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RSLIP Guidelines continued 

Reduction of personnel, sales of equipment is a good bet that the site will be declared surplus soon. 

(A)INDIAN NEEDS RESEARCH COMMITTEE

PURPOSE: To research local Indian needs.

Contact all Indian groups, rural or urban, in your area. Find out their needs.
If their needs can fit into the following categories, apply through Healthy Education and Welfare (HEW), regional representative office of Surplus Property Utilization (See Sample "B" enclosed.)

The following was taken from the enclosed GSA booklet:

Policy guidelines prescribed by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare provide that only those activities devoted to academic, vocational or professional instruction, or organized and operated to promote and protect the public health, are eligible. Examples of such eligible activities are universities, colleges, junior colleges, junior or senior high schools, elementary schools or school systems, vocational or specialized schools, research activities, public libraries, and similar activities primarily educational in character; general and specialty hospitals, mental institutions, clinics, health services and similar activities devoted primarily to the protection and promotion of public health. The program of an institution eligible for a transfer must contemplate use of the property as an integral part of an activity of the kind described. The activity must obtain such licenses for operations as may be required by State and local law. 

Use of the public property applied for must be for a fundamental educational or public health purpose. Examples of such fundamental uses are classrooms, vocational shops, libraries, laboratories, auditoriums, gymnasiums, cafeterias, dormitories, faculty housing, infirmaries, recreational facilities, hospitals, clinics, facilities providing public healthy services, and similar utilization. The property applied for must be for a purpose for which the eligible organization would be authorized to expend its own funds to acquire. 

Additional information concerning policies and procedures governing the disposition of surplus real property for educational or public health purposes may be obtained by communicating with the appropriate Regional Representative, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. 

(B) SURPLUS SITES RESEARCH COMMITTEE

PURPOSE: To research federal excess and surplus sites. Ask local legislatures to get an up-to-date list of federal excess and surplus property; plus, the Congressional Record of May 5, 1969 which lists 300 surplus properties through-out the United States. Perhaps, you will have better luck in getting a current list than I did. 

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