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1 Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1950, Providing for Reorganizations in the Department of the Interior 1 (1950)

handle is hein.congrec/rrznpnniii0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 81ST CONGRESS SENATE j REPORT ,Od Session jNo. 1545 REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 3 OF 1950, PROVIDING FOR REORGANIZATIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MAY 10 (legislative day, MARCH 29), 1950.-Ordered to be printed Mr. MCCLELLAN, from the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, submitted the following REPORT By authority of the Reorganization Act of 1949 (Public Law 109, 81st Cong., 1st sess., June 20, 1949), the President of the United States has submitted to the Congress Reorganization Plan No. 3, providing for reorganizations in the Department of the Interior. The complete text of plan No. 3 is given in appendix A. This committee, although under no requirement to do so by that act, hereby reports favorably on Reorganization Plan No. 3, in order that the Senate may Inow the result of the committee's consideration thereof, and may have adequate information as to its provisions. In a special message to Congress accompanying Reo-rganization Plans Nos. 1 to 13 of 1950, the President outlined the purpose of plans Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, as follows: REORGANIZATION PLANS NOS. 1 TO 6, RELATING TO Six ExECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS Reorganization Plans Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, relate to the Departments of the Treasury, Justice, the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. With certain exceptions, these plans transfer to the respective department heads the functions of other officers and agencies of the departments. They permit each department head to authorize the functions vested in him to be performed by any officer, agency, or employee of the department. In addition, Administrative Assistant Secretaries are provided for each of the six departments, and additional Assistant Secretaries are authorized for the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agricul ture * * * Through the years the Congress has repeatedly endorsed the policy of holding agency heads fully accountable for all the functions of their agencies. Last year this policy was pursued in the legislation authorizing reorganization of the Department of State and establishing the General Services Administration. A reorganization plan applying this principle to the Post Office Department was. likewise approved. However, in the six departments covered by these plans, all functions are not now uniformly vested in the department heads. Some statutory authority is, held independently by subordinate officers and agencies. These plans extend

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