6. House and Senate committee calendars.-This heading covers the printing of all House and Senate committee calendars which list the action of the various committees on pending and completed legislation.

The expenditures for all House and Senate committee calendars for the fiscal year 1958 were $488,397 for 62,600 pages. The estimate for the cost of these calendars in the fiscal year 1959 was $500,000 for approximately 50,000 pages. It is estimated that $500,000 will be required in the fiscal year 1960 for approximately 50,000 pages.

7. Bills, resolutions, and amendments.-This heading covers the printing of bills, resolutions, and amendments in all forms, including the prints as introduced, referred, reported, and as finally passed.

The expenditures through February 28, 1959, for bills, resolutions, and amendments in the fiscal year 1958 amounted to $860,424 for 85,869 pages. Outstanding orders estimated at $6,576 will result in a total requirement of $867,000 for this class of work for the fiscal year 1958. The estimate submitted for the fiscal year 1959 was $900,000 for about 100,000 pages. The estimate for the fiscal year 1960 is $900,000 for approximately 100,000 pages.

8. Committee reports.-This item covers printed reports of congressional committees on pending legislation.

The expenditures for printing committee reports ordered in the fiscal year 1958 were $437,837 for 28,918 pages. It was estimated that $450,000 would be needed for approximately 30,000 pages in the fiscal year 1959. It is estimated that $450,000 will be needed for about 30,000 pages in the fiscal year 1960.

9. Documents.-This heading includes all classes of Senate and House documents ordered printed by Congress which carry a congressional number, such as annual reports, engineers' reports, special reports made by Government departments in response to resolutions, supplemental and deficiency estimates of appropriations, and so forth.

The expenditures through February 28, 1959, for House and Senate documents ordered in the fiscal year 1958 amounted to $249,017 for 13,755 pages. It has been estimated that $279,000 will be required for this item, including $29,983 for the incompleted orders for the fiscal year 1958. The estimate for the fiscal year 1959 was $300,000 for about 14,000 pages. The estimate for the fiscal year 1960 is $300,000 for about 14,000 pages.

10. Hearings.-This item covers all hearings before congressional committees. The expenditures for hearings in the fiscal year 1958 through February 28, 1959, were $2,524,221 for 174,331 pages. Outstanding orders have been estimated at $342,375, resulting in a total requirement of $2,866,596 for this class of work for the fiscal year 1958. The estimate for the fiscal year 1959 was $2,400,000 for approximately 178,000 pages. The estimate for the fiscal year 1960 is $2,400,000 for about 178,000 pages,

11. Federal Register, including the U.S. Government Organization Manual and the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States.-The Archivist of the United States and the Public Printer are charged with the printing and distribution, in a serial publication titled "Federal Register" of documents authorized to be published under the act of July 26, 1935, and the act of June 11, 1946. Funds to cover the cost of printing this publication are provided for in the appropriation for congressional printing and binding. The National Archives and Records Service has been authorized (13 F.R. 5935; 1 CFR pt. 3) to handle the U.S. Government Organization Manual as a special edition of the Federal Register. On November 6, 1957, the National Archives and Records Service was authorized (22 F.R. 8895; 1 CFR pt. 4) to begin printing as a special edition of the Federal Register the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States starting with the calendar year 1957. The cost of printing the U.S. Government Organization Manual and the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States is charged to the cost of printing the Federal Register (sec. 6, 49 Stat. 501; 44 U.S.C. 306).

The expenditures for the Federal Register, the U.S. Government Organization Manual, and the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, for all work ordered in the fiscal year 1958 amounted to $551,502 for 13,542 pages, including $12,627 for 794 pages of the U.S. Government Organization Manual, and $22,168 for 957 pages of the Public Papers of the Presidents. It was estimated that $550,000 would be sufficient to cover the cost of approximately 12,000 pages of the Federal Register and for printing the U.S. Government Organization Manual and the Public Papers of the Presidents in the fiscal year 1959. It is estimated that $600,000 will be required in the fiscal year 1960 for printing

an estimated 12,000 pages of the Federal Register and for printing the U.S. Government Organization Manual and the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States as supplemental editions of the Federal Register.

12. Supplements to Code of Federal Regulations.-The cost of printing the supplements to the Code of Federal Regulations amounted to $253,094 for 22,362 pages ordered in the fiscal year 1958. It was estimated that $350,000 would be sufficient for printing 22,500 pages of the supplements during the fiscal year 1959. It is estimated that $320,000 will be required to print 21,500 pages of the supplements during the fiscal year 1960.

CURRENT APPROPRIATION REQUIREMENTS

Mr. NORRELL. I notice on page 105 of the committee print that in the current year we appropriated $10,700,000. How much of that money is left?

Mr. CRISTOFANE. For the current year we have used, out of the congressional printing and binding appropriation, $5,605,131.85 as of April 30.

Mr. NORRELL. About half?

Mr. CRISTOFANE. Yes, sir. That does not include the obligations. We have a considerable amount of work in process throughout the plant, and there will continue to come to the Office additional orders to be printed and bound. We will not know what the cost will be until after we get the orders.

As of June 30 each year we make an estimate, in accordance with section 1311 of Public Law 663, 83d Congress, to determine what the outstanding obligations will be against the appropriation.

We believe that the obligations will more than use up all of this year's appropriation and it probably will be about $500,000 short. The session of Congress did not start at the beginning of the fiscal year, so we will have a larger volume of charges toward the end of the fiscal year than toward the beginning.

Mr. NORRELL. I thought that you might have a savings this year on some of the items that we allowed.

Mr. CRISTOFANE. I do not believe so. We will not know until we make a summary of the outstanding obligations as of June 30, 1959. We believe the appropriation will be short somewhere around $500,000 above the $10 million which was appropriated for the fiscal year 1959 orders.

PROPOSED NEW WAREHOUSE BUILDING

Mr. NORRELL. Tell me something about your building program. You mentioned that in your statement. What is the situation? Mr. BLATTENBERGER. I understand it has passed the Senate, but it has not yet been reported by the House.

OTHER CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS

The air conditioning is in the process of being completed, and no doubt will be completed for next year.

Mr. EASTIN. That was approved by this committee 3 years ago. Mr. NORRELL. How is your electronic equipment getting along? Mr. CRISTOFANE. We expect to have one type of unit which will work toward the transition into the units that we expect to get in 1960. This unit works toward a new electronic data-processing sys

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tem. We expect to have the small unit delivered around the first part of July. It will be a rather small unit in comparison to the whole system which we expect to get delivered toward the latter part of 1960. Mr. NORRELL. Do you think that that will reflect a savings?

Mr. CRISTOFANE. We think definitely there will be a net savings of around $60,000 a year. We believe that that is conservative.

Mr. NORRELL. And that has been taken into consideration in your request?

Mr. CRISTOFANE. Yes, sir.

INCREASE PROPOSED FOR 1960

Mr. NORRELL. Now, with regard to congressional printing, you have touched upon that already. That is considerably larger this year than last?

Mr. CRISTOFANE. The reason it is larger is because we have $1,500,000 in there that is used to reimburse deficiencies in previous years. The appropriation, nevertheless, is $10 million. We are again asking this year, $10 million. We base our estimate on past years' experience and what we believe the future will bring.

Mr. NORRELL. Are the congressional hearings more this year? How do they compare with what we have had previously?

Mr. CRISTOFANE. Expenditures for hearings for the fiscal year 1958, through February 20, 1959, were $2,524,221. The estimate for the whole year 1959 is $2,400,000, and we expect that the hearings are going to cost a little less. The number of pages is greater, but the reason why we get more pages in 1959 than we did in 1958 is due to the fact we expect to have more reprints of material. There also was in 1958 a larger volume of tabular matter and tabular matter is more costly.

Mr. NORRELL. I wish that you would say something about the Congressional Record and how it compares with last year.

Mr. CRISTOFANE. The Congressional Record for the fiscal year 1958 contained the largest number of pages we have ever had; therefore, we find that it ran higher than we expected. Also, we believe that it ran higher than what we can expect in the future, so you will probably notice we did not ask for the same amount in the subsequent years. Mr. NORRELL. Any questions?

Mr. STEED. In connection with your $10 million estimate of your expenses this year, I notice that you have them itemized here under several headings.

Could you tell us whether these estimates are running about what you figured per item? I know you say in the total it is, but I wonder how it figures out by items.

Mr. CRISTOFANE. For the present fiscal year?

Mr. STEED. Yes.

Mr. CRISTOFANE. We will not know how they come out by items until it gets toward the end of June, which would be the end of the fiscal year 1959. Each one of these items that we have stated is treated as an allotment. We set that figure up to work against in connection with the expenditures.

Mr. STEED. In the event that you had a surplus in one allotment and a shortage in another, could you transfer?

DEFICIENCIES IN PRIOR FUNDS

Mr. CRISTOFANE. We could move them about; that is right.

Mr. STEED. With regard to the deficit that you mentioned, I notice that you ask for $700,000 for a 1957 deficit? What is the reason for the 2- or 3-year delay in picking up that item?

Mr. CRISTOFANE. Under the existing law we are authorized to use the current appropriation to pay for obligations that were incurred in previous years' appropriations; in other words, to pay the deficit of the previous years. In 1957 we incurred a deficit of $700,000. That money was appropriated in 1959 when it was included in the appropriation made for $10,700,000; $700,000 of that money went to pay the deficit that was incurred in 1957, thereby making the expenditure for 1957 $9.900.000.

Mr. STEED. What percentage of your total work is directly chargeable to congressional work?

Mr. EASTIN. About 9 percent of our entire operation.

DEPARTMENTAL PRINTING PLANTS

Mr. STEED. Have you had any recent survey made as to how much of this same kind of work is being done in the departments and outside the Government Printing Office?

Mr. EASTIN. Work that the departments are doing in their own plants?

Mr. STEED. Under your supervision.

Mr. EASTIN. They all have small duplicating plants from which they run press releases and things needed immediately which are ephemeral in nature and not permanent. But under the law the departments are required to send to the Government Printing Office all printing of public documents. There are certain exceptions to that. The Coast and Geodetic Survey operates a plant. The Army Map Service has a plant here in town. The Navy Hydrographic Office of the Defense Department operates a printing plant. No one has ever been able to say exactly what portion of the Government's printing is done at the Government Printing Office. We believe that a substantial portion is done, and under the law all Government printing is required to be done at our plant with certain exceptions.

Mr. STEED. In addition to your $10 million, the department that has you do work for it takes money out of its budget to pay you for that work?

Mr. EASTIN. Yes.

CHARGES FOR CERTAIN MISTAKES IN PRINTING

Mr. STEED. Suppose in doing a job for a department an error is made that makes the finished product unusable and it is your fault. Do you absorb that, or do you charge it to the department, or how do you show that?

Mr. EASTIN. If the job has to be reprinted through our fault, we would have to stand that loss. First we would see if we could not correct it by printing a page and pasting that page in place of the rong page, or asking the department if it would not allow us to insert an errata sheet to call attention to the error with the correc

tion. Only on rare occasions do we have to reprint a complete job because of an error.

Mr. STEED. I do not know how accurate it is, but I was told in one instance you charged the department for your error, and I did not know whether that was customary.

Mr. EASTIN. We are pretty hard people to deal with when it comes to a dollar, but we would not like to think we penalized a customerfor an error that was entirely ours.

Mr. STEED. Some time ago a lot of criticism in the press and other places was heard about the volume of so-called Government junk mail that was being printed and shipped out all over the country by all the departments of Government. The complaints have apparently died down or abated a little in recent years. Do you have any way of knowing what the overall total volume of Government printing is in all its phases compared to a few years ago?

Mr. EASTIN. Well, the Government's total printing is gradually increasing. I think that we reached our peak during World War II when, of course, the printing demands were quite great. After World War II there was a substantial drop in the volume of printing donethrough the Government Printing Office, but we notice that it is gradually creeping up as more and more programs of the Government are undertaken. They require more and more printing. So we are currently at a fairly high point.

Mr. STEED. You made a statement here about the 1953 prices that you are trying to maintain. I am just a little confused because if my memory serves me correctly, when the Library of Congress was here this week, in at least one or two of their items they asked for an increase because they said the cost of that item had gone up.

Mr. BLATTENBERGER. We operate that plant for the Library of Congress.

Mr. EASTIN. They are not a part of our central operation, and while we have made many economies in the printing plant at the Library of Congress, we pass on all direct costs to them. We have not been in a position to absorb those increases as we have at the main Government Printing Office. So they were correct in representing to you that their costs were higher than in previous years.

Mr. STEED. I thought since that might cause some confusion elsewhere it should be cleared up.

Mr. EASTIN. And it is a fact that comes up nearly every year when we appear here.

COST ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

Mr. STEED. In breaking down the amount of these various programs and the costs for them, how accurate is your accounting system in making the proper charge under each heading? Is that of any importance, or do you have a pretty close check on that, or is it an estimate?

Mr. CRISTOFANE. We have a very close check on that. In addition, at the end of the fiscal year when we work up the obligations, which are actually supported by documentary evidence of the probable cost. Mr. STEED. In other words, you make a very close record check of what each one of these various activities actually does cost?

Mr. CRISTOFANE. Yes, sir.

Mr. STEED. So that while we are more interested in the total here than the breakdown, these comparative figures of cost of a given item