700,000 and educational and recreational activities for The PCOYO staff is presently working with the cities on In the fall, inter-agency work groups will be established to begin planning for coordination of Federal assistance for 1970 summer youth programs. Recommendations from these work groups will be submitted to the Council and the President for approval and then implemented within the various Federal departments and agencies. Coordination of Federal youth programs does not happen in the natural course of events. There was little or no coordination prior to the establishment of the PCOYO, and there is little reason to expect that the relationships and coordination which have been developed would continue to exist without the work of the Council staff. BUDGET JUSTIFICATION This appropriation will provide funds for the executive director and staff who will direct the development and coordination of summer programs which can contribute to the sound development of youth through special education, employment, recreation, and health services. Agency reports favoring the enactment of this joint resolution have been received from the Bureau of the Budget, the Civil Service Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Health, Education, and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, and Labor. The General Accounting Office has advised this committee that it has no special information as to the desirability of this measure and therefore would make no comments concerning its merits. Mr. GOLDWATER, from the Committee on Armed Services, REPORT [To accompany H.R. 944] The Committee on Armed Services, to which was referred the bill (H.R. 944) to amend section 404(d) of title 37, United States Code, by increasing the maximum rates of per diem allowance and reimbursement authorized, under certain circumstances, to meet the actual expenses of travel, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of this legislation is to increase for members of the uniformed services the maximum rates of per diem in lieu of subsistence from $16 to $25 per day and to increase the maximum amount which may be reimbursed when actual expenses are paid from $30 to $40 per day. The increases authorized in this bill are identical to those which have already been enacted in the law for Federal civilian personnel (Public Law 91-114 approved November 10, 1969). It should be emphasized that the rates authorized by the bill are the maximum ones which can be paid. It is anticipated that the average per diem rate will be about $13 per day rather than the maximum rate of $25. The lower amount is accounted for by the fact that in most instances of travel Government-owned quarters are furnished. It should also be noted that the rates authorized in this bill apply only to travel within the contiguous 48 States and the District of Columbia. The per diem rates for travel between points overseas are authorized under different provisions of law and vary according to |