Breakdown of 1968 budget increases requested-Continued Increases requested for the depository library program : Increases needed to initiate new activities within the authorized programs of the Superintendent of Documents: Converting Selected List of U.S. Government Publicationse to com- Contractual computer services___. Total ZIP coding of all remaining mailing lists of the Superintendent of Documents, work to be performed by temporary personnel on intermediate shift: Salaries. 1,500 800 2, 300 353, 700 190, 000 35,000 225,000 Rentals of ZIP code readers and updating code services__ 79, 800 2,300 10,000 Equipment, ZIP code files___ 2, 300 Travel expense for personnel to survey, plan and training 8, 500 Equipment and fixtures for bookstores_ 19, 800 For required contributions to retirement fund, life insurance and employees health benefits. 21 Travel and transportation of persons. Travel expenses of the Office of the Superintendent of Documents, including statutory requirement of inspection of condition of depository libraries. Also covers necessary travel to open and operate bookstores outside the Washington, D.C. area. 22 Transportation of things....... Transportation of sales publications ordered by Members of Congress for local delivery and delivery of publications to local branch bookstores. 23 Rents, communications, and utilities.. Postage required for necessary official correspondence and mailing of publications to depository libraries; also, rentals of equipment, and costs of heat, light and power. 24 Printing and reproduction.. Printing of copies of publications produced by G.P.O., for distribution to depository libraries, which now number 903, with an estimated 42 additional to be designated in 1968. Also covers printing of catalogs and indexes of Government publications required by law, and price lists, price circulars and the Selected List of U.S. Government Publications. 25 Other services. Contractual services to convert mailing list of Selected List of U.S. Government Publications to computer tape for ZIP code identification of addresses and modernizing mailing operations. Also covers repairs to office and plant fixtures and equipment; maintenance of electrical trucks, alterations to work areas, and cleaning of work areas and restrooms. 26 Supplies and materials.. Cost of such supplies and materials as wrapping paper, cardboard, envelopes, shipping bags, mailing tubes, tape, glue, stencils, and general office supplies, including pens, typewriter ribbons, staples, clips, rubber bands, blank forms, etc. 31 Equipment.... Mailing, addressing, inserting and sealing machines, power lift trucks, pneumatic tube and conveyor systems, bookkeeping machines, typewriters, stencil cutters, tying machines, tape and label dispensers, etc. Contingency fund.. To be used only with permission of the Public Printer when work volume exceeds that which could have been normally anticipated. Cannot be used to employ permanent personnel. Summary of workload $3,791, 586 $4, 143, 900 $352, 314 214, 863 227,949 13, 086 2, 689 2, 979 3, 133 esti- estimate mate Number of sales orders.. Number of publications sold. 3, 445 3,389 3,836 4,029 3,994 4, 125 4,250 1,561 1,669 1,719 1, 837 1,573 1,575 1,642 1,596 1,650 1,700 $6, 886 $8, 513 $9, 360 $10, 902 $11, 298 $12, 558 $14, 389 $13, 664 $14, 136 $14, 401 49, 554 51, 408 53, 335 54, 762 53, 077 60, 904 64, 801 66, 703 68, 700 70, 700 63, 812 94, 912 78, 674 86, 539 90, 981 85, 969 96, 795 90, 133 92, 800 95,600 Appropriations.. Earnings (miscellaneous receipts to Treasury). Appropriations and earnings [In thousands of dollars] ac ac tual tual tual 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 mate 3, 463 3, 520 4,044 4, 724 4, 760 5,242 5,562 5,829 16, 450 7,448 5,732 6,703 7,404 7,642 7,617 7,573 1 Includes 1967 pay raise supplemental of $93,800 and supplemental for depository libraries for $200,000. INCREASE FOR PUBLICATIONS PROGRAM Mr. ANDREWS. You are asking increases in three general areas, as follows: First, increases requested for sales, agency and Congressional distribution and cataloging and indexing programs, which total $436,231. Mr. BUCKLEY. Yes, sir. DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM Mr. ANDREWS. Second, you are asking for increases for depository library program of $353,700, is that correct? Mr. BUCKLEY. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. How many depository libraries do you have at this time? Mr. BUCKLEY. 912. Mr. ANDREWS. How many have been authorized? Mr. BUCKLEY. Approximately 1,350 under the present law. Mr. ANDREWS. Has this been a popular program? Mr. BUCKLEY. Yes; continuing so. Mr. ANDREWS. When you establish a new depository library, you send them all the publications? Mr. BUCKLEY. They select the publications that the library will receive from broad general series or categories of Government publications. Mr. ANDREWS. Do you pay the freight? Mr. BUCKLEY. Yes, sir; the postage. Mr. ANDREWS. That is the biggest item of expense. Mr. BUCKLEY. The printing of the publications produced at the GPO must be paid for and we pay the postage. On the smaller number of publications not produced by the GPO we pay only the postage and mailing costs. The costs of producing the publications in that case are borne by the agency. NON-GPO PRINTED PUBLICATIONS Under the 1962 law there was a provision also for including in the depository program the non-Government Printing Office publications of public interest or educational value that were not produced by the GPO. Mr. ANDREWS. Where would they get those publications? Mr. BUCKLEY. They are produced in Government departmental and field printing plants. We have been slowly but steadily implementing that feature of the law. We now have the non-Government Printing Office publications of the Census Bureau, the Interior Department, and the Labor Department, and we are hoping to extend this into other areas in the forthcoming year. So for those particular publications we pay just the postage. But for the majority of what we are distributing we pay both the printing costs and postage costs. Mr. ANDREWS. What other departments do you expect to get publications from next year? Mr. BUCKLEY. We have talked informally with the Department of State, Department of Agriculture, the Library of Congress and with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. I am hopeful that in the coming year we may be able to add the Department of State and possibly one of the other departments after that. Mr. ANDREWS. Who publishes the Department of State publications? Mr. BUCKLEY. This would involve only Department of State publications that are not produced at the GPO. Mr. ANDREWS. Where are they produced? Mr. BUCKLEY. If they have any publications produced in government departmental, or field plants, these would be the publications contemplated by the law. Mr. ANDREWS. Does the State Department have a printing plant? Mr. HARRISON. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. Where is it located? Mr. HARRISON. The State Department has a number of small printing plants in their Embassies. They have a plant here in their building in Washington. Mr. ANDREWS. Is it a big one? Mr. HARRISON. No; it is a small plant. It is one of the 300-andsome small plants that the joint committee has authorized throughout the world. INCREASE FOR NEW ACTIVITIES Mr. ANDREWS. Your third increase is for the purpose of initiating new activities within authorized programs of the Superintendent of Documents, $408,069; is that correct? Mr. BUCKLEY. That is correct. Mr. ANDREWS. What is that for? What do you mean by new activities within authorized programs of the Superintendent of Documents? Mr. BUCKLEY. There are three areas, Mr. Chairman. We want to complete the ZIP coding of our mailing list, which is approximately 60 percent complete at the present time. We would like to move to an electronic data processing system for updating and handling the changes for our largest individual list of 875,000 names. We would like to have permission to establish not more than three additional branch sales outlets in other cities should that become feasible during the fiscal year ahead. INCREASE FOR ESTABLISHED PROGRAMS Mr. ANDREWS. Tell us how you propose to apply the increase of $436,000 requested for the established programs of publications, sales, catalogs, and idexes of publications and distribution of publications for Members of Congress and other Government departments. Mr. BUCKLEY. Mr. Chairman, of the $436,231, we would devote $216,552 to salaries, and $8,679 to retirement, health, and insurance contributions, $1,000 to the delivery service for publications, $3,000 to the cost of telephones and telegrams, $15,000 for postage on administrative office mailings. Also, $6,000 for utilities, $18,600 for the printing of the monthly catalog of public documents, $21,500 for revising our subject price lists to insure that all of them would be revised at least once a year; also, $60,000 to permit us to add enough additional issues to our list of selected publications to avoid the backlog in listing publications that is now occurring, $24,000 for the repairs and alterations to our workspace and buildings, $6,000 for sanitation, $10,000 for office supplies, $12,000 for mailing supplies, and $33,900 for equipment. Mr. ANDREWS. You said $216,552 for salaries. Mr. BUCKLEY. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWs. Is that for increases? Mr. BUCKLEY. This would be for the five additional positions requested plus the annual within-grade benefits. Of that amount, $20,241 would be for the annual within-grades, and $48,446 would be for the hourly wage increases approved by the Public Printer for the printing plant workers. $64,365, Mr. Chairman, would be for the five requested positions, and $83,500 for expanding our part-time work force. INCREASE FOR DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM Mr. ANDREWS. Tell us how you propose to use the increase of $353,700 for the depository library program. We discussed the growth of this program in 1967, several weeks ago in connection with the supplemental. What growth do you anticipate in 1968? Mr. BUCKLEY. We are anticipating that there will be an additional 42 libraries designated in fiscal 1968, Mr. Chairman, and for those additional libraries we are estimating $68,200 to cover the printing cost and the cost of postage and mailing supplies. For the already established libraries where we fell rather drastically short during the current year, we are asking for an additional $283,200, and for the new non-GPO material that we hope to add to the program, we have allowed $2,300. INCREASE FOR MODERNIZATION Mr. ANDREWS. The third area for which you are requesting an increase relates to modernization of several work programs and improved public sales service. The total increase for these two items is $408,069. Tell us what is planned for these programs. |