OMB BULLETINS 1965

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20503
BULLETIN NO. 65-8 April 12, 1965
TO THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND ESTABLISHMENTS
SUBJECT: Reports on authorizing legislation
1. Purpose. The Bureau of the Budget has been asked by the Chairman of
the Senate Committee on Governnent Operations to compile lists of all
legislation authorizing appropriations or establishing revolving funds.
This Bulletin provides instructions for the submission of material to
corapl,y with that request. Certain other material requested by the
Committee will be prepared 'centrally.
2. Reports. On or before April 30 each department or agency is requested
to furnish to the Bureau of the Budget the material described in the para-
graphs which follow. An original and 3 copies will be required.
3. Authorizations of appropriations. Legislation authorizing the
enactment of future appropriations in definite amounts will be reported
on the forms provided in the following categories:
a. Authorizations which limit the total amount to be appropriated.
This group is to include any appropriation. authorizations stated in a
total specified amount without reference to fiscal year, or in specific
amounts for a limited number of years. Only those authorizations will
be reported under which additional appropriations could be enacted after
December 31, 1964.
b.. Annual authorizations. This group is to include all.definite
authorizations subject to annual renewal.
c. Authorizations of a continuing nature. In this group will be
listed authorizations of appropriations which are stated in a specific
amount per year without tine limit and without a cumulative dollar limit.
Legislation authorizing appropriations in indefinite amounts (e.g., "such
amounts .as may be necessary . . .") will not be reported. Legislation
authorizing appropriations for revolving ttmds should be excluded from
the lists provided for in this paragraph and included on the list provided
for in paragraph 4 below.
4. Legislation establishing revolving funds. All legislation currently
in force which established revolving funds will be reported. Amounts
authorized 6thether or not additional action is required through the
appropriation process) should be shown through December 31, 1964. Appro-
priations enacted through December 31, 1964 should be shown.
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5. Permanent appropriations. All appropriations which become available
without further action by Congress will be reported, except that tryst
funds will be excluded.
6. Instructions on reporting. Instructions for the preparation of the
required reports are set forth in the attachment to this Bulletin.
7. Negative reports. If no programs of the agency are based on any
authorizations of the types to be reported under the terms of this
Bulletin, a statement to that effect will be appreciated.
KERMIT GORDON
Dire ctor
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0 Bulletin No. 65-8
INSTRUCTIONS MR PREPARING REPORTS ON AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION
1. General instructions. Legal citations listed should be in terms of
United States Code references where possible; reference to the Statutes
at Large should be used otherwise. The 'date of enactment of the legis-
lation should accompany the citation. ? In cases where the original legis-
lation has been amended to provide additional authority for appropriations'
or to provide additional spending authority, the date of enactment of both
the original legislation and the most recent amending legislation will be
provided. In cases where the amounts authorized or the date- of expira-
tion have been amended since the original enactment, the current amounts
or date of expiration should be the ones shown.
Authorizations falling into each of the four categories specified
in the Bulletin (paragraphs 3a, 3b, 30 and 4) should be reported on the
appropriate form illustrated by the attached exhibits.
Any unusual items which are not made clear by the information called
for on the forms should be footnoted and explained.
2. Limited authorizations other than those requiring annual renewal
(Exhibit A). Authorizations which limit the total' amount to be' appro-
priated (other than annual authorizations) will be reported in the form
illustrated by this exhibit. If specific amounts are authorized for
specific years, the amounts per year will be identified (column 3).
Column 4 will identify amounts of appropriations under the authority .
Which have been enacted up to December 31, 1964 (i.e., through the 88th
Congress). Column 5 will show balance of authorization remaining as of
December 31, 1964.
3. Authorizations requiring annual renewal (Exhibit B). Annual authori-
zations will be reported in the form illustrated by this exhibit.
4. Continuing definite authorizations (Exhibit C). Continuing authori-
zations (those stated in definite annual amounts without cumulative
limitations or limits on the number of years) will be reported in the
form illustrated by this exhibit.
5. Authorizations of revolving funds (Exhibit D). Legislation estab-
lishing revolving funds and authorizing appropriations or providing
spending authority for revolving funds should be reported in the form
illustrated by this exhibit. If authority for appropriations or spending
authority for the fund has been provided by legislation separate from
that establishing the fund, the citation and date of such legislation
should be identified separately in column 1. In such a case amounts
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authorized by such legislation should be separately identified in column 3.
The type of authorization should be specified in column 2. The following
abbreviations will be used:
"App. -- -Authorization of appropriation
"P.D."----- --------- -------------Authorization to expend from
public debt receipts
---Authorization to expend from
corporate debt receipts
Contract authorization
If more than one type of authority is provided to a fund, the amounts
of each will be identified separately. Column 3 will include amounts
of all authorizations enacted through December 31, 1964. In the case
of indefinite authorizations for revolving funds, the word "indefinite"
should be entered in column 3. In the case of indefinite debt authori-
zations the NOA provided column (4 or 5) will report the amount outstand-
ing as of December 31, 1964. Columns 4 and 5 should contain amounts of
all other NOA provided through December 31, 1964. Column 7 should
ordinarily represent the difference between NOA provided (columns 4 and
5) and amounts paid into the fund (column 6). Column 8 should represent
amounts authorized (column 3) less NOA provided (columna 4 and 5).
6. Permanent appropriations. A report listing all permanent appropria-
tions (except trust funds) will be prepared on 8" x 10-1/2" paper. The
title of the appropriation and a citation to the legal authority for the
appropriation will be listed for each account.
Attachments
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LIMITED AUTHORIZATIONS OTHER THAN -THOSE REQUIRIliG ANNUAL RENEWAL
[NAME OF AGBNCY]
(Dollar amounts in thousands)
Appropriated Balance of
Organization Unit and Citation Expiration Amount of to authorization
Title of Appropriation and date date Authori zati on Dec. 11 1964 remaining
(1) (2) 1-3) 14; (5)
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-AUfHORIZATIONS bl APPROPRIATIONS:
AUTHORIZATIONS REQUIRING ANNUAL RENEWAL
[NNE OF AGENCY]
(Dollar amounts in thousands)
Organization Unit and
Title of Appropriation
Fiscal Fiscal
Citation Year 1965 Year 1965
and date authorization appropriation
(1) (2) (3)
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AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS:
CONTINUING DEFINITE AUTHORIZATIONS
[NAME OF AGENCY)
(DoLiar amounts in thousands)
Organization Unit and
Title of Appropriation
Annual amount Fiscal
Citation of Year 1965
and date authorization appropriation
(1) (2) (3)
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[NANIC., OF AGM CY]
( Dollar amounts in thousands)
NOA
provided Balance
In Outside December 31, 1964
Type appro- appro- Available Authorized
Organization Unit and Citation of author- Amount pri at i on priation Paid into ( Columns ( Columns
Tit le of Revolving Fund and date i zation authorized acts acts the fund 4+5-6) 3-4-5)
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
BULLETIN NO. 65-1 August 6, 1964
TO TBE BEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPART1.ENT5 AAM ESTABLISHMENTS
SUBJECT: Review of current need for periodic and recurring reports
required by law
1. Background, purpose and scope. In cooperation with the Congressional
Committees on Government Operations, the Bureau of the Budget has ini-
tiated from time to time a'review.of periodic and recurring reports
required by statute to be. submitted to the congress. The purposes of.
these studies have been to identify those reports which no longer are
.used or needed and to draft appropriate legislation for repealing or
modifying these reporting requirements. The last such review was
initiated nearly six years ago and resulted in repeal of twenty-six.
statutory reporting requirements (Public Law 86-533, June 29, 1960,'
74 Stat. 245).
Another such review of statutory reporting requirements is being ini-
tiated in line.flth the President's requests to eliminate unnecessary
activities and reduce agency reporting requirements. All reports which.
agencies are required by statute to prepare are to be examined, including
not only those required to be submitted to the Congress but also those
reports which agencies are required by statute to prepare although they
are not submitted to Congress. As in past reviews the effort is being
coordinated with the Government Operations Committees.
2. Review procedure. Each executive agency is responsible for reviewing
each periodic and recurring report which it is required by law to prepare
for submission to the Congress, to another agency of the Government, or to
any other designated recipient. In addition, each executive agency is
responsible for reviewing any reports which it prepares in completed form
for submission by the President as required by law. Reviews need not be
made of reports which are submitted to other agencies to be collated or
summarized into overall reports required by statute. An analysis form
(attached) is to be completed for each report reviewed. Space is provided
on the form for information with respect to the origin, usage, and cost
of each report and for submitting a recommendation as to its retention,
discontinuance, or other action. A limited supply of the analysis form
may be obtained from the Bureau of the Budget, Publications Unit, code 128,
extension 22333.
The analysis forms need not be prepared for reports which all executive
agencies must submit such as those listed on page 2 of House Document No.
273, .88th Congress, Second Session, under the title "By the Head of Each
Department," unless their discontinuance or modification is recommended.
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Two copies of the completed analysis form for each report are to be
furnished to the Bureau of the Budget not later than September 15, 1964;
along with the name and telephone number of an agency representative to
whom informal inquiries may be directed.
Questions with respect to this review should be referred to James D. Currie,
Bureau of the Budget, code 128, extension 22328.
KERMIT GORDON
Director
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BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
BULLETIN NO. 65-I
ANALYSIS OF REPORT REQUIRED BY STATUTE
Agency Date
Title of Report
Principal Recipient
Statute Requiring Report
(GIVE DATE AND U.S. CODE CITATION)
1. Give SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF CONTENT, and the STATUTORY BACKGROUND of report.
2. Give DATES AND FREQUENCY OF SUBMISSION of report.
3. Explain DISTRIBUTION OF REPORT, giving number of recipients by type, i.e., Federal, State or local agencies,
professional societies, etc. (Do not submit mailing lists). Include Information on how report is used by such
recipients, If known. If submitted to the Congress, Identify the committees or subcommittees to which It Is referred.
4. Describe briefly the PROCEDURES FOR PREPARING REPORT and extent data are collected, recorded or tabulated
solely or primarily for the report.
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.5. State the EXTENT TO WHICH REPORT OVERLAPS OR DUPLICATES other reports which you are required by
statute to prepare and give statutory citations for such other reports. Also furnish similar information, If known,
concerning the extent to which the report oVeriaps or duplicates reports prepared by other executive agencies..
6. (a) Describe VALUE OF REPORT WITHIN THE AGENCY and how the need would be Met if report were no longer.
. required.
(b) If report is to another executive agency, also giVe RECIPIENT'S EVALUATION of the report and how the
need would be met if the report were no longer required. ?
7. Cite CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS OR DOCUMENTS in which any portion of report was included or referred to and
give any information you have concerning any other congressional use of report during this Congress. If you do not --
know of any such use during this Congress, state when and how report was last used.
8. (a) State and explain basis for RECOMMENDATION as to whether report should be (1) continued without change,
(2) modifled.either as to content or frequency of submission, (3) discontinued, or (4) other. If discontinuance or
modification is recommended, give ESTIMATED ANNUAL SAVINGS that would result. Attach sample copy of
report unless recommendation Is to continue report without change.
(b) If report is to another executive agency and the recommendation is to discontinue or modify the report, give
NAME, OFFICE and TELEPHONE extension of person in recipient agency to whom informal inquiry may
be directed.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20503
May 6, 1965
MEMORANDUM TO HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
Attention: Legislative Liaison Officer
For your information there is attached a copy of Budget Bureau
letter of May 4, 1965, to the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tivesltransmitting a draft bill, along with explanatory matter, to
discontinue or modify certain reports now required by law. An
identical letter was forwarded to the President of the Senate:
Submission of this proposed legislation resulted from agency
(:) response toOureau Bulleti45-1, dated August 613:964 and to our
Egislative referral memoranda o6ecember 31, 1964, and March 8, 1965t9
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Assis? Director for
Legislative Reference
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BUREAU OF TBE BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20503
May 40 1965
Honorable John W. McCormack
Speaker of the
Rouse of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
Dear Mr. Speaker:
Last year the President directed members of the Cabinet and the heads
of executive agencies to eliminate unnecessary publications and reports.
To date, 521 existing publications have been eliminated and propasald for
133 new publications have been withdrawn or disapproved. This effort, ? ?
which has focused attention on numerous small operations in the Government,
has resulted in estimated savings totaling nearly $3 million.
As a part of this continuing cost reduction effort, the Bureau of the
Budget has asked executive agencies to review the reports which they are
required to prepare by statute. Each such report was reviewed to determine
whether it is being used, whether it overlaps or duplicates other reporting
requirements or whether it could be simplified or submitted less frequently.
As a result of this work and based upon recommendations made by executive
0 agencies, we are transmitting for the consideration of the Congress the
enclosed draft bill which would repeal 65 such reporting requirements and
modify nine others. An analysis and explanation of each proposal in the
draft bill is also enclosed.
Most statutory reporting requirements were intended origin:Illy to provide
the Congress with detailed and periodic information concerning the operations
of the Government and the effectiveness and efficiency of programs being
administered by executive agencies. In transmitting this draft bill, it is
not our intention to eliminate any reports which continue to be useful. On
the contrary, our effort is directed toward eliminating or curtailing only
those reports which, because of changed conditions, new legislation or other
reasons, no longer appear to be needed or which appear to be more detailed
and costly than is necessary under current conditions. Our effort has been
coordinated informally with the Committees on Government Operations of the
House and Senate.
In 1958 similar draft legislation was transmitted which, after careful
review by the Committees on Government Operations in the House and the
Senate, was enacted as Public Law 86-533. As a result of this effort, 26
reporting requirements were repealed. A similar proposal in 1954 resulted
in repeal of 32 reporting requirements.
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We estimate that annual savings of approximately $1000000 would result if
the draft bill were enacted as submitted. While this sum is not large in
itself, I believe that no saving is so small that we can afford to neglect
it. The President's cost reduction program is built of a multitude of
small pieces. Action by the Congress to eliminate or modifk statutory
reports that have outlived their usefulness would be a logical and highly
desirable counterpart to the administrative actions to eliminate unnecessary
reports that have been taken by agency heads in response to the President's
request. Therefore we strongly recommend favorable consideration of the draft
bill.
Sincerely,
(signed) Kermit Gordon
KERMIT GORDON
Director
Enclosures
NOTE: Identical letter was sent to the President of the Senate
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A BILL
To discontinue or modify certain reporting requirements of law.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following reporting
requirements, which relate to the submission of certain reports to
Congress or other Government authority, are hereby repealed, as
follows:
REPORTS UNDER EACH EXECUTIVE AGENCY
(1) The annual report to Congress relative to agency activities
with respect to the disposal of foreign excess property (63 Stat. 398;
40 U.S.C. 514(d)).
(2) The annual report to the Post Office and Civil Service
0 Committees'anafthe Appropriations Committees of? the Senate and House
of Representatives of the action taken in reviewing certain positions,
together with information comparing the total number of employees on the
payroll on June 30 and their average grade and salary with similar
information for the previous June 30 (65 Stat. 757; 5 U.S.C. 43, note).
(3) The annual report to Congress of the administrative adjust-
ment of tort claims of $2,500 or less, stating the name of each claimant,
the amount claimed, the amount awarded and a brief description of the
claim (28 U.S.C. 2673).
REPORTS UNDER TWO OR MORE EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
(4) The annual report to the appropriate committees of both Houses
of Congress of the number of grants made for support of scientific research,
the dollar amount of such grants, and the institutions in which title was
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vested to equipment purchased with such funds (72 Stat. 1793; 42 U.S.C.
1893).
(5) The semiannual report to the Congress of purchases and contracts
with respect to experimental, developmental, or research work with the
name of each contractor, the amount of the contract, and description of
the work required (63 Stat. 393; 41 U.S.C. 252(c)).
(6) The annual report to Congress of the number of scientific and
professional positions established, the name, rate of compensation, and
description of the qualifications of each incumbent, together with a
statement of the functions performed by each (61 Stat. 715, 5 U.S.C.
1163; 10 U.S.C. 1582).
(7) The quarterly reports to Congress by the Department of the
Treasury, Housing and Home Finance Agency, General Services Administration
and the annual report to the President and to Congress by the -Small
Business Administration of progress in liquidating the assets and winding
up the affairs of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as required
by section 106(b) of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Liquidation
Act (67 Stat. 231; 15 U.S.C. 609, note), by Reorganization Plan No. 1
of 1957, and by Public Law 87-305, section 5(a) (75 Stat. 666; 15 U.S.C.
659(a)).
(8) The reports to the Congress by the Secretary of Agriculture and
the Secretary of a military department of the Department of Defense
of a notice of intention to make an interchange of lands which lie within
or adjacent to the exterior boundaries of a national forest (70 Stat. 656;
16 U.S.C. 505a).
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(9) The annual reports to Congress with respect to the positions
in grades 16; 17, and 18 of the General Schedule under the Classifica-
tion Act of 1949, as amended (70 Stat. 762; 5IJ.S.C. 1105a).
REPORTS UDDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE'
(10) The annual report to Congress of activities relating .to the
Puerto Rico hurricane relief loans (45 Stat. 1067; 70 Stet:. 525).
? (11) The annual report to Congress of the' scope of the conservation
reserve program under the Soil Bank Act for the preceding year and the
basis for participation in the program in the various States and crop
production regions (70 Stat. 194; 7 U.S.C.. 1832(c)).
. (12) The report of the estimates of national farm housing needs
and of; progress made toward meeting such needs (63 Stat. 435; 11.2 U.S.C.
1476(b)).?
REPORTS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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(13) The-anntal report of the Comparison of coSts of ship con-
struction or reconditioning in the various shipyards in the United
States With recommendations as to how shipyards may compete for work
on an equalized basis (76 Stat. 1201; 46 U.S.C. 1123).
(14) The report to the Committees on Public Works of the Senate
and House of Representatives on the progress and findings with respect
to studies of economic highway geometries, structures, and desirable
weight and size standards for highway vehicles and of the feasibility of
uniform State regulations (23 U.S.C. 307(b)).
(15) The quarterly report of contracts entered into, proposed '
contracts, and general progress with respect to aviation war risk
insurance activities (72 Stat. 805; 49 U.S.C. 1539).
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(16) The -
quarterly report of contracts entered into, proposed
contracts, and general progress with respect to war risk insurance
activities under the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (64 Stat. 776; 46
U.S.C. 1291).
. (17) The annual report of the names of contractors and sub-
contractors for scientific equipment used for communication and
navigation and of the names of persons entering into contracts or other
arrangements by the terms of which the United States undertakes to pay
only for national-defense features, together with the applicable contracts
and amounts (49 Stat. 1998; 46 U.S.C. 1155(b)).
(18) The annual report covering each case and the reasons therefor
in which an exception is made to the prohibition against payment of an
operating-differential subsidy for the operation of a vessel beyond
its economic life (49 Stat. 2003; 46 U.S.C. 1175(b)).
REPORTS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
(19) , The reports to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate
and House of 'Representatives on the fifteenth day of January, April,
July and October of each year with respect to the cost, number, and
location of housing units constructed or acquired during the past
three months and of those intended to be constructed or acquired during
the following three-month period (10 U.S.C. 2681(c)).
? (20) The report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate
and House of Representatives With respect to the terns of contracts and '
names of contractors for storage, .- Ruing and distribution of liquid
fuels (10 U.S.C. 2388(d)).
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(21) The report to. the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate
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and House of Representatives showing the amounts paid by the Government
for medial care of dependents of active duty members of the uniformed
services and the amount of adjustments made after the annual review of
such payments (10 U.S.C. 1081).
(22) The annual report to the President and to the Congress on
the status of training and the progress made in strengthening the
reserve components of the armed forces (10 U.S.C. 279).
(23) The annual report to Congress of all contributions to States
for personnel and administrative expenses under approved civil defense
plans (50 U.S.C. App. 2286(f)).
(24) The quarterly. report to the Congress of contributions to the
States for programs or projects approved for civil defense purposes
(50 U.S:C. App. 2281(i)). .
(25) The semiannual report to. the Committees on Armed Services of
the Senate and House of Representatives by the Secretary of each
department of options acquired on real property considered ?
suitable and likely to. be needed for a military project of his
department (10 U.S.C: 2677(c)).
(26)- The semiannual report to Congress by the Secretary of. each
military department of the research and development contracts made
during the reporting period including specific information on each
contract costing more than $50,000 (10 U.S.C. 2357).-
(27) The annual report to the Congress by the Secretary of each
military department of the number-of officers above the grade of major
(:) or lieutenant commander by grade and age. group who are entitled to
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incentive pay and the average monthly incentive pay for the preceding
six-month period.(37 U.S.C. 301(g)).
(28) The annual report to Congress by the Secretary of the Nalvy
of all vessels used for experimental purposes which have been stricken
from the Naval Vessel Register (10 U.S.C. 7306(b)).
(29) The annual report to Congress by the Secretary of the Navy.
of the appropriations for the Navy Department showing the amount
appropriated, amount spent, the amount remaining unspent and estimate
of probable demands (10 U.S.C. 7217). ?
(30) ?The requirement :.that the Secretary. of the Navy shall communicate
to Congress all or a portion of the annual report submitted to the
Secretary by the. Naval Sea Cadet Corps with respect to its proceedings
and activities (76.Stat. 534). ?
(31) The requirement that the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary
of the Treasury, as the case.mayte, shall report to the Committees oil
Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives the details
of the proposed participation by members of the?armed?forces under his
jurisdiction in international amateur sports competition (10.U.S.C. 717(b)).
(32) The annual report to Congress by the. Secretary of each-military
department on the progress of the flight instruction program (10 U.S.C.
2110(b)).
(33) The annual report to the-Congress by the Secretary of Defense
on action taken under the NationalIndustrial Reserve Act of 1948
(50 U.S.C. 461).
(34)- The annual-report to the Committees on Armed Services of
the Senate and House of Representatives by the Secretary of the Army
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on the number, categories, and grades of reserve officers (other than
in the Medical Corps or Dental Corps) originally appointed in the reserve
grade of captain or abol'it (10 U.S.C. 3353(d)).
(3.5) The annual report to the Committees on Armed Services of
the Senate' and House of Representatives by the Secretary of the Navy
on the number, categories, and grades of reserve officers (other than
in the Medical Corps or Dental Corps) originally appointed in the
reserve grade of lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, or captain in the
Marine Corps Reserve, or above (10 U.S.C. 5600(a)).
(36) . The annual report to the Committees on Armed Servides Of
the Senate and House of Representatives by the Secretary of. the Air
Force on the number, categories, and grades of the reserve 'officers
(other than medical or dental Officers) originally appointed in the
0 reserve grade of captain or above (10 U.S.C. 8353(d)).
(37) The semiannual report to Congress of the purchases and
contracts made for experimental, development or research work or
made in the interest of the national defense or of industrial
mobilization with the name of 'each contractor, the amount of the
contract and a description of the property or services covered
(10 U.S.C. 2304(e)). -
(38) The quarterly report to the Committees on Armed Services of
the Senate and House of Representatives by the Secretary of the Navy
with respect to the production from the naval petroleum and oil shale
reserves (10 U.S.C. 7434).
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REPORTS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,
EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
(39) The annual report to Congress on the administration of the
Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act together with related reports
made by State. boards for vocational education (39 Stat. 936; 29 u.s.c.
28).
(4o) The annual report of the receipt and expenditures of money
and of the work done in the State under the Smith-Hughes Vocational
Education Act which is required to be submitted by the State board
for vocational education to the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare (39 Stat, 933; 20 U.S.C. 18).
REPORTS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
(41) The annual report to the appropriate committees of Congress
on the use of the separate fund created for the promotion of_the free
flow of domestically produced fishery products (68 Stat. 376; 15 U.S.C.
713c-3(f)).
(42) The annual report to Congress with respect to activities
of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and
Wildlife Act of 1956.(70 Stat. 1123; 16 U.S.C. 742h).
(43) The annual report to the Congress giving detailed information
with respect to the establishment of fish restoration and management
projects and expenditures therefor (64 Stat. 434; 16 U.S.C. 777.1).
(44) The annual, report to Congress of the activities of, expenditures
by and donations to the lignite research laboratory in North Dakota
(62 Stat. 85; 30 U.S.C. 403).
(45) The report to Congress of investigations made to determine
the effects of domestic sewage, mine, petroleum, and industrial Wastes,
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C:) erosion silt, and other-polluting substances on wildlife (60 Stat. 1080;
16 U.S.C. 665).
(1e6) The annual report to Congress through the Secretary of the
Interior by the tribal business committee, representing the full-
blood group of the Ute, Indian Tribe, of its activities, expenditures,
and progress with respect to the development program to assist in
making the tribe and the members self-supporting (68 Stat. 877; 25
U.S.C. 677w).
(47). Theeannual report to the President of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives detailing the amounts of all
moneys received and- expended in connection with the administration of
the outer continental shelf lands (67 Stat. 470; 43 U.S.C. 1343).
(4.8) The semiannual report to Congress of the negotiation of
(:) contracts for the disposals of surface resources giving the name ,
of each purchaser, the appraised value of the material, the amount
of the sale, and.the reasons for contracting by negotiation rather
than competitive bidding after formal advertising (76 Stat. 587;
:30 U.S.C. 602).
(49) The annual report to Congress of all agreements entered into
with respect to the payment of compensatory- royalties for the drainage
of oil: or gas by :wells drilled on lands' adjacent to lands owned by the
United States (74 Stat. 781;-30,U.S...C..-224(E)).
- REPORTS UHLER THE.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
(50) The report by the Attorney General to the Congress and the
President not less than once each year of the results of surveys of
(:) activities of the Government which may affect small business (75 Stat. 666;
15 U.S.C. 639(c)).
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REPORTS UHDER THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
(51) The annual report of the Secretary of labor to Congress of
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the administration -oi' the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers '? *Compensation
Act includink *a- detailed statementr:bf: receipts and expenditures from
the funds estahlished by the Act (44 Stat. 444; 33 U.S.C. 943).
(52) The annual report to Congress by the Secretary of labor of the
work of the Bureau 'of Employees' CoMpensition including a detailed
statement of appropriations and expenditures and a detailed statement
showing receipts of and expenditures from the employees' compensation
fund (39"Stat. 749.; 5 U.S.C. 784).
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*REPORTS UNDER THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
(53) tme inclusion in the annual report of operationrOf the" '
postal savinis aysr of* the niamea of post offices' redeiVing deposits,
the number Of depOsitOrs in each and the amount on deposit (39 U.S.C.
5205). . ?-
(54) iita'inaiasion in the annual report to the Pregident by the
Postmaster denaral.oE activitieg with respect to the Postal Modernization
Fund (39 U.S.C. 2332).
'`" " ? REPORTS?UNDER Ti3E DEPARTMENT OF STATE
(55) The'report to' the Congress by the President with respect
to operatiOn's under' the Lend4ease -Act (55 stat. 32; 22r U.S.0 414(b ) ).'.
(56) The report to the Congress by the President not less than
once each year on the activities of the International Atomic Energy
Agency and' on theriarticipition of the UnitedStates therein (71 Stat.
1453; 22 20221. ' -
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(:) (57) The annual report to Congress by the Rational Commission on
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Cooperation and the Secretary of
State of the receipts and expenditures of funds and bequests received
and disbursed in connection with the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (72 Stat. 273; 22 U.S.C. 287q).
(58) The annual report by-the Secretary of State to the Congreso
and to the President on the condition of the Foreign Service Retirement
and Disability Fund and of estimates of appropriations necessary to
continue the system in effect (60 Stat. 1024; 22 U.S.C. 1102).
REPORTS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
(59) ,The annual report to the Congress of summary and detail
information on the operations with respect to the purchase of surety bonds
to Cover officers and employees of the Federal 'Government (6 U.S.C. 14(c)).
(60) The annual report to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury
on the financial condition of the Postal Modernization Fund (39 U.S.C.
2234).
REPORT UNDER THE bilihRAL AVIATION AGENCY
(61) The semiannual report to the appropriate committees of the
Congress of the agreements, personnel detail, and evaluation with
.respect to the' participation by members of the armed services in
,Federal Aviation Agency functions relating to air traffic control
(72 Stat. 745; 49 U.S.C. 1343(a)),
REPORT UNDER THE FEDERAL POWER-COMMISSION
(62) The annual report to Congress of the permits and licenses
issued under the Federal Power Act, the parties thereto, the terns
prescribed, and money received, together with names and compensation
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of persons employed by the Commission,,(41.Stat. 1065; 46 Stat. 798;
16 U.S.C. 797(d)).
REPORTS UNDER THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
(63) The semiannual report by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration of its activities and accomplishments which is submitted
to the President for transmittal to the Congress (72 Stat. 432; 42 U.S.C.
2476(a)).
(64) The annual report by the Administrator of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration to Congress which sets forth, as of the
close of each fiscal year, the number of positions established under
section 203(b)(2) of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, as
amended; the name, rate of compensation, and description of qualifications
?:of each incumbent, together with the position title and a statement of
the duties and responsibilities of each incumbent; the positions held
and the rates of compensation, during the preceding five-year period; and
such other information as the Administrator may deem appropriate or which
maybe required by the Congress or a committee thereof (75 Stat. 791,
42 U.S.C.-2473a).
REPORT UNDER THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
(65) The report at the close of each fiscal year to Congress and the
President stating in detail the cases heard by the Board, decisions rendered,
the names, salaries, and duties of all its employees and officers, and an
account of all moneys disbursed (49 Stat. 451; 29 U.S.C. 153(c)).
Sec. 2. The following reporting requirements, which relate to the sub-
mission of certain reports to Congress or other Government authority are
hereby modified as follows:
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. (1) From quarterly te annual submission to Congress by the Secretary
of .Commerce of a report with respect to .all activities or transactions.
. under the .Merchant Ship. Sales Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 50; 50 U.S.C. App. 1746).
(2) From semiannual to annual submission to the President and to
Congress by the Secretary of Commerce of a report with respect to activities
under the International Travel Actor 1961 (75 Stat. 130; 22 U.S.C. 2125).
(3) .From quarterly to annual submission to Congress by the Secretary
of the Air Force of a report of the number of officers in the executive
part of the Department of the Air Force and the justification therefor
(10 U.S.C. 8031(c)).
(4) From quarterly to semiannual submission. to the Senate and the
House of Representatives by the Secretary of -Health, Education, and -
Welfare of a report with respect to personal property donations to State
Surplus Property Agencies and real property disposals to public health and
educational institutions (66 Stat. 593; 40 U.S.C. 484(o)).
(5) From semiannual submission through the President to annual
submission to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior of a report of
the operations of programs to stimulate exploration for minerals within
the United States, its territories and possessions together with
recommendations regarding the need for such programs (72 Stat. 701;
30 U.S.C. 645).
(6) From semiannual to annual submission to the Congress by the
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States of a report
concerning its operations under the War. Claims Act :of '1948. (62 Stat.
12461 50U.S.C. App..2008). .
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(7) From semiannual to annual submission to the Congress by the
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States of a report
'concerning its operations under the International Claims Settlement Act
of 1949 (64 Stat. 13; 22 U.S.C. 1622(c)).
(8) From semiannual to annual submission to the Congress by the
? President of a report of each transaction entered into by any agency
of the United States Government pursuant to section 302 or 303 of the
Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, together with the basis for
determining the probable ultimate net cost to the United States
thereunder (64 Stat. 789; 74 Stat.'282; 504J.S.C. App. 2094(13)).
? (9) From semiannual to annual submission to the Congress by the
Export-Import Bank of Washington of a report concerning its operations
under the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 (59 Stat. 529; 12 U.S.C. 635g).
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Section 1
(1) The head of each executive agency responsible for the disposal
of foreign excess property is required to submit to the Congress each year
a report of his activities under the provisions of Title IV of the Federal
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. The accounting records
of each agency reflect the disposal of foreign excess property as authorized
by the act and such records are available for specific inquiries or for
audit as maybe desired. A summary report of such activities as required
by the act does not appear to serve a necessary purpose of the executive
branch or of the Congress.
(2) Section 1310 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act for 1952
requires an annual report from each executive department and agency to
the Post Office and Civil Service Committees and the Appropriations
Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives of the action taken
to review all positions created or changed to a higher grade since
September 1, 1950, to determine the need for each position and whether it
is properly classified. In addition, the report must include information
comparing the total number of employees on the payroll on June 30 and
their average grade and salary with similar information for the previous
June 30. These reports are of no value to the executive branch nor do they
appear to provide any information not otherwise available to Congress.
The information with respect to the number of employees on the payroll -
and the average grade and average salary is included in the annual
budget for each agency. In addition, the committees concerned can
obtain such information from the agencies at any time upon request.
(3) The Federal Tort Claims Act of August 2, 1946, as amended,
requires the head of each Federal agency to submit to Congress annually
a report as to all claims of $2500 or less paid by it from agency funds.
The report must include the name of each claimant, the amount claimed
and paid, and a brief description of the claim. Such reports are of
no value to preparing agencies and of no known use to Congress. Data
relating to each claim are reviewed by the General Accounting Office
and are available for review by the Congress whenever such action may
be desired.
(4) The head of each agency which is authorized to make grants
or contracts for the conduct of basic or applied scientific research is
required to make an annual report to the appropriate committees of both
Houses of Congress setting forth the number of grants made, the dollar
amount and the institutions in which title was vested to equipment
purchased with such grant or contract funds. These reports serve no
useful purpose in the executive branch and would not appear to serve
a useful purpose of the Congress. The information reported can be
made available from agency accounting records and whenever a congressional
need is expressed.
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(5) The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949
authorizes the negotiation of purchases or contracts for experimental,
developmental Or research work or for the manufacture or furnishing of
property for experimentation, development, research or test provided that
a report of such contracts for each six month period is submitted to the
Congress. The report is to contain the name of each contractor, the amount
of the contract and a description of the work to be performed under the
contract. These reports are of no value to the preparing agencies and
do not appear to serve any useful purpose of the Congress.
(6) Title 10, United States Code, Section 1582 and Public Law 313,
80th Congress, as amended, requiret: that the head of each department or
agency authorized to fix the compensation for positions of professional
and scientific personnel shall report to Congress each year on the number
of such positions established, the name, rate of compensation, and descrip-
tion of the qualifications of each incuMbent, together with a statement of
the functions performed by each. The intonation contained in these
reports is a matter of record in agency personnel and accounting files
and is available at any time in response to congressional inquiry.
Annual reporting of such information, however, is not needed by the
agencies and the reports do not appear to serve any useful purpose,
(7) The Reconstruction Finance Corporation Liquidation Act con-
tains a provision requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to report to
Congress quarterly on progress in liquidating the assets and winding up
the affairs of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Reorganization
Plan No. 1 of 1957 abolished the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and
transferred its "remaining functions" to the Housing and Home Finance
Administrator, the Administrator of General Services, the Administrator
of the Small Business Administration and the Secretary of the Treasury.
The "remaining functions" by definition in the Reorganization Plan
include the statutory requirement to submit a quarterly progress report
to Congress, This requirement with respect to the Small Business Adminis-
tration was superseded on September 260 1961, by Public Law 87-305
which substituted annual reporting for the quarterly submission require-
ment. Since the liquidation has been largely accomplished it would
appear that the reporting requirement has served its purpose. Unless
repealed, however, the statutory provision would require reporting
on a quarterly basis until the last dollar is liquidated which may take
several years, Information on the progress of liquidation will be
included in the annual reports of the agencies concerned as well as in
budget submissions, In view of the status of the liquidation such annual
reporting would seem sufficient to keep the Congress adequately informed
as to further Progress.
(8) The Secretary of Agriculture with respect to national forest lands
and the Secretary of a military department with respect to lands under
his jurisdiction which lie within or adjacent to the exterior boundaries
of a national forest are authorized to interchange such lands without
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transfer of funds whenever they shall determine that such action will
facilitate land management and provide maximum use for authorized
purposes. The authorization, however, contains a proviso that no
interchange of lands shall become effective until after forty-five days
following reports to Congress by the respective Secretaries of notice
of intention to make the interchange. We believe the provisions of
law which require agency determinations that the transfer would
facilitate land management and provide maximum use for authorized
purposes give reasonable assurances that such transfers would be
handled in the public interest. The required report does not serve any
useful purpose and we believe it should be repealed.
(9) The Classification Act of 1949, as amended, established limits
on the number of positions to be placed in grade 16, 17, or 18 of the
General Schedule. By Act of July 31, 19560 agencies were required to
report to the Congress on an annual basis with respect to the total
number of positions established for each grade, and including (1) the
name, rate of compensation, and intonation on the qualifications and
duties of each incumbent, (2) the, positions held by the incumbent
and his rate of compensation during the five years immediately preceding
the date of appointment, and (3) such other information as maybe
appropriate or required by the Congress or by a congressional committee.
Exceptions to the reporting requirement are permitted under the statute
where public disclosure of such information would be detrimental to
0 the national security. These reports are merely extracts from personnel
records maintained by the reporting agencies and their preparation in
an annual report does not serve any purpose of the Civil Service
Commission or of any other agency. The information included in the
report is available on a continuing basis in agency files and can be
supplied in response to congressional inquiry. An annual listing of
such information does not appear to be justified.
(10) A Hurricane Relief Commission was established by Congress
in 1928, provided with funds, and authorized to make loans to individual
coffee and cocoanut planters and other growers to provide relief from
the effects of the Puerto Rican hurricane of September 1928. The
legislation included the requirement for an annual report to Congress
of lending activity of the Commission. Subsequently this reporting
requirement was transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture. The report
has no value in the executive branch. At present, the report is merely
a recital of current collection activity on loans originally made by
the Commission. The loan balances are largely uncollectible, have been
outstanding for more than 35 years, and little activity of any kind
can be expected. The report has long since served its purpose of
keeping Congress informed of the initial volume of loans, and no
reason for its continuation is apparent.
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(11) -Section 108(c) of the Agricultural Act of 1956requires
the-Secretarrof Agriculture to report to Congress each year on the
,scope of the conservation reserve program and the basis for participation
in such program in the various States and major crop production regions.
No additional conservation reserve contracts have been entered into
since 19600 and substantial acreages now remaining under contract will
be released each year until the last contracts expire. The report'
serves no useful purpose in the executive branch and would appear to
be unnecessary information for Congress in view of the inclusion of
similar information each year in the agency budget.
(12) The Housing Act of 1949 required the Secretary of Agriculture
to prepare and submit estimates of national farm housing needs and to
submit periodic reports on progress being made toward meeting such
needs. A request in the proposed budget for fiscal year 1951 for funds
to undertake a survey of farm housing needs was not approved; consequently,
no survey has ever been made and no report submitted.
(13) The Merchant Marine Act, 1936, provided that the Secretary
of Commerce should make a study and report to Congress as soon as
practicable on the relative cost of construction or reconditioning of
comparable ocean vessels in shipyards in the various coastal districts
of the United States, together with recommendations as to how such
shipyards may compete for work on an equalized basis. This provision
was amended October 24, 1962, by Public Law 87-877 which required the
report to Congress be submitted annually on the first day of July of
each year. The report does not serve a useful purpose in the Department
of Commerce and would not be prepared except to carry out this
statutory reporting requirement.
(14) Title 230 United States Code, Section 307(b) requires the
Secretary of Commerce to report from time to time to the Committees
on Public Works of the Senate and House of Representatives on the
progress and findings with respect to studies of economic highway
geometries, structures, and desirable weight and size standards for
highway vehicles and or the feasibility of uniform State regulations.
Section 108(k) of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 as amended directs
the Secretary of Commerce to expedite the conduct of a specific series
of tests to determine maximum desirable dimensions and weights for vehicles
operated on the Federal-Aid highway systems and to male recommendations
to the Congress with respect to such matters not later than January 3,
1961. The report to Congress required by Section 108(k) of the act
covered the same information which is called for by Section 307(b) of
the Code. Consequently, no report under 307(b) has ever been prepared.
Since it is expected that any further report of this nature required
by the Congress Would be the subject of another specific directive
such as contained in Section 108(k), a continuing reporting requirement
as contained in Section 307(b) is unnecessary.
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(15) Secretary of Commerce is required by Section 1309 of Public
Law 85-726 to include in his annual report to Congress a detailed
statement of all activities, expenditures and receipts during the
year with respect to aviation-war risk insurance activities. In
addition, the statute requires that the Secretary make quarterly progress
reports with respect to these activities. While the quarterly progress
reports contain more detailed information than is included in the annual
report, the significant information is largely duplicated in the annual
submission. Since the information in the quarterly report is available
from agency records if required and a detailed statement of all
activities is included in the annual report of the Secretary, continuation
of the quarterly progress reports does not seem justified.
(16) Title XII of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, requires the
Secretary of Commerce to include in his annual report to Congress a
detailed statement of war risk insurance activities, expenditures and
receipts during the reporting period and to make quarterly progress
reports to Congress with respect to these activities. Though the quarterly
progress reports contain information in greater detail than is included
in the annual report, the significant information is largely duplicated
in the two reports. Experience has shown that the war risk insurance
activities do not 'change sufficiently from quarter to quarter to justify
reporting on a quarterly basis. The information reported annually
to Congress in the Secretary's report may be supplemented whenever
required with available data from agency accounting records.
(17) The Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, provides for a
report to be made annually by the Secretary of Commerce with respect
to contracts for scientific equipment used for communication and
navigation and contracts under which the United States agrees to pay
only for national-defense features. No reports have been prepared
under this provision since passage of the Renegotiation Act of 1951.
Section 102(/ of that act suspended the reporting requirement under
Section 505(b of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936.
(18) The Secretary of Commerce is required by Section 605(b)
of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, to report to Congress
annually on the cases and reasons therefor in which an exception is
made to the prohibition against payment of an operating-differential
subsidy for the operation of a vessel beyond its economic life. The
data included in the report is available from agency records whenever
such information may be desired. Its inclusion, however, in an
annual report does not appear to serve any useful purpose.
(19) The Secretary of Defense was authorized to construct or
acquire family housing in foreign countries by using a limited amount
of foreign currencies acquired as proceeds of United States surplus
agricultural commodity sales. A report was required to be submitted
to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of
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RePredentativeS for each three month period giving the cost, number, and
location of housing units constructed or acquired during the past
three months and of plans for the following period. The Department
of Defense surplus commodity family housing program has been completed
and the final report of activities was submitted in June 1963. Since
further compliance with the reporting provision would involve submission
of negative reports the requirement should be repealed.
- (20) The Secretary of Defense is authorized to contract for
storage, handling, and distribution of liquid fuels for periods not
exceeding five years with option to renew for additional periods not
exceeding five years to a maximum of twenty years. A report of such
contracts including the names of contractors is required to be submitted
to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of
Representatives. These reports are of no value within the Department
of Defense and we are not aware of any purpose which they serve of the
Congress.- The initial report for fiscal year 1959 described seven
such contracts, one contract was covered in the fiscal year 1961
report, and all other reports have been negative through fiscal year
1964.
,(21) The Secretary of Defense is authorized to contract for
medical services, health plans or insurance as he considers appropriate
for dependent spouses and children of members of the uniformed services.
Such contracts provide for reviews of payments made thereunder and for
adjustments as may appear necessary. The Secretary is required to
report each year to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and
House of Representatives of the amounts paid and adjustments made. The
report does not appear to serve any useful purpose and the information
is available from agency records whenever required.
(22) The Reserve Forces Act of 1955 provided for an annual
report by the Secretary of Defense to be submitted to the President
and to Congress with respect to the status of training of each reserve
component and the progress made in strengthening the reserve components
during the preceding year. The information in this report is largely
duplicated in other reports which are required to be submitted to
Congress. Material concerning the reserve components is a part of the
reports of the military departments which are included in the annual
report of the Department of Defense as required by Title 10, United
States Code, Section 133(c). That provision also requires a report
from the Reserve Forces Policy Board on the reserve programs of the
Department of Defense. In view of the duplication of information
provided the President and the Congress, continuation of the report
required by the Reserve Forces Act of 1955 does not appear justified.
(23) A cost-sharing provision of the Federal Civil Defense
Act of 1950 authorized the Federal Government to make financial contribu-
tions to the States for necessary and essential State and local civil
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defense personnel and administrative expenses on the basis of approved
plans for the civil defense of the State. A report of such contribu-
tions was required by the act to be submitted to the Congress on an
annual basis. These reports are not used internally by the agency as
the information is provided to agency ,officials by other means and
there is no evidence that they are serving any useful purpose.
(24) The Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 authorized financial
contributions to the States for approved civil defense programs or
projects including the procurement, construction, leasing or renovating
of materials and facilities. The contributions are subject to a number
of conditions, one of which requires a report to the Congress not
less than quarterly of all contributions made pursuant to this authority.
This report has no value within the preparing agency since similar
information in greater detail is supplied program managers through other
means, and we are not aware of any purpose which the report is serving.
(25) The Secretary of each military department is authorized to
procure options on real estate which in his judgment is suitable and
likely to be required in connection with prospective public works
projects of his department. For each semiannual period during which an
option is procured under this authority, the Secretary is required to
render a report to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and
House of Representatives. The number of options procured under this
authority has been negligible but the requirement necessitates numerous
negative reports by the military departments. The information would
be available from agency records whenever required even though the
reporting provision were repealed.
(26) The Secretary of each military department is required to
report to Congress semiannually on all research and development contracts
costing more than $50,000 entered into during each six month period,
the report to include specific information on each contract. These
reports are not needed by the military departments and would not be
prepared except to meet the statutory requirement. If the reporting
requirement were repealed the information would continue to be
available from basic records if needed.
(27) In connection with the authorization for incentive pay for
hazardous duty involving frequent and regular participation in aerial
flight, the Secretary of each military department is required to
submit an annual report to Congress. The report is to contain the
number of officers by rank and age group above the rank of Major or
lieutenant commander who were entitled to flight pay, together with
the average monthly flight pay authorized to be paid to such officers
during the six-month period preceding the report. The reports are
of no value within the military departments and since the information
can be made available to Congress on specific occasions if the need
should arise, the requirement for a periodic report appears
unnecessary.
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(28) The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to strike from the
Naval Vessel Register the name of any vessel which an examining board
finds to be unfit for service. With approval of the President anysuch
Vessel may be used for experimental purposes. The Secretary is required
to submit an annual report to Congress of all such vessels used for
experimental purposes. An annual listing of total ships is not
prepared by the Navy nor has there been a request for this information
in the past, and the report of vessels stricken from the register which
were used for experimental purpose does not serve any needed purpose.
The information concerning such vessels would continue to be available
on request if the reporting requirement were repealed.
(29) By Act of May 1, 1820, the Secretary of the Navy was required
to report annually to Congress regarding the annual appropriations and
as to each head (1) the amount appropriated0.(2) amount spent, (3)
amount remaining unspent, and (4) estimate of probable demands. This
requirement was included in the codification of military laws and is
now cited as 10 U.S.C. 7217. The report was a by-product of the central
accounting function of the Navy Comptroller. The same data is still
available but has not been published since fiscal year 1962. Comparable
data is now included in the Treasury Department annual publication
titled Conbined Statement of Receipts, Expenditures, and Balances of the
United States Government.
(30) The Naval Sea Cadet Corps was established-by Public Law 87-655,
September 10, 1962. Included in the authorizing legislation was a
provision calling for an annual report of the proceedings and activities
of the Corps to be submitted to the Secretary of the Navy who would
forward to the Congress all or such portion of the report as he saw
fit. The report is not of value in the Department of the Navy and its
submission through the Secretary does not serve any useful purpose.
(31) The Secretary of Defense and, for Coast Guard personnel,
the Secretary of the Treasury are authorized to permit personnel of the
armed forces to train for, attend and participate in international
amateur sports competition if the Secretary of State determines that
the participation will serve the interests of the United States. At
least 30 days before making any commitment under such authority the
Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Treasury as the case
may be is required to furnish to the Committees on Armed Services of
the Senate and House of RepreSentatives a report setting forth the
details of the proposed participation by personnel of the armed forces.
These reports contain the statement that the Secretary of State is of
the opinion that the interests of the United States would be served by
such participation. This reporting requirement should be repealed.
The reports are of no value within the executive branch and would
not be prepared except for meeting the statutory requirement.
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-. (32) The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are
authorized to provide flight instruction programs for units of their
respeetive Reserve Officers' Training Corps. They are also required to
report to Congress in January each year on the progress of the flight
instruction program so authorized. These reporting requirements
should be repealed. Other than their historical value within the
agency for which other information is available, the reports do not
serve useful purposes in the Department of Defense.
(33) The National Industrial Reserve Act of 1948 authorized the
Secretary of Defense to determine which excess industrial properties
should become a part of the national industrial reserve, to provide
terns, conditions, restrictions and reservations for the sale or lease
of such property which would guarantee its availability for purposes
of national defense, and to establish general policies for the care,
utilization and disposition of such property. The Secretary is required
to report to the Congress on April 1, of each year of the action taken
by the Depaltmtnt of Defense under the act and such other information
on the status of the national industrial reserve as will enable Congress
to evaluate its administration and need for legislation. We believe
the reporting requirement should be repealed. Due to the fact that
the plant reserve portion of the national industrial reserve has
diminished from over 200 plants in 1949 to a total of 12 at the? present
time, there is little purpose to be served in continuing to prepare
and submit reports on an annual basis.
(34) See paragraph 36.
(35) See paragraph 36:
(36) The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are required
to report annually to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate
and House of Representatives on the nuMher, categories and grades of
reserve officers, other than medical or dental officers, who were
originally appointed in the reserve grade of captain or above, lieutenant
or above in the Naval reserve. The information contained in these
reports it maintained on a continuing basis in agency personnel files
and would be available even though the reporting requirement were
repealed. Periodic reporting of such information does not appear to
serve any useful purpose.
(37) Section 2304 of Title 10, United States Code, provides that
purchases of and contracts for property or services shall be by formal
advertising but may be negotiated if the circumstances fall within one
or more of the seventeen exceptions to formal advertising which are
authorized in Section 2304. A report to Congress is required on May 19
and November 19 of each year with respect to any purchases and contracts
made by negotiation under two of the seventeen exceptions authorized.
These inVolve situations where the purpose of the purchase or contract
is for experimental, development or research work or is made in the
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intereut of the national defense or of industrial mobilization. For
each such exeeption the report is to include the name of the contractor,
the amount of the contract, and a description of the property or services
which were procured. Much of the information included in these reports
is duplicated in the listing of research and development contracts
coiting over $500000 reported to Congress semiannually as required by
Section 2357 of Title 10, United States Code. The reporting of contracts
falling Within two, of the seventeen exceptions authorized by Section -
2304 does not appear to be of sufficient value to justify its continua-
tion. Any of the information reported is a matter of record in agency
files, is subject to normal audit procedures, and can be supplied
upon request.
(38) The Secretary of the Navy, directly or by contract, lease,
or otherwise is responsible to explore, prospect, conserve, develop,
use, and operate the naval petroleum reserves in his discretion, subject
to approval by the President. Within 30 days after the close of each
quarter the Secretary is required to report to the Committees on
Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives with respect
to the production from the naval petroleum reserves during the preceding
quarter. This report is not required in the Department of the Navy
since the need for this information can be provided by other means.
The data contained in the report is maintained on a continuing basis and
can be supplied to the Congress upon request.
(39) The Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act requires a report
to Congress annually from the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare with respect to the administration of the act and including
reports made by State boards on the administration of the act by the
State and the expenditure of money allotted to each State. Since
passage of the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act in 1917 the programs
which it authorized have become generally outmoded, specially during
this age of automation. In this connection, passage of the Vocational
Education Act of 1963 effected further de-emphasis of the Smith-Hughes
Act programs. As a result of these developments the annual reports
required by the Smith-Hughes Act are no longer of sufficient value
to justify preparation in the manner prescribed. Repeal of this reporting
requirement would permit discontinuance of the publication of a vocational
education document, the content of which, as presently required by law,
is extremely outmoded, and would afford inclusion in the annual report
of the Office of Education of a report on all aspects of the current
vocational education program, including those authorized under the Smith-
Hughes Act and also those under the Vocational Education Act of 1963.
(40) Each State board for the administration of the benefits
within the State of the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act is required
to prepare detailed plans for carrying out the program in the State
and to submit such plans for the approval of the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare. In addition, the State board is required to make
an annual report to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare of
the work done in the State and of the receipts and expenditures of
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money under the provisions of the act. The .content of these reports,
whiah is prescribed by statute, has become outmoded by the development
of vocational education in this automated age and from the effect of
the passage of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. The continuation
of these reports as prescribed by the Smith-Hughes Act does not seem
justified in view of their limited value.
(41) A separate fund, derived from money transferred by the
Secretary of Agriculture as a percentage of receipts made available
from duties collected under the customs laws on fishery products, is
used by the Secretary of the Interior to promote the use and distribution
of domestically produced fishery products. The Secretary of the Interior
is required to report annually to the appropriate committees of Congress
on the use made of this separate fund. The information contained in
the report is a valuable documentation of progress in fishery programs
with the use of the separate fund. However, its submission in a special
report to Congress does not seem warranted in view of its duplication in
the annual report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Inclusion in
the latter report is appropriate inasmuch as the separate fund and
annually appropriated funds work together in financing Bureau programs.
If discontinued as a separate report to Congress, significant savings
would be effected and the information -would continue to be submitted
in the annual report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries.
(42) The Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 established within the
Department of the Interior the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
0 and also the positions of Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife
and Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife. The purpose of the act was to
maintain and increase public opportunities for recreational use of our
fish and wildlife resources and to stimulate the development of the
fishery and fish processing industry. The act required the Secretary of
the Interior to submit an annual report to Congress on the activities of
the Service under the act. The information required by this reporting
provision has been included in the Secretary's annual report
to the President on the activities of the bureaus and offices of the
Department. A copy of this report is submitted to the appropriate
committees of the Congress. Preparation of a report as provided by the
act would result in a duplication of information for the Congress.
Repeal of the reporting provision would eliminate an unnecessary
requirement.
(43) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to
cooperate with the States with respect to fish restoration and management
projects and appropriations are authorized each year for this purpose
from taxes imposed on fishing tackle. The Secretary is required to
report annually to Congress on the projects established and the expenditures
therefor. The information contained in this report is also included in
a more comprehensive annual publication covering both Federal aid in
fish and in wildlife restoration,programs. The only purpose served in
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preparing the subject report is to fulfill the statutory requirement
and if this requirement were repealed a duplication of reporting would
be eliminated.
-(44) The Secretary of the Interior is authoriied and directed
to establish, equip and maintain a research laboratory in the lignite
consuming region of North Dakota to conduct research and develop uses
and market oUtletS for lignite coal and its products. The Secretary
is required to make 'a report to Congress each year on the activities of,
expenditures by, and donations to the laboratory. This report serves
no useful purpose within the Department since all the material is
included in other reports. Moreover, information in the report
duplicates to a considerable extent material available to the Congress
in the budget and the Secretary's annual report.
(45) By Act of August 14, 1946, the Secretary of the Interior was
authorized to make such investigations as he deems necessary to determine
the effect's of domestic sewage, mine, petroleum and induStrial wastes,
erosion silt and other polluting substances on wildlife and to make
reports to Congress concerning such investigations and of recommendations
for alleviating dangerous and undesirable effects of such pollution.
The 661e report made under this act was submitted in February 1951. The
reporting provision should be repealed. It would appear that the Act
of August 14, 1946 has been replaced by Public Law 85-624, Fish and
Wildlife Coordination Act, August 12, 1958, in which there is no
requirement for a similar report.
(46) The Aet.of August 27, 1954, provided for the partition and
distribution of the assets of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray
Reservation in Utah between the mixed-blood and full-blood members; for
the termination of Federal supervision over the trust and restricted
property of the mixed-blood members; and for a development program for
the full-blood members to assist them in preparing for termination of
supervision over their property. The act requires the tribal business
committee for the full-blood members to report annually to Congress
through the Secretary of the Interior on its activities, expenditures and
progress with respect to making the tribe and its members self-supporting.
The report has never been submitted to the Congress because of the failure
to receive a complete and accurate report from the Ute Indian Tribe.
In view of the inability of the Department to receive a proper report
from the Tribe, the reporting requirement should be repealed. Other
evaluation measures are available to determine the rate and degree of
self-sufficiency achieved by the Tribe.
(47) The Outer COntinental Shelf Lands Act established jurisdiction
of the United States over the .subboil and seabed of the Outer Continental
Shelf and provided for the administration of the act by the Secretary.
of the Interior, including the leasing of such lands for oil and gas
exploration. The act also requires an annual report be submitted to
the Congress detailing the amounts of moneys received and expended in
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connection with the administration of the act. This report does not
serve any useful purpose in the Department of the Interior and would
not be prepared except to meet the statutory requirement. The moneys
received and expended in connection with the Outer Continental
Shelf activities are accounted for to Congress in the annual budget
and the pertinent records are available for information or audit as
may be desired.
(48) Public Law 87-689 approved September 25, 1962, directed the
Secretary of the Interior to dispose of materials on public lands
to the highest bidder after formal advertising. The act also provides
the Secretary authority for the negotiation of a contract for disposal
of the material under specified circumstances. In addition the act
requires a report to Congress on January 1 and July 1 each year with
respect to contracts negotiated under certain circumstances, the report
to include the name of each purchaser, the appraised value of the
material, the amount of the sale, and the reasons for contracting by
negotiation rather than by competitive bidding after formal advertising.
These reports are of little or no value in the Department of the
Interior. The records of transactions with respect to the disposals of
material under the act are available for review and audit if desired.
Continued preparation of the report, however, does not appear to serve
any useful purpose.
(49) The Mineral Leasing Act Revision of 1960, Public Law 86-7051
authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate agreements under
which the United States is compensated for drainage of oil and gas by
wells drilled on land adjacent to lands owned by the United States.
The Secretary is required to report to Congress annually all such agree-
ments entered into during the previous year. Very few of these
agreements are made by the Department and the annual reporting is of
no value to the agency and does not appear to serve any useful purpose.
(50) Section 10(c) of the Small Business Act of 1958, as amended,
requires the Attorney General to make surveys of any Government activity
which may affect small business to determine any factors tending to
eliminate competition, create or strengthen monopolies, promote undue
concentration of economic power, or otherwise injure small business.
Based on such surveys the Attorney General is required to make reports
annually to Congress with recommendations as may be appropriate. This
reporting activity is concerned primarily with surveys of operations
of other governmental agencies and not of operations within the Department
of Justice. The report requirement should be discontinued since the
activity is dissimilar from the usual law-enforcement litigation work
of the Department, distracts energies from that work, and has no
immediate value to the Department in connection with its operations.
(51) The Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act
provides conditions and schedules for payment of compensation to employees
or their dependents for disabilities or death suffered while employed in
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maritiMe.emploYment upon the navigable waters of the United States.
The Secretary of Labor is required to report to Congress at the beginning
of each session on the administration of the act for the previous
fiscal year, including a detailed statement of receiPts of and expendi-
tures froth the funds established in the Treasury of the United States
for the purpose of making payments authorized by the Act and for the
payment of expenses in respect to its administration. This report
does not appear to serve any useful purpose which would justify its
standing as a separate reporting requirement of the Congress. When
appropriate, the information required by these provisions can be
included in the annual report of the Secretary of Labor.
(52) The Secretary of Labor is authorized to administer the
Federal Employees' Compensation Act which provides conditions and
schedules for the payment of compensation for the disability or death
of a Federal employee resulting from personal injury sustained while
in the performance of his duty. The Secretary is required by the act
to report to Congress at the beginning of each session on the work for
the preceding fiscal year including a detailed statement of appropriations
and expenditures, a detailed statement showing receipts of and expendi-
tures.from the employees' compensation fund, and his recommendations
for legislation. An annual report of this detail does not appear to
serve any worthwhile purpose. The information required by these
provisions can be included where appropriate in the annual report of
the Secretary of Labor and need not be given the-status of a separate
report required by Congress.
(53) The Board of Trustees for the Postal Savings System is
required to submit a report to Congress each year showing by States and
territories the number and names of post offices receiving deposits,
the aggregate amount of deposits and withdrawals, the number of
depositors in each, total amount standing to the credit of all depositors
at end of year, the amount of such deposits at interest, amount of
interest received and amount paid, the amount of deposits surrendered
for bonds, the number and amount of unclaimed deposits, and information
-regarding investments by the Board, expenses of operation and other
pertinent facts. Of the 34 pages in this report 26 pages are devoted to
a listing of the offices receiving postal savings, the number of
depositors and the amount on deposit. This information in such detail
is of no value to the Post Office Department or to the Board of Trustees
for the Postal Savings System nor would it appear to be of any value
to Congress or to the public. The exclusion of these itemized data
from the annual reporting requirement would remove a major cost factor
in the report preparation.
(54) Public Law 85-426, approved May 27, 1958, authorized a Postal
Modernization Fund to be established as a separate fund in the Treasury
of the United States. The statute required the Postmaster General to
include in his annual report to the President a detailed account of
his activities with respect to the Postal Modernization Fund. The
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Congress did not follow the concept of appropriation of money to a
separate fund but instead it has handled this matter in the regular
appropriation process. The Postal Modernization Fund, therefore, has
never been established and the requirement for an annual report of
activities with respect to the Fund should be repealed.
? (55) The Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, requires the President
to transmit to Congress from tire to tine but not less frequently
than once every ninety days a report of operations under the act.
During the war years the reports contained sunmary information on
one of the Government's most dynamic programs. In the immediate post-
war years, the reports contained information on lend-lease and
reciprocal aid settlements agreements. Recent reports have been
increasingly limited to reporting fiscal data, and since 1952 the reports
have been submitted on an annual basis. Continuation of the report
does not appear justified. The fiscal data included overlap that
contained in the "Annual Report of the Treasury on the State of
the Finances" and in the report "Foreign Grants and Credits by the
United States Goverment" published by the Department of Commerce.
The current and prospective operations arising out of unfinished
business under the Lend-Lease Act are not sufficiently important to
warrant a periodic report. In the event of significant future develop-
ments the Department of State could prepare a report from data
which would continue to be available and submit such report to the
Congress or make it available to the ioublic as circumstances might
warrant.
(56) The International Atomic Energy Agency Participation
Act of 1957 authorizes the President to appoint representatives of the
United States in connection with our participation in the International
Atomic Energy Agency. The act also requires the President to submit
to Congress not less than once each year a report on the activities of
the International Atomic Energy Agency and on the participation therein
by the United States. We believe this report is unnecessary and should
be discontinued. The information contained in the report is essentially
duplicated in other reports submitted to Congress with respect to
activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The annual report
on the United States participation in the United Nations contains a
section on the IAEA, and the annual report on United States contributions
to International Organizations also includes material contained in
the IAEA report. In addition, similar information is included in
the report to Congress by the Atomic Energy Commission on "Major
Activities in the Atomic Energy Program." In view of the coverage of
the IAEA activities in the above three reports to Congress a separate
submission does not appear justified.'
(57) The National Commission for United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization is authorized to accept services
and gifts or bequests of money or materials to carry out any of the
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purposes of the National Commission. The authorizing legislation also
Squires that the National Commission and Secretary of State shall
submit an annual report to Congress of receipts and expenditures of
funds and bequests received and disbursed pursuant to such authority.
While this report is not particularly burdensome it does not appear
to serve, any purpose and should be discontinued. There is very little
activity in the gift fund and adequate records are maintained of these
transactions as a part of the financial accounts of the agency and can
be supplied at any time upon request.
(58) The Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System
established by the Act of May 24, 1924, is administered by the Secretary
of State who is also responsible for prescribing rules and regulations
governing the deposit of voluntary contributions into the Foreign Service
Retirement and Disability Fund. The Secretary is required by statute
to submit annually to the President and to Congress a comparative
report showing the condition of the Fund and estimates of appropriations
necessary to continue the system in full force. This report has not
been prepared since 1959 when its submission to the President was
discontinued at his request and following congressional criticism of the
volume and duplications in reports sent to Congress. The information
in the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund report was found
to duplicate information prepared in accordance with the Budget and
Accounting Act of 1951 and Bureau of the Budget Circular No. A-11 which
provides instructions for the preparation and submission of annual
budget estimates. The information included annually in the Budget of
the United States under "Trust Funds" reflects the condition of the Fund
and the need for appropriations and makes unnecessary the submission of
an additional report as presently required by statute.
(59) Public Law 323, 84th Congress, approved August 9, 1955,
requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit to Congress each year
a comprehensive report of operations in connection with the bonding of
Government officers and employees. This report was required initially
to enable the Congress to determine the results of operations under the
Act of August 9, 1955, which authorized agencies to purchase surety
bonds to cover officers and employees of the Federal Government. In view
of the demonstrated benefits accruing to the Government from the above
enactment, there would appear no further purpose served by continuing
this report to Congress. The Treasury Department would continue to
obtain and compile information deemed necessary to carry out its functions
under the statute; however, the accumulation of data in the detail
required for the report is no longer justified.
(60) The Postal Modernization Fund authorized by Public Law 85-426,
approved May 27, 1958, never became a realty since Congress did not
follow this concept with respect to appropriations. However, the
? authorizing legislation provides for the Secretary of the Treasury to
manage the Fund and after consultation with the Postmaster General to
report to Congress by the first of January of each year on the condition
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of the Fund at the end of the preceding fiscal year. Since no separate
fund as such has evei been established in the Treasury, the reporting
provision is meaninglesS and should be repealed.
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(61) Public:Law,85-726.approved August 231 1958, directs the
Administrator of the:Federal Aviation Agency to provide for participation
of military personnel in carrying out his functions relating to regulation
and protection of air?traffic. The Administrator is required to report
to the appropriate committees of Congress on a semiannual basis with
respect to the extent and effectiveness of military participation in
Federal AviationAgeney.plans, :programs, and projects. The agency's
annual report to the President and to Congress also required by statute,
contains much of'. the same information, and the additional submission
of semiannual reports on this phase of its activities does not appear
justified. If the semiannual reporting requirement were repealed the
agencyccould expand its annual report to include further information
regarding military participation as Congress might desire.
(62) The Federal Power Act, as amended, requires the Federal Power
Commission to submit to Congress annually a report giving a brief descrip-
tion of preliminary permits and licenses issued for hydroelectric projectd,
and in each case the parties thereto, the terns prescribed, and the moneys
received. Also required to be reported are the names and compensation of
persons employed by the Commission. This reporting requirement was established
in the 1920 legislation and any purpose which it was intended to serve is no
longer meaningful. The report, over 90 pages, is primarily detail, all of
which is included in other reports to Congress or is available upon request.
Any Member of Congress expressing An interest in an application is furnished
a copy of the document conetituting the permit or license when issued.
Summary data on personnel end-on moneys received are included in the
annual budget presentation. The report is of no value to the Commission
nor is there known any purpose' which it is serving.
(63) The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 requires the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration to submit to the President for
transmittal to the Congress semiannual reports of its activities and
accomplishments. .The act also requires an annual report from the President
of the activities and accomplishments of all agencies of the United States
in the fields of aeronautics and space. During the first few years, when
the Nation's space programs were in their formative stages, frequent and
detailed reports to Congress nay have served a useful purpose. At the
present time, however, thnnnual report submitted to the Congress by the
President plus the materials prepared for authorization and budgetary
hearings and those.prepareaLon subjects of special interest from time to time
would seem to be sufficient to meet the information needs of the Congress.
Elimination of the:. NASA semiannual report would reduce the duplication in
information presentekin'formal.reports to the Congress, and relieve the
agency of the burden and,:cost'of its preparation and submission.
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-(64) The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, agi amended,
requires .the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion to report to Congress at the close of each fiscal year on the number
of scientific,-engineering and administrative positions established under
the Act, the name, rate of compensation, and description of the qualifica-
tions of each incumbent, together with the position title and a statement
of the duties and responsibilities performed, the positions held by each
incumbent and his rates of compensation during the five year period
immediately preaeding his appointment, and such other information is the
Administrator may deem appropriate. The information contained in these
reports itira matter of record in agency personnel and accounting files -
and is available at any time in response to congressional inquiry. Annual
reporting of such information, however, is of no value to the agency and
the reports do not appear to serve any useful purpose,
(65) The National labor Relations Act requires the submission to
Congress and to the President at the close of each fiscal year a report
of cases heard, decisions rendered, the names, salaries, and duties
of all its employees and officers, and an account of all moneys disbursed.
The report, in three parts, comprises over 250 pages of detail informa-
tion, much of which is duplicated in the agency's bound volumes of
contested decisions issued at 2-3 month intervals. The remaining informa-
tion included in the report is available from agency records. The report
is not of any value within the executive branch and we are not aware of
any purpose which it is serving for the Congress.
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(1) The Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 was enacted to provide for
the orderly sale of var-built United States Government ships to private
ship owners. It also provided for charter of such ships under certain
conditions and provided for the preservation of the remaining ships in a
National Defense Reserve Fleet. Sales authority under the act expired in
? 1951, but the other provisions have remained in effect. The act also calls
for a quarterly report of all activities on transactions under the act.
Activity under this program currently and for some time in the past has
been minimal and does not justify reporting on a quarterly basis. Incorpora-
tion of this 'material in the annual report of the. Maritime Administration
should provide the Congress and other interested agencies with sufficient
information on this program.
(2) The International Travel Act of 1961 was enacted to encourage
foreign residents to visit the United States and to facilitate international
travel generally. The act established a United States Travel Service,
headed by a Director, in the Department of Commerce and assigned certain
duties and responsibilities for carrying out the purpose of the act to
be exercised by the Secretary or by him through the Director. A semi-
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annual report to the Predident and the Congress is required of the Secretary
with respect to his activities under the act. After three years of sub-
mitting reports on a? semiannual basis it has become evident that the .
activity is not of a nature which should justify reporting that frequently.
Significant economies would be effected without detriment to the program
if the. requirement were limited to an annual report.
(3) Section 8031(c) of Title 100 United States Code, provides that
not more than 2800 officers of the Air Force may be assigned or detailed
to permanent duty in the executive part of the Department of the Air
Force. The Secretary is required to report to Congress quarterly with
respect to the number of officers in the executive part of the Department
and the .justification therefor. These reports are of no value to the
Air Force since the information is available from regularly prepared
monthly reports if needed. It would not appear that the value of the report
to the Congress would justify its preparation on a quarterly basis and we
recommend the requirement be changed to an annual submission.
(4) The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act ok 1949,
as amended, authorizes the donation of surplus personal property to State
Surplus Property Agencies for distribution to public health and educational
institutions and civil defense organizations under section 203(j) and surplus
real :property disposals to public health and educational institutions under
section 203(k) of the act. Section 203(o) requires a quarterly report to
the Congress of the acquisition cost of all personal property received by
State Surplus Property Agencies and of real property transferred during the
preceding quarter in each State, territory and possession. This program
has been in operation long enough that quarterly reports have lost their
initial significance. Experience has shown that program trends and accomplish-
ments toward administrative goals can be better and more accurately
determined on a semiannual basis in the area of surplus property disposals.
The need for reporting quarterly can no longer be justified and the change
to a semiannual requirement would considerably reduce the man hours involved
in report preparation.
(5) Public Law 85-701 approved August 21, 1958, authorizes and directs
the Secretary of the Interior to establish and maintain a program for
exploration by private industry for minerals and to provide financial
assistance on a participating basis. The enactment also provided for the
Secretary to submit to the Congress through the President semiannual reports
containing a review and evaluation of the operations of the programs authorized
together with recommendations for congressional action as desired. It is
recommended that the reporting provision be placed on an annual basis instead
of semiannual and that submission be by the Secretary directly to the Congress
rather than through the President. We believe the semiannual report is more
frequent than can be justified for this small program, and submission through
the President is unnecessary and complicates the reporting procedure.
(6) See paragraph 7.
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(7). The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission is required to make
reports to the Congress every six months cOncerning its operations under
the WarClaims Act Of 1948 and of its operations under the International
Claims Settlement Act of 1949. These reports are invaluable primary
Source documents which are constantly used by Commission staff. However,
preparation of these reports on a semiannual basis is not justified in
view of the costs involved. Annual issuance of these publications would
satisfy the Commission's needs and would result in significant savings in
printing, mailing and salary costs.
(8) Section 304(b) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended,
requires a semiannual report setting forth the gross amount of each transac-
tion entered into by any agency of the Federal Government and the basis for
determining the probable ultimate net cost thereunder. The need for this
report on a semiannual basis can no longer be justified. While the report
continues to be of value as a record of the condition of the Borrowing
Authority FUnd? it has generally served its basic need and the frequency
of submission could be reduced to an annual report with resulting
savings to the Government.
(9) The Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 requires the Export-Import
Bank of Washington to submit semiannually to Congress complete and
detailed reports of its operations as of June 30 and December 31 each
year. The report is a valuable record as a source of historical informa-
tion and of ready reference regarding the operations of the Bank. During
the Bank's early corporate existence the submission to Congress of semi-
annual reports of its operations may have been needed. However, at the
present time, we do not believe-the preparation of the reportias
frequently as twice, each year can be justified. Reduction of the
frequency, of submission to an annualbasis would provide savings to the
Government without detriment to the purposes which the report serves.
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