This appropriation was established in fiscal year 1964 pursuant to Public Law 88-113 (77 Stat. 142) approved September 6, 1963, to provide a separate account for the expenses of personnel and travel, and for supporting costs of NASA installations previously included in the research and development appropriation. For comparative purposes the 1963 amount is shown as a comparative transfer. Primary responsibility for the manned space flight program is located at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Cocoa Beach, Fla.; Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Tex.; and the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Effort in space applications and unmanned investigations in space is concentrated primarily at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; Pacific Launch Operations Office, Lompoc, Calif.; and at Wallops Station, Wallops Island, Va.

The space research and technology activity is conducted at virtually all NASA field installations. Locations not listed above to which work is assigned include Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif.; Electronics Research Center (location undetermined); Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.; Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.; Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio; and Space Nuclear Propulsion Office, Germantown, Md. Activity in aircraft technology is concentrated at Ames Research Center, Flight Research Center, Lewis Research Center, and Langley Research Center. Programwide management is exercised from NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.; programwide support is provided by two regional business offices: North Eastern Office, Cambridge, Mass., and Western Operations Office, Santa Monica, Calif.

The following table shows the distribution of the direct budget plan by installation.

[In millions of dollars]

DISTRIBUTION OF DIRECT BUDGET PLAN BY INSTALLATION

GENERAL PROVISIONS

[No part of any appropriation made available to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by this Act for "Research and Development" may be used for the construction of any major facility, the estimated cost of which, including collateral equipment, exceeds $250,000, unless (1) a period of thirty days has passed after the receipt by the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences of the Senate of notice of the nature, location, and estimated cost of such facility, or (2) each such committee before the expiration of such period has transmitted to the Administrator written notice to the effect that such committee has no objection to the construction of such facility.]

Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriation made available to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by this Act may be transferred to any other such appropriation.

Not to exceed $35,000 of the appropriation "Administrative Operations" in this Act for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall be available for scientific consultations and emergency or extraordinary expense, to be expended upon the approval or authority of the Administrator and his determination shall be final and conclusive.

[No part of any appropriation made available to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by this Act shall be used for expenses of participating in a manned lunar landing to be carried out jointly by the United States and any other country without consent of the Congress.]

General and special funds:

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars)-Continued

GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES

For necessary operating expenses of the Veterans Administration, not otherwise provided for, including expenses incidental to securing employment for war veterans; uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law; not to exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation expenses; reimbursement of the Department of the Army for the services of the officer assigned to the Veterans Administration to serve as Assistant Deputy Administrator; and reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard service; [$159,750,000] $156,524,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay in excess of twentytwo persons engaged in public relations work: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay educational institutions for reports and certifications of attendance at such institutions an allowance at a rate in excess of $1 per month for each eligible veteran enrolled in and attending such institution. (5 U.S.Č. 2203(a)(7), 2204(24); chs. 1, 16, 18, 21, 21A, 23-26, 30, 32, 36, 37; 6 U.S.C. 14-15; 22 U.S.C. 1136 (4) and (5) and 1138; 24 U.S.C. 30; 28 U.S.C. 1823; 31 U.S.C. 530a, 686; 38 U.S.C. 111, 1665(b); chs. 3, 55, 57, 59, 71; 41 U.S.C. 5; 72 Stat. 1262-1264; 74 Stat. 793-798; 41 U.S.C. 5; Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1964.)

Note. (a) Includes $1,396 thousand net for activities previously carried under the following titles (in thousands of dollars):

1,230

36

130

the amounts obligated in 1963 and 1964 are shown on the schedules as comparative
transfers.
(b) Excludes $771 thousand for activities transferred in the estimates to the
Compensation and pension appropriation.

1963
1964
1965
actual estimate estimate

13.362 13,663 13,328
11,829 10,300 10,759
9,633 11,172 10,024

This appropriation provides for all administrative expenses of the agency with the exception of those applicable to the Department of Medicine and Surgery.

During the latter half of 1963 the former Department of Insurance was merged with the Department of Veterans Benefits and a new Department of Data Management was established, consolidating certain data processing operations. Data processing functions previously financed under other appropriations are shown by comparative transfers.

A net decrease of $3.2 million is forecast for 1965. The total reduction has been offset by $2.5 million in salary rate increases authorized by recent legislation. Excluding this item, a decrease of $5.7 million would have been projected resulting from increased productivity and declining workloads. Estimates for 1965 are further reduced by transfer of costs of payment of compromise settlements resulting from tort claims (38 U.S.C. 351) and burial flags to the Compensation and pension appropriation.

1. General administration.-In addition to the executive direction of the agency, this activity covers the Board of Veterans Appeals, which decides all cases (other than insurance cases) of appeals to the Administrator on claims 8,342 involving benefits under veterans legislation.

8,464 8,938 6,633
20,032 21,786 21,946
12,608 12,698 12,449
11.250 8,917
33,512 34,770

33,124

(1) Executive administration............

(2) Contact....

(3) Compensation and pensions..

2.913 3,114 3,208 7.634 7,273 7.036 28,932 28,770 29,675

(4) Vocational rehabilitation and