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1 New positions requested: Library of Congress, 63; Copyright Office, 8; Legislative Reference Service, 17; books for the blind and physically handicapped, 8; total, 96.

111,000 2,964,900

currency program):

Foreign currencies.

U.S. dollars....

Total increases, special foreign currency program.

Total increases, Library of Congress..

Background

Recognizing the ever-increasing need for added space for Library collections and services, Congress authorized $880,000 in fiscal 1967 ". . . for reimbursement to the General Services Administration for rental of suitable space in the District of Columbia or its immediate environs for the Library of Congress . . .". Included in these estimates is a request for $998.000.

In 1969 a supplemental appropriation of $200,000 was made available to the Library for additional space rental. The base for fiscal 1969 has been $813,000. In order to pay for previously authorized rental space through fiscal 1970, the Library requires an additional $589,000; however, there is a decrease of $404,000 for space rental to be assumed by GSA in fiscal 1970 leaving a net increase of $185,000 in this request. This does not contemplate utilization of any further space, only the use of space now under contract or negotiation for the Library through the General Services Administration.

The Library currently occupies (or will occupy during fiscal 1969) the following space located off Capitol Hill:

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1 Does not include guard service or imputed value of federally owned buildings.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZED POSITIONS, 1939–70

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AMENDMENTS TO BILL LANGUAGE

Senator MONTOYA. I think at this point we will also place in the record the amendments to bill language which the Library is requesting.

(The documents follow :)

It is requested that the third paragraph of the Administrative Provisions be revised as follows:

Funds available to the Library of Congress may be expended to reimburse the Department of State for medical services rendered to employees of the Library of Congress stationed abroad and for contracting on behalf of and hiring alien employees for the Library of Congress under compensation plans comparable to those authorized by Section 444 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 USC 889(a)); for purchase or hire of passenger motor vehicles; for payment of travel, storage and transportation of household goods, and transportation and per diem expenses for families en route (not to exceed twenty-four); for benefits comparable to those payable under sections 911 (9), 911 (11) and 941 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 USC 1136(9), 1136 (11) and 1156, respectively); and for travel expenses of single employees stationed at hardship, hazardous or unhealthful posts not to exceed two roundtrips per year for purposes of relaxation from the rigors of assignment; subject to such rules and regulations as may be issued by the Librarian of Congress.

NOTE: Underscored portions are additions to the language.

It is also requested that the following paragraph be added:

In addition, funds available to the Library of Congress may be expended for hire of services to transport employees to and from the Main Library Buildings and other sites in the Washington Metropolitan Area where the Library maintains departments, divisions, or otherwise conducts its operations.

Delete: "... together with $478,000 to be derived by transfer from the appropriations made for the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare."

This language is no longer required as the activity is financed from funds transferred by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as required under Title II C of the Higher Education Act, as amended.

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

JUSTIFICATION

Senator MONTOYA. For the main Library appropriation of salaries and expenses, you are requesting $19,380,000, an increase of $1,360,700 over the 1969 appropriation.

Mr. MUMFORD. That is correct.

Senator MONTOYA. Sixty-three new positions are requested.

I would like to have inserted for the purposes of the record pages 7 through 14 from the justifications which give a brief analysis of the increases and decreases in this line item.

(The justification follows:)

Appropriation: Salaries, and expenses, Library of Congress

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