Administrators. In May 1963, the Producer Associations Division was established. These associations, rather than Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service field offices, carry out for their members the loan, processing, storage, inventory management and sales operations on tobacco, peanuts, and naval stores. This is done according to provisions of the Charter Act of the Commodity Credit Corporation.

A number of organizational changes were required due to further implementation of the reorganization effected in November 1962. For example, the abolishment of three commodity offices (Dallas, Cincinnati, Portland) necessitated reassignment of their various functions to existing commodity offices.

Agricultural Marketing Service

Organization changes accomplished during 1963 were mostly division internal realinements. A new staff office, Operations Analysis, was created under the Deputy Administrator for Management to provide full-time attention to research. The Tobacco Division and the Personnel Division were realined to improve efficiency and effectiveness of program operations. The field offices under the Packers and Stockyards Division were reorganized by consolidation of personnel into larger and more effective working units. The market news program areas under the Dairy Division were realined for more effective program supervision.

Two area inspection offices under the Poultry Division were consolidated to improve program operations. All changes were made within available funds and in some instances, savings in cost and a slight decrease in personnel resulted.

The increase in employment was due principally to a heavier workload in raisin inspection, cotton classing, and poultry inspection and grading services which necessitated hiring additional part-time and intermittent employees.

Economic Research Service

The reorganization of the Economic Research Service, relative to the Farm Production Economics and Resource Development Economics Divisions referred to in the organization report for calendar year 1962, was fully implemented in 1963. During calendar year 1963, minor internal organizational realinements were made in the Development and Trade Analysis Division and Marketing Economics Division. These realinments did not result in any increase in personnel. Agricultural Research Service

The major change in the Agricultural Research Service was the combination of two functions-nutrition and consumer-use research and utilization research and development. This new group, known as nutrition, consumer and industrial use research, includes the divisions of Clothing and Housing Research, Consumer and Food Economics Research, Human Nutrition Research and all four of the Utilization Research and Development Divisions. Placing all of these functions under one Deputy Administrator will result in a more coordinated program in the planning and conduct of research. It will also assure that consumer's needs and desires receive appropriate attention from utilization research. The only change in staffing pattern involved in

this combination was the abolishment of the position of Deputy Administrator for Nutrition and Consumer-Use Research.

The greatest increase occurred in farm research and nutrition consumer and industrial use research. Employees previously listed in Research Planning and Coordination are now reported in the Office of the Administrator-thus the slight increase reflected in Office of the Administrator.

Cooperative State Research Service

The Cooperative State Experiment Station Service was reorganized and renamed the Cooperative State Research Service on November 22, 1963. The name of the Service was changed to more accurately and adequately describe its functions and activities, particularly in view of the new responsibility of the Service under the McIntireStennis Cooperative Forestry Act. Functions of the Service now include coordination of research not only at the State agricultural experiment stations, but also at State colleges and universities conducting Federal-State cooperative forestry research under the act. Under the reorganization, the Service was realined to provide more effective administration of functions, authorities, and responsibilities. The work was regrouped as follows: Regional and nonformula funds, formula funds, cooperative forestry research, and research programs. National Agricultural Library

The National Agricultural Library was reorganized due to assignment of responsibility for departmentwide coordination of scientific and technical information other than the publication and initial distribution of newly documented material. The reorganization provided for a new functional area, i.e., program coordination services, which replaced the existing management services functional area.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

The Secretary of Commerce reported an overall increase of 1,206 employees during calendar year 1963, and outlined the following organizational changes:

Office of the Secretary

Two positions as Deputy to the Secretary were established in the Office of the Secretary. A Deputy to the Secretary for Textiles Programs was designated to coordinate and direct at the highest level the Department's work in the field of textiles, especially implementation of international agreements concerning restraints on exports. A Deputy to the Secretary for Congressional Relations was named to assure prompt and effective response from all elements of the Department to requests from committees of the Congress or from individual members.

One of the Assistant Secretaries was designated as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. In addition to serving as principal adviser to the Secretary and other departmental officials on broad, long-range economic matters, this officer exercises policy direction and general supervision over the Bureau of the Census and the Office of Business Economics.

Two organizational changes were made during 1963 in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology: (1) The Office of Commissioner, U.S. Science Exhibit-Century 21 Exposition was terminated as scheduled, following the closing of the Seattle Fair: and (2) the commercial standards and simplification functions of the Office of Technical Services were transferred to the National Bureau of Standards in June. At the close of the year plans were well advanced to transfer the entire Office of Technical Services to the National Bureau of Standards as a part of a major reorganization of that Bureau.

In the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration, a significant organizational change was accomplished in the following related steps: (1) The Policy Development staff was abolished; (2) the management functions were detached from the former Office of Budget and Management which was redesignated as the Office of Budget and Finance; and (3) the management functions were assigned to a newly established Office of Management and Organization. Domestic and International Business.-Organization and procedural improvements were made during the year to further develop and coordinate the activities of the bureaus and offices engaged in carrying on the Department's domestic and international business programs under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Domestic and International Business. Significant changes were:

Office of Administration for Domestic and International Business.— A new Office of Administration for Domestic and International Business, reporting to the Assistant Secretary for Domestic and International Business, was established to provide centralized administrative management services to the Business and Defense Services Administration, Bureau of International Commerce, Office of Foreign Commercial Services, Office of Field Services, and Office of Trade Adjustment. The Office consolidates the administrative management activities formerly performed by individual units located directly in the operating bureaus.

Office of Publications and Information for Domestic and International Business.-A new Office of Publications and Information for Domestic and International Business, reporting to the Assistant Secretary for Domestic and International Business, was established to provide complete publication and information services to the Business and Defense Services Administration, Bureau of International Commerce, Office of Foreign Commercial Services, Office of Field Services, and the Office of Trade Adjustment. The Office consolidates the publication and information activities formerly located directly in the operating bureaus.

Office of Trade Adjustment.-The Office of Trade Adjustment was redesignated a primary organization unit of the Department of Commerce reporting to the Assistant Secretary for Domestic and International Business. As the focal point for administration of trade adjustment assistance functions assigned to the Department of Commerce under title III of the Trade Expansion Act, establishment of this Office as a primary organization unit permits more effective planning, coordination, and control of trade adjustment activities within the Department.

Office of Field Services.-The Trade Conferences Staff and the Executive Director of the National Export Expansion Council are being transferred to the Office of Field Services from the Bureau of International Commerce and the Office of the Secretary. This change should provide more effective communication and coordination between Washington and the field establishments in carrying on the work of the Regional Export Expansion Councils.

The Business Information Center, set up to provide a central service to which businessmen could go for information relating to business activities of the Department of Commerce or other Government agencies, was phased out of operation in 1963. Personnel assigned to the Center were reassigned to other positions in the Department which would have had to be filled through additional hiring.

Bureau of International Commerce.-The exhibits solicitation and procurement functions for Commerce exhibits at oversea trade fairs, trade centers, and interagency fairs were consolidated into a new Exhibits Participation Division. Prior to this, industry solicitation had been handled separately by the Trade Centers Division for trade center exhibits, and by the Office of International Trade Fairs for interagency type exhibits at international fairs. Consolidation of these functions resulted in an increase in productivity of 30 percent over 1962.

National Bureau of Standards

The following major organizational changes were made in the National Bureau of Standards during 1963 to give greater emphasis to NBS programs that support directly the broad responsibilities of the Department of Commerce for promoting economic growth through science and technology.

Deputy Directors. One of the Associate Directors was appointed to the new position of Deputy Director for Technological Standards and Services and the existing Deputy Director was designated Deputy Director for Basic Standards and Services. This change was made to improve the ability of the Bureau to identify and meet the needs of its two broad customer groups-the scientific community and the industrial community-and to strengthen the Bureau's activities which foster industrial technology.

Commodity standards.-The Commodity Standards and International Standards programs which had been conducted by the Office of Technical Services of the Department of Commerce were transferred to the National Bureau of Standards. The assignment of these functions to the Bureau concentrated in NBS all of the Department's programs concerned with the development of commercial and industrial standards which provide the common basis for exchange of technological products and services in industry and commerce.

Office of Standard Reference Data.-The National Bureau of Standards was given responsibility for administering the national standard reference data system recently established by an announcement from the Office of Science and Technology on the recommendation of the Federal Council for Science and Technology. This system will provide a storehouse of critically evaluated and readily available reference data in the physical sciences to assist in the advancement of science and technology. The small office established at NBS will plan and

coordinate a broad based national program for the collection, evaluation and dissemination of these data involving cooperative effort by scientists in other Government agencies, academic institutions, and private organizations.

Pending organizational changes, NBS

A major reorganization of the scientific activities of the Department is underway involving the National Bureau of Standards, Office of Technical Services, and the civilian industrial technology program. All of these activities are being combined in a substantially reorganized National Bureau of Standards. The purpose of the reorganization is to apply the activities of these organizations in direct support of the mission of the Department and to achieve administrative efficiencies.

There will be established at NBS a series of institutes to provide a focal point in the Federal Government for assuring maximum application of the physical and engineering sciences to the advancement of technology in industry and commerce. Major elements of the new organization include:

An Institute for Basic Standards to conduct research and provide services essential to the development and maintenance of a complete and consistent system of physical measurement in the United States. An Institute for Materials Research to assist and stimulate industry in the development of new and improved products by supplying increased understanding of the basic properties and behavior of materials and making available more reliable quantitative information on the performance of materials.

An Institute for Applied Technology to provide special industryoriented services which will facilitate and encourage the use by industry of available technology and stimulate technological innovation in industry.

The Central Radio Propagation Laboratory which is the central agency of the Federal Government for research on radio wave propagation and for technical services to facilitate efficient use and conservation of the radio spectrum.

Of the above, the Institute for Applied Technology will contain the OTS and CIT activities as well as substantially strengthened NBS programs for cooperation with industry. The other three organizational elements will continue existing NBS programs with improved focus on the special needs of the various users of the Bureau's services in science and industry.

A departmental order dated January 30, 1964, which carried out the above objectives, became effective as of that date.

Bureau of Public Roads

A modification of the organizational structure of the Bureau of Public Roads adjusted the span of control exercised by the Federal Highway Administrator. Three major organizational components: namely, the Office of Audits and Investigations, Office of Administration, and the Office of the General Counsel, now report directly to the Federal Highway Administrator. The five engineering and operational components, as well as the field operations, remain under the executive direction of the Chief Engineer. Other organizational