increase in number of authorized top grade positions under classification act of 1949

increase in number of authorized top grade positions under classification act of 1949 Sec. 102. (a) Subsection (b) of section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1105(b)), relating to the maximum number of positions authorized at any one time for grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of such Act, is amended to read as follows: “(b) Subject to subsections (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (j) of this section, a majority of the Civil Service Commissioners are authorized to establish and, from time to time, revise the maximum numbers of positions (not to exceed an aggregate of nineteen hundred and eighty-nine) which may be in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule at any one time, except that under such authority— “(1) not to exceed 25 per centum of such aggregate number may be placed in grade 17 and not to exceed 12 per centum of such aggregate number may be placed in grade 18; “(2) fifty of such positions shall be available only for allocation, with the approval of the President, for agencies or functions created after the date of enactment of this subparagraph; “(3) fourteen of such positions shall be available only for allocation to the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; “(4) six of such positions shall be available only for allocation to the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice; and “(5) four of such positions shall be available only for allocation to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.” (b) Subsection (j) of such section 505, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1105(j)), relating to positions authorized for the Department of Defense in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of the Classifica-75 Stat. 787tion Act of 1949, is amended by striking out “three hundred seventy-two positions” and inserting in lieu thereof “four hundred seven positions”. (c) Such section 505, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(m) In any case in which, during the Eighty-seventh Congress, provisions are included in any Act of Congress (other than those contained in this Act) which authorize any agency of the Government to place additional positions in grade 16, 17, or 18 of the General Schedule, the Commission is authorized and directed to withdraw from such agency the allotments of a number of positions (equal to the number of such additional positions authorized under such Act of Congress) made by the Commission for such agency out of the number of positions authorized by subsection (b) of this section, to the extent possible in the light of the number of positions so allotted to such agency and in the light of the number of such additional positions authorized under such Act of Congress.”.