144 



60 Stat. 808 : 



75 Stat. 339, 

 340. 



63 Stat. 166. 



63 Stat. 954. 

 5 use 1071 

 note. 



5 use 55a. 



80 Stat.' 207. 

 80 Stat. 207. 



68 Stat. 482. 

 64 Stat. 767. 



Report to 

 President 

 and Congress. 



(6) Recommend, a Governmental organizational plan with 

 estimated cost. 



(c) Members of the Commission appointed from outside the 

 Government shall each receive $100 per diem when engaged in 

 the actual performance of duties of the Commission and reim- 

 bursement of travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of sub- 

 sistence, as authorized in section 5 of the Administrative Expenses 

 Act of 1946, as amended (5 U.S.C. 73b-2), for persons employed 

 intermittently. Members of the Commission appointed from within 

 the Government shall serve without additional comi)ensation to 

 that received for their services to the Government but shall be 

 reimbursed for travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of sub- 

 sistence, as authorized in the Act of June 9, 1949, as amended (5 

 U.S.C. 835-842). 



(d) The Commission shall appoint and fix the compensation of 

 such personnel as it deems advisable in accordance with the civil 

 service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. In 

 addition, the Commission may secure temporary and intermit- 

 tent services to the same extent as is authorized for the depart- 

 ments by section 15 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 

 (60 Stat. 810) but at rates not to exceed $100 per diem for indi- 

 viduals. 



(e) The Chairman of the Commission shall be responsible for 

 (1) the assignment of duties and responsibilities among such 

 personnel and their continuing supervision, and (2) the use and 

 expenditures of funds available to the Commission. In carrying 

 out the provisions of this subsection, the Chairman shall be gov- 

 erned by the general policies of the Commission with respect to 

 the work to be accomplished by it and the timing thereof. 



(f ) Financial and administrative services (including those re- 

 lated to budgeting, accounting, financial reporting, personnel, 

 and procurement) may be provided, the Commission by the Gen- 

 eral Services Administration, for which payment shall be made 

 in advance, or by reimbursement from funds of the Oommission 

 in such amounts as may be agreed upon by the Chairman of the 

 Commission and the Administrator of General Services : Provided, 

 That the regulations of the General Services Administration for 

 the collection of indebtedness of personnel resulting from er- 

 roneous payments (5 U.S.C. 46d) shall apply to the collection of 

 erroneous i)ayments made to or on behalf of a Oommission em- 

 ployee, and regulations of said Administrator for the administra- 

 tive control of funds (31 U.S.C. 665(g) ) shall apply to appropria- 

 tions of the Commission : And provided further, That the Com- 

 mission shall not be required to prescribe such regulations. 



(g) The Commission is authorized to secure directly from any 

 executive department, agency, or independent instrumentality of 

 the Government any information it deems necessary to carry out 

 its functions under this Act ; and each such department, agency, 

 and instrumentality is authorized to cooperate with the Oommis- 

 sion and, to the extent permitted by law, to furnish such infor- 

 mation to the Oommission, upon request made by the Chairman. 



(h) The Commission shall submit to the President, via the 

 Council, and to the Congress not later than eighteen months 

 after the establishment of the Commission as provided in sub- 

 section (a) of this section, a final report of its findings and rec- 

 ommendations. The Commission shall cease to exist thirty days 

 after it has submitted its final report. 



INTEENATIONAL COOPERATION 



Sec. 6. The Council, under the foreign policy guidance of the 

 President and as he may request, shall coordinate a program of 

 international cooperation in work done pursuant to this Act, 

 pursuant to agreements made by the President with the advice 

 and consent of the Senate. 



