Department of Housing and Urban Development, and certain independent agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1977: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, second session ...

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Page 471 - Government, on the commercial use that Is being made or is intended to be made of inventions made under Government contracts.
Page 488 - The decision of the Secretary or his duly authorized representative for the determination of such appeals shall be final and conclusive unless determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been fraudulent, or capricious, or arbitrary, or so grossly erroneous as necessarily to imply bad faith, or not supported by substantial evidence.
Page 103 - Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and may be paid without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, except that no individual so appointed may receive pay in excess of the annual rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS-16 of the General Schedule.
Page 158 - ... consumer product" means any article, or component part thereof, produced or distributed (i) for sale, to a consumer for use in or around a permanent or temporary household or residence, a school, in recreation, or otherwise...
Page 469 - ... there has been little significant experience outside of work funded by the government, or where the government has been the principal developer of the field...
Page 873 - The regulations under subsection (a) applicable to emissions of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from lightduty vehicles and engines manufactured during or after model year...
Page 39 - Particularly is this respect due when the administrative practice at stake "involves a contemporaneous construction of a statute by the men charged with the responsibility of setting its machinery in motion, of making the parts work efficiently and smoothly while they are yet untried and new.
Page 161 - ... means (1) any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any insects, rodents, nematodes, fungi...
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Page 104 - Act, for a period of 12 months after terminating employment with the Commission.

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