GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION Operating expenses, Public Buildings Service: For necessary expenses of real property management and related activities as provided by law; including the salary of the Commissioner of Public Buildings at the rate of $16,500 per annum so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; repair and improvement of public buildings and grounds (including furnishings and equipment) under the control of the General Services Administration; rental of buildings in the District of Columbia; restoration of leased premises; moving Government agencies in connection with the assignment, allocation, and transfer of building space; demolition of buildings; acquisition by purchase or otherwise and disposal by sale or otherwise of real estate and interests therein; and not to exceed $184,750 for expenses of travel; $98,826,070: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be available to effect the moving of Government agencies from the District of Columbia into buildings acquired to accomplish the dispersal of departmental functions of the executive establishment into areas outside of but accessible to the District of Columbia. Emergency operating expenses: For necessary emergency expenses of the General Services Administration not otherwise provided for, for operation, maintenance, protection, repair, alterations, and improvements of public buildings and grounds (including furnishings and equipment) to the extent that such buildings and grounds are under the control of the General Services Ad ministration for such purposes as are provided for in Public Law 152, Eighty-first Congress, as amended; rental of buildings or parts thereof in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including repairs, alterations, and improvements necessary for proper use by the Government, without regard to section 322 of the Act, of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a); restoration of leased premises; moving Government agencies in connection with the assignment, allocation, and transfer of building space; and not to exceed $24,300 for expenses of travel; $20,000,000: Provided, That of this amount, such sums as may be determined by the General Services Administrator to be necessary may be paid into other appropriations of the General Services Administration only for purposes of accounting: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available to effect, the moving of Government agencies from the District of Columbia to accomplish the dispersal of departmental functions. Repair, improvement, and equipment of federally owned buildings outside the District of Columbia: For expenses necessary for the repair, alteration, preservation, renovation, improvement, equipment, and demolition of federally owned buildings outside the District of Columbia, not otherwise provided for, including grounds, approaches and appurtenances, wharves and piers, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto; acquisition of land as authorized by title III of the Act of June 16, 1949 (40 U. S. C. 297); not to exceed $146,700 for expenses of travel; and care and safeguarding of sites acquired for Federal buildings; $14,000,000, to remain available until expended. 67 Stat. 303 Buildings management fund: For working capital for the “buildings management fund”, authorized by the Act approved July 12, 1952 (66 Stat. 594), $3.000,000, to remain available without fiscal year limitation. Remodeling the Congress Street Post Office, Chicago, Illinois: For remodeling the Congress Street Post Office building and facilities in Chicago, Illinois, including ramps and approach road ways, as authorized by section 408 of the Public Buildings Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 176), to permit Congress Street to be developed, by the City of Chicago, as a superhighway through said post office, and including not to exceed $800 for expenses of travel, $576,200, to remain available until expended: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available until the city of Chicago shall have paid to the United States the sum of $600,000 as its contribution to the cost of the project appropriated for herein, and said amount may be credited to this appropriation and shall be available for the purposes thereof. Operating expenses, Federal Supply Service: For necessary expenses of personal property management and related activities as provided by law; including not to exceed $300 for the purchase of newspapers and periodicals; and not to exceed $80,430 for expenses of travel; $2,605,000. Expenses, general supply fund: For expenses necessary for operation of the general supply fund (except those authorized by law to be charged to said fund), including contractual services incident to receiving, handling, and shipping warehouse items; not to exceed $250 for purchase of newspapers and periodicals; and not to exceed $157,450 for expenses of travel; $13,924,500: Provided, That funds available to the General Services Administration for the current fiscal year shall be available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles. Operating expenses, National Archives and Records Service: For necessary expenses in connection with Federal records management and related activities as provided by law; and not to exceed $30,750 for expenses of travel; $5,625,000, of which $200,000 shall remain available until expended for nitrate film conversion. Administrative operations: For necessary expenses of executive direction for activities under the control of the General Services Administration, of administrative operations for activities under regular appropriations for “Operating expenses,” and of processing and determining renegotiation rebates; including not to exceed $93,400 for expenses of travel; and not to exceed $250 for purchase of newspapers and periodicals; $4,200,000. Refunds under Renegotiation Act: For refunds under section 201 (f) of the Renegotiation Act of 1951, $9,000,000, which, together with the unobligated balance of the appropriations granted under this head for the fiscal years 1952 and 1953, shall remain available until June 30, 1955: Provided, That to the extent refunds are made from this Appropriation of excessive profits collected under the Renegotiation Act and retained by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or any of its subsidiaries, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or the appropriate subsidiary shall reimburse this appropriation. Strategic and critical materials: Funds available for this purpose during the current fiscal year shall be available for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. 9. C. 55a), and not to exceed $176,275 of such funds shall be available for expenses of travel: Provided, That any funds received as proceeds from sale or other disposition of materials on account of the rotation of stocks under said Act shall be deposited to the credit, and be available for expenditure for the purposes, of this appropriation: Provided further, That during the current fiscal year, there shall be no limitation on the value 67 Stat. 304 of surplus strategic and critical materials which, in accordance with subsection 6 (a) of the Act of July 23, 1946 (50 U. S. C. 98e (a)), may be transferred to stockpiles established in accordance with said Act. Strategic and critical materials (liquidation of contract authorization): For liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority heretofore granted under this head, to enter into contracts for the purpose of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act of July 23, 1946, not to exceed $30,000,000 may be expended from funds previously appropriated under the title “Strategic and critical materials”: Provided, That this amount may be disbursed through the appropriation “Strategic and critical materials” but shall be accounted for separately therein. The appropriate foregoing appropriation to the General Services Administration shall be credited with (1) advances or reimbursements for salaries and administrative expenses chargeable against other appropriations of the General Services Administration, and such salaries and expenses may be paid from such foregoing appropriation; (2) cost of maintenance, upkeep, and repair included as part of rentals received from Government corporations pursuant to law (40 U. S. C. 129); (3) reimbursements for services performed in respect to bonds and other obligations under the jurisdiction of the General Services Administration, issued by public authorities, States, or other public bodies, anti such services in respect to such bonds or obligations as the Administrator deems necessary and in the public interest may, upon the request and at the expense of the issuing agencies, be provided from the appropriate foregoing appropriation; and (4) appropriations or funds available to other agencies, and transferred to the General Services Administration, in connection with property transferred to the General Services Administration pursuant to the Act of July 2, 1948 (50 U. S. C. 451ff), and such appropriations or funds may, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, be so transferred. During the current fiscal year, no part of any money appropriated in this or any other Act shall be used during any quarter of such fiscal year to purchase within the continental limits of the United States typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) at a price which exceeds 90 per centum of the lowest net cash price, plus applicable Federal excise (axes, accorded the most-favored customer (other than the Government, the American National Red Cross, and the purchasers of typewriting machines for educational purposes only) of the manufacturer of such machines during the six-month period immediately preceding such quarter: Provided, That the purchase, utilization, and disposal of typewriting machines shall be performed in accordance with the provisions of (he Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended.