REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 OF 1966 (COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE) SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION MARCH 18, 1966 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations STANFORD UNIVERSITY APR 1966 GOV'T 60-634 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1966 DOCUMENT DIVISION COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS WILLIAM L. DAWSON, Illinois, Chairman CHET HOLIFIELD, California L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD, Pennsylvania CORNELIUS E. GALLAGHER, New Jersey WILLIAM J. RANDALL, Missouri BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York JIM WRIGHT, Texas FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN, Rhode Island DAVID S. KING, Utah JOHN G. DOW, New York HENRY HELSTOSKI, New Jersey FLORENCE P. DWYER, New Jersey ROBERT P. GRIFFIN, Michigan OGDEN R. REID, New York FRANK J. HORTON, New York DONALD RUMSFELD, Illinois WILLIAM L. DICKINSON, Alabama JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois HOWARD H. CALLAWAY, Georgia JOHN W. WYDLER, New York ROBERT DOLE, Kansas CLARENCE J. BROWN, JR., Ohio CHRISTINE RAY DAVIS, Staff Director MILES Q. ROMNEY, Associate General Counsel J. P. CARLSON, Minority Counsel WILLIAM H. COPENHAVER, Minority Professional Staff EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION SUBCOMMITTEE WILLIAM L. DAWSON, Illinois, Chairman CHET HOLIFIELD, California JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois JOHN W. WYDLER, New York CLARENCE J. BROWN, JR., Ohio ELMER W. HENDERSON, Counsel CONTENTS Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Reorganiza- tion Plan No. 1 of 1966, providing for reorganization of community 6 Mathias, Hon. Charles McC., Jr., a Representative in Congress from Routh, Frederick B., executive director, National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials__ Seidman, Harold, Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget; accom- panied by Fred E. Levi, Assistant Chief, Office of Management and Organization; and Miss Hazel Guffey, senior management analyst_ Wilkins, Roger W., Director, Community Relations Service, U.S. Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by- Brown, Hon. Clarence J., Jr., a Representative in Congress from the Section 1003(b), title 10, of the Civil Rights Act of 1964-- Griffin, Hon. Robert P., a Representative in Congress from the State Holifield, Hon. Chet, a Representative in Congress from the State of California: Section 1002, title 10, of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 entitled "Establishment of Community Relations Service”. Katzenbach, Hon. Nicholas de B., Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice: List of State human relations commissions with enforce- McClory, Hon. Robert, a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois, letter to Hon. William L. Dawson, dated March 17, 1966, re objection to Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1966- Mathias, Hon. Charles McC., Jr., a Representative in Congress from Republican policy committee statement on Reorganization Plan No. 1-Transfer of the Community Relations Service from the Department of Commerce to the Department of Justice.... Mitchell, Clarence, director, Washington Bureau, NAACP, telegram Routh, Frederick B., executive director, National Association of Inter- group Relations Officials: Statement__ Seidman, Harold, Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget: State- Wilkins, Roger W., Director, Community Relations Service, U.S. REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 OF 1966 (Community Relations Service) FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1966 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in room 2203, Rayburn Office Building, Hon. William L. Dawson (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives William L. Dawson, Chet Holifield, Henry S. Reuss, Benjamin S. Rosenthal, John N. Erlenborn, and Clarence J. Brown, Jr. Also present: Elmer W. Henderson, subcommittee counsel; James A. Lanigan, general counsel, Committee on Government Operations; Herbert Roback, assistant to Congressman Holifield; Phillip Carlson and William H. Copenhaver, minority counsel. Chairman DAWSON. This meeting of the subcommittee has been called to hear testimony on Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1966, transmitted to Congress by the President on February 10, 1966, and disapproval resolutions filed thereon. You have before you a list of those resolutions and the Members who filed them. As you know, if either House does not pass such a resolution, the plan will go into effect on April 12, 1966. (Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1966 and H. Res. 756 follow:) [H. Doc. 379, 89th Cong., 2d sess.] MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,_TRANSMITTING REORGANIZATION PLAN No. 1 OF 1966, PROVIDING FOR REORGANIZATION OF COMMUNITY RELATIONS FUNCTIONS IN CIVIL RIGHTS AREA To the Congress of the United States: I transmit herewith Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1966, prepared in accordance with the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended, and providing for reorganization of community relations functions in the area of civil rights. After a careful review of the activities of the Federal agencies involved in the field of civil rights, it became clear that the elimination of duplication and undesirable overlap required the consolidation of certain functions. As a first step, I issued Executive Orders 11246 and 11247 on September 24, 1965. Executive Order 11246 simplified and clarified executive branch assignments of responsibility for enforcing civil rights policies and placed responsibility for the Government-wide coordination of the enforcement activities of executive agencies in the Secretary of Labor with respect to employment by Federal contractors and in the Civil Service Commission with respect to employment by Federal agencies. Executive Order 11247 directed the Attorney General to assist Federal agencies in coordinating their enforcement activities with respect to title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in federally assisted programs. |