1. Program operation.-The Agency is charged with the formulation and implementation of U.S. arms control and disarmament policy. The Director advises the Secretary of State and the President on arms control and disarmament policy and its implementation, conducts negotiations with other countries looking toward international agreements to control, reduce, or eliminate arms, and will direct U.S. participation in such control systems as may be adopted. The Agency was created on September 26, 1961, under authority of Public Law 87-297. Previously this work had been conducted by the Department of State.

2. Contract research.-Contracts or grants will be entered into with private or public institutions for the conduct of research, development, and studies in the field of arms control and disarmament.

[UNITED STATES-PUERTO RICO COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF PUERTO RICO]

General and special funds:

[SALARIES AND EXPENSES]

[For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of Public Law 88-271, approved February 20, 1964, $250,000, to remain available until June 30, 1966.] (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1965.)

Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars)

This Commission is composed of a Chairman appointed by the President and 12 members-6 each from the United States and Puerto Rico. It is to study all factors, including but not limited to existing laws, treaties, constitutions and agreements, which may have a bearing on the present and future relationships between the United States and Puerto Rico, and make a report thereon to the President, the Congress, the Governor of Puerto Rico and the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico. The Commission will make its report by January 1966. Public Law 88-271 (78 Stat. 17), which created the Commission, provided for equal sharing of the expenses with Puerto Rico. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars)

General and special funds:

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary to enable the United States Information Agency, as authorized by Reorganization Plan No. 8 of 1953, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act (75 Stat. 527), and the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.), to carry out international information activities, including employment, without regard to the civil service and classification laws, of (1) persons on a temporary basis (not to exceed $20,000), (2) aliens within the United States, and (3) aliens abroad for service in the United States relating to the translation or narration of colloquial speech in foreign languages (such aliens to be investigated for such employment in accordance with procedures established by the [Secretary of State] Director of the Agency and the Attorney General); travel expenses of aliens employed abroad for service in the United States and their dependent ents to and from the United States; salaries, expenses, and allowances of personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 801-1158); entertainment within the United States not to exceed $500; hire of passenger motor vehicles; insurance on official motor vehicles in foreign countries; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a); payment of tort claims, in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672, as amended, of title 28 of the United States Code when such claims arise in foreign countries; advance of funds notwithstanding section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; dues for library membership in organizations which issue publications to members only, or to members at a price lower than to others; employment of aliens, by contract, for service abroad; purchase of ice and drinking water abroad; payment of excise taxes on negotiable instruments abroad; purchase of uniforms for not to exceed six guards; actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes the remains of persons, not United States Government employees, who may die away from their homes while participating in activities authorized under this appropriation; radio activities and acquisition and production of motion pictures and visual materials and purchase or rental of technical equipment and facilities therefor, narration, script-writing, translation, and engineering services, by contract or otherwise; maintenance, improvement, and repair of properties used for information activities in foreign countries; fuel and utilities for Government-owned or leased property abroad; rental or lease for periods not exceeding five years of offices, buildings, grounds, and living quarters for officers and employees engaged in informational activities abroad; travel expenses for employees attending official international conferences, without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and to the rates of per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence expenses under the Travel Expense Act of 1949, but at rates not in excess of comparable allowances approved for such conferences by the Secretary of State; and purchase of objects for presentation to foreign governments, schools, or organizations; [$137,800,000] $141,111,000, of which not less than $11,000,000 shall be used for payments in foreign currencies or credits owed to or owned by the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That not to exceed [$110,000] $120,000 may be used for representation abroad: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for expenses in connection with travel of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel of dependents and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or automobiles of such personnel, when any part of such travel or transportation begins in the current fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed during the current year: Provided further, That passenger motor vehicles used abroad exclusively for the purposes of this appropriation may be exchanged or sold, pursuant to section 201(c) of the Act of June 30, 1949 (40 U.S.C. 481(c)), and the exchange allowances or proceeds of such sales shall be available for replacement of an equal number of such vehicles and the cost, including the exchange allowance of each such replacement, except buses and station wagons, shall not exceed $1,500: Provided further, That, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 665), the United States Information Agency is authorized, in making contracts for the use of international short-wave radio stations and facilities, to agree on behalf of the United States to indemnify the owners and operators of said radio stations and facilities from such funds as may be hereafter appropriated for

increased programing to Africa. Programs will be broadcast from transmitters at 7 domestic and 10 oversea locations. The service will continue to supply the oversea missions with recorded radio programs and scripts for placement on foreign stations and with radio supplies and equipment.

(e) Television service acquires and produces television programs for placement on outlets overseas. It also provides assistance to the oversea missions in the production and use of television programs. An increase in program production is planned in 1966.

3. Research and reference service acquires and prepares reports for use by domestic and oversea establishments in formulating and implementing Agency policies and

programs.

4. Cooperative programs with private organizations.-The Agency encourages and coordinates the efforts of private organizations in building an information exchange program between the people of the United States and the peoples of foreign countries.

5. Program direction includes the Office of the Director, assistant directors for geographic areas and the Office of Planning.

6. Administration and staff support includes physical and personnel security functions, legal counsel, central administrative services, and emergency planning.

7. Administrative support.-Administrative services for the Agency's oversea operations, and certain special support services at headquarters, are obtained through reimbursable arrangements with the Department of State.

Object Classification (in thousands of dollars)

Identification code 33-25-0100-0-1-153

SALARIES AND EXPENSES (SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) For payments in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States, for necessary expenses of the United States Information Agency, as authorized by law, [$8,200,000] $11,112,000, to remain available until expended. (Departments of State, Justice, Act, 1965.) and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation

Note. Estimates for 1966 include $1,486 thousand for activities transferred from United States Information Agency, Salaries and expenses. The amounts obligated in 1964 and 1965 are shown in the schedules as comparative transfers.