Executive Orders

Executive Order 9807--Authorizing the Office of Personnel Management to confer a competitive civil service status upon certain groups of employees

Source: The provisions of Executive Order 9807 of Nov. 29, 1946, appear at 11 FR 13943, 3 CFR, 1943-1948 Comp., p. 589, unless otherwise noted.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403, 404), and in the interest of the internal management of the Government, the Office of Personnel Management is hereby authorized to confer a competitive civil service status upon any employee or former employee of the Federal Government who on July 1, 1941, occupied a position in one of the groups of positions designated below and who was continuously in the Government service from that date through January 1, 1942, subject to the requirements and conditions which would be applicable had such positions been included in the competitive civil service pursuant to Executive Order No. 8743 of April 23, 1941, as amended:

[Title and preamble amended by Executive Order 12107 of Dec. 28, 1978, 44 FR 1055, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 264]

1. Positions the salaries of which were paid from funds appropriated for the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

2. Positions the salaries of which were paid from funds appropriated for the work of the Public Works Administration.

3. Positions the salaries of which were paid from funds appropriated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts for the administrative work of any department or agency other than the Work Projects Administration.

4. Positions under the Northeast Timber Salvage Administration.

Editorial note: The Civilian Conservation Corps was made a part of the Federal Security Agency by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1939, 4 FR 2727, 3 CFR, 1938-1943 Comp., p. 1288, effective July 1, 1939. Liquidation was provided for by act of July 2, 1942 (56 Stat. 569, 16 U.S.C. 584-584q nt.), not later than June 30, 1943. The Federal Security Agency was abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953, 18 FR 2053, 3 CFR, 1949-1953 Comp., p. 1022, effective April 11, 1953, and its functions and units were transferred to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, which was later renamed the Department of Health and Human Services by Pub. L. 96-88 (93 Stat. 695, 20 U.S.C. 3508).
The functions of the Public Works Administration were transferred to the Office of the Federal Works Administrator by Executive Order 9357 of June 30, 1943, 8 FR 30, 3 CFR, 1943-1948 Comp., p. 256. The Federal Works Agency, which was the parent agency of the Work Projects Administration, was later abolished by act of June 30, 1949 (63 Stat. 380, 40 U.S.C. 753), and its functions were transferred to the General Services Administration.