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Established the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[Reorg.
Plan No. 4 of 1970, 3 C.F.R. xx (1970), reprinted in 84 Stat.
2090-93 (1970), and in 35 Fed. Reg. 15627-30 (1970), and
reprinted with amendments in 5 U.S.C. app. at 1557-61 (1994)]
Reorganization
Plan No. 4 of 1970
Prepared
by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives
in Congress assembled, July 9, 1970, pursuant to the provisions of
chapter 9 of title 5 of the United States Code.1
1Effective
October 3, 1970, under the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 906.
NATIONAL
OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
SECTION
1. Transfers to Secretary of Commerce. The following are hereby
transferred to the Secretary of Commerce
(a) All functions vested by law in the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
of the Department of the Interior or in its head, together with all
functions vested by law in the Secretary of the Interior or the Department
of the Interior which are administered through that Bureau or are primarily
related to the Bureau, exclusive of functions with respect to (1) Great
Lakes fishery research and activities related to the Great Lakes Fisheries
Commission, (2) Missouri River Reservoir research, (3) the Gulf Breeze
Biological Laboratory of the said Bureau at Gulf Breeze, Florida, and
(4) Trans-Alaska pipeline investigations.
(b) The functions vested in the Secretary of the Interior by the Act
of September 22, 1959 (Public Law 86-359, 73 Stat. 642, 16 U.S.C. 760e-760g;
relating to migratory marine species of game fish).
(c) The functions vested by law in the Secretary of the Interior, or
in the Department of the Interior or in any officer or instrumentality
of that Department, which are administered through the Marine Minerals
Technology Center of the Bureau of Mines.
(d) All functions vested in the National Science Foundation by the National
Sea Grant College and Program Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 998), as amended
(33 U.S.C. 1121 et seq.).
(e) Those functions vested in the Secretary of Defense or in any officer,
employee, or organizational entity of the Department of Defense by the
provision of Public Law 91-144, 83 Stat. 326, under the heading "Operation
and maintenance, general" with respect to "surveys and charting of northern
and northwestern lakes and connecting waters," or by other law, which
come under the mission assigned as of July 1, 1969, to the United States
Army Engineer District, Lake Survey, Corps of Engineers, Department
of the Army and relate to (1) the conduct of hydrographic surveys of
the Great Lakes and their outflow rivers, Lake Champlain, New York State
Barge Canals, and the Minnesota-Ontario border lakes, and the compilation
and publication of navigation charts, including recreational aspects,
and the Great Lakes Pilot for the benefit and use of the public, (2)
the conception, planning, and conduct of basic research and development
in the fields of water motion, water characteristics, water quantity,
and ice and snow, and (3) the publication of data and the results of
research projects in forms useful to the Corps of Engineers and the
public, and the operation of a Regional Data Center for the collection,
coordination, analysis, and the furnishing to interested agencies of
data relating to water resources of the Great Lakes.
(f) So much of the functions of the transferor officers and agencies
referred to in or affected by the foregoing provisions of this section
as is incidental to or necessary for the performance by or under the
Secretary of Commerce of the functions transferred by those provisions
or relates primarily to those functions. The transfers to the Secretary
of Commerce made by this section shall be deemed to include the transfer
of authority, provided by law, to prescribe regulations relating primarily
to the transferred functions.
SEC. 2. Establishment of Administration. (a) There is hereby
established in the Department of Commerce an agency which shall be known
as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hereinafter
referred to as the "Administration."
(b) There shall be at the head of the Administration the Administrator
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hereinafter
referred to as the "Administrator." The Administrator shall be appointed
by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
and shall be compensated at the rate now or hereafter provided for Level
III of the Executive Schedule Pay Rates (5 U.S.C. 5314).
(c) There shall be in the Administration a Deputy Administrator of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who shall be appointed
by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
and shall be compensated at the rate now or hereafter provided for Level
IV of the Executive Schedule Pay Rates (5 U.S.C. 5315). The Deputy Administrator
shall perform such functions as the Administrator shall from time to
time assign or delegate, and shall act as Administrator during the absence
or disability of the Administrator or in the event of a vacancy in the
office of Administrator.
(d) There shall be in the Administration an Associate Administrator
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who shall be
appointed by the President , by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, and shall be compensated at the rate now or hereafter provided
for Level V of the Executive Schedule Pay Rates (5 U.S.C. 5316). The
Associate Administrator shall perform such functions as the Administrator
shall from time to time assign or delegate, and shall act as Administrator
during the absence or disability of the Administrator and Deputy Administrator.
The office of Associate Administrator may be filled at the discretion
of the President by appointment ( by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate) from the active list of the commissioned officers of
the Administration in which case the appointment shall create a vacancy
on the active list and while holding the office of Associate Administrator
the officer shall have rank, pay, and allowances not exceeding those
of a vice admiral.
(e) There shall be in the Administration three additional officers who
shall perform such functions as the Administrator shall from time to
time assign or delegate. Each such officer shall be appointed by the
Secretary, subject to the approval of the President, under the classified
civil service, shall have such title as the Secretary shall from time
to time determine, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or
hereafter provided for Level V of the Executive Schedule Pay Rates (5
U.S.C. 5316).
(f) The President may appoint in the Administration, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, two commissioned officers to serve
at any one time as the designated heads of two principal constituent
organizational entities of the Administration, or the President may
designate one such officer as the head of such an organizational entity
and the other as the head of the commissioned corps of the Administration.
Any such designation shall create a vacancy on the active list and the
officer while serving under this subsection shall have the rank, pay,
and allowances of a rear admiral (upper half).
(g) Any commissioned officer of the Administration who has served under
(d) or (f) and is retired while so serving or is retired after the completion
of such service while serving in a lower rank or grade, shall be retired
with the rank, pay, and allowances authorized by law for the highest
grade and rank held by him; but any such officer, upon termination of
his appointment in a rank above that of captain, shall, unless appointed
or assigned to some other position for which a higher rank or grade
is provided, revert to the grade and number he would have occupied had
he not served in a rank above that of captain and such officer shall
be an extra number in that grade.
SEC. 3. Performance of transferred functions. The provisions
of sections 2 and 4 of Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1263)
shall be applicable to the functions transferred hereunder to the Secretary
of Commerce.
SEC. 4 Incidental Transfers. (a) So much of the personnel,
property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations,
and other funds employed, used, held, available, or to be made available
in connection with the functions transferred to the Secretary of Commerce
by this reorganization plan as the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget shall determine shall be transferred to the Department of
Commerce at such time or times as the Director shall direct.
(b) Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Office
of Management and Budget shall deem to be necessary in order to effectuate
the transfers referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall be
carried out in such manner as he shall direct and by such agencies as
he shall designate.
(c) The personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of the
appropriations, allocations, and other funds of the Environmental Science
Services Administration shall become personnel, property, records, and
unexpended balances of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
or of such other organizational entity or entities of the Department
of Commerce as the Secretary of Commerce shall determine.
(d) The Commissioned Officer Corps of the Environmental Science Services
Administration shall become the Commissioned Officer Corps of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Members of the Corps, including
those appointed hereafter, shall be entitled to all rights, privileges,
and benefits heretofore available under any law to commissioned officers
of the Environmental Science Services Administration, including those
rights, privileges, and benefits heretofore accorded by law to commissioned
officers of the former Coast and Geodetic Survey.
(e) Any personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations,
allocations, and other funds of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries not
otherwise transferred shall become personnel, property, records, and
unexpended balances of such organizational entity or entities of the
Department of the Interior as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine.
SEC. 5. Interim Officers. (a) The President may authorize any
person who immediately prior to the effective date of this reorganization
plan held a position in the executive branch of the Government to act
as Administrator until the office of Administrator is for the first
time filled pursuant to the provisions of this reorganization plan or
by recess appointment, as the case may be.
(b) The President may similarly authorize any such person to act as
Deputy Administrator and authorize any such person to act as Associate
Administrator.
(c) The President may similarly authorize a member of the former Commissioned
Officer Corps of the Environmental Science Services Administration to
act as the head of one principal constituent organizational entity of
the Administration.
(d) The President may authorize any person who serves in an acting capacity
under the foregoing provisions of this section to receive the compensation
attached to the office in respect of which he so serves. Such compensation,
if authorized, shall be in lieu of, but not in addition to, other compensation
from the United States to which such person may be entitled.
SEC. 6. Abolitions. (a) Subject to the provisions of this reorganization
plan, the following, exclusive of any functions, are hereby abolished:
(1) The Environmental Science Services Administration in the Department
of Commerce (established by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1965, 79 Stat.1318),
including the offices of Administrator of the Environmental Science
Services Administration and Deputy Administrator of the Environmental
Science Services Administration.
(2) The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the Department of the Interior
(16 U.S.C. 742b), including the office of Director of the Bureau of
Commercial Fisheries.
(b) Such provisions as may be necessary with respect to terminating
any outstanding affairs shall be made by the Secretary of Commerce in
the case of the Environmental Science Services Administration and by
the Secretary of the Interior in the case of the Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries.
[F.R. Doc. 70-13375; Filed Oct. 5, 1970; 8:45 a.m.]
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Register, Vol. 35, NO. 194 - Tuesday, October 6, 1970
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