Provisions were made during the year to establish within the Department of Medicine and Surgery a Deputy for Plans and Coordination who serves as principal assistant to the ACMD for Plans and Coordination, and an additional Deputy for Professional Services to serve as a second of two principal assistants to the ACMD for Professional Services. A recent change affecting the operations of the Office of ACMD for Plans and Coordination involves the transfer to that office of the Reports and Statistics Service from the Office of Controller for the Department of Medicine and Surgery. At the same time the position of Deputy Controller is being eliminated. As previously announced by the Administrator, the seven Area Medical Directors, with certain members of their professional and administrative staffs, have been transferred to central office. Also during 1963 certain supply responsibilities were transferred from the Supply Management Service of the Office of Assistant Administrator for Management and Evaluation to the Office of the Director for Administrative Services in the Department of Medicine and Surgery. These responsibilities involve advising and assisting the rest of the agency on contractual and supply operations, appraising and evaluating supply activities, conducting research on purchasing, storage, distribution, control, and conservation of supplies and equipment, analyzing markets, preparing market forecasts, developing market sources, maintaining favorable relations with vendors, and managing the VA supply fund. Another major change in VA organization in 1963 involved the abolishment of the Department of Insurance and the placement of VA's insurance activities in a new Insurance Service in the Department of Veterans Benefits. As initially organized, the new Insurance Service consisted of a Director, Insurance Service, an Assistant Director for Underwriting, Accounts and Insurance Claims, and a Chief Actuary. The former Department of Insurance Controller functions were assumed by the Controller, Department of Veterans Benefits. Later in 1963, further revision of the Insurance Service occurred in the establishment of a productivity and standards staff and in redesignating the Assistant Director for Underwriting, Accounts and Insurance Claims as Deputy Director for Underwriting, Accounts and Insurance Claims. With the establishment of the Department of Data Management, the need no longer existed for an organizational element within the Department of Veterans Benefits to carry out data processing activities. Consequently, the office services and administrative management functions of the Administration and Data Processing Service were merged with the Contact and Foreign Affairs Service to form a new Contact and Administrative Service. In the latter part of 1963 the Loan Guaranty Service of the Department of Veterans Benefits was reorganized. This reorganization eliminated the legislative and regulatory staff as a separate organizational element and assigned the functions of the staff to other elements in the Service. A Deputy Director's position has been established under the Director, Loan Guaranty Service. There has also been a realinement of functions and a change in position titles and duties pertaining to the organizational elements under the Director and Deputy Director. Where in the past these elements consisted of an Assistant Director for Loan Policy and Management, an Assistant Director for Construction and Valuation, and an Assistant Director for Property Management, the new organization is made up of an Assistant Director for Construction and Valuation, an Assistant Director for Loan Policy, an Assistant Director for Liquidation, an Assistant Director for Property Management, and an Assistant Director for Administration. In the VA field service, the insurance activities at Philadelphia, Pa., and St. Paul, Minn., have been combined with regional office activities at those locations under the Department of Veterans Benefits and are designated VA centers (regional office, insurance). The insurance activities formerly located at Denver, Colo., have been merged with those at St. Paul. By the beginning of calendar year 1963 VA field contact offices had been reduced to nine throughout the country. In 1963, however, these were increased to a total of 10 in order to provide veterans' contact services at Dallas, Tex. This was necessary because of the transfer of regional office facilities from Dallas to Waco, Tex. The year 1963 also saw the establishment under the authority of Public Law 87-815 of a VA office for Europe in Rome, Italy. This new office provides technical advice and assistance, in cooperation with the U.S. State Department, to veterans and their beneficiaries living in 21 European countries. During the last calendar year overall employment in the agency remained substantially the same; the field station employment increase of 96 was partially offset by central office decrease of 33, with an agency net increase of 63. TABLE 6.-Executive departments and agencies established, abolished, or transferred Commission on Foreign Economic Policy. Public Law 83-215. Commission on International Rules of Public Law 85-906. Sept. 2, 1958 Commission on Organization of the ex- Public Law 80-162. July 7, 1947 Aug. 10, 1949 Aug. 1, 1956 Sept. 7, 1957 Aug. 7, 1953 Status Expired upon submission of final report, Dec. 31, Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Absorbed functions Terminated Aug. 23, 1958, Public Law 85-726, Terminated upon submission of final report, May (See Department of Defense.) Manhattan Engineer District, War Department. Requires final report, May 1, 1966. Amended by Public Law 88-152, to expire Sept. 30, Expired 90 days after convening of the 83d Cong., Terminated Sept. 22, 1957. Expired Sept. 30, 1955. (See Advisory Commis sion on Intergovernmental Relations.) Commission on Organization of the ex- Public Law 83-108. July 10, 1953 Expired Sept. 30, 1955. (second). Commission on Renovation of the Ex- Public Law 81-40. Apr. 14, 1949 Terminated Oct. 31, 1952. Aug. 10, 1949 Succeeded National Military Establishment, Public TABLE 6.-Executive departments and agencies established, abolished, or transferred-Continued Approved Executive Order 10161. Sept. 9, 1950 Public Law 85-477 (sec. June 30, 1958 203). Public Law 87-297. Public Law 80-774. District of Columbia Redevelopment Public Law 79-592_ Economic Cooperation Administration__ Public Law 80-472. Sept. 26, 1961 Aug. 2, 1946 Status Terminated by Executive Order 10480, Aug. 14, Terminated by Executive Order 10433, Feb. 4, 1953. (See U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.) Apr. 3, 1948 Terminated Dec. 30, 1951. Functions transferred Executive Order 10161. Sept. 9, 1950 Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Re- Public Law 82–552. Aug. 6, 1953 Aug. 23, 1958 Aug. 26, 1958 Liquidated Oct. 31, 1953, Executive Order 10480, Farm Credit Act of 1953. Terminated and functions transferred to OCDM (See Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Com- Housing amendments of 1955. (See Maritime Commission, United States.) Labor Management Relations Act of 1947. Government Patents Board. Executive Order 10096_. Jan. 23, 1950 Health, Education, and Welfare, De- Reorganization Plan No. Apr. 11, 1953 partment of. 1 of 1953. Amendment to Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Transferred to GSA July 1, 1949, Public Law 152, War Claims Settlement Act of 1948, and Inter- Federal Property and Administrative Services Act Abolished by Executive Order 10930, Mar. 31, 1961. Terminated Feb. 28, 1960. Amended by Public Law 87-48, June 16, 1961. To Sold on Sept. 19, 1953. Now being liquidated. Expired June 30, 1962. Terminated Mar. 1, 1960. Transferred to Department of Commerce under |