Islands Corporation which is now included as an independent agency; the transfer, in 1958, of functions and personnel of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, which reported 1,276 employees on January 1, 1958, to the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization in the Execu tive Office of the President; the transfer from the International Cooperation Administration (Department of State) of 4 employees of the Development Loan Fund when the Fund became an independent Government corporation in 1958; and the transfer, in 1958, of functions and personnel of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (Department of Commerce), involving 23,229 employees reported on January 1, 1958, to the newly created Federal Aviation Agency.

OVERSEAS EMPLOYEES

For each annual report, all departments and agencies are requested to submit the number of employees engaged in carrying on Federal activities in foreign countries, indicating the number of such employees who are American citizens and those who are nationals of other countries. A recapitulation of those employees engaged in overseas activities is shown in table 4, which follows:

TABLE 4.-Employees in the executive departments and independent agencies engaged in overseas activities

Includes 2,083 employees of ICA paid by trust funds established by foreign countries.

Overseas contract employees

Data furnished to the committee, in response to its request, reflect a net decrease of 32,260 in overseas contract employees during the calendar year. The figures apply only to foreign nationals and do not include American citizens under contract for personal services either at home or abroad. The totals, by department, follow:

TABLE 5.-Foreign nationals provided by contractual agreements

The International Cooperation Administration, Department of State, reported a total of 2,083 foreign nationals paid from trust funds established by foreign governments. These foreign nationals, reported to be in a different category than the overseas contract employees of the military departments, are covered in table 4, p. 6.

LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES

As of January 1, 1959, there were 22,272 employees in the legislative branch and 4,879 in the judicial branch, net increases of 52 and 106, respectively, as reflected in the following table:

TABLE 6.-Total number of employees in legislative and judicial branches

1 A provision of law requires the Public Printer to keep on the rolls only the number of employees the workload demands.

* Includes 428 field and 261 part-time and w.a.e. employees. Includes 76 employees overseas.

Employees in courts in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam omitted from 1958 report.

ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL CHANGES IN THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

The following is a summation of internal reorganizations and administrative changes effected during calendar year 1958 by the various departments of the executive branch of the Government, as reported to the committee:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

The Department reported that there were no major organization changes during the 1958 calendar year; however, a few organizational adjustments were made at the divisional or branch level in some of the agencies. The most important of these are listed below by agency. Agricultural Marketing Service

The Management Analysis Division was established with responsibility for part of the functions formerly under the Administrative Services Division plus certain review and coordination activities from the Office of the Assistant Administrator for Management. The functions transferred to the new Division include committee management activities, the coordination of the agency management improvement

program, the coordination of administration management surveys, and reviews and responsibility for management functions concerning reports, forms, and procedures.

Agricultural Research Service

During 1958 organizational activities in the Agricultural Research Service were concerned with further development of the organizational realinement authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture in 1957. The result of these activities was the development and approval of the organizational structure for the four divisions of the utilization research and development area, the Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division and the Farm Economics Research Division, the Institute of Home Economics, the regulatory programs, the experiment stations divisions, and the Budget and Finance Division. The foreign contracts and grants program was established with responsibility for the development, negotiation, and execution of research contracts and grants abroad under Public Law 480, the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act. Commodity Stabilization Service

The procedural, reports, and forms management responsibilities of the Administrative Services Division were transferred to the newly established Directives Systems Analysis Division to provide for proper organizational recognition of this important combination of functions. The Soil Bank Division was reorganized because of the discontinuance of the acreage reserve program of the Soil Bank Act.

In the Budget Division the operating activities in connection with legislative anlaysis and coordination were transferred from the Office of the Director to an organizational unit designated as the Legislative Analysis and Budget Review Staff.

Foreign Agricultural Service

To provide for more effective administration of the functions and programs assigned to the Assistant Administrator, Market Development and Programs, and for more effective implementation of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, an additional position of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Market Development was established. The functions of the two existing Deputy Administrators were assigned responsibility over the functional areas of "Export programs" and "Competition and commodity analysis." The major organizational changes resulting from the realinement were the abolishment of the Foreign Trade Programs Division and the reassignment of its functions to the Program Development Division, the Programs Operations Division, and the Foreign Trade Promotion Division.

Office of the General Counsel

The Forestry and Lands Division together with the position of Division Director was abolished; and, soil conservation activities and Forest Service activities were placed under an Assistant General Counsel. The Office of the General Counsel has found that its service to the Forest Service and to the Soil Conservation Service has been improved by this separation of the functional responsibilities of the former Forestry and Lands Division.

Rural Electrification Administration

The processing of borrowers' requisitions for loan fund advances and the review of borrowers' expenditure statements were consolidated into one Section in the Telephone Operations and Loans Division. Increased operating efficiency due to greater flexibility of work assignment and better utilization of personnel resulted from the consolidation.

Increases in personnel.-During 1958, additional funds were appropriated by Congress for the fiscal year 1959 and increased responsibilities expanded operations in several program areas. On December 31, 1958, the total paid employment was 88,543 as compared to 85,107 reported for 1957. The major portion of this increase is due to the following situations:

1. Agricultural Marketing Service. Additional workload brought about by mandatory poultry inspection, pursuant to Public Law 85-172, the Poultry Products Inspection Act.

2. Agricultural Research Service.-Expansion in the regulatory programs, particularly meat inspection activities, control and eradication of the fire ant and the screw worm.

3. Forest Service.-Expansion of activity in the national forest protection and management programs, involving increased emphasis on the management of timber, range, wildlife, soil and water resources, forest fire protection, care of public campgrounds, and reforestation. Increased activity in construction and maintenance of roads and trails, insect and disease control, forest research, cooperative work, and emergency forest fire fighting.

4. Soil Conservation Service.-Increased activities in the assistance to soil conservation districts and other cooperators, and in the watershed program.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

The Secretary of Commerce reported that recruitment efforts during calendar year 1958 were more productive, and that better progress was made in staffing under approved organization plans. The result was a net increase of 697 in total employment, including personnel in scarce categories such as engineers and engineer trainees, appraisers, auditors, accountants, etc. Of these, 587 were field positions needed to carry out decentralized program functions. Moderate increases in some of the headquarters organization units accounted for the remainder, and minor reductions in some organizational segments resulted from shifting of functions. The uptrend in employment reflects the implementation of long-range plans for expansion to cope with substantial increases in workload, the numerous time-consuming problems encountered in greater degree and complexity than ever before, and other unprecedented demands of the vastly enlarged national highway program.

Implementation and refinement of the general organization plans will bring about a continued gradual rise in employment. One example of such activities was the development, within the framework of general plans, of a comprehensive organization and staffing plan for handling administrative functions in the field. Key positions were filled and basic training was initiated in advance of anticipated workload increases. The gradual emergence of a greatly strengthened and technically competent field administrative organization was noted