Agricultural Research Service

Agricultural Research Service salaries and expenses For expenses necessary to perform agricultural research relating to production, utilization, nutrition and consumer use, to control and eradicate pests and plant and animal diseases, and to perform related inspection, quarantine and regulatory work, and meat inspection: Provided, That appropriations hereunder shall be available for field employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574), and not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for employment under 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 head-houses connecting greenhouses) shall not exceed $20,000, except for three buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $45,000 each, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed $7,500 or 7.5 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 facilities at Beltsville, Maryland: Research: For research and demonstrations on the production and utilization of agricultural products; home economics or nutrition and consumer use of agricultural and associated products; and related research and services; and for acquisition of land by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, $91,496,700: Provided, That, in addition, not to exceed $15,000,000 may be transferred from the Commodity Credit Corporation to this appropriation, in accordance with the Act of June 29, 1948 (5 U.S.C. 714b), for utilization research and development, cost of production research, and other related research designed to reduce surplus commodities held or to be held by the Commodity Credit Corporation, including $10,000,000 for the planning, construction, alteration and equipping of research facilities, which amount shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That hereafter the Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service may enter into agreements with and receive funds from any State, other political subdivision, organization, or individual for the purpose of conducting cooperative research projects with such cooperators: Provided further, That the limitations 77 Stat. 821contained herein shall not apply to replacement of buildings needed (o carry out the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113(a)): Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to acquire approximately two-tenths of an acre of land at Pasadena, California: Plant, and animal disease and pest 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 Jaw, including expenses pursuant to the Act. of February 28, 1947, as amended (21 U.S.C. 114b–c). $64,449,000. 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 no funds shall be used to formulate or administer a brucellosis eradication program for the current fiscal year that does not require minimum matching by any State of at least 40 per centum: Provided further, That no funds shall be available for carrying out the screw-worm eradication program that does not require minimum matching by State or local sources of at least 50 per centum of the expenses of production, irradiation, and release of the screw worm flies: Provided further, 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 innovated batter, $27,931,000. 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 he transferred to and merged with the appropriation otherwise available under “Salaries and expenses, Research”. salaries and expenses (special foreign currency program) For purchase, of foreign currencies which accrue under title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704), for market development research authorized by section 104(a) and for agricultural and forestry research and other functions related thereto authorized by section 104(k) of the Agricultural Trade Development, and Assistance Act. of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C’. 1704(a) (k)), to remain available until expended. $1,250,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available, in addition to other appropriations for these purposes, for the purchase of the foregoing currencies: Provided further, That funds appropriated herein shall be used to purchase such foreign currencies as the Department determines are needed and can be used most, effectively to curry out the purposes of this paragraph, and such foreign currencies shall, 77 Stat. 822pursuant to the provisions of sect ion 104(a), he set aside for sale to the Department before foreign currencies which accrue under said title I are made available for other United States uses: Provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of this appropriation shall be available for purchase of foreign currencies for expenses of employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act or 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a).