REORGANIZATION PLANS REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. I Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 25, 1939, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1939, approved April 3, 1939 PART 1.-EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT SECTION 1. Bureau of the Budget.-The Bureau of the Budget and all of its functions and personnel (including the Director and Assistant Director) are hereby transferred from the Treasury Department to the Executive Office of the President; and the functions of the Bureau of the Budget shall be administered by the Director thereof under the direction and supervision of the President. SECTION 2. Central Statistical Board.—The Central Statistical Board and all of its functions and personnel (including the Chairman and the members of the Board) are hereby transferred to the Bureau of the Budget in the Executive Office of the President. The Chairman of the Board shall perform such administrative duties as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall direct. Transmitted April 25, 1939. Effective July 1, 1939; ante, p. 813. Ante, p. 561. Bureau of the Budget. Central Statistical Board. Central Statistical Committee abolished ferred. SECTION 3. Central Statistical Committee Abolished and Functions Transferred.-The Central Statistical Committee is hereby abolished, and functions transand its functions are transferred to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be administered by him under the direction and supervision of the President. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall promptly wind up any outstanding affairs of the Central Statistical Committee. National Resources Consolidation of functions; composi SECTION 4. National Resources Planning Board.-(a) The functions of the National Resources Committee, established by Executive Order Planning Board. No. 7065 of June 7, 1935, and its personnel (except the members of the Committee) and all of the functions of the Federal Employment Stabilization Office in the Department of Commerce and its personnel are hereby transferred to the Executive Office of the President. The functions transferred by this section are hereby consolidated, and they tion of Board. shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the President by the National Resources Planning Board (hereafter referred to as the Board), which shall be composed of five members to be appointed by the President. The President shall designate one of the members of the Board as Chairman and another as Vice Chairman. The Vice Chairman shall act as Chairman in the absence of the Chairman or in the event of a vacancy in that office. The members of the Board shall be compensated at the rate of $50 per day for time spent in attending and traveling to and from meetings, or in otherwise exercising the functions and duties of the Board, plus the actual cost of transportation: Provided, That in no case shall a member be entitled to receive compensation for more than thirty days' service in two striction." consecutive months. Pay and allowances. Proviso. Rules of proceed (b) The Board shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and a majority of its members in office shall constitute a quorum for the ings, etc. transaction of business, but the Board may function notwithstanding vacancies. 1423 Appointments; delegation of authority. National Resources Committee abolished. Federal Employment Stabilization Office abolished. Transfer of records and property. Transfer of funds. (c) The Board may appoint necessary officers and employees and may delegate to such officers authority to perform such duties and make such expenditures as may be necessary. SEC. 5. National Resources Committee Abolished.-The National Resources Committee is hereby abolished, and its outstanding affairs shall be wound up by the National Resources Planning Board. SEC. 6. Federal Employment Stabilization Office Abolished.-The Federal Employment Stabilization Office is hereby abolished, and the Secretary of Commerce shall promptly wind up its affairs. SEC. 7. Transfer of Records and Property.-All records and property (including office equipment) of the several agencies transferred, or the functions of which are transferred, by this Part are hereby transferred to the Executive Office of the President for use in the administration of the agencies and functions transferred by this Part. SEC. 8. Transfer of Funds.-So much of the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds available (including those available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940) for the use of any agency in the exercise of any functions transferred by this Part, or for the use of the head of any department or agency in the exercise of any functions so transferred, as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine, shall be transferred to the Executive Office of the President for use in connection with the exercise of functions transItems included in ferred by this Part. In determining the amount to be transferred the determination of amount. Proviso. Provisions applica ble. Ante, pp. 562, 563. Excess personnel. Ante, p. 563. Federal Security Agency; offices, etc., transferred and consolidated. Federal Security Administrator, apthority, etc. pointment, salary, au Director of the Bureau of the Budget may include an amount to provide for the liquidation of obligations incurred against such appropriations, allocations, or other funds prior to the transfer: Provided, That the use of the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds transferred by this section shall be subject to the provisions of section 4 (d)(3) and section 9 of the Reorganization Act of 1939. SECTION 9. Personnel.-Any personnel transferred by this Part found to be in excess of the personnel necessary for the efficient administration of the functions transferred by this Part shall be re-transferred under existing law to other positions in the Government service, or separated from the service subject to the provisions of section 10(a) of the Reorganization Act of 1939. PART 2.-FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY SECTION 201. Federal Security Agency.—(a) The United States Employment Service in the Department of Labor and its functions and personnel are transferred from the Department of Labor; the Office of Education in the Department of the Interior and its functions and personnel_(including the Commissioner of Education) are transferred from the Department of the Interior; the Public Health Service in the Department of the Treasury and its functions and personnel (including the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service) are transferred from the Department of the Treasury; the National Youth Administration within the Works Progress Administration and its functions and personnel (including its Administrator) are transferred from the Works Progress Administration; and these agencies and their functions, together with the Social Security Board and its functions, and the Civilian Conservation Corps and its functions, are hereby consolidated under one agency to be known as the Federal Security Agency, with a Federal Security Administrator at the head thereof. The Federal Security Administrator shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive a salary at the rate of $12,000 per annum. He shall have general direc tion and supervision over the administration of the several agencies consolidated into the Federal Security Agency by this section and shall be responsible for the coordination of their functions and activities. Assistant Federal Security Administra (b) The Federal Security Administrator shall appoint an Assistant Federal Security Administrator, who shall receive a salary at the rate tor. of $9,000 per annum, and he may also appoint such other personnel and make such expenditures as may be necessary. (c) The Assistant Administrator shall act as Administrator during the absence or disability of the Administrator or in the event of a vacancy in that office and shall perform such other duties as the Administrator shall direct. (d) The several agencies and functions consolidated by this section into the Federal Security Agency shall carry with them their personnel. SECTION 202. Social Security Board.-The Social Security Board and its functions shall be administered as a part of the Federal Security Agency under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. The Chairman of the Social Security Board shall perform such administrative duties as the Federal Security Administrator shall direct. SECTION 203. United States Employment Service.-(a) The functions of the United States Employment Service shall be consolidated with the unemployment compensation functions of the Social Security Board and shall be administered in the Social Security Board in connection with such unemployment compensation functions under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. Personnel. Social Security Board. United States Employment Service. Director's office (b) The office of the Director of the United States Employment abolished. Service is hereby abolished, and all of the functions of such office are transferred to, and shall be exercised by, the Social Security Board. Transfer of designated functions of Office of Education. (c) All functions of the Secretary of Labor relating to the administration of the United States Employment Service are hereby trans- Secretary of Labor. ferred to, and shall be exercised by, the Federal Security Administrator. SECTION 204. Office of Education.-(a) The Office of Education and its functions shall be administered by the Commissioner of Education under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. (b) All functions of the Secretary of the Interior relating to the administration of the Office of Education are hereby transferred to, and shall be exercised by, the Federal Security Administrator. SECTION 205. Public Health Service.-(a) The Public Health Service and its functions shall be administered by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. (b) All the functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating to the administration of the Public Health Service, except those functions relating to the acceptance and investment of gifts as authorized by sections 23 (b) and 137 (e), title 42, U. S. Code, are hereby transferred to, and shall be exercised by, the Federal Security Administrator. SECTION 206. National Youth Administration.-The National Youth Administration and its functions shall be administered by the National Youth Administrator under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. SECTION 207. Civilian Conservation Corps.-The Civilian Conservation Corps and its functions shall be administered by the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. nated functions of Secretary of the In Transfer of desig terior. ice. Public Health Serv. Transfer of desig nated functions of Treasury. vestment of gifts. 46 Stat. 379; 50 Stat. 42 U. S. C. § 23b; Supp. IV. § 1370. National Youth Administration. Civilian Conservation Corps. |