sonal and other services; care of trees; planting; fertilizer; repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways; waterproof wearing apparel; maintenance of signal lights; and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; $1,337,000 of which $250,000 shall be available for modifications to and replacement of existing traffic signals and installation of additional traffic signals and all items appurtenant thereto in the Capitol Grounds and also at street intersections in the vicinity of such grounds and buildings under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol deemed necessary for proper coordination of traffic control, conforming to similar installations planned by the District government for other areas of the District of Columbia designed in accordance with the 1971 edition of the Manual on Uniform Control Devices for Streets and Highways approved by the Federal Highway Administrator under title 23, United States Code. SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGS For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including furniture, furnishings, and equipment, and for labor and material incident thereto, and repairs thereof; for purchase of waterproof wearing apparel, and for personal and other services; for the care and operation of the Senate Office Buildings; including the subway and subway transportation systems connecting the Senate Office Buildings with the Capitol; uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902), prevention and eradication of insect and other pests without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes as amended; to be expended under the control and supervision of the Architect of the Capitol in all, $6,460,200. [For an additional amount of $117,000 for 1974 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 285.] [For an additional amount of $20,900.000 for construction of an extension to the New Senate Office Building, see p. 286.] EXTENSION OF ADDITIONAL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING SITE The unobligated balance of $174,000 on June 30, 1973, of the appropriation under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1970, unavailable for obligation beyond such date under the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1973, is hereby continued available until expended. SENATE GARAGE For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal and other services, and all other necessary expenses, $97,000. HOUSE OFFICE BUILDINGS For maintenance, including equipment; waterproof wearing apparel; uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); prevention and eradication of insect and other pests without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; miscellaneous items; and for all necessary services, including the position of Superintendent of Garages as authorized by law, $8.828,700. From and after April 1, 1973, the compensation of the Superintendent of Garages shall be at the gross annual rate of $25,000 sub $1,337,000 6,460,200 174,000 (reappropriation) 97,000 8,828,700 ject to the further increases authorized under 5 U.S.C. 5307 (a) (1) (B) relating to the implementation of salary, comparability policy. Not to exceed $100,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1972, continued available until June 30, 1973, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1974. [For an additional amount of $52,000 for 1974 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 286.] [Total, House Office Buildings, $8,928,700.] CAPITOL POWER PLANT For lighting, heating, and power (including the purchase of electrical energy) for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Supreme Court Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate garage, and for airconditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such buildings; for heating the Government Printing Office, Washington City Post Office, and Folger Shakespeare Library, reimbursement for which shall be made and covered into the Treasury; personal and other services, fuel, oil, materials, waterproof wearing apparel, and all other necessary expenses in connection with the maintenance and operation of the plant; $5,206,700. Not to exceed $80,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1972, continued available until June 30, 1973, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1974. [Total, Capitol Power Plant-- [Total, Capitol Buildings and Grounds $5,286,700.] [For an appropriation of $153,000 for 1974 for additional parking facilities for congressional employees, see p. 286.] LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL CARE For necessary expenditures for mechanical and structural maintenance, including improvements, equipment, supplies, waterproof wearing apparel, and personal and other services, $1,593,800. Not to exceed $196,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1973 is hereby continued available until June 30, 1974. [Total, Library Buildings and Grounds, $1,789,800.] [Total, Architect of the Capitol___ [Appropriations [Reappropriations $100,000 (reappropriation) 5,206,700 80,000 (reappropriation) 1,593,800 196,000 (reappro priation) $30,048.400.j 29,383,400. 665,000.] BOTANIC GARDEN SALARIES AND EXPENSES For all necessary expenses incident to maintaining, operating, repairing, and improving the Botanic Garden and the nurseries, buildings, grounds, collections, and equipment pertaining thereto, including personal services; waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 for emergency medical supplies; traveling expenses, including bus fares, not to exceed $275; the prevention and eradication of insect and other pests and plant diseases by purchase of materials and procurement of personal services by contract without regard to the provisions of any other Act; purchase and exchange of motor trucks; purchase and exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger motor vehicle; purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not to exceed $100; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library; $860,200. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the Library of Congress, not otherwise provided for, including development and maintenance of the Union Catalogs; custody, care, and maintenance of the Library Buildings; special clothing; cleaning, laundering, and repair of uniforms; preservation of motion pictures in the custody of the Library; for the National Program for acquisition and cataloging of Library material; and expenses of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the Board, $39,458,000, including $397,000 to be available for reimbursement to the General Services Administration for rental of suitable space in the District of Columbia or its immediate environs for the Library of Congress. COPYRIGHT OFFICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the Copyright Office, including publication of the decisions of the United States courts involving copyrights, $5,139,000. CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE $860,200 39,458,000 5,139,000 SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 203 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended by section 321 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, (2 U.S.C. 166), $10,927,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation may be used to pay any salary or expense in connection with any publication, or preparation of material therefor (except the Digest of Public General Bills), to be issued by the Library of Congress unless such publication has obtained prior approval of either the Committee on House Administration or the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. DISTRIBUTION OF CATALOG CARDS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses for the preparation and distribution of catalog cards and other publications of the Library, $10,343,000: Provided, That $200,000 of this appropriation shall be apportioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 665), only to the extent necessary to provide for expenses (excluding permanent personal services) for workload increases not anticipated in the budget estimates and which cannot be provided for by normal budgetary adjustments. BOOKS FOR THE GENERAL COLLECTIONS For necessary expenses (except personal services) for acquisition of books, periodicals, and newspapers, and all other material for the 10,927,000 10,343,000 increase of the Library, $1,194,650, to remain available until expended, including $25,000 to be available solely for the purchase, when specifically approved by the Librarian, of special and unique materials for additions to the collections. BOOKS FOR THE LAW LIBRARY For necessary expenses (except personal services) for acquisition of books, legal periodicals, and all other material for the increase of the law library, $208,500, to remain available until expended. BOOKS FOR THE BLIND AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED SALARIES AND EXPENSES For salaries and expenses to carry out the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1931 (2 U.S.C. 135a), as amended, $9,805,000. COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS (SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of section. 104(b) (5) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704), to remain available until expended, $2,267,000, of which $1,971,400 shall be available only for payments in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department shall determine to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States. FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS For necessary expenses for the purchase and repair of furniture, furnishings, office and library equipment, $2,868,000, of which $2.325,000 shall be available until expended only for the purchase and supply of furniture, book stacks, shelving, furnishings, and related costs necessary for the initial outfitting of the James Madison Memorial Library Building. REVISION OF ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses to enable the Librarian to revise and extend the Annotated Constitution of the United States of America, $29,000, to remain available until expended. REVISION OF HINDS' AND CANNON'S PRECEDENTS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses to enable the Librarian to assist the Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives to revise and update Hinds' and Cannon's Precedents, $132,000. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress for salaries shall be available for expenses of investigating the loyalty of $1,194,650 208,500 9,805,000 2,267,000 2,868,000 29,000 132,000 Library employees; special and temporary services (including employees engaged by day or hour or in piecework); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. Not to exceed fifteen positions in the Library of Congress may be exempt from the provisions of appropriation Acts concerning the employment of aliens during the current fiscal year, but the Librarian shall not make any appointment to any such position until he has ascertained that he cannot secure for such appointments a person in any of the categories specified in such provisions who possesses the special qualifications for the particular position and also otherwise meets the general requirements for employment in the Library of Congress. Funds available to the Library of Congress may be expended to reimburse the Department of State for medical services rendered to employees of the Library of Congress stationed abroad and for contracting on behalf of and hiring alien employees for the Library of Congress under conpensation plans comparable to those authorized by section 444 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.Ċ. 889(a)); for purchase or hire of passenger motor vehicles; for payment of travel, storage and transportation of household goods, and transportation and per diem expenses for families en route (not to exceed twenty-four); for benefits comparable to those payable under sections 911 (9), 911(11), and 941 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1136(9), 1136(11), and 1156, respectively); and travel benefits comparable with those which are now or hereafter may be granted single employees of the Agency for International Development, including single Foreign Service personnel assigned to A.I.D. projects, by the Administrator of the Agency for International Development or his designee under the authority of section 636(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (Public Law 87-195, 22 U.S.C. 2396 (b)); subject to such rules and regulations as may be issued by the Librarian of Congress. Payments in advance for subscriptions or other charges for bibliographical data, publications, materials in any other form, and services may be made by the Librarian of Congress whenever he determines it to be more prompt, efficient, or economical to do so in the interest of carrying out required Library programs. Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $50,000, when specifically authorized by the Librarian, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the function or activity for which the appropriation is made. [Total, Library of Congress, $82,371,150.] GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE PRINTING AND BINDING For authorized printing and binding for the Congress; for printing and binding for the Architect of the Capitol; expenses necessary for preparing the semimonthly and session index to the Congressional Record, as authorized by law (44 U.S.C. 902); printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register (including the Code of Federal Regulations) as authorized by law (44 U.S.C. 1509, 1510); and printing and binding of Government publications authorized by law to be distributed without charge to the recipients; $64,000,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for printing and binding part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture (known $64,000,000 |