An Act to provide for the economic and efficient purchase, lease, maintenance, operation, and utilization of automatic data processing equipment by Federal departments and agencies
PL 89-306 (H.R.4845), enacted 10/30/1965

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PUBLIC LAW 89-306-OCT. 30, 1965 
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Public Law 89-306 
AN A C T 
October 30, 19 65 
To provide for the economic and efficient purchase, lease, maintenance, opera- 
[H. R. 4845] 
tion, and utilization of automatic data processing equipment by Federal 
departments and agencies. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of RepreHentathes 
of the 
United States of America In Congress assembled. That title I of the Automatic data 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. mTnt!^^'"^ ^'*"'^" 
o77), as amended, is hereby amended by adding a new section to read 
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''AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT 
"SEC. 111. (a) The Administrator is authorized and directed to 
coordinate and provide for the economic and efficient purchase, lease, 
and maintenance of automatic data processing equipment by Federal 
agencies. 
"(b) (1) Automatic data processing equipment suitable for efficient 
and effective use by Federal agencies shall be provided by the Adminis-
trator through purchase, lease, transfer of equipment from other 
Federal agencies, or otherwise, and the Administrator is authorized 
and directed to provide by contract or otherwise for the maintenance 
and repair of such equipment. In carrying out his responsibilities 
under this section the Administrator is authorized to transfer auto-
matic data processing equipment between Federal agencies, to provide 
for joint utilization of such equipment by two or more Federal 
agencies, and to establish and operate equipment pools and data 
processing centers for the use of two or more such agencies when 
necessary for its most efficient and effective utilization. 
"(2) The Administrator may delegate to one or more Federal 
agencies authority to operate automatic data processing equipment 
pools and automatic data processing centers, and to lease, purchase, 
or maintain individual automatic data processing systems or specific 
units of equipment, including such equipment used m automatic data 
processing pools and automatic data processing centers, when such 
action is determined by the Administrator to be necessary for the 
economy and efficiency of operations, or when such action is essential 
to national defense or national security. 
The Administrator may 
delegate to one or more Federal agencies authority to lease, purchase, 
or maintain automatic data processing equipment to the extent to 
which he determines such action to be necessary and desirable to allow 
for the orderly implementation of a program for the utilization of 
such equipment. 
"(c) There is hereby authorized to be established on the b<>oks ^^^^^.^J^J^*^'^^ 
of the Treasury an automatic data processing fund, which shall be 
available without fiscal year limitation for expenses, including per-
sonal services, other costs, and the procurement by lease, purchase, 
transfer, or otherwise of equipment, maintenance, and repair of such 
equipment by contract or otherwise, necessary for the efficient coordi-
nation, operation, utilization of such equipment by and for Federal 
agencies: Provided^ That a report of equipment inventory, utiliza- gifions^^nd utla^^ll 
tion, and acquisitions, together with an account of receipts, disburse- tion. 
ments, and transfers to miscellaneous receipts, under this authoriza-
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Report to Budget 
Bureau and Con-
gress. 
Appropri ation. 
63 Stat. 384. 
40 u s e 48 1, 474. 
Scientific and 
technological ad-
visory services by 
Secretary of Com-
merce. 
tion shall be made annually in connection with the budget estimates to 
tlie Director of the Bureau of the Budget and to the Congress, and 
the inclusion in appropriation acts of provisions regulating the opera-
tion of the automatic data processing fund, or limiting the expendi-
tures therefrom, is hereby authorized. 
"(d) There are authorized to be appropriated to said fund such 
sums as may be required which, together with the value, as determined 
by the Administrator, of supplies and equipment from time to time 
transferred to the Administrator, shall constitute the capital of the 
fund: Provided^ That said fund shall be credited with (1) advances 
and reimbursements from available appropriations and funds of any 
agency (including the General Services Administration), organiza-
tion, or contractor utilizing such equipment and services rendered 
them, at rates determined by the Administrator to approximate the 
costs thereof met by the fund (including depreciation of equipment, 
provision for accrued leave, and for amortization of installation costs, 
but excluding, in the determination of rates prior to the fiscal year 
1967, such direct operating expenses as may be directly appropriated 
for, which expenses may be charged to the fund and covered by 
advances or reimbursements from such direct appropriations) and 
(2) refunds or recoveries resulting from operations of the fund, 
including the net proceeds of disposal of excess or surplus personal 
property and receipts from carriers and others for loss of or damage 
to property: Provided further^ That following the close of each fiscal 
year any net income, after making provisions for prior year losses, 
if any, shall be transferred to the Treasury of the United States as 
miscellaneous receipts. 
"(e) The proviso following paragraph (4) in section 201(a) of this 
Act and the provisions of section 602(d) of this Act shall have no ap-
plication in the administration of this section. 
No other provision 
of this Act or any other Act which is inconsistent with the provisions 
of this section shall be applicable in the administration of this section. 
"(f) The Secretary of Commerce is authorized (1) to provide 
agencies, and the Administrator of General Services in the exercise 
of the authority delegated in this section, with scientific and techno-
logical advisory services relating to automatic data processing and 
related systems, and (2) to make 
appropriate recommendations to 
the President relating to the establishment of uniform Federal auto-
matic data processing standards. 
The Secretary of Commerce is 
authorized to undertake the necessary research in the sciences and 
technologies of automatic data processing computer and related sys-
tems, as may be required under provisions of this subsection. 
"(g) The authority conferred upon the Administrator and the 
Secretary of Commerce by this section shall be exercised subject to 
direction by the President and to fiscal and policy control exercised 
by the Bureau of the Budget. 
Authority so conferred upon the 
Administrator shall not be so construed as to impair or interfere with 
the determination by agencies of their individual automatic data proc-
essing equipment requirements, including the development of specifi-
cations for and the selection of the types and configurations of equip-
ment needed. 
The Administrator shall not interfere with, or attempt 
to control in any way, the use made of automatic data processing 
equipment or components thereof by any agency. The Administra-
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tor shall provide adequate notice to all affencies and other usei-s con- _'^°^'^'^^ ^° ^gen-
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cerned with respect to eadi proposed determination specifically affect-
ing them or the automatic data processing equipment or components 
used by them. In the absence of mutual agreement between the 
Administrator and the agency or user concerned, such proposed deter-
minations shall be subject to review and decision by the Bureau of the 
Budget unless the President otherwise directs.'' 
Approved October 30, 1965. 
Public Law 89-307 
AN ACT 
October 30, 19 65 
To amend the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to establish the Saint 
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Augustine Quadricentennial Commission, and for other purposes", approved 
August 14, 1962 (76 Stat. 386), to provide that eight members of such Commis-
sion shall be appointed by the President, and that such Commission may con-
tinue in existence until December 31,1966. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemJbled^ That (a) subsec- Qua^^cente^iai 
tion (a) of the first section of the joint resolution entitled "Joint reso- commission. 
lution to establish the Saint Augustine Quadricentennial Commission, 
and for other purposes", approved August 14, 1962 (76 Stat. 386), 
IS amended by striking "eleven" and inserting in lieu thereof "thirteen". 
(b) Paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of such section is amended 
by striking "Six" and inserting in lieu thereof "Eight". 
SEO. 2. Section 4(b) of such joint resolution is amended by insert-
ing, immediately after "Congress" in the last sentence thereof, the 
following: ", except that the Commission may continue in existence 
until December 31, 1966." 
Approved October 30, 1965. 
Public Law 89-308 
AN ACT 
October 31, 1965 
To provide for adjustments in annuities under the Foreign Service retirement 
[H. R. 417O] 
and disability system. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may Foreign service 
be cited as the "Foreign Service Annuity Adjustment Act of 1965". menrAct o
f "ges. 
SEC. 2. (a) Annuitie-s paid from the Foreign Service retirement 
and disability fund on the date of enactment of this Act, based on 
service performed by annuitants which terminated prior to October 16, 
1960, shall be adjusted under the provisions of section 821(b) of the 
Foreign Service Act of 1946, as in effect on October 16, 1960, relating 
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to the formula for reduction in annuity to provide for a surviving 
widow, as though such provisions had been in effect on the date of the 
annuitant's separation from the Service, or, in the case of any annui-
tant w^ho makes an election under paragraph (1) or (2) of this sub-
section, in a ccordance with the following: 
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