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Director, Engineering and Maintenance__ Director, Personnel and Administration_. Director, Operations and Finance____

STAFF

COL. FREDERICK C. BADGER. COL. FRED D. CLARKE, JR. COL. WILLIAM E. RYAN, JR.

The American Battle Monuments Commission is responsible for the construction and permanent maintenance of military cemeteries and memorials on foreign soil, as well as for certain memorials on American soil. The Commission controls the design and provides regulations for the erection of monuments, markers, and memorials in foreign countries by other U.S. citizens and organizations, public or private.

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European Office (Administers cemeteries in Brig. Gen. John W. Donaldson..... 68, rue 19 Janvier, 92 Garches, France
France, England, and BENELUX).

Mediterranean Office (Administers ceme- Col. James H. Brown... teries in Italy and Tunisia).

Manila Office, Republic of the Philippines... Joseph V. Darby...

or

c/o American Embassy, APO New York 09777. Via Veneto 119/a, Rome, Italy

or

c/o American Embassy, APO New York 09794. American Military Cemetery, Manila, R.P.

or APO San Francisco 96528.

For further information, contact the Director of Operations and Finance, American Battle Monu. ments Commission, 4C014, Forrestal Building, Washington, D.C. 20314. Phone, 202-693-6089.

Approved.

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

1666 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20235 Phone, 202-967-4828

Federal Cochairman_.

States' Cochairman_.

MARK W. CLARK,

Chairman.

DONALD W. WHITEHEAD. MARVIN MANDel,

(Gov. of Maryland).

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The Appalachian Regional Commission is a Federal-State governmental agency concerned with the economic, physical, and social development of the 13-State Appalachian region, which includes parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and all of West Virginia. The comprehensive goals of the Commission are to provide the people of Appalachia with the health and skills they need to compete for opportunities and to develop a self-sustaining economy and environment capable of supporting a population with rising incomes and standards of living and increasing employment opportunities. To accomplish this task, the Commission has concentrated on areas of development in which there remain great needs throughout the region: community development and housing, education, the environment, health and child development, industrial development and management, tourism, and transportation.

The Appalachian Regional Commission was created to develop plans and programs authorized under the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 5; 40 U.S.C. App. 1).

The Commission consists of the Governors (or their representatives) of the 13 Appalachian States, and a permanent Federal Cochairman appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The State members elect an Appalachian Governor to serve as State Cochairman. This position rotates every year.

FUNCTIONS

Each State is required to file an Appalachian Development Plan every year. The Commission staff in Washington reviews and provides technical assistance in specific projects submitted under those general plans by State representatives. It is the staff's responsibility to see that certain guidelines are met before projects can be approved for funding. When a project is determined to be consistent with the Commission's general plan for regional

development, the project is passed on to the basic Federal agency involved in that type of program-transportation, health, education, etc.—for evaluation and actual execution.

Under the act, project proposals must originate in the States and be presented to the Commission; no project can be approved unless it is first approved by the State concerned.

All recommendations of the Commission must be approved by a majority of the Governors and by the Federal Cochairman.

Because of the State-Federal nature of the Commission, its staff members are not Federal employees. Commission expenses are shared equally by the Federal Government and the Appalachian States.

ACTIVITIES

The act authorizes a broad spectrum of economic development programs which will contribute to the growth of the 397-county region. These programs include: construction of a development highway system, construction of access

roads, construction and operation of multicounty health projects, construction of vocational education facilities, technical assistance and planning loans for low- and moderate-income housing construction, application of land treatment and erosion control measures, reclamation of land damaged by past mining practices, support of timber development organizations, research grants, operation of a comprehensive water resources survey, construction of sewage treatment facilities, and the supplementation of a number of existing grant-in-aid programs providing for the acquisition of land and the construction and equipment of public facilities.

PUBLICATIONS

Copies of the Annual Report of Fiscal Year 1974 and Appalachia: A Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission are available upon request. For a complete listing of publications, write to the Public Affairs Office, Appalachian Regional Commission, 1666 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20235. Phone, 202-673-7869. For further information, contact the Public Affairs Office, Appalachian Regional Commis. sion, 1666 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20235. Phone, 202-673-7869.

Approved.

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DONALD W. WHITEHEAD, Federal Cochairman.

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BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING

1030 Fifteenth Street NW., Washington, D.C. 20005 Phone, 202-254-8040

Chairman

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member (ex officio).

Executive Director_.

Director, Research and Engineering_ Planning and Research Officer_. Program Officer__.

Budget and Administrative Officer__.

The Board for International Broadcasting was established by the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 (87 Stat. 456), approved October 19, 1973.

Functions and Activities

The Board for International Broadcasting, an independent Federal

agency responsible to the President and the Congress, consists of five members appointed by the President by and with 'he advice and consent of the Senate for a term of 3 years. Members are selected from among Americans distinguished in the fields of foreign policy or mass communications; no more than three members may be of the same political party.

The Board is served on a permanent basis by an executive staff recruited in accordance with appropriate Civil Service regulations.

The Board's function is to oversee the operations of Radio Liberty, which broadcasts to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Radio Free Europe, which broadcasts to Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria. The chief executive officer of these Radios, which have been under consolidated management since July 1, 1975, is an ex officio member of the Board for International Broadcasting, participating in its activities but not voting in its determinations.

In making Federal grants to the Radios, which were originally orga

(VACANCY).
FOY D. KOHLER.

JOHN T. MURPHY. THOMAS HENRY QUINN. (VACANCY).

SIG MICKELSON.

WALTER R. ROBERTS.
GEORGE JACOBS.

JAMES CRITCHLOW.
ANATOLE SHUB.
BARRY F. GIDLEY.

nized as nonprofit corporations, the Board is authorized:

To review their mission and operation and to assess the quality, effectiveness, and professional integrity of their broadcasting within the context of the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States;

To encourage the most efficient utilization of available resources and to undertake such studies as may be necessary to identify areas in which the operations of the Radios may be made. more efficient and economical;

To apply such financial procedures as it deems necessary to assure that grants are applied in accordance with the purposes for which such grants are made;

To develop evaluative procedures so as to assure that grants are applied in a manner not inconsistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States Government;

To have access to all books, documents, papers, and records of the Radios related or pertinent to Federal assistance;

To procure specialized electronic equipment; to receive donations, bequests, devises, gifts, and other forms of contributions of cash, services, and other property from persons, corporations, foundations, and all other groups and entities both within the United States and abroad; and to use, sell, or otherwise dispose of such property for the carrying out of its functions:

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[For the Canal Zone Government statement of organization, see Code of Federal Regulations, Title 35, Part 3]

The Canal Zone Government is responsible for the performance of the various duties connected with the civil government including health, sanitation, and protection of the Canal Zone. To this end, it maintains and operates such services as schools, hospitals and other health and sanitation services, police and fire forces, postal services, and customs and immigration services.

The Canal Zone Government was established as an independent agency by the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 561), as amended by the act of September 26, 1950 (64 Stat. 1041), and codified in section 31 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code (76A Stat. 7).

The Canal Zone Government is administered by the Governor of the Canal Zone, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Army to whom the President has delegated such supervisory authority.

Sources of Information

Information may be obtained from the Office of the Governor, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, where the records of the Agency are available for inspection.

For further information, contact the Office of the Assistant to the Governor, Canal Zone Government, 312 Pennsylvania Building, Washing. ton, D.C. 20004. Phone, 202-382-6453.

Approved.

THOMAS M. CONSTANT,

Assistant to the Governor.

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