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Mandatory increases

Current level

A.

Ingrades and reallocations

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Funds are requested to cover within grade increases and reallocations:

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B.

Annualization of pay raises ....

This increase is necessary to provide for annualization of the 1981 pay raises for General Schedule employees, effective October 6, 1980. Funds have been requested in through September 30, 1981. the fiscal 1981 supplemental request to cover the increases from the effective dates

22,400

Salaries .......

Personnel Benefits ....

$

20,400

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Positions

Special and temporary

funds

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No.

FY 1981
Amount

No.

FY 1982
Amount

Increase
No. Amount

+ $ 465,000

849 $25,041,818 849 $25,506,818 (+29)+ $ 465,000

Special and temporary funds are requested to support two areas of activity which do
not require permanent positions because staff are hired on an indefinite or temporary
basis to meet special support and workload related requirements.

1.

The House Commission on Information and Facilities and the Commission on the
Operation of the Senate recommended improving the effectiveness of our highest level
experts by providing them with adequate lower-level research support. Funding of
$206,000 is requested to cover the cost of eleven research assistants to Senior
Permanent positions are not required because each research assistant
Specialists.
appointment is made for a two-year period.

2.

Periods of heavy legislative activity results in increased Congressional demand
for reference service with urgent Member and Committee deadlines; CRS must staff up on a
In order that we respond to this increased workload,
temporary basis to meet this demand.

we request $259,000 in Special and Temporary funds, enabling CRS management to hire
temporaries as needed.

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During fiscal year 1980, the Library experienced seven air fare rate increases plus
a government-wide increase in per diem and subsistence costs. These increases were
somewhat offset by reductions resulting from using GSA contract air service which went
into effect July 1, 1980, and by a Library policy of absorbing higher per diem costs to
the maximum extent possible. These actions have resulted in holding the net increase
for all travel in fiscal 1980 to approximately 20 percent. Therefore, based on these
actual fiscal 1980 costs, we are requesting current level increases in 1982 of $11,100
for regular travel and $9,200 for attendance at meetings travel.

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Non-personal services - Current level (continued)

(2) Postage

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+ $ 16,000

An increase of $16,000 is requested to provide sufficient funds to maintain the current level of postage expenditures as determined by two mail samplings taken during fiscal 1980.

(3) Local telephone

+ $ 125,800

A current level increase of $125,800 is requested to recover costs experienced in fiscal 1980 and anticipated to occur in 1981 to provide local telephone service.

(4) Long distance telephone

+ $ 15,000

A current level increase of $15,000 is requested for recovery of long distance telephone costs experienced in fiscal 1980. Usage costs are based on Federal Telecommunications Service (FTS) samplings and actual calls placed commercially.

(5) Rental of equipment

+ $ 96,500

This amount provides for the rental of a variety of equipment, but the major cost is for the rental of word processing machines. An increase of $96,500 is requested to maintain the current level costs of equipment rental. This represents an increase of 12 percent and is based on anticipated rate increases forecast in fiscal 1981 by major equipment-leasing vendors.

(6) Printing

+ $ 33,200

The Government Printing Office advised government agencies on May 2, 1980, in its Circular Letter No. 179, that it is forecasting an increase in government printing costs of 9 percent in fiscal 1982 over the costs for fiscal 1981. Based on that forecast, an increase of $28,700 is therefore requested for printing of publications and $4,500 for printing of forms.

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+ $ 84,000

No.

FY 1981
Amount

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that there has been a 21.5 percent increase in 1980 over 1979. Based on an analysis of the cost of offset reproduction work, it has been determined In order to continue our (8) Photoduplication present level of offset reproduction, we are therefore requesting an increase of $84,000.

+ $ 9,500

1980. An increase of 8 percent in the rates for photoduplication services has been increases. forecast based on increases experienced in the costs of labor and materials in fiscal An increase of $9,500 is therefore requested to compensate for these inflationary

(9) Other services, miscellaneous

+ $ 18,500

The cost of providing support for Member and Congressional staff seminars, legisla-
tive staff institutes and workshops increased approximately 10 percent during fiscal
1980. Thus, we are requesting $18,500 to cover the effects of inflation.

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(10) Loyalty investigations

+ $ 5,000

charge for conducting security investigations. The Office of Personnel Management has announced a 25 percent increase in the clearances. We are therefore requesting $5,000 to cover the increased cost of securing clearances for those positions which require such

(11) Tuition and training .....

+ $

11,000

An analysis of tuition fees charged by local colleges and universities attended by
Library of Congress employees to obtain work-related training indicates that the fees
school year. Based on that analysis, an increase of
required.
have increased approximately 11.7 percent from the 19791868 choodyear to the 1979/1980

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