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REORGANIZATION PLANS OF 1961

(1) The appointment and removal of personnel employed under the Board. (2) The distribution of business among such personnel and among administrative units of the Board. (3) The direction of personnel who perform, or who supervise the performance of, any function of the Board or of the Chairman or of any agency under the Board. (4) The communication to personnel employed under the Board of applicable Board policies to be followed by such personnel in the performance of their work and the subsequent enforcement of such policies. (5) The over-all management, functioning and organization of the Board, including (a) the formulation and implementation of plans and policies designed to increase the effectiveness of the Board in the administration of the laws it is charged with administering and the initiation of ways and means of correcting or preventing avoidable delays in the performance of any work or the disposition of any business before the Board, and (b) the development and improvement of staff support to carry out the functions of the Board. (6) The preparation, review and presentation to the Bureau of the Budget of the budget estimates of and other fund authorizations for the Board and the explanation and justification before the appropriate committees of the Congress of the budget estimates for the Board transmitted to the Congress by the President and of other fund authorizations placed before the Congress. (7) The allocation, use, and expenditure of funds available to the Board for administrative expense purposes. (8) The calling of the Board into special session whenever any matter or business of the Board so requires, but in any event for the consideration of any matter or business upon request of one or both of the other members of the Board. SEC. 2. Performance of transferred functions.— (a)(1) I n carrying out any of his functions under the provisions of section 1 hereof the Chairman shall be governed by general policies of the Board and by such regulatory decisions, findings, and determinations as the Board may by law be authorized to make. (2) The appointment by the Chairman of the heads of major administrative units under the Board shall be subject to the approval of the Board. (3) Personnel employed regularly and full time in the immediate offices of Board members other than the Chairman shall not be affected by the provisions of this reorganization plan. (b) The Chairman may from time to time make such provisions as he shall deem appropriate authorizing the performance by any officer, employee, or administrative unit under his jurisdiction of any function transferred to the Chairman by the provisions of section 1 of this reorganization plan or of any function vested in the Chairman in consequence of his status as the chief executive officer of the Board.

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