chapters B, C, and D of chapter 33, and subchapter B of chapter 37 of such Code shall be open to inspection by any properly authorized official, body, or commission, lawfully charged with the administration of any tax law of any possession of the United States. Such inspection shall be in accordance and upon compliance with the rules and regulations prescribed for such inspection by the Secretary of the Treasury in the Treasury decision approved by me this date.

This Executive order shall be effective upon its filing for publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER. JOHN F. KENNEDY

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 4, 1963.

Executive Order 11103

PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF FORMER PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS TO THE CIVILIAN CAREER SERVICES

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403), and section 1753 of the Revised Statutes, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Under such regulations as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe, the head of any agency in the Executive Branch may appoint in the competitive service any person who is certified by the Director of the Peace Corps as having served satisfactorily as a Volunteer or Volunteer Leader under the Peace Corps Act and who passes such examination as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe. Any person so appointed shall, upon completion of the prescribed probationary period, acquire a competitive status.

SEC. 2. The head of any agency in the Executive Branch having an established merit system in the excepted service may appoint in such service any person who is certified by the Director of the Peace Corps as having served satisfactorily as a Volunteer or Volunteer Leader under the Peace Corps Act and who passes such examination as such agency head may prescribe.

SEC. 3. Certificates of satisfactory service for the purposes of this Order shall be issued only to persons who have completed a full term of service (approximately two years) under the Peace Corps Act: Provided, That such certificates may be issued to persons who have completed a lesser period of satisfactory service if, in the judgment of the Director of the Peace Corps, (1) their service was of sufficient duration to demonstrate their capability to complete satisfactorily a full term, and (2) their failure to complete a full term was due to circumstances beyond their control.

SEC. 4. Any appointment under this Order shall be effected within a period of one year after completion of the appointee's service under the Peace Corps Act: Provided, That such period may be extended to not more than three years in the case of persons who, following such service, are engaged in military service, in the pursuit of studies at a

recognized institution of higher learning, or in other activities which, in the view of the appointing authority, warrant an extension of such period.

SEC. 5. Any law, Executive Order, or regulation which would disqualify an applicant for appointment in the competitive service or in the excepted service concerned shall also disqualify an applicant for appointment under this Order.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 10, 1963.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

Executive Order 11104

U.S.S. THRESHER

As a mark of respect to the memory of those who gave their lives when the U.S.S. THRESHER was lost off the Atlantic coast on Wednesday, April 10, 1963 it is hereby ordered pursuant to the provisions of Section 4 of Proclamation 3044 of March 1, 1954 that until sunset on Monday, April 15, 1963 the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff on all buildings, grounds and naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices and other facilities abroad including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations. JOHN F. KENNEDY

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 12, 1963.

Executive Order 11105

TRANSFERRING TO THE HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR CERTAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION UNDER THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY ACT OF 1955 By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 471), as amended, (hereinafter called the Act) and particularly by Section 101 thereof, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. The provisions of Sections 2 to 8, inclusive, of this order shall be applicable to the community of Los Alamos, New Mexico, but shall not be applicable to the community of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, or to the community of Richland, Washington.

SEC. 2. There are hereby transferred to the Housing and Home Finance Administrator (hereinafter called the Administrator) all of the functions, duties, and responsibilities of the Atomic Energy Commission (hereinafter called the Commission) (i) under Sections 34 to 36, inclusive, Sections 51 to 55, inclusive, Section 57, Sections 61 to 66,

inclusive, and Section 116 of the Act, (ii) under the last sentence of Section 56 of the Act, and (iii) with respect to sales of apartment buildings to cooperatives under Section 58 of the Act, with the following exceptions and qualifications:

(a) The Commission shall retain the power and duty of, and the responsibility for, (i) determining the property to be offered for disposal pursuant to Section 52 of the Act, including the timing thereof, the improvements to be designated as eligible for a credit under subsections 36a and 36b, the extent to which a lessee has been previously compensated for improvements under subsection 36a, and the provi sions and procedures to be adopted pursuant to subsections 55b to 55e, inclusive, and (ii) removing, transferring or designating property pursuant to subsections 52a (1), 52a (2), and 52a (3).

(b) The Commission shall retain all duties, functions and responsibilities under subsection 57b of the Act, both as to existing lots and lots developed or to be developed under the Act or any other Act, except as the Commission and the Administrator may mutually agree should be transferred to the Administrator.

SEC. 3. There shall be transferred to the Administrator, who shall thereafter exercise full jurisdiction in connection therewith, all interests, rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities of the United States, including any interests, rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Commission under the Act or any act (except such interests, rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities as the Commission and the Administrator may mutually agree shall be retained by the Commission), with respect to the property designated by the Commission for disposal by the Administrator, pursuant to Section 52 of the Act.

SEC. 4. The transfers specified in Section 3 hereof shall be effective as to each parcel of property offered for disposal pursuant to Section 52 of the Act on the date the Administrator executes a deed as provided in Section 55, or a contract to purchase as provided in Section 61, with respect to each such parcel of property.

SEC. 5. To the extent necessary or appropriate to enable him to perform or exercise the functions, duties, and responsibilities transferred to him by this order, the Administrator, and such officers or employees to whom he may delegate authority with respect to such functions, duties, and responsibilities, may perform or exercise any of the functions, duties, or responsibilities conferred upon the Commission by the Act, including, specifically, Chapter 11 thereof. Any funds derived by the Commission from the disposal of property under the Act, including funds derived from the disposal of property under subsection 57b of the Act, shall be transferred to the Administrator, but shall otherwise remain subject to the provisions of Section 117 of the Act.

SEC. 6. The Commission and the Administrator shall keep each other currently advised as to action taken pursuant to the Act, shall consult with each other on all matters arising under the Act or this order which either agency deems to be of mutual concern, and may jointly agree upon such further measures, not inconsistent with the Act or this order,

as will promote the expeditious and effective accomplishment of the policy and purposes of the Act.

SEC. 7. Executive Order No. 9816 of December 31, 1946, is hereby amended to the extent that it may be inconsistent with this order.

SEC. 8. Nothing in this order shall invalidate any action taken by the Commission prior to the effective date of this order, or impair or affect any outstanding obligations or contracts of the Commission, or impair any power or authority of the Commission with respect to functions not transferred by or pursuant to this order. No person affected by any action taken by either the Commission or the Administrator, or by any person acting under authority delegated to him consonant with law, shall be entitled to challenge the validity thereof or otherwise excuse his action or failure to act on the grounds that pursuant to the provisions of this order such action was within the jurisdiction of the Commission rather than the Administrator, or vice versa.

SEC. 9. Executive Order No. 10657 of February 14, 1956, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof a new Section 8, reading as follows:

"SEC. 8. Nothing in this order shall be applicable to the community of Los Alamos, New Mexico."

THE WHITE HOUSE,

JOHN F. KENNEDY

April 18, 1963.

Executive Order 11106

PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRADE AGREEMENTS PROGRAM AND RELATED MATTERS

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 872), Section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351), and Section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered that Executive Order No. 11075 of January 15, 1963 (28 F.R. 473), be, and it is hereby, amended as follows:

SECTION 1. Amend the heading of the order to read "ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRADE AGREEMENTS PROGRAM”.

SEC. 2. In Section 1, substitute "Definitions. (a)" for "Definition.", and add the following new subsection (b):

"(b) As used in this order the term 'the trade agreements program' includes all activities consisting of, or related to, the negotiation or administration of trade agreements (other than treaties) concluded pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution, Section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, or the Act."

SEC. 3. Amend Section 2 to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. Office of Special Representative. (a) There is hereby established in the Executive Office of the President an agency which

shall be known as the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations.

"(b) There shall be at the head of the said Office the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations provided for in Section 241 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the Special Representative), who shall be directly responsible to the President.

"(c) There shall be in the said Office a Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations with the rank of Ambassador, whose principal functions shall be to conduct negotiations under title II of the Act, and who shall perform such additional duties as the Special Representative may direct.”

SEC. 4. In Section 3, amend subsection (b) to read as follows:

(b) The Special Representative shall advise and assist the President in the administration of, and facilitate the carrying out of, the trade agreements program. In addition, the Special Representative shall advise the President with respect to non-tariff barriers to international trade, international commodity agreements, and other matters which are related to the trade agreements program.

SEC. 5. In subsection (c) of Section 3, substitute "trade agreements program” for “Act” in each place that word appears.

SEC. 6. In Section 3, delete subsection (1), redesignate subsection (h) as subsection (i), and insert the following new subsection (h): "(h) After the President has entered into a trade agreement which provides for any new tariff concession, the Special Representative shall submit to the President, for transmission by him to each House of Congress, copies of such trade agreement, together with a draft of the statement relating thereto provided for in Section 226 of the Act. In addition, the Special Representative shall transmit to each House of Congress copies of agreements supplementary to trade agreements which do not provide for any new tariff concession, and of such other documents relating to the trade agreements program as he considers appropriate, together with a brief statement describing each such supplementary agreement or other document."

SEC. 7. In Section 3, add the following new subsection (1) at the end of the section:

"(1) The Special Representative shall prepare or have prepared for consideration by the President, in a form suitable for inclusion in title 48 of the Code of Federal Regulations, any proclamation which relates wholly or primarily to the trade agreements program. Any such proclamation shall be subject to the provisions of Executive Order No. 11030 of June 19, 1962 (27 F.R. 5847), except that such proclamation need not be submitted for approval to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget as provided in Sections 2 (a) and (b) of that order but may be transmitted directly to the Attorney General for his consideration as to both form and legality."

SEC. 8. In Section 4, redesignate subsection (f) as subsection (g), and insert the following new subsection (f):