Executive Order 11012—Providing for the Performance of Certain Functions Under Sections 1(a) and 1(b) of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: SECTION 1. Subsection (b) of Section 1 of Executive Order No. 10530 of May 10, 1954, as amended by Executive Order No. 10759 of March 17, 1958, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "(b) The authority vested in the President by sections 1(a) and 1 (b) of the act of August 2, 1946, ch. 744, 60 Stat. 806, 807, as amended by the act of February 12, 1958, 72 Stat. 14 (5 U.S.C. 73b-1(a), 73b-1 (b) ), to prescribe regulations (1) with respect to the allowance and payment from Government funds of the expenses of travel of any civilian officer or employee of the Government transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty, the expenses of transportation of his immediate family (or commutation thereof), and the expenses of transportation, packing, crating, temporary storage, drayage, and unpacking of his household goods and personal effects; (2) with respect to the reimbursement of such officer or employee on a commuted basis in lieu of the payment of actual expenses of transportation, packing, crating, temporary storage, drayage, and unpacking of his household goods and personal effects in the case of such transfers between points-in the continental United States, except that this authority shall not include authority with respect to the establishment of the commuted rates on which such reimbursement is made; and (3) with respect to the amount of the allowance, and the payment thereof, to such officer or employee for the transportation of a house trailer or mobile dwelling within the continental United States, within Alaska, or between the continental United States and Alaska, for use as a residence." SEC. 2. The Administrator of General Services is hereby designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, so much of the authority vested in the President by Section 1 (b) of the Act of August 2, 1946, ch. 744, 60 Stat. 807 (5 U.S.C. 73b-l(b)), as pertains to the establishment of the rates to be used in reimbursing civilian officers or employees of the Government on a commuted basis in lieu of the payment of actual expenses of transportation, packing, crating, temporary storage, drayage, and unpacking of their household goods and personal effects in the case of transfers from one official station to another within the continental United States for permanent duty. SEC. 3. The initial regulations to be issued by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget and by the Administrator of General Services under the authority delegated to each of them by this order shall be effective on the same date and effective as of that date the following-described Executive orders are revoked: (a) Executive Order No. 9778 of September 10, 1946. (b) Executive Order No. 980a of November 25, 1946. (c) Executive Order No. 9933 of February 27, 1948. (d ) Executive Order No. 9997 of September 8, 1948. (e) Executive Order No. 10069 of July 14, 1949. (f) ) Executive Order No. 10177 of October 27, 1950. (g) Executive Order No. 10196 of December 20, 1950. (h) Executive Order No. 10274 of July 18, 1951. (i) Executive Order No. 10381 of August 6, 1952. (j) Executive Order No. 10507 of December 10, 1953. SEC. 4. Existing regulations prescribed by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget under the authority of Section 1 (b) of Executive Order No. 10530, as amended and in effect immediately prior to the issuance of this order, shall remain in effect until they are superseded in pursuance of the provisions of this order. JOHN F. KENNEDY THE WHITE HOUSE, March 27, 1962