2. Routine services.-The following routine services are provided by the General Services Administration without cost to the occupant agencies: (a) Cleaning, including window washing and floor maintenance; (b) Electric current, water, and heat for normal space use; (c) Operation, maintenance, and repair of elevators and electric, heating, airconditioning, ventilating, refrigeration, plumbing, and sewerage systems; (d) Repairs to Government-owned buildings, including periodic painting and decorating; (e) Repairs to leased buildings and building equipment, including periodic painting and decorating, unless otherwise provided for under the terms of the lease; (f) Maintenance of grounds, including approaches and roads; (g) Normal protection or guarding; and (h) Rent for leased quarters. 3. Specific services.-The following services when specifically requested likewise are provided by the General Services Administration without cost to the occupant agencies: (a) The furnishing and maintenance of building equipment such as directory and bulletin boards at the main entrances, clocks, door closers, ventilating fans, exhaust fans, water coolers, unit air conditioners, limited annunciator and buzzer systems, limited convenience outlets, window shades or venetian blinds, window ventilators, and drapes for replacement of such equipment provided in initial construction of the building; (b) Installation of accoustic ceilings, in other than special-use areas, where the need is justified; (c) Refinishing of floors and laying of floor covering such as linoleum or tile; (d) Relocation, extension, and replacement of existing heating, plumbing, lighting, and other mechanical systems where necessary; (e) Building alterations and improvements; (f) Furniture and the maintenance, repair, and refinishing thereof in Government-owned buildings outside the District of Columbia and area immediately adjacent thereto; (g) Furnishing of keys and changing of locks; (h) Furnishing door title cards and holders; and (i) Installing, removing, and relocating of partitions, in changes of space use (excluding telephone company charges for telephone installations and changes) and the physical moving of furniture and office equipment within and between buildings within metropolitan areas where such services are required as a result of moves ordered by the Public Buildings Service in the assignment, reassignment, and control of space. Generally, the services specified in this section are budgeted for on the basis of normal space needs. The providing of services of considerable magnitude in this category will depend upon the General Services Administration securing additional funds through the submission of appropriation requests. The terms of leases will be governing factors for work in rented buildings. 4. Reimbursable services.-No provision is made in the appropriation estimates of the General Services Administration for special services peculiar to an agency's needs. These services are provided to the occupant agencies on a reimbursable basis and include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Security guarding and protection of confidential records and property subject to approval by the Bureau of the Budget; (b) Installation, operation, and maintenance of burglar alarms and other protective devices and systems for security protection; (c) Utilities for specialized purposes, including food storage, preparation and serving in cafeterias and lunch stands (except authorized stands operated by the blind); (d) Construction, installation, maintenance, and repair of special equipment of the occupants; (e) Construction, installation, and maintenance of exhibits; (f) Cleaning within file cabinets, bookcases, desks, and other property of the occupants; (g) Alterations and improvements, including ventilating and temperature and humidity control equipment, to make space suitable for scientific, laboratory, or for other specialized purposes; (h) Signs and sign writing, other than that required in the operation and maintenance of the buildings; (i) Space alterations, such as installing, removing, and relocating of partitions (subject to approval of building superintendent) and the moving of furniture and office equipment at the request of the occupants; and (j) Other special services performed solely for the benefit of the occupants. Minor special work, ordinarily chargeable to the occupant agency may be performed without charge at the discretion of the building superintendent where a minimum of labor and materials is involved. 5. Conservation of building services.-Occupant agencies can assist in the management of buildings by practicing good housekeeping methods and, wherever possible, by exercising economies in the use of electric current, heat and other services, thereby lessening the demand for building services. 6. Rescission.-The Standard Practices for the Maintenance and Operation of Federal Office Buildings in Metropolitan Washington, D. C., dated February 14, 1947, and the Standard Practices for the Maintenance and Operation of Federal Office Buildings Outside the District of Columbia, dated May 6, 1947, issued by the Office of Buildings Management, Public Buildings Administration, are hereby superseded. JESS LARSON, Administrator. Mr. DANIEL F. CLEARY, Chairman, War Claims Commission, DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington 25, D. C. MY DEAR MR. CLEARY: I am in receipt of your letter dated March 26, 1952, regarding the instructions with respect to your appropriation bill for 1953, as contained in House Report No. 1517. The agreement for fiscal year 1952 provides for a reimbursement in the amount of $12,000 to the Department of State. While our 1953 appropriation_request does not provide for such nonreimbursable services, the Department will, of course, comply with the wishes of the Appropriations Committee. Such services as the Department provides for your Commission in 1953 will be on a nonreimbursable basis. Sincerely yours, EDWARD B. WILBER, Budget Officer. BUDGET BUREAU CONFERENCE PLANNED Mr. CLEARY. All we have is the letter that we had transmitted to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget dated April 22 and which will be the subject of this conference set up for next Monday. Senator MAYBANK. With the Bureau of the Budget? Mr. CLEARY. That is right. Senator MAYBANK. If it is agreeable to the Senators present here, we ought to wait until you get through with your conference with the budget and then you write us at that time. I do not think a thing is to be gained to discuss this now until you have had that conference. I think that will be the best way to handle it. You are excused, with the understanding that as soon as the Budget Bureau is finished, you can talk to Mr. Cooper. We have got the record of the $190,000 from the other agencies. GENERAL PROVISIONS ANNUAL LEAVE ACCUMULATION RESTRICTION (See also p. 514) Senator MAYBANK. Before we go into TVA, I have a letter from the President which reads as follows: APRIL 24, 1952. DEAR SENATOR MAYBANK: I am writing to urge your careful attention to a matter of great importance to the proper management of the Government and to the welfare of our many hard-working Federal employees. This matter relates to the bill before your Subcommittee on Independent Offices Appropriations, which would have the effect of prohibiting accumulations of annual leave by reinstating a provision in the statutes which was expressly repealed no longer ago than October 30 of last year. After extensive hearings and careful study of the subject of annual leave, the Congress enacted a new leave program expertly designed to meet the needs of the Federal service. This act, the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951, provided for a graduated system of leave based upon length of service. Although the statute reduced the total amount of leave earned per year by most Federal employees to 13 days or 20 days, depending on length of service, it was accepted as a fair and reasonable approach to the leave problem. This acceptance was based partially, at least, on the fact that as part and parcel of this system, arbitrary restrictions upon the accumulation of leave up to the 60-day maximum were removed. It strikes me as particularly unfair to Federal employees, and to those who were heard in Congress on their behalf, to remove the accumulation privilege and thus deprive these employees of their fair consideration for the cut-back in the amount of leave earned. Unfortunately, however, that is the effect of a provision in the Independent Offices Appropriations Act of 1953 enacted by the House of Representatives on March 21, 1952. Moreover, the effect of this provision is especially harsh inasmuch as the accumulation of annual leave is the only cushion the Federal employee has at the present time against unemployment. Until some form of severance pay or unemployment compensation similar to that required by Federal law for private employees is provided for Federal workers, the only protection against the hardships of unemployment which they can rely on is whatever amount of annual leave they are able to save. Furthermore, I am convinced that a careful study of the long-range effect of this provision would indicate that it would increase cost to the Government because it would complicate emergency recruiting and would result in amounts of overtime at premium rates. Inasmuch as I know of your long-standing concern for a healthy and economical Federal establishment based upon fair standards, I am taking this opportunity to urge upon you the advisability of removing this unfair provision from the bill under consideration. Very sincerely yours, HARRY TRUMAN. Please notify the President that the committee appreciated his letter and it has been read into the record, and the situation will be considered as we progress in the hearings. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY PAYMENT TO TVA FUND STATEMENTS OF GORDON R. CLAPP, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD; JOHN OLIVER, GENERAL MANAGER; G. O. WESSENAUER, MANAGER OF POWER; C. E. BLEE, CHIEF ENGINEER; JOSEPH C. SWIDLER, GENERAL COUNSEL; JOHN H. CLARK, BUDGET OFFICER; AND MARGUERITE OWEN, WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE COMMUNICATIONS Senator MAYBANK. I want to place in the record the letter from Mr. Clapp to me under date of March 22, 1952, together with exhibits attached, and also another letter dated April 10, 1952, in regard to the contract in connection with the purchase of coal and the Jensen amendment. (The letters referred to follow:) Hon. BURNET R. MAYBANK, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, Chairman, Subcommittee in Charge of the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill, 1953, MY DEAR SENATOR MAYBANK: This is in response to your letter of March 18, 1952, in which you ask that we indicate the changes in the Independent Offices Appropriation bill, 1953, as reported to the House of Representatives, which we consider absolutely necessary. The bill was approved yesterday by the House including several amendments introduced from the floor. In order to complete our response to your request as promptly as possible, we have not delayed it to include comment on all of the amendments to the bill. It has been possible, however, to include comment on the effect of one amendment: elimination of two more units at our Shanwee steam plant (making a total reduction of four units). We understand other amendments to the bill would place limitations on expenditures for personal services and require that we obtain surety bonds on our contracts for the purchase of coal. Since we do not yet have the precise language of these provisions, we do not know fully what effect they will have on our program. As soon as we can obtain the language of the bill as it passed the House we shall file additional comment with your committee if the additional provisions require adjustment. The bill as reported (including the effect of the additional amendment adopted by the House which eliminated all new units at Shawnee) contains two provisions which are of such crucial importance that we earnestly request an opportunity to discuss their effects with your committee. These two points are (1) elimination of four generating units at our Shawnee steam plant, and (2) the limitation placed on travel expenses. TVA is now building the Shawnee steam plant with four generating units as the initial installation. The 1953 program recommended by TVA and the President included four additional units at this location. The bill as approved by the House would eliminate these four new units. This action, if it prevails, will seriously cripple the development of the Tennessee Valley and jeopardize the national defense power program. As explained in the enclosed statement, new generating capacity now included in the House bill will be inadequate to meet system loads in 1955. As sole power supplier in its service area, TVA is responsible to its power consumers for providing adequate capacity to meet their needs for power. Any new large demand for power required by defense agencies or industries, which develops in the area in the next four years, can be met only by capacity additions which would take 36 months to build. It is our studied judgment that the capacity recommended by the President is of utmost necessity if TVA is to meet its responsibilities to its power consumers for power supply and to the Nation for meeting national defense requirements. Time lost by failure to start new capacity now cannot be regained. The limitation (p. 35, lines 22-24) placed on travel expenses reduces by onethird our estimate for this purpose. This limitation, although involving an amount of money which is small in relation to the cost of the related programs, would make it impossible for TVA to maintain and operate its power system without serious dangers of service interruptions, and result in most serious delays in meeting construction schedules for power facilities. The great bulk of TVA travel expense is not for administrative purposes, but is paid to workmen engaged in power construction and operating activities. Such travel cannot be reduced without corresponding curtailment of such activities. For the reasons we have described in the enclosed statement, this limitation would so disrupt our power operation, maintenance, and construction activities as to make it impossible to assure fulfillment of TVA's reponsibilities to the power consumers of this region. The bill as reported to the House contains two other provisions which are also of serious concern. In order that your committee may be fully informed as to the effects of these provisions, we are also enclosing statements on these points: 1. Reduction of 10 percent in appropriation financed expenses. This reduction coming on top of the very substantial reductions made administratively a year ago, will mean a severe set-back to TVA work in resource development with State and local agencies in the Valley. 2. Reduction in the number of automobiles authorized for purchase in 1953. This provision will cost-rather than save-the Government money. We We shall begin promptly to analyse the other amendments to the bill adopted by the House. It is apparent to use at this time, however, that these provisions, coupled with those described above, will present a set of limitations under which we cannot discharge the responsibilities placed upon us by the Congress. shall be prepared to go into these matters fully with your committee at any time you may desire. We shall be glad to furnish promptly any further information which you may need. Sincerely yours, GORDON R. CLAPP, EXHIBIT A.-SHAWNEE UNITS The bill as approved by the House would eliminate four new generating units proposed for construction at our Shawnee steam plant. If this action prevails, it will seriously cripple the development of the Tennessee Valley and jeopardize the national defense power program. The capacity recommended by the President is of utmost necessity if TVA is to meet its responsibilities to its power consumers for power supply and to the Nation for meeting national defense requirements. TVA now has approved and under way a construction program which will increase the rated generating capacity of its system from 3,181,110 kilowatts at June 30, 1951, to 6,735,885 kilowatts in the fall of 1954. Even with this program, the system will be short by some 170,000 kilowatts at the end of 1954. Without additional installations to be begun in fiscal year 1953, the continuing system load growth would result in a deficiency of about 900,000 kilowatts in the winter of 1955-56. The President's 1953 budget therefore includes provision for beginning construction of 1,341,600 kilowatts of new power capacity. This increment of capacity would meet presently foreseeable load growth and provide a minimum reserve for new power load developments. The new capacity would be attained by adding generating units at hydro and steam plants now in operation or under construction. As a part of this program, TVA proposed to begin work on four additional units at the Shawnee steam plant near Paducah, Ky. The House denied funds for these four Shawnee units. The 1953 program of capacity additions was planned to meet general load growth through the TVA power service area. Within that area, the cities and rural systems that distribute TVA electricity to over 1,200,000 homes, farms, stores, and factories rely upon TVA for their increasing power requirements brought about by the expansions made necessary by the growth of the region and by the demands for its products by the rest of the Nation. Located in the area are a number of important electro-metallurgical and chemical plants, two large installations of the Atomic Energy Commission, and several military establishments. The estimates of general load growth were based on past experience in the increasing use of the various groups of consumers. Although allowance was |