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The National Youth Administration (NYA) was established
within the Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration
by an Executive order of June 26, 1935. In 1939, it was
transferred to the new Federal Security Agency, and in 1942 was
moved to the War Manpower Administration.
Executive Order No. 7086, June 26, 1935
The National Youth Administration is Established
(Note: Text incomplete)
BY VIRTUE of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935 (Public Resolution No. 11, 74th Congress), I hereby establish the National Youth Administration, to be within the Works Progress Administration established under Executive Order No. 7034 of May 6, 1935.
There shall be a National Advisory committee and an Executive
Committee for the National Youth Administration. The members
of said National Advisory Committee shall be representatives
of labor, business, agriculture, education, and youth,
to be appointed by the President. . . .
The National Youth Administration shall be under the general
supervision of the Administrator of the Works Progress
Administration and under the immediate supervision of an Executive
Director. I hereby appoint Aubrey W. Williams as Executive
Director thereof to serve without additional compensation.
The said Executive Director shall also be a member of the
Advisory Committee on Allotments, established under said Executive
Order No. 7034 of May 6, 1935.
I hereby prescribe the following functions and duties of the National Youth Administration:
To initiate and administer a program of approved projects to which shall provide relief, work relief, and employment for persons between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five years who are no longer in regular attendance at a school requiring full time, and who are not regularly engaged in remunerative employment.
In the performance of such duties and functions . . . the Executive Director is hereby authorized to accept and utilize such voluntary and uncompensated services and, with the consent of the State, the services of such State and local officers and employees, and appoint, without regard to the provisions of civil service laws, such officers and employees, as may be necessary and prescribe the duties and responsibilities and, without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, fix the compensation of any officers and employees so appointed; Provided, That, in so far as practicable, the persons employed under the authority of this Executive Order shall be selected from those receiving relief.
Allocations will be made hereafter for administrative expenses and for authorized projects.
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