An Act to authorize an adequate force for the protection of the Executive Mansion and foreign embassies, and for other purposes
PL 91-217 (H.R.14944), enacted 03/19/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 91-217-MAR. 19, 1970 
[84 STAT. 
80 Stat. 379. 
Interim 
reports to 
Congress. 
SEC. 302. In carrying out its functions under section 301 of this Act, 
the Commission shall consider all recognized methods of job evaluation 
and ranking. 
SEC. 303. The Civil Service Commission is authorized to secure 
directly from any executive agency, as defined by section 105 of title 5, 
United States Code, or any bureau, office, or part thereof, information, 
suggestions, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance for the pur-
poses of this Act; and each such executive agency or bureau, office, or 
part thereof is authorized and directed to furnish such information, 
suggestions, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance directly to 
the Civil Service Commission upon request by the Commission. 
SEC. 304. (a) Within one year after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Commission shall submit to the President and the Congress 
an interim progress report on the current status and results of its 
activities under this Act, together with its current findings. 
(b) Within two years after the date of enactment of this Act— 
(1) the Civil Service Commission shall complete its functions 
under this Act and shall transmit to the President a comprehensive 
report of the results of its activities, together with its recommenda-
tions (including its draft of proposed legislation to carry out 
such recommendations), and 
(2) the President shall transmit that report (including the 
recommendations and draft of proposed legislation of the Com-
mission) to the Congress, together with such recommendations 
as the President deems appropriate. 
(e) The Commission shall submit to the Committees on Post Office 
and Civil Service of the Senate and House of Representatives once 
each calendar month, or at such other intervals as may be directed by 
those committees, or either of them, an interim progress report on the 
then current status and results of the activities of the Commission under 
this Act, together with the then current findings of the Commission. 
(d) The Commission shall periodically consult with, and solicit the 
views of, appropriate employee and professional organizations. 
(e) The organizational unit established under section 301 of this 
Act shall cease to exist upon the submission of the report to the Con-
gress under subsection (b) of this section. 
Approved March 17, 1970. 
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March 19, 1970 
[H.R. 14944] 
Public Law 91-217 
AN ACT 
To authorize an adequate force for the protection of the Executive Mansion and 
foreign embassies, and for other purposes. 
Executive 
Mansion and 
foreign embas-
sies. 
Police 
protection. 
62 Stat. 679. 
3 u s e 202-208 
76 Stat. 95. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representathes 
of the 
United States of ATneiica in Congress assembled. That chapter 3 of 
title 3 of the United States Code is amended as follows— 
(1) by striking the words "White House Police force'' when-
ever they appear in the chapter and inserting in lieu thereof the 
words "Executive Protective Service"; 
(2) by striking the w^ords "White House Police" whenever they 
appear m the chapter and inserting in lieu thereof "Executive 
Protective Service"; 
(3) by striking the second sentence of section 202 and inserting 
in lieu thereof, the following: "Subject to the supervision of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Executive Protective Service shall 
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PUBLIC LAW 91-218-MAR. 25, 1970 
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perform such duties as the Director, United States Secret Service, 
may prescribe in connection with the protection of the following: 
(1) the Executive Mansion and grounds in the District of Colum-
bia; (2) any building in which Presidential oiRces are located; 
(3) the President and members of his immediate family; (4) for-
eign diplomatic missions located in the metropolitan area of the 
District of Columbia; and (6) foreign diplomatic missions located 
in such other areas in the United States, its territories and posses-
sions, as the President, on a case-by-case basis, may direct."; 
(4) by striking the words "two hundred and fifty" in the first 
sentence of subsection (a) of section 203 and inserting in lieu 
thereof "eight hundred and fifty"; 
(5) by striking out the last two sentences of section 203(a) ; 
(6) by amending section 203 (b) to read as follows: 
"(b) Members of the Executive Protective Service shall be 
recruited under the civil service law^s and regulations on a nationwide 
basis. Members of such Service may also be appointed from the mem-
bers of the Metropolitan Police force and the United States Park 
Police force from lists furnished by the officers in charge of such 
forces. Whenever any vacancy is created in the Metropolitan Police 
force or the United States Park Police force as the result of an appoint-
ment to the Executive Protective Service, such vacancy shall be filled 
in the manner provided by law. In the period of time which follows 
the date of enactment of this sentence and precedes January 1, 1975, 
not more than thirty members of the Metropolitan Police force may be 
appointed annually to the Executive Protective Service." 
(7) by striking out section 205; and 
(8) by striking out in section 206 "Members appointed pursuant 
to section 205 of this title" and inserting in lieu thereof "Members 
of the Executive Protective Service not appointed from the Metro-
politan Police force or the United States Park Police force". 
Approved March 19, 1970. 
66 Stat. 283; 
76 Stat. 95. 
62 Stat. 680. 
Recruiting 
procedure. 
Limitation. 
Civil service 
appointees, 
privileges. 
62 Stat. 681. 
Public Law 91-218 
AN ACT 
To increase the authorization for appropriation for continuing work in the 
Missouri River Basin by the Secretary of the Interior. 
March 25, 1970 
[S. 3427] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That there is hereby 
Missouri River 
authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years 1971 and 1972 the sum of 
A^ppjopriation 
$32,000,000 for continuing the works in the Missouri Eiver Basin to be authorization, 
undertaken by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the compre-
hensive plan adopted by section 9(a) of the Act approved December 22, 
1944 (Public Law Numbered 534, Seventy-eighth Congress), as 
amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress. No part 
of the funds hereby authorized to be appropriated shall be available 
to initiate construction of any unit of the Missouri River Basin project, 
whether included in said comprehensive plan or not. 
Approved March 25, 1970. 
increase. 
58 Stat. 891; 
82 Stat. 129.