Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 67.djvu/675

 67 STAT.

639

REORGANIZATION PLANS OF 1953

SEC. 4. General Counsel.—The President may appoint from civilian life, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a General Counsel of the Department of Defense who shall be the chief legal officer of the Department, and who shall perform such functions as the Secretary of Defense may from time to time prescribe. He shall receive compensation at the rate prescribed by law for assistant secretaries of executive departments. SEC. 5. Performance of functions.—The vSecretary of Defense may from time to time make such provisions as he shall deem appropriate authorizing the performance by any other officer, or by any agency or employee, of the Department of Defense of any function of the Secretary, including any function transferred to the Secretary by the provisions of this reorganization plan. SEC. 6. Miscellaneous provisions.—(a) The Secretary of Defense may from time to time effect such transfers within the Department of Defense of any of the records, property, and personnel affected by this reorganization plan, and such transfers of unexpended balances (available or to be made available for use in connection with any affected function or agency) of appropriations, allocations, and other funds of such Department, as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this reorganization plan. (b) Nothing herein shall affect the compensation of the Chairman of the Military Liaison Committee (63 Stat. 762).

42 USC 1802(c).

REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 7 OF 1953 Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Transmitted June i, Representatives in Congress assembled, June 1, 1953, pursuant to the proEffective Aug i visions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended. 1953. ' ' _^ ^ r OREiGN OPERATIONS

. ADMINISTRATION

1. Establishment of Foreign Operations Administration.— (a) There is hereby established a new agency which shall be known as the Foreign Operations Administration, hereinafter referred to as the "Administration". (b) There shall be at the head of the Administration a Director of the Foreign Operations Administration, hereinafter referred to as the "Director." The Director shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall receive compensation at the rate of $22,500 a year. The Secretary of State shall advise with the President concerning the appointment and tenure of the Director. (c) There shall be in the Administration a Deputy Director of the Foreign Operations Administration, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive compensation at the rate of $17,500 a year. The Deputy Director shall perform such functions as the Director shall from time to time designate, and shall act as Director during the absence or disability of the Director or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Director.

63 Stat. 203. 5 USC 133z note.

SECTION

Director.

Deputy Director.

�