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REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 2 OF 1965

Transmitted May 13, 1965

Effective"^" July 13, 1965. fu1'c"i33z'note.

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STAT.

Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1965 Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, May 13^ 1965^ pursuant to the provisioTis of the Reorganization Act of 19Jt9, 63 Stat. 203, as amended. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

1. Transfer of functions. All functions vested by law in the Weather Bureau, the Chief of the Weather Bureau, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and any officer, employee, or organizational entity of that Bureau or Survey, and not heretofore transferred to the Secretary of Commerce, hereinafter referred to as the Secretary, are hereby transferred to the Secretary. SEC. 2. Abolitions, (a) The offices of Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Deputy Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Chief of the Weather Bureau are hereby abolished. The Secretary shall make such provisions as he shall deem to be necessary respecting the winding up of any outstanding affairs of the officers whose offices are abolished by the provisions of this section. (b) The abolitions effected by the provision of subsection, (a) of this section shall exclude the abolition of rights to which the present incumbents of the abolished offices would be entitled under law upon the termination of their appointments. SEC. 3. Environmental Science Services Administration, (a) The Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Weather Bureau are hereby consolidated to form a new agency in the Department of Commerce which shall be known as the Environmental Science Services Administration, hereinafter referred to as the Administration. (b) The Secretary shall from time to time establish such constituent organizational entities of the Administration, with such names, as he shall determine. SEC. 4. 0fleers of the Administration, (a) There shall be at the head of the Administration the Administrator of the Environmental Science Services Administration, hereinafter referred to as the Administrator. The Administrator shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for offices and positions of Level V of the Federal Executive Salary Schedule (^78 Stat. 419). He shall perform such functions as the Secretary may from time to time direct. (b)(1) There shall be in the Administration a Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Science Services Administration, hereinafter referred to as the Deputy Administrator, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such functions as the Secretary may from time to time direct, and, unless he is compensated in pursuance of the provisions of paragraph (2), below, shall receive compensation jn accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. SECTION

5 USC 2211.

63 Stat. 954; Ante, p. 1111.

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(2) The office of Deputy Administrator may be filled at the discretion of the President by appointment (by and with the advice and consent of the Senate) from the active list of commissioned

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