81ST CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (REPT. 2457 2d Session {Rppr. 2457 Part U.S. Congress, House. Committee on POST INVESTIGATION OF EMPLOYEE UTILIZATION IN THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES JANUARY 1, 1951.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WILLIAMS, from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, submitted the following PRELIMINARY REPORT [Pursuant to H. Res. 114, 81st Cong.] Pursuant to House Resolution 114, Eighty-first Congress, approved May 2, 1949, the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service appointed a Subcommittee To Investigate Overstaffing in the Executive Departments and Agencies. The subcommittee is conducting a survey of several agencies, the purpose of which is (1) to explore and evaluate the utilization of personnel; (2) to appraise the effectiveness of existing agency management facilities in employee utilization; (3) to ascertain and identify some of the causes and effects of overstaffing; and (4) to suggest remedial action necessary to correct overstaffing in the executive departments and agencies. Accordingly, the subcommittee submits the following interim report relating to the Department of the Interior as part IV of its over-all report on overstaffing in the executive departments and agencies. THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR The Department of the Interior is responsible for the management, conservation, and development of the Nation's natural resources. Its jurisdiction extends over the continental United States to islands in the Caribbean and the South Pacific and to lands in the Arctic Circle. It includes the custody of 750,000,000 acres of land, the conservation and development of mineral resources and the promotion of mine safety, the protection of fish and wildlife, the administration of scenic and historic areas, the reclamation of lands of the West through irrigation, and the management of hydroelectric power systems. The Department is also responsible for the welfare of more than 2,000,000 persons in the territories and island possessions and the guardianship of approximately 400,000 Indians, and 30,000 natives of Alaska. A more complete statement of the functions performed by the Department of the Interior appears in the appendix as exhibit Ï. 76904-50-pt. IV- -1 105 The organization of the Department is divided into 24 parts for which supervisory responsibilities have been assigned to principal members of the Secretary's office, as follows (see fig. I, Organization of the Department of the Interior): (a) Secretary and Under Secretary: (2) Division of Information. (b) Assistant Secretary for Mineral Resources: (2) Division of Oil and Gas. (4) Geological Survey. (c) Assistant Secretary for Public Land Management: (1) Division of Land Utilization. (2) Bureau of Land Management. (3) Fish and Wildlife Service. (5) Bureau of Indian Affairs. (6) Office of Territories. (d) Assistant Secretary for Water and Power Development: (2) Bureau of Reclamation. (3) Bonneville Power Administration. (1) Division of Administrative Services. (1) Program Staff. (2) Special Assistant to the Secretary for International Activities. On June 30, 1950, the Department included 65,573 Federal employees, of which 6,037 were located in the headquarters offices in Washington, D. C., and Denver, Colo., with the remaining 59,536 distributed throughout the 1,044 field installations. Field installations of the Department's several bureaus and offices are maintained as indicated in the following table: TABLE 1.-Field offices of constituent bureaus, Department of the Interior, as of June 30, 1950 |