top grade positions under classification act of 1949

top grade positions under classification act of 1949 Sec. 606. (a) Section 505 (b) of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1105(b)), relating to the limitation on numbers of positions in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of such 76 Stat. 849Act, is amended by striking out “not to exceed an aggregate of nineteen hundred and eighty-nine” and substituting in lieu thereof “not to exceed an aggregate of twenty-four hundred, in addition to any professional engineering positions primarily concerned with research and development and professional positions in the physical and natural sciences and medicine which may be placed in such grades”. (b) Section 505(j) of such Act is amended by inserting after the word “positions” the following: “(in addition to any professional engineering positions primarily concerned with research and development and professional positions in the physical and natural sciences and medicine which may be placed in such grades)”. (c) Section 505 of such Act is further amended by inserting after subsection (j) the following new subsections: “(k) The Attorney General is authorized, without regard to any other provision of this section, to place a total of ten positions of Warden in the Bureau of Prisons in grade 16 of the General Schedule. Such positions shall be in addition to the number of positions authorized to be placed in such grade by subsection (b). “(l) The Attorney General is authorized, without regard to any other provision of this section, to place a total of eight positions of Member of the Board of Parole in grade 17 of the General Schedule. Such positions shall be in addition to the number of positions authorized to be placed in such grade by subsection (b).”