Statement of proposed expenditures for purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943 as required by 5 U. S. C. 78 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Summary of estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year 1943, compared with appropriations for the fiscal year 1942 1 In addition, the sum of $1,132,093 authorized to be transferred from other appropriations. In addition, the sum of $2,178,372 authorized to be transferred from other appropriations. In addition, unobligated balances of $755,000 reappropriated. • In addition, unobligated balances of $1,455,000 reappropriated. +7,990 10 Unobligated balances, estimated at $2,015,516, reappropriated; and contract authorization provided for full parity payments. 11 Payable from Corporation funds; not included in totals. 12 In addition, unexpended balances of $392,350 reappropriated. 18 Provided by loans from Reconstruction Finance Corporation; not included in totals. 14 In addition, unexpended balances of $701,743 reappropriated. 18 In addition, unobligated balances of $6,500,000 reappropriated. 10 In addition, not to exceed $5,000,000 of unobligated balances reappropriated. Summary of estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year 1943, compared with appropriations for the fiscal year 1942-Continued Cooperative work, Forest Service. Farm products inspections, Agricultural Marketing Service. Undistributed cotton-price-adjustment payments, Agricultural Redemption of order stamps, Surplus Marketing Administra- Payments in lieu of taxes and for operation and maintenance of State Rural Rehabilitation Corporation funds, Farm Security Drainage district assessments on acquired lands, Farm Security Liquidation of deposits, reserve for maintenance and repair, 22,500 +3,750 +12, 800 200 200 17 In addition, unobligated balances of $3,660,000 reappropriated under "Farmers' crop production and harvesting loans." 19 In addition, unobligated balances of $3,699,303 reappropriated under "Farmers' crop production and harvesting loans." 19 Unobligated balances estimated at $14,205,773 reappropriated; collections of principal and interest of $17,700,000 also available. 20 Unobligated balances estimated at $5,206,470 reappropriated; collections of principal and interest of $16,000,000 also available. 11 Payable from Corporation funds; not included in totals. 22 Indefinite contract authorization provided for full parity payments. NOTE.-Appropriations for 1942 and estimates for 1943 are exclusive of $9,990,165 and $6,500,000, respectively, for public works, included in General Public Works Program. (See pp. 264-265.) ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS [Appropriations for 1942 include funds provided for within-grade promotions in the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942] OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SALARIES Salaries, Office of Secretary of Agriculture— For the Secretary [of Agriculture], Under Secretary [of Agriculture], and Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and for other personal services in the Office of the Secretary in the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, [$609,424] $618,509, together with such amounts from other appropriations or authorizations as are provided in the schedules in the Budget for the fiscal year 1943 for such services, which several amounts or portions thereof, as may be determined by the Secretary, not exceeding a total of $1,000,488, shall be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation: Provided, That there may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia in said Office of the Secretary not to exceed the total amount provided in the Budget schedules for such purpose under this appropriation: Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretary, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act as amended and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: Provided further, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade, in the same or different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated: Provided] further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to contract for stenographic reporting services, and the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for such purposes: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend from appropriations available for the purchase of lands not to exceed $1 for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land: Provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of the appropriations available for salaries and expenses of officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture permanently stationed in foreign countries may be used for payment of allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118a): Provided further, That with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture employees of the Department of Agriculture stationed abroad may enter into leases for official quarters, for periods not exceeding one year, and may pay rent, telephone, subscriptions to publications, and other charges incident to the conduct of their offices and the discharge of their duties, in advance, in any foreign country where custom or practice requires payment in advance: Provided further, That no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of any officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture who, as such officer or employee, or on behalf of the Department or any division, commission, or bureau thereof, issues, or causes to be issued, any prediction, oral or written, or forecast with respect to future prices of cotton or the trend of same: Provided further, That no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used for laboratory investigations to determine the possibly harmful effects on human beings of spray insecticides on fruits and vegetables [. The]: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized[, during the fiscal year 1942,] to make microfilm or other photographic reproductions of books and other library materials in the Department of Agriculture and sell such reproductions at such prices (not less than estimated cost of furnishing same) as he may determine, the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation charged with the cost of making such reproductions (5 U.S. C. 511-517 (secs. 511-512, establishing Department of Agriculture, apply to all appropriation items of the Department which are not based upon specific legislative authority either incorporated in the language of the item or cited immediately thereunder), 520a; 54 Stat. 81-82; 55 Stat. 408-409, 550). Estimate 1943, $618,509 By objects PERSONAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENTAL Secretary of Agriculture Grade 15. Range $8,000 to $9,000: Assistant Secretary; assistant Grade 13. Range $5,600 to $6,400: Principal analyst. Grade 12. Range $4,600 to $5,400: Assistant chief investigator..... Principal fiscal inspector.. Grade 10. Range $3,500 to $4,100: Junior administrative officer Senior investigator. Grade 9. Range $3,200 to $3,800: Senior administrative assist- Associate training officer. Associate personnel technician. Grade 8. Range $2,900 to $3,500: Administrative assistant. Grade 7. Range $2,600 to $3,200: Assistant accountant. Junior fiscal inspector. Grade 8. Range $8,000 to $9,000: Grade 7. Range $6,500 to $7,500: Appropriated 1942, $613,979 Special representative. mist. Grade 6. Range $5,600 to $6,400: Chief engineer. Chief information officer. 12 1. General administration (including offices of the Secretary, Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretary). 2. Personnel administration and service (including divisions of classification, employment, training, organization and management, investigations, and personnel relations). 3. Budget and finance administration and service (including divisions of accounts, estimates and allotments, fiscal management, purchase, sales and traffic, and Bureau accounting service) 4. General operations (including divisions of communications, real estate, administrative services, motor transport, and Technical Advisory Board). 5. Land use coordination (departmental coordination of all land-use surveys, policies, and programs, including soil conservation, erosion control, rural rehabilitation, flood control, land utilization and purchase, submarginal land, water facilities in the arid and semiarid States, and related programs).. 6. Within-grade promotions-net cost (see analysis below)... 1.5 3, 200 3 1 3,200 0.3 0.1 3,200 0.4 2,600 0.6 2,000 3,800 3,200 800 10.3 40, 240 1.571 41,811 300 12.2 46, 685 2, 101 1,618, 997 48,786 1,736, 798 10.1 35,952 844 36, 796 1,423, 749 -1,920 -357, 140 -1,920 -394, 794 -1, 920 -322, 468 -3, 200 -26,760 Grand total obligations... Received by transfer from other appropriations (see objects schedule for detail).. Transferred to "Salaries and expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, Public Buildings Administration". |