Agricultural Research Service

Agricultural Research Service Salaries and Expenses research For an additional amount for “Salaries and Expenses”, for “research”’ $6,250. reimbursement to commodity credit corporation for advances for animal disease eradication activities For an additional amount for “Reimbursement to Commodity Credit Corporation for advances for animal disease eradication activities”, to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for authorized transfers through June 30, 1957 (including interest through March 31, 1958), as follows: (1) $1,393,490 for sums transferred to the appropriation “Diseases of animals and poultry”, fiscal year 1957, for eradication activities, pursuant to authority contained under such head in the Department of Agriculture and Farm Credit Administration Appropriation Act, 1957, and (2) $17,548,923 for sums transferred to the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Agricultural Research Service”, fiscal year 1957, for brucellosis eradication, pursuant to section 204 (e) of the Act or August 28, 1954, as amended (7 U. S. C. 397). Agricultural Marketing Service reimbursement to commodity credit corporation for advances for grading and classing activities For an additional amount for “Reimbursement to Commodity Credit Corporation for advances for grading and classing activities’, to reimburse Commodity Credit Corporation for amounts transferred to the appropriation “Marketing research and service” through June 30, 1957 (including interest through March 31, 1958), pursuant to the Act of August 31, 1951 (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), $1,139,982. 72 Stat. 51 Soil Bank Programs reimbursement to commodity credit corporation for costs incurred under soil bank programs To reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for costs incurred under the soil bank programs in accordance with the provisions of title I of the Act approved May 28, 1956 (7 U. S. C. 1801–1837), $567,500,000, of which $78,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Acreage reserve program”, fiscal year 1958. acreage reserve program For an additional amount for “Acreage Reserve Program”, fiscal year 1958, $250,000, which shall be available to formulate and administer an acreage reserve program in accord with the provisions of subtitles A and C of the Soil Bank Act (7 U. S. C. 1821–1824 and 1802–1814), with respect to the 1958 crops, in an amount not to exceed $250,000,000 in addition to the amount specified for such purposes in Public Law 85–118: Provided, That the same $3,000 limitation which was applicable to the original $500,000,000 authorization shall also apply to the additional $250,000,000 authorized herein. Commodity Stabilization Service special commodity disposal programs For an additional amount for “Special commodity disposal programs”, to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for authorized costs (including interest through March 31, 1958), as follows: (1) $89,996,331 under the International Wheat Agreement Act of 1949, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1641–1642); (2) $125,761,388 for commodities disposed of for emergency famine relief to friendly peoples pursuant to title II of the Act of July 10, 1954, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1703, 1721–1724); (3) $1,290,841,000 for the sale of surplus agricultural commodities for foreign currencies pursuant to title I of the Act of July 10, 1954, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1701-1709); (4) $4,609 for grain made available to the Secretary of the Interior to prevent crop damage by migratory waterfowl pursuant to the Act of July 3, 1956 (7 U. S. C. 442–446); and (5) $218,946,145 for strategic and other materials acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation as a result of barter or exchange of agricultural commodities or products and transferred to the supplemental stockpile pursuant to the Act of May 28, 1956 (7 U. S. C. 1856).