H. R. 8248, to Amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to Provide an Orderly Program of Decentralization and Relocation of Facilities and Personnel of Executive Agencies: Hearings, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, November 29-30, 1961

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 178 pages

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Page 153 - ... (f ) The principal office of the Commission shall be in or near the District of Columbia, but it may meet or exercise any or all its powers at any other place. The Commission may establish such regional or State offices as it deems necessary to accomplish the purpose of this title.
Page 160 - The principal office of the Board shall be in the District of Columbia, but it may meet and exercise any or all of its powers at any other place.
Page 173 - ... (4) the relationship between potential supplies of, and potential requirements for, manpower, resources, and productive facilities in time of war; "(5) policies for establishing adequate reserves of strategic and critical material, and for the conservation of these reserves ; "(6) the strategic relocation of industries, services, Government, and economic activities, the continuous operation of which is essential to the Nation's security.
Page 146 - November 17, 1961. Hon. WILLIAM L. DAWSON, Chairman, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Washington, DC DEAB MR. CHAIRMAN : Reference is made to your request for the views of the...
Page 144 - The Department has been advised by the Bureau of the Budget that there is no objection from the standpoint of the administration's program to the submission of this report to your committee. Sincerely yours, ROBERT H. KNIGHT, General Counsel.
Page 2 - The Administrator shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 a year.
Page 92 - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator is authorized, in accordance with policies and directives prescribed by the President under section 205 (a) and after consultation with the heads of the executive agencies affected, to assign and reassign space of all executive agencies in Government-owned and leased buildings in and outside the District of Columbia upon a determination by the Administrator that such assignment or reassignment is advantageous to the Government in terms...
Page 54 - There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been " Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself...
Page 59 - OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION, BUREAU OF THE BUDGET Mr. SEIDMAN. Mr. Chairman, I would like to identify my colleague, Mr.
Page 83 - The new department will take over some thirty-seven thousand employees who work in the Social Security Administration, the Public Health Service, the Food and Drug Administration, the Office of Education, and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. The department will also supervise Howard University, Columbia Institution for the Deaf, the American Printing House for the Blind, and St. Elizabeth's Hospital. In an address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 16, 1953, Secretary...

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