of the Public Housing Administration in carrying out the provisions of the Act of May 19, 1949 (Public Law 65). [For increase in limitations on funds available for 1953 for the foregoing purpose, see p. 239.] INLAND WATERWAYS CORPORATION Inland Waterways Corporation (administered under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Commerce): Not to exceed $181,200 shall be available for administrative expenses, including not to exceed $10,755 for expenses of travel, to be determined in the manner set forth under the title "General expenses" in the Uniform System of Accounts for Carriers by Water of the Interstate Commerce Commission (effective January 1, 1947); and funds available for operating expenses shall be available for purchase (not to exceed one, for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles: Provided, That no funds shall be used to pay compensation of employees normally subject to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, at rates in excess of rates fixed for similar services under the provisions of said Act, nor to pay the compensation of vessel employees and such terminal and other employees as are not covered by said Act, at rates in excess of rates prevailing in the river transportation industry in the area (including prevailing leave allowances for vessel employees, but the granting of such allowances shall not be construed as establishing a different leave system within the meaning of that term as used in section 3 of the Act of December 21, 1944 (5 U. S. C. 61d)). CORPORATIONS-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 302. No part of the funds of, or available for expenditure by, any corporation or agency included in this title shall be used to pay the compensation of any employee engaged in personnel work in excess of the number that would be provided by a ratio of one such employee to one hundred and thirty-five, or a part thereof, full-time, part-time, and intermittent employees of the agency concerned: Provided, That for purposes of this section employees shall be considered as engaged in personnel work if they spend half-time or more in personnel administration consisting of direction and administration of the personnel program; employment, placement, and separation; job evaluation and classification; employee relations and services; training; committees of expert examiners and boards of civil-service examiners; wage administration; and processing, recording, and reporting. TITLE IV-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 401. Hereafter no part of the funds of, or available for expenditure by any corporation or agency included in this or any other Act, including the government of the District of Columbia, shall be available to pay for annual leave accumulated by any civilian officer or employee during any calendar year and unused at the close of business on June 30th of the succeeding calendar year: Provided, That the head of any such corporation or agency shall afford an opportunity for officers or employees to use the annual leave accumulated under this section prior to June 30th of such succeeding calendar year: Provided further, That this section shall not apply to officers and employees whose post of duty is outside the continental United States: Provided further, That this section shall not apply with respect to the payment of compensation for accumulated annual leave in the case of officers or $481, 200 (corporate funds) employees who leave their civilian positions for the purpose of entering upon active military or naval service in the Armed Forces of the United States: Provided further, That this section shall not be applicable to annual leave accumulated prior to January 1, 1952. SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included in this Act, shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States, is not a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or that such person does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation or fund contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEC. 403. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency included in this Act, shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress. SEC. 404. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included in this Act, shall be used to pay the compensation of any civilian employee of the Government, whose principal or primary duties consist of acting as chauffeur or driver of any Government-owned passenger motor vehicle (other than a bus or ambulance). This section shall not apply with respect to any person whose duties consist of acting as chauffeur for the President of the United States or whose place of duty is in a foreign country. SEC. 405. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year, in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 78), for the purchase of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of busses, ambulances, and station wagons), is hereby fixed at $1,600. [For repeal of this section, see p. 253.] SEC. 406. (a) No part of the money appropriated by this Act to any department, agency, or corporation or made available for expenditure by any department, agency, or corporation which is in excess of 75 per centum of the amount required to pay the compensation of all persons the budget estimates for personal services heretofore submitted to the Congress for the fiscal year 1953 contemplated would be employed by such department, agency, or corporation during such fiscal year in the performance of— (1) functions performed by a person designated as an information specialist, information and editorial specialist, publications and information coordinator, press relations officer or counsel, photographer, radio expert, television expert, motion picture expert, or publicity expert, or designated by any similar title, or (2) functions performed by persons who assist persons performing the functions described in (1) in drafting, preparing, editing, typing, duplicating, or disseminating public information publications or releases, radio or television scripts, magazine articles, photographs, motion pictures, and similar material, shall be available to pay the compensation of persons performing the functions described in (1) or (2). (b) This section shall not apply: To persons employed by the General Services Administration in the performance of functions or related assisting or supporting functions in connection with the publication of the Federal Register, or to persons engaged in functions of the Civil Service Commission related to (1) the preparation and issuance of materials relating to the recruitment of personnel for the Federal service, and (2) the compilation of the Official Register of the United States, or to any department, agency, or corporation which does not employ more than two persons at any one time in the performance of functions described in paragraphs (1) or (2) of subsection (a) of this section. SEC. 407. This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1953". Approved July 5, 1952. Total, Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1953--- NOTE. In addition to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1953 carried in the foregoing appropriation act, the following additional amounts are available for such fiscal year under Independent Offices: Permanent and indefinite appropriations (general and spe- $6,277,655,853 $274, 800 Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953 (pp. 237–240, 246–253) – 9, 333, 659, 250 9,333,934,050 Grand total, Independent Offices, exclusive of trust funds under 15,611,589,903 Deduct appropriations under maritime activities, Department of Grand total, Independent Offices, exclusive of maritime activi- For trust funds, see pp. 505-510. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT, 1953 [PUBLIC LAW 470-82D CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 597-2D SESSION] [H. R. 7176] By the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, and for other purposes, approved July 9, 1952 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY ENFORCEMENT OF CONNALLY HOT OIL ACT For expenses necessary for controlling the interstate shipment of contraband oil as required by law (15 U. S. C. 715), including purchase of not to exceed one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only, $187,000 [For appropriation for 1953 for Research in the Utilization of Saline Water, see p. 237.] [For appropriation for 1953 for Defense Production Activities, see p. 251.] CONSTRUCTION, SOUTHEASTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION For construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substations, and appurtenant facilities, and for administrative expenses connected therewith, in carrying out the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southeastern power area, to remain available until expended, $959,500: Provided, That no part of the funds appropriated by this paragraph or any part of the unobligated balance appropriated under this heading in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for 1952 shall be available for the construction of transmission lines and related facilities in the Southeastern power area until (1) a contract with the affected power companies in the area of substantially the type which has heretofore been executed in other power areas for system wide transmission of electric power and energy from Government owned projects to preferred customers has been executed, or the said companies have refused to execute such contracts, and (2) the Secretary of the Interior has so informed the Congress. 142 $187,000 959, 500 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHEASTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southeastern power area, $760,000___ ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS Appropriations of the Southeastern Power Administration shall be available for purchase of not to exceed four passenger motor vehicles. Appropriations made herein to the Southeastern Power Administration shall be available in one fund, except that the appropriation herein made for operation and maintenance shall be available only for the service of the current fiscal year. CONSTRUCTION, SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION For construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substations, and appurtenant facilities, and for administrative expenses connected therewith, in carrying out the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southwestern power area, to remain available until expended, $4,150,000, of which $1,130,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority previously granted. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southwestern power area, $1,450,000 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS Appropriations of the Southwestern Power Administration shall be available for purchase of not to exceed fifteen passenger motor vehicles for replacement only. Appropriations made herein to the Southwestern Power Administration shall be available in one fund, except that the appropriation herein made for operation and maintenance shall be available only for the service of the current fiscal year. CONTINUING FUND, SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION Not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available during the current fiscal year from the continuing fund for all costs in connection with the purchase of electric power and energy and rentals for the use of transmission facilities. [Total, Office of the Secretary, $7,506,500.] COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts (40 U. S. C. 104), including payment of actual traveling expenses of the members and secretary of the Commission in attending meetings and committee meetings of the Commission either within or outside the District of Columbia, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the Commission, $21,200-- |