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[Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, 3 C.F.R. xxx (1965), reprinted in 5 U.S.C. app. at 1517 (1994), and in 79 Stat. 1318-20 (1965), and in 30 Fed. Reg. 8819-xx (1965)]
Transmitted
May 13, 1965.
Effective
July 13, 1965.
Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and House of Representatives in
Congress assembled, May 13, 1965, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of
1949, 63 Stat. 203, as amended.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
SECTION 1. Transfer of functions. All functions vested by law in the Weather Bureau,
the Chief of the Weather Bureau, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Director of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey, and any officer, employee, or organizational entity of that Bureau or Survey,
and not heretofore transferred to the Secretary of Commerce, hereinafter referred to as the
Secretary, are hereby transferred to the Secretary.
SECTION 2. Abolitions. (a) The offices of Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey,
Deputy Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Chief of the Weather Bureau are hereby
abolished. The Secretary shall make such provisions as he shall deem to be necessary respecting
the winding up of any outstanding affairs of the officers whose offices are abolished by the
provisions of this section.
(b) The abolitions effected by the provision of subsection (a) of this section shall exclude
the abolition of rights to which the present incumbents of the abolished offices would be entitled
under law upon the termination of their appointments.
SECTION 3. Environmental Science Services Administration. (a) The Coast and
Geodetic Survey and the Weather Bureau are hereby consolidated to form a new agency in the
Department of Commerce which shall be known as the Environmental Science Services
Administration, hereinafter referred to as the Administration.
(b) The Secretary shall from time to time establish such constituent organizational entities
of the Administration , with such names, as he shall determine.
SECTION 4. Officers of the Administration. (a) There shall be at the head of the
Administration the Administrator of the Environmental Science Services Administration,
hereinafter referred to as the Administrator. The Administrator shall be appointed by the
President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall receive compensation at the
rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for offices and positions of Level V of the Federal
Executive Salary Schedule (78 Stat. 419). He shall perform such functions as the Secretary may
from time to time direct.
(b) (1)There shall be in the Administration a Deputy Administrator of the Environmental
Science Services Administration, hereinafter referred to as the Deputy Administrator, who shall
be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform
such functions as the Secretary may from time to time direct, and, unless he is compensated in
pursuance of the provisions of paragraph (2), below, shall receive compensation in accordance
with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
(2) The office of Deputy Administrator may be filled at the discretion of the President by
appointment (by and with the advice and consent of the Senate) from the active list of
commissioned officers of the Administration in which case the appointment shall create a
vacancy on the active list and while holding the office of Deputy Administrator the officer shall
have rank, pay and allowances not exceeding those of a Vice Admiral.
(c) The Deputy Administrator or such other official of the Department of Commerce as
the Secretary shall from time to time designate shall act as Administrator during the absence or
disability of the Administrator or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Administrator.
(d) At any one time, one principal constituent organizational entity of the Administration
may, if the Secretary so elects, be headed by a commissioned officer of the Administration, who
shall be designated by the Secretary. Such designation of an officer shall create a vacancy on the
active list and while serving under this paragraph the officer shall have rank, pay and allowances
not exceeding those of a Rear Admiral (upper half).
(e) Any commissioned officer of the Administration who has served as Deputy
Administrator or has served in a rank above that of Captain as the head of a principal constituent
organizational entity of the Administration, and is retired while so serving or is retired after the
completion of such service while serving in a lower rank or grade, shall be retired with the rank,
pay, and allowances authorized by law for the highest grade and rank held by him; but any such
officer, upon termination of his appointment in a rank above that of captain, shall, unless
appointed or assigned to some other position for which a higher rank or grade is provided, revert
to the grade and number he would have occupied had he not served in a rank above that of
captain and such officer shall be an extra number in that grade.
SEC. 5. Authority of the Secretary. Nothing in this reorganization plan shall divest the
Secretary of any function vested in him by law or by Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1950 (64 Stat.
1263) or in any manner derogate from any authority of the Secretary thereunder.
SEC. 6. Personnel, property, records, and funds. (a)The personnel (including
commissioned officers) employed in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the personnel employed in
the Weather Bureau, and the property and records held or used by the Weather Bureau or the
Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be deemed to be transferred to the Administration.
(b) Unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds available or to be
made available in connection with functions now administered by the Weather Bureau or by the
Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be available to the Administration hereunder in connection with
those functions.
(c) Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget
shall deem to be necessary in order to effectuate the foregoing provisions of this section shall be
carried out in such manner as he shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate.
SEC. 7. Interim officers. (a)The President may authorize any person who immediately
prior to the effective date of this reorganization plan held a position in the executive branch of
the Government to act as Administrator until the office of Administrator is for the first time filled
pursuant to the provisions of this reorganization plan or by recess appointment, as the case may
be.
(b) The President may similarly authorize any such person to act as Deputy
Administrator.
(c) The President may authorize any person who serves in an acting capacity under the
foregoing provisions of this section to receive the compensation attached to the office in respect
to which he so serves. Such compensation, if authorized, shall be in lieu of, but not in addition
to, other compensation from the United States to which such person may be entitled.
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