Statement showing the total appropriations for the fiscal years 1952 to 1964, and budget estimates for the fiscal years 1952 to 1965

1 Includes $170,000 for Defense Transport activities which was not provided for in the estimate for the Interstate Commerce Commission. Funds for this activity prior to the fiscal year 1955 were appropriated to the Defense Transport Administration, a separate independent agency. The 1955 estimate includes $275,000 submitted by Defense Transport Administration.

2 For payment of loan guaranties required in order to honor guaranties on loans made by private banks to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad which were in default. The loan guaranties were made by ICC under sec. 503 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended.

1 Excludes an estimate of $80,000 and 4 positions (1964 fiscal year) and $175,000 and 15 positions (1965 fiscal year) for emergency preparedness functions for which reimbursement will be received from the Office of Emergency Planning.

Obligations by objects

Senator ALLOTT. Mr. Goff, will you take over your statement and handle it in any way you wish.

Mr. GOFF. Well, Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to be here with members of the Commission, and our staff. The Commission appreciates the opportunity of appearing here today to discuss the Commission's budget needs for the fiscal year 1965.

HOUSE ACTION

As you know, the House Subcommittee on Independent Offices Appropriation has not as yet reported out the independent offices appropriation bill and, therefore, no information with respect to House action on our appropriation request is available to us.

Consequently, I am submitting for your record a prepared statement identical to that presented to the House subcommittee. With your permission, I will not read that statement but will present some of the most salient features of our appropriation request for 1965, some of the more important organizational and procedural changes recently effected, and then I will be glad to try to answer any questions you may have, and I have here a shorter statement in front which I will read and an original statement to the House which goes into considerably more detail.

Senator ALLOTT. All right.

The chairman and I and members of the committee have decided upon this method of procedure, as we did last year, you will recall, when the appropriations were delayed until so late. We know we will have to call you back after the House bill comes over here but we can at least get the majority of the testimony out of the way.

TOTAL BUDGET FOR COMMISSION

Mr. GOFF. Well now, I will continue then with the statement that the President's budget for the fiscal year 1965 includes for the Commission a total of $25,850,000 and 2,508 positions as you have just stated, which is a net increase of $1,180,000 and 41 positions over the $24,670,000 and 2.467 positions available for the current fiscal year. It should be emphasized at the outset that approximately three-fourths of the $1,800,000 increase requested for 1965 over 1964 is to cover costs over which we have no direct control.

COST OF PAY INCREASE

The major item, $548,013, approximating 46 percent of the total increase, is for a full year's cost of pay increases authorized by Public Law 87-793. In addition, $309,679 is for within-grade salary advances, overtime, and accident compensation which is offset in part by savings of $73,633 due to 1 less compensable day in 1965 than in

1964.

ADDITIONAL POSITIONS

Only $283,791, or less than 25 percent, is for the 41 additional positions requested. On pages 221 through 223 of our justification you will find a detailed listing of the 41 additional positions requested. They are shown by organizational unit, grade, and title, with a brief justification of their necessity. The remainder of the increase of $112,150, which related in part to new personnel, is for objects other than personnel compensation and benefits (as outlined on pp. 11 and 12 of the detailed statement just filed with you).