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For Immediate Release FORBES
ELECTED VP OF NATIONAL ORGANIZATION Greensboro, NC: Benjamin Forbes, program assistant for the Agricultural Research Program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has been elected vice-president of the Users and Screeners Association of Federal Excess Personal Property, Inc. Forbes was appointed to the association by the dean of the A&T School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences in 1992. In this role, he has been responsible for acquiring for the School of Agriculture approximately $2 million worth of federal surplus property, such as vehicles, lab equipment and office furniture. The Users and Screeners Association (USA) is an independent consortium of federal agencies, cost reimbursement contractors, project grantees, federal cooperators from land grant universities, and others who acknowledge the prime directive to use Federal Excess Personal Property as the first source of supply. The
purpose of the organization is to share expertise, alert members to
program changes, promote the benefits of using federal excess personal
property, develop professionalism among federal screeners, and provide a
unified voice to federal personal property concerns. The ultimate goal
for members is to efficiently and effectively manage property purchased
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