Production and Marketing Administration

Production and Marketing Administration agricultural adjustment programs To enable the Secretary to formulate and carry out acreage allotment and marketing quota programs pursuant to provisions of title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1301–1393), and to provide advice and assistance to selective service authorities in connection with farm labor, $38,500,000, of which not more than $5,500,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation account “Administrative expenses, section 392, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938”: Provided, That $6,000,000 of this appropriation shall be placed in reserve pending determination by the Secretary as to the necessity of marketing quotas for the 1954 crop of wheat, and this amount shall be released in such sums and at such times as may be determined by the Bureau of the Budget to lie necessary. sugar act program To enable the Secretary to carry into effect the provisions of the Sugar Act of 1948 (7 U. S. C. 1101–1160), $59,645,000 to remain available until June 30 of the next succeeding fiscal year: Provided, That expenditures (including transfers) from this appropriation for other than payments to sugar producers shall not exceed $1,445,000. school lunch program To enable the Secretary to carry out the provisions of the National School Lunch Act (42 U. S. C, 1751–1760), $83,365,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriatiob shall be used for nonfood assistance under section 5 of said Act. marketing services For expenses necessary for acquiring and diffusing market information on agricultural commodities, food products and byproducts, the standardization, classification, grading, handling, storage, and marketing thereof, including the demonstration and promotion of the use of uniform standards of classification of American farm and food products throughout the world, the analysis of cotton fiber, the classing of cotton for producer members of cotton quality” improvement groups, the establishment of classification standards and maintenance of an inspection service for tobacco (7 U. S. C. 471–476, 501–508, 511–511q); for investigating and certifying, in one or more jurisdictions, to shippers and other interested parties the class, quality, and condition of any agricultural commodity or food product, whether raw or processed, and any product containing an agricultural commodity or derivative thereof when offered for interstate shipment or when received at such important central markets as the Secretary may from time to time designate, or at points which may be conveniently reached therefrom under such rules and regulations as he may pre- 67 Stat. 218scribe, including the collection of such fees as are reasonable and as nearly as may cover the cost of the service rendered; for performing the duties imposed upon the Secretary by chapter 14 of the Internal Revenue Code relating to cotton futures (26 U. S. C. 1920–1935); and for carrying into effect the United States Cotton Standards Act (7 U. S. C. 51–65), the United States Grain Standards Act (7 U. S. C. 71–87), the Naval Stores Act (7 U. S. C. 91–99), section 201 (a) to 201 (d), inclusive, of title II of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U. S. C. 1291), including not to exceed $25,000 for employment at rates not to exceed $100 per diem, pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a), of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 5 74), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), the Acts to provide standards for containers for fruits and vegetables (15 U. S. C. 251–257i), the United States Warehouse Act (7 U. S. C. 241–273), the Federal Seed Act (7 U. S. C. 1551–1610), the Packers and Stockyards Act (7 U. S. C. 181–229), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U. S. C. 135–135k),and the Tobacco Plant and Seed Exportation Act (7 U. S, C. 516), $11,496,000. repayment to commodity credit corporation For reimbursement to Commodity Credit Corporation for sums transferred to the appropriation “Marketing services”, fiscal year 1952 (including interest thereon through June 30, 1953), pursuant to authority contained under the head “Marketing services” in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1952 (7 U. S. C. 414a), for grading tobacco and classing cotton without charge to producers, as authorized by law (7 U. S. C. 473a, 511d), $768,505.