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Specific needs of local programs must be ascertained prior to awarding contracts. We plan to issue specific guidelines for improving the monitoring and evaluation of training and technical assistance efforts and provide the officials responsible for these functions with the training they need to monitor contractor performance more effectively, evaluate benefits obtained, and use evaluation results effectively.

e. Evaluation

Program evaluation activities will be initiated to analyze the effects of rapid expansion of treatment programs on the overall quality of care offered. Such evaluation will include nonmaintenance as well as maintenance programs. The progress of patients served through rapid expansion projects will be compared to the progress of those treated in programs which have not been expanded. In addition, the quality of new staff hired, new facilities used and program structure will be evaluated to determine the effects of rapid expansion. Selected evaluation studies will also be initiated to study the effects of other SAODAP innovations in education, training and prevention. Effective models for education and prevention will be tested and implemented on a pilot

basis.

Option I

Special Action Office For

Drug Abuse Prevention

SECTION 223

FY 1973 Proposed Supplemental Funding Request

16,000 additional non-maintenance and maintenance treatment slots x $2,500 = $40 million (rendering treatment to 27,200 drug dependent persons).

Option II

a.

Use of media to impact potential high risk
populations

$1,000,000

b. Epidemiologic analysis relating to distribution of addicts, and social and health factors associated with distribution

1,300,000

c. Credentialing studies to determine quality and licensing requirements of program and individuals engaged in operating programs

500,000

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MONDAY OCTOBER 2, 1972.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL PAY

WITNESSES

RAYMOND JACOBSON, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF POLICIES AND STANDARDS, U.S. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

A. J. CRATEN, GSA LIAISON OFFICE

Mr. ADDABBO. The committee will come to order.

We now have Raymond Jacobson, Director of Bureau of Policies and Standards, U.S. Civil Service Commission and Mr. A. J. Craten of GSA Liaison Office.

Do you have a prepared statement?

Mr. JACOBSON. Yes, I have a prepared statement which I can submit for the record.

Mr. ADDABBO. Without objection, so ordered. (The statement follows:)

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL PAY

My name is Raymond Jacobson, Director, Bureau of Policies and Standards, U.S. Civil Service Commission. I am representing Jerome M. Rosow, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Federal Pay. Mr. Rosow expresses his regrets at being unable to be with you but he had a long standing commitment to be a principal speaker at a large meeting in Atlantic City and he was unable to arrange for a substitute speaker. Mr. Rosow and the other two members of the advisory committee have actually been spending a good deal of their time in the past few weeks preparing the committee's first annual report. Consequently, it is especially difficult for them to get away from their regular full-time work outside the Government away from the Washington area. The committee's only full-time employee is its administrative assistant.

I am thoroughly familiar with the work of the committee and its origins and shall be glad to answer your questions. I should like to read a statement that Mr. Rosow has prepared for your committee.

"The Advisory Committee on Federal Pay was appointed by the President in January 1972 in accordance with the Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970. The committee consists of three members who are not otherwise employed in the Government and were chosen for their impartiality, knowledge, and experience in the field of labor relations and pay policy.

"The Committee is responsible for preparing an independent annual report to the President with respect to increases in pay of the approximately 1.3 million Federal employees covered by the general schedule, those employees in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Administration and the Foreign Service of the United States. Changes in military pay are related to the changes put into effect for these workers. The committee makes recommendations about a Federal civilian white-collar payroll of about $17 billion a year-$41 billion of military pay is included.

"The proposed fiscal 1973 pay adjustment, which is the subject of the report it is now preparing will probably increase Federal civilian white-collar and military costs by more than $2 billion a year. The magnitude of these money decisions give some perspective to the proposed $130,000 annual budget for the committee that we are talking about today.

In preparing its report, the committee considers not only the recommendations of the President's pay agent but the views of organizations representing Federal employees. The comittee was established in order to give these organizations an opportunity to be heard by a group that is independent of the executive agencies (OMB and Civil Service) that make the initial recommendations regarding Federal pay. In the past, decisions with respect to pay have been made either by the Congress or the executive branch.

The $130,000 budget request you are considering is to provide operating expenses for the committee for fiscal 1973. It is to repay the special projects fund of the White House. Our committee was not appointed until January of this year and did not function until after the fiscal 1973 budget had been prepared. It will be used for administrative expenses involved in preparing its annual report, obtaining the views of employee organizations, for pay and travel expenses of the committee members when engaged in committee work, for maintaining a small headquarters office, and for special studies on questions relating to the annual report. Our legislation authorizes us to obtain the assistance of experts or consultants. The committee plans to rely on such assistance as it is a more efficient method for a small agency to operate than by hiring fulltime personnel. Mr. ADDABBO. We will be glad to have any other information you have.

APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS

Mr. JACOBSON. I am here, as I indicated in the statement, representing Mr. Rosow who is chairman of the Advisory Committee on Federal Pay. This committee is made up of three people appointed by the President, as required by statute, who are clearly part-time people.

The committee is appointed for the purpose of performing really one function, and that is to advise the President on the annual white collar pay adjustment required by the Salary Reform Act of 1970.

The committee consists of Mr. Rosow, Mr. Livingston, and Mr. McKersie, and I will be glad to supply for the record a statement of their appointment and their background.

(The information follows:)

[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Jan. 24, 1972]

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL PAY

ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT OF CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS,
JANUARY 21, 1972

The President today announced the appointment of three persons to be members of the Advisory Committee on Federal Pay. They are:

Jerome M. Rosow, of Scarsdale, N.Y., manager, planning division public affairs department, Standard Oil, New Jersey, New York, N.Y.; Assistant Secretary of Labor (1969-71), Washington, D.C. He will serve a term of 6 years.

Frederick R. Livingston, of New York, N.Y., senior partner, law firm, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler, New York, N.Y. He will serve a term of 2 years.

Robert B. McKersie, of Ithaca, N.Y., dean and professor, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., He will serve a term of 4 years.

The President also announced the designation of Mr. Rosow as Chairman of the Committee.

The Advisory Committee on Federal Pay was established by the Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-656, of January 8, 1971) and consists of three members appointed by the President for terms of 6 years with the initial appointee serving staggered terms of 2, 4, and 6 years.

The Committee is charged with reviewing the annual report of the President's agents on matters of Federal pay comparability and making recommendations on

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