PUBLIC LAW 87-367, 'AN ACT TO INCREASE THE LIMITATION ON THE NUMBER OF POSITIONS WHICH MAY BE PLACED IN THE TOP GRADES OF THE CLASSIFICATION ACT OF 1949, AS AMENDED, TO PROVIDE CERTAIN ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT POSITIONS, AND

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• Publication Date: December 13, 1961
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
3 December 1961
SUBJECT: Public Law 87-367, "AN ACT To increase the limitation
on the number of positions which may be placed in the
top grades of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
to provide certain additional research and development
positions, and for other purposes."
1. Public Law 87-367 was approved by the President on
4 October 1961. It created 15 new jobs paying the equivalent of
GS 16-18 for the National Security Agency and 465 supergrade
jobs under the Classification Act of 1949 to be distributed among
various Federal agencies as the need arises. Some of the 465
were earmarked for specific agencies or purposes while others
are to be retained in the Civil Service Commission pool until
agencies make requests for them.
Z. 280 new scientific and engineering job. were created
with salary ranging from $12.500 to $19,000 in most cases. 13 of
these were earmarked for the Federal Aviation Agency for which
pay could rise to $19.500 and 17 in the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration with pay up to $21,000. 135 of the new
science-engineering jobs were allocated to NASA.
3. The Act transferred 451 existing Classification Act
supergrade jobs which were previously assigned directly to
different agencies to the technical control of the Civil Service
Commission. It created 2 new jobs at $20,000 under the Federal
Executive Pay Act for the General Counsel and the Public Affairs
Advisor of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency. It increased the pay of 23 administrators whose salary
scale was governed by the Federal Executive Pay Act of 1956 and
transferred 15 jobs previously governed by the later Act to the
jurisdiction of the Classification Act. Both of theee changes were
made because pay increases under the Classification Act lzad surged
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ahead of those under the Federal Executive Pay Act with the result
that in some cases administrators under the Executive Pay Act were
receiving less salary than subordinates whose pay is established
under the Classification Act.
4. The 480 classified and NSA supergrade jobs and 280 science
jobs authorised by the Act fell below the 622 classified and NSA jobs
and the 334 science-engineering positions requested by the Adminis-
tration. The Administration request that regulatory agency trial
examiners be removed from under the Claseification Act and placed
In a new two-step system (which would have placed ZZZ trial
examiners in the equivalent of supergrade jobs) was not approved
by either House of Congress. An Administration request for 4 new
science positions in the Library of Congress was approved by the
Senate but dropped in conference as was a House provision permitting
House committee staff members to be paid up to $18, 000. The
conferees indicated the question of staff pay increases for both
the House and Senate would be taken up at one time in future
legislation and emphasised that the staff pay increase had not been
rejected but merely postponed.
5. In addition to job authorisations, the Act contained, in
the following provisions:
a. It was stated to be the sense of Congress
Administration requests in changing supergrade pos
status should be channeled through the House and Senate
Post Office and Civil Service Committees;
b. The Act limited the proportion of GS 18 jobs to
12% of all supergrade jobs, and the proportion of GS 17
to 25%;
c. It was stated that if any more supergrades were
created by any other legislation in the 87th Congress and
assigned to specific agencies, the Civil Service Commission
should, if possible, subtract an equivalent number from the
number made available to that agency from the Civil Service
Commission pool;
d. The Act requires NASA to submit annual reports
to Congress stating who was filling the specific science-
engineering and other top salary jobs within the agency.
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6. It is noted that the amendment to section 106(a) of
the Federal Executive Pay Act of 1956 set forth in section 303(a)
of this Act established the position of General Counsel, United
States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency at item 48. Public
Law 87-322, approved 26 September 1961, established at the
same item and sections of the Federal Executive Pay Act the
position General Counsel of the General Accounting Office.
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