44 Stat. 688. 54 Stat. 1105. expenses of the Corporation and of The RFC Mortgage Company, FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Federal Power Commission as authorized by law except for the work authorized by the Act of June 28, 1938, entitled "An Act authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control and for other purposes" (52 Stat. 1215), including traveling expenses; expenses of attendance at meetings which in the discretion of the Commission are necessary for the efficient discharge of its responsibilities; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase and exchange (not to exceed $3,000), hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including not more than one such vehicle for general administrative use in the District of Columbia; supplies and office equipment; services; scientific instruments; transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder; and not exceeding $6,000 for purchase and exchange of lawbooks, other books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals, $2,235,000; of which amount not to exceed $1,163,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia exclusive of not to exceed $25,000 which may be expended for consultants and special counsel. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Federal Power Commission as authorized by the provisions of the Act of June 28, 1938, entitled "An Act authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes" (52 Stat. 1215), including travel expenses; contract stenographic reporting services; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehícle; supplies and office equipment; services; scientific instruments; $200,000, of which amount not to exceed $180,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia. In all, salaries and expenses, Federal Power Commission, $2,435,000. Provisos. Nonadministrative Payment, etc., of obligations. 47 Stat. 5. National defense activities. Post, p. 821. 54 Stat. 377. Printing and binding. Salaries and expenses. 38 Stat. 722. 15 U. S. C. § 49. Proviso. Post, pp. 396, 546, 683, 748. Proviso. 5 U. S. C. § 133t (note). 53 Stat. 561. 5 U. S. C. §§ 133133r. National defense activities: For all necessary expenses to enable the Federal Power Commission, during the fiscal year 1942, to continue to perform the functions or activities for the performance of which, during the fiscal year 1941, the Federal Power Commission received an allocation of funds from the appropriation "Emergency fund for the President" contained in the Military Appropriation Act, 1941, including the objects for which and subject to the conditions under which such allocation was expended during the fiscal year 1941, $150,000. For all printing and binding for the Federal Power Commission, including engraving, lithographing, and photolithographing, $42,000. Total, Federal Power Commission, $2,627,000. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION For five Commissioners, and for all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including secretary to the Commission and other personal services, contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, garage rentals, traveling expenses, including not to exceed $900 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Commission, at meetings concerned with the work of the Federal Trade Commission, for newspapers not to exceed $500, foreign postage, and witness fees and mileage in accordance with section 9 of the Federal Trade Commission Act; $2,300,000: Provided, That no part of the funds appropriated herein for the Federal Trade Commission shall be expended upon any investigation hereafter provided by concurrent resolution of the Congress until funds are appropriated subsequently to the enactment of such resolution to finance the cost of such investigation. For all printing and binding for the Federal Trade Commission, $60,000. Total, Federal Trade Commission, $2,360,000. FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR Salaries and expenses: For salaries in the Office of the Administrator in the District of Columbia, including the salary of a General Counsel at $10,000 per annum, and other expenses of said office, including printing and binding (not to exceed $8,000); actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses to persons serving, while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Administrator; purchase (including exchange) of lawbooks and other books of reference, and periodicals; not to exceed $1,800 for the purchase of a motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicle for the use of the Administrator; not to exceed $1,500 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Administrator, at meetings or conventions relating to the work of the Agency; not to exceed $10,000 for the employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise, for special services determined by the Administrator to be necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, and classification laws, $312,000: Provided, That the Administrator in order to effectuate part 3 of Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 submitted and approved pursuant to the Reorganization Act of 1939 may transfer to this appropriation from funds available for administrative expenses of the constituent units of the Federal Works Agency such sums as represent a consolidation in the Office of the Administrator of any of the administrative functions of said constituent units; but no such transfer of funds shall be made unless the consolidation of administrative functions will result in a reduction of administrative salary and other expenses and such reduction is accompanied by savings in funds appropriated to the Federal Works Agency, which savings shall not be expended for any other purpose but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury. PUBLIC BUILDINGS ADMINISTRATION For carrying into effect the provisions of the Public Buildings Acts, as provided in section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (31 U. S. C. 683), and for the repair, preservation, and upkeep of all completed public buildings under the control of the Federal Works Agency, the mechanical equipment and the grounds thereof, and sites acquired for buildings, and for the operation of certain completed and occupied buildings under the control of the Federal Works Agency, including furniture and repairs thereof, but exclusive, with respect to operation, of buildings of the United States Coast Guard, of hospitals, quarantine stations, and other Public Health Service buildings, mints, bullion depositories, and assay offices, the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, and Auditors' Buildings: 821. Post, pp. 546, 683, Maintenance. 35 Stat. 537. Administrative ex penses. 54 Stat. 1105. 5 U.S. C.§ 730-1. Printing and bind General administrative expenses: For architectural, engineering, mechanical, administrative, clerical, and other personal services; traveling expenses, including expenses of employees directed by the Federal Works Administrator to attend meetings of technical and professional societies and educational exhibits in connection with subjects related to the work of the Public Buildings Administration, and for transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder; printing and binding (not to exceed $13,000), advertsing, not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of educational ing. exhibits, specifically approved by the Federal Works Administrator, testing instruments, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and such other contingencies, articles, services, equipment, or supplies as the Commissioner of Public Buildings may deem necessary in connection with any of the work of the Public Buildings Administration; ground rent of the Federal buildings at Salamanca, New York, and Columbus, Mississippi, for which payment may be made in advance; expenses necessary to wind up the affairs of the United States Housing Corporation and effect its dissolution; $875,840, of which amount not to exceed $518,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $196,910 for personal services in the field: Provided, That the foregoing appropriations shall not be available for the cost of surveys, plaster models, etc. progress photographs, test pits and borings, or mill and shop inspections, but the cost thereof shall be construed to be chargeable against the construction appropriations of the respective projects to which they relate. U. S. Housing Corporation, dissolution. Proviso. Surveys, models, Buildings, etc., out Maintenance. Repair, preservation, and equipment, outside the District of side D. C. Columbia: For repairs, alterations, improvement, and preservation, including personal services employed therefor, of completed Federal buildings (including Marcus Hook), the grounds and approaches thereof, wharves, and piers, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, and care and safeguarding, not otherwise provided for, of sites acquired for Federal buildings, including tools and materials for the use of the custodial and mechanical force, wire partitions and insect screens, installation and repair of mechanical system, New City. equipment, gas, and electric-light fixtures, conduits, wiring, platform scales, and tower clocks; vaults and lockbox equipment in all buildings completed and occupied, and for necessary safe equipments in buildings under the administration of the Federal Works Agency, including repairs thereto, and changes in, maintenance of, and repairs Pneumatic-tube to the pneumatic-tube system in New York City installed under franchise of the city of New York, approved June 29, 1909, and June 11, 1928, and the payment of any obligations arising thereunder in accordance with the provisions of the Acts approved August 5, 1909 (36 Stat. 120), and May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 533), $3,650,000: Provided, That the total expenditures for the fiscal year for the repair and preservation of buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buildings or the enlargement of buildings and the installation and repair of the mechanical equipment thereof shall not exceed 20 per centum of the annual rental of such buildings. Proviso. Limitation. Public buildings and grounds, D. C. penses. Salaries and expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District Salaries and ex- of Columbia: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia maintained and operated by the Public Buildings Administration, including the National Archives Building and including Federal Office Buildings numbered 2 and 3 outside the District of Columbia; repair, preservation, and equipment of the Treasury, Treasury Annex, City Post Office, Auditors' Building, Liberty Loan Building, and Customhouse; rent of buildings; demolition of buildings; expenses incident to moving various executive departments and establishments in connection with the assignment, allocation, transfer, and survey of building space; traveling expenses and carfare; leather and rubber articles and gas masks for the protection of public property and employees; furnishings and equipment; arms and ammunition for the guard force; not exceeding $44,290 for purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards and elevator conductors; and the purchase of two motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $12,931,900, of which amount not to exceed $500,000 shall be available for major repairs and improvements to public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia: Provided, That where quarters or maintenance or other services are furnished on a reimbursable basis to any governmental activity, such activity shall make payment therefor promptly by check upon the written request of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, either in advance or after the service has been furnished, for deposit to the credit of this appropriation, of all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and proper adjustment upon the basis of the actual cost shall be made for services paid for in advance. Proviso. Payment for services. Public buildings outside D. C. penses. Salaries and expenses, public buildings outside the District of Salaries and ex- Columbia: For operation, protection, and maintenance, including cleaning, heating, lighting, rental of buildings and equipment, supplies, materials, furnishings and equipment, personal services, arms, ammunition, leather and rubber articles and gas masks for the protection of public property and employees, the purchase of one motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and every expenditure requisite for and incidental to such maintenance and operation of public buildings outside of the District of Columbia maintained and operated Use of present fur- by the Public Buildings Administration, $2,995,265: Provided, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether or not it corresponds with the present regulaJoint telephone tion plan for furniture: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for contracts for telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone-switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities in buildings operated by the Public Buildings Administration where it is found that joint service is Provisos. niture. service. economical and in the interests of the Government, and any Government activity receiving such service shall pay promptly by check upon the written request of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, either in advance or after the service has been furnished, for deposit to the credit of this appropriation, all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and proper adjustment upon the basis of the actual cost shall be made for service paid for in advance. Per diem employees, Under the appropriations for salaries and expenses public buildings pay rates, etc. in and outside the District of Columbia, per diem employees may be paid at rates approved by the Commissioner of Public Buildings, not exceeding current rates for similar services in the place where such services are employed, and such employees in emergencies may be entered on duty subject to confirmation by the Federal Works Administrator. Construction of D. C. 40 U. S. C., ch. 6. Construction of public buildings, District of Columbia: The Fed- public buildings, eral Works Administrator is hereby authorized, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 630), as amended, to acquire sites or additional land and to enter into contracts for construction of the following public-building projects in amounts not exceeding the following respective limits of cost, which limits of cost shall include salaries, cost of supervision of construction, and inspection, furniture, equipment, moving expenses, extension of steam and water mains and removal or diversion of such sewers and utilities as may be necessary, and all other expenses required solely for the purpose of carrying out said public-building projects; and such Administrator is authorized to direct the preparation of all sketches, estimates, plans, drawings, and specifications, and to enter into all other contracts necessary for carrying out the purposes hereof; and he is further authorized, when deemed by him desirable and advantageous, to employ by contract or otherwise, temporary professional, technical, or nontechnical employees, firms, or corporations, to such extent as may be necessary to carry out the purposes hereof, without regard to classification laws, or section 3709 of the Revised Statutes: War Department Building: The Commissioner of Public Buildings is hereby authorize to utilize for preliminary expenses and plans and specifications, in connection with the second unit of the War Department buildings, any unexpended balances of appropriations for the acquisition of site and the construction of the first unit of said buildings. Site and building, west central heating plant, Washington, District of Columbia: For completion of the acquisition of site and construction of a central heating plant in the District of Columbia, $2,400,000. Site and building, General Accounting Office, Washington, District of Columbia: For continuation of the acquisition of site and construction of a building for the General Accounting Office, $5,000,000. Temporary services. 41 U. S. C. § 5. War Department Building. West central heating plant. General Accounting Office. Government Printing Office, annex Government Printing Office, annex buildings, Washington, District of Columbia: For completion of construction of annex buildings for buildings. the Government Printing Office, $200,000. Acquisition of property in the District of Columbia: For the acquisition of property within the areas prescribed by the Act of May 25, 1926, as amended, authorizing the Federal Works Administrator to acquire certain lands within the District of Columbia, $700,000. State Department Annex Building: For the acquisition of land as a site for the State Department Annex building in square 167, in the District of Columbia, $920,000. The National Archives Building, installation of facilities: For the purchase and installation of filing and storage equipment in stack areas, changes and additions to the air-conditioning system, and necessary structural and mechanical remodeling, $500,000. Acquisition of prop. erty, D. C. 44 Stat. 630. State Department Annex Building. National Archives Building, facilities. |