H.R. 4572, PUBLIC PRINTING REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1979

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00988R000200270003-9
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 15, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Logistics
15 November 1979
STAT FROM
Deputy Chief, Printing & Photography Division
SUBJECT H.R. 4572, Public Printing Reorganization
Act of 1979
REFERENCE Memo to D/L from AGC/OGC, dtd. 9 Nov. 79,
Same subject, (OGC 79-10146)
1. The Printing and Photography Division (P&PD) responded
STAT to request for comments as he became involved
in drafting a statement of the impact H.R. 4572 would have
on the Agency. Subsequently, he forwarded a draft of his
"views letter" to us on the amended version of the Bill,
H.R. 5424. In our perusal of this latter draft we abided by
his request to consider only "major substantive" changes
that should be made in the final version of his response to
Chairman Hawkins. Consequently, we did not offer any
comments.
2. In essence, we felt thati was viewing
the Bill as it would affect the whole of the Agency's printing
facilities, utilizing the macro approach for measuring the
STAT Bill's impact. position seems to be slanted
toward the more narrow view, citing the Bill's impact only
on P$PD. We are of the opinion that the macro approach is
correct, that NPIC and GAD/OTS facilities certainly should
be included in any statement citing the impact the Bill
would have on Agenc printing facilities.
3. Based on our assumption that the macro approach is
correct, there is little doubt, in our opinion, that "the
vast majority of printing services.... are thus of a highly
sensitive nature". Human resources expended by P$PD on
unclassified printing amounts to only 25 percent (approx.)
of our total. Inasmuch as PEPD is the Agency's printer for
nearly all administrative material, it is a reasonable
conclusion that the production of this type of work by NPIC
and GAD must be minuscule. In this light,
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"vast majority" statement seems to be most accurate.
STAT 4. I Iconcern about P,PD not having a formal
document al owing its expansion into "unclassified" printing
is well taken but we quite often find ourselves at polar
STAT extremes with 0 on this subject. We feel that we do have
authorization documents for this expansion but we do not
profess to know their legal worth. In any event, the docu-
mentation,has always seemed to be sufficient to fend off the
numerous queries about our authority in this area. These
queries into our authority however, had prompted us to point
out quite clearly, in our response to that
we would prefer our position under the Bill to e clarified
"up front"; i.e., whether the Bill was to affect the PEPD
operation or not. In essence, we wish to avoid any queries
pertaining to our authority under the Bill which could come
back to haunt us in the years to come.
STAT 5. I Iobviously feels that the Bill, if passed,
might be interpreted to mean that only classified material
could be produced on PEjPD equipment. We feel that such a
stance would be contradictory to the "cost savings" intent
of the Bill. However, simply because the issue has been
raised and is a matter of concern to it should be
STAT included in propose changes to Chairman
Hawkins. Resolution o e matter would help us to avoid
any misunderstandings on the subject in the future.
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