GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE printing and binding For authorized printing and binding for the Congress; not to exceed $5,000 for printing and binding for the Architect of the Capitol; expenses necessary for preparing the semimonthly and session index to the Congressional Record, as authorized by law (44 U. S. C. 182); printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register (including the Code of federal Regulations), as authorized by law (44 U. S. C. 309,311,311a); and printing and binding of Government publications authorized by law to be distributed without charge to the recipients; $10,100,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for printing and binding part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture). revolving fund For establishment of a revolving fund, effective July 1, 1953, to be available without fiscal year limitation, for expenses necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Government Printing Office (except the Office of Superintendent of Documents), including rental of buildings; expenses of attendance at meetings, when authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing; maintenance and operation of 67 Stat. 331 the emergency room; purchase of uniforms for guards; boots, coats, and gloves; repairs and minor alterations to buildings; and expenses authorized in writing by the Joint Committee on Printing for inspection of Government printing activities: $1,000,000; and in addition, the Public Printer shall provide capital for said fund by capitalizing, at fair and reasonable values as jointly determined by him and the Comptroller General, the present inventories, plant (except buildings and land), equipment, and other assets of the Government Printing Office: Provided, That the unexpended balances (including the amounts otherwise required to lie returned to the Treasury) and the obligations and outstanding commitments of existing appropriations for “Working capital and congressional printing and binding” shall he transferred to this fund. The fund shall be (1) reimbursed for the cost of all services and supplies furnished (including those furnished other appropriations of the Government Printing Office) at rates which shall include charges for overhead and related expenses, depreciation of plant (except buildings and land) and equipment, and accrued leave; (2) credited with all receipts including sales of Government publications, waste, condemned, and surplus property and with payments received for losses or damage to property; and (3) charged with payment into miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury of such part of the receipts from the sales of Government publications as is required by law (44 U. S. C. 71, 72a, 309). An adequate system of accounts for the fund shall be maintained on the accrual method and financial reports prepared on the basis of such accounts. The Public Printer shall prepare and submit an annual business type budget program for the operations under this fund. The activities of the Government Printing Office shall be audited by the General Accounting Office and an audit report furnished annually to the Congress and the Public Printer. For the purposes hereof the Comptroller General shall have such access to the records, files, personnel, and facilities of the Government Printing Office as he may deem necessary. Hereafter any executive department or independent establishment of the Government ordering printing and binding or blank paper and supplies from the Government Printing Office shall pay promptly by check to the Public Printer upon his written request, either in advance or upon completion of the work, all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Public Printer in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment: Provided, That proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of delivered work paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly and as may be agreed upon by the Public Printer and the department or establishment concerned. office of superintendent of documents Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of Superintendent of Documents, including personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and compensation of employees who shall be subject to the provision of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office”, approved June 7, 1924 (44 U. S. C. 40); traveling expenses (not to exceed $1,500); price lists and bibliographies; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery; and supplying books to depository libraries; $2,800,000: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries any documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such libraries, and the requests therefor shall be subject to approval by the Superintendent of Documents.