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Show 433 Despite these limitations, FIARBC has achieved some posi- tive results, such as the work of its technical subcommittees.205 Reorganization Act.-Not to be overlooked are the broad possibilities of coordination for comprehensive development afforded by the Reorganization Act of 1949.206 It provides means by which agencies and functions may be consolidated "according to major purposes."20T The Act also permits the transfer or other disposition of the records, property, personnel, and unexpended funds affected by any reorganization.208 But such funds may be used only for the purpose for which they were originally made available.209 There is some question, however, as to the extent to which the administrative provisions relating to a particular function would be affected by a reorganization plan consolidating in any single agency the exercise of similar functions previously exercised by more than one agency. For the Act declares that "any statute enacted * * * in respect of or by any agency * * * affected by a reorganization ? • ? ZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT, App. L, pp. 25-26 (January 1949). See also infra, pp. 456-460. m See, e. g., the studies, reports, and conferences sponsored by the sub- committees on Hydrology and Sedimentation, and another subcommittee's 1949 revision of the Federal Power Commission's Glossary of Important Poweb and Bate Tebms Abbreviations, and Units of Measurement. See Summary Repobt, pp. 8-14,17-18. 206 Act of June 20, 1949, 63 Stat. 203, 5 U. S. C. 133z et seq. (Supp. Ill). 207§2(a)(4), 63 Stat. 203, 5 U. S. 0. I33z(a)(4) (Supp. III). With specified qualifications, the Act enables accomplishment of: "(1) the trans- fer of the whole or any part of any agency, or of the whole or any part of the functions thereof, to the jurisdiction and control of any other agency; or (2) the abolition of all or any part of the functions of any agency; or (3) the consolidation or coordination of the whole or any part of any agency, or of the whole or any part of the functions thereof, with the whole or any part of any other agency or the functions thereof; or (4) the consolidation or coordination of any part of any agency or the functions thereof with any other part of the same agency or the functions thereof; or (5) the authorization of any officer to delegate any of his func- tions; or (6) the abolition of the whole or any part of any agency which agency or part does not have, or upon the taking effect of the reorganization plan will not have any functions." § 3, 63 Stat. 203, 5 U. S. 0.133z-l (Supp. III). 208 § 4,63 Stat. 204, 5 U. S. C. 133z-2 (Supp. Ill). |