REORGANIZATION PLANS REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. III Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 2, 1940, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1939, approved April 3, 1939. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY SECTION 1. Fiscal Service of the Treasury Department. (a) Establishment of Fiscal Service.-(1) The office of the Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits, the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, the Division of Disbursement, the Division of Deposits, the Section of Surety Bonds, the office of the Commissioner of the Public Debt, the Division of Loans and Currency, the office of the Register of the Treasury, the Division of Public Debt Accounts and Audit, the Division of Savings Bonds, the Division of Paper Custody, and the Office of the Treasurer of the United States and their functions are consolidated into one agency of the Treasury Department to be known as the Fiscal Service, at the head of which there shall be an officer who shall be known as the Fiscal Assistant Secretary. (2) The Fiscal Service shall consist of the Office of the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, the Office of the Treasurer of the United States, a Bureau of Accounts, and a Bureau of the Public Debt. Except as is otherwise specifically provided herein, the Secretary of the Treasury may establish such divisions and other constituent units within these agencies as he deems necessary. Transmitted April 2, 1940. Effective June 30, 1940; ante, p. 231. 53 Stat. 561. 5 U. S. C., Supp. V. §§ 133-133r. Fiscal Service, establishment. Composition. Division of Bookkeeping and War (3) The Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants and its functions are transferred to the Bureau of Accounts, at the head of which shall rants, transfer. be the Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits, who shall hereafter be known as the Commissioner of Accounts. (4) The office of the Commissioner of the Public Debt, the Division of Loans and Currency, the office of the Register of the Treasury, the Division of Public Debt Accounts and Audit, the Division of Savings Bonds, and the Division of Paper Custody and their functions are consolidated into and shall be administered as the Bureau of the Public Debt, at the head of which shall be the Commissioner of the Public Debt. Bureau of Public Debt. Office of Treasurer (5) The functions of the Office of the Treasurer of the United States of the United States. shall be administered by the Treasurer of the United States. (6) Such functions as are consolidated into or transferred to the Fiscal Service and which are not allocated herein to particular agencies or offices of the Fiscal Service shall be administered through such units of the Service as may be designated by the Fiscal Assistant Secretary with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. of Administration unallocated functions. Fiscal Assistant Secretary, appointment, (7) The Fiscal Assistant Secretary shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the civil service laws and shall etc. receive a salary at the rate of $10,000 per annum. He shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, supervise the administration of and coordinate the functions and activities consolidated into or transferred to the Fiscal Service and shall perform such other duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. In the absence 1231 Transfer of certain functions to Fiscal Service. or disability of the Fiscal Assistant Secretary or in the event of a vacancy in that office, the Secretary of the Treasury may designate any other officer of the Treasury Department to act as Fiscal Assistant Secretary. (b) Transfer of Certain Functions to Fiscal Service.-All functions vested in the Under Secretary of the Treasury and any Assistant Secretary of the Treasury pertaining to (1) the administration of financing operations; (2) the supervision of the administration of the functions and activities of the Office of Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits, the Office of the Commissioner of the Public Debt, and the Office of the Treasurer of the United States; and (3) supervision of the administration of the accounting functions and activities in the Treasury Department and all its bureaus, divisions, and offices, are hereby transferred to and consolidated in the Fiscal Service, to be exercised by the Fiscal Assistant Secretary under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That the functions included in item (3) shall be exercised through the Commissioner of Accounts. (c) Transfer of Functions Relating to Accounting.-All functions vesttions relating to ac- ed in any other officer or employee of the Treasury Department, except those excluded by section 3 (b) of the Reorganization Act of 1939, of authorizing the installation, maintenance, revision, and elimination. of accounting records, reports, and procedures are hereby transferred to and consolidated under the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, to be exercised by him through the Commissioner of Accounts. Proviso. Exercise of designated functions. Transfer of func counting. 53 Stat. 561. 5 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 133b (b). Abolition of an office of Assistant Secretary. Federal Alcohol Administration. Fish and Wildlife Service. Recorder of General I and Office. Surplus Marketing Administration. (d) Abolition of an Office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.— That office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury which is now vacant is hereby abolished; and all the functions, rights, powers, and duties of such abolished office are hereby transferred to and vested in the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, to be exercised by him under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. SEC. 2. Federal Alcohol Administration.-The Federal Alcohol Administration, the offices of the members thereof, and the office of the Administrator are abolished, and their functions shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury through the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the Department of the Treasury. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SEC. 3. Fish and Wildlife Service.-The Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of Biological Survey in the Department of the Interior with their respective functions are consolidated into one agency in the Department of the Interior to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. The functions of the consolidated agency shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior by a Director and not more than two Assistant Directors, who shall be appointed by the Secretary and perform such duties as he shall prescribe. The offices of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries and the offices of Chief and Associate Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey are abolished and their functions transferred to the consolidated agency. SEC. 4. Recorder of General Land Office.-The office of Recorder of the General Land Office is abolished. The functions of the Recorder shall be exercised under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior through such officers or employees of the General Land Office as he may designate. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SEC. 5. Surplus Marketing Administration.-The Division of Marketing and Marketing Agreements of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration of the Department of Agriculture and its functions and the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation as an agency of the Department of Agriculture and its functions are consolidated into an agency in the Department of Agriculture to be known as the Surplus Marketing Administration. The Surplus Marketing Administration shall be headed by an Administrator, who shall be appointed by and subject to the direction and supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR SEC. 6. Offices in the Immigration and Naturalization Service Abolished. The offices of Commissioner of Immigration of the several ports and the offices of District Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization in the Department of Labor are abolished, and their functions shall be administered under the supervision of the Secretary of Labor by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization through such District Directors of Immigration and Naturalization as the Commissioner shall designate. CIVIL AERONAUTICS AUTHORITY SEC. 7. Functions of the Administrator Transferred.-The functions vested in the Civil Aeronautics Authority by the Civilian Pilot Training Act of 1939; the functions of aircraft registration and of safety regulation described in Titles V and VI of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, except the functions of prescribing safety standards, rules, and regulations and of suspending and revoking certificates after hearing; the function provided for by Section 1101 of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938; and the functions of appointing such officers and employees and of authorizing such expenditures and travel as may be necessary for the performance of all functions vested in the Administrator; are transferred from the Civil Aeronautics Authority to and shall be exercised by the Administrator, who shall hereafter be known as the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics. GENERAL PROVISIONS Transfer of records, per sonnel. Proviso. SEC. 8. Transfer of Records, Property, and Personnel.-All records and property (including office equipment) of the several agencies, and all property, and records and property used primarily in the administration of any functions, transferred or consolidated by this Plan and all the personnel used in the administration of such agencies and functions (including officers whose chief duties relate to such administration and whose offices are not abolished) are transferred or consolidated, as the case may be, within the department or agency concerned, for use in the administration of the agencies and functions transferred or consolidated by this Plan: Provided, That any personnel transferred or consolidated within any department or agency by this section found by of number required. the head of such department or agency to be in excess of the personnel necessary for the administration of the functions transferred or consolidated shall be retransferred under existing law to other positions in the Government service, or separated from the service subject to the provisions of section 10 (a) of the Reorganization Act of 1939. SEC. 9. Transfer of funds.-So much of the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds available (including funds available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941) for the use of any agency in the exercise of any function transferred or consolidated by this Plan, or for the use of the head of any department or agency in the exercise of any function so transferred or consolidated, as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget with the approval of the President shall determine, shall be transferred within the department or agency concerned for use in connection with the exercise of the func 193470°-41-PT. I-78 53 Stat. 563. 5 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 133i (a). Transfer of funds. tion so transferred or consolidated. In determining the amount to be transferred the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may include an amount to provide for the liquidation of obligations incurred against such appropriations, allocations, or other funds prior to the transfer: Provided, That the use of the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds transferred by this section shall 5 U.S. C., Supp. V, be subject to the provisions of section 4 (d) (3) and section 9 of the Reorganization Act of 1939. Proviso. Use of unexpended balances. 53 Stat. 562, 563. §§ 133c (d) (3), 133h. Approval of compromises. 49 Stat. 985. V, § 207. Proviso. REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. IV Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 11, 1940, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1939, approved April 3, 1939. DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECTION 1. Transfer of Dominican Customs Receivership.-The functions of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in the Department of the Interior relating to the Dominican Customs Receivership are transferred to the Department of State and shall be administered by the Secretary of State or under his direction and supervision by such agency in the Department of State as he shall designate. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY SEC. 2. Approval of compromises.-The functions of the Attorney General relating to the approval of compromises made in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the Federal Alcohol Administration 27 US. C., Supp. Act are transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be exercised by him or under his direction and supervision by such officer in the Department of the Treasury as he shall designate: Provided, That exclusive jurisdiction to compromise cases arising under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act which are pending before the courts or which have been or may hereafter be referred to the Department of Justice for action shall be vested in the Attorney General, and may be exercised by him or by any officer in the Department of Justice designated by him. Jurisdiction in designated cases. Disbursement functions of U. S. marshals. Provisos. Furnishing information. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SEC. 3. Disbursement functions of United States marshals.-All functions relating to disbursement by United States marshals which would otherwise become functions of the Treasury Department on July 1, 1940, by virtue of the provisions of Executive Order No. 6166 of June 10, 1933, as amended, are transferred to and vested in the Department of Justice to be exercised by United States marshals under the supervision of the Attorney General in accordance with existing statutes pertaining to such functions: Provided, That the Attorney General shall furnish the Secretary of the Treasury, when requested by him, such information as the Treasury Department may require with respect to the amounts of money received and disbursed by marshals and the procedure followed in connection therewith: Utilization of desig- Provided further, That upon the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, and with the approval of the Attorney General, the facilities of the Department of Justice may be utilized in the disbursement, or aiding in the disbursement, of public moneys of the United States available for expenditure by any agency of the Government. nated facilities. Functions of postal disbursements. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT SEC. 4. Functions of postal disbursements. All functions relating to the disbursement of the postal revenues and all other funds under the jurisdiction of the Post Office Department and the Postmaster |