SEC. 2. Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization. (a) Subject to the provisions of this reorganization plan, the Office of Defense Mobilization and the Federal Civil Defense Administration are hereby consolidated to form a new agency in the Executive Office of the President which shall be known as the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, hereinafter referred to as the "Office".

(b) There shall be at the head of the Office a Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for the heads of executive departments.

(c) There shall be in the Office a Deputy Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for the under secretaries referred to in section 104 of the Federal Executive Pay Act of 1956 (5 U. S. C. 2203), shall perform such functions as shall be delegated or assigned to him pursuant to the provisions of this reorganization plan, and shall act as Director during the absence or disability of the Director or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Director.

(d) There shall be in the Office three Assistant Directors of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, each of whom shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for assistant secretaries of executive departments, and shall perform such functions as shall be delegated or assigned to him pursuant to the provisions of this reorganization plan.

(e) The Office and the Director thereof shall perform such functions as the President may from time to time delegate or assign thereto. The said Director may from time to time make such provisions as he shall deem appropriate authorizing the performance by any officer, or by any agency or employee, of the Office of any function delegated or assigned to the Office or to the Director.

SEC. 3. Regional directors. There are hereby established in the Office so many new positions, not in excess of ten exist

ing at any one time, with the title "Regional Director", as the Director of the Office shall from time to time determine. Each Regional Director shall be appointed under the classified civil service, shall be the head of a regional office of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, shall perform such functions appropriate to such regional office as may be delegated or assigned to him pursuant to the provisions of this reorganization plan, and shall receive compensation which shall be fixed from time to time pursuant to the classification laws as now or hereafter amended except that the compensation may be fixed without regard to the numerical limitations on positions set forth in section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U. S. C. 1105).

SEC. 4. Membership on National Security Council. The functions of the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization with respect to being a member of the National Security Council are excluded from the scope of the provisions of section 1 (a) of this reorganization plan and are hereby transferred to the Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization.

SEC. 5. Civil Defense Advisory Council. The Civil Defense Advisory Council, created by section 102 (a) of the Federal Civil Defense Act (50 U. S. C. App. 2272 (a)), together with its functions, is hereby transferred to the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization.

SEC. 6. Abolitions. The offices of Federal Civil Defense Administrator and Deputy Administrator provided for in section 101 of the Federal Civil Defense Act (50 U. S. C. App. 2271) and the offices of the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization and Deputy Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization provided for in section 1 of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1953 (67 Stat. 634) are hereby abolished. The Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization shall make such provisions as may be necessary in order to wind up any outstanding affairs of the offices abolished by this section which are not otherwise provided for in this reorganization plan.

SEC. 7. Records, property, personnel, and funds. (a) The records, property, personnel, and unexpended balances, available or to be made available, of appropriations, allocations, and other funds of the Office of Defense Mobilization and

of the Federal Civil Defense Administration shall, upon the taking effect of the provisions of this reorganization plan, become records, property, personnel, and unexpended balances of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization.

(b) Records, property, personnel, and unexpended balances, available or to be made available, of appropriations, allocations, and other funds of any agency (including the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization), relating to functions vested in or delegated or assigned to the Office of Defense Mobilization or the Federal Civil Defense Administration immediately prior to the taking effect of the provisions of this reorganization plan, may be transferred from time to time to any other agency of the Government by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget under authority of this subsection for use, subject to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended, in connection with any of the said functions authorized at time of transfer under this subsection to be performed by the transferee agency.

(c) Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to be necessary in connection with the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be carried out in such manner as he shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate.

SEC. 8. Interim provisions. The President may authorize any person who immediately prior to the effective date of this reorganization plan holds an office abolished by section 6 hereof to hold any office established by section 2 of this reorganization plan until the latter office is filled pursuant to the said section 2 or by recess appointment, as the case may be, but in no event for any period extending more than 120 days after the said effective date.

SEC. 9. Effective date. The provisions of this reorganization plan shall take effect at the time determined under the provisions of section 6 (a) of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended, or on July 1, 1958, whichever is later.

LETTER OF JULY 22, 1955 [CARRYING OUT THE PROTOCOL OF TERMS OF ACCESSION BY JAPAN TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES]

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, July 22, 1955. MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

Reference is made to my proclamation of July 22, 19551 carrying out the Protocol of Terms of Accession by Japan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and for other purposes.

Pursuant to the procedure described in Part II of that proclamation, I hereby notify you that the two agreements referred to in the thirteenth recital of the proclamation will enter into force on July 24, 1955.

I also notify you that the amendment to the Tariff Act of 1930 made by section 2 of Public Law 689, approved August 28, 1954, with respect to duties applicable to certain prepared fish shall enter into force on July 24, 1955.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

LETTER OF AUGUST 22, 1955 [PURSUANT TO PROCLAMATION CARRYING OUT PROTOCOL OF TERMS OF ACCESSION BY JAPAN TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES]

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

Denver, Colorado, August 22, 1955. Reference is made to my proclamation of July 22, 1955,' carrying out the Proto

1 See Proclamation 3105, supra.

col of Terms of Accession by Japan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and for other purposes.

Pursuant to the procedure described in Part I (b) (1) of that Proclamation, I hereby notify you that all items in Part I of Schedule XX to the Protocol for the accession of Japan, with the exception of the items specified below, shall not be withheld pursuant to paragraph 4 of said Protocol on and after September 10, 1955. The items which shall continue to be withheld until further notice are as follows:

On September 5, 1955 Italy gave to the Executive Secretary to the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement the notification referred to in paragraph 3 of the Protocol for the accession of Japan, of intention to apply on October 5, 1955 concessions which it had negotiated initially with Japan. Accordingly, pur

suant to the procedure described in Part I (b) (1) of the above-mentioned proclamation, I hereby notify you that both items 1531 in Part I of Schedule XX to the said Protocol shall not be withheld pursuant to paragraph 4 of the said Protocol on or after October 5, 1955.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

LETTER OF JANUARY 12, 1956 [PURSUANT TO PROCLAMATION CARRYING OUT PROTOCOL OF TERMS OF ACCESSION BY JAPAN TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES]

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

The White House, January 12, 1956. DEAR MR. SECRETARY:

Reference is made to my proclamation of July 22, 1955,1 carrying out the Protocol of Terms of Accession by Japan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

On December 17 Norway gave to the Executive Secretary to the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement the notification referred to in paragraph 3 of the Protocol for the accession of Japan, of intention to apply on January 16, 1956 concessions which it had negotiated initially with Japan. Accordingly, pursuant to the procedure described in Part I (b) (1) of the abovementioned proclamation, I hereby notify you that items 301 [identified only as to the matter related to the rate of 561⁄4¢ per ton], 717 (c), and 720 (a) (2) in Part I of Schedule XX to the said Protocol shall not be withheld pursuant to paragraph 4 of the said Protocol on or after January 16, 1956.

Sincerely,

LETTER OF FEBRUARY 6, 1956
[PURSUANT TO PROCLAMATION CARRYING
OUT PROTOCOL OF TERMS OF ACCESSION
BY JAPAN TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT
ON TARIFFS AND TRADE]

THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, February 6, 1956.

DEAR MR. SECRETARY:

Reference is made to my proclamation of July 22, 19551 carrying out the Protocol of Terms of Accession by Japan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

On January 16, 1956 Sweden gave to the Executive Secretary to the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement the notification, referred to in paragraph 3 of the Protocol for the accession of Japan, regarding the application of concessions which it had negotiated initially with Japan. Accordingly, pursuant to the procedure described in Part I (b) (1) of the above-mentioned proclamation, I hereby notify you that items 38, 1409 [second], and 1536 [first] in Part I of Schedule XX to the said Protocol shall not be withheld pursuant to paragraph 4 of the said Protocol on after February 15, 1956.

Sincerely,

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Honorable GEORGE M. HUMPHREY, Secretary of the Treasury, Department of the Treasury, Washington 25, D. C.

1 Proc. 3105, 3 CFR, 1955 Supp.

LETTER OF MAY 24, 1957 [PURSUANT TO PROCLAMATION FURTHER SUPPLEMENTING PROCLAMATION CARRYING OUT GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE]

The White House, May 24, 1957. DEAR MR. SECRETARY:

Proclamation 3160 of September 28, 1956, provides for the increase to 45 per centum ad valorem of the ad valorem part of the duty in the case of fabrics described in item 1108 or 1109 (a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Geneva-1947) or in item 1109 (a) in Part I of that Schedule (Torquay-1951) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any calendar year following December 31, 1956, in excess

of a quantity to be notified by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury. Pursuant to paragraph 1 of that proclamation I hereby notify you that for the calendar year 1957 the quantity of such fabrics on imports in excess of which the ad valorem part of the rate will be 45 per centum ad valorem shall be 14,000,000 pounds. I find this quantity to be not less than 5 per centum of the average annual production in the United States during the three immediately preceding calendar years of fabrics similar to such fabrics.

Sincerely,

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE HONORABLE GEORGE S. HUMPHREY, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C.

LETTER OF MARCH 7, 1958 [PURSUANT TO PROCLAMATION AMENDING PROCLAMATION NO. 3160,' RELATING TO PROCLAMATION No. 3160, RELATING TO CERTAIN WOOLEN TEXTILES]

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, March 7, 1958. DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Proclamation No. 3160 of September 28, 1956, as amended by the proclamation of March 7, 1958," provides for the increase of the ad valorem part of the duty in the case of any of the fabrics described in item 1108 or item 1109 (a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Geneva-1947) or in item 1109 (a) in Part I of that Schedule (Torquay-1951) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any calendar year following December 31, 1957, in excess of a quantity to be notified by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury.

13 CFR, 1956 Supp.

2 Proclamation 3225, supra.

Pursuant to paragraph 1 of that proclamation, as amended, I hereby notify you that for the calendar year 1958 the quantity of such fabrics on imports in excess of which the ad valorem part of the rate will be increased as provided for in the seventh recital of that proclamation, as amended, shall be 14,200,000 pounds.

On the basis of presently available information, I find this quantity to be not less than 5 per centum of the average annual production in the United States during the three immediately preceding calendar years of fabrics similar to such fabrics. Although it is believed that the final statistics will not alter this finding, in the event that they do, I shall notify you as to the revised quantity figure. Sincerely,

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The Honorable ROBERT B. ANDERSON, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C.