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 180 Report to Congress*

Legislative Reference Service.

GAO.

FBI.

Repeals. Defense production. Federal Civil Defense Administration.

Defense Department. GAO.

5 USC 1105.

PUBLIC LAW 9 4 - J U N E 28, 1955

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hundred and twenty-five for grade 17 and one hundred and twentyfive for grade 18. The United States Civil Service Commission shall report annually to the Congress the total number of positions established under this subsection for grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule and the total number of positions so established for each such grade. "(c) The number of positions of senior specialists in the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress allocated to grades 16,17, and 18 of the General Schedule by reason of the proviso contained in section 203(b)(1) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 836; 2 U.S.C. sec. 166 (b)(1)) shall be in addition to the number of positions authorized to be placed in such grades by subsection (b). " (d) The Comptroller General of the United States is authorized, subject to the procedures prescribed by this section, to place a total of twenty-five positions in the General Accounting Office in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule. Such positions shall be in addition to the number of positions authorized to be placed in such grades by subsection (b). "(e) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, is authorized, without regard to any other provision in this section, to place a total of thirty-seven positions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule. Such positions shall be in addition to the number of positions authorized to be placed in such grades by subsection (b). " (b) Positions in grades 16,17, or 18, as the case may be, of the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, immediately prior to the effective date of this section, shall remain, on and after such effective date, in their respective grades, until other action is taken under the provisions of section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949 as in effect on and after such effective date. (c) The following parts of laws and parts of reorganization plans are hereby repealed: (1) Section 710(a) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 819; 50 App. U.S.C. sec. 2160 (a)); (2) That part of section 401(a) of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 1254; 50 App. U.S.C. sec. 2253 (a)) which reads as follows: "and subject to the standards and procedures of that Act, to place not more than twenty-two positions in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule established by that Act, and any such positions shall be additional to the number authorized by section 505 of that Act;"; (3) Section 108 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951 (64 Stat. 1064; Public Law 843, Eighty-first Congress); (4) The fourth paragraph under the heading "General Accounting Office" contained in title I of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952 (65 Stat. 274; Public Law 137, Eighty-second Congress), as amended by the fourth paragraph under the heading "General Accounting Office" contained in title I of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1953 (66 Stat. 399; Public Law 455, Eightysecond Congress), and by the proviso under the heading "General Accounting Office" contained in title I of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1955 (68 Stat. 280; Public Law 428, Eighty-third Congress; 31 U.S.C. sec. 52a), which reads as follows: "The Comptroller General of the United States hereafter is authorized, subject to the procedures prescribed by section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949, but without regard to the numerical limitations contained

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