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PUBLIC LAW 1 4 9 - J U L Y 27, 1953

STAT.]

Public Law 149

CHAPTER 241

AN ACT Making appropriations for additional independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes.

July 27, 1953 IH. R. 5690]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following pt^dent omdl sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- Appropriation Act, wise appropriated, for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, ^ ^^' commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, namely: A TO M I C E N E R G Y COMMISSION Operating expenses: For necessary operating expenses of the Commission in carrying out the purposes of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, including the employment of aliens; services authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 TJ. S. C. 55a); maintenance and operation of aircraft; publication and dissemination of atomic information; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms; purchase of newspapers and periodicals (not to exceed $5,000); official entertainment expenses (not to exceed $5,000); not to exceed $2,564,130 for expenses of travel; reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services; not to exceed $27,352,000 for program direction and administration personnel; and hire of passenger motor vehicles; $891,781,000, together with the unexpended balances, as of June 30, 1953, of prior year appropriations made.available under this head to the Atomic Energy Commission: Provided, That of such amounts $100,000 may be expended for objects of a confidential nature and in any such case the certificate of the Commission as to the amount of the expenditure and that it is deemed inadvisable to specify the nature thereof shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: Provided further, That from this appropriation transfers of sums may be made to other agencies of the Government for the [ >rformance of the work for which this appropriation is made, and in such cases the sums so transferred may be merged with the appropriation to which transferred: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary of any officer or employee (except such officers and employees whose compensation is fixed by law, and scientific and technical personnel) whose position would be subject to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, if such Act were applicable to such position, at a rate in excess of the rate payable under such Act for positions of equivalent difficulty or responsibility: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in connection with the payment of a fixed fee to any contractor or firm of contractors engaged under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract or contracts at any installation of the Commission, where that fee for community management is at a rate in excess of $90,000 per annum, or for the operation of a transportation system where that fee is at a rate in excess of $45,000 per annum. Plant and equipment: For expenses of the Commission in connection with the purchase and construction of plant and the acquisition of equipment and other expenses incidental thereto necessary in carrying out the purposes of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, including purchase of land and interests in land; purchase of aircraft; purchase of two hundred and sixty-three passenger-carrying motor vehicles for replacement only in the event adequate vehicles cannot b©

60 Stat. 775. 42 USC 1 8 0 1 note. 60 Stat. 810.

Transfers funds.

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Salary restriction.

63 Stat. 954. 5 USC 1071 note. e o St-plu 8-afixed-fee contract, etc.

42 USC note.

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