Agricultural Research Service

Agricultural Research Service salaries and expenses For expenses necessary to perform agricultural research relating to production, utilization, and home economics, to control and eradicate pests and plant and animal diseases, and to perform related inspection, quarantine and regulatory work, and meat inspection: Provided, That not to exceed $75,000 of the appropriations hereunder shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a): Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available for the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed two for replacement only: Provided further, That, appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant to title 5, United States Code, section 565a, for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any one building (except headhouses connecting greenhouses) shall not exceed $15,000, except for four buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $30,000 each and one building to be constructed at a cost not to exceed $50,000, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed $5,000 or 5 per centum of the cost of the building, whichever is greater: Provided further, That the limitations on alterations contained in this Act shall not apply to a total of $100,000 for conversion of animal disease and parasite research facilities at Beltsville, Maryland: Research: For research and demonstrations on the production and utilization of agricultural products, home economics, and related research and services, and for acquisition of land by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, $77,473.000; plus additional amounts for research as follows: $325,(MM) for staffing new research laboratories, $670,000 for research on cost of production, and $4,875,000 for expanded utilization research; and plus the following amounts, to remain available until expended, for construction, alteration and equipping of facilities: $395,000 for soil and water research facilities at Sidney, Montana, $450,000 for poultry research facilities at East Lansing, Michigan, $400,000 for Mandan, North Dakota, $125,000 for the Southern Piedmont soil and water facility, $585,000 for Tucson, Arizona, $500,000 for the regional tree fruit and nut crops 76 Stat. 1204station in the Southeast, $165,000 for the research station at Carbondale, Illinois, and $160,000 for improvement of heating, water and electrical systems at the Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland; in all, $86,123,000: Provided, That the limitations contained herein shall not apply to replacement of buildings needed to carry out the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113(a) ); Plant and animal disease and nest control: For operations and measures, not otherwise provided for, to control and eradicate pests and plant and animal diseases and for carrying out assigned inspection, quarantine, and regulatory activities, as authorized by law, including expenses pursuant to the Act of February 28, 1947, as amended (21 U.S.C 114b–c), $58,055,500, of which $1,500,000 shall be apportioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, for the control of outbreaks of insects and plant diseases to the extent necessary to meet emergency conditions: Provided, That, $150,000 shall be available, notwithstanding the foregoing limitations, for the construction and equipping of facilities and acquisition of the necessary land therefor by purchase, donation, or exchange: Provided further, That no funds shall be used to formulate or administer a brucellosis eradication program for fiscal year 1964 that does not require minimum matching by any State of at least 40 per centum: Provided, That, in addition, in emergencies which threaten the livestock or poultry industries of the country, the Secretary may transfer from other appropriations or funds available to the agencies or corporations of the Department such sums as he may deem necessary, to be available only in such emergencies for the arrest and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious diseases of animals, or European fowl pest and similar diseases in poultry, and for expenses in accordance with the Act of February 28, 1947, as amended, and any unexpended balances of funds transferred under this head in the next preceding fiscal year shall be merged with such transferred amounts; Meat inspection: For carrying out the provisions of laws relating to Federal inspection of meat, and meat-food products, and the applicable provisions of the laws relating to process or renovated butter, $25,000,000. Special fund: To provide for additional labor to be employed under contracts and cooperative agreements to strengthen the work at research installations in the field, not more than $1,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this head for the previous fiscal year may be used by the Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service in departmental research programs in the current fiscal year, the amount so used to be transferred to and merged with the appropriation otherwise available under “Salaries and expenses, Research”.