REORGANIZATON PLAN NO. 7 OF 1953

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• Publication Date: June 1, 1953
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83D CONGRESS t HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I DOCUMENT
1st Session ) No. 157
REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 7 OF 1953
UES SAGE
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNE 1, 1953.-Refgrred to the Committee on Government Operations and ordered
to be printed
To the Congress of the limited States:
I transmit herewith Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1953, prepared in
accordance with the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended, and
providing for the reorganization of various foreign aid functions and
agencies. My reasons for proposing the plan are stated in another
message transmitted to the Congress today.
After investigation, I have found and hereby declare that each
reorganization included in Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1953 is
necessary to accomplish one or more of the purposes set forth in
section 2 (a) of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended. I have
also found and hereby declare that it is necessary to include in the
accompanying reorganization plan, by reason of reorganizations made
thereby, provisions for the appointment and compensation of officers
specified in section 1 of the plan. The rates of compensation fixed
for these officers are, respectively, those which I have found to prevail.
in respect of comparable officers in the executive branch of the
Governmen t.
The statutory authority for the exercise of the functions abolished
by section 8 (a) (5) of the reorganization plan is section 413 (a) of
the Act for International Development, as amended. The vesting
of the functions of planning, implementing, and managing the pro-
grams authorized by that act, as amended, in an officer other than
the President is incongruous with the pattern of the act as a whole,
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whereby other functions are vested in the President, with power of
delegation. In the interest of having the most flexible arrangements
for the administration of the act, the functions in question could be
either abolished or transferred to the President. I have concluded
that they overlap the authority of the President under the act gen-
erally, are thus dispensable, and should be abolished.
I expect that the improved organizational arrangement provided
for in Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1953 will lead to substantial
economies and significantly improved effectiveness of administration.
It is not practicable, however, to itemize at this time the reductions
in expenditures which will probably be brought about by the taking
effect of the reorganizations included in the reorganization plan.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.
THE WHITE HOUSE, June 1, 1953.
(Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of
Representatives in Congress assembled, June 1, 1953, pursuant to the provisions
of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended)
SECTION 1. E,?tablishment of Foreign Operations Administration.-
(a) There is hereby established a new agency which shall be known
as the Foreign Operations Administration, hereinafter referred to as
the "Administration."
(b) There shall be at the head of the Administration it Director of
the Foreign Operations Administration, hereinafter referred to as the
"Director." The Director shall be appointed by the President by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall receive com-
pensation at the rate of $22,500 a year. The Secretary of State shall
advise with the President concerning the appoi t.ment and tenure of
the Director.
(c) There shall be in the Administration a Deputy Director of the
Foreign Operations Administration, who shall be appointed by the
President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who
shall receive compensation at the rate of $17,500 a year. The
Deputy Director shall perform such functions as. the Director shall
from time to time desiqilate, and shall act as Director, during the
absence or disability of the Director or in the event.of a vacancy in the
office of Director.
(d) There Are hereby established in the Administration six new
offices with such title or titles as the Director shall from time to time
determine. Appointment thereto shall be by the President, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate. The compensation for
each of two of the said offices shall be at the rate of $16,000 a year
and the compensation for each of the other four offices shall be at the
rate of $15,000 a year. The persons appointed to the said new offices
shall perform such functions as the Director shall from time to time
designate, and are authorized to act as Director, as the Director may
designate, during the absence or disability of the Director and the
Deputy Director or in the event of vacancies in the offices of Director
and Deputy Director.
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SEC. 2. Transfer of function's to the Director.-'T'here are hereby
transferred to the Director:
(a) All functions vested by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as
amended, or by any other statute in the Director for Mutual Security,
provided for in section 501 of that Act, or in. the Mutual Security
Agency created by that Act, or in any official or office of that Agency,
including the functions of the Director for Mutual Security as a mem-
ber cf the National Security Council.
(b) All functions vested by the Mutual Defense Assistance Control
Act of 1951 in the Administrator created by that Act.
((,,) The function vested by section 6 of the Yugoslav Emergency
Relief Assistance Act of 1950 in the Secretary of State.
SEC. 3. Institute of Inter-American. Affairs.-The Institute of
Inter-American Affairs, together with its functions, is hereby trans-
ferred to the Ad.ministiration. All functions vested by the Institute
of Inter-American. Affairs Act in the Secretary of State are hereby
transferred to the Director. Function.s with respect to serving as
employees of the said Institute or as members of the board of directors
thereof, including eligibility, as the case may be, to be detailed as
such employees or to serve as such Members, are hereby transferred
from. the officials and err.ployees of the Department of State to the
officials and employees of the Administration. The. Institute shall
be administered subject to the direction and control of the Director.
SEC. 4. National Advisory ('oun,c-il.---The Director shall be a mem-
ber of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and
Financial Problems (22 U. S. C. 286b).
SEC. 5. Performance of functions transferred to the Director.- The
Director may from time to time male such provisions as he shall
deem appropriate authorizing the performance by any other officer,
or by any employee or organizational entity, of the Administration,
of any function of the Director, except the function of being a member
of the National Security Council and the function of being a member
of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary' and
Financial Problems.
Sic. 6. Transfer of functions to the President.-All functions vested
in the Secretary of State by the' United Nations Palestine Refugee
Aid Act of 1950 are-hereby transferred to the President.
SEC. 7. Incidental transfers.-(a) Personnel, property, records, and
unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds,
employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in connection
with. functions transferred or vested by thi9 reorganization plan shall
be transferred, at such time or times as the. Director of the Bureau of
the Budget shall direct, as follows:
(1) So much of those relating to functions transferred to or vested
in the Director or the Administration as the Director of the Bureau
of the Budget shall determine shall be transferred to the Adminis-
tration.
(2) Those of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs shall be trans-
ferred along with the Institute.
(3) So much of those relating to the functions transferred by section
6 hereof as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine
shall be transferred to the agency or agencies of the Government to
which the President delegates the said functions.
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(b) Such further, measures and dispositions as the Director of the
Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be necessary in order to effectuate
the transfers provided for in subsection (a) of this section shall be
carried out in such manner as he shall direct and by such agencies as
lie shall designate.
SF.c. S. Abolitions.-(a) 't'here are hereby abolished:
(1) The. offices of Director for Mutual Security and Deputy
Director for Mutual Security, provided for in sections 501. and
504, respectively, of the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended
(including the organization in the Executive Office of the President
known as the Office of the Director for Mutual Security).
(2) The Mutual Security Agency.
(3) The title of Administrator provided for iii the Mutual
Defense Assistance Control Act.
(4) The four positions provided for in section 406 (e) of the
Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended.
(5) The offices of Administrator and Deputy Administrator
for Technical Cooperation, provided for in section 413 (a) of the
Act for International Development, as amended, together with
the functions vested in the Administrator by the said section 413
(a), as amended.
(6) Tire offices of the Special Representative in Europe and
Deputy Special Representative in Europe, provided for in sec-
tion 504 (a.) of the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended.
The abolition of the said offices of Representative and Deputy
Representative shall become effective on September 1, 1953
(unless a later date is required by the provisions of section 6 (a)
of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended).
(b) The Director shall wind up any outstanding affairs of the afore-
said abolished agencies and offices not otherwise provided for in this
reorganization plan..
SEC. 9. Interim provisions:-The President may authori e the per-
sons who, immediately prior to the effective date of this reorganization
plan, hold offices or occupy positions abolished by section 8 hereof to
hold offices and occupy positions under section 1 hereof until the
latter offices and positions are filled pursuant to the provisions of the
said section 1 or by recess appointment, as the case may be, but in
no event for any period extending more than sixty days after the said
effective date, as follows:
(a) The Director and Deputy Director for Mutual Security
as the Dire: for and Deputy Director of the Foreign Operations
Administration, respectively.
(b) The Administrator for Technical Cooperation and the
person occupying (lie senior position provided for in section
406 (e) of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended,
to serve in the two senior positions created by section l (d)
hereof.
(c) The Deputy Administrator for Technical Cooperation and
the persons occupying the three positions provided for in section
406 (e) of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended,
to serve in the four positions created by section 1 (d) hereof
which have compensation at the rate of $15,000 a year.
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