98 STAT. 1857 5 USC 101 et seq. 5 USC 5101, 5301. Travel expenses, per diem. Report to to Congress. Advisory Pub. Law 93-568 December 31, 1974 (2) In administering this joint resolution, the Commission shall- (B) make technical and financial assistance (by grant, con- (C) prepare and make available background materials for the use of delegates to the Conference and associated State conferences, and prepare and distribute such reports of the Conference and associated State conferences as may be appropriate. (3)(A) Each Federal department and agency is authorized and directed to cooperate with, and provide assistance to, the Commission upon its request under clause (A) of paragraph (2). For that purpose, each Federal department and agency is authorized to provide personnel to the Commission. The Commission shall be deemed to be a part of any executive or military department of which a request is made under clause (A) of paragraph (2). (B) The Librarian of Congress is authorized to detail personnel to the Commission, upon request, to enable the Commission to carry out its functions under this joint resolution. (4) In carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution, the Commission is authorized to engage such personnel as may be necessary, without regard for the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive civil service, and without regard for chapter 51, and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates. (5) The Commission is authorized to publish and distribute for the Conference the reports authorized under this joint resolution. (6) Members of the Conference may, while away from their homes or regular places of business and attending the Conference, be allowed travel expenses. including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as may be allowed under section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons serving without pay. Such expenses may be paid by way of advances, reimbursement, or in installments as the Commission may determine. (d) A final report of the Conference, containing such findings and recommendations as may be made by the Conference, shall be submitted to the President not later than one hundred and twenty days following the close of the Conference, which final report shall be made public and, within ninety days after its receipt by the President, transmitted to the Congress together with a statement of the President containing the President's recommendations with respect to such report. (e) (1) There is hereby established a twenty-eight member advisory committee of the Conference composed of (A) at least three members of the Commission designated by the Chairman thereof; (B) five persons designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives with no more than three being members of the House of Representatives: (C) five persons designated by the President pro tempore of the Senate with no more than three being members of the Senate; and (D) not more than fifteen persons appointed by the President. Such advisory committee shall assist and advise the Commission in planning and conducting the Conference. The Chairman of the Commission shall serve as Chairman of the Conference. (2) The Chairman of the Commission is authorized, in his discretion. to establish, prescribe functions for. and appoint members to, such advisory and technical committees as may be necessary to assist and advise the Conference in carrying out its functions. December 31, 1974 Pub. Law 93-568 (3) Members of any committee established under this subsection who are not regular full-time officers or employees of the United States shall, while attending to the business of the Conference, be entitled to receive compensation there for at a rate fixed by the President but not excceding the rate of pay specified at the time of such service for grade GS-18 in section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, including traveltime. Such members may, while away from their homes or regular places of business, be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as may be authorized under section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. (f) The Commission shall have authority to accept, on behalf of the Conference, in the name of the United States, grants, gifts, or bequests of money for immediate disbursement by the Commission in furtherance of the Conference. Such grants, gifts, or bequests offered the Commission, shall be paid by the donor or his representative to the Treasurer of the United States, whose receipts shall be their acquittance. The Treasurer of the United States shall enter such grants, gifts, and bequests in a special account to the credit of the Commission for the purposes of this joint resolution. 23 STAT. 1858 Compensation. 5 USC 5332 note. (g) For the purpose of this joint resolution, the term "State" "State." includes the District of Columbia, the Cominonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. (h) There are authorized to be appropriated without fiscal year limitations such sums, but not to exceed $3.500.000, as may be necessary to carry out this joint resolution. Such sums shall remain available for obligation until expended. Approved December 31, 1974. Appropriation. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 93-1056 Comm. on Education and Labor) and No. 93-1619 Comm. of Conference). SENATY REPORTS: No. 93-521 (Comm. on Labor and Public Welfare) and CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 119 (1973): Nov. 20, considered and passed Senate. Vol. 120 (1974): Dec. 13, Senate concurred in house amendment Dec. 16, Senate reconsidered and concurred in report. Public Law 93-568 specifies that the National Commission on Libraries and - - - five persons appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; five persons appointed by the Speaker of the House; at least three members of the National Commission, appointed by the Chairman; and no more than 15 persons appointed by the President of the United States. JUSTIFICATION OF THE BUDGET ESTIMATES Appropriation Estimate Fiscal Year 1978 NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE Salaries and Expenses For necessary expenses of the National Commission on January 1977 |