Simultaneously the economic program development staff was established to coordinate the statistical activities of the geographic divisions and to provide for uniform estimates of planned offshore procurement, balance of payments, national accounts, defense budgets and other economic projections.

A defense production staff was also established as the focal point within the AD/E for the development of a balanced pattern of military production in Europe. In performing this function, the staff, working with other MSA/W offices and outside agencies, assists in the development of offshore procurement and military production programs.

5. Assistant Director for Far East.-The increasing importance of the underdeveloped areas to the mutual security program was recog nized in the initial organization of MSA on December 30, 1951. Under ECA, the economic program responsibilities for Europe and for the Far East were contained under a single Assistant Administrator for Program. Under MSA these two major geographic areas were separated, with the Far East programs receiving augmented top leadership under an Assistant Director for Far East, on a par with the Assistant Director for Europe.

Program planning, reporting, review, and accounting activities for the Far East were incorporated into one comprehensive unit, the Program and Economic Staff. The China, Indochina, and the Philippine-Thailand Divisions were established to provide more direct leadership to the four-country desks.

National Capital Planning Commission.-Public Law 592, 82d Congress, approved July 19, 1952, changed the name of this agency from the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to National Capital Planning Commission. The statute enlarged both the membership and the duties of the Commission and also established the National Capital Regional Planning Council, which is composed of members of the local planning commissions of nearby Maryland and Virginia jurisdictions as well as two members of the National Capital Planning Commission.

The National Capital Planning Act of 1952, Public Law 592, removed from membership on the Commission the Chief of the Forest Service and added the Commissioner of Public Buildings, the Commissioner of Public Roads and an additional citizen member, who is appointed by the President from among three nominees submitted by the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia.

National Labor Relations Board.-Organizational changes made during the past year included:

Establishment of region 11 with headquarters at Winston-Salem, N. C. This region includes the States of North and South Carolina and provides increased access to Board procedures and services for petitioners in these areas; transfer of the functions and personnel of the Affidavit Compliance Branch from the Division of Operations to the Division of Policies and Appeals; and transfer of stenographic and typing personnel, serving Board legal assistants and the Division of Trial Examiners, from the Division of Administration to separate pools directly responsible to the organizations serviced.

National Mediation Board.-The Board reported that there were no actual changes in organization, but effective March 22, 1953, the two supplemental boards of the Adjustment Board will be abolished.

National Science Foundation.-The National Science Foundation Act provided that initially there should be four Divisions: Medical Research; Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences; Biological Sciences; and Scientific Personnel and Education. Subsequently the two Divisions of Biological Sciences and Medical Research have been combined into the Division of Biological and Medical Sciences, and a Program Analysis Office has been created. The Divisions and Offices have been partially staffed and it is anticipated that the Foundation's strength will reach 130 full-time employees during 1953. A material portion of the Foundation's work is accomplished by occasional services of outstanding scientists serving as members of committees and consulting panels.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The RFC reports the following changes in organization which have occurred since January 1, 1952: Abolishment of the Office of Production and the establishment in lieu thereof of the Office of Synthetic Rubber and the Office of Tin and Fiber; status of the offices at Houston, Omaha, and Salt Lake City changed from loan agencies to branch offices; status of the office at Phoenix, Ariz., changed from branch office to field office, and branch office at Baltimore, Md., closed.

The Corporation is in the process of changing the status of a number of offices from loan agencies to branch offices. This is being done under a program to realine its field organization to the current workload requirements of its lending programs. This is expected to effect substantial economies without curtailing to any material extent the degree of service or assistance furnished to prospective loan applicants or to borrowers.

Securities and Exchange Commission.-In May 1952, the Divisions of Administrative Services, Budget and Finance, and Personnel were abolished and a new Division of Administrative Management established. The new Division, operating under and responsible to the Chairman of the Commission, is composed of the Branches of Administrative Services, Budget and Finance, and Personnel. The centering of these administrative management functions under one division, which is in line with the recommendations of the Hoover Commission, is a further implementation of Reorganization Plan No. 10, which places management responsibility in the Chairman of the Commission. The executive assistant to the Chairman also serves as Director of the Division. This change has resulted in greater coordination and has promoted increased efficiency and effectiveness in the performance of these related activities.

The Divisions of Hearing Examiners and Opinion Writing were designated "Offices" effective May 1, 1952. This change was made in order to give further recognition to their status as direct staff offices of the Commission.

Smithsonian Institution.-Effective December 31, 1952, one minor organizational change occurred. The Institute of Social Anthropology, an organizational component of the Bureau of American Ethnology, was abolished because of the expiration of a working fund contract with the Department of State.

Subversive Activities Control Board.-During the past year, an information office was created for the dissemination of information to the public with regard to the progress of the hearing being conducted against the Communist Party. Future plans call for the creation of

an Office of Hearing Examiners who will conduct the hearings on further petitions presented to the Board by the Attorney General.

Tennessee Valley Authority.-Effective March 2, 1952, the Division of Chemical Engineering was abolished and the Office of Chemical Engineering with two subordinate divisions, the Division of Chemical Development and of Chemical Operations, was established. The organizational status of this activity is now comparable to that of the Offices of Engineering and of Power.

Effective April 13, 1952, the Division of Power Supply was established under the Office of Power. This Division is responsible for planning and making recommendations for future power supply for the TVA service area.

Veterans' Administration.-The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs reports that there have been numerous changes already effectuated, and others proposed for 1953, as follows:

1. Central office.-Under Contact and Administrative Services: The Planning and Supervision Service and the Records Service were abolished. The Administrative Service was redesignated the Administrative Operations Service (Washington). A new Administrative Service was established and includes part of the functions of the old Planning and Supervision Service, and the St. Louis liaison office, formerly under the Records Service. The teletype net control stations were transferred to the new Administrative Service.

The Philadelphia Records Center was moved to Columbus, Ohio, and redesignated the Records Service Center. It is now under the jurisdiction of the Assistant Administrator's Office, formerly under the Records Service.

The Oakland, Calif., Forms Depot, under the Publications Service, was closed on June 30, 1952.

Under finance: The Readjustment Account Control Division (New York), formerly under the Control Accounts Service, has been transferred to the Administrative Control Division of the Loan Guaranty Service and redesignated the Central Entitlement Control Section (New York).

Under insurance: The Field Operations Service and Special Insurance Projects Service were abolished and the Insurance Operations Service (Washington) was established. In the Office of Assistant Administrator the position of executive assistant was eliminated and the positions of insurance counsel and general assistant for insurance were established. The designations of the Underwriting Service and the Actuarial Service were changed to Insurance Underwriting Service and Insurance Actuarial Service. The Insurance Methods and Standards Service was established.

2. Field. Ten hospitals have been completed and opened for the reception of patients at the following locations: Indianapolis (West 10th Street), Ind., Iowa City, Iowa; Louisville, Ky.; Boston, Mass.; New Orleans, La.; Salt Lake City (Fort Douglas), Utah; East Orange, N. J.; Kansas City, Mo.; Atlanta, Ga.; and Baltimore, Md. Five hospitals have been closed, all of these at or near locations where new hospitals have been opened, and one hospital is closed temporarily for conversion.

Consolidations of certain activities of regional offices and hospitals have been effected at the following locations: Baltimore, Md., Dallas, Tex., Denver, Colo., and St. Paul, Minn., regional offices; and Boston,

Mass., Denver, Colo., Manchester, N. H., Minneapolis, Minn., Phoenix, Ariz., Salt Lake City, Utah, and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., hospitals. Consolidations of certain activities are now pending completion at Syracuse, N. Y., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Albany, N. Y., hospitals.

Consolidation of the Seattle, Wash., and the Chicago, Ill., district offices (handling activities in connection with national service life insurance and death claims) with the district office at St. Paul, Minn., and consolidation of the Oakland, Calif., and the St. Louis, Mo., district offices with the district office at Denver, Colo., were effected by March of 1952. The VA organization existing at St. Paul and Denver at the time of consolidation consisted of a district office and a regional office operating as a center under a single manager. The consolidation of insurance and death claims activities at those stations so increased the district office activities that they were separated from regional office activities and are now operating under independent management. From a total of 55 regional offices, 7 district offices, and 2 centers having regional office and district office activities, there now remain 57 regional offices and 5 district offices.

Thirty-three Veterans' Administration offices, which are small VA installations under the various regional offices, have been closed due to decrease in workload, and the Oakland, Calif., Forms Depot, under the Publications Service of Contact and Administrative Services, as mentioned above, was also closed.

3. Changes in organization planned for 1953.-The present organization of the Veterans' Administration is as shown by the organizational titles on the chart. Detailed study was made of a management survey completed in 1952 by the Booz, Allen & Hamilton Co. On November 26, 1952, two sets of that report, together with the Administrator's statement on reorganization and a proposed new chart of organization, were furnished the Committee on Government Operations. On January 12, 1953, a monograph giving a résumé of all surveys and recommendations for reorganization of the Veterans' Administration, and containing outline charts, was also furnished to the committee.

These surveys and recommendations for reorganization are now undergoing review by appropriate committees of the Congress, by agencies, and by various organizations.

REORGANIZATIONS EFFECTUATED BETWEEN JANUARY 1, 1947, AND

JANUARY 1, 1953

During the 6-year period in which these reports have been compiled by this committee, there have been a number of major changes in department and independent agency structures. The following table sets forth 20 such agencies which have been abolished or transferred to other agencies, and lists 29 new agencies (or changes in name) which have been established during this period:

AGENCIES ABOLISHED, OR TRANSFERRED TO OTHER AGENCIES, SINCE 19472

1. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. 2. Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion.

3. Displaced Persons Commission.

4. Economic Cooperation Administration.

* See appendix A, pp. 31–32, for authority.

5. Federal Works Agency.

6. Maritime Commission, United States.

7. Motor Carrier Claims Commission.

8. National Archives.

9. National Capital Park and Planning Commission (name changed to National Capital Planning Commission).

10. National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission.

11. National Housing Agency.

12. National Military Establishment (name changed to Department of Defense). 13. Office of Defense Transportation.

14. Office of the Housing Expediter.

15. Office of Scientific Research and Development.

16. Office of Temporary Controls.

17. Philippine Alien Property Administration.

18. Philippine War Damage Commission.

19. War Assets Administration.

20. War Department (name changed to Department of the Army).

AGENCIES CREATED SINCE 1947

1. Air Force, Department of the.

2. Atomic Energy Commission.

3. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. 4. Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion.

5. Defense, Department of.

6. Defense Materials Procurement Agency.

7. Defense Production Administration.

8. Defense Transport Administration.

9. Displaced Persons Commission.

10. Economic Cooperation Administration.

11. Economic Stabilization Agency.

12. Federal Civil Defense Administration.

13. Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review.

14. General Services Administration.

15. Housing and Home Finance Agency.

16. Indian Claims Commission.

17. Motor Carrier Claims Commission.

18. Mutual Security Agency.

19. National Capital Planning Commission.

20. National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission.

21. National Science Foundation.

22. National Security Training Commission.

23. Office of the Housing Expediter.

24. Office of the Secretary of Defense.

25. Renegotiation Board.

26. Small Defense Plants Administration. 27. Subversive Activities Control Board. 28. Veterans' Education Appeals Board. 29. War Claims Commission.

APPENDIX A. PERSONNEL SUMMARY

The following table includes all paid personnel assigned to each Federal establishment as reported to the committee by the various departments and agencies, as of the dates indicated. The total includes 218,725 part-time and w. a. e.'s (when actually employed), and 205,210 overseas personnel, of which 116,098 are nationals of other countries, but excludes 58,759 w. o. c.'s (employees serving without compensation). Excluded also are 41,866 uncompensated employees of the Selective Service System serving as local board members advisers to registrants, etc.; 5,362 seamen employed by the Maritime Administration, Department of Commerce; military personnel performing civilian functions in the Office of the Special Representative in Europe of the Mutual Security Agency; and employees of the Central Intelligence, which information is classified for security reasons. The General Accounting Office, Government Printing Office, Library of Congress, and the Architect of the Capitol (all within the legislative branch of the Government), and the judicial branch, are excluded.