DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, AND HEALTH, [PUBLIC LAW 87-290] [87TH CONGRESS, H.R. 7035] By the Act making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for other purposes, approved September 22, 1961. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, namely: TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary for the Office of the Secretary of Labor (hereafter in this title referred to as the Secretary), purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only at not to exceed $5,000, $1,796,000, of which not more than $2,000 shall be for official entertainment expenses. [For appropriation for 1962 for "Area redevelopment activities," see p. 226.] BUREAU OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary for the Bureau of Labor-Management Reports, $5,775,000__. BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL LABOR AFFAIRS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary for the conduct of international labor affairs, $500,000-- $1,796, 000 5,775,000 500,000 OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary for the Office of the Solicitor, $4,116,000-- 136 4, 116, 000 BUREAU OF LABOR STANDARDS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary for the promotion of industrial safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for labor and industry; performance of safety functions of the Secretary under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 784 (c)) and the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, as amended (72 Stat. 835); performance of the functions vested in the Secretary by sections 8 (b) and (c) of the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act (72 Stat. 997); and not less than $276,000 for the work of the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped, as authorized by the Act of July 11, 1949 (63 Stat. 409); $3,258,000: Provided, That no part of the appropriation for the President's Committee shall be subject to reduction or transfer to any other department or agency under the provisions of any existing law; including purchase of reports and of material for informational exhibits. BUREAU OF VETERANS' REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary to render assistance in connection with the exercise of reemployment rights under section 8 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 308), the Service Extension Act of 1941, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 351), the Army Reserve and Retired Personnel Service Law of 1940, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 401), and section 9 of the Universal Military Training and Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 459), and the Reserve Forces Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 598), $633,000 BUREAU OF APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to conduct a program of encouraging apprentice training, as authorized by the Acts of March 4, 1913 (5 U.S.C. 611), and August 16, 1937 (29 U.S.C. 50), $4,976,000. BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LIMITATION ON SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary for the general administration of the employment service and unemployment compensation programs, including temporary employment of persons, without regard to the civil-service laws, for the farm placement migratory labor program; not more than $10,500,000 may be expended from the employment security administration account in the Unemployment trust fund, of which $1,369,000 shall be for carrying into effect the provisions of title IV (except section 602) of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. LIMITATION ON GRANTS TO STATES FOR UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION For grants in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended (29 U.S.C. 49-49n), for carrying into effect section 602 of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, for grants to the $3,258,000 633,000 4,976,000 States as authorized in title III of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 501-503), including, upon the request of any State, the purchase of equipment, and the payment of rental for space made available to such State in lieu of grants for such purpose, for necessary expenses including purchasing and installing of air-conditioning equipment in connection with the operation of employment office facilities and services in the District of Columbia, and for the acquisition of a building through such arrangements as may be required to provide quarters for such offices and facilities in the District of Columbia and for the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Board, including conveyance by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to the United States of title to the land on which such building is to be situated, subject to the same conditions with respect to the use of these funds for such purposes as are applicable to the procurement of buildings for other State employment security agencies, and for expenses not otherwise provided for, necessary for carrying out title XV of the Social Security Act, as amended (68 Stat. 1130), not more than $405,000,000 may be expended from the employment security administration. account in the Unemployment trust fund, of which $15,000,000 shall be available only to the extent necessary to meet increased costs of administration resulting from changes in a State law or increases in the numbers of claims filed and claims paid or increased salary costs resulting from changes in State salary compensation plans embracing employees of the State generally over those upon which the State's basic grant (or the allocation for the District of Columbia) was based, which increased costs of administration cannot be provided for by normal budgetary adjustments: Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in section 302 (a) of the Social Security Act, as amended, the Secretary of Labor shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State found to be in compliance with the requirements of the Act of June 6, 1933, and, except in the case of Guam and the Virgin Islands, with the provisions of section 303 of the Social Security Act, as amended, such amounts as he determines to be necessary for the proper and efficient administration of its unemployment compensation law and of its public employment offices: Provided further, That such amounts as may be agreed upon by the Department of Labor and the Post Office Department shall be used for the payment, in such manner as said parties may jointly determine, of postage for the transmission of official mail matter in connection with the administration of unemployment compensation systems and employment services by States receiving grants herefrom. In carrying out the provisions of said Act of June 6, 1933, the provisions of section 303 (a) (1) of the Social Security Act, as amended, relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on the merit basis, shall apply. None of the funds appropriated by this title to the Bureau of Employment Security for grants-in-aid of State agencies to cover, in whole or in part, the cost of operation of said agencies, including the salaries and expenses of officers and employees of said agencies, shall be withheld from the said agencies of any States which have established by legislative enactment and have in operation a merit system and classification and compensation plan covering the selection, tenure in office, and compensation of their employees, because of any disapproval of their personnel or the manner of their selection by the agencies of the said States, or the rates of pay of said officers or employees. Grants to States, next succeeding fiscal year: For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to States under title III of the Social Security Act, as amended, and under the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, for the first quarter of the next succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary, the obligations incurred and the expenditures made thereunder for payments under such title and under such Act of June 6, 1933, to be charged to the appropriation therefor for that fiscal year: Provided, That the payments made pursuant to this paragraph shall not exceed the amount paid to the States for the first quarter of the current fiscal year-- PAYMENT TO THE FEDERAL EXTENDED COMPENSATION ACCOUNT Indefinite For payment into the Federal extended compensation account of the unemployment trust fund, as repayable advances, as authorized by section 13 of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1961, $340,000,000, to remain available only until September 30, $340, 000, 000 1962. ADVANCES TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNT, UNEM PLOYMENT TRUST FUND For an additional amount for capital for the Revolving fund, $20,000,000-- UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND EX-SERVICEMEN 20, 000, 000 For payments to unemployed Federal employees and ex-servicemen, either directly or through payments to States, as authorized by title XV of the Social Security Act, as amended, $147,000,000--- Unemployment compensation for Federal employees and ex-servicemen, next succeeding fiscal year: For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to States, as authorized by title XV of the Social Security Act, as amended, such amounts as may be required for payment to unemployed Federal employees and ex-servicemen for the first quarter of the next succeeding fiscal year, and the obligations and expenditures thereunder shall be charged to the appropriation therefor for that fiscal year: Provided, That the payments made pursuant to this paragraph shall not exceed the amount paid to the States for the first quarter of the current fiscal year__. COMPLIANCE ACTIVITIES, MEXICAN FARM LABOR PROGRAM [For an additional amount for 1962, for the foregoing purpose, see p. 226.] SALARIES AND EXPENSES, MEXICAN FARM LABOR PROGRAM For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to carry out the functions of the Department of Labor under the Act of July 12, 1951, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1461-1468), including temporary employment of persons without regard to the civil-service laws, $925,000, which shall be derived by transfer from the Farm labor supply revolving fund. [For an additional amount for 1962, for the foregoing purpose, see p. 226.] [Total, Bureau of Employment Security, $507,720,000.] 147, 000, 000 Indefinite 720,000 BUREAU OF EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary administrative expenses and not to exceed $103,225 for the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board, $3,834,000, together with not to exceed $55,000 to be derived from the fund created by section 44 of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 944). EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION CLAIMS AND EXPENSES For the payment of compensation and other benefits and expenses (except administrative expenses) authorized by law and accruing during the current or any prior fiscal year, including payments to other Federal agencies for medical and hospital services pursuant to agreement approved by the Bureau of Employees' Compensation; continuation of payment of benefits as provided for under the head "Civilian War Benefits" in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; the advancement of costs for enforcement of recoveries in third-party cases; the furnishing of medical and hospital services and supplies, treatment, and funeral and burial expenses, including transportation and other expenses incidental to such services, treatment, and burial, for such enrollees of the Civilian Conservation Corps as were certified by the Director of such Corps as receiving hospital services and treatment at Government expense on June 30, 1943, and who are not otherwise entitled thereto as civilian employees of the United States, and the limitations and authority of the Act of September 7, 1916, as amended (5 U.S.C. 796), shall apply in providing such services, treatment, and expenses in such cases and for payments pursuant to sections 4(c) and 5(f) of the War Claims Act of 1948 (50 U.S.C. App. 2012); $64,000,000: Provided, That, in the adjudication of claims under section 42 of the said Act of 1916, for benefits payable from this appropriation, authority under section 32 of the Act to make rules and regulations shall be construed to include the nature and extent of the proofs and evidence required to establish the right to such benefits without regard to the date of the injury or death for which claim is made. [Total, Bureau of Employees' Compensation, $67,834,000.] BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including advances or reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agencies and their employees for services rendered, $12,667,000__-. REVISION OF THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX For expenses necessary to enable the Bureau of Labor Statistics to revise the Consumer Price Index, including not to exceed $250,000 for temporary employees at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor (but not to exceed a rate equivalent to that for general schedule grade 9) without regard to the civil service laws and Classification Act of 1949, as amended, $2,100,000. [Total, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $14,767,000.] $3,834,000 and 55,000 (trust funds) 64, 000, 000 12, 667,000 2,100,000 |