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PUBLIC LAW 92-564-OCT. 25, 1972

Membership.

Compensation. 5 USC 5332 note. Travel expenses.

80 Stat. 499. Administrative support services.

Final report to President and Congress.

Termination date.

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(2) The Secretary shall appoint to the commission (A) four members of the advisory council referred to in paragraph (1), and (B) five other individuals from the public who are particularly qualified to participate in the work of the commission. The members of the commission shall select a chairman from among the members appointed under clause (B) of the preceding sentence. Members of the commission shall each be entitled to receive the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS-18 of the General Schedule for each day (including traveltime) during which they are engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the commission. While away from their homes or regular places of business in the performance of services for the commission, members of the commission shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in the same manner as persons employed intermittently in the Government service are allowed expenses under section 5703(b) of title 5 of the United States Code. (3) The Secretary shall provide such administrative support services for the commission as it may request. (b) Each department, agency, and instrumentality of the executive branch of the Federal Government, including independent agencies, shall furnish to the commission, upon the request of its chairman, such information, services, personnel, and facilities as the commission deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. (c) The commission shall transmit to the Secretary for transmittal to the President and the Congress a final report (which shall include recommendations for such legislation as the commission determines is necessary) not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, and the commission shall cease to exist thirty days after submitting its report. Approved October 25, 1972. " Public Law 92-564

October 25, 1972

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RESOLUTION

To authorize the preparation of a history of public works in the United States.

Whereas the President of the United States and bicentennial organizations have encouraged associations and other groups to undertake meaningful activities to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of our independence; and Whereas the American Public Works Association is a nonprofit, public service organization comprised of top-ranking officials engaged in various phases of the broad field of public works at the local. State, and Federal levels of government and this highly respected nonpartisan organization has a long history of fostering the improvement of public works practices and the enhancement of public support for needed community facilities and services as exemplified by its sponsorship and support of the Graduate Center for Public Works Engineering and Administration of the University of Pittsburgh, the annual observance of National Public Works Week, which is designed to increase the citizen's understanding of public works, inspire excellence and loyal dedicated public service, and encourage and assist talented young persons to prepare for careers in public works, and other important programs; and Whereas the board of directors, house of delegates, and advisory council of the American Public Works Association at a special ceremonial meeting held at Congress Hall in Philadelphia on Saturday, September 11, 1971, unanimously adopted a bicentennial resolution calling for the association to undertake as its official bicentennial project

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