Union Calendar No. 494

. 7151

[Report No. 1602]

82p CONGRESS
- 2p Session

   

 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Marcn 20, 1952

Mr. Foaarry, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following
bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed

 

 

BILL |

Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal
Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for. the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, and for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
9, tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money
4 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Depart-
5 ment of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related
6 independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30;

7 1953, namely:
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TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the
Office of the Secretary of Labor (hereafter in this title
referred to as the Secretary), including services as author-
ized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.8. C.
5da); purchase of not to exceed one passenger motor
vehicle (at not to exceed $3,000) ‘for replacement only;
teletype news service; and payment in advance when au-
thorized by the Secretary for dues or fees for library mem-
bership in organizations whose publications are available to
members only or to members at a price lower than to the

general public; $1,376,000.
Salaries and expenses, Office of the Solicitor: For ex-
penses necessary for the Office of the Solicitor, $1,764,600.
Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Labor Standards: For
expenses necessary for the promotion of industrial safety,

employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations

‘for labor and industry; performance of satety functions of

the Secretary under the Federal Employees’ Compensation
Act, as amended (5 U.S. O. 784 (c)) ; performance of the
functions vested in the Secretary by title I of the Labor-
Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S. ©. 159 (f) and
(g) ) - and not to exceed $75,000 for the work of the Presi-

dent’s Committee on National Employ the Physically
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Handicapped Week, as authorized by the Act of July 11,
1949 (63 Stat. 409), including purchase of reports and of
material for informational exhibits; and expenses of attend-
ance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences
concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Standards;
$624,000. |

Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Veterans’ Reemploy-
ment Rights: For expenses necessary to render assistance
in connection with the exercise of reemployment rights
under section 8 of the Selective Training and Service Act
of 1940, as amended (50 U.S. C., App. 308), the Service
Extension Act of 1941, as amended, the Army Reserve and
Retired Personnel Service Law of 1940, as amended, and
section 9 of the Universal Military Training and Service Act,
and, under the Act of June 23, 1948, as amended (50
U. 8. C. App. 1472), of persons who have performed
service in the Merchant Marine, $285,700.

BUREAU OF APPRENTICESHIP

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to enable —
the Secretary to conduct.a program of encouraging appren-
tice training, as authorized by the Act of August 16, 1937
(29 U.S. C. 50) , $2,700,000.

BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the

general administration of the employment service and un-
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employment compensation programs, including temporary
employment of persons, without regard to the civil-service
laws, for the farm placement migratory labor program; for
cooperation with the United States Immigration and Natu-
ralization Service and the Secretary of State in negotiating
and carrying out agreements relating to the employment of -
foreign agricultural workers, subject to the immigration laws

and when necessary to supplement the domestic labor force ;

and not to exceed $10,000 for services as authorized by sec-

tion 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. 8. C. 55a) ;
$4,983,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be for carrying Into
effect the provisions of title IV (except section 602) of the
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944.

Grants to States for unemployment compensation and
employment service administration: For grants in accord-
ance with the provisions of the Act of June 6, 1933, as
amended (29 U. 8. ©. 49-49n), for carrying into effect
section 602 of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944,
for grants to the States as authorized in title IMT of the Social
Security Act, as amended (42 U. 5. C. 501-503), includ-
ing, upon the request of any State, the purchase of equip-
ment and the payment of rental for space made available
to such State in lieu of grants for such purpose, and for
necessary expenses in connection with the operation of

employment office facilities and services in the District of
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Columbia, $183,560,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be
available only to the extent that the Secretary finds
necessary to meet increased costs of administration
resulting from changes in a State law or increases
in the numbers of claims filed and claims paid or
salary costs over those upon which the State’s basic grant
(or the allocation for the District of Columbia) was based,
which increased costs of administration cannot be provided
for by normal budgetary adjustments: Provided, That not-
withstanding any provision to the contrary in section 302
(a) of the Social Security Act, as amended, the Secretary

of Labor shall from time to time certify to the Secretary

of the Treasury for payment to each State found to be in

compliance with the requirements of the Act of June 6,

1933, and, except in the case of Puerto Rico and the Virgin

Islands, with the provisions of section 803 of the Social

Security ‘Act, as amended, such amounts as he determines
to be necessary for the proper and efficient administration of
its unemployment compensation law and of its public
employment offices: Provided. further, That such amounts
as may be agreed upon by the Department of Labor and
the Post Office Department shall be used for the payment,
in such manner as said parties may jointly determine, of.
postage for the transmission of official mail matter in con-

nection with the administration of unemployment compensa-
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tion systems and employment services by States recelving
grants herefrom.

In carrying out the provisions of said Act of June 6,
1933, the provisions of section 803 (a) (1) of the Social
Security Act, as amended, relating to the establishment and
maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis, shall
apply.

None of the funds appropriated by this title to the
Bureau of Employment Security for grants-in-aid of State
agencies to cover, in whole or in part, the cost of operation
of said agencies including the salaries and expenses of officers
and employees of said agencies, shall be withheld from the
said agencies of any States which have established by legis-
lative enactment and have in operation a merit system and
classification and compensation plan covering the selection,
tenure in office, and compensation of their employees, be-
cause of any disapproval of their personnel or the manner
of their selection by the agencies of the said States, or the
rates.of pay of said officers or employees.

Grants to States, next succeeding fiscal year: For mak-
ing, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to
States under title IIT of the Social Security Act, as amended,
and under the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, for the

first quarter of the next succeeding fiscal year, such sums as

may be necessary, the obligations incurred and the expend:
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itures made thereunder for payments under such title and
under such Act of June 6, 1933, to be charged to the appro-
priation therefor for that fiscal year.
BUREAU OF EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION

Salaries and expenses: For necessary administrative
expenses and not to exceed $87,000 for the Employees’
Compensation Board of Appeals, $2,221,100, together with
not to exceed $98,500 to be derived from the War Claims
Fund created by section 13 (a) of the War Claims Act
of 1948 (50 U.S. G. 2012).

Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of
compensation and other benefits and expenses (except ad-
ministrative expenses) authorized by law and accruing dur-
ing the current or any prior fiscal year, including payments
to other Federal agencies for medical and hospital services
pursuant to agreement approved by the Bureau of Em- —
ployees’ Compensation; continuation of payment of benefits
as provided for under the head “Civilian War Benefits” in
the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; the
advancement of costs for enforcement of recoveries in third-
party cases; the furnishing of medical and hospital services
and supplies, treatment, and funeral and burial expenses,
including transportation and other expenses incidental to
such services, treatment, and burial, for such enrollees of

the Civilian Conservation Corps as were certified by the
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Director of such Corps as receiving hospital services and
treatment at Government expense on June 30, 1943, and

who are not otherwise entitled thereto as civilian employees

of the United States, and the limitations and authority of

the Act of September 7, 1916, as amended (5 U.S. C.
796), shall apply in providing such services, treatment, and
expenses in such cases; stich amount as may be required

“during the current fiscal year: Provided, That this appro-

priation shall be available for payments pursuant to sections

4 (c) and 5 (f) of the War Claims Act of 1948 (50

‘U. 8. ©. 2012) and shall be credited with advances or

reimbursements therefor from the War Claims Fund

‘ereated by section 13 (a) of said War Claims Act of 1948.

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

5 ~ Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the
“work of the Bureau, including advances or reimbursement
- to: State, Federal, and local agencies and their employees

for services: rendered, aiid not to exceed $15,000 for services

ag authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946

“(5 U8. ©. 55a), $5,390,000.

-- WOMEN’S BUREAU

-..~ Salaries and-expenses: For expenses necessary for the

work of the Women’s Bureau, as authorized by the Act of
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June 5, 1920 (29 U.S. OC. 11-16), including purchase of
reports and material for informational exhibits, $360,000. |
WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for
performing the duties imposed by the Fair Labor Standards
Act of 1938, as amended, and the Act to provide conditions
for the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts
by the United States, approved June 30, 1936 (41 U.S. C.
88), including reimbursement to State, Federal, and local
agencies and their employees for inspection services ren-
dered, and for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials
and consultants at conferences concerned with the work of
the Division, $8,400,000.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Src. 102. Appropriations under this title available for
salaries and expenses shall be available for stenographic.
reporting services as authorized by section 15 of the Act
of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S. C. 55a), for examination of
estimates of appropriations m the field, and for expenses of.
attendance at. meetings concerned with the function or
activity for which any such appropriation is made.

Sec. 103. Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appro-

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priation in this title may be transferred to any other such
appropriation but no such appropriation shall be increased
by more than 5 per centum by any such transfer: Provided,
That no such transfer shall be used for creation of new func-
tions within the Department.

This title may be cited as the “Department of Labor
Appropriation Act, 1953”.

TITLE II—FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY

AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND

Education of the blind: For carrying out the Act of

Angust 4, 1919, as amended (20 U. 8. C. 101), $115,000.
COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF

Salaries and expenses: For the partial support of Co-
lumbia Institution for the Deaf, including personal services
and miscellaneous expenses, and repairs and improvements,
$413,000: Provided, That the Columbia Institution for the
Deaf shall be paid by the District of Columbia, in advance
at the beginning of each quarter, at the rate of $975 per
school year for each student attending said Institution .pur-
suant to the Act of March 1, 1901 (31 D. CO. Code 1008).

FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses for car-
rying out the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as
amended (21 U. S. C. 301-392, Public Law 459, ap-
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proved March 16, 1950); the Tea Importation Act, as
amended (21 U. 8. O. 41-50); the Import Milk Act (21
U. 8. C. 141-149) ; the Federal Caustic Poison Act (15
U.S. ©. 401-411) ; and the Filled Milk Act, as amended
(21 U. 8. C. 61-64) ; including the purchase of not to ex-
ceed thirteen passenger motor vehicles for replacement only
(including three at a cost of not to exceed $1,900 each) ;
reporting and illustrating the results of investigations; pur-
chase of chemicals, apparatus, and scientific equipment; not
to exceed $2,000 for payment in advance for special tests
and analyses by contract; and payment of fees, travel, and
per diem in connection with studies of new developments per-
tinent to food and drug enforcement operations: $5,600,000.

Salaries and expenses, certification and inspection serv-
ices: For expenses necessary for the certification or inspec:
tion of certain products in accordance with sections 406, 504,
506, 507, 604, 702A, and 706 of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act, as amended (21 U.S. C. 346, 354, 356,
357, 364, 372a, and 376), the aggregate of the advance
deposits during the current fiscal year to cover payment of
fees by applicants for certification or inspection of such
products, to remain available until expended. The total

amount herein appropriated shall be available for personal
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equipment; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for re-

placement only; and the refund of advance deposits for
which no service has been rendered.
FREEDMEN’S HOSPITAL
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for
operation and maintenance, including repairs; furnish-
ing, repairing, and cleaning of wearing apparel used by

employees in the performance of their official duties; transfer

of funds to the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Howard

University” for salaries of technical and professional per-
sonnel detailed to the hospital; payments to the appropri-

ation of Howard University for actual cost of heat, light, and

power furnished by such university ; $2,831,500: Provided,

That no intern or resident physician receiving compensa-
tion from this appropriation on a full-time basis shall receive
compensation in the form of wages or salary from any
other appropriation in this title: Provided further, That
the District of Columbia shall pay by check to Freedmen’s
Hospital, upon the Surgeon General’s request, in advance

at the beginning of each quarter, such amount as the

Surgeon General calculates will be earned on the basis of

rates approved by the Bureau of the Budget for the care

of patients. certified by the District of Columbia. Bills
rendered by the Surgeon General on the basis of such cal-

culations shall not be subject to audit or certification in
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advance of payment; but proper adjustment of amounts

which have been paid in advance on the basis of such cal-

culations shall be made at the end of each quarter: Provided

further, That the Surgeon General may delegate the re-

-sponsibilities imposed upon him by the foregoing proviso.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY

Salaries and expenses: For the partial support of How-
ard University, including personal services and miscella-
neous expenses and repairs to buildings and grounds,
$2,675,000. |
Plans and specifications: For the preparation of plans
and specifications for construction, under the supervision of
the General Services Administration, on the grounds of
Howard University of a preclinical medical building, in-
cluding engineering and architectural services, advertising,
and travel, $30,000, to remain available until expended.

Construction of buildings: For construction of build-
ings on the grounds of Howard University, under the super-
vision of the General Services Administration, to remain
available until expended, as follows:

For construction and equipment of a dental school

building, together with alterations and installations in con-

nection with such construction, including engineering and

architectural services, and travel, $653,160, of which $372,-

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provided under this head in the Federal Security Agency
Appropriation Act, 1949, to enter into contracts for con-
struction of said building: Provided, That the limitation on

the total cost of said dental school building, as set forth

under this head in said Act, is increased from “$2,242,520”

to “$2,565,221”, and such increased limitation. shall not

“include authorized construction cost increases heretofore or
“hereafter determined by the Administrator of the General

Services Administration pursuant to the provisions. of..said

Act;

-. For payment. of obligations incurred under authority
provided. under this head in the First Deficiency Appropri-
ation Act, 1948, as. amended by the Second Deficiency

Appropriation Act, 1949, to enter into. contracts for -con-

struction of an engineering building, $41,340;

For payment of obligations incurred under authority

provided under this head in the Federal Security Agency

Appropriation Act, 1950, to enter into contracts for con-

struction of a biology-greenhouse building, $647,500.

OFFICE OF EDUCATION

Promotion and further development of vocational educa-

tion: For carrying out the provisions of section 3 of the

Vocational Education Act of 1946 (20 U. 8. C. 15) , section
4 of the Act of March 10, 1924 (20 U. 8. C. 29),

section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1931 (20 U. §. ©. 30)
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and the Act of March 18, 1950 (Public Law 462),
$18,223,261: Provided, That the apportionment to the
States under the Vocational Education Act of 1946 shall be
computed on the basis of not to exceed $18,048,261 for the
current fiscal year. .

Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the

‘mechanic arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22

of the Act of June 29, 1935 (7 U.S. C. 329) , $2,480,000. °
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the

Office of Education, including surveys, studies, investigations,

and reports regarding libraries; fostering coordination of

public and school library service; coordination of library

~_ gervice on the national level with other forms: of adult educa-

tion; developing library participation in Federal projects;

fostering Nation-wide coordination of research materials

among libraries, interstate lbrary coordination and the

development of library service throughout the country; pur-

chase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents,

motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange,

and cataloging of educational apparatus and appliances,

articles of school furniture and models of school buildings’

illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of
education, and repairing the same; $2,928,000, of which
not less than $500,000 shall be available for the Division of

Vocational Education as authorized: Provided, That all re-
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-eeipts from non-Federal agencies representing reimburse-

ment for expenses of travel of employees of the Office of

Education’ performing advisory functions to said agencies

shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States
to the credit of this appropriation.

- Payments to school districts: For payments to local

educational agencies for the maintenance and operation of

schools ‘ag authorized by the Act of September 30, 1950

(Public Law 874), $40,000,000: Provided, ‘That this ap-

‘propriation shall also be available for carrying out the

provisions of section 6 of such Act.

~~ School construction: For providing school facilities and

for grants to local educational agencies in federally. affected

areas, as authorized by title II of the Act of September 23,
1950 (Public Law 815), including not to exceed $750,000

_ for necessary expenses of technical services rendered by other

agencies, $135,000,900, to be immediately available and to

remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of

- this appropriation shall be available for salaries or other

direct expenses of the Federal Security Agency.
OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION

Payments to States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and

-Hawaii, and Puerto Rico) in accordance with the Voca-

~ tional Rehabilitation Act, as amended (29 U.S. C., ch. 4),
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including payments, in accordance with regulations of the
Administrator, for one-half of necessary expenditures for
the acquisition of vending stands or other equipment in ac-
cordance with section 3 (a) (3) (©) of said Act for the
use of blind persons, such stands or other equipment to be
controlled by the State agency, $22,500,000, of which
not to exceed $190,000 shall be available to the Federal
Security Administrator for providing rehabilitation services
to disabled residents of the District of Columbia, as author-
ized by section 6 of said Act, which latter amount shall be.
available for administrative expenses in connection with-
providing such services in the District of Columbia: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed 15 per centum of the appropria-
tion shall be used for administrative purposes.

Payments to States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and
Puerto Rico), next succeeding fiscal year: Tor making,
after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to States
in accordance with the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as
amended (including the objects specified in the preceding
paragraph), for the first quarter of the next succeeding
fiscal year such sums as may be necessary, the obligations
incurred and the expenditures made thereunder to be charged
to the appropriation therefor for that fiscal year: Provided,

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That the payments made pursuant to this paragraph shall not
exceed the amount paid to the States for the first quarter
of the current fiscal year.

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary in
carrying out the provisions of the Vocational Rehabilitation
Act, as amended, and of the Act approved June 20, 1936
(20 U. 8. C., ch. GA), including not to exceed $3,000 for
production, purchase, and distribution of educational films;
$700,000.

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

For necessary expenses in carrying out the Public Health
Service Act, as amended (42 U.S. C., ch. 6A) (hereinafter
referred to as the Act), and other Acts, including expenses
for active commissioned officers in the Reserve Corps and
for not to exceed one thousand five hundred commissioned
officers in the Regular Corps; as follows:

Venereal diseases: To carry out the purposes of sections
314 (a) and 363 of the Act with respect to venereal dis-
eases including the operation and maintenance of centers for
the diagnosis, treatment, support, and clothing of persons
afflicted with venereal diseases ; transportation and subsistence
of such persons and their attendants to and from the place
of treatment or allowance in liew thereof; diagnosis and
treatment (including emergency treatment for other ill:

nesses) of such persons through contracts with physicians
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and hospitals and other appropriate institutions; fees for case
finding and referral to such centers of voluntary patients;
reasonable expenses of preparing remains or burial of de-
ceased patients; recreational supplies and equipment; leasing
of facilities and repair and alteration of leased facilities;
the purchase of not to exceed ten passenger motor
vehicles for replacement only, and for grants of money,
services, supplies, equipment, and use of facilities to States,
as defined in the Act, and with the approval of the respective
State health authorities, to counties, health districts, and
other political subdivisions of the States, for the foregoing
purposes, in such amounts and upon such terms and condi-
tions as the Surgeon General may determine; $9,900,000.

Tuberculosis: To carry out the purposes of section 314
(b) of the Act, $8,240,000.

Assistance to States, general: To carry out the purposes,
not otherwise specifically provided for, of section 314 (c)
of the Act; to provide consultative services to States pur-
suant to section 311 of the Act; to make field investigations
and demonstrations pursuant to section 301 of the Act; and
to provide for collecting and compiling mortality, morbidity,
and vital statistics, including the purchase of not to exceed
fourteen passenger motor vehicles for replacement only;
$16,370,000.

Communicable diseases: To carry out, except as other-
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wise provided for, those provisions of sections 301, 311, 361,
and 704 of the Act relating to the prevention and suppres-
sion of coramunicable and preventable diseases, and the inter-

state transmission and spread thereof, including the purchase,

erection, and maintenance of portable buildings; purchase

of not to exceed thirty-seven passenger motor vehicles for
replacement only; and hire, maintenance, and operation of
aircraft; $5,900,000.

Engineering, sanitation, and industrial hygiene: For ex-
penses, not otherwise provided, necessary to carry out those
provisions of sections 301, 311, 314 (c), and 361 of the
Act relating to sanitation and other aspects of environ-
mental health, including enforcement of applicable quar-
antine laws and interstate quarantine regulations, and for
carrying out the purposes of the Water Pollution Control
Act (33 U. 8. O. 466-466 (j) ), including purchase of not

‘to exceed two passenger motor vehicles; $3,700,000.

Grants, water pollution control: For grants to carry
out section 8 (a) of the Water Pollution Control Act (33
U. 8. G. 466-466 (j)), $800,000, to remain available
until expended.

Disease and sanitation investigations and control,
Territory of Alaska: To enable the Surgeon General to
conduct, in the Service, and to cooperate with and assist

the Territory of Alaska in the conduct of, activities neces-
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sary in the investigation, prevention, treatment, and control

of diseases, and the establishment and maintenance of health

and sanitation services pursuant to and for the purposes
specified in sections 301, 311, 8i¢ (without regard to the
provisions of subsections (d), (1), (h), and (j) and the
limitations set forth in.subsection (¢) of such section) , 361,
363, and 704 of the Act, including the purchase of one
passenger motor vehicle, and hire, operation, and main-
tenance of aircraft, $1,200,000: Provided, That property
of the Public Health Service located in Alaska and used
in carrying out the activities herein authorized may be
transferred, without reimbursement, to the Territory of
Alaska at the diseretion of the Surgeon General.

Buildings and facilities, Cincinnati, Ohio: For pur-
chase and installation of equipment and supplies for the
building and facilities heretofore provided for under the
head “Buildings and facilities, Cincinnati, Ohio,” General
Services Administration, in the Independent Offices Appro-
priation Act, 1951, $300,000, to remain available until
expended.

Grants for hospital construction: For payments for
hospital construction under part ©, title VI, of the Act, as
amended, to remain available until expended, $134,700,000,
of which $59,700,000 is for payment of obligations incurred

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under authority heretofore granted under this head: Pro-
vided, That allotments under such part C to the several
States for the current fiscal year shall be made on the basis
of an amount equal to that part of the appropriation granted
herein which is available for new obligations.

Salaries and expenses, hospital construction services:
For salaries and expenses incident to carrying out title VI
of the Act, as amended, including the purchase of not to
exceed one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only,
$1,200,000.

Hospitals and medical care: For carrying out the func-
tions of the Public Health Service under the Act of August
8, 1946. (5 U. 8. CG. 150), and under sections 321, 322,
394, 326, 831, 332, 341, 343, 344, 502, 504, and 710 of
the Public Health Service Act, and Executive Order 9079
of February 26, 1942, including purchase and exchange
of farm products and livestock; purchase of not to exceed
fourteen passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; and
firearms and ammunition; $32,800,000: Provided, That
when the Public Health Service establishes or operates a
health service program for any department or agency, pay-
ment for the estimated cost shall be made in advance for
deposit to the credit of this appropriation.

Foreign quarantine service: For carrying out the pur-

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countries, the medical examination of aliens in accordance
with section 325 of the Act, and the care and treatment of
quarantine detainees pursuant to section 322 (e) of the
Act in private or other public hospitals when facilities of
the Public Health Service are not available, including in-
surance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when
required by law of such countries; and the purchase of not
to exceed ten passenger motor vehicles, of which five shall
be for replacement only ; $3,050,000.

National Institutes of Health, operating expenses: For
the activities of the National Institutes of Health, not other-
wise provided for, including research fellowships and grants
for research projects pursuant to section 301 of the Act;
the regulation and preparation of biologic products; the pur-
chase of not to exceed seven passenger motor vehicles, of
which five shall be for replacement only; not to exceed
$1,000 for entertainment of visiting scientists when specifi-
cally approved by the Surgeon General; erection of tempo-
rary structures; and grants of therapeutic and chemical
substances for demonstrations and research; $16,500,000.

National Cancer Institute: To enable the Surgeon Gen-
eral, upon the recommendations of the National Advisory

Cancer Council, to make grants-in-aid for research and train-

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agencies, and other public and private nonprofit institutions,
in the prevention, control, and eradication of cancer by pro-
viding consultative services, demonstrations, and grants-in-
aid; and to otherwise carry out the provisions of title TV,
part A, of the Act; $15,250,000.

Mental health activities: For expenses necessary for
carrying out the provisions of sections 301, 302, 3038, 311,
312, and 314 (¢) of the Act with respect to mental dis-
eases, $10,700,000.

National Heart Institute: For expenses necessary to

carry out the purposes of the National Heart Act,

$9,600,000.
Dental health activities: For expenses not otherwise
provided for, necessary to enable the Surgeon General to

carry out the purposes of the Act with respect to dental
diseases and conditions, including the purchase of not to

exceed ten passenger motor vehicles for replacement only,

$1,650,000.

Construction of research facilities: For construction of
research facilities, to be transferred (except such part as may
be necessary for incidental expenses and purchase of equip-
ment by the Public Health Service) to the General Services
Administration, and to remain available until expended, as

follows:

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combined hospital and research building as authorized under
this head in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation
Acts of 1949 and 1950, $3,230,000.

Retired pay of commissioned officers: For retired pay of
commissioned officers, as authorized by law, $1,200,000, to
remain available until expended.

Salaries and expenses: For the divisions and ” offices
of the Office of the Surgeon General and for miscellaneous
expenses of the Public Health Service not appropriated for
elsewhere, including conducting research on technical nurs-
ing standards and furnishing consultative nursing services;
preparing information, articles, and publications related to
public health; conducting studies and demonstrations in
public health methods; carrying on international health
activities, including not to exceed $1,000 for entertamment
of officials of other countries when specifically authorized
by the Surgeon General; and purchase of not to exceed one
passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; $3,300,000. _

Administrative provisions: During the current fiscal
year, and with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget,
there may be transferred from any annual appropriation
to the Public Health Service to any other such appropria-
tion such additional amounts as may be required for pay

and allowances of the active commissioned officers herein
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authorized, but any amounts so transferred shall not exceed
5 per centum of any such appropriation and no such appro-
priation shall be increased by more than 5 per centum as a
result of any such transfers.
SAINT BLIZABHTHS HOSPITAL.

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the
maintenance and operation of the hospital, including purchase
6f clothing for patients and cooperation with organizations or
individuals in scientific research into the nature, causes,
prevention, and treatment of mental illness, $2,485,000.

Major repairs and preservation of buildings and grounds:
For miscellaneous construction, alterations, repairs, and
equipment, on the grounds of the hospital, including prepara-
tion of plans and specifications, advertising, and supervision
of construction, $136,500, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That any part of this amount may be
transferred to the General Services Administration.

Construction and equipment of treatment building: For

an additional amount for construction and equipment, im-

cluding administrative expenses, of a treatment building
(providing separate male and female facilities) ; and demo-
lition and removal of those buildings designated as Oaks
and Toner Buildings with their appurtenances and attach-

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That any part of this appropriation may be transferred to

the General Services Administration.
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Federal Credit Unions:
For expenses necessary for the supervision of Federal credit
unions, $210,000, together with the aggregate of amounts
received from certificate, supervision, and examination fees
collected from Federal credit unions as authorized by law.

Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Old-Age and Sur-
vivors Insurance: For necessary expenses, including pur-
chase of three passenger motor vehicles; and furnish-
ing, repairing, and cleaning of wearing apparel and equip-
ment used by building guards; not more than $60,000,000
may be expended from the Federal old-age and survivors
insurance trust fund.

Grants to States for public assistance: For grants to
States for old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid
to the blind, and aid to the permanently and totally disabled,
as authorized in titles I, TV, X, and XIV of the Social Se-
curity Act, as amended (42 U. 8. C., ch. 7, subchs. I, IV,
X, and XTV), $1,000,000,000, of which such amount as
may be necessary shall be available for grants for any period

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Salaries and “expenses, Bureau of Public Assistance:
For expenses necessary for the Bureau of Public Assistance,
$1,600,000.

Salaries and expenses, Children’s Bureau: For neces-
sary expenses in carrying out the Act of April 9, 1912, as
amended (42 U. 8. C., ch. 6), and title V of the Social
Security Act, as amended (42 U.S. C., ch. 7, subch. V),
including purchase of reports and material for the publica-
tions of the Children’s Bureau and of reprints for distribution,
$1,550,000: Provided, That no part of any appropriation
contained in this title shall be used to promulgate or carry
out any instructions, order, or regulation relating to the
care of obstetrical cases which discriminate between per-
sons licensed under State law to practice obstetrics: Pro-
vided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not be so
construed as to prevent any patient from having the services
of any practitioner of her own choice, paid for out of this
fund, so long as State laws are complied with: Provided
further, That any State plan which provides standards for
professional obstetrical services in accordance with the laws
of the State shall be approved.

Grants to States for maternal and child welfare: For
grants to States for maternal and child-health services, serv-
ices for crippled children, and child-welfare services as

authorized in title V, parts 1, 2, and 3, of the Social
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Security Act, as amended (42 U. 8. C., ch. 7, subch. V),
$30,000,000: Provided, That any allotment to a State
pursuant to section 502 (b) or 512 (b) of such Act shall
not be included in computing for the purposes of subsections
(a) and (b) of sections 504 and 514 of such Act an amount
expended or estimated to be expended by the State.

Salaries and expenses, Office of the Commissioner: For
expenses necessary for the Office of the Commissioner for
Social Security, $200,000, together with not to exceed
$118,000 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and
survivors instance trust fund.

Grants to States, next succeeding fiscal year: For
making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments
to States under titles I, IV, V, X, and XIV, respectively,
of the Social Security Act, as amended, for the first quarter
of the next succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be
necessary, the obligations incurred and the expenditures
made thereunder for payments under each of such titles to
be charged to the appropriation therefor for that fiscal year.

In the administration of titles I, IV, V, X, and XIV,
respectively, of the Social Security Act, as amended, pay-
ments to a State under any of such titles for any quarter in
the period beginning April 1 of the prior year, and ending
June 30 of the current year, may be made with respect to

a State plan approved under such title prior to or during
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such period, but no such payment shall be made with respect
to any plan for any quarter prior to the quarter in which
such plan was submitted for approval.
OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR

Salaries and expenses, Office of the Administrator: For
expenses necessary for the Office of. the Administrator,
$1,000,000, together with not to exceed $143,000 to be
transferred from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance
trust fund.

Salaries and expenses, Division of Field Services: For

expenses necessary for the Division of Field Services,

- $1,870,000, together with not to exceed $375,000 to be

transferred from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance
trust fund.

Salaries and expenses, Office of the General Counsel:
For expenses necessary for the Office of the General Coun-
sel, $400,000, together with not to exceed $25,000 to be
transferred from the appropriation “Salaries and expenses,
certification and inspection services”, and not to exceed
$400,000 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and
survivors insurance trust fund.

Surplus property disposal: For expenses necessary for
carrying out the provisions of subsections 203 (j) and*(k)
of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of

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- public health, $165,000.

_ Working capital fund: For the establishment of a work-
ing capital fund, to be available without fiscal year limitation,
for expenses necessary for the maintenance and operation
of (1) a central reproduction service; (2) a central tabu-

lating service; and (3) a central supply service for supplies

- and equipment for which adequate stocks may be maintained

to meet in whole or in part the requirements of the Agency;
$75,000: Provided, That any stocks of such supplies and
equipment on hand or on order on June 30, 1952, under the

appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Division of Service

Operations’’, shall also. be used. to capitalize said fund: .Pro-

vided further, That said fund shall be reimbursed from avail-
able funds of bureaus, offices, and agencies for which services
are performed at rates which will return in full all expenses of
operation, including reserves for accrued annual leave and
depreciation of equipment.

REDUCTION IN CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION

The contract authorization granted under the head “Con-

_ struction and equipment, building for the housing, care, and

treatment of mentally sick patients, Saint Elizabeths Hos-

_ pital,” in the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act,

1949, is reduced by the amount of $115,000,
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Suc. 202. Appropriations under this title available for
salaries and expenses shall be available for examination of
estimates of appropriations in the field, and for payment in
advance for dues or fees for hbrary membership in organi-
zations whose publications are available to members only or
to members at a price lower than to the general public.

Src. 203. Appropriations under this title available for
salaries and expenses shall be available for services as au-
thorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5
U. 8. C. 55a).

Sro. 204. Appropriations under this title available for
salaries and expenses shall be available for travel expenses
and for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with
the function or activity. for which any such appropriation is
made.

Suc. 205. None of the funds appropriated by this title
to the Social Security Administration for grants in aid of
State agencies to cover, in whole or in part, the cost of
operation of said agencies including the salaries and expenses
of officers and employees of said agencies, shall be withheld
from the said agencies of any States which have established
by legislative enactment and have in operation a merit system

and classification and compensation plan covering the selec-
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tion, tenure in office, and compensation of their employees,
because of any disapproval of their personnel or the manner
of their selection by the agencies of the said States, or the
rates of pay of said officers or employees.

This title may be cited as the “Federal Security
Agency Appropriation Act, 1953”.

TITLE TTI—NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS

BOARD

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the
National Labor Relations. Board to carry out the functions
vested in it by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947
(29 U. 8. C. 141-167) , and other laws, including expenses
of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the
Board when specifically authorized by the Chairman or the
General Counsel; and services as authorized by section 15
of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. ©. 55a) ;
$9,600,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation
shall be available to organize or assist in organizing agri-
cultural laborers or used in connection with investigations,
hearings, directives, or orders concerning bargaining units
composed of agricultural laborers ag referred to in section
2 (3) of the Act of July 5, 1935 (49 Stat. 450), and as
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(52 Stat. 1060).

This title may be cited as the “National Labor Relations
Board Appropriation Act, 1953”.

TITLE IV—NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD |

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the
National Mediation Board, including stenographic report-
ing services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August
92,1946 (5 U.S. C. 55a), $422,000.

Arbitration and emergency boards: For expenses neces-
sary for arbitration boards established under section 7 of
the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U. 8. ©. 157),
and emergency boards appointed by the President pursuant
to section 10 of said Act (45 U. S. C. 160), including
stenographic reporting services as authorized by section 15
of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S. C. 55a), $188,000.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the
National Railroad Adjustment Board, including stenographic
reporting services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of
August 2, 1946 (5 U.S. C. 55a), $570,000, of which not
less than $216,000 shall be available for compensation (at
rates not in excess of $75 per diem) and expenses of referees
appointed pursuant to section 3 of the Railway Labor Act,

as amended.
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This title may be cited as the ‘National’ Mediation
Board Appropriation Act, 1953”.

TITLE V—RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

Payment to railroad retirement account: For annual
premiums after June 30, 1952, to provide for the payment
of all annuities, pensions, and death benefits, in accordance
with the provisions of the Railroad Retirement Acts of 1935
and 1937, as amended (45 U. 8. C. 228-228s), and for
expenses necessary for the Railroad Retirement Board in the
administration of said Acts as may be specifically authorized
annually in appropriation ‘Acts, for crediting to the railroad
retirement account, an amount equal to amounts covered
into the Treasury (minus refunds) during each fiscal year
under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act (28 U. S. C.
1500-1538) .

Salaries and expenses, Railroad Retirement Board (trust
fund) : For expenses necessary for the Railroad Retirement
Board, including not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attend-
ance at meetings concerned with the work of the Board when _
specifically authorized by the Board; and stenographic re-
porting services as authorized .by section 15 of the Act of
August 2, 1946 (5 U. 8. C. 55a) ; $6,207,000, to be de-
rived from the railroad retirement account.

This title may be cited as the “Railroad Retirement

Board Appropriation Act, 1953”.
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TITLE VI-FEDERAL MEDIATION AND
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Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the
Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-
Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U. 8. C. 171-180,
182), including expenses of the Labor-Management Panel
as provided in section 205 of said Act; temporary employ-
ment of arbitrators, conciliators, and mediators on labor
relations at rates not in excess of $75 per diem; expenses
of attendance at meetings concerned with labor and in-
dustrial relations; and services as authorized by section 15 of
the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. 8. ©. 55a) ; $3,400,000.

Boards of inquiry: To enable the Service to pay neces-

sary expenses of boards of inquiry appointed by the President

pursuant to section 206 of the Labor-Management Relations
Act, 1947 (29 U. S. CO. 176-180, 182), including services
as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946
(5 U. 8. C. 55a), and rent in the District of Columbia,
$47,500.

This title may be cited as the “Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service Appropriation Act, 1953”.

TITLE VII-GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 701. No part of any appropriation contained

in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any

person who engages in a strike against the Government of
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the United States or who is a member of an organization of
Government employees that asserts the right to strike against
the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or
is : member of an organization that advocates, the over-
throw of the Government of the United States by force or
violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person
making the affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of
this section engaged in a strike against the Government of
the United States, is not a member of an organization of
Government employees that asserts the right to strike
against the Government of the United States, or that such
person does not advocate, and is not a member of an or-
ganization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government
of the United States by force or violence: Provided further,
That any person who engages in a strike against the Govern-
ment of the United States or who is a member of an organi-
zation of Government employees that asserts the right to
strike against the Government of the United States, or who -
advocates, or who is a member of an organization that ad-
vocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United
Siates by force or violence and accepts employment the.
salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation
contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon.

conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000. or im-
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further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition
to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of exist-
ing law.

Src. 702. No part of any appropriation contained
in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda pur-
poses not heretofore authorized by the Congress.

Src. 703. In no event shall the number of passenger-
carrying vehicles which may be operated during the current
fiscal year at the seat of government under any appropria-
tion or authorization in this Act exceed 50 per centum of the
number in use as of June 30, 1951.

Src. 704. No part of any appropriation contamed im
this Act, except appropriations for the Public Health Serv-
ice, shall be used to pay the compensation of any employee
engaged in personnel work in excess of the number that
would be provided by a ratio of one such employee to one
hundred and five, or a part thereof, full-time, part-time, and
intermittent employees of the agency concerned: Provided,
That for purposes of this section employees shall be con-
sidered as engaged in personnel work if they spend half
time or more in personnel administration consisting of
direction and administration of the personnel program; em-
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committees of expert examiners and boards of civil-service
examiners; wage administration; and processing, recording,
and reporting.
This Act may be cited as the “Labor-Federal Security
Appropriation Act, 1953”.
INDEX

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Apprenticeship, Bureau of .-.--..---.-------------------~-----+----
Employees’ Compensation, Bureau of__-.--.-..--------------+---~--
Employment Security, Bureau of._-----.-------------+-------------.
General provisions __--_-------.---------------------~-------------.
Labor Standards, Bureau of_----------------------~-----1--+------.
Labor Statistics, Bureau of_-_--.----------------------------------.
Secretary’s office___.-.--.-_.--------------------------_-----------.
Solicitor’s office..--....--------------------~-+--+-----2-----~------+.

TITLE JI—FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY

Administrator, Office of.----.--..-.-------------------------+-------
American Printing House for the Blind....--------------__---------
Columbia Institution for the Deaf__.--.---.-----------------------.
Education, Office of .----..-_-------------------~----~---------+----.

Food and Drug Administration_-_...----------~--------2----------. ,

Freedmen’s Hospital _..-..--------_.-------------L-_--~--_--+-----
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Howard University _..-----------------------------------i--------.
Public Health Service._.--.-----.--------+------------+-- +--+ ---.
Saint Elizabeths Hospital_.-.....---.----._----..~.2--------------.
Social Security Administration..--_-.-------------------------------.
Vocational Rehabilitation, Office of------.-------------~--_---------.

TITLE ITI—NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

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TITLE IV—NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD

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National Railroad Adjustment Board, salaries and expenses_._._..---_-
Salaries and expenses, Mediation Board_---------------------------

TITLE V—RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

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TITLE VI—FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION
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