(d) Legislation. This activity provides analysis and reports on legislation and drafts of proposed legislation for the Department. It also engages in decision writing and in research, analysis, and reference activities in connection with the Department's programs. (e) Labor-management laws.-This activity provides legal advisory and litigation services for the Department. under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act and the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act. 2. Field legal services.-At the regional level opinions and interpretations are provided to field officials of the Department, employers, employees, employer associations, labor organizations, attorneys and the general public. Enforcement, including several types of civil litigation in the Federal courts and proceedings under the Administrative Procedures Act, of the various statutes administered by the Department is carried on both in the field and by the Washington office of the Solicitor of Labor. Field litigation is supervised by the Washington staff. Attorneys representing the Solicitor assist the Department of Justice and the various U.S. attorneys in the preparation and conduct of criminal prosecution and in defending declaratory judgment, Court of Claims, and other actions brought against departmental officials and/or the United States. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 1963 actual 1964 1965 estimate estimate 1 Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid undelivered orders. 1962, $3 thousand; 1963, $1 thousand; 1964, $1 thousand; 1965, $1 thousand. 1. Executive direction.-This Office formulates governmental policy in matters affecting labor and directs all programs of functions assigned to the Department. 2. Management and central services.-Plans, manages, and evaluates program operations and renders central services to all Bureaus of the Department and to the 3,838 3,892 Office of the Secretary. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 56 52 Other personnel compensation 28 6 4 23 Rent, communications, and utilities 119 63 147 25 Other services.. 24 Printing and reproduction.. 31 Equipment..-- 26 Supplies and materials. Positions other than permanent. Total obligations.. 4,451 4,585 4,989 Total personnel compensation.... 12 Personnel benefits.... 118 Personnel Summary 21 Travel and transportation of persons. 55 22 Transportation of things.. 23 Rent, communications, and utilities. Average number of all employees... Full-time equivalent of other positions.. 13 13 12 24 Printing and reproduction.... Employees in permanent positions, end of year 450 26 Supplies and materials. 13 31 Equipment.......... 8.9 $8,986 50 222 4 218 222 5 1 Balances of selected resources are identified on the statement of financial condition. This fund is available without fiscal year limitation and provides services on a centralized basis for the following $9,198 Department activities (5 U.S.C. 622a): (1) Communications, (2) supply service, (3) duplicating service, (4) visual exhibits, (5) accounting and payrolling, and (6) tabulating. Budget program-1. Communication services.-Consists of switchboard and telecommunications, mail and messenger, and office space services. 1964 1965 estimate estimate 670 2. Central supply. Consists of purchasing and distributing supplies including blank forms, equipment and laboring service as required. 3. Duplicating services.-Consists of offset printing including composing and layout, mimeographing, collating and addressograph service. This activity also includes procurement of printing from the Government Printing Office and the procurement and distribution of congressional material. 4. Visual exhibits.-Consists of preparing displays for 170 public information and furnishing photographic services to the various bureaus. Program by activities: Operating costs funded: 1. Communication services. 1,070 1,238 1,329 2. Central supply. 636 647 3. Duplicating services: 590 675 683 157 160 251 532 551 the program and financing schedules show funded accrued costs for each principal activity, reconciled in total to obligations. The schedule of revenue and expense shows operating costs on a full accrual basis, including provision for employees' accrued annual leave and costs funded by other agencies. agencies. Costs attributable to public services are shown in total on the revenue and expense statement. Following is a summary of financial transactions and estimated revenue deficiency (in millions of dollars): Net revenues.. The 1965 forecast includes 38 billion first-class letters and cards; 1.7 billion airmail items; 8.4 billion magazines, newspapers, and other publications; 20 billion pieces of printed matter and small parcels; and 1.1 billion zone-rate parcels, catalogs, and other fourth-class matter. Comparisons of these and other items of postal workload and related 1965 revenues with corresponding 1964 estimates and 1963 results appear in the table on page 610. Financing. Six separate limitations are enacted for the Obligations under limitation.. Post Office Department for operation of the postal service and other assigned responsibilities. The limitations apply to the postal fund which is financed by the deposit therein of postal revenues and other receipts and by an appropriation from the general fund of the Treasury for the balance. The Postal Policy Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-426), as amended by the Postal Service and Federal Employees Salary Act of 1962 (Public Law 87-793), provides that postal rates and fees be adjusted as required to produce the amount of revenue approximately equal to the total cost of operating the Postal Establishment less the amount determined to be attributable to the performance of public services. Only the appropriation from the general fund to the postal fund (being equal to the excess of obligational authority over revenues) is considered new obligational authority for purposes of the Federal budget. Further, only the excess of the Department's disbursements over its receipts (exclusive of the general fund appropriation) are considered as budget expenditures. The six individual limitations control obligations incurred by the Department and are therefore requested and accounted for in terms of obligations. However, New obligational authority used or Net change in selected working capital Budget expenditures. Attributable to public services. Net operating loss.. Deficiency in postal rates and fees. 1 Preliminary. Transactions outside the postal fund.-Postal money orders issued and cashed, postal savings system, and deposits resulting from U.S. savings bond sales are excluded from the tables of this chapter. The postal money orders outstanding are included in the figure for checks outstanding for the Government in table 2 of the Budget, and a corresponding sum is included in Treasury cash. Balances for the Postal Savings System and savings bond sales are included in part II of this document. 609 700-100-64-39 |