Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1961: Hearings Before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, July 11, 12, and 13, 1961

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Considers Reorganization Plan No. 7, 1961, to dissolve the Federal Maritime Board, to transfer the board's regulatory responsibilities to an independent Federal Maritime Commission, and to transfer the board's subsidy authority to the Commerce Dept.
 

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Page 104 - So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in connection with the functions transferred...
Page 113 - ... the date of the taking effect of this Act, the term of each to be designated by the President, but their successors shall be appointed for terms of seven years, except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the commissioner whom he shall succeed.
Page 6 - Director shall direct. (b) Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be necessary in order to effectuate the transfers...
Page 113 - Commission. (b) The President shall from time to time designate one of the members of the Council to preside over meetings of the Council during the absence, disability, or unavailability of the Chairman. (c) Each member of the Council may designate another officer of his department or agency to serve on the Council as his alternate in his unavoidable absence.
Page 43 - Stat. 837 employee board, upon its own initiative or upon petition of a party to or an intervenor in such action, within such time and in such manner as the Commission shall by rule prescribe: Provided, however.
Page 6 - Commission to be in the employ of any other person, firm, or corporation, or to have any pecuniary interest in, or hold any official relationship with, any carrier by water, shipbuilder, contractor, or other person, firm, association, or corporation with whom the Commission may have business relations.
Page 4 - Not more than three of the Commissioners shall be appointed from the same political party. No person in the employ of or holding any official relation to any...
Page 5 - Stat. 241), as amended. (b) With respect to the delegation of any of its functions, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the Commission shall retain a discretionary right to review the action of any such division of the Commission, individual Commissioner, hearing examiner, employee or employee board...
Page 33 - The Board exercises its powers independently. Its decisions are not subject to review by any executive department or agency, except for the approval of the President required in Board decisions granting or affecting certificates for overseas and foreign air transportation, and foreign air carrier permits.
Page 3 - No. 4 of 1950 is necessary to accomplish one or more of the purposes set forth in section 2 (a) of the Reorganization Act of 1949.

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