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PUBLIC LAW 8 6 - 2 5 5 - S E P T. 14, 1959
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ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS F U N D
Funds available to General Services Administration for administrative operations, in support of program activities, shall be expended and accounted for, as a whole, through a single fund, which is hereby authorized: Provided, That costs and obligations for such administrative operations for the respective program activities shall be accounted for in accordance with systems approved by the General Accounting Office: Provided further, That the total amount deposited into said account for the fiscal year 1960 from funds made available to General Services Administration in this Act shall not exceed $12,750,000, of which not to exceed $400 may be used for purchase of newspapers and periodicals: Provided further, That amounts deposited into said account for administrative operations for each program shall not exceed the amounts included in the respective program appropriations for such purposes. GENERAL PROVISIONS
The appropriate appropriation or fund available to the General Services Administration shall be credited with (1) cost of operation, protection, maintenance, upkeep, repair, and improvement, included as part of rentals received from Government corporations pursuant to law (40 U.S.C. 129); (2) reimbursements for services performed in respect to bonds and other obligations under the jurisdiction of the General Services Administration, issued by public authorities, States, or other public bodies, and such services m respect to such bonds or obligations as the Administrator deems necessary and in the public interest may, upon the request and at the expense of the issuing agencies, be provided from the appropriate foregoing appropriation; and (3) appropriations or funds available to other agencies, and transferred to the General Services Administration, in connection with property transferred to the General Services Administration pursuant to the Act of July 2, 1948 (50 U.S.C. 451if), and such appropriations or funds may, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, be so transferred. Not to exceed $2,000,000 granted in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act,. 1959, under the appropriation for "Construction, Federal Office Building Numbered Six, Washington, District of Columbia", may be transferred to "Construction, Public Buildings projects": Provided, That the latter appropriation shall be available for acquisition of buildings and sites thereof by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, including prepayment of purchase contracts: Provided further, That the limits of cost applicable to projects authorized under said appropriation may be exceeded to the extent that savings are effected on other projects. Funds available to the General Services Administration shall be available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles. No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act for any agency of the executive branch of the Government shall be used during the current fiscal year for the purchase within the continental limits of the United States of any typewriting machines except in accordance with regulations issued pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. Not to exceed 2 per centum of any appropriation made available to the General Services Administration for the current fiscal year by this Act may be transferred to any other such appropriation, but no such appropriation shall be thereby increased more than 2 per centum: Provided, That such transfers shall apply only to operating expenses, and shall not exceed in the aggregate the amount of $2,000,000. 32716 O-60—35
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