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are primarily interested in the data that will be developed through this system that will be available to printing.

Mr. DADDARIO. Mr. Chairman, I do think that Mr. Haley's offer here is one which can be of great help.

Mr. MILLER. I am very happy to have it.

Mr. DADDARIO. We are pleased to have it, Mr. Haley, and we certainly will indicate this to Mr. Burleson.

Mr. MILLER. I would appreciate it if Mr. Felton would prepare a letter for my signature to Mr. Burleson expressing my thoughts on this matter.

(The letter referred to is as follows:)

Hon. OMAR BURLESON,

Vice Chairman, Joint Committee on Printing,
The Capitol, Washington, D.C.

JULY 1, 1966.

DEAR MR. VICE CHAIRMAN: The committee will be pleased to receive the comments of the Joint Committee on Printing and the Public Printer concerning H.R. 15638, a bill to provide for the collection, compilation, critical evaluation, publication, and sale of standard reference data. As you are aware, the committee sent a letter to Mr. James L. Harrison, the Public Printer, on January 16, 1966, soliciting his comments on the bill.

It is the committee's understanding that the assessment of the testimony which you mention in your letter of June 30, 1966, will pertain to how the objectives of this bill might be better realized by utilizing the current and proposed composition capabilities of the Government Printing Office, and that this policy statement will be prepared in conjunction with the Public Printer and other officials in the Government Printing Office.

We appreciate your interest in H.R. 15638 and look forward to the statement. Sincerely yours,

GEORGE P. MILLER, Chairman.

Mr. HALEY. May I add, Mr. Chairman, I said if it were wholly a printing bill it would necessarily be directed by jurisdiction to the Subcommittee on House Administration. You said it was many things, included in which would be the copyright law as well as title 15. We did not feel we were altogether circumvented.

Mr. MILLER. Is this the first meeting you have attended? Mr. HALEY. Yes, sir; but our troops have been here every day. Mr. MILLER. This is the first day we have discussed printing to a large extent and how the charges should be levied.

Mr. HALEY. I am sure there will be assistance furnished in the Government Printing Office, however indirect, in connection with this proposal.

Mr. VIVIAN. I would be interested in having some information on whether other activities of the Government are furnished to serve some sector of our economy and whether such activities are handled in such a way as to return a significant faction of the cost back to the Government agency providing the service through the sale of publications. How many instances there are of this situation.

Mr. DADDARIO. Mr. Haley, that can be provided?

Mr. HALEY. Yes.

Mr. DADDARIO. Mr. Vivian has raised an interesting point.

(The information requested is as follows:)

The following excerpt is taken from the report on a study of the Federal printing program completed by the Joint Committee on Printing, January 25, 1966:

DISTRIBUTION BY CLEARINGHOUSE FACILITIES

Summary of clearinghouse facilities operated by departments and agencies (fiscal year 1964 statistical information)

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Department of Commerce

ington, D.C.

National Bureau of Standards, Scientific, technical, and engineering. Printed and Microfiche.. Commerce Clearinghouse, Wash

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Total

amount
received
from sale
of material

Sale of material

Disposition of money received

1,477, 000

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$2,744, 000

Replenish trust fund.

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PUBLICATIONS MANAGEMENT

Summary of publications management information reported by departments and agencies concerning non-Government sources used to effect

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publication

(fiscal year 1964 statistical information)

Category 2: Government-sponsored or conducted writings turned over to commercial source subject to conditions

Agency
differen-
tiates be-
tween
Govern-
ment-

sponsored
and Gov-
ernment-

produced
materials?

ber

and restrictions

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a require-
ment for
royalties
to accrue

to the
Govern-
ment?

Amount of royal

ties received by Government

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Royalty determined by

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Cost deducted

future

from

age of

royal- Free? ties?

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retail

Other

accrued

agencies for additional

royalties?

copies

Percent

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Category 2

Government sponsored or conducted writings turned over to commercial source subject to conditions and restrictions

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Atomic Energy Commission.

agency
when

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Justification of publishing
commercially, in lieu of
through GPO and Super-
intendent of Documents

Statutory and/or legal
authority for commercial
publication of manuscripts
prepared at Government
expense

Pub

Pub

lisher

lisher

lisher

Other

exercises obtains
dis- agency
cretion? approval?

Other

receives

payment

for re-
print or
trans-

33838

1 Publisher must submit to AEC all denials for reproduction.

lation

rights

Yes 1

50

1. Selected publishers are
those who concentrate on
the scientific and techni-
cal fields and are able to
market AEC books effec-
tively in the United
States and abroad
through their usual chan-
nels.

2. Books are published
under arrangements by
which the commercial
publishers assume all
manufacturing costs, fur-
nish some free copies to
AEC and return royalties
to the Government.

The Comptroller General
in his unpublished opin-
ion addressed to the Pub-
lic Printer dated Jan. 20,
1950 (B-88494), affirmed
the propriety of private
commercial publication
of AEC-sponsored scien-
tific books where no ex-
penditure of Government
funds for printing and
binding is involved.
The Comptroller Gen-
eral's opinion cited the
broad authority contained
in the Atomic Energy
Commission Act of 1946,
as amended, and referred
specificially to provisions
now found in secs. 3(b)
and 141(b) of the Atomic
Energy Commission Act
of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2013b
and 2161b).

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