Executive Order 10549—Providing for the Placing of Positions in the Department of Defense in Grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, 65 Stat. 713, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. There is hereby delegated to the Secretary of Defense the authority vested in the President by section 806 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1954, 67 Stat. 429, and section 737 of the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1955, approved June 30, 1954 (Public Law 458, 83d Congress), to authorize positions in the Department of Defense to be placed temporarily in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949.

SEC. 2. The placing of positions in the said grades 16, 17, and 18 pursuant to the delegation made by section 1 of this order shall not require the approval, ratification, or other action of the President; but no position shall be placed in grade 16 or grade 17 pursuant to such authority without the prior approval of the Civil Service Commission, and no position shall be placed in, or removed from, grade 18 pursuant to such authority without the prior recommendation of the Civil Service Commission and approval of the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission.

SEC. 3. This order supersedes the letter of the President to the Secretary of Defense of September 4, 1953, authorizing the Secretary, under section 806 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1954, to place temporarily in the said grades 16, 17, and 18 additional positions in the Department of Defense.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 2, 1954.