EXPANSION OF FACILITIES, CAPITOL POWER PLANT For an additional amount for "Expansion of facilities, Capitol power plant", $285,000, to remain available until expended and to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the House Office Building Commission, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of September 2, 1958 (72 Stat. 1714-1716). [For an appropriation of $1,200,000 for 1972 for Modifications and Enlargement, Capitol Power Plant, see p. 260.] [Total, Capitol Buildings and Grounds, $20,992,400.] $285,000 (liquidation of contract authority) LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL CARE For necessary expenditures for mechanical and structural maintenance, including improvements, equipment, supplies, waterproof wearing apparel, and personal and other services, $1,162,000. Not to exceed $26,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1971 is hereby continued available until June 30, 1972. 1,162,000 26,000 (reappropriation) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JAMES MADISON MEMORIAL BUILDING 71.090.000 For an additional amount for "Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building", $71,090,000, authorized by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 986–987), as amended by the Act of March 16, 1970 (84 Stat. 69), to remain available until expended. [Total, Library Buildings and Grounds, $72.278,000.] [Total, Architect of the Capitol, $94,416,100.] BOTANIC GARDEN SALARIES AND EXPENSES For all necessary expenses incident to maintaining, operating, repairing, and improving the Botanic Garden and the nurseries, buildings, grounds, collections, and equipment pertaining thereto, including personal services; waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 for emergency medical supplies; traveling expenses, including bus fares, not to exceed $275; the prevention and eradication of insect and other pests and plant diseases by purchase of materials and procurement of personal services by contract without regard to the provisions of any other Act; purchase and exchange of motor trucks; purchase and exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger motor vehicle; purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not to exceed $100; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library; $738,650. 738,650 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the Library of Congress, not otherwise provided for, including development and maintenance of the Union Catalogs; custody, care, and maintenance of the Library Buildings; special clothing; cleaning, laundering, and repair of uniforms; preservation of motion pictures in the custody of the Library; for the National Program for acquisitions and cataloging of Library material; purchase of a medium sedan for replacement, at not to exceed $4,000; $33,476,000 and expenses of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the Board, $33,476,000, including $104,000 to be available for reimbursement to the General Services Administration for rental of suitable space in the District of Columbia or its immediate environs for the Library of Congress. [For an additional amount of $7,000 for 1972 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 260.] COPYRIGHT OFFICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the Copyright Office, including publication of the decisions of the United States courts involving copyrights, $4,586,000. (For om additional amount of $4,000 for 1972 for the foregoing purpose8, see p. 261.) 4,586,000 CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES 7,166,000 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 203 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1916, as amended by section 321 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, (2 U.S.C. 166), $7,166,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation may be used to pay any salary or expense in connection with any publication, or preparation of material therefor (except the Digest of Public General Bills), to be issued by the Library of Congress unless such publication has obtained prior approval of either the Committee on House Administration or the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. DISTRIBUTION OF CATALOG CARDS SALARIES AND EXPENSES 9,726,750 For necessary expenses for the preparation and distribution of catalog cards and other publications of the Library, $9,726,750: Prorided, That $200,000 of this appropriation shall be apportioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 C.S.C. 665), only to the extent necessary to provide for expenses (excluding permanent personal services) for workload increases not anticipated in the budget estimates and which cannot be provided for by normal budgetary adjustments. [For an additional amount of $22,000 for 1972 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 261.] BOOKS FOR THE GENERAL COLLECTIONS For necessary expenses (except personal services) for acquisition of books, periodicals, and newspapers, and all other material for the increase of the Library, $971.000, to remain available until expended including $25,000 to be available solely for the purchase, when specifically approved by the Librarian, of special and unique material for additions to the collections. [For an additional amount of $2,000 for 1972 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 261.] BOOKS FOR THE LAW LIBRARY For necessary expenses (except personal services) for acquisition of books, legal periodicals, and all other material for the increase of the law library, $156,500, to remain available until expended. BOOKS FOR THE BLIND AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED SALARIES AND EXPENSES $8,550,000 For salaries and expenses to carry out the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1931 (2 U.S.C. 135a), as amended, $8,550,000. (For an additional amount of $5,000 for 1972 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 261.] COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS (SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of section 104 (b) (5) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704), to remain available until expended, $2,891,000, of which $2,625,000 shall be available only for payments in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department shall determine to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States. FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS For necessary expenses for the purchase and repair of furniture, furnishings, office and library equipment, $454,000. REVISION OF HINDS' AND CANNON'S PRECEDENTS 2,891,000 454,000 SALARIES AND EXPENSES 76,000 For necessary expenses to enable the Librarian to assist the Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives to revise and update Hinds' and Cannon's Precedents, $76,000. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress for salaries shall be available for expenses of investigating the loyalty of Library employees; special and temporary services (including employees engaged by the day or hour or in piecework); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. Not to exceed fifteen positions in the Library of Congress may be exempt from the provisions of appropriation Acts concerning the employment of aliens during the current fiscal year, but the Librarian shall not make any appointment to any such position until he has ascertained that he cannot secure for such appointments a person in any of the categories specified in such provisions who possesses the special qualifications for the particular position and also otherwise meets the general requirements for employment in the Library of Congress. Funds available to the Library of Congress may be expended to reimburse the Department of State for medical services rendered to employees of the Library of Congress stationed abroad and for contracting on behalf of and hiring alien employees for the Library of Congress under compensation plans comparable to those authorized by section 444 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 889(a)); for purchase or hire of passenger motor vehicles; for payment of travel, storage and transportation of household goods, and transportation and per diem expenses for families en route (not to exceed twenty-four); for benefits comparable to those payable under sections 911 (9), 911(11), and 941 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1136(9), 1136(11), and 1156, respectively); and travel benefits comparable with those which are now or hereafter may be granted single employees of the Agency for International Development, including single Foreign Service personnel assigned to A.I.D. projects, by the Administrator of the Agency for International Development--or his designee-under the authority of section 636 (b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (Public Law 87–195, 22 U.S.C. 2396 (b)); subject to such rules and regulations as may be issued by the Librarian of Congress. Payments in advance for subscriptions or other charges for bibliographical data, publications, materials in any other form, and services may be made by the Librarian of Congress whenever he determines it to be more prompt, efficient, or economical to do so in the interest of carrying out required Library programs. Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $50,000, when specifically authorized by the Librarian, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the function or activity for which the appropriation is made. [Total, Library of Congress, $68,053,250.] For authorized printing and binding for the Congress; for printing and binding for the Architect of the Capitol; expenses necessary for preparing the semimonthly and session index to the Congressional Record, as authorized by law (44 U.S.C. 902); printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register (including the Code of Federal Regulations) as authorized by law (44 U.S.C. 1509, 1510); and printing and binding of Government publications authorized by law to be distributed without charge to the recipients; $38,000,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for printing and binding part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture): Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred under the appropriations for similar purposes for preceding $38,000,000 fiscal years. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the Office of Superintendent of Documents, including compensation of all employees in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office”, approved June 7, 1924 (44 U.S.C. 30,5); travel expenses (not to exceed $88,300) ; price lists and bibliographies; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery; and supplying books to depository libraries; $14,445,900: Provided, That $200,000 of this appropriation shall bé apportioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 665), with the approval of the Public Printer, only to the extent necessary to provide for expenses (excluding permanent personal services) for workload increases not anticipated in the budget estimates and which cannot be provided for by normal budgetary adjustments. 14,445,900 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE REVOLVING FUND $3,500,000 For payment to the “Government Printing Office revolving fund”; $3,500,000, to remain available until expended, for improving electrical and air-conditioning systems, and building structures. The Government Printing Office is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds available and in accord with the law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the programs and purposes set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for the Government Printing Office revolving fund”: Provided, That not to exceed $3,500 may be expended on the certification of the Public Printer in connection with special studies of governmental printing, binding, and distribution practices and procedures: Provided further, That during the current fiscal year the revolving fund shall be available for the hire of one passenger motor vehicle and the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle (station wagon). [Total, Government Printing Office, $55,945,900.] GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the General Accounting Office, including not to exceed $3,500 to be expended on the certification of the Comptroller General of the United States in connection with special studies of governmental financial practices and procedures; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for grade GS-18; advance payments in foreign countries notwithstanding section 3648, Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 529); benefits comparable to those payable under section 911 (9), 911(11) and 942(a) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1136(9), 1136 (11) and 1157(a), respectively); and under regulations prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States, rental of living quarters in foreign countries and travel benefits comparable with those which are now or hereafter may be granted single employees of the Agency for International Development, including single Foreign Service personnel assigned to A.I.D. projects, by the Administrator of the Agency for International Development-or his designee under the authority of section 636(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961_(Public Law 87-195, 22 U.S.C. 2396(b)), $87,108,000: Provided, That hereafter the “Assistant Comptroller General of the United States" shall be known as the "Deputy Comptroller General of the United States”. 87,108,000 COST-ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses of the Cost-Accounting Standards Board necessary to carry out the provisions of section 719 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (Public Law 91-379, approved August 15, 1970), $1,500,000. 1,500,000 |