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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.-PLAN NO. IV-APR . 11, 1940 (c) Howard University.- The functions of the Department of the Interior relating to the administration of Howard University are transferred to the Federal Security Agency and shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Adminis- trator. The annual report required to be furnished to the Secretary of the Interior by the president and directors of the University shall be furnished to the Federal Security Administrator. The Office of Education shall continue to make its inspections of and reports on the affairs of Howard University in accordance with the provisions of existing law. (d) Columbia Institutionfor the Deaf.- The functions of the Depart- ment of the Interior relating to the administration of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf are transferred to the Federal Security Agency and shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. The annual report required to be furnished to the Secretary of the Interior by the president and directors of the Institution shall be furnished to the Federal Security Adminis- trator, and the annual report of the superintendent of the Institution to the Congress shall be submitted through the Federal Security Administrator. (e) Federal Security Administrator.- The functions transferred by this section shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator through such officers or sub- divisions of the Federal Security Agency as the Administrator shall designate. SEC. 12 . Transferof Food and Drug Administration.- TheFood and Drug Administration in the Department of Agriculture and its func- tions, except those functions relating to the administration of the Insecticide Act of 1910 and the Naval Stores Act, are transferred to the Federal Security Agency and shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. The Chief of the Food and Drug Administration shall hereafter be known as the Commissioner of Food and Drugs. GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 13. Transfer of functions of heads of departments. - Except as otherwise provided in this Plan, the functions of the head of any department relating to the administration of any agency or function transferred from his department by this Plan, are transferred to, and shall be exercised by, the head of the department or agency to which such transferred agency or function is transferred by this Plan. SEC. 14. Transfer of records, property, and personnel. -Except as otherwise provided in this Plan, all records and property (including office equipment) of the several agencies, and all records and prop- erty used primarily in the administration of any functions, transferred by this Plan, and all personnel used in the administration of such agencies and functions (including officers whose chief duties relate to silch administration and whose offices are not abolished) are trans- ferred to the respective agencies concerned, for use in the adminis- tration of the agencies and functions transferred by this Plan: Provided, That any personnel transferred to any agency by this section found by the head of such agency to be in excess of the per- sonnel necessary for the administration of the functions transferred to his agency shall be retransferred under existing law to other posi- tions in the Government service, or separated from the service subject to the provisions of section 10 (a) of the Reorganization Act of 1939. SEC. 15. Transfer of funds. -So much of the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds available for the use of any agency in the exercise of any function transferred by this Plan, or for the use of the head of any agency in the exercise of any function 1237 Howard University, transfer of Depart- ment of Interior funo- tions. Annual report. Inspections, etc. Columbia Institu- tion for the Deaf, transfer of certain functions. Annual reports. Federal Security Administrator. Transfer of Food and Drug Adminis- tration. 36 Stat. 331; 42 Stat. 1435. 7U. S.C. 121-134, 91-99. Commissioner of Food and Drugs. Transfer of funo- tions of heads of de- partments. Transfer of records, property, and per- sonnel. Proviso. Personnel in excess of number required. 53 Stat. 563. 5U.S.C., Supp.V, 1331 (a). Transfer of funds.