An Act to amend the Federal Employees Compensation Act, as amended, to provide appeal rights to employees of the Canal Zone Government and the Panama Canal Company
PL 88-508 (H.R.7662), enacted 08/30/1964

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PUBLIC LAW 88-508-AUG. 30, 1964 
[78 STAT. 
istration not specifically limited in this Act, in carrying out its duties 
imposed by law, shall not exceed $1,420,000. 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Publicity or 
propaganda. 
SEG. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, 
or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or 
agency included in this Act, shall be used for publicity or propaganda 
purposes designed to support or defeat legislation pending before 
the Congress. 
Personnel work. 
gjjQ^ 3(}2. No part of auy appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency 
included in this Act, shall be used to pay the compensation of any 
employee engaged in personnel work in excess of the number that 
would be provided by a ratio of one such employee to one hundred 
and thirty-five, or a part thereof, full-time, part-time, and intermittent 
employees of the corporation or agency concerned: Provided^ That for 
purposes of this section employees shall be considered as engaged in 
personnel work if they spend half time or more in personnel adminis-
tration consisting of direction and administration of the personnel 
program; employment, placement, and separation; job evaluation and 
classification; employee relations and services; wage administration; 
and processing, recording, and reporting. 
SEC. 303. None of the funds provided herein shall be used to pay 
any recipient of a grant for the conduct of a research project an 
amount for indirect expenses in connection with such project in excess 
of 20 per centum of the direct costs. 
SEC. 304. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
to conduct or assist in conducting any program (including but not 
limited to the payment of salaries, administrative expenses, and the 
conduct of research activities) related directly or indirectly to the 
establishment of a national service corps or similar domestic peace 
corps type of program. 
This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appropriation 
Act,, 1965". 
Approved August 30, 1964. ' 
Research proj-
ects. 
Indirect ex-
penses. 
Short title. 
August 30, 1964 
[H. R. 7662] 
Public Law 88-508 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as amended, to provide 
appeal rights to employees of the Canal Zone Government and the Panama 
Canal Company. 
Canal Zone 
employees. 
Appeal rights. 
5 use 133y-16 
note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That section 42 of 
the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (39 Stat. 750; 5 U.S.C. 
793), as amended, is amended by adding at the end of the second para-
graph the following: "The same right of appeal shall exist respecting 
claims filed by employees of the Canal Zone Government and of the 
Panama Canal Company or their dependents in case of death, as is 
provided with respect to the claims of other employees of the Federal 
Government, under the provisions of section 3 of Reorganization Plan 
Numbered 2 of 1946 (60 Stat. 1095), and the Appeals Board estab-
lished pursuant to such reorganization plan shall have jurisdiction, 
under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of I^^vbor, over appeals 
relating to claims of such employees or their dependents." 
Approved August 30, 1964.