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What section 2 proposes is to authorize a maximum figure not to 

 exceed the top of the GS-12 grade. 



' Mr. DiNGELL. Would it not be just as well to let it go on and be 

 handled through the Appropriations Committee with the fixing of 

 the rates being done by the Appropriations Committee each year? 



Mr. Grubb. The rates, Mr. Dingell, are not fixed by the Appropria- 

 tions Committee. They fix a maximum figure and the Bureau, within 

 this maximum limitation, establishes the pay rates. At the present 

 time, the actual pay which we are giving these employees as base rates 

 up there is somewhat below the base rates authorized in the Appro- 

 priations Act. 



Mr. Dingell. Thank you very much. 



Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Curtin. 



Mr. Curtin. I would like to ask the gentleman just one more 

 question. 



We read in the paper in the last week or two about a station that 

 had to be removed because the ice broke up under the personnel. Was 

 that one of your stations ? 



Mr. Grubb. That was a station we were operating, I believe, in 

 cooperation with the National Science Foundation. 



The ice floe broke up. We were taking obsei^ations up there some- 

 what comparable to the observations being taken at the five stations to 

 which I referred. 



Mr. Curtin. That is all. 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Oliver? 



Mr. Oliver. Mr. Chairman, I want to say that I have enjoyed the 

 statement of the Under Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Allen, and of the 

 admiral here in this regard. I think it is a very forceful statement, 

 a brief one, right to the point. 



I would like to pay tribute also to the persuasive powers of some- 

 body, either the Secretary or Under Secretary or youreelf, to get the 

 Bureau of the Budget to take an affirmative position in support of 

 this bill in view of the fact that this probably will call for expanded 

 appropriations ; will it not ? 



Admiral Kj^ro. Yes, sir; and I think earlier some of the questions 

 were about the lack of controlled appropriations. I think that indi- 

 cates that the Bureau of the Budget feels that Congress, through the 

 executive branches, will have complete control of any appropriations 

 that will be made under this effort. 



I would like also, if I may, to say something about this question 

 of duplication that has been mentioned here by some of the other 

 witnesses. 



We cannot see why the enactment of the proposed legislation would 

 result in any more duplication of responsibility than already exists. 



Section 7392 of title 10, United States Code, states that the Secre- 

 tary of the Navy under regulations as he prescribes may, (1) have the 

 Hydrographic Office prepare maps, charts, and nautical books re- 

 quired in navigation and have such materials published and furnished 

 to navigators. 



Section 246 of the act of August 6, 194Y, authorizas the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey to "compile, print and distribute charts of the United 

 States and its possessions." 



