General services Administration

General services Administration additional court facilities For expenses necessary for alteration of Federal buildings to provide facilities for additional Federal judges as authorized by the Act of February 10, 1954 (68 Stat. 8), and additional court personnel, and for expansion of existing court facilities, including costs of moving agencies thereby displaced from space in Federal Buildings, $2,970,600, to remain available until June 30, 1956. plans and specifications, lease-purchase contracts The unobligated balances of the funds made available by section 1 (a) of the Act of June 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 257), the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950, and the General Appropriation Act, 1951, for the acquisition of sites and the preparation of drawings and specifications for public building projects outside the District of Columbia, as authorized by title I of the Act of June 16, 194968 Stat. 816 (63 Stat. 176), as amended, and by the Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 630), as amended, shall be available also for expenses of preparation of drawings and specifications, by contract or otherwise, and administrative expenses, for carrying out the purposes of the Public Buildings Purchase Contract Act of 1954 (Public Law 519, Eighty-third Congress), approved July 22, 1954. hospital facilities in the district of columbia The appropriation item under the heading “General Services Administration, hospital facilities in the District of Columbia” contained in the Act approved July 15, 1952 (66 Stat. 637), as amended, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “Asylum” at the end of the first proviso, as amended, and before the colon, the phrase “and Georgetown University Hospital”. operating expenses, federal supply service For an additional amount, fiscal year 1955, for “Operating expenses, Federal Supply Service”, $60,000; and the limitation under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1955, on the amount available for travel expenses is hereby increased from “$40,600” to “$46,600”: Provided, That this paragraph shall take effect only upon the enactment into law of S. 3155 or H. R. 8753, Eighty-third Congress. expenses, general supply fund Leased warehouse space temporarily in excess of operating requirements may be subleased to commercial organizations and the proceeds credited to the fund from which rental payments are made during fiscal year 1955. survey of government records, records management, and disposal practices For necessary expenses, including not to exceed $25,000 for administrative expenses, in connection with conducting surveys of Government records, and records creation, maintenance, management and disposal practices in Federal agencies, pursuant to sections 505 and 506 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, $300,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of said Act, the Administrator shall have final authority in all matters involving the conduct of surveys and the implementation of recommendations based on such surveys: Provided further, That the General Services Administration is authorized to procure services in accordance with section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a): Provided further, That a detailed quarterly report on the progress of each survey conducted hereunder shall be made to the Appropriations Committees of the Congress.