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Compensation.

PUBLIC LAW 89-593-SEPT. 20, 1966

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(4) simplification of the rate structure applicable to the parcel post system; (5) standardization of containers for parcel post shipments; (6) improvement of service under the parcel post system in terms of reliability, delivery, and handling of parcels; (7) the ability of the Post Office Department to handle parcels in excess of seventy-eight inches length and girth combined in an efficient, economical, and businesslike manner; (8) the effect that the size increases effective on July 1, 1971, will have on the financial stability and continued operation of common carriers primarily engaged in express service, and on such carriers' ability to maintain existing employee rights, privileges, levels, and conditions of employment; (9) the advisability in terms of the public interest and the needs of the consumer and the shipper generally to permit parcels in excess of seventy-eight inches in length and girth combined to be carried by parcel post; (10) the necessity for and type of protection to be afforded common carriers primarily engaged in express service and their employees if the Commission finds that it is in the public interest to permit the carriage by parcel post of parcels in excess of seventy-eight inches length and girth combined; (11) such other matters relating to small parcel distribution as the Commission may deem appropriate. (d) On on before January 1, 1968, the Commission shall submit to the President and the Congress an interim report concerning its activities during the preceding year, including such recommendations as it may deem appropriate. On or before January 1, 1969, the Commission shall submit to the President and the Congress its final report and recommendations. Such report shall include specific recommendations on the matters contained in paragraphs (8), (9), and (10) of subsection (c) of this section. If such Commission finds that the increases in parcel post size and weight limits established by this Act will seriously endanger the ability of common carriers primarily engaged in the express service to continue operations and are not in the public interest. Congress shall during the 91st Congress consider (lie advisability" of further legislation to eliminate the increase in size limitations on parcel post to take effect on July 1, 1971, established by this Act. (e) The Commission shall have the power to appoint and fix the compensation of an executive director and such other personnel as it deems advisable, in accordance with the provisions of the civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. The Commission may also procure, without regard to the civil service laws and the Classification iVct of 1949, as amended, temporary and intermittent services to the same extent as is authorized for the departments by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 810), but at rates not to exceed $100 per diem for individuals. (f) The Commission is authorized to secure directly from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality of the Federal Government information for the purposes of this section; and each such department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish such information directly to the Commission upon request made by the Chairman of the Commission. (g) Members of the Commission shall each receive $100 per diem when engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Commission, including traveltime, and may receive travel expenses, includ-

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