for purposes similar to those provided for in sections 231-233, and 235 of this title. (June 30, 1949, ch. 288, Title V, § 503, 63 Stat. 403.) Effective date.-Section effective as of July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

SUBCHAPTER II.-GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

§ 211. General Services Administration — Establishment. (a) There is established an agency in the executive branch of the Government which shall be known as the General Services Administration. (b) Administrator of General Services; appointment.-There shall be at the head of the General Services Administration an Administrator of General Services who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and perform his functions subject to the direction and control of the President.

(c) Deputy Administrator of General Services; appointment; duties. There shall be in the General Services Administration a Deputy Administrator of General Services who shall be appointed by the Administrator of General Services. The Deputy Administrator shall perform such functions as the Administrator shall designate and shall be Acting Administrator of General Services during the absence or disability of the Administrator and, unless the President shall designate another officer of the Government, in the event of a vacancy in the office of Administrator.

(d) Interim Administrator; designation and salary.-Pending the first appointment of the Administrator under the provisions of this section, his functions shall be performed temporarily by such officer of the Government in office upon or immediately prior to the taking of effect of the provisions of this chapter as the President shall designate, and such officer while so serving shall receive the salary fixed for the Administrator.

(e) Compensation of Administrator, Deputy Administrator, and principal officers.-Pending the effective date of other provisions of law fixing the rates of compensation of the Administrator, the Deputy Administrator and of the heads and assistant heads of the principal organizational units of the General Services Administration, and taking into consideration provisions of law governing the compensation of officers having comparable responsibilities and duties, the President shall fix for each of them a rate of compensation which he shall deem to be commensurate with the responsibilities and duties of the respective offices involved. (June 30, 1949, ch. 288, Title I, § 101, 63 Stat. 379.)

Compensation of Administrator and Deputy Administrator.-Sections 3 and 5(a) of Act Oct. 15, 1949, ch. 695, 63 Stat. 880, provided in part that the basic compensation of the Administrator and Deputy Administrator should be at the rate of $17,500 and $15,000 per annum, respectively.

Effective date.-Section effective as of July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

The increased compensation provided for by Act Oct. 15, 1949, took effect on the first day of the first pay period which began after Oct. 15, 1949, by the provisions of section 9 of said Act Oct. 15, 1949, which is set out as a note under section 3 of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees.

§ 212. Transfer of functions-Bureau of Federal Supply.—(a) The functions of (1) the Bureau of Federal Supply in the Department of the Treasury, (2) the Director of the Bureau of Federal Supply, (3) the personnel of such Bureau, and (4) the Secretary of the Treasury,

relating to the Bureau of Federal Supply, are transferred to the Administrator. The records, property, personnel, obligations, and commitments of the Bureau of Federal Supply, together with such additional records, property, and personnel of the Department of the Treasury as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to relate primarily to functions transferred by this section or vested in the Administrator by sections 203-205, 231-240 and 251-260, of this title, are hereby transferred to the General Services Administration. The Bureau of Federal Supply and the office of Director of the Bureau of Federal Supply are abolished.

(b) Office of Contract Settlement.-The functions of the Director of Contract Settlement and of the Office of Contract Settlement, transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury by Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1947, are transferred to the Administrator and shall be performed by him or, subject to his direction and control, by such officers and agencies of the General Services Administration as he may designate. The Contract Settlement Act Advisory Board created by section 105 of this title and the Appeal Board established under section 113 (d) of this title are transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the General Services Administration, but the functions of these Boards shall be performed by them, respectively, under conditions and limitations prescribed by law. There shall also be transferred to the General Services Administration such records, property, personnel, obligations, commitments, and unexpended balances (available or to be made available) of appropriations, allocations, and other funds of the Treasury Department as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to relate primarily to the functions transferred by the provisions of this subsection.

(c) Retention by Treasury Department of certain functions of Bureau of Federal Supply.-Any other provision of this section notwithstanding, there may be retained in the Department of the Treasury any function referred to in subsection (a) of this section which the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall, within ten days after July 1, 1949, determine to be essential to the orderly administration of the affairs of the agencies of such Department, other than the Bureau of Federal Supply, together with such records, property, personnel, obligations, commitments, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds, available or to be made available, of said Department, as said Director shall determine. (June 30, 1949, ch. 288, Title I, § 102, 63 Stat. 380.)

Effective date.-Section effective as of July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

Effective date of transfer of functions.-Transfer of functions as effective July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

§ 213. Transfer of affairs of Federal Works Agency; abolition of agencies. (a) All functions of the Federal Works Agency and of all agencies thereof, together with all functions of the Federal Works Administrator, of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, and of the Commissioner of Public Roads, are transferred to the Administrator of General Services. There are transferred to the General Services Administration the Public Roads Administration, which shall hereafter be known as the Bureau of Public Roads, and all records, property, per

sonnel, obligations, and commitments of the Federal Works Agency, including those of all agencies of the Federal Works Agency.

b) There are abolished the Federal Works Agency, the Public Buildings Administration, the office of Federal Works Administrator, the cfce of Commissioner of Public Buildings, and the office of Assistant Federal Works Administrator. (June 30, 1949, ch. 288, Title I, § 103, 63 Stat. 380.)

Effective date.-Section effective as of July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

$214. Records management-Transfer of National Archives.-The National Archives Establishment and its functions, records, property, personnel, obligations, and commitments are transferred to the General Services Administration. There are transferred to the Administrator (1, the functions of the Archivist of the United States, except that the Archivist shall continue to be a member or chairman, as the case may be, of the bodies referred to in subsection (b) of this section, and (2) the functions of the Director of the Division of the Federal Register of the National Archives Establishment. The Archivist of the United States shall hereafter be appointed by the Administrator.

(b) Transfer of other record bodies.-There are also transferred to the General Services Administration the following bodies, together with their respective functions and such funds as are derived from Federal sources: (1) The National Archives Council and the National Historical Publications Commission, established by sections 300-300k of Title 44, (2) the National Archives Trust Fund Board, established by sections 300aa-300jj of Title 44, (3) the Board of Trustees of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, established by the Joint Resolution of July 18, 1939 (53 Stat. 1062), and (4) the Administrative Committee established by section 306 of Title 44, which shall hereafter be known as the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register. The authority of the Administrator under section 216 of this title shall not extend to the bodies or functions affected by this subsection.

(c) Duties of Administrator.-The Administrator is authorized (1) to make surveys of Government records and records management and disposal practices and obtain reports thereon from Federal agencies; (2) to promote, in cooperation with the executive agencies, improved records management practices and controls in such agencies, including the central storage or disposition of records not needed by such agencies for their current use; and (3) to report to the Congress and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget from time to time the results of such activities. (June 30, 1949, ch. 288, Title I, § 104, 63 Stat. 381.)

Effective date.-Section effective as of July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

§ 215. Transfer and liquidation of War Assets Administration.— The functions, records, property, personnel, obligations, and commitments of the War Assets Administration are transferred to the General Services Administration. The functions of the War Assets Administrator are transferred to the Administrator of General Services. The War Assets Administration, the office of the War Assets Administrator, and the office of Associate War Assets Administrator are abolished. Personnel now holding appointments granted under the second sentence of section 5(b) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended, may be

continued in such positions or may be appointed to similar positions for such time as the Administrator may determine. (June 30, 1949, ch. 288, Title I, § 105, 63 Stat. 381.)

References in text.-The second sentence of section 5(b) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended, referred to in the text was formerly classified to section 1614(b) of Appendix to Title 50, War and National Defense and was repealed by section 502 (a) (1) of Act June 30, 1949, cited to text.

Effective date.-Section effective as of July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

§ 216. Redistribution of Administrator's functions.-The Administrator is authorized, in his discretion, in order to provide for the effective accomplishment of the functions transferred to or vested in him by this chapter, and from time to time, to regroup, transfer, and distribute any such functions within the General Services Administration. The Administrator is authorized to transfer the funds necessary to accomplish said functions and report such transfers of funds to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. (June 30, 1949, ch. 288, Title I, § 106, 63 Stat. 381.)

Effective date.-Section effective as of July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

§ 217. Transfer of funds.-All unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds available or to be made available, for the use of the Bureau of Federal Supply, the War Assets Administration, the Federal Works Agency, and the National Archives Establishment, and so much of the other unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the Department of the Treasury, available or to be made available, as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to relate primarily to functions transferred to or vested in the Administrator by the provisions of this chapter, shall be transferred to the General Services Administration for use in connection with the functions to which such balances relate, respectively.

(b) When other functions are transferred to the General Services Administration from any Federal agency, under section 231 (a) (2) or (3) of this title, or otherwise under this chapter, there shall be transferred such records, property, personnel, appropriations, allocations, and other funds of such agency to the General Services Administration as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to relate primarily to the functions so transferred. (June 30, 1949, ch. 288, Title I, § 107, 63 Stat. 382.)

Effective date.-Section effective as of July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

§ 218. Status of transferred employees.-Subject to other provisions of this subchapter relating to personnel, employees transferred by the provisions of this subchapter shall be deemed to be employees of the General Services Administration and their reappointment shall not be required by reason of the enactment of this chapter. (June 30, 1949, ch. 288, Title I, § 108, 68 Stat. 382.)

Effective date.-Section effective as of July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

§219. General Supply Fund-Creation and composition of fund; capital limitation; availability; overhead costs.-(a) There is authorized to be set aside in the Treasury a special fund which shall be

known as the General Supply Fund. Such fund shall be composed of the assets of the general supply fund (including any surplus therein) created by section 7e of this title, and transferred to the Administrator by section 212 of this title, and such sums as may be appropriated thereto, and the fund shall assume all of the liabilities, obligations, and commitments of the general supply fund created by section 7a-7d of this title and section 289 of Title 40. The capital of the General Supply Fund shall be in an amount not greater than $75,000,000. The General Supply Fund shall be available for use by or under the direction and control of the Administrator (1) for procuring personal property (including the purchase from or through the Public Printer of standard forms and blankbook work for field warehouse issue) and nonpersonal services for the use of Federal agencies in the proper discharge of their responsibilities, and (2) for paying all elements of cost of the procurement, handling, and distribution thereof, except that on and after July 1, 1950, those elements of cost which are determined by the Administrator with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be indirect or overhead costs shall not be paid from the fund.

(b) Payments by requisitioning agencies; fixing of prices; advance of funds.-Payment by requisitioning agencies shall be at prices fixed by the Administrator. Until July 1, 1950, such prices shall be fixed in accordance with law and regulations applicable on July 1, 1949, to prices fixed by the Director of the Bureau of Federal Supply. On and after such date, such prices shall be fixed at levels so as to recover so far as practicable all costs except those which are determined by the Administrator with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be indirect or overhead costs. Requisitioning agencies shall pay by advance of funds in all cases where it is determined by the Administrator that there is insufficient capital otherwise available in the General Supply Fund. Advances of funds also may be made by agreement between the requisitioning agencies and the Administrator. Where an advance of funds is not made, requisitioning agencies shall promptly reimburse the General Servics Administration on vouchers prepared by the requisitioning agency on the basis of itemized invoices submitted by the Administrator and receiving reports evidencing the delivery to the requisitioning agency of such supplies or services: Provided, That in any case where payment shall not have been made by the requisitioning agency within forty-five days after the date of billing by the Administrator, reimbursement may be obtained by the Administrator by the issuance of transfer and counterwarrants supported by itemized invoices.

(c) Credits to fund.-The General Supply Fund shall be credited with all reimbursements, advances of funds, and refunds or recoveries relating to supplies or services procured through the fund, including the net proceeds of disposal of surplus supplies procured through the fund and receipts from carriers and others for loss of, or damage to, supplies procured through the fund; and the same are reappropriated for the purposes of the fund.

(d) Special deposit account; credits.-A special deposit account may be established as a part of the General Supply Fund with the Treasurer of the United States for use by the chief disbursing officer or any regional disbursing officer, Department of the Treasury, which