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Attachment 1

UNITED STATES CODE

TITLE 29 - LABOR

CHAPTER 1 - LABOR STATISTICS

SUBCHAPTER I - BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

§ 1. Design and duties of bureau generally.

§ 2. Collection, collation, and reports of labor statistics.

§ 2a. Omitted.

§ 2b. Studies of productivity and labor costs in industries.

§ 3. Commissioner; appointment and tenure of office; compensation.

§ 4. Duties of Commissioner in general.

§ 5. Bulletin as to labor conditions.

§ 6. Annual and special reports to President and Congress.

§ 7. Repealed.

§ 8. Unemployment data relating to Americans of Spanish origin or descent.

SUBCHAPTER II - SPECIAL STATISTICS

§ 9. Authorization of special studies, compilations, and transcripts on request; cost.

§ 9a. Credit of receipts.

§ 9b. Rules and regulations.

§ 1. Design and duties of bureau generally

The general design and duties of the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall be to acquire and diffuse

among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the

most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the

hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their

material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.

§ 2. Collection, collation, and reports of labor statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, shall collect, collate,

and report at least once each year, or oftener if necessary, full and complete statistics of the

conditions of labor and the products and distribution of the products of the same, and to this end

said Secretary shall have power to employ any or either of the bureaus provided for his

department and to rearrange such statistical work, and to distribute or consolidate the same as

may be deemed desirable in the public interests; and said Secretary shall also have authority to call

upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and

said Secretary of Labor may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in

such manner as to him may seem wise.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall also collect, collate, report, and publish at least once each

month full and complete statistics of the volume of and changes in employment, as indicated by the

number of persons employed, the total wages paid, and the total hours of employment, in the

service of the Federal Government, the States and political subdivisions thereof, and in the

following industries and their principal branches: (1) Manufacturing; (2) mining, quarrying, and

crude petroleum production; (3) building construction; (4) agriculture and lumbering; (5)

transportation, communication, and other public utilities; (6) the retail and wholesale trades; and

such other industries as the Secretary of Labor may deem it in the public interest to include. Such

statistics shall be reported for all such industries and their principal branches throughout the United

States and also by States and/or Federal reserve districts and by such smaller geographical

subdivisions as the said Secretary may from time to time prescribe. The said Secretary is

authorized to arrange with any Federal, State, or municipal bureau or other governmental agency

for the collection of such statistics in such manner as he may deem satisfactory, and may assign

special agents of the Department of Labor to any such bureau or agency to assist in such

collection.

§ 2a. Omitted

§ 2b. Studies of productivity and labor costs in industries

The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor is authorized and

directed to make continuing studies of productivity and labor costs in the manufacturing, mining,

transportation, distribution, and other industries.

§ 3. Commissioner; appointment and tenure of office; compensation

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall be under the charge of a Commissioner of Labor Statistics,

who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; he

shall hold his office for four years, unless sooner removed, and shall receive a salary.

§ 4. Duties of Commissioner in general

It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics to ascertain the effect of the customs

laws, and the effect thereon of the state of the currency, in the United States, on the agricultural

industry, especially as to its effect on mortgage indebtedness of farmers. He shall also establish a

system of reports by which, at intervals of not less than two years, he can report the general

condition, so far as production is concerned, of the leading industries of the country. He is also

specially charged to investigate the causes of, and facts relating to, all controversies and disputes

between employers and employees as they may occur, and which may tend to interfere with the

welfare of the people of the different States. He shall also obtain such information upon the various

subjects committed to him as he may deem desirable from different foreign nations, and what, if

any, convict-made goods are imported into this country, and if so from whence.

§ 5. Bulletin as to labor conditions

The Commissioner of Labor Statistics is authorized to prepare and publish a bulletin of the Bureau

of Labor Statistics, as to the condition of labor in this and other countries, condensations of State

and foreign labor reports, facts as to conditions of employment, and such other facts as may be

deemed of value to the industrial interests of the country.

§ 6. Annual and special reports to President and Congress

The Commissioner of Labor Statistics shall annually make a report in writing to the President and

Congress, of the information collected and collated by him, and containing such recommendations

as he may deem calculated to promote the efficiency of the department. He is also authorized to

make special reports on particular subjects whenever required to do so by the President or either

House of Congress, or when he shall think the subjects in his charge require it. He shall, on or

before the 15th day of March in each year, make a report in detail to Congress of all moneys

expended under his direction during the preceding fiscal year.

§ 7. Repealed. Pub. L. 86-3, § 15, 23, Mar. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 11, 13; Pub. L. 96-470, title

I, § 110, Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2239

§ 8. Unemployment data relating to Americans of Spanish origin or descent

The Department of Labor, in cooperation with the Department of Commerce, shall develop

methods for improving and expanding the collection, analysis, and publication of unemployment

data relating to Americans of Spanish origin or descent.

§ 9. Authorization of special studies, compilations, and transcripts on request; cost

The Department of Labor is authorized, within the discretion of the Secretary of Labor, upon the

written request of any person, to make special statistical studies relating to employment, hours of

work, wages, and other conditions of employment; to prepare from its records special statistical

compilations; and to furnish transcripts of its studies, tables, and other records, upon the payment

of the actual cost of such work by the person requesting it.

§ 9a. Credit of receipts

All moneys hereinafter (FOOTNOTE 1) received by the Department of Labor in payment of the

cost of such work shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation of that bureau, service,

office, division, or other agency of the Department of Labor which supervised such work, and may

be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of Labor, and notwithstanding any other provision of

law, for the ordinary expenses of such agency and/or to secure the special services of persons who

are neither officers nor employees of the United States.

(FOOTNOTE 1) So in original. Probably should be ''hereafter''.

§ 9b. Rules and regulations

The Secretary of Labor shall prescribe rules and regulations for the enforcement of sections 9 and

9a of this title.