§ 101-44.112 - Approval or disapproval of transfer orders.

(a) Surplus property shall not be released by a holding activity for donation until it has received an SF 123 bearing the signed approval of the appropriate GSA official. In approving the SF 123, GSA regional offices will comply with the sequence established in § 101-44.109. An SF 123 which is not fully or properly prepared may be returned to the applicant or held in suspense until the required information is made available. In those cases in which property is specifically requested for the purpose of cannibalization, the following statement shall be included on the SF 123: “Item(s) ___ requested for cannibalization.” Cannibalization requests may be approved when it is clear that disassembly of the item for use of its component parts will provide greater potential benefit than use of the item in its existing form. Upon the request of a GSA regional office, the State agency (or the donee in the case of property donated under the provisions of subparts 101-44.4 or 101-44.5) shall submit any additional information required to support and justify a donation application. The SF 123 will not automatically be held to the end of the screening period, but will be approved and distributed as expeditiously as possible. An SF 123 received after the end of the donation screening period may be approved if the property is still available, and the holding activity has agreed to set the property aside pending receipt of donation approval.

(b) An SF 123 may be disapproved, in whole or in part, when it is determined that it is in the public interest to do so, when there is a substantive defect in the order, when the property is not surplus, or when a transfer of the property to a Federal agency is pending. The applicant and the holding activity will be informed in writing why the SF 123 was disapproved. When a donation transfer is disapproved because of a pending Federal transfer and the transfer is not completed subsequently, the applicant will be advised to resubmit SF 123.