SUMMARY RECONCILIATION OF 1974 ESTIMATE TO 1973 FUNDS 1973 Appropriation in annual act ...... OPERATING EXPENSES, PBS $437,500,000 36,400,000 5,000,000 $478,900,000 $12,790,400 1,928,200 OPERATING EXPENSES, PBS 1973 Appropriation Adjustments 1973 Comparable Change 1974 Estimate GENERAL STATEMENT Amount 41,400,000 $478,900,000 +12,200,000 $491,100,000 "This appropriation provides for the basic real property operations of General Services Administration, including acquisition, operation, maintenance, protection, and utilization of general-purpose buildings and space; for overall direction of buildings design, construction, and repair and modernization. The total financing required for 1974 is $491,100 thousand. This includes an appropriation request of $390,982 thousand and a proposed transfer of $100, 118 thousand from "Construction, Public Buildings Projects." This represents a net increase of $12,200 thousand above the comparable amount for 1973. The 1973 amount includes proposed transfers of $36,400 thousand for the annual cost of expansion space acquired in 1972, not provided for in GSA's 1973 budget. The net increase of $12,200 thousand provides primarily for management and operation of new Federal buildings scheduled for occupancy in 1973 and 1974, new and replacement furnishings for members of Congress, and fullyear costs of wage board rate increases effected in 1973, offset by credits for space released resulting from new construction." (From The Budget for 1974.) Application of the $12,200 thousand increase requested in 1974 is explained in detailed estimates which follow. In accordance with administration policy, the recently granted classified pay increases are to be absorbed within total appropriations currently available to GSA for fiscal year 1973. In addition, the appropriations requested in the President's Budget for 1974 do not reflect the impact of the full-year cost of these increases. APPROPRIATION LANGUAGE For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of real property management and related activities as provided by law; rental of buildings in the District of Columbia; restoration of leased premises; moving Government agencies (including space adjustments) in connection with the assignment, allocation, and transfer of building space; acquisition by purchase or otherwise of real estate and interests therein; and contractual services incident to cleaning or servicing buildings and moving; $437,500,000/ $491,100,000, of which $100,118,000 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation made in the Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1973 OFERATING EXPENSES, PBS for "Construction, public buildings projects": Provided, That this appropriation shall be available to provide such fencing, lighting, guard booths, and other facilities on private or other property not in Government ownership or control as may be appropriate to enable the United States Secret Service to perform its protective functions pursuant to title 18, U.S.C. 3056: Provided further, That this appropriation and the "Buildings Management Fund" (40 U.S.C. 490(f), and the "Postal Service Fund" (39 U.S.C. 2003), shall be available for employment of guards for all buildings and areas owned or occupied by the United States or the Postal Service and under the charge and control of the General Services Administration or the Postal Service, and such guards shall have, with respect to such property, the powers of special policemen provided by the first section of the Act of June 1, 1948 (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318), but shall not be restricted to certain Federal property as otherwise required by the proviso contained in said section, and, as to property owned or occupied by the Postal Service, the Postmaster General may take the same actions as the Administrator of General Services may take under the provisions of sections 2 and 3 of the Act of June 1, 1948 (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318a, 318b) attaching thereto penal consequences under the authority and within the limits provided in section 4 of the Act of June 1, 1968 (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318c):/ Provided further, That none of the funds made available under this head shall be available for the acquisition of unimproved real property or real property having improvements of negligible value for Government purposes. EXPLANATION OF PROPOSED CHANGES IN APPROPRIATION LANGUAGE The first change in the language provides that of the total amount of $491,100,000 requested for 1974, $100,118,000 is proposed to be derived by transfer from the unobligated balance of the appropriation made in the Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1973 for Construction, Public Buildings Projects. The second proviso authorizing powers of special policemen to guards employed by GSA and the Postal Service has been deleted from the language for this item. A similar proviso has been proposed for insertion in the overall general provisions for the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriation Act for 1974 inasmuch as the appropriations for the Postal Service and GSA are included in separate titles of the Act. "This activity provides for rental, operation, protection, and utilization of Government-owned and leased space, as indicated by the following table: "The net increase for 1974 of $11,515 thousand over the comparable amount for 1973 includes operation and protection of Government-owned space, $10,770 thousand; moving, alterations, and related costs, $1,770 thousand; and is offset by a decrease in rental, operation, and protection of leased space, $1,025 thousand." (From The Budget for 1974.) The major portion of the OE, PBS appropriation supports the Buildings Management activity. More employment is involved in this activity than in any other function of GSA. a. The costs of the Buildings Management activity are subdivided as follows: 99,928,000 $203,516,407 100,427,000 $2.119 $212,836,600 104,367,1 $2.14 $223,983,2 4,250,000 3,767,400 3,390,60 $207,766,407 $216,604,000 $227,373,80 |