Evening star., 1951-03-07
Agencies With 14,l58
Also Expected to Be
Moved This Year
By Froncis P. Douqlos

Government agencies to be moved
to other cities was made public
today. 1t disclosed that offices
with 5,183 employees will be shifted
elsewhere generally within the
next so to 80 days.
The agencies most affected by
this decentralization program are
the Defense Department and the
Treasury. In the Defense Depart
ment, Army offices with 885 en-
ployes and Air Force offices with
789 employees are slated for re-
moval from the Capital. Agencies
of the Treasury with 997 positions
also are to go.
Summarized by departments,
other removals will be these:
Agriculture Department, 440
employees: Commerce Department,
676: Civil Service Commission,
ATS; Interior Department, 369;
Labor Department. $40; General
Services Administration, 35; Fed
eral Security Agency, 145, and the
Federal Mediation and Concilla-
tion Service. II.
Committee Prepares to Vote.
The list was submitted by the
Budget Bureau to the Senate Pub
lie Works Committee as that group
discussed the dispersal bill, which
would provide for removal of
agencies with $4,000 employees into
the suburbs of Washington.
1t is distinct from the decen-
tralization program, which is the
removal of. agencies from the
Capital to other cities.
The committee failed to reach
a vote on the dispersal bill today
Chairman Chavez said the COM
mittee will meet again Friday
when it will obtain information
from the Public Roads Bureau on
highways to serve the 'decentral-
lied agencies and more informa-
ton from the General Services
Administration.
He said the committee may vote
at that meeting. He described
the feeling of the group as SYM
pathetic to the program.
The Budget Bureau has in
dicated it will ask for an ap-
preparation to finance those moves
for which funds are not already
available. A section in the dis
persal bill also provides authority
for decentralization. but Govern
ment officials said there are only
few cases where that authority
does not already exist.
Goal of Program Is $4,000.
The Budget Bureaus report to
the Senate committee listed the
goal of the decentralization pro-
gram at $4,000 positions. 1t said
the agencies with 5,183 employees
could be moved out within 60 to
80 days after funds become avail
able, with some exceptions.
Next, it stated that agencies
with 14,158 employees are planned
to be moved, but they are regarded
as problem cases. This means the
Government has not been able to
find Office space in other cities to
permit their removal. 1t was said
at the Budget Bureau that this
is expected to be accomplished
within year.
The last category includes addi-
tional agencies from the Defense
Department with 5000 employees.
The total in the three categories
is 24,341 or just short of the goal.
While the Budget Bureau said
the agencies on the decentraliza-
ton list announced today could
be moved in so to 80 days, Leo
C. Martin of the bureau, estimated
that it would be the end of the
summer before the removal could
be completed.
Funds Will Be Sought.
Mr.. Martin said that the
Budget Bureau would send to
Congress next week a request for
a supplemental appropriation for
the costs of moving and rental
charges for space in the buildings
to which the agencies will be
moved.
He said additional decentraliza-
ton lists would be issued as space
is found for the agencies it is
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