of personal property that is not transferred or donated. The disposal condition codes are contained in the following table: Yes, you are accountable for the excess personal property until the time it is picked up by the designated recipient or its agent. You are responsible for all care and handling charges while the excess personal property is going through the screening and disposal process. Generally you retain physical custody of the excess personal property prior to its final disposition. Very rarely GSA may consider accepting physical custody of excess personal property. Under special circumstances, GSA may take custody or may direct the transfer of partial or total custody to other executive agencies, with their consent. Contact your regional GSA Personal Property Management office for any existing interagency agreements that would allow you to turn in excess personal property to a federal facility. You are responsible for any turn in costs and all costs related to transporting the excess personal property to these facilities. For expeditious transfer of excess personal property you should: (a) Provide complete and accurate property descriptions and condition codes on the report of excess to facilitate the selection of usable property by potential users. (b) Ensure that any available operating manual, parts list, diagram, maintenance log, or other instructional publication is made available with the property at the time of transfer. (c) Advise the designated recipient of any special requirements for dismantling, shipping/transportation. (d) When the excess personal property is located at a facility due to be closed, provide advance notice of the scheduled date of closing, and ensure there is sufficient time for screening and removal of property. (a) GSA will generally approve transfers on a first-come, first-served basis. When more than one federal agency requests the same item, and the quantity available is not sufficient to meet the demand of all interested agencies, GSA will consider factors such as national defense requirements, emergency needs, avoiding the necessity of a new procurement, energy conservation, transportation costs, and retention of title in the government. GSA will normally give preference to the agency that will retain title in the Government. (b) Requests for property for the purpose of cannibalization will normally be subordinate to requests for use of the property in its existing form. Prior to final disposition, GSA will consider requests from authorized federal activities for excess personal property undergoing donation screening or in the sales process. Federal transfers may be authorized prior to removal of the property under a donation or sales action. No, you may not dispose of excess personal property without GSA approval except under the following limited situations: (a) You may transfer to another federal agency excess personal property that has not yet been reported to GSA, under direct transfer procedures contained in §102–36.145. (b) You may dispose of excess personal property that is not required to be reported to GSA (see §102–36.220(b)). (c) You may dispose of excess personal property without going through GSA when such disposal is authorized by law. Yes, you may withdraw excess personal property from the disposal process, but only with the approval of GSA and to satisfy an internal agency requirement. Property that has been approved for transfer or donation or offered for sale by GSA may be returned to your control with proper justification. (a) When any one of the following conditions applies, you may require and retain reimbursement for the excess personal property from the recipient: (1) Your agency has the statutory authority to require and retain reimbursement for the property. (2) You are transferring the property under the exchange/sale authority. (3) You had originally acquired the property with funds not appropriated from the general fund of the Treasury or appropriated therefrom but by law reimbursable from assessment, tax, or other revenue. It is current executive branch policy that working capital fund property shall be transferred without reimbursement. (4) You or the recipient is the U.S. Postal Service. (5) You or the recipient is the DC Government. (6) You or the recipient is a wholly owned or mixed-ownership government corporation. (b) You may charge for direct costs you incurred incident to the transfer, such as packing, loading and shipping of the property. The recipient is responsible for such charges unless you waive the amount involved. (c) You may not charge for overhead or administrative expenses or the costs for care and handling of the property pending disposition. (a) You may require reimbursement in an amount up to the fair market value of the property when the transfer involves property meeting conditions in §102–36.285(a)(1) through (a)(4). (b) When you or the recipient is the DC Government or a wholly owned or mixed-ownership Government corporation (§102–36.285(a)(5) and (a)(6)), you may only require fair value reimbursement. Fair value reimbursement is 20 percent of the original acquisition cost for new or unused property (i.e., condition code 1), and zero percent for other personal property. A higher fair value may be used if you and the recipient agency agree. Due to special circumstances or the nature of the property, you may use other criteria for establishing fair value if approved or directed by GSA. You must refer any disagreements to the appropriate regional GSA Personal Property Management office. Yes, you must report annually to GSA personal property furnished in any manner in that year to any non-federal recipients, with respect to property obtained as excess or as property determined to be no longer required for the purposes of the appropriation from which it was purchased. GSA will subsequently submit a summary of these Non-Federal Recipients Reports to Congress. (a) Submit your annual report of personal property furnished to non-federal recipients, in letter form, to GSA, Personal Property Management Policy Division (MTP), 1800 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20405, within 90 calendar days after the close of each fiscal year. The report must cover personal property disposed during the fiscal year in all areas within the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Negative reports are required. (b) The report (interagency report control number 0154—GSA—AN) must reference this part and contain the following: (1) Names of the non-federal recipients. (2) Status of the recipients (contractor, cooperative, project grantee, etc.). (3) Total original acquisition cost of excess personal property furnished to each type of recipient, by type of property (two-digit FSC groups). Yes, you may abandon or destroy excess personal property when you have made a written determination that the property has no commercial value or the estimated cost of its continued care and handling would exceed the estimated proceeds from its sale. An item has no commercial value when it has neither utility nor monetary value (either as an item or as scrap). To abandon or destroy excess personal property, an authorized official of your agency makes a written finding that must be approved by a reviewing official who is not directly accountable for the property. Yes, the following restrictions apply: (a) You must not abandon or destroy property in a manner which is detrimental or dangerous to public health or safety. Additional guidelines for the abandonment/destruction of hazardous materials are prescribed in part 101–42 of this title. (b) If you become aware of an interest from an entity in purchasing the property, you must implement sales procedures in lieu of abandonment/destruction. In lieu of abandonment/destruction, you may donate such excess personal property only to a public body without going through GSA. A public body is any department, agency, special purpose district, or other instrumentality of a state or local government; any Indian tribe; or any agency of the federal government. If you become aware of an interest from an eligible non-profit organization (see part 101–44 of this title) that is not a public body in acquiring the property, you must contact the regional GSA Personal Property Management office and implement donation procedures in accordance with part 101–44 of this title. Except as provided in §102–36.330, you must provide public notice of intent to abandon or destroy excess personal property, in a format and timeframe specified by your agency regulations (such as publishing a notice in a local newspaper, posting of signs in common use facilities available to the public, or providing bulletins on your website through the internet). You must also include in the notice an offer to sell in accordance with part 101–45 of this title. Yes, you are not required to provide public notice when: (a) The value of the property is so little or the cost of its care and handling, pending abandonment/destruction, is so great that its retention for advertising for sale, even as scrap, is clearly not economical; (b) Abandonment or destruction is required because of health, safety, or security reasons; or (c) When the original acquisition cost of the item (estimated if unknown) is less than $500. [65 FR 31218, May 16, 2000, as amended at 65 FR 34983, June 1, 2000]
Title 41: Public Contracts and Property Management
PART 102–36—DISPOSITION OF EXCESS PERSONAL PROPERTY
Subpart D—Disposition of Excess Personal Property
§ 102-36.210 Why must we report excess personal property to GSA?
Reporting Excess Personal Property
§ 102-36.215 How do we report excess personal property?
§ 102-36.220 Must we report all excess personal property to GSA?
§ 102-36.225 Must we report excess related personal property?
§ 102-36.230 Where do we send the reports of excess personal property?
§ 102-36.235 What information do we provide when reporting excess personal property?
§ 102-36.240 What are the disposal condition codes?
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disposal condition code Definition------------------------------------------------------------------------1............................. New. Property which is in new condition or unused condition and can be used immediately without modifications or repairs.4............................. Usable. Property which shows some wear, but can be used without significant repair.7............................. Repairable. Property which is unusable in its current condition but can be economically repaired.X............................. Salvage. Property which has value in excess of its basic material content, but repair or rehabilitation is impractical and/or uneconomical.S............................. Scrap. Property which has no value except for its basic material content.------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disposing of Excess Personal Property
§ 102-36.245 Are we accountable for the personal property that has been reported excess, and who is responsible for the care and handling costs?
§ 102-36.250 Does GSA ever take physical custody of excess personal property?
§ 102-36.255 What options do we have when unusual circumstances do not allow adequate time for disposal through GSA?
§ 102-36.260 How do we promote the expeditious transfer of excess personal property?
§ 102-36.265 What if there are competing requests for the same excess personal property?
§ 102-36.270 What if a federal agency requests personal property that is undergoing donation screening or in the sales process?
§ 102-36.275 May we dispose of excess personal property without GSA approval?
§ 102-36.280 May we withdraw from the disposal process excess personal property that we have reported to GSA?
Transfers With Reimbursement
§ 102-36.285 May we charge for personal property transferred to another federal agency?
§ 102-36.290 How much do we charge for excess personal property on a transfer with reimbursement?
Report of Disposal Activity
§ 102-36.295 Is there any reporting requirement on the disposition of excess personal property?
§ 102-36.300 How do we report the furnishing of personal property to non-federal recipients?
Abandonment/Destruction
§ 102-36.305 May we abandon or destroy excess personal property without reporting it to GSA?
§ 102-36.310 Who makes the determination to abandon or destroy excess personal property?
§ 102-36.315 Are there any restrictions to the use of the abandonment/destruction authority?
§ 102-36.320 May we transfer or donate excess personal property that has been determined appropriate for abandonment/destruction without GSA approval?
§ 102-36.325 What must be done before the abandonment/destruction of excess personal property?
§ 102-36.330 Are there occasions when public notice is not needed regarding abandonment/destruction of excess personal property?
