Employment of specially qualified scientific and professional personnel

§ 3104. Employment of specially qualified scientific and professional personnel (a) The head of an agency named below may establish scientific or professional positions to carry out the research and development functions of his agency which require the services of specially qualified personnel within the following limits: (1) Department of the Interior—not more than 8. (2) Department of Agriculture—not more than 20. (3) Department of Health, Education, and Welfare—not more than 13. (4) Department of Commerce—not more than 30, of which at least 5 are for the United States Patent Office in its examining and related activities. (5) Post Office Department—not more than 3. (6) United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency—not more than 14. (7) Library of Congress—not more than 8. (b) When a general appropriation statute authorizes an agency named by this section to establish and fix the pay of scientific or professional positions similar to those authorized by this section, the number of positions authorized by this section is reduced by the number of positions authorized by the appropriation statute, unless otherwise specifically provided. (c) Tire head of each agency authorized to establish and fix the pay of positions under this section and section 5361 of this title shall submit to Congress, not later than December 31 of each year, a report setting forth— (1) the number of these positions established in his agency during that calendar year; and (2) the name, rate of pay, and description of the qualifications of each incumbent, together with a statement of the functions performed by each. When the head of such an agency considers full public report on these items detrimental to the national security, he may omit the items from his annual report and, instead, present the information in executive session of such committee of a House of Congress as the presiding officer thereof may designate.