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[CITE: 29USC2b]

 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                       CHAPTER 1--LABOR STATISTICS
 
                SUBCHAPTER I--BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
 
Sec. 2b. Studies of productivity and labor costs in industries

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of 
Labor is authorized and directed to make continuing studies of 
productivity and labor costs in the manufacturing, mining, 
transportation, distribution, and other industries.

(June 7, 1940, ch. 267, 54 Stat. 249; Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1076, 
Sec. 1(27), 68 Stat. 968.)

                          Codification

    Provision of this section authorizing appropriations of up to 
$100,000 for studies by the bureau in the first fiscal year was omitted.


                               Amendments

    1954--Act Aug. 30, 1954, repealed second par. which required 
Secretary of Labor to submit annually to Congress reports of findings 
under this section.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Labor, 
with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, 15 
F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees.
