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the active list and while serving under this paragraph the 

 officer shall have rank, pay and allowances not exceeding 

 those of a Rear Admiral (upper half I . 



(e) Any commissioned officer of the Administration 

 who has served as Deputy Administrator or has served In a 

 rank above that of Captain as the head of a principal 

 constituent organizational entity of the Administration, 

 and is retired while so ser\'ing or is retired after the 

 completion of such sei^ice while serving in a lower rank 

 or grade, shall be retired with the rank, pay and allow- 

 ances 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. |As amended Pub. 

 L. 90-83. § 10(c). Sept 11. 1967, 81 Stat. 224.1 



Sec, 5. Authority of the Secretary 

 Nothing In this reorganization plan shall divest the 

 Secretai^ of any function vested In him by law or by 

 Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1263) or In 

 any manner derogate from any authority of the Secretary 

 thereunder. 



Sec. 6. Personnel, Property. Records and Funds 



(a) The personnel (Including conunlssloned officers) 

 employed In the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the personnel 

 employed in the Weather Bureau, and the property and 

 records held or used by the Weather Bureau or the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey shall be deemed to be transferred to 

 the Administration. 



(b) Unexpended balances of appropriations, alloca- 

 tions, and other funds available or to be made available 

 In connection with functions now administered by the 

 Weather Bureau or by the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 shall be available to the Administration hereunder In 

 connection with those functions. 



(c) Such further measures and dispositions as the 

 Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be 

 necessary In order to effectuate the foregoing provisions 

 of this section shall be carried out In such manner as he 

 shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate. 



Sec. 7. Interim Officers 



(a) The President may authorize any person who Im- 

 mediately prior to the effective date of this reorga- 

 nization plan held a position In the executive branch 

 of the Government to act as Administrator until the 

 ofiSce 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. 



(c) 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 to which he so serves. Such compensa- 

 tion. 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. 



Bureau of Standards to the Administration when the re- 

 organization plan takes effect. The new Administration 

 win then provide a single national focus for our efforts to 

 describe, understand, and predict the state of the oceans, 

 the state of the lower and upper atmosphere, and the 

 size and shape of the earth. 



Establishment of the Administration will mark a sig- 

 nificant step forward In the continual search by the 

 Federal Government for better ways to meet the needs 

 of the Nation for environmental science services. Tbe 

 organizational Improvements made possible by the re- 

 organization plan will enhance our ability to develop 

 an adequate warning system for the severe hazards of 

 nature — for hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, 

 and seismic sea waves, which have proved so disastrous 

 to the Nation In recent years. These improvements will 

 permit us to provide better environmental Information to 

 vital segments of the Nation's economy — to agriculture, 

 transportation, communications, and Industry, which 

 continually require Information about the physical envir- 

 onment. They will mean better services to other Fed- 

 eral departments and agencies — to those that are con- 

 cerned with the national defense, the exploration of 

 outer space, the management of our mineral and water 

 resources, the protection of the public health against 

 environmental pollution, and the preservation of our 

 wilderness and recreation areas. 



The new Administration will bring together a number 

 of allied scientific disciplines that are concerned with 

 the physical environment. This Integration will better 

 enable us to look at man's physical environment as a 

 scientific whole and to seek to understand the Interac- 

 tions among air, sea, and earth and between the upper 

 and lower atmosphere. It will facilitate the development 

 of programs dealing with the physical environment and 

 win permit better management of these programs. It 

 will enhance our capability to Identify and solve Impor- 

 tant long-range scientific and technological problems as- 

 sociated with the physical environment. The new Admin- 

 istration win, in consequence, promote a fresh sense of 

 scientific dedication, discovery, and challenge, which are 

 essential If we are to attract scientists and engineers of 

 creativity and talent to Federal employment In this field. 



The reorganization plan provides for an Administrator 

 at the head of the Administration, and for a Deputy Ad- 

 ministrator, each of whom will be appointed by the Presi- 

 dent by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. 

 As authorized by the civil service and other laws and 

 regulations, subordinate officers of the Administration 

 will be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce or be 

 assigned by him from among a corps of commissioned 

 officers. The Administration will perform such functions 

 as the Secretary of Commerce may delegate or otherwise 

 assign to It and will be under his direction and control. 



Commissioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 will become commissioned officers of the Administration 

 and may serve at the discretion of the Secretary of Com- 

 merce throughout the Administration. The reorganiza- 

 tion plan authorizes the President at his discretion to fill 

 the Office of Deputy Administrator by appointment, by 

 and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from the 

 active list of commissioned officers of the Administration. 



Message of the President 

 To the Congress of the United States; 



I transmit herewith Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1965, 

 prepared In accordance with the provisions of the Re- 

 organization Act of 1949, as amended, and providing for 

 the reorganization of two major agencies of the Depart- 

 ment of Commerce: The Weather' Bureau and the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey. 



The reorganization plan consolidates the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey and the Weather Bureau to form a new 

 agency In the Department of Commerce to be known as 

 the Environmental Science Services Administration. It 

 Is the Intention of the Secretary gf Commerce to transfer 

 the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory of the National 



The reorganization plan transmitted herewith abol- 

 ishes—and thus excludes from the consolldatfon men- 

 tioned above— the offices of (1) Chief of the Weather 

 Bureau, provided for in the act of October 1 1890 (15 

 U.S.C. 312): (2) Director of the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, provided for In the acts of June 4, 1920, and Feb- 

 ruary 18, 1929, as amended (33 U.S.C. 852, 852al; and (3) 

 Deputy Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey pro- 

 vided for In the act of January 19, 1942, as amended (33 

 use. 852b) . 



After Investigation, I have found and hereby declare 

 that each reorganization Included In Reorganization Plan 

 No. 2 of 1965 Is necessary to accomplish one or more of 



