ury shall be used to defray expenses incurred for this purpose whereever practicable. [Total, American Battle Monuments Commission, $3,719,000.] [For increase in personal services limitation for 1952 for the foregoing purpose, see p. 248.] ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, including employment of aliens; purchase of land and interests in land; services authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); purchase of not to exceed three hundred and seventy-five passenger motor vehicles, of which two hundred and fifteen shall be for replacement only; purchase, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; publication and dissemination of atomic information; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms; purchase of newspapers and periodicals (not to exceed $8,000); official entertainment expenses (not to exceed $5,000); reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services; and payment of obligations incurred under prior year contract authorizations; $1,139,932,750, $1,139,932,750 of which not more than $25,135,000 shall be available for personal services, together with the unexpended balances, as of June 30, 1951, of prior year appropriations to the Atomic Energy Commission, of which amounts $100,000 may be expended for objects of a confidential nature and in any such case the certificate of the Commission as to the amount of the expenditure and that it is deemed inadvisable to specify the nature thereof shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended; from which appropriation transfers of sums may be made to other agencies of the Government for the performance of the work for which this appropriation is made, and in such cases the sums so transferred may be merged with the appropriation to which transferred: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary of any officer or employee (except such officers and employees whose compensation is fixed by law, and scientific and technical personnel) whose position would be subject to the Classification Act of 1949, if such Act were applicable to such position, at a rate in excess of the rate payable under such Act for positions of equivalent difficulty or responsibility: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used (A) to start any new construction project for which an estimate was not included in the budget for the current fiscal year; (B) to start any new construction project the currently estimated cost of which exceeds the estimated cost included therefor in such budget; or (C) to continue any community facility construction project whenever the currently estimated cost thereof exceeds the estimated cost included therefor in such budget; unless the Director of the Bureau of the Budget specifically approves the start of such construction project or its continuation and a detailed explanation thereof is submitted forthwith by the Director to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; the limitations contained in this proviso shall not apply to any construction project the total estimated cost of which does not exceed $500,000; and, as used herein, the term "construction project" includes the purchase, alteration, or improvement of buildings, and the term "budget" includes the detailed justification supporting the budget estimates: Provided further, That whenever the current estimate to complete any construction project (except community facilities) exceeds by 15 per centum the estimated cost included therefor in such budget or the estimated cost of a construction project covered by clause (A) of the foregoing proviso which has been approved by the Director, the Commission shall forthwith submit a detailed explanation thereof to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House of Representatives and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: Provided further, That the two foregoing provisos shall have no application with respect to technical and production facilities (1) if the Commission certifies to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget that immediate construction or immediate continuation of construction is necessary to the national defense and security, and (2) if the Director agrees that such certification is justified: Provided further, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be used in connection with the payment of a fixed fee to any contractor or firm of contractors engaged under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract or contracts at any installation of the Commission, where that fee for community management is at a rate in excess of $90,000 per annum, or for the operation of a transportation system where that fee is at a rate in excess of $45,000 per annum: Provided further, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be used for any new construction project until after the Commission shall have notified all architects and engineers involved that the plans for such project should be purely utilitarian and without unnecessary refinements. [For additional amounts for 1952 for the foregoing purpose, see PP. 249, 269.] CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including not to exceed $28,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); not to exceed $10,000 for medical examinations performed for veterans by private physicians on a fee basis; travel expenses of examiners acting under the direction of the Commission, and expenses of examinations and investigations held in Washington and elsewhere; payment in advance for library membership in societies whose publications are available to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; not to exceed $65,000 for performing the duties imposed upon the Commission by the Act of July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 767); reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services for protection of confidential files; and not to exceed $5,000 for actuarial services by contract, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, as amended; $17,500,000: Provided, That no details from any executive department or independent establishment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere to the Commission's central office in Washington or to any of its regional offices shall be made during the current fiscal year, but this shall not affect the making of details for service as members of the boards of examiners outside the immediate offices of the Commission in Washington or of the regional directors, nor shall it affect the making of details of persons qualified to serve as expert examiners on special subjects: Provided further, That the Civil Service Commission shall have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees to or from its office or field force: Provided further, That members of the Loyalty Review Board in Washington and of the regional loyalty boards in the field may be paid actual transportation expenses, and per diem in lieu of subsistence authorized by the Travel Expense Act of 1949 while traveling on official business away from their homes or regular places of business, and while en route to and $17,500,000 from and at the place where their services are to be performed: Provided further, That nothing in section 281 or 283 of title 18, United States Code, or in section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 U. S. C. 99) shall be deemed to apply to any person because of his appointment for part-time or intermittent service as a member of the Loyalty Review Board or a regional loyalty board in the Civil Service Commission: Provided further, That not to exceed $575,000 of this appropriation shall be available for travel expenses. [For an additional amount for 1952 for the foregoing purpose, see p. 269.] No part of the appropriations herein made to the Civil Service Commission shall be available for the salaries and expenses of the Legal Examining Unit in the Examining and Personnel Utilization Division of the Commission, established pursuant to Executive Order Numbered 9358 of July 1, 1943, or for the compensation or expenses of any member of a board of examiners (1) who has not made affidavit that he has not appeared in any agency proceeding within the preceding two years, and will not thereafter while a board member appear in any agency proceeding, as a party, or in behalf of a party to the proceeding, before an agency in which an applicant is employed who has been rated or will be rated by such member; or (2) who, after making such affidavit, has rated an applicant who at the time of the rating is employed by an agency before which the board member has appeared as a party, or in behalf of a party, within the preceding two years: Provided, That the definitions of "agency", "agency proceeding", and "party" in section 2 of the Administrative Procedure Act shall apply to these terms as used herein. No part of appropriations herein shall be used to pay the compensation of officers and employees of the Civil Service Commission who allocate or reallocate supervisory positions in the classified civil service solely on the size of the group, section, bureau, or other organization unit, or on the number of subordinates supervised. References to size of the group, section, bureau, or other organization unit or the number of subordinates supervised may be given effect only to the extent warranted by the workload of such organization unit and then only in combination with other factors, such as the kind, difficulty, and complexity of work supervised, the degree and scope of responsibility delegated to the supervisor, and the kind, degree, and value of the supervision actually exercised. Annuities, Panama Canal construction employees and LighthouseService widows: For payment of annuities authorized by the Act of May 29, 1944, as amended (48 U. S. C. 1373a), and the Act of August 19, 1950 (64 Stat. 465), $2,955,900. Payment to civil-service retirement and disability fund: For financing the liability of the United States, created by the Act approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (5 U. S. C., ch. 14), $310,000,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "civilservice retirement and disability fund". [Total, Civil Service Commission, $330,455,900.] COMMISSION ON RENOVATION OF THE EXECUTIVE MANSION For all expenses of the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion as authorized by Public Law 40, Eighty-first Congress. $25,000__ [For appropriation for 1952 for Defense Production Administration, see p. 257.] [For appropriation for 1952 for Defense Transport Administration, see p. 257.] $2,955, 900 310, 000, 000 25,000 DISPLACED PERSONS COMMISSION Displaced Persons Commission: For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, as amended by the Act of June 16, 1950 (Public Law 555), including $1,100,000 for capital for loans pursuant to section 14 of said Act; rents in the District of Columbia; travel expenses, including travel expenses outside continental United States without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, as amended, and the rates of per diem allowances under the Travel Expense Act of 1949; hire of passenger motor vehicles; printing and binding outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111); expenses incident to the primary and secondary education of American children who are dependents of Government personnel paid from this appropriation and stationed overseas; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); employment of aliens; and payment of rent in foreign countries in advance; $7,000,000, of which not less than $4,375,000 shall be available for the expenses of transporting to the United States displaced persons of German ethnic origin: Provided, That allocations may be made from this appropriation by the Commission upon approval by the Bureau of the Budget to any department, agency, corporation, or independent establishment of the Government for direct expenditure for the purposes of this appropriation, and any such expenditures may be made under the specific authority herein contained or under the authority governing the activities of the department, agency, corporation, or independent establishment to which amounts are allocated: Provided further, That the Commission may enter into agreements with international agencies for the use of their transportation and other facilities for the transfer of persons as provided in section 12 of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, as amended, and with United States governmental agencies and may make payment in advance or by reimbursement for expenses incurred by such agencies in rendering assistance to the Commission in carrying out the provisions of this Act. [For revision of limitations for 1952 for the foregoing purpose, see p. 249.] [For appropriation for 1952 for the Economic Stabilization Agency, see p. 258.] [For appropriation for 1952 for Federal Civil Defense Administration, see p. 259.] FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Salary and expenses: For necessary expenses in performing the duties imposed by the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U. S. C. 151), the Ship Act of 1910, as amended (46 U. S. C. 484-487), the International Radiotelegraphic Convention (45 Stat. pt. 2, p. 2760), Executive Order 3513, dated July 9, 1921, as amended under date of June 30, 1934, relating to applications for submarine cable licenses, and the radiotelegraphy provisions of the Convention for Promoting Safety of Life at Sea (50 Stat. 1121), including newspapers (not to exceed $175), special counsel fees, improvement and care of grounds and repairs to buildings (not to exceed $17,500), purchase of not to exceed ten passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), $6,116,650 $7, 000, 000 6, 116, 650 FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the work of the Commission, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by law, including not to exceed $240,000 for travel; purchase (not to exceed one, for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed $500 for newspapers; $3,805,325, of which not more than $3,371,825 shall be available for personal services and of which not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for special counsel and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates not exceeding $50 per diem for individuals. Flood-control surveys: For expenses necessary for the work of the Commission as authorized by section 4 of the Act of June 28, 1938. (33 U. S. C. 701j), and similar provisions in subsequent Acts, including contract stenographic reporting services, $200,000[Total, Federal Power Commission, $4,005,325.] FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Federal Trade Commission, including contract stenographic reporting services, and not to exceed $700 for newspapers, $3,940,400: 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 an additional amount for 1952 for the foregoing purpose, see p. 269.] FILIPINO REHABILITATION COMMISSION The appropriation granted under the head "Filipino Rehabilitation Commission," in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1945, shall not be available after June 30, 1951, and the balance thereof remaining on that date shall be disposed of by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to the provisions of the Surplus Fund-Certified Claims Act of 1949 (31 U. S. C. 712b); and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to the Republic of the Philippines the sum of $15,000 heretofore deposited in the Treasury by the Republic of the Philippines as a contribution toward its share of the expenses of the Filipino Rehabilitation Commission. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Salaries: For personal services, $29,894,000. Miscellaneous expenses: For necessary expenses, including the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only, $1,600,000--- Appropriations for the General Accounting Office shall be available for newspapers and periodicals (not exceeding $500), and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a). The Comptroller General of the United States hereafter is authorized, subject to the procedures prescribed by section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949, but without regard to the numerical limitations contained therein, to place two positions in grade GS-18, two positions in grade GS-17, and seven positions in grade GS-16 in the $3,805, 325 200,000 3, 940, 400 29, 894, 000 1, 600, 000 |