We would not bring in nonprofessional personnel from those areas at Government expense, of course, but we have not been making known the vacancies that do exist here to people in that area. VACANCIES Mr. CASEY. How many vacancies do you have now in the Library? Mr. CROXTON. At the present time the funds in the Library of Congress appropriation Salaries and Expenses could support an additional 12 people. We are recruiting for a larger number than that. We are recruiting for something in the neighborhood of 50 or a few more. However, the net vacancies that go on within the Library and the delay in recruiting accounts for this difference in number. There are additional vacancies in the Library of Congress supported by other appropriations, such as those for the Congressional Research Service, and Copyright Office. I don't know whether the Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped has a vacancy, but several other appropriations do have vacancies. Mr. CASEY. Your recruitment specialists are going to be within the 17 positions we are talking about. And, you are going to pay travel expenses for recruitment specialists? RECRUITMENT SPECIALISTS Mr. CROXTON. Yes, sir. One of the two recruiters would be concerned primarily with expanding our nonlocal recruiting. He would spend time at locations where he anticipated getting applicants. Sometimes these would be schools and sometimes other agencies. He would not be on the road all the time, by any means. His orientation would be to attracting applicants from outside the immediate area. The other recruiter would be concerned with broadening the selection of applicants from the Washington metropolitan area, from the Virginia suburbs and the Maryland suburbs, as well as from the city itself. He would range as far away as Baltimore which is in the local commuting area. That will take very little in the way of travel funds. Mr. CASEY. Mr. Evans. Mr. EVANS. Doctor, do you have an affirmative action plan at the present time? AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLAN Dr. MUMFORD. We have been working for some time in combining what was our former equal opportunity employment plan with the requirements of the law into one single program which has two parts. One of them is concerned with hearing individual grievances. We have been operating with people assigned from other departments in the Library to work on a part-time basis. The other part of the program would be the affirmative side, positive side that Mr. Croxton spoke to. Mr. EVANS. Has that portion of it been completed yet, fully designed? Dr. MUMFORD. We are not quite ready to issue it as yet. Mr. EVANS. When it is developed is it submitted to any other agency or commission for review and approval or comment? Is this just an in-house self-judged program that you put together? Mr. CROXTON. The Equal Opportunity Employment Act of 1972 obligates the Library to prepare and submit to the Librarian a program which he then reviews as the reviewing authority. In that sense it is a self-review activity. The distinction between the executive agencies which have the Civil Service Commission as a capping organization and the Library is that the Civil Service Commission is not our capping organization, we have a separate merit program in the Library. Dr. MUMFORD. We have considerable consultation with the Civil Service Commission in developing such a plan, and the Commission has issued guidelines for such a plan, about five pages of guidelines which I have here. We are consulting with the employee groups within the Library as we have developed this plan. It is not a purely subjective thing from one person's point of view. Mr. EVANS. When do you suppose your affirmative action plan will be ready for submission to the Librarian? Mr. CROXTON. If you gentlemen approve our request, it would be very shortly after we are able to employ the assistant director for affirmative programs. That will be his primary initial duty. The draft of such a plan is already being prepared. Without your approval of added manpower it will be some months. The amount of progress we can make on it will be rather small. I would doubt that it would be ready before wintertime and it will be possible to make little progress once it is prepared. Dr. MUMFORD. In reference to your question earlier, Mr. Chairman, about whether it could be postponed. I might remind members that this act became effective last March and we have been studying the situation and doing some work on it in the meantime, but we just don't have the manpower to cover all aspects of it. INCREASED POSTAGE COSTS Mr. EVANS. One other question. This relates to the request for additional money for postage. Does this additional amount that you request arise out of increased use or increased rates charged to you or a combination of the two? Mr. ROSSITER. It is a combination of both, but primarily the rates. Mr. EVANS. With regard to the rates, do you make any comparison of those rates with the rates they charge other Government agencies and departments? Mr. ROSSITER. Yes, sir. We take maximum advantage of the use of Library book rates wherever we can and try not to use any air mail that is not necessary. Mr. EVANS. My point was, do you check with other agencies and departments of the Government to see how the Postal Service is treating them in relation to how the Postal Service is treating you? Mr. ROSSITER. I believe it is rather standard. Mr. EVANS. You make a comparison of the rates they charge you with the rates they charge private people? Mr. ROSSITER. Yes, sir. Mr. EVANS. Do you have any conclusion with regard to the fairness of the rates they charge you? Mr. ROSSITER. They are identical. Mr. EVANS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. CASEY, Mr. Rhodes. Mr. RHODES. No questions. INCREASE IN TELEPHONE RATES Mr. CASEY. You have an increase requested for telephone expenses, and that is due to the increase in the rates allowed in the District of Columbia. Is that correct? Mr. ROSSITER. Yes, sir. Mr. CASEY. When was that rate increase effective? Mr. ROSSITER. In August. Mr. CASEY. Does this request include the telephone service for your operations outside of the District? Mr. ROSSITER. It includes all but the Copyright Office, which is in Virginia. The others are all included. Mr. CASEY. Did they have a rate increase, too? Are there others outside the District of Columbia, other than the Copyright Office? Mr. ROSSITER. The others are all in the District of Columbia. Mr. CASEY. All except the Copyright Office? Mr. ROSSITER. Yes. Except Copyright, where we have extensive telephones. Mr. CASEY. There is no request for any increase for operations outside the District? Mr. ROSSITER. No, sir. Mr. CASEY. This is your estimate of what the increase will cost you for this year? Mr. ROSSITER. That is right, based on our present installation. STATUS OF CONTINGENCY RESERVE Mr. CASEY. Has any of the contingency reserve in the Distribution of Catalog Cards appropriation been utilized to date? Mr. ROSSITER. No, sir. Mr. CASEY. Has not? Dr. MUMFORD. No, sir. SIX-MONTHS FUNDING FOR NEW PERSONNEL Mr. CASEY. You are asking funding for the additional personnel on a 6-months basis. On the basis you would hire them in December and put them aboard in December? Mr. CROXTON. On the average; yes, sir. We would try to hire some of them sooner than that, given your approval, and some of them would come later. We believe a 6-months' funding is about all that we need this year. Seventeen people would be coming aboard gradually, not all at one time. Mr. CASEY. You say that you need the additional personnel this year. Do you anticipate increasing the number of personnel for this program next year? Mr. CROXTON. No, sir; I didn't mean to imply that. I meant that next year we would require an annualization of the same personnel. Twelve months' salary would be the part of the budget request next year. Mr. CASEY. Any further questions, gentlemen? If not, thank you very much. Dr. MUMFORD. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1972. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WITNESSES H. J. HUMPHREY, ACTING PUBLIC PRINTER ROBERT E. KLING, JR., SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS ROWLAND E. DARLING, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS Mr. CASEY. We have two items for the Office of the Superintendent of Documents. One, a request for a deficiency appropriation for postage for fiscal year 1972, and the other for 1973 also for postage and additional positions. We have both the Acting Public Printer, Mr. Humphrey, and the Superintendent of Documents, Mr. Kling, before us. Please proceed with your statement Mr. Humphrey. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE ACTING PUBLIC PRINTER Mr. HUMPHREY. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I appreciate the opportunity you have afforded us to present our request for a deficiency appropriation of $12,702,100 for fiscal year 1972 and a supplemental appropriation of $12,117,000 for fiscal year 1973. The funds we are requesting are entirely for the operations of the Public Documents Department of the Government Printing Office. The major portion is to satisfy additional charges for postal services in fiscal year 1972 ($12,702,100) and for additional postal charges anticipated during the fiscal year 1973 ($9,882,000). The balance ($2,235,000) is for an additional shift to help make faster publication issues. INCREASE IN POSTAGE RATES On February 3, and again on February 29, of this year, we advised this committee that new postage rates would have a great impact on our sales and distribution programs. Since that time members of my staff have been meeting regularly with representatives of the U.S. Postal Service to identify appropriate rates and classes for Public Documents Department's mailings. Charges of an additional $12,702,100 have been billed to us by the U.S. Postal Service for fiscal year 1972. An estimate for 1973 requirements of an additional $9.882,000 has been developed based on appropriate rates and classes. We plan to adjust publication selling prices to recover postage costs for the sales program for fiscal year 1974. ADDITIONAL NIGHTTIME SHIFT In addition to our postage requirements, we are requesting funds to establish an additional nighttime shift in the Public Documents |