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PUBLIC LtAW 85-462-JUNE 20, 1968

"(h)> I n any case in which, subsequent to February 1, 1958, provisions are included in a general appropriation Act authorizing an agency of the Government referred to in this Act to establish and fix the compensation of scientific or professional positions similar to those authorized by this Act, the number of such positions authorized by this Act shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be deemed to have been reduced by the number of positions authorized by the provisions of such appropriation Act." (d) Section 3 of such Act is amended by inserting after "Secretary of Defense" a comma and the following: "the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare," and by inserting after "Military Establishment" a comma and the following: "the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,". (e) Section 208(g) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 210 (g)), is amended by striking out "sixty positions" and inserting in lieu thereof "eighty-five positions, of which not less than seventy-three shall be for the National Institutes of Health". (f) The annual rate of basic compensation of the position of Chief Postal Inspector in the Post Office Department shall be $19,000. SEC. 13. (a)(1) Clause (2) of that paragraph of section 602 of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1112), which defines the level of difficulty and responsibility of work in grade 5 of the General Schedule (GS-5) is amended to read as follows: "(2) to perform, under immediate supervision, and with little opportunity for the exercise of independent judgment, simple and elementary work requiring professional, scientific, or technical training; or". (2) Clause (2) of that paragraph of the same section which defines the level of difficulty and responsibility of work in grade 7 of the General Schedule (GS-7) is amended to read as follows: "(2) under immediate or general supervision, to perform somewhat difficult work requiring (A) professional, scientific, or technical training, and (B) to a limited extent, the exercise of independent technical judgment; or", (b) The Civil Service Commission shall exercise its authority to issue such standards or regulations as may be necessary for the administration of subsection (a) of this section. SEC. 14. I t is the sense of the Congress that appropriations for cooperative agricultural extension work and appropriations for payments to State agricultural experiment stations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1958, should include additional amounts sufficient to provide increases in the portion of the compensation of persons employed in such work or by such stations, which is paid from such appropriations, corresponding to the increases provided for employees under this Act. SEC. 15. Section 604(d) of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, as amended (5 U.S.C. 944), is amended to read as follows: " (d)(1) Hereafter, for all pay computation purposes affecting officers or employees in or under the executive branch, the judicial branch, or the District of Columbia municipal government, basic per annum rates of compensation established by or pursuant to law shall be regarded as payment for employment during fifty-two basic administrative workweeks of forty hours.

Appointments. Reports to Congress. 5 USC 171lr; 10 u s e 1582.

69 Stat. 407.

ehief Postal Inspector. GS-5.

GS-7.

Regulations.

eotnputation. 59 Stat. 3 0 4.

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