Region

Regional manager

Address

150 Causeway St., Boston, Mass. 02114.

Alfred E. Rathert.......

Harold M. Gregory.......

19106.

1252 W. Peachtree St. NW., Atlanta, Ga. 30309.

219 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. 60604.

819 Taylor St., Fort Worth, Tex. 76102.

their securities. It prescribes accounting rules, awards reparations, and administers laws relating to railroad bankruptcy. It acts to prevent unlawful discrimination, destructive competition, and rebating. It also has jurisdiction over the use, control, supply, movement, distribution, exchange, interchange, and return of railroad equipment. Under certain conditions, it is authorized to direct the handling and movement of traffic over a railroad and its distribution over other lines of railroads.

In the transportation service area, the Commission grants the right to operate to trucking companies, bus lines, freight forwarders, water carriers, and transportation brokers. It approves applications to construct and abandon lines of railroad, and it rules upon discontinuances of passenger train service.

Although public hearings on matters before the Commission may be held at any point throughout the country, final decisions are made at the Washington, D.C., headquarters in all formal proceedings. These cases include rulings upon rate changes, applications to engage in for-hire transport, carrier mergmergers, adversary proceedings on complaint actions, and punitive measures taken in enforcement matters.

Consumer protection programs involve assuring that the public obtains full measure of all transportation services to which entitlement is guaranteed by the Interstate Commerce Act. This law ensures that rates will be fair and

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service will be reasonable. Discrimination, preferential treatment, or prejudicial actions by carriers are illegal and instances of such violations should be brought to the attention of the Commission at its headquarters or any field office.

The Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 created in early 1974 a Rail Services Planning Office to assure that public interest is represented in the restructuring and revitalization of railroads in the Northeast and Midwest. The Office was given permanent status by the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 31; 45 U.S.C. 801 note). In addition to its other responsibilities, it provides planning support for the Commission.

Sources of Information

CONSUMER INFORMATION

Among the many consumer-oriented services are a series of advisory bulletins alerting the public and prospective transportation users to the existence of certain transportation problems and a regulation requiring household goods carriers to furnish an information bulletin to each prospective customer.

A complete list of publications, including explanatory material on the operation and activities of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and on such special consumer-related consumer-related fields as household goods movements and small shipments, is available. This list and

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 426; 42 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.), as amended.

NASA Headquarters

Planning, coordination, and control of NASA programs are vested in Headquarters. Directors of NASA's Field Centers and other installations are responsible for execution of NASA's programs, largely through contracts with research, development, and manufacturing enterprises. A broad range of research and development activities are conducted in NASA's Field Centers and installations by Government-employed scientists, engineers, and technicians to evaluate new concepts and phenomena and to maintain the competence required to manage contracts with private enterprises.

Planning, direction, and management of NASA's research and development programs are the responsibility of six program offices, five of which report to, and receive overall guidance and direction from, the Associate Administrator. The overall planning and direction of operations at the 10 field centers and the National Space Technology Laboratories, and management of agencywide institutional resources are the responsibility of the Associate Administrator for Center Operations.

A brief description of the program responsibilities of the six program offices follows:

AERONAUTICS AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY

The Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology is responsible for the planning, direction, execution, evaluation, documentation, and dissemination of the results of all NASA research and technology programs that are conducted primarily to demonstrate the feasibility of a concept, structure, component, or system and which may have general application to the Nation's aeronautical and space objectives.

This Office also coordinates the agency's total advanced research and technology program to assure its overall adequacy and to avoid undesirable duplication.

APPLICATIONS OF SPACE RESEARCH

The Office of Applications is responsible for the conduct of research and development activities leading to programs that demonstrate the application of space systems, space environtechnology for the benefit of mankind. ment, and space related or derived These activities involve disciplines such as weather and climate, pollution monitoring, earth resources survey, and earth and ocean physics.

ENERGY PROGRAMS

The Office of Energy Programs is responsible for coordinating NASA's sup

port of other Federal agencies conducting energy research and development. It also manages existing NASA programs applying aeronautics and space technology to the generation, transmission, storage, conservation, use, and management of energy in non-aerospace applications.

SPACE FLIGHT

The Office of Space Flight is responsible for developing and applying a capability that will permit man to explore space and perform missions leading to increased knowledge of man and the quality of life on earth. To achieve this goal, the Office plans and directs the research, development, and operation of space transportation and the required supporting systems for man to perform missions in space. Major programs and activities now underway include the Space Shuttle, a space transportation system, and the Space Lab. This Office is also responsible for the procurement and use of small- and medium-class, expendable launch vehicles presently used to support unmanned missions for NASA, other Government agencies, foreign governments, and foreign and domestic corporations.

SPACE SCIENCE

The Office of Space Science is responsible for a program of scientific investigations in space to further our knowledge of the earth and its atmosphere, the solar system, and the universe. In conducting this program, the Office utilizes automated and manned spacecraft, sounding rockets, balloons, aircraft, and ground-based research. It is also responsible for NASA contacts with the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences, and other science advisory groups.

TRACKING AND DATA ACQUISITION The Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition is responsible for all activities incident to the tracking of launch vehicles and spacecraft and for the acqui

sition of technical and scientific data from them. This Office is also responsible for managing NASA's long line communication systems.

Field Installations

A brief description of the principal and supporting roles of NASA's 10 field centers and the National Space Technology Laboratories follows:

Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.: Fundamental aerodynamics; short haul aircraft technology; helicopter technology; computational fluid dynamics; flight simulation; technical support to military aviation; airborne science and applications; planetary probes; planetary spacecraft development and mission operations; life sciences; space transportation passenger selection criteria; astronomical observation techniques.

Hugh L. Dryden Research Center, Edwards, Calif.: Aeronautical flight research; remotely piloted vehicle research; shuttle orbiter development support; advanced space vehicle configurations technology.

Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.: Earth orbital spacecraft development and flight operations; tracking and data acquisition systems and support operations; spacelab payloads; space physics and astronomy payloads and science; upper atmospheric research; applications research and development-weather and climate, Earth dynamics, Earth resources, communications; information systems technology; sounding rocket development, procurement and operations; launch vehicle procurement; planetary science; sensors and experiments in environmental monitoring and ocean dynamics.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.: (Operated under contract by the California Institute of Technology) Planetary spacecraft development and mission operations; tracking