PUBLIC LAW 89-306 89TH CONGRESS, H.R. 4845 OCTOBER 30, 1965

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• Publication Date: October 30, 1965
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Public Law 89-306
89th Congress, H. R. 4845
October 30, 1965
RD Act
To provide for the economic and efficient purchase, lease, maintenance, opera-
tion, and utilization of automatic data processing equipment by Federal
departments and agencies.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That title I of the
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat.
:377), as amended, is hereby amended by adding a new section to read
'AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
"SEC. 111. (a) The Administrator is authorized and directed to
coordinate and provide for the economic and efficient purchase, lease
and maintenance of automatic data processing equipment by Federal
agencies.
"(b) (1) Automatic data processing equipment suitable for efficient
and effective use by Federal agencies shall be provided by the Adminis-
trator through purchase, lease, transfer of equipment from other
Federal agencies, or otherwise, and the Administrator is authorized
d t d b contract or otherwise for the maintenance
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Automatic data
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equipment.
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utilization.
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and repair of such equipment. In carrying out his responsibilities
under this section the Administrator is authorized to transfer auto-
matic data processing equipment between Federal agencies, to provide
for joint utilization of such equipment by two or more Federal
agencies, and to establish and operate equipment ' pools and data
processing centers for the use of two or more such agencies when
necessary for its most efficient and effective utilization.
" (2) The Administrator may delegate to one. or more Federal
agencies authority to operate automatic data processing equipment
pools and automatic data processing centers, and to lease, purchase,
or maintain individual automatic data processing systems or specific
units of equipment, including such equipment used in automatic data
processing pools and automatic data processing centers, when such
action is determined by the Administrator to be necessary for the
economy and efficiency of operations, or when such action is essential
to national defense or national security. The Administrator may
delegate to one or more Federal agencies authority to lease, purchase,
or maintain automatic data processing equipment to the extent to
which he determines such action to be necessary and desirable to allow
for the orderly implementation of a program for the utilization of
such equipment.
"(e) There is hereby authorized to be established on the books ADP fund, estab-
of the Treasury an automatic data processing fund, which shall be lishment.
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available without fiscal year limitation for expenses,
sonal services, other costs, and the procurement by lease, purchase,
transfer, or otherwise of equipment, maintenance, and repair of such
equipment by contract or otherwise, necessary for the efficient coordi-
nation, operation, utilization of such equipment by and for Federal
agencies : Provided, That a report of equipment inventory, utiliza-
tion, and acquisitions, together with an account of receipts, disburse-
ments, and transfers to miscellaneous receipts, under this authoriza-
Equipment acqui-
sitions and util
ization.
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79 SPAT. 1128
Report to tion shall be made annually in connection with the budget estimates to
Budget Bureau the Director of the Bureau of the Budget and to the Congress, and
and Congress. the inclusion in appropriation acts of provisions regulating the opera-
tion of the automatic data processing fund, or limiting the expendi-
tures therefrom, is hereby authorized.
Appropriation. "(d) There are authorized to be appropriated to said fund such
sums as may be required which, together with the value, as determined
by the Administrator, of supplies and equipment from time to time
transferred to the Administrator; shall constitute the capital of the
fund: Provided, That said fund shall be credited with (1) advances
and reimbursements from available appropriations and funds of any
agency (including the General Services Administration), organiza-
tion, or contractor utilizing such equipment- and services rendered
them, at rates determined by the Administrator to approximate the
costs thereof met by the fund (including depreciation of equipment,
irovision for accrued leave, and for amortization of installation costs,
but excluding, in the determination of rates prior to the fiscal year
1967, such direct operating expenses as may be directly appropriated
for, which expenses may be charged to the fund and covered by
advances or reimbursements from such direct appropriations) and
(2) refunds or recoveries resulting from operations of the fund,
including the net. proceeds of disposal of excess or surplus personal
property and receipts from carriers and others for loss of or damage
to property : Provided further, That following the close of each fiscal
year any net. income, after making provisions for prior year losses,
if any, shall be transferred to the Treasury of the United States as
miscellaneous receipts.
"(e) The proviso following paragraph (4) in section 201(a) of this
63 Stat. 384. Act and the provisions of section 602(d) of this Act shall have no ap-
40 USC 481, 474. plication in the administration of this section. No other provision
of this Act or any other Act which is inconsistent with the provisions
of this section shall be applicable in the administration of this section.
Scientific and "(fp The Secretary of Coinnierce is authorized (1) to provide
technological agencies, and the Administrator of General Services in the exercise
advisory eery- of the authority delegated in this section, with scientific and teclmo-
ioes by Seors- logical advisory services relating to automatic data processing and
tary of Commerce. related systems, and (2) to make appropriate recommendations to
the President relating to the establishment of uniform Federal auto-
inatie data processin standards. The Secretary of Commerce is
nuthorized to undertake the necessary research in the sciences and
technologies of automatic data processing computer and related sys-
tems, as may be required under provisions of this subsection.
"(g) The authority conferred upon the Administrator and the
Secretary of Commerce by this section shall be exercised subject to
direction by the President and to fiscal and policy control exercised
by the Bureau of the Budget. Authority so conferred upon the
Administrator shall not be so construed as to impair or interfere with
the determination by agencies of their individual automatic data. proc-
essing equipment requirements, including the development of specifi-
cations for and the selection of the types and configurations of equip-
ment needed. The Administrator shall not interfere with, or attempt
to control in any way, the use made of automatic data processing
equipment or components thereof by any agency. The Administrii-
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tor shall provide adequate notice to all agencies and other users con- Notice to
corned with respect to each proposed determination specifically affect agenoies.
ing them ar the automatic data processing equipment or, components
used by them. In the absence of mutual agreement between the
Administrator and the agency or user concerned, such proposed deter-
minations shall be subject to review and decision by the Bureau of the
Budget unless the President otherwise directs."
Approved October 30, 1965.
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