Comments of the Veterans' Administration on the Recommendations of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (Hoover Commission), December 31, 1955

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - Executive departments - 105 pages

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Page 83 - After notice required by this section, the agency shall afford interested persons an opportunity to participate in the rule making through submission of written data, views, or arguments with or without opportunity to present the same orally in any manner...
Page 37 - Treasury, taking into consideration the current average rate on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States as of the last day of the month preceding the issuance of the obligation of the bank.
Page 7 - Administration be given responsibility for general supervision over all phases of paperwork management throughout the executive branch of the Government with a view to simplifying and improving the quality of forms, correspondence, reports, and other documents, eliminating...
Page 26 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 86 - An Office of Legal Services and Procedure should be established within the Department of Justice to assist agencies in simplifying, clarifying, and making uniform rules of substance and procedure ; to insure agency compliance with statutory public information requirements; and to receive and investigate complaints regarding legal procedures and report thereon to the authorities concerned.
Page 41 - ... which will control the action of subordinates in the implementation of the foregoing; (c) All positions, the duties of which require the incumbents to act publicly in advocating new policies and in justifying or defending the governing policies or the basic principles or philosophy which controls their department or agency policies. Such duties would include direct participation with, or representation of noncareer executives in public debate, evaluative discussions, and justifications of departmental...
Page 101 - To develop and promulgate an overall plan for accounting and reporting, consistent with broad policies and standards prescribed by the Comptroller General. These broad policies and standards should continue to be developed in cooperation with the executive branch.
Page 41 - All positions having vested in them statutory authority or Executive delegations of authority requiring the incumbents to make final decisions in the establishment of governing policies, programs, objectives, and in the enunciation of principles which will control the action of subordinates in...
Page 18 - That the medical and hospital services of the three armed services be modified into a much more closely coordinated pattern which will provide that...
Page 7 - Federal agency shall establish and maintain an active, continuing program for the economical and efficient management of the records of the agency.

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