[General Services Administration, Administrator's Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1966]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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issued by GSA to strengthen Federal supply practices were new guidelines for leasing or purchasing equipment.
GSA continued to provide extensive supply support to the Department of Defense and the Agency for International Development in Southeast Asia and to the Office of Economic Opportunity here at home.
Automotive Safety Standards
The General Services Administration, by legislative mandate (Public Law 88-515) was assigned the task of prescribing safety standards for automotive vehicles purchased by the Federal Government.
Seventeen standards for 1967 model-year vehicles were prescribed. Following further study and review, the original standards were expanded to 26, applicable to 1968 models.
Six nationally recognized automotive safety authorities were appointed to advise GSA in this effort.
In addition, GSA chaired a task force of Federal agency representatives to develop an improved accident reporting system.
*701,318 ANNUAL SAVINGS
BULK PACKAGING OF MASKING TAPES
12 Rolls Per
Shipping Container
AFTER
9 Rolls Per Wrapped Container
36 Rolls Per Shipping Container
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Savings on File Cabinets and Other Equipment
Purchasing of new filing cabinets continued to be sharply curtailed in accordance with the moratorium which had been imposed by President Johnson in 1965. During the year, 60 percent fewer cabinets were purchased than in 1964, the last full year before the moratorium, thus avoiding costs of $3.3 million. Moreover, emphasis continued to be placed on filling agencies’ requirements for furniture and related equipment from excess sources. Such transfers for further Federal use included furniture costing over $6 million and typewriters valued at nearly $2 million.
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Using Excess and Disposing of Surplus Personal Property
The useful life of personal property may be extended through rehabilitation. When personal property becomes excess to an agency of the Federal Government, it may be further utilized by another agency “as is” or it may be rehabilitated to extend its useful life. If surplus to Federal needs, it may be donated for public purposes or sold. GSA plays a major role in carrying out these programs.
Utilization
Over the last 5 years, excess property which originally cost $2.7 billion was redistributed for further use within the Government. In the past fiscal year, personal property costing $617 million was transferred by GSA for this purpose at a cost of only 48 cents for each $100 worth of property.
The increased use of automation by Government agencies was reflected by the fact that $29 million worth of electronic data processing equipment was transferred for further use in fiscal 1966, compared to $9.4 million worth in the previous fiscal year.
Rehabilitation
Some 2.5 million items of in-use and excess personal property— 36 different commodities or materials representing an original Government investment of $90 million—were repaired or rehabilitated for further use, a 22 percent increase over the previous year. This was done at a cost of $14.6 million. Administrative costs were reduced to 69 cents per $100 of the acquisition cost, 14 percent less than in the year before.
A continuing successful program involved the recovery of platinum and silver from used aircraft spark plugs. Platinum and silver with a market value of $825,000 were recovered during the year and supplied to elements of the Department of Defense and to the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Donation
Surplus personal property is donated for education, public health, civil defense, and public airport usage. During the year, such property originally costing more than $429 million was donated.
Sales
The sale of personal property by GSA for civil agencies of the Government has grown rapidly but at a reduced cost of operation. In the past 5 years, sales proceeds have risen from $6.4 million to $13 million while selling costs were reduced from $14.94 per $100 of proceeds to $9.92.
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Managing and Disposing of Strategic and Critical Materials
The General Services Administration manages stockpiles of strategic and critical materials for use of the Nation in times of emergencies. The Office of Emergency Planning provides policy guidance.
Fiscal year 1966 was a record year of disposals from the stockpiles under President Johnson’s intensified program to sell unneeded materials without upsetting markets.
Of the 49 million tons of stockpiled materials acquired at a cost of $7.5 billion, about 21.4 million tons which had cost the Government more than $4 billion to acquire were determined excess to the Government’s emergency needs.
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In view of this determination, sales from the stockpiles were strongly emphasized during the year and a record $1,028 billion in sales commitments were made, three times the sales of the previous fiscal year and almost equal to the cumulative sales of all previous years. The market value of sales commitments exceeded acquisition cost by $125 million.
The following table shows the volume of sales by commodities in millions of dollars:
Commodity	Government use	Industrial use	Total
Copper		$87.2	$296 7	$383.9
Nickel		38.9	152.6	191.5
Aluminum 			1 34.4	1 34.4
Rubber		26.4	40.4	66.8
Tin		3.1	62.0	65.1
Zinc		1.0	53.0	54.0
Platinum 			29.6	29.6
Lead		0.5	14.2	14.7
Tungsten 			13.1	13.1
Vanadium 			12.9	12.9
Other		9.7	52.5	62.2
			
Total		166.8	861.4	1,028.2
			
Both Government and industry benefited by these disposals. First of all, Government agencies acquired a record $166.8 million plus of excess stockpile materials, sparing dollars for other use. Second, industry was able to satisfy its urgent demands for scarce materials. Third, the sales helped the Government’s international gold flow position.
The 89th Congress provided outstanding support to the disposal program. During the fiscal year, there were 32 legislative enactments covering 37 major commodities.
In spite of the magnitude of the disposal program, private industry experienced virtually no adverse impact upon its markets. GSA is required by law to employ techniques which assure a maximum return on the Government’s investment with a minimum disruption of normal market activity. One important means of meeting this responsibility involves consultation with representatives of a cross section of each industry affected by
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stockpile releases. In cases of critical supply shortages, GSA, with the cooperation of other concerned Federal agencies, moved quickly with large releases which were distributed equitably at one or more levels of production consumption. On the other hand, when problems such as weak markets were encountered, disposal programs were temporarily curtailed or set aside.
Jewel bearings remained the only stockpile commodity acquired for cash. They were produced by a contractor at the Government-owned plant in Rolla, N. Dak.
As of June 30, stockpile inventories were stored at many locations throughout the country:
Type of	Number of
facility	locations
Military depots..................................... 45
GSA depots.......................................... 26
Other Government-owned sites........................ 14
Leased commercial sites............................. 15
Industrial plant sites.............................. 40
Commercial warehouses............................... 12
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Shipments from storage of approximately 24,600 freight car loads of 1,223,000 tons of materials resulted in the savings (on a yearly basis) of $150,000 in storage costs. In addition, the transfer of 7,792 tons of cordage fiber from commercial warehouses to Government depots will provide a further recurring savings of $68,000.
Other mobilization activities included:
(1)	Operation of civil defense depots; storing, maintaining, preserving, packaging, distributing, and servicing of medical, fallout shelter, and chemical/biological, radiological, and engineering emergency survival supplies and equipment.
(2)	Maintaining the National Industrial Equipment Reserve of 10,194 machine tools and other industrial manufacturing equipment in readiness for immediate use to supply defense support needs in time of national emergency. As of June 30, 1966, 4,233 of these tools were on loan to schools. Under the machine tool program, 75 contracts were executed for 11,642 tools valued at $217 million. (Production under these contracts
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does not commence unless ordered by the Government in time of emergency.)
(3)	GSA, in coordination with other affected agencies, furnished blankets and cots to Louisville, Ky., following the explosion at the DuPont plant and later for a snow emergency; cots were supplied to Los Angeles during the Watts emergency; blankets and cots were distributed to communities in Louisiana stricken by Hurricane Betsy. These supplies came from GSA/CD depots. To alleviate conditions resulting from drought, flood, and other emergencies, a supply of water pumps, pipes, couplings, and other accessories were issued or provided on loan from the GSA/CD emergency engineering stockpile to the States of Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
DISPOSAL SALES AND COMMITMENTS
FISCAL YEARS 1942 THROUGH 1966
CUMULATIVE MARKET VALUE - $2,244.3 MILLION
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Records Management
Among the General Services Administration’s responsibilities is the improvement of current records management and paperwork practices in Federal agencies. It also is charged with selecting, preserving, and making available, both to the Government and to the public, the permanently valuable noncurrent records of the Federal Government. It expedites disposal of unneeded records.
The Administrator of General Services is required to issue implementing and interpretative standards and to promote records management practices and techniques. This is done by promulgating regulations, providing training through workshops, and giving requested technical assistance. Major emphasis is placed on modernizing management reports, especially through the use of automation.
Critical evaluations of paperwork control programs are made. The paperwork programs of seven representative groups of agencies were reviewed during the year with attention being given to the development of staff capability to undertake major improvement projects.
Technical assistance was furnished agencies requesting this service. Fifty-six major and 49 lesser assignments of this type were completed. Agencies reported significant savings in manpower, space, and equipment as a result.
Records Centers
The holdings of GSA’s 15 records centers climbed to a record high of well over 8 million cubic feet. At another alltime high were reference services performed by the centers, over 5 million.
Thirteen regional records centers received 750,300 cubic feet of records; 555,500 cubic feet of unneeded records were destroyed. The total number of inquiries answered during the year was 3,597,100.
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The Extraordinary Congress of the International Council on Archives met in Washington from May 9-14, 1966.
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Expansion of the Armed Forces, increased veterans’ benefits, and an increase in Federal employment were largely responsible for the increased workload at the two national centers for military and civilian personnel records. About 1,859,600 inquiries were received, 5,529,000 items were processed.
Transfers of records to all the centers cleared considerable space. Had this space been leased, the cost would have amounted to in excess of $1 million.
The new records center building in Waltham, Mass., which has a capacity of 250,000 cubic feet of records and replaces substandard space in three widely separated locations, has been completed and occupied. Completion of a much larger building serving the Washington, D.C. area is scheduled for March of 1967.
The National Archives
The total holdings of records in the National Archives amounted to 898,895 cubic feet at the end of the year. In addition to the hundreds of millions of textual documents, there were 3,534,000 still pictures, 1,502,000 maps and charts, 62,000 reels of motion picture film, and 34,000 sound recordings.
Reference service, a basic function of the National Archives and one of the end products of archival activity, rose to 599,738 or better than 10 percent over the previous year.
For the third year in succession, production of negative microfilm exceeded 6,000 rolls. Pamphlets describing the contents of 67 microfilm publications were issued while sales of microfilm publications, primarily to research institutions and libraries, exceeded 76,000 rolls, 57 percent over last year. Since 1940, the equivalent of 317,260,000 documentary pages of the most valuable holdings of our Nation have been distributed to scholars and research institutions.
More than 1,200,000 people visited the National Archives to see the originals of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and exhibits of other historic documents. Especially popular were exhibits on the States of the Union, the Countries of the World, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Test Ban Treaty, and the United Nations Charter.
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From May 9 through 14 the National Archives and the Society of American Archivists were hosts in Washington to an extraordinary congress of the international council on archives, an affiliate of UNESCO. The theme of the congress was “Archives for Scholarship—Encouraging Greater Ease of Access.” During the five working sessions, delegates and observers representing six continents examined the problems of freedom of access to archival source materials. Specific topics discussed included programs to liberalize restrictions on archival material, expand documentary publication including microfilming, and improve ways in which international cooperation may serve to promote easier access to archives.
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson signs the guest register during her visit to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library on July 1. Elizabeth Drewry, Director of the library, looks on.
Presidential Libraries
The University of Texas is providing to the United States a Presidential archival depository to be known as the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. President Johnson has already signed an instrument of gift presenting his papers and other materials to the United States for ultimate deposit in the library.
The Governor of Massachusetts has signed an act authorizing the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to convey to the United States without compensation an area near Harvard Square for use as a site for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library.
Both Presidential Libraries will be operated by the General Services Administration.
The Herbert Hoover Library was officially opened for research in March. Preliminary inventorying and processing of the materials in the library have now been completed, and more than 90 percent of the holdings are open to researchers. Among papers received by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library were those of Herbert E. Gaston and Henry Field. The holdings now include over 20 million pages of manuscripts and 90,000 still pictures. Accessions of the Harry S Truman Library included papers of Tom L. Evans, Thomas C. Blaisdell, Jr., Harold L. Enarson, and Gerhard Colm. Additions to the holdings of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library included papers of Arthur F. Burns, Lt. Gen. Willard S. Paul, and Thomas E. Stephens.
The Federal Register and Other Publication Activity
During the year, the Federal Register Office processed 179,000 (11 percent more than last year) manuscript pages of laws, rules, and related Federal documents.
A new publication entitled “Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents,” containing statements, messages, and other Presidential materials released by the White House, was begun. Work was also started on refining reference aids to Presidential documents published during the first 30 years, 1936-65, of the Federal Register Act. The 1951 Truman volume and the 1963-64 Johnson volume in the “Public Papers of the Presidents” series were published.
237-972 0—66
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National Historical Publications Commission
Twenty-six grants and 1 allocation were made to 25 universities, historical societies, and other nonprofit organizations to help support 14 letterpress and 13 microfilm publication projects. Three grants were also made from Ford Foundation funds to help support the Adams family, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson letterpress publication projects. A catalog of microfilm publications was issued that lists the national publications produced through June 1966.
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T elecommunications
Testing of the Advanced Record System (ARS) was completed during the year. The system was designed to provide more rapid and economical teletype and data communications services for Federal agencies. It was on February 17, 1966, that the first group of stations to be served by ARS was activated.
The Federal Telecommunications System Voice Network handled 45 million calls during the year. Seventeen switching centers and 4,000 circuits were added.
In addition to continued improvements in service, 11 switchboard consolidations were made at an annual savings of $232,400. Through joint GSA-DOD coordinating activity in the area of intercity circuits for all Government traffic, savings to the Government in the procurement of circuitry amounted to $12 million. Intercity circuitry requirements expanded from 3.7 million miles in June 1965 to approximately 6.4 million miles in June 1966.
The first State governments began to participate in the TELPAK system through GSA’s efforts. The individual States share the costs with the Government for these TELPAK’s and both parties benefit by reduced cost. On June 30, 1966, 13 States were sharing about 33,000 circuit miles of TELPAK with the Government.
Negotiations for rates and tariffs, and representation of the interest of the Government as a user and consumer effected net cost reductions of approximately $160,000.
Other Public Utilities
GSA is also instrumental in achieving significant savings through procurement, management, utilization, and conservation of electric, gas, steam, water, and sewerage services and facilities. Areawide contracts were negotiated with 17 utility suppliers, generating savings by eliminating the need for the preparation of many individual contracts. To protect the Government’s interest as a consumer, GSA participated in five utility rate cases before regulatory bodies.
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Motor Equipment and Transportation
Motor Equipment
GSA, as transportation manager for a large sector of the Government, operated 94 motor pools involving the use of 47,857 vehicles. Cost per vehicle mile was held to 7.7 cents.
New areas were pioneered. Motor pool service was extended to war on poverty contractors. Pool dispatch facilities were established at several airports to serve travelers on official business.
To take advantage of bulk delivery prices for petroleum products, fuel dispensing facilities were added at 32 pools and 21 were provided with lubrication equipment. Eight additional dispatch facilities were added and 16 were relocated in areas of customer agency concentration to increase the use of pool vehicles on a trip-rental basis.
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Motor Equipment Management Studies were conducted for 21 Government agencies, which resulted in a continuing annual savings of over $596,857 to the Federal Government.
The Interagency Motor Equipment Advisory Committees sponsored 18 meetings throughout the United States during fiscal year 1966.
Transportation
On behalf of civilian agencies, GSA successfully conducted a number of significant negotiations with the Nation’s bus and railroad industries providing for reduced fares, and other benefits on travel of Federal personnel made on Government transportation requests. To acquaint Federal agencies with GSA’s passenger travel program in procuring improved services and achieving cost economies in Government travel, GSA held a 2-day passenger travel conference in Washington, D.C. The conference, first of its kind, was attended by 130 representatives of 27 different agencies and was conducted in cooperation with the Bureau of the Budget and representatives of the air, bus, and rail industries.
Through the application of the latest traffic management techniques to reduce costs of freight transportation services, GSA effected tangible savings of $31.9 million for Federal agency programs. These savings resulted principally from negotiations with the carriers on freight rates, use of economical shipping methods, consolidation of small shipments, and direct deliveries from suppliers to customer agencies.
For example, savings of $1 million were realized by utilizing bilevel and trilevel rail cars for shipping an increased volume of motor vehicles from manufacturers to Federal agencies throughout the country. Savings of $270,000 were attained for AID through timely scheduling of deliveries of 45,000 tons of fertilizer to Vietnam.
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Automatic Data Processing
Automatic Data Processing Coordination
During the year, three significant actions took place to improve the Government’s acquisition and utilization of automatic data processing equipment:
Legislation was enacted assigning specific responsibilities to the Bureau of the Budget, GSA, and the Department of Commerce “to provide for the economic and efficient purchase, lease, maintenance, operation, and utilization of automatic data processing equipment by Federal departments and agencies.”
The President, in a message to the Congress, said “I intend to make sure that this huge investment is managed efficiently * * * through such means as research, equipment sharing, careful purchasing, and coordinated Government-wide utilization policies.”
In a memorandum of June 29, 1966, to heads of departments and agencies, the President stated that, “The Federal Government must give priority attention to:
—establishing better and more effective procurement methods,
—making fuller use of existing facilities through sharing and joint-use arrangements before acquiring additional equipment,
—reutilizing excess equipment whenever feasible,
—achieving, with industry coooperation, greater compatibility of equipment.
“I expect all agencies to cooperate fully with the Bureau of the Budget, the General Services Administration, and the Department of Commerce in accomplishing these objectives.”
GSA has taken action to achieve these objectives. Initial emphasis was placed on establishing an ADP sharing exchange
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program providing for optimum utilization of existing ADP resources. During the year, 15 sharing exchanges were operational and the value of sharing accomplished provided a cost avoidance of about $26 million. Specific actions were initiated to develop alternate sources for acquisition of Government ADP equipment and to reduce the Government’s expenditure of $262 million for equipment rental. An economical purchase-lease back procedure was developed and put into action.
Data Processing Standards
Data Processing Management in GSA took a long step forward with the development of data processing standards for the GSA-wide ADP program. The need for such standards had long been recognized. Although the Standard Data Processing Manual was established primarily for internal GSA use, it is receiving widespread acclaim and has been sought by many Federal and non-Federal agencies, including military activities, public utilities, foreign and domestic governments, aircraft manufacturers, and management consultants. The development and implementation of these standards has made a significant contribution and will have a far-reaching effect on the entire data processing industry.
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Small Business
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Market Research and Development
To promote maximum business interest and participation in Federal contracting programs during the year, GSA Business Service Centers counseled 140,594 businessmen; participated in 96 local business opportunity meetings attended by 257,900 businessmen; distributed 455,480 procurement specifications to firms for bidding and contracting purposes; processed 11,023 bidders mailing list applications submitted by firms desiring to receive GSA bidding opportunities; distributed 45,721 bid invitations to firms requesting them; and received, safeguarded, and arranged for the public opening of 145,579 bids submitted by competing firms.
Dollar savings totaling nearly $3 million on 667 contracts covering $40 million worth of goods and services needed by Federal agencies were identified as resulting from the market development and business counseling activities of GSA’s Business Service Centers during fiscal year 1966. The savings resulting from this activity represent a 6.7 percent average cost reduction per contract on goods and services needed by the Government compared to the cost that would have been incurred had the bidding competition not been developed by these centers.
In the Business Service Centers, businessmen are provided information, counseling, and assistance to develop the Government market potential of their firms. The scope of the information and counseling is Government-wide, and major emphasis is placed on assisting small business as well as firms in labor surplus and redevelopment areas.
An example of cost reductions through new competition is provided by the case of a small business firm which received counseling from a GSA business center and, after numerous followup contacts initiated by the center (providing current bidding opportunities, specifications, needed additional counseling
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and encouragement to submit bids), the firm successfully competed for an $8.1 million GSA contract. Had it not been for the bid of this firm the contract would have been awarded to the next low responsive bidder, at an increased cost of $535,752.
It is noteworthy that the majority of new GSA contractors were small business concerns which successfully competed with large concerns for contracts.
In fiscal year 1966, 53.6 percent of the total value of GSA prime contracts was placed with small business concerns. This came to $563 million, representing an increase of $35.2 million, or 6.7 percent over the dollar volume of GSA prime contracts placed with small firms in the previous fiscal year.
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Administrative Services and Other Activities
Management Intern Program
Twenty-six management interns were recruited during the year, bringing to GSA young people with potential as future managers. The interns selected came from 21 States and the District of Columbia. All had bachelor degrees, seven had masters degrees, and one a law degree. They have passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and the management intern option of the examination. The interns are being given a year of intensive training throughout the agency. At the end of the year, they will be promoted and assigned to specific organizations on the basis of individual aptitudes, interests, and program needs.
Participation in Economic and Educational Opportunity Programs
The U.S. Civil Service Commission issued a report on Federal agency participation in the various economic and educational programs as of April 30, 1966. It covered employees hired under the President’s Youth Opportunity Back-to-School Drive, and enrollees assigned to Federal agencies under the Neighborhood Youth Corps, vocational work-study program, college work-study program, and work-experience program.
GSA ranked fifth among 36 agencies reporting on their support of programs for the disadvantaged.
As of June 30, 1966, GSA had made 1,072 appointments under the President’s Youth Opportunity Campaign for 1966. These appointments provided meaningful summer work and training opportunities. In addition to the employment of these young people, GSA, as of June 30, served as host to 259 enrollees under the Neighborhood Youth Corps, 10 under the vocational workstudy program, and 53 under the work-experience program.
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Printing and Publications Activities
Federal agencies were furnished reproduction services by 26 GSA-operated centralized field reproduction plants throughout the United States. These plants produced about 529 million printed units at a cost of approximately $10.08 per thousand units, compared with fiscal year 1965 production of 437 million units at a cost of $10.78 per thousand units. Savings of $370,000 come from the reduced unit cost. The increased volume was attributable to Federal agencies’ utilization of the centralized plants to produce the work formerly accomplished on their own equipment. Of the 26 plants in operation, 5 were established during the year in new Federal buildings in Boston, Mass.; Albuquerque, N.Mex.; Billings, Mont.; Juneau, Alaska, and Kansas City, Mo. The estimated savings in space, equipment, and personnel for these plants totaled $65,734, as compared with the cost of separate agency operations.
Eighteen feasibility studies were initiated to determine the economic justification for the establishment of additional centralized plants.
Accounting Productivity Increased
Continuing efforts to reduce the cost of accounting operations were undertaken. To illustrate, in 1956 it cost $2.20 to process a voucher for payment. In 1966, the cost was estimated at $1.15. With a yearly volume of over 1.8 million vouchers, a cost avoidance of $1.9 million was indicated.
Support to Presidential Commissions and Other Small Organizations
GSA provides administrative support services to Presidential Commissions and other small organizations, many of which are established by Executive Order or by Public Law. Supporting services to 30 such organizations in fiscal year 1966 included budgeting, payrolling, accounting, auditing, personnel, messenger, legal and security services.
Civil Rights Activities
GSA continued to emphasize the equal employment responsibilities of its contractors. The effectiveness of this program
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during the year was reflected by a 20 percent increase in minority group employment in a test of 419 contractor operated facilities selected at random. Promotions and appointments of minority employees at the GS-5 through GS-14 grade levels increased by 3 percent over fiscal year 1965.
Board of Contract Appeals
The Board, which reports directly to the Administrator, experienced a new high in volume of appeals filed, and a commensurate increase in output of cases cleared from its docket. Comparative figures were 515 appeals received in fiscal 1966, as contrasted with 338 in fiscal 1965, and 503 cases retired in fiscal 1966, in contrast to 280 in fiscal 1965. The Board also published during the year an index digest of its decisions of 1965 . cases.
Program and Policy Planning
On August 26, 1965, the President announced that he had instructed all Government agencies to introduce “a new and revolutionary system of planning, programing, and budgeting throughout the Government.” He said the system would choose the most urgent goals, search for alternative means of reaching these goals most effectively at the lowest cost, measure the performance of programs, and give long-term information about costs.
GSA was one of the pioneer civil agencies involved in the system which the President has now made mandatory in all agencies. Refinements provided for last year included:
•	Continuous updating of GSA’s short- and long-range policies, objectives, and goals.
•	Conduct of analytic cost-effectiveness studies into GSA’s activities to arrive at alternative concepts for program action.
•	Establishment of 1- to 5-year projections of program outputs and related resources and staffing needed to arrive at related planning and operating milestones.
•	Evaluation, on a periodic basis, of agency progress against approved operating targets and goals.
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General Services Administration COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION [/W MILLIONS]
	June 30, 1966	June 30, 1965	Increase or (—) decrease
Assets			
Cash.			$904. 2 58. 6	$788. 2	$116.0
Bonds and securities—private debtors			59. 9	-1. 3
Accounts receivable—private debtors		230. 2	196. 7	33. 5
Accounts receivable—Government agencies		182. 7	168. 1	14.6
Prepayments and deferred items		2. 5	1. 3	1.2
Inventories		7, 829. 3	8, 482. 9	-653. 6
Equipment		180. 4	184. 5	-4. 1
Land and buildings		1,698.5	1,598.2	100. 3
Construction in progress		1,091.4	913. 7	177. 7
Surplus property		72. 1	82. 3	-10. 2
Total assets		12, 249. 9	12, 475. 8	-225. 9
Liabilities			
Accounts payable				478. 8	283. 6	195. 2
Advance payments to GSA		147. 1	80.4	66. 7
Trust and deposit liabilities		9. 1	7. 1	2.0
Deferred credits		140. 3	130.2	10. 1
Liabilities for purchase—contract program		26. 7	28. 0	-1. 3
Employees leave liability	.'		22.4	22.2	0.2
Total liabilities		824.4	551. 5	272.9
Investment U.S. Government Investment U.S. Government		11,425. 5	11,924. 3	-498. 8
Total liabilities and investment U.S. Govern-			
ment		12, 249. 9	12,475. 8	-225. 9
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SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS
Federal Supply	1966
1.	Store sales (thousands of dollars)................................. 471, 972
2.	Nonstores sales (thousands of dollars)............................. 194, 528
3.	Stores line items shipped (thousands).............................. 8, 399. 2
4.	Number of supply distribution points........................................ 63
5.	Total procurement (millions of dollars)............................ 1,808. 6
Fiscal year
1965
382, 178
211,005
7, 900. 5
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1,621. 3
Property Management and Disposal
1.	Personal property—(acquisition cost—millions of dollars):
a.	Transfers to other Federal agencies........................... 617. 1	676. 6
b.	Donations............................................................ 429.2	407.8
c.	Sales......................................................... 71. 7	69. 8
Total..................................................... 1,118.0	1,154.2
2.	Real property—(acquisition cost—millions of dollars):
a.	Further utilization of Federal agencies.................................. 335.1	241.8
b.	Other surplus disposals (donations, etc.)......................... 405. 4	221. 5
c.	Sales.................................................................... 415.8	259.9
Total...................................................... 1,156.3	723.2
3.	Defense materials:
a.	Strategic and critical materials in inventory (acquisition cost in thousands of dollars)................................................. 7,520,495	8,181,122
b.	Sales commitments (thousands)..................................... 1,028,172	432,451
Public Buildings
1.	New construction program: a. Design starts (millions of dollars).............................. 226. 2	316. 5
b.	Design completions (millions of dollars)............................ 297.4	244.4
c.	Construction awards (millions of dollars)..................... 190. 6	184. 2
d.	Construction completions (millions of dollars)...................... 198.7	188.5
2.	Buildings management: a. Average net square feet managed (millions)............................. 185.7	177.4
3.	Repair and improvement:
a.	Repair and improvement appropriation:
(1)	Net square feet of R&I responsibility (millions)................ 173.4	163.7
(2)	Obligations incurred (millions of dollars)....................... 88.	4	90.	7
b.	Reimbursable costs (millions of dollars)............................. 43.	6	57.	9
Transportation and Communications
1.	Interagency motor pools:
a.	Number of pools in operation............................................... 94	91
b.	Mileage (thousands)................................................... 473,882	412,533
c.	Number of vehicles in pools (June 30)................................ 48,	551	41,014
National Archives and Records
1.	Number of Federal records centers............................................. 14	15
2.	Records in inventory (thousand cubic feet June 30)....................... 9,	288	9, 056
3.	Inquiries handled (thousands)............................................ 6,	080	5, 377
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LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY
During the 89th Congress, 2d sess., the following legislative proposals which were recommended to the Congress by the Administrator of General Services were enacted:
Public Law number and date of approval	Subject
Public Law 89-390, Apr. 14, 1966 (80 Stat. 116).	Disposal of excess platinum from the national stockpile.
Public Law 89-394, Apr. 14, 1966 (80 Stat. 119).	Disposal of excess refractory grade bauxite from the national stockpile.
Public Law 89-413, May 5, 1966 (80 Stat. 135).	Disposal of excess molybdenum from the national stockpile.
Provisions
Sec. 1 of this public law authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 316,300 ounces of platinum from the national stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, at the fair market value thereof, approximately 126,300 long calcined tons of refractory grade bauxite from the national stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 14,000,000 pounds of molybdenum from the national stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
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Public Law number and date of approval	Subject	Provisions
Public Law 89-415,	Disposal of excess metal-	Authorized the Administrator of General
May 11, 1966 (80 Stat. 136).	lurgical grade chromite	Services to dispose of, by negoitation or
	from the national and supplemental stockpiles.	otherwise, approximately 885,000 short dry tons of metallurgical grade chromite ore from the national and supplemental stockpiles. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Public Law 89-416,	Disposal of excess acid	Authorized the Administrator of General
May 11, 1966 (80 Stat. 136).	grade fluorspar from	Services to dispose of, by negotiation or
	the national stockpile.	otherwise, approximately 32,000 short dry tons of acid grade fluorspar in lump form from the national stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Public Law 89-417,	Disposal of excess bis-	Authorized the Administrator of General
May 11, 1966 (80 Stat. 136-137).	muth from the national	Services to dispose of, by negotiation or
	and supplemental stockpiles.	otherwise, approximately 212,000 pounds of bismuth from the national and supplemental stockpiles. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
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Provisions
Public Law number and date of approval	Subject
Public Law 89-418, May 11, 1966 (80 Stat. 137).	Disposal of excess phlogopite mica from the national and supplemental stockpiles.
Public Law 89-419, May 11, 1966 (80 Stat. 137).	Disposal of excess muscovite mica from the national and supplemental stockpiles.
Public Law 89-420, May 11, 1966 (80 Stat. 138).	Disposal of excess rhodium from the national stockpile.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 3,765,000 pounds of phlogopite mica splittings and approximately 205,640 pounds of phlogopite block mica from the national and supplemental stockpiles. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 6,772,000 pounds of muscovite block mica, approximately 528,000 pounds of muscovite film mica, and approximately 22,666,000 pounds of muscovite mica splittings from the national and supplemental stockpiles. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 618 troy ounces of rhodium (Rh content) from the national stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
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Public Law number
and date of approval
Subject
Provisions
Public Law 89-421, May 11, 1966 (80 Stat. 138).
Public Law 89-422, May 11, 1966 (80 Stat. 138-139).
Public Law 89-423, May 11, 1966 (80 Stat. 139).
Disposal of excess thorium from the supplemental stockpile.
Disposal of excess amosite asbestos from the national and supplemental stockpiles.
Disposal of excess ruthenium from the supplemental stockpile.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 3,500,000 pounds of thorium from the supplemental stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 15,170 short tons of amosite asbestos from the national and supplemental stockpiles. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 15,000 troy ounces of ruthenium from the supplemental stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
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Public Law number
and date of approval
Subject
Provisions
Public Law 89-424, May 11, 1966 (80 Stat. 139).
Public Law 89-460, June 21, 1966 (80 Stat. 212).
Public Law 89-461, June 21, 1966 (80 Stat. 212).
Disposal of excess vanadium from the national stockpile.
Disposal of excess aluminum from the national stockpile.
Disposal of excess celestite from the supplemental stockpile.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 6,450 short tons of vanadium (V content) from the national stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 920,000 short tons of aluminum from the national stockpile. No disposal shall be made pursuant to the authority of Public Law 89-460 if such disposal would reduce the aggregate quantity of aluminum in the national stockpile and the inventory maintained under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. app. 2061-2166), below existing aluminum stockpile objective of 450,000 tons. Also, this law waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 9,865 short tons of celestite from the supplemental stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Sotck Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
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Subject
Provisions
Public Law number
and date of approval
Public Law 89-462, June 21, 1966 (80 Stat. 212-213).
Public Law 89-463, June 21, 1966 (80 Stat. 213).
Public Law 89-464, June 21, 1966 (80 Stat. 213).
Disposal of excess cordage fiber (sisal) from the national stockpile.
Disposal of excess corci-dolite asbestos (harsh) from the supplemental stockpile.
Disposal of excess opium from the national stockpile.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 100,000,000 pound of cordage fiber (sisal) from the national stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 45,992 short tons of crocidolite asbestos (harsh) from the supplemental stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 37,290 pounds (morphine content) of stockpile grade gum opium and approximately 2,200 pounds (morphine content) of nonstockpile grade material in various dosage forms from the national stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
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Subject
Provisions
Public Law number
and date of approval
Public Law 89-539, Aug. 19, 1966 (80 Stat. 348).
Public Law 89-678, Oct. 15, 1966 (80 Stat. 956).
Disposal of excess metallurgical grade manganese ore from the national and supplemental stockpiles.
Authority to print for and deliver to GSA an additional copy of certain publications.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 1,900,000 short dry tons of metallurgical grade manganese ore from the national and supplemental stockpiles. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of sec. 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of sec. 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Amended the Printing Act of Jan. 12, 1895, 28 Stat. 601, as amended by the Act of June 17, 1935, chapter 267, 49 Stat. 386 (44 U.S.C. 215a), so as to make it possible for the General Services Administration to obtain, for inclusion in Presidential Libraries, certain materials issued by the Government Printing Office. These materials are copies of House and Senate publications and other documents of public interest as follows: (1) House documents and public reports, bound; (2) Senate documents and public reports, bound; (3) Senate and House Journals, bound; (4) United States Code and Supplements, bound; (5) Statutes at Large, bound; (6) Official Register of the United States, bound; (7) Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, bound; (8) all other documents bearing a congressional number, and all documents not bearing a congressional number printed upon order of any committee of either House of the Congress, or by order of any department, bureau, independent office or establishment, commission, or officer of the Government except confidential matter, blank forms, and circular letters not of a public character; and (9) all public bills and resolutions in the Congress in each parliamentary stage. Two copies of these materials are provided GSA under existing law for use in connection with current agency operations. The additional copies of these Government publications are needed for use in Presidential Library collections to facilitate the study of legislative programs and policies of each President’s administration, as well as as other aspects of important domestic and international affairs.
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Provisions
Public Law number and date of approval	Subject
Public Law 89-723, Nov. 2, 1966 (80 Stat. 1153).	Disposal of excess industrial diamond stones from the national and supplemental stockpiles.
Public Law 89-724, Nov. 2, 1966 (80 Stat. 1153).	Disposal of excess fused crude aluminum oxide from the national and supplemental stockpile.
Public Law 89-726, Nov. 2, 1966 (80 Stat. 1155).	Disposal of excess battery grade synthetic manganese dioxide from the national stockpile.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 1,800,000 carats of industrial diamond stones from the national and supplemental stockpiles. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of section 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 130,000 short tons of fused crude aluminum oxide from the national and supplemental stockpiles. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of section 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 14,572 short dry tons of battery grade synthetic grade manganese dioxide from the national stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. S8b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of section 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
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Public Law number and date of approval	Subject	Provisions
Public Law 89-740, Nov. 2, 1966 (80 Stat. 1166).	Disposal of excess nickel from the national stockpile.	Authorized the Administrator of General Services to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately 24,500,000 pounds of nickel from the national stockpile. Also, it waived the procedural requirements of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b) with respect to publication in the Federal Register and transmission to the Congress and the Armed Services Committees thereof of a notice of the proposed disposal and the 6-month waiting period, but preserved the substantive requirements of section 3 with respect to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1967 O—237-972
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