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             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                     PART I--THE AGENCIES GENERALLY
 
                   CHAPTER 9--EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION
 
Sec. 901. Purpose

    (a) The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United 
States--
        (1) to promote the better execution of the laws, the more 
    effective management of the executive branch and of its agencies and 
    functions, and the expeditious administration of the public 
    business;
        (2) to reduce expenditures and promote economy to the fullest 
    extent consistent with the efficient operation of the Government;
        (3) to increase the efficiency of the operations of the 
    Government to the fullest extent practicable;
        (4) to group, coordinate, and consolidate agencies and functions 
    of the Government, as nearly as may be, according to major purposes;
        (5) to reduce the number of agencies by consolidating those 
    having similar functions under a single head, and to abolish such 
    agencies or functions thereof as may not be necessary for the 
    efficient conduct of the Government; and
        (6) to eliminate overlapping and duplication of effort.

    (b) Congress declares that the public interest demands the carrying 
out of the purposes of subsection (a) of this section and that the 
purposes may be accomplished in great measure by proceeding under this 
chapter, and can be accomplished more speedily thereby than by the 
enactment of specific legislation.
    (c) It is the intent of Congress that the President should provide 
appropriate means for broad citizen advice and participation in 
restructuring and reorganizing the executive branch.
    (d) The President shall from time to time examine the organization 
of all agencies and shall determine what changes in such organization 
are necessary to carry out any policy set forth in subsection (a) of 
this section.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 394; Pub. L. 92-179, Sec. 1, 
Dec. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 574; Pub. L. 95-17, Sec. 2, Apr. 6, 1977, 91 
Stat. 29.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                     5 U.S.C. 133z.                June 20, 1949, ch.
                                                    226, Sec.  2, 63
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    In subsection (a), the words ``from time to time examine'' are 
substituted for ``examine and from time to time reexamine'' since the 
initial examination has been executed. The words ``of the Government'' 
following ``agencies'' are omitted as unnecessary in view of the 
definition of ``agency'' in section 902. In subsection (a)(1), the words 
``of the Government'' following ``executive branch'' are omitted as 
unnecessary and to conform to the style of this title.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

                          Codification

    Section 901(c) of former Title 5, Executive Departments and 
Government Officers and Employees, was transferred to section 60e-2(a) 
of Title 2, The Congress.


                               Amendments

    1977--Subsecs. (a) to (d). Pub. L. 95-17 reenacted subsecs. (a) and 
(b) without change, added subsec. (c), and redesignated former subsec. 
(c) as (d).
    1971--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 92-179, Sec. 1(a), substituted ``The 
Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States'' for ``The 
President shall from time to time examine the organization of all 
agencies and shall determine what changes therein are necessary to 
accomplish the following purposes'' preceding par. (1).
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 92-179, Sec. 1(b), added subsec. (c) consisting 
of provisions formerly set out preceding par. (1) of subsec. (a).


                      Short Title of 1984 Amendment

    Pub. L. 98-614, Sec. 1, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3192, provided: 
``That this Act [amending sections 903 to 906 and 908 to 912 of this 
title] may be cited as the `Reorganization Act Amendments of 1984'.''


                      Short Title of 1977 Amendment

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 95-17 provided: ``That this Act [amending this 
chapter] may be cited as the `Reorganization Act of 1977'.''


              National Commission on Executive Organization

    Pub. L. 100-527, Sec. 17, Oct. 25, 1988, 102 Stat. 2645, directed 
President, within 30 days after Mar. 15, 1989, to make a determination 
as to whether the national interest would be served by establishment of 
a National Commission on Executive Organization to review structural 
organization of executive branch of Federal Government, and stated that 
if President failed to transmit to Congress notification of his intent 
to establish such Commission section would cease to be effective 30 days 
after Mar. 15, 1989. [President did not transmit such notification to 
Cogress and thus section ceased to be effective 30 days after Mar. 15, 
1989.]

    Ex. Ord. No. 6166. Reorganization of Executive Agencies Generally

    Ex. Ord. No. 6166, June 10, 1933, provided:

                       Sec. 1. Procurement

    The function of determination of policies and methods of 
procurement, warehousing, and distribution of property, facilities, 
structures, improvements, machinery, equipment, stores, and supplies 
exercised by an agency is transferred to a Procurement Division in the 
Treasury Department, at the head of which shall be a Director of 
Procurement.
    The Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department 
is transferred to the Procurement Division, except that the buildings of 
the Treasury Department shall be administered by the Treasury Department 
and the administration of post-office buildings is transferred to the 
Post Office Department. The General Supply Committee of the Treasury 
Department is abolished.
    In respect of any kind of procurement, warehousing, or distribution 
for any agency the Procurement Division may, with the approval of the 
President, (a) undertake the performance of such procurement, 
warehousing, or distribution itself, or (b) permit such agency to 
perform such procurement, warehousing, or distribution, or (c) entrust 
such performance to some other agency, or (d) avail itself in part of 
any of these recourses, according as it may deem desirable in the 
interest of economy and efficiency. When the Procurement Division has 
prescribed the manner of procurement, warehousing, or distribution of 
any thing, no agency shall thereafter procure, warehouse, or distribute 
such thing in any manner other than so prescribed.
    The execution of work now performed by the Corps of Engineers of the 
Army shall remain with said corps, subject to the responsibilities 
herein vested in the Procurement Division.
    The Procurement Division shall also have control of all property, 
facilities, structures, machinery, equipment, stores, and supplies not 
necessary to the work of any agency; may have custody thereof or entrust 
custody to any other agency; and shall furnish the same to agencies as 
need therefor may arise.
    The Fuel Yards of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Commerce 
are transferred to the Procurement Office. (As amended by Ex. Ord. No. 
6623 of Mar. 1, 1934.)

                Amendment of Section by Ex. Ord. No. 6623

    Ex. Ord. No. 6623, Mar. 1, 1934, revoked a final paragraph of 
section 1 of Ex. Ord. No. 6166, which provided for the abolition of the 
Federal Employment Stabilization Board and the transfer of its functions 
to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. Said Ex. Ord. 
No. 6623 also provided in part as follows:
    ``It is further ordered that the said Federal Employment 
Stabilization Board be, and it is hereby, abolished.
    ``There is hereby established in the Department of Commerce an 
office to be known as the `Federal Employment Stabilization Office,' and 
there are hereby transferred to such office the functions of the Federal 
Employment Stabilization Board, together with its Director and other 
personnel, and records, supplies, equipment, and property of every kind.
    ``The unexpended balances of appropriations and/or allotments of 
appropriations of the Federal Employment Stabilization Board are hereby 
transferred to the Federal Employment Stabilization Office, Department 
of Commerce.''

                             Effective Date

    The effective date of Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 1, as provided for in 
section 22, post, was extended to Dec. 31, 1933, by Ex. Ord. No. 6224, 
of July 27, 1933, and the effective date of the last paragraph, 
subsequently revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 6623, was deferred by Ex. Ord. No. 
6624 of Mar. 1, 1934, until such revocation could become effective.
    [Subsequent to the effective date of Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 1, 
certain functions affected thereby were again transferred as follows: 
The Public Buildings Branch of the Procurement Division was transferred 
to Public Buildings Administration within the Federal Works 
Administration by 1939 Reorg. Plan No. 1, Secs. 301, 303, 4 Fed. Reg. 
2729; 53 Stat. 1426, 1427; the Federal Employment Stabilization Office, 
created by Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 1, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 6624, 
was abolished by 1939 Reorg. Plan No. 1, Sec. 4, 4 Fed. Reg. 2727, 53 
Stat. 1423, and its functions transferred to the Executive Office of the 
President.]

                    Supersedure of Pars. 1, 3, and 5

    Section 602(b) of act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title VI, 63 Stat. 
401, eff. July 1, 1949, as renumbered from title V, section 502(b) of 
said act June 30, 1949 by act Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, Secs. 6(a), (b), 
7(e), 64 Stat. 583, provided that: ``The provisions of the first, third, 
and fifth paragraphs of section 1 of Executive Order Numbered 6166 of 
June 10, 1933 [this Ex. Ord.], are hereby superseded, insofar as they 
relate to any function now administered by the Bureau of Federal Supply 
except functions with respect to standard contract forms.''

       Sec. 2. National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations

    All functions of administration of public buildings, reservations, 
national parks, national monuments, and national cemeteries are 
consolidated in the National Park Service in the Department of the 
Interior, at the head of which shall be a Director of the National Park 
Service; except that where deemed desirable there may be excluded from 
this provision any public building or reservation which is chiefly 
employed as a facility in the work of a particular agency. This transfer 
and consolidation of functions shall include, among others, those of the 
former National Park Service of the Department of the Interior and the 
following National Cemeteries and Parks of the War Department which are 
located within the continental limits of the United States:

                         National Military Parks

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and 
    Tennessee.
Fort Donelson National Military Park, Tennessee.
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial, Virginia.
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania.
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, North Carolina.
Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina.
Moores Creek National Military Park, North Carolina.
Petersburg National Military Park, Virginia.
Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee.
Stones River National Military Park, Tennessee.
Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.

                             National Parks

Abraham Lincoln National Park, Kentucky.
Fort McHenry National Park, Maryland.

                            Battlefield Sites

Antietam Battlefield, Maryland.
Appomattox, Virginia.
Brices Cross Roads, Mississippi.
Chalmette Monument and Grounds, Louisiana.
Cowpens, South Carolina.
Fort Necessity, Wharton County, Pennsylvania.
Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia.
Monocacy, Maryland.
Tupelo, Mississippi.
White Plains, New York.

                           National Monuments

Big Hole Battlefield, Beaverhead County, Montana.
Cabrillo Monument, Fort Rosecrans, California.
Castle Pinckney, Charleston, South Carolina.
Father Millet Cross, Fort Niagara, New York.
Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida.
Fort Matanzas, Florida.
Fort Pulaski, Georgia.
Meriwether Lewis, Hardin County, Tennessee.
Mound City Group, Chillicothe, Ohio.
Statue of Liberty, Fort Wood, New York.

                         Miscellaneous Memorials

Camp Blount Tablets, Lincoln County, Tennessee.
Kill Devil Hill Monument, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
New Echota Marker, Georgia.
Lee Mansion, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.

                           National Cemeteries

Custer Battlefield, National Cemetery in the State of Montana.
Battleground, District of Columbia.
Antietam (Sharpsburg), Maryland.
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Fort Donelson (Dover), Tennessee.
Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), Tennessee.
Stones River (Murfreesboro), Tennessee.
Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Poplar Grove (Petersburg), Virginia.
Yorktown, Virginia.
    National cemeteries located in insular possessions under the 
jurisdiction of the War Department shall be administered by the Bureau 
of Insular Affairs of the War Department.
    The functions of the following agencies are transferred to the 
National Park Service of the Department of the Interior, and the 
agencies are abolished:
        Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission
        Public Buildings Commission
        Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital
        National Memorial Commission
        Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission
    Expenditures by the Federal Government for the purposes of the 
Commission of Fine Arts, the George Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial 
Commission, and the Rushmore National Commission shall be administered 
by the Department of the Interior. (As amended by Ex. Ord. No. 6228 of 
July 28, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6614 of Feb. 26, 1934; Ex. Ord. No. 8428 of 
June 3, 1940, 5 F.R. 2132; and act Mar. 2, 1934. ch. 39, Sec. 1, 48 
Stat. 389.)

                               Amendments

    The enumeration of the National Cemeteries and Parks of the War 
Department which were transferred to the Department of the Interior was 
added by Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, of July 28, 1933, and Ex. Ord. No. 
8428 of June 3, 1940.
    A provision of this section transferring the administration of 
national cemeteries located in foreign countries to the State Department 
was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 6614 of Feb. 26, 1934.

                             Effective Date

    See section 22 of this Ex. Ord. The transfer of national cemeteries 
located in the insular possessions to the Bureau of Insular Affairs, as 
provided in this section, was postponed until further order by Ex. Ord. 
No. 6228, Sec. 3, of July 28, 1933.

                     Sec. 3. Investigations

    All functions now exercised by the Bureau of Prohibition of the 
Department of Justice with respect to the granting of permits under the 
national prohibition laws are transferred to the Division of Internal 
Revenue in the Treasury Department.
    All functions now exercised by the Bureau of Prohibition with 
respect to investigations and all the functions now performed by the 
Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice are transferred to 
and consolidated in a Division of Investigation in the Department of 
Justice, at the head of which shall be a Director of Investigation.
    All other functions now performed by the Bureau of Prohibition are 
transferred to such divisions in the Department of Justice as in the 
judgment of the Attorney General may be desirable.

                      Sec. 4. Disbursement

    [Section, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 6728, May 29, 1934; 1940 Reorg. 
Plan No. III, Sec. 1(a)(1), eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2107, 54 Stat. 
1231; and 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, Secs. 3, 4, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 
F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1234, which provided that the function of 
disbursement of moneys of the United States exercised by any agency 
[except United States marshals; the Post Office Department; the 
Postmaster General; the Board of Trustees of the Postal Savings System; 
and those disbursement functions of the War Department, Navy Department 
(including the Marine Corps), and the Panama Canal, not pertaining to 
departmental salaries in the District of Columbia] were transferred to 
the [Fiscal Service of the] Treasury Department and, together with the 
Office of Disbursing Clerk of that department, was consolidated in a 
Division of Disbursement, at the head of which was a Chief Disbursing 
Officer, that the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department 
was authorized to establish local offices, or to delegate the exercise 
of its functions locally to officers or employees of other agencies, 
according as the interests of efficiency and economy might require, that 
the Division of Disbursement would disburse moneys only upon the 
certification of persons by law duly authorized to incur obligations 
upon behalf of the United States and that the function of accountability 
for improper certification would be transferred to such persons, and no 
disbursing officer would be held accountable therefor, was repealed and 
reenacted as section 3321 of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97-
258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877, the first section of which enacted 
Title 31.]

                               Amendments

    The bracketed provisions in the first sentence of section 4 of Ex. 
Ord. No. 6166 reflect the changes effected by 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, 
Secs. 3, 4, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1234, 1235, Ex. 
Ord. No. 6728, and 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, Sec. 1(a)(1), 5 F.R. 2107, 
54 Stat. 1231, respectively.

                             Effective Date

    The effective date of section 4 of Ex. Ord. No. 6166, originally 
fixed by section 22 of this Ex. Ord., was subsequently postponed as 
follows: to Dec. 31, 1933, by Ex. Ord. No. 6224 of July 27, 1933; to 
June 30, 1934 (insofar as not already effected prior to Dec. 31, 1933), 
by Ex. Ord. No. 6540 of Dec. 28, 1933; to Dec. 31, 1934 (insofar as not 
already effected prior to June 30, 1934), by Ex. Ord. No. 6727 of May 
29, 1934; to June 30, 1935, by Ex. Ord. No. 6927 of Dec. 31, 1934; to 
Dec. 31, 1935 (insofar as not already effected prior to June 30, 1934), 
by Ex. Ord. No. 7077 of June 15, 1935; to June 30, 1936 (insofar as not 
already effected prior to Dec. 31, 1935), by Ex. Ord. No. 7261 of Dec. 
31, 1935. Each of these orders contained a provision that the changes 
therein delayed might be made sooner effective by order of the Secretary 
of the Treasury approved by the President.

         Sec. 5. Claims By or Against the United States

    The functions of prosecuting in the courts of the United States 
claims and demands by, and offenses against, the Government of the 
United States and of defending claims and demands against the 
Government, and of supervising the work of United States attorneys, 
marshals, and clerks in connection therewith, now exercised by any 
agency or officer, are transferred to the Department of Justice.
    As to any case referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution 
or defense in the courts, the function of decision whether and in what 
manner to prosecute, or to defend, or to compromise, or to appeal, or to 
abandon prosecution or defense, now exercised by any agency or officer, 
is transferred to the Department of Justice.
    For the exercise of such of his functions as are not transferred to 
the Department of Justice by the foregoing two paragraphs, the Solicitor 
of the Treasury is transferred from the Department of Justice to the 
Treasury Department.
    Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the function of 
any agency or officer with respect to cases at any stage prior to 
reference to the Department of Justice for prosecution or defense.

                             Effective Date

    With regard to legal work performed by the Veterans' Administration 
in connection with suits against the United States arising under section 
19 of the World War Veterans Act, 1924, the effective date of this 
section was postponed to Sept. 10, 1933, by Ex. Ord. No. 6222 of July 
27, 1933.
    The effective date of the first paragraph of this section, insofar 
as it affected the functions of the General Counsel for the Bureau of 
Internal Revenue, was postponed until Oct. 10, 1933, by Ex. Ord. No. 
6244 of Aug. 8, 1933.

                     Sec. 6. Insular Courts

    The United States Court for China, the District Court of the United 
States for the Panama Canal Zone, and the District Court of the Virgin 
Islands of the United States are transferred to the Department of 
Justice.

                             Effective Date

    Ex. Ord. No. 6243, Aug. 5, 1933, provided that ``the effective date 
of the transfer to the Department of Justice of the District Court of 
the United States for the Panama Canal Zone is hereby postponed to 
October 4, 1933.''

                       Sec. 7. Solicitors

    The Solicitor for the Department of Commerce is transferred from the 
Department of Justice to the Department of Commerce.
    The Solicitor for the Department of Labor is transferred from the 
Department of Justice to the Department of Labor.

                    Sec. 8. Internal Revenue

    The Bureaus of Internal Revenue and or Industrial Alcohol of the 
Treasury Department are consolidated in a Division of Internal Revenue, 
at the head of which shall be a Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

                             Effective Date

    The effective date of section 8 of Ex. Ord. No. 6166, originally 
fixed by section 22 of the same order, post, was subsequently postponed 
as follows: to Dec. 31, 1933, by Ex. Ord. No. 6224 of July 27, 1933; to 
June 30, 1934, by Ex. Ord. No. 6540 of Dec. 28, 1933. Said orders, 
however, contained a provision whereby the changes thereby delayed might 
be sooner effected by order of the Secretary of the Treasury approved by 
the President.

             Sec. 9. Assistant Secretary of Commerce

    The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics shall be an 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce and shall perform such functions as the 
Secretary of Commerce may designate.

                   Sec. 10. Official Register

    The function of preparation of the Official Register is transferred 
from the Bureau of the Census to the Civil Service Commission.

                  Sec. 11. Statistics of Cities

    The function of the Bureau of the Census of the Department of 
Commerce of compiling statistics of cities under 100,000 population is 
abolished for the period ending June 30, 1935.

                     Sec. 12. Shipping Board

    The functions of the United States Shipping Board including those 
over and in respect to the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet 
Corporation are transferred to the Department of Commerce, and the 
United States Shipping Board is abolished.

            Sec. 13. National Screw Thread Commission

    The National Screw Thread Commission is abolished, and its records, 
property, facilities, equipment, and supplies are transferred to the 
Department of Commerce.

             Sec. 14. Immigration and Naturalization

    The Bureaus of Immigration and of Naturalization of the Department 
of Labor are consolidated as an Immigration and Naturalization Service 
of the Department of Labor, at the head of which shall be a Commissioner 
of Immigration and Naturalization.

                  Sec. 15. Vocational Education

    The functions of the Federal Board for Vocational Education are 
transferred to the Department of the Interior, and the Board shall act 
in an advisory capacity without compensation.

            Sec. 16. Apportionment of Appropriations

    The functions of making, waiving, and modifying apportionments of 
appropriations are transferred to the Director of the Bureau of the 
Budget.

                  Sec. 17. Coordinating Service

    The Federal Coordinating Service is abolished.

                             Effective Date

    The effective date of this section originally fixed by section 22 of 
this Ex. Ord., was subsequently deferred to Oct. 10, 1933, by Ex. Ord. 
No. 6239 of Aug. 2, 1933.

                  Sec. 18. Functions Abolished

    Section 18 of Ex. Ord. No. 6166, which provided for the partial 
abolition of cooperative vocational education payments for agricultural 
experiment stations; cooperative agricultural extension work; and 
endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and 
the mechanical arts, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 6536 of Feb. 6, 1934.

                   Sec. 19. General Provisions

    Each agency, all the functions of which are transferred to or 
consolidated with another agency, is abolished.
    The records pertaining to an abolished agency or a function disposed 
of, disposition of which is not elsewhere herein provided for, shall be 
transferred to the successor. If there be no successor agency, and such 
abolished agency be within a department, said records shall be disposed 
of as the head of such department may direct.
    The property, facilities, equipment, and supplies employed in the 
work of an abolished agency or the exercise of a function disposed of, 
disposition of which is not elsewhere herein provided for, shall, to the 
extent required, be transferred to the successor agency. Other such 
property, facilities, equipment, and supplies shall be transferred to 
the Procurement Division.
    All personnel employed in connection with the work of an abolished 
agency or function disposed of shall be separated from the service of 
the United States, except that the head of any successor agency, subject 
to my approval, may, within a period of four months after transfer or 
consolidation, reappoint any of such personnel required for the work of 
the successor agency without reexamination or loss of civil-service 
status.

                             Effective Date

    The effective date of the last paragraph of this section, originally 
fixed by section 22, post, was deferred as to employees separated from 
service under sections 2 and 15, ante, until Sept. 30, 1933, by Ex. Ord. 
No. 6227 of July 27, 1933. As to employees separated under section 12, 
ante, a similar deferment to Sept. 30, 1933, was made by Ex. Ord. No. 
6245 of Aug. 9, 1933.

                     Sec. 20. Appropriations

    Such portions of the unexpended balances of appropriations for any 
abolished agency or function disposed of shall be transferred to the 
successor agency as the Director of the Budget shall deem necessary.
    Unexpended balances of appropriations for an abolished agency or 
function disposed of, not so transferred by the Director of the Budget, 
shall, in accordance with law, be impounded and returned to the 
Treasury.

                      Sec. 21. Definitions

    As used in this order--
    ``Agency'' means any commission, independent establishment, board, 
bureau, division, service, or office in the executive branch of the 
Government.
    ``Abolished agency'' means any agency which is abolished, 
transferred, or consolidated.
    ``Successor agency'' means any agency to which is transferred some 
other agency or function, or which results from the consolidation of 
other agencies or functions.
    ``Function disposed of'' means any function eliminated or 
transferred.

                     Sec. 22. Effective Date

    In accordance with law, this order shall become effective 61 days 
from its date: Provided, That in case it shall appear to the President 
that the interests of economy require that any transfer, consolidation, 
or elimination be delayed beyond the date this order becomes effective, 
he may, in his discretion, fix a later date therefor, and he may for 
like cause further defer such date from time to time. (Promulgated June 
10, 1933.)
    [Postponements of effective date of certain transfers, etc., see 
notes under the various sections of this Executive Order effecting those 
transfers, etc.]
    Executive Order No. 7261, promulgated December 31, 1935, provided 
that ``except as hereinafter provided, the transfers, consolidations, 
and eliminations contemplated by section 4 of Executive Order No. 6166 
of June 10, 1933, as amended, which are not effected prior to December 
31, 1935, pursuant to Executive Order No. 6224 of July 27, 1933, 
Executive Order No. 6540 of December 28, 1933, Executive Order No. 6727 
of May 29, 1934, Executive Order No. 6927 of December 21, 1934, and 
Executive Order No. 7077 of June 15, 1935, together with the operation 
of all other provisions of Executive Order No. 6166 of June 10, 1933, as 
amended, in so far as they relate to said section 4, be further delayed 
until June 30, 1936: Provided, that any transfer, consolidation, or 
elimination, in whole or in part, under said section 4, including any 
other provisions of the said order of June 10, 1933, in so far as they 
relate to section 4 thereof, may be made operative and effective between 
December 31, 1935, and June 30, 1936, by order of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, approved by the President.''
    Executive Order No. 7980, promulgated September 29, 1938, provided: 
``That the transfers, consolidations, and eliminations contemplated by 
section 4 of Executive Order No. 6166 of June 10, 1933, as amended, 
together with the operation of all other provisions of Executive Order 
No. 6166 of June 10, 1933, as amended, so far as they relate to the said 
section 4, be further delayed until December 31, 1938, with respect to 
the function of disbursement now exercised by United States Marshals 
under the Department of Justice.''
    Functions relating to disbursement by United States marshals which 
would otherwise have become functions of Treasury Department on July 1, 
1940, by virtue of Ex. Ord. No. 6166, as amended, were transferred to 
and vested in Department of Justice to be exercised by United States 
marshals under supervision of Attorney General in accordance with 
existing statutes pertaining to such functions, by Reorg. Plan No. IV of 
1940, Sec. 3, eff. June 30, 1940. See, also, sections 13-15 of said plan 
for provisions relating to transfer of functions of department heads, 
records, property, personnel, and funds.
    Functions relating to disbursement of postal revenues and all other 
funds under jurisdiction of Post Office Department, Postmaster General, 
and Board of Trustees of Postal Savings System which would otherwise 
have become functions of Treasury Department on July 1, 1940, by virtue 
of Ex. Ord. No. 6166, as amended, set out in note under this section, 
were transferred to and vested in (a) said Board of Trustees as to 
postal savings disbursements, and (b) Post Office Department as to all 
other disbursements involved, such functions to be exercised by 
postmasters and other authorized disbursing agents of Post Office 
Department and of Postal Savings System in accordance with existing 
statutes pertaining to such functions, by Reorg. Plan No. IV of 1940, 
Sec. 4, eff. June 30, 1940. See, also, sections 13-15 of said plan for 
provisions relating to transfer of functions of department heads, 
records, property, personnel, and funds.
    Public Buildings Branch of Procurement Division and its functions 
and personnel were transferred to Public Buildings Administration, and 
functions of Secretary of Agriculture and Director of Procurement 
Division relating to administration thereof and to selection of sites 
for public buildings were transferred to Federal Works Administrator by 
Reorg. Plan No. I of 1939, Secs. 301, 303, effective July 1, 1939. See 
also sections 307-310 of said plan for provisions relating to transfer 
of records, property, funds, and personnel.

                        Executive Order No. 11007

    Ex. Ord. No. 11007, Feb. 27, 1962, 27 F.R. 1875, which related to 
regulations for formation and use of advisory committees, was superseded 
by Ex. Ord. No. 11671, June 5, 1972, 37 F.R. 11307.

                        Executive Order No. 11671

    Ex. Ord. No. 11671, June 5, 1972, 37 F.R. 11307, which related to 
committee management, was superseded by Ex. Ord. No. 11686, Oct. 7, 
1972, 37 F.R. 21421, set out in the Appendix to this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 903 of this title.
