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FMC Reorganization

Plan Announced By

Chairman Bentley

Helen Delich Bentley, Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commis- sion, has announced a major re- organization of the Commission, which she said was necessary to help the agency function more effi- ciently and to cope with internal changes in departmental activities and responsibilities.

Two major changes in the reor- ganization—which became effective

September 15, 1973 — include the creation of an Assistant Managing

Director's Office and a Bureau of

Industry Economics.

Edward F. Duffy, who has been serving as the Federal Maritime

Commission's Director of the Of- fice of Budget and Finance, has been appointed Assistant Managing

Director. In his new position, Mr.

Duffy h'as technical and adminis- trative responsibility for the Office of Personnel, the Office of Budget and Finance, and the Division of

Office 'Services. 'He has also as- sumed the technical and adminis- trative direction of all the field components of the Commission. In announcing the latter change, Mrs.

Bentley said: ". . . We hope that the field offices will become mini- staffs in their respective areas to handle all sorts of regulatory prob- lems in conjunction with the Wash- ington staff." (The agency cur- rently has field offices in New York,

New Orleans, San Francisco, and

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.)

Under the reorganization, the

Bureau of Enforcement has been dissolved, although the important functions of that bureau will con- tinue to be discharged through reassignment. Investigations, along wit'h the field organizations, have been placed under the supervision of the Assistant Managing Direc- tor. All investigative efforts will be maintained and coordinated be- tween Mr. Duffy and Daniel Con- nors, who has been supervising the former Office of Investigation with- in the Bureau of Enforcement. The other functions of the old Bureau of Enforcement — Informal Com- plaints—have been reassigned to the Bureau of Compliance.

The Bureau of Compliance is now comprised of the Office of

Agreements, the Office of Tariffs and Intermodalism, and the Office of Domestic Commerce, which is also a new office. Agreements and

Tariffs have not been significantly changed, except that the Termi- nals Branch of Agreements and the Domestic Offshore Branch of

Tariffs have been reassigned to the new Office of Domestic Commerce.

In addition, the new Office of Do- mestic Commerce, which will be headed by Eugene P. Stakem, in- cludes Informal Complaints, for- merly under Mr. Stakem's direc- tion in the Bureau of Enforcement.

As already mentioned, the second major change is the creation of the Bureau of Industry Economics, which is under the direction of

Albert J. Klingel Jr., formerly

Chief of the Office of Economic

Analysis; Andrew H. Weissler is

Mr. Klingel's Deputy. This new bureau is composed of three offices :

Office of Economic Analysis; Of- fice of Financial Analysis (Iboth of which were formerly in the Bureau of Compliance) and the Office of

Military Sealift Procurement Stud- ies, which has been transferred from the Office of the Managing

Director.

In releasing the reorganization plan, Mrs. Bentley also announced the albolishment of the Office of

International Affairs and Relations.

Myer Trupp, Director of that of- fice, retired August 31 of this year, and Mrs. Bentley revealed the pub- lic information functions of that office are now assigned to the Office of the Secretary. They will be handled by Albert J. Dennis. The international activities of that of- fice have been assigned to the staff of the Office of the Managing Di- rector and will be headed by John

C. Wirth Jr., an attorney who re- cently joined the staff of tbe agency.

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