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(c) The Commission may appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as it deems advisable without regard to the provisions of the civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.

(d) The Commission may procure, by contract or otherwise, the services of public or private organizations or institutions.

(H.R. 962 introduced by Congresswoman Martha W. Griffiths, of Michigan, follows:)

[H.R. 962, 87th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To create a Department of Urban Affairs, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SHORT TITLE

SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Urban Affairs Act".

PURPOSE OF ACT

SEC. 2. The Congress finds that the pressing needs of cities and metropolitan areas are such that Federal action should be taken to assist in meeting these needs through education, research, technical services, and such other programs as the Congress may later prescribe. The Congress finds also that a number of important Federal programs such as defense activities, grantsin-aid, loans, airport and highway construction, pollution control, and others have a vital impact on local communities and metropolitan areas; and that there is need for a central place in the Federal administrative structure to assess the overall results of these programs, to help coordinate these activities, and to represent the needs of urban areas at the national level. The Congress further finds that these urban and metropolitan problems are so interrelated with problems of housing that Federal housing programs should be administered by the same Federal Department which is created to deal with urban and metropolitan needs.

CREATION OF DEPARTMENT

SEC. 3. (a) In order to accomplish the objectives set forth in section 2, there is hereby established an executive department to be known as the Department of Urban Affairs (hereafter referred to in this Act as the "Department"), at the head of which shall be a Secretary of Urban Affairs (hereafter referred to in this Act as the "Secretary") who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Under the Secretary shall be an Under Secretary and two Assistant Secretaries who shall perform such functions as the Secretary shall prescribe and who shall be appointed in the same manner as the Secretary.

(b) There is hereby created in the Department of Urban Affairs an Urban Advisory Council. The members of this Council shall be appointed by the President upon nomination by the Secretary of Urban Affairs and shall include persons outside the Federal Service with broad experience and interest in urban and related problems. The following Federal officials are here by designated as members ex officio of the Urban Advisory Council: Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The President may designate other Federal officials as ex officio members of the Council. Members of the Council shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be reimbursed for necessary travel and subsistence expenses as provided in the Travel Expense Act of 1949 as amended. The Council shall meet at the call of the Secretary of Urban Affairs, but not less than twice a year.

FUNCTIONS AND TRANSFERS

SEC. 4. (a) The President shall submit to the Congress reorganization plans providing for the transfer of such functions from officers or agencies of the executive branch of the Government to the Secretary as the President deems appropriate to assist in accomplishing the purposes of this Act. (b) All functions of the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency are transferred to the Secretary. The constituent agencies of the Hous

ing and Home Finance Agency, together with their respective functions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other fund (available or to be made available), and all other functions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be made available) of the Housing and Home Finance Agency are hereby transferred to the Department.

(c) The Housing and Home Finance Agency and the office of Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency are hereby abolished.

COMPENSATION OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS

SEC. 5. The Secretary, Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretaries shall receive compensation at the rates prescribed for these positions in the other executive departments.

SEAL

SEC. 6. The Secretary shall cause a seal of office to be made for the Department, of such design as the President shall approve, and judicial notice shall be taken thereof.

DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY

SEC. 7. The Secretary may from time to time make such provisions as the Secretary deems appropriate authorizing the performance of any of the functions of the Secretary by any other officer, or by any agency employee, of the Department.

(H.R. 1125 introduced by Congressman J. Arthur Younger, of California, follows:)

[H.R. 1125, 87th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To create a Department of Urbiculture, and to prescribe its functions

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SHORT TITLE

SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Urbiculture Act".

PURPOSE OF ACT

SEC. 2. The Congress finds that many of the most pressing problems facing the people of the United States grow out of the lack of knowledge and understanding of proper techniques in untiliaztion of urban land, and that there is a corresponding national interest in the development of the science of urbiculture. Recogizing the invaluable contribution made by the Department of Agriculture in promoting increasingly efficient use of farmlands, the Congress enacts this Act in order to provide a corresponding executive department to develop methods of dealing with pressing social, economic, and civic problems growing out of inadequate knowledge of the principles of using and developing urban lands, and to make these methods available to the people of the United States through suitable educational programs.

CREATION OF DEPARTMENT

SEC. 3. In order to accomplish the purposes set forth in section 2, there is hereby established at the seat of the Government an executive department to be known as the Department of Urbiculture (referred to in this Act as the "Department"), at the head of which shall be a Secretary of Urbiculture (referred to in this Act as the "Secretary"), who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

FUNCTIONS OF SECRETARY

SEC. 4. (a) The Secretary shall establish research and educational programs to accomplish the purposes set forth in section 2. The President may make such transfers of functions from officers of the executive branch of the Government to the Secretary as the President deems appropriate to assist in accomplishing such purposes.

(b) The functions of the Housing and Home Finance Administrator, the Federal Housing Commissioner, and the Public Housing Commissioner are hereby transferred to the Secretary. The Home Loan Bank Board, the Federal National Mortgage Association, and the National Housing Council are hereby transferred to the Department. The Housing and Home Finance Agency, the Federal Housing Administration, and the Public Housing Administration, and the offices of Housing and Home Finance Administrator, Federal Housing Commissioner, and Public Housing Commissioner, are hereby abolished.

UNDER SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT SECRETARIES

SEC. 5. There shall be, in the Department, an Under Secretary of Urbiculture and four Assistant Secretaries of Urbiculture, each of whom shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Under Secretary of Urbiculture shall perform such functions as the Secretary shall prescribe and shall act for, and exercise the powers of, the Secretary during his absence or disability. Each Assistant Secretary of Urbiculture shall perform such functions as the Secretary shall prescribe.

COMPENSATION OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS

SEC. 6. The Secretary shall receive compensation at the rate prescribed for the heads of executive departments. The Under Secretary of Urbiculture shall receive compensation at the rate of $17,500 per annum. Each Assistant Secretary of Urbiculture shall receive compensation at the rate of $15,000 per annum.

PROVISIONS OF LAW APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT

SEC. 7. Except to the extent inconsistent with this Act, all provisions of law applicable to the executive departments generally shall apply to the Department.

SEAL

SEC. 8. The Secretary shall cause a seal of office to be made for the Department, of such design as the President shall approve, and judicial notice shall be taken thereof.

DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY

SEC. 9. The Secretary may, without being relieved of his responsibility therefor, and unless prohibited by some specific provision of law, perform any function vested in him through or with the aid of such officials or organizational entities of the Department as he may designate.

TRANSFER OF PERSONNEL, PROPERTY, RECORDS, AND SO FORTH

SEC. 10. Any personnel, property, records, obligations, commitments, or unobligated balances of appropriations which the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine are used primarily in relation to functions transferred to the Secretary pursuant to section 4 shall be transferred to the Department.

EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 11. Sections 4 and 10 of this Act shall take effect ninety days after the date of its enactment. The remainder of this Act shall take effect on the date of its enactment.

(H.R. 2389 introduced by Congressman Hugh J. Addonizio, of New Jersey, follows:)

[H.R. 2389, 87th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To create a Department of Urban Affairs, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SHORT TITLE

SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Urban Affairs Act".

PURPOSE OF ACT

SEC. 2. The Congress finds that the pressing needs of cities and metropolitan areas are such that Federal action should be taken to assist in meeting these needs through education, research, technical services, and such other programs as the Congress may later prescribe. The Congress finds also that a number of important Federal programs such as defense activities, grants-in-aid, loans, airport and highway construction, pollution control, and others have a vital impact on local communities and metropolitan areas; and that there is need for a central place in the Federal administrative structure to assess the overall results of these programs, to help coordinate these activities, and to represent the needs of urban areas at the national level.

CREATION OF DEPARTMENT

(b) There is hereby created in the Department of Urban Affairs an Urban Advisory Council. The members of this Council shall be appointed by the President upon nomination by the Secretary of Urban Affairs and shall include persons outside the Federal service with broad experience and interest in urban and related problems. The following Federal officials are hereby designated as members ex officio of the Urban Advisory Council: Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The President may designate other Federal officials as ex officio members of the Council. Members of the Council shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be reimbursed for necessary travel and subsistence expenses as provided in the Travel Expense Act of 1949 as amended. The Council shall meet at the call of the Secretary of Urban Affairs, but not less than twice a year.

FUNCTIONS AND TRANSFERS

SEC. 4. The President shall submit to the Congress reorganization plans providing for the transfer of such functions from officers or agencies of the Executive branch of the Government to the Secretary as the President deems appropriate to assist in accomplishing the purposes of this Act.

COMPENSATION OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS

SEC. 5. The Secretary, Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretaries shall receive compensation at the rates prescribed for these positions in the other executive departments.

SEAL

SEC. 6. The Secretary shall cause a seal of office to be made for the Department, of such design as the President shall approve, and judicial notice shall be taken thereof.

DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY

(H.R. 2713 introduced by Congressman Thomas F. Johnson, of Maryland, follows:)

[H.R. 2713, 87th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To establish a commission to study smalltown community problems

Whereas small towns with populations of twenty-five thousand and under, have contributed greatly to the growth of America and aided it in reaching its dominant place in world markets; and

Whereas the continuance of such towns as a stable part of our national economy is essential in the face of the technological advances and the tendency to greater industrial concentration; and

Whereas small towns lack the necessary facilities for research and proper planning in order to combat their many new problems; and Whereas the wholesome family life and community spirit found in small towns has been, and still is, one of the truly important heritages handed down from generation to generation, and is fundamental to a sound American community life that is highly desirable; and

Whereas the Congress of the United States has not created a commission specifically designated to study the problems of smalltown communities: Now therefore

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMISSION

SECTION 1. There is hereby established a Commission to be known as the National Advisory Commission on Small Towns-(small towns being designated as those having a population of under twenty-five thousand) hereinafter referred to as the "Commission".

MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION

SEC. 2. (a) The Commission shall be composed of eleven members to be chosen as follows:

(1) One each from the ten numbered judicial districts of the United States, with the eleventh member "at large", all to be chosen by the President of the United States for a term of four years.

(2) The eleventh member shall be designated by the President as Chairman of the Commission.

(3) No more than six members of the Commission, including the Chairman, shall be of the same political party.

(4) The Vice Chairman shall be chosen by the members of the Commission and shall serve during the term of the then Chairman.

(b) Six members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum, but any lesser number may conduct hearings.

(c) Any vacancy in the Commission shall in no manner affect its powers. It shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made.

(d) Service of an individual as a member of the Commission or employment of an individual by the Commission as an attorney or expert in any business or professional field, on a full- or part-time basis, with or without compensation, shall not be considered as service or employment bringing such individual within the provisions of section 281, 283, 284, 434, or 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code, or section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 99).

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