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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1517. Transfer of statistical or scientific work
The President is authorized, by order in writing, to transfer at
any time the whole or any part of any office, bureau, division, or
other branch of the public service engaged in statistical or
scientific work, from the Department of State, the Department of
the Treasury, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice,
the United States Postal Service, or the Department of the
Interior, to the Department of Commerce; and in every such case the
duties and authority performed by and conferred by law upon such
office, bureau, division, or other branch of the public service, or
the part thereof so transferred, shall be thereby transferred with
such office, bureau, division, or other branch of the public
service, or the part thereof which is so transferred. All power and
authority conferred by law, both supervisory and appellate, upon
the department from which such transfer is made, or the Secretary
thereof, in relation to the said office, bureau, division, or other
branch of the public service, or the part thereof so transferred,
shall immediately, when such transfer is so ordered by the
President, be fully conferred upon and vested in the Department of
Commerce, or the Secretary thereof, as the case may be, as to the
whole or part of such office, bureau, division, or other branch of
the public service so transferred.
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