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B-185525 1 (1975-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadduf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-1855 cD0 DE 2 37 DATE: DEC 2 31975 25 MATTER OF: National Transportation Safety Board - Tenure and Compensation of Board Members and Chairman DIGEST: Present members of National Transportation Safety Board may continue to receive their salaries if, upon expiration of their fixed terms of office, they continue to serve until their successors are appointed and have qualified. Present Board Chairman may not continue as Chairman after January 1, 1976, but may continue to serve as acting Chairman after that date, at regular Board member's compensation. This action is in response to several questions presented by the Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board concerning the tenure and compensation of the Board members and Chairman. The Chairman asks whether present Board members may continue to receive their salaries if, upon expiration of their fixed terms of of- fice, they continue to serve until their successors are appointed and have qualified. The Chairman further asks whether he is authorized to continue serving as Chairman until the President has designated, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an individual to serve as Chairman or until an acting Chairman has been named, and, if so authorized, at what salary (Executive Pay Level III or IV) is the Chairman to be paid. The Board was originally established in 1966 by section 5 of the Department of Transportation Act, 49 U. S. C. § 1654 (1970). It was to be an independent agency located within the Department of Trans- portation, and to consist of five members appointed to 5-year terms by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Congress subsequently determined that the Board could not properly perform its functions unless it was totally separate and in- dependent from any other Federal department, bureau, commission, or agency. It therefore provided in the Independent Safety Board Act of 1974, Pub. L. No. 93-633, title III, January 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2166, at section 303(a), that the Board, I* * * previously estab- lished within the Department of Transportation, shall be an indepen- dent agency of the United States, in accordance with this section, on and after April 1, 1975. Section 303(b) provides for a Board of five members, each serving for a term of 5 years. In order to ~99'7!~ 7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 Z IT

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