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REORGANIZATION PLANS OF 1953

such service, and, together with all other revenue of the air carrier, to enable such air carrier under honest, economical, and efficient management, to maintain and continue the development of air transportation to the extent and of the character and quality required for the commerce of the United States, the Postal Service, and the national defense." SEC. 2. Interim provisions.—The Board may fix, without prior notice and hearing, the initial rates to be paid by the Postmaster General under this reorganization plan for mail transportation services rendered on and after the date when the plan becomes effective. At any time thereafter the Board upon its own motion may, and upon the petition of the Postmaster General or the carrier concerned shall, institute new proceedings to fix and determine, after notice and hearing, the rates to be paid by the Postmaster General in accordance with section 1 of this reorganization plan, and the rates so fixed and determined shall supersede the initial rates from the date of the motion or petition. SEC. 3. Incidental transfers.—There shall be transferred from the Post Office Department to the Board so much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds, employed, held, used, available, or to be made available in connection with the functions transferred by this reorganization plan as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget deems to be required for the performance of those functions. Such measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be necessary in order to effectuate the transfers provided for in this section shall be carried out in such manner as he shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate. SEC. 4. Effective date.—The provisions of this reorganization plan shall take effect on the first day of the first calendar month following forty-five days after the date they would take effect under section 6(a) of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended, in the absence of this section, and shall be applicable only with respect to services rendered on and after the date on which the reorganization plan takes effect under this section.

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