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Mr. MCCLELLAN, from the Committee on Government Operations, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany a chart on organization of Federal executive departments and agencies]

INTRODUCTION

This report is submitted to the Senate pursuant to the provisions of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, which directs the Committee on Government Operations to evaluate the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the executive branch of the Government. It includes details relative to organizational changes in the executive branch of the Government during calendar year 1958, and is the 19th in a series first compiled as of January 1, 1947. Accompanying this report is a chart outlining the organization of Federal executive departments and agencies, with personnel assignments to each major operating unit down to the division level, as of January 1, 1959.

A complete tabulation of all agencies active on January 1, 1947, and those which have been created or abolished during the intervening period, with total employees assigned to such agencies as of January 1 of each year, is contained in the appendix of this report. Explanatory footnotes indicate when and under what authority new agencies were established, and similar data are included with respect to those which have been abolished or transferred.

Significant personnel changes during the past year, and reorganizations effected in the departments and agencies as set forth in this report, are based upon information supplied, at the request of the chairman, by the department or agency heads, or by their appropriate accountable officers. Reorganizational data and changes in personnel figures, and the resultant savings and increased operating efficiency,

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are based upon comments and estimates furnished by the agencies, and do not necessarily represent either the views or the findings of the committee. Organizational changes effected pursuant to recent enactments, or resulting from internal surveys conducted under administrative controls, as well as appreciable changes in personnel assignments, are set forth on the chart and in the section of this report entitled "Organization and Personnel Changes in the Executive Departments." A similar section covers the independent agencies. Other sections of the report deal with (a) nomenclature and components; (b) total employees in the executive departments and independent agencies; (c) overseas employees; (d) overseas contract employees; (e) the legislative and judicial branches; (f) Government corporations; and (g) new components established or abolished since January 1, 1947. Comparative figures are included where appropriate. The chart which accompanies this report reflects a number of additions, transfers, transpositions, and other changes throughout some of the department or agency structures, which tend to prevent any meaningful comparison relative to the assignment of personnel to continuing activities within the department or agency.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Housing and Home Finance Agency, the U.S. Information Agency, the National Labor Relations Board, and the General Services Administration made a number of additions, transpositions, or other alterations in their organizational structure during calendar year 1958. These changes were due, in some instances, to reorganization programs, while others occur regularly.

Each succeeding report reflects a number of changes from the preceding report, without any apparent significance, thus preventing uniformity of reporting from one year to the next. These types of changes, although sometimes necessary in effecting desirable reorganizations, materially affect the nomenclature tabulation which follows.

NOMENCLATURE AND COMPONENTS

In accordance with a policy initiated by this committee in the 80th Congress (S. Rept. 243), the new agencies have followed, in general, uniform reorganization patterns, and other agencies have effected changes designed to improve nomenclature. The committee is continuing its efforts to encourage the improvement of nomenclature standards and uniformity, as also endorsed by the first Hoover Commission, and has repeatedly urged all agencies to conform to this program when reorganizations are to be made.

In the tabulation which follows, all field offices and overseas activities, regardless of the number involved, were counted as single units. In the miscellaneous and functional category are included all operating, descriptive, or functional components, as well as field and overseas activities which do not conform to the standard nomenclature designations.

The total of 2,072 operating components to which personnel assignments were made as of January 1, 1959, reflects a decrease of 44 from a total of 2,116 reported as of January 1, 1958-a decrease of 74 in the 13 executive departments, an increase of 1 in the Executive Office of the President and an increase of 29 in the 45 independent agencies.

In the first chart released by the committee, as of January 1, 1947, operating components totaling 2,369 units were reported, or 297 more than on January 1, 1959. Many of these, however, included components which were omitted from the current chart, since they did not conform to the committee's general policy of reporting only major operating units down to the equivalent of the division level.

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1 Type of corporations only, shown as a functioning unit, and not the actual number. For example, the 12 intermediate banks have been counted as 1 bank. Mixed ownership corporations are not included. (See table 7, p. 58.)

TOTAL EMPLOYEES

At the end of calendar year 1958, the Federal Government had in an employment status a total of 2,352,863 persons, exclusive of the uniformed personnel of the Armed Forces, as compared to 2,325,876 at the beginning of the year-a net increase of 26,987. Of this total, 2,325,712 are in the executive branch, 22,272 in the legislative branch, and 4,879 in the judicial branch.

The total of 2,325,712 employees reported by the executive branch represented a net increase of 26,829 during the last calendar year: a decrease of 4,470 in the departments, and increases of 29,935 in the independent agencies and 1,364 in the Executive Office of the President. There was an overall decrease of 7,633 in the civilian executive departments and an increase of 3,163 in the military.

The executive branch total is 63,087 more than was reported on January 1, 1947. It also exceeded the previous postwar low on January 1, 1950 (prior to the Korean invasion) by 364,683. The total figures include 134,994 WAE (when actually employed) and part-time employees in a pay status as of January 1, 1959, as compared to 136,345 WAE reported on January 1, 1958, and 133, 829 on January 1, 1957.

Employees serving without compensation (WOC'S) (shown parenthetically on the chart opposite the totals for each department or agency) aggregating 102,332 on January 1, 1959, or 2,144 fewer than a year ago, are not included in the totals. These included 38,916 uncompensated employees of the Selective Service System serving as local board members, advisers to registrants, and so forth; 49,120 in the Veterans' Administration; and 14,296 in other departments and agencies. For security reasons, no employees of the Central Intelligence Agency are reported.

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Executive departments

The executive departments reported a total of 1,996,259 paid employees as of January 1, 1959, a decrease of 4,470 over calendar year 1958. The Executive Office of the President reported a total of 2,674 employees, an increase of 1,364 for the same calendar period. Pursuant to the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958, as amended by Public Law 85-763, the Federal Civil Defense Administration, which reported 1,276 employees on January 1, 1958, was consolidated with the Office of Defense Mobilization to form the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization within the Executive Office of the President. The transfer of Federal Civil Defense Administration personnel is reflected in the increase of employees in the Executive Office of the President.

In the Department of Defense, an overall increase of 3,163 since January 1, 1958, was reported: The Department of the Air Force, the Department of the Army, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense reported increases of 5,475, 2,622, and 52, respectively, while the Department of the Navy reported a decrease of 4,986.

The table below reflects departmental increases or decreases for the calendar year 1958, and for the overall 12-year period.

TABLE 2.-Increase or decrease of employees in executive departments since Jan. 1,

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Formerly Federal Security Agency. Reported 31,516 employees for year 1947; 36,231 for 1953.

Independent agencies

The independent agencies reported a total of 326,779 paid civilian employees, or a net increase of 29,935 over calendar year 1958. The table shown on p. 5 reflects the overall increase or decrease of employees in each Federal agency reported for the calendar year 1958 and the overall 12-year period.

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TABLE 3.-Increase or decrease of employees in the independent agencies since Jan. 1, 1947

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The overall 12-year reduction in the independent agency totals reflected in the appendix of this report, with corresponding increases in the executive departments, included 36,231 employees who were involved in the elevation of the Federal Security Agency to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1953; the transfer of 1,206 RFC employees to Treasury in 1954; the abolishment of the Foreign Operations Administration and the resulting transfer of its functions and personnel to the International Cooperation Administration within the Department of State, which involved 6,127 employees reported by FOA on January 1, 1955; the transfer, in 1956, from the Department of the Interior of 442 employees of the Virgin

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