Executive Order 7998

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

1. There is hereby established the Interdepartmental Committee on Printing and Processing, to be composed of representatives of each of the following-named departments and agencies, and such other departments or agencies as the Committee itself may designate:
   
   

   Bureau of the Budget
   

   Government Printing Office
   

   Department of Agriculture
   

   Department of the Interior
   

   Treasury Department
   

   Department of Commerce
   

   Social Security Board
   

   United States Tariff Commission
   

   Post Office Department
   
   

2. Each department or agency represented on the Committee shall have one representative, who shall be designated by the head thereof.
   
   
3. Pending selection of a permanent chairman by the Committee the representative of the Bureau of the Budget shall serve as its temporary chairman.
   
   
4. The members of the Committee shall be officers or employees of the department, independent establishment, or agency which they represent and shall serve without additional compensation.
   
   
5. The Committee shall promulgate rules and regulations relating to the establishment, coordination, and maintenance of uniform policies and procedures, consistent with law, for the efficient and economical utilization of printing and processing in the executive branch of the Government.
   
   

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The White House,

October 29, 1938.