---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1386"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1386"
heading: "Disposition of surplus or obsolete personal property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1386"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Congressional Accountability"
  - "Subchapter III — Office of Congressional Workplace Rights"
---

# §1386. Disposition of surplus or obsolete personal property


The [Executive Director](/usc/2/1301.md?p=a-10) may, within the limits of available appropriations, dispose of surplus or obsolete personal property by interagency transfer, donation, or discarding.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–1, title III, § 306, as added Pub. L. 111–68, div. A, title I, § 1101(a), Oct. 1, 2009, 123 Stat. 2031.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 111–68, div. A, title I, § 1101(c), Oct. 1, 2009, 123 Stat. 2031, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [enacting this section] shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2010, and each fiscal year thereafter.”