Volume 74 · 11
Public Law 86–397
To provide flexibility in the performance of certain functions of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and of the Weather Bureau.
Approved March 28, 1960
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide flexibility in the performance of certain functions of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and of the Weather Bureau.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 2 of the Act of July 22, 1947 (61 Stat. 400; 33 U.S.C. 873), is amended to read as follows:
“The Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to pay extra compensation to members of crews of vessels when assigned duties as instrument observer or recorder, and to employees of other Federal agencies while observing tides or currents, or tending seismographs or magnetographs, at such rates as may be specified from time to time by him.”
Sec. 2.
Section 3 of the Act of June 2, 1948 (62 Stat. 286, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 327), is hereby revised to read as follows:
“The Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to (a) appoint employees for the conduct of meteorological investigations in the Arctic region without regard to the civil service laws and fix their compensation without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1071 and the following), and titles II and III
of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, as amended (5 U.S.C. 911 and the following), at base rates not to exceed the maximum scheduled
rate for GS–12, and (b) grant extra compensation to employees of other Government agencies for taking and transmitting meteorological observations.”
Approved March 28, 1960.