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Show .....• GENERAL SERVICES AlJ1UNISTRA TION . Summary of Agency Acti vi ties In the 25 years of its existence, GSA has functioned as a service It bas served and continues to serve as landlord, builder, agency. purchasing agent, engineer, for the In Federal June, 1973, processing expert, data and historian Government. the agency assumed an even greater job. GSA broad policy-making resJX)nsibilities President in financial assigned management, management systems development, procurement, property To accept the management and automated data processing management. the Office of Federal Management Policy .as new responsibilities,. This new policy office combines management created within GSA. fUnctions which formerly were in the Office of Management d dget \1i th exi sting GSA management functions, thus broadening GSA's Also tr1sferred from ONE to GA waS management responsibi1ities. the Relocation Assistance Implementation Committee, hich provides Government-wide leadership for uniform, fair, and equitable reatment of persons displ'aced by' Federal. or Federally-assisted programs. Nixon .. To further improve Federal management, the President assigned to GSA Tbesp. many of the functions of the Office of Emergency Preyaredness. areas of civil defense, emergency peparedness of civil government, resource planning and analysis, planning, continuity and strategic materials. stockpile ping. include functions in the ,:. : ' .. : t: :".': As the nation's The largest branch of GSA is Public Buildings Service. biggest landlord, with a nation-wide building and real estate program, to -urban- revi'U1l"iMtion'; ····ertii!'on.mentii:l:·' ..... BS: makes .·va.-luable:··contiibutions enhancement, energy conservation, fire-safty reforms, and socioPBS designs, builds or leases, operates, ?rotects, economic programs. L 1973, and maintains most of the Federal Buildings in the nation. PBS was assigned the real property disposal functions of GSA. .: .'.: Supply Service has earned the informal title of "Miniconglomerate" activity in pr-ocurement, and supply, translX'rtation and public utilities management, and personal property disposal and stra:tegic stock pile management. FSS handles both buying and supplying for the Executive Federal by its Branch of Government. Automatd Data and Te1ecommunications Service was created in 1972 to combine GSA's responsibilities :for Government-ide data processing service and cormnunications service. ADTS performs centra.lized . and management of general purpose automati data processing and related services for all Federal agencies, in addition to a wide purcbasing range of telecommunications services. ;. '.-: . |
