Mr. CARDWELL. I think we should run very quickly over the special institutions. As you know this subcommittee has to provide funding support for the American Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Model Secondary School for the Deaf, the latter of which is located in Washington. The National Technical Institute for the Deaf is located in Rochester, N. Y., Gallaudet College and Howard University are in Washington. There are pluses and minuses. The minuses have to do with completion of financing of construction projects.

Mr. CARDWELL. A great deal has been made of HEW's employment, whether it is going to go up or down and if it is going to go down, by how much. The budget shows a decrease in both full-time permanent positions and all other employees during 1973.

Chart 19 I think shows what is happening perhaps in a clearer way.

+ 2,508

Mr. CARDWELL. The 1972 budget established an employment ceiling for next June 30 of 108,971 employees.

There are supplementals in this budget for 1972 or already enacted which would increase that number by 1,169. We are proposing that if St. Elizabeths Hospital is transferred to the District of Columbia, that would drop 3,960 people from the Federal rolls and shift them to the District of Columbia rolls.

The Secretary has been required, however, by the Office of Management and Budge to make selective program reductions this year that would account for elimination of 4.127 jobs. That would give us a revised employment ceiling for the end of this fiscal year of 102,053 permanent full-time employees, a reduction of about 6,900 below the original budget.

The 1973 budget proposes 2,508 new jobs for new activities prescribed in this budget. It also assumes that the Public Health Service hospitals will be converted to community use and that such conversion would drop 5,070 employees from the HEW payroll. So that by the end of 1973, 18 months hence, HEW employment would have dropped to 99,491.