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TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GEN-
ERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS
FOR FISCAL YEAR 1974

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

U.S. Congress, No SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

Houve.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND
GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS.

TOM STEED, Oklahoma, Chairman

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AUBREY A. GUNNELS and JOHN G. OSTHAUS, Staff Assistants

PART 4

INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER
INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS

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Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1973

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONSF27

GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman

JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi
JOHN J. ROONEY, New York
ROBERT L. F. SIKES, Florida
OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana
JOE L. EVINS, Tennessee

EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts
WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky
DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania
TOM STEED, Oklahoma

GEORGE E. SHIPLEY, Illinois
JOHN M. SLACK, West Virginia
JOHN J. FLYNT, JR., Georgia
NEAL SMITH, Iowa

ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut
JULIA BUTLER HANSEN, Washington
JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, New York
JOHN J. MCFALL, California
EDWARD J. PATTEN, New Jersey
CLARENCE D. LONG, Maryland
SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois
BOB CASEY, Texas

FRANK E. EVANS, Colorado
DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin

EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California

LOUIS STOKES, Ohio

J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana
GUNN MCKAY, Utah

TOM BEVILL, Alabama

EDITH GREEN, Oregon

ROBERT O. TIERNAN, Rhode Island
BILL CHAPPELL, JR., Florida
BILL D. BURLISON, Missouri

GEORGE E. EVANS
ROBERT B. FOSTER
JOHN M. GARRITY
AUBREY A. GUNNELS
CHARLES G. HARDIN
JAY B. HOWE
F. MICHAEL HUGO
THOMAS J. KINGFIELD
ROBERT L. KNISELY
RICHARD N. MALOW
MILTON B. MEREDITH

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ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan
JOHN J. RHODES, Arizona
WILLIAM E. MINSHALL, Ohio
ROBERT H. MICHEL, Illinois
SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts
GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin
HOWARD W. ROBISON, New York
GARNER E. SHRIVER, Kansas
JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania
MARK ANDREWS, North Dakota
LOUIS C. WYMAN, New Hampshire
BURT L. TALCOTT, California
WENDELL WYATT, Oregon
JACK EDWARDS, Alabama
WILLIAM J. SCHERLE, Iowa
ROBERT C. MCEWEN, New York
JOHN T. MYERS, Indiana

J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia
CLARENCE E. MILLER, Ohio
EARL B. RUTH, North Carolina
VICTOR V. VEYSEY, California
LAWRENCE COUGHLIN, Pennsylvania

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NOTE. This Surveys and Investigations supervisory staff is supplemented by selected personnel bo rowed on a reimbursable basis for varying lengths of time from various agencies to staff up specific studi and investigations. The current average annual full-time personnel equivalent is approximately 42.

GERARD J. CHOUINARD PAUL V. FARMER SANDRA A. GILBERT EVA K. HARRIS VIRGINIA MAY KEYSER MARCIA L. MATTS

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

FRANCES MAY
GENEVIEVE A. MEALY
JANE A. MEREDITH
LAWRENCE C. MILLER
MARY ALICE SAUER
DALE M. SHULAW

AUSTIN G. SMITH RANDOLPH THOMAS BETTY A. SWANSON SHARON K. TINSLEY GEMMA M. WEIBLINGER

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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1973.

ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL

RELATIONS

WITNESSES

ROBERT E. MERRIAM, CHAIRMAN

WILLIAM R. MacDOUGALL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

FRANKLIN STEINKO, JR., ASSISTANT TO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Mr. STEED. The committee will be in order.

The committee now will take up the 1974 budget request for the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. The budget for 1973 was $794,000 and the budget request for 1974 is $901,000, an increase of $107,000, which provides for 2 additional positions for a total of 37.

We are pleased to have our old friends here, Mr. Merriam and Mr. MacDougall. We extend a cordial welcome to you both. We are delighted to see you again.

Mr. MERRIAM. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. STEED. We have been having some very fine reports from our colleagues who work with you. So we would be pleased to have whatever statement you would like to make.

Mr. MERRIAM. Thank you very much.

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I have a formal statement which, if I may, I would like to just submit for the record. Mr. STEED. All right.

[The statement follows:]

PREPARED STATEMENT OF ROBERT E. MERRIAM, CHAIRMAN, ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my name is Robert E. Merriam. It has been my privilege to serve as Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations since my appointment to that _post_in_1969.

I am accompanied today, Mr. Chairman, by William R. MacDougall, the Commission's Executive Director, and Franklin A. Steinko, the assistant to the Executive Director.

Mr. Chairman, the statement that we have submitted to the committee in support of our budget request for fiscal 1974 calls attention to the special place that the Commission occupies in the governmental structure of our Nation. The Commission is unique in its mission which, in effect, is to monitor the operation of the federal system.

The Commission's permanence is also unique. Unlike temporary commissions that come and go, ACIR is a permanent agency. It has the opportunity to assist policymakers at all levels to initiate changes that will strengthen and improve the American federal system.

Third, the Commission's financial support is unique. Although its basic operation is supported by congressional appropriations, the Commission also receives token contributions from State and local governments as well as contributions from nonprofit organizations and grants from private foundations and occasionally from other Federal agencies.

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