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PUBLIC LAW 89.554-SEPT. 6, 1966

[80 STAT.

(3) 14 of the positions are available only for allocation to the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; (4) 6 of the positions are available only for allocation to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; and (5) 4 of the positions are available only for allocation to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. A position may be placed in GS-16,17, or 18 only by action of, or after prior approval by, a majority of the Civil Service Commissioners. (b) The number of positions of senior specialists in the Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress, placed in GS-16, 17, and 18 under the proviso in section 166(b)(1) of title 2 are in addition to the number of positions authorized by subsection (a) of this section. (c) I n addition to the number of positions authorized by subsection (a) of this section— (1) the Comptroller General of the United States, subject to the procedures prescribed by this section, may place a total of 39 positions in the General Accounting Office in GS-16, 17, and 18; (2) the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, without regard to any other provision of this section, may place a total of 75 positions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation in GS-16, 17, and 18; (3) the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts may place a total of 4 positions in GS-17; (4) the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization may place a total of 11 positions in GS-17; (5) the Secretary of Defense, subject to the standards and procedures prescribed by this chapter, may place a total of 407 positions (in addition to any professional engineering positions primarily concerned with research and development and professional engineering positions in the physical and natural sciences which may be placed in these grades) in the Department of Defense in GS-16,17, and 18; (6) the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, subject to the standards and procedures prescribed by this chapter, may place a total of 5 positions in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in GS-16, 17, and 18; (7) the Attorney General, without regard to any other provision of this section, may place a total of— (A) 10 positions of Warden in the Bureau of Prisons in GS-16; and (B) 8 positions of Member of the Board of Parole in GS-17; (8) the Attorney General, without regard to this chapter (except section 5114), may place 1 position in GS-16; and (9) the Railroad Retirement Board may place 4 positions in GS-16,4 in GS-17, and 1 in GS-18, for the purpose of its administration of chapter 9 or 11 of title 45, or both. (d) When a general appropriation statute authorizes an agency to place additional positions in GS-16, 17, and 18, the total number of positions authorized to be placed in these grades by this section (except subsection (c)(8) and (9)) is reduced by the number of positions authorized by the appropriation statute, unless otherwise specifically provided. The reduction is made in the following order— first, from any number specifically authorized for the agency by this section (except subsection (c)(8) and (9)); and

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