Mr. MCCLELLAN, from the Committee on Government Operations, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany a chart on organization of Federal executive departments and agencies] 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 1957, and is the 18th 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, 1958. 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. Reorganization data and changes in personnel figures, and the resultant savings and efficiencies reported, are based upon comments and estimates furnished by the agencies, and do not necessarily represent either the views or the findings of the committee. For sale by Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., price 20 cents. Additional copies of this report are also available at 20 cents a copy. 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 Executive Departments since January 1, 1957." 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 Departments of Commerce, Health, Education, and Welfare, Interior, and State, and the Interstate Commerce Commission and Veterans' Administration made a number of additions, transpositions, or other alterations in their organizational structures during 1957. In some instances these were due to agency reorganization programs while others occur regularly so that each suceeding report has shown a number of changes from the outline contained in the preceding report without any apparent significance, thus preventing uniformity of reporting from one year to the next. These types of changes, although necessary in effecting desirable reorganizations, materially affect the nomenclature count 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 2,116 operating components to which personnel assignments were made as of January 1, 1958, reflects a decrease of 7 from a total of 2,123 reported as of January 1, 1957-a decrease of 63 in the 13 executive departments, and an increase of 56 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 253 more than on January 1, 1958. 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. Type of corporations only, shown as a functioning unit, and not the actual number. For example, the 12 intermediate credit banks have been counted as 1 bank. Mixed ownership corporations (3 groups) are not included. (See table, p. 55.) TOTAL EMPLOYEES At the end of calendar year 1957, the Federal Government had in an employment status a total of 2,325,434 persons, exclusive of the uniformed personnel of the Armed Forces, as compared to 2,403,311 at the beginning of the year-a net decrease of 77,877. Of this total 2,298,441 served in the executive branch; 22,220 in the legislative branch; and 4,773 in the judicial branch. The total of 2,298,441 employees reported by the executive branch represented a net decrease of 78,072 during the last calendar year: 75,078 in the departments and 2,645 in the independent agencies, and an increase of 93 in the Executive Office of the President. There was an overall increase of 15,511 in the civilian executive departments however, which increase was offset by a net decrease of 90,589 in the military. The executive branch total is 35,816 more than were reported on January 1, 1947. It also exceeded the previous postwar low (prior to the Korean invasion), on January 1, 1950, by 337,612. The total figures include 136,345 WAE (when actually employed) and parttime employees in a pay status as of January 1, 1958, as compared to 133,829 WAE reported on January 1, 1957, and 121,868 on January 1, 1956. Employees serving without compensation (WOC's) (shown parenthetically on the chart opposite the totals for each department or agency) aggregating 104,476 on January 1, 1958, or 1,185 fewer than a year ago, are not included in the totals. These included 41,122 uncompensated employees of the Selective Service System serving as local board members, advisers to registrants, and so forth; 47,584 in the Veterans' Administration; and 15,570 in other departments and agencies. For security reasons, no employees of the Central Intelligence Agency are reported. Executive departments 2 The executive departments reported a total of 2,000,729 paid employees as of January 1, 1958, a decrease of 75,078 over calendar year 1957. The Executive Office of the President reported a total of 1,310 employees, an increase of 93 for the same calendar period. See appendix for total tabulation for each year, p. 60. 22355-58 In the Department of Defense, a total decrease of 90,589 since January 1, 1957, was reported; the Department of the Air Force, 39,159; the Department of the Navy, 28,074; the Department of the Army, 23,270; and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 86. The table below reflects departmental increases or decreases for the 1-year, 5-year, and 11-year period. 1 Formerly the Federal Security Agency. Reported 36,231 employees for year 1953. The Department of the Interior failed to report 442 employees of the Virgin Islands Corporation. In all of its former reports, Interior included in its totals the Corporation employees. When this omission was called to the attention of officials of the Department, they stated that the Civil Service Commission had held that the Virgin Islands Corporation was an independent agency and the employees should not be included within the total for the Department. As a result of the Department's failure to so notify the committee until after the chart had gone to press, these figures have been omitted entirely from the totals shown. The independent agencies reported a total of 296,844 paid civilian employees, or a net decrease of 2,645 employees over calendar year 1957, although 442 employees were transferred out of the Department of the Interior, to the Virgin Islands Corporation, as an independent agency. The table below reflects the overall increase or decrease of employees in each Federal agency reported for the 1-year, 5-year, and 11-year period. See appendix for total tabulation for each year, p. 60. |