Volume 75
Public Law 87–392
To amend section 303(a) of title 23, United States Code, relating to the organization of the Bureau of Public Roads, and for other purposes.
Approved October 4, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 303(a) of title 23, United States Code, relating to the organization of the Bureau of Public Roads, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (a) of section 303 of title 23, United States Code, is hereby amended to
read as follows:
“(a) The Bureau of Public Roads shall be in the Department of Commerce as a primary unit administered by the Federal Highway Administrator, appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Administrator shall receive basic compensation at the rate prescribed by law for Assistant Secretaries of executive departments and shall perform such duties as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe or as may be required by law. There shall be a Deputy Federal Highway Administrator, who shall be appointed by the Secretary and perform such duties as may be prescribed by the Federal Highway Administrator. The Deputy Federal Highway Administrator shall receive basic compensation at a rate $1,000 less than the rate provided for the Federal Highway Administrator.”
Sec. 2.
Section 107(a) of the Act approved July 31, 1956 (70 Stat. 739), is hereby amended by deleting the paragraph which reads:
Approved October 4, 1961.