Production, Processing, and Marketing

Production, Processing, and Marketing office of the secretary For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, including not to exceed $5,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $2,267,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be reimbursed from applicable appropriations in this Act for travel expenses incident to the holding of hearings as required by 5 U.S.C. 551–558: Provided further, That not to exceed $4,000 of this amount shall be available for official reception and representation expenses, not otherwise provided for, as determined by the Secretary. departmental administration For Budget, Fiscal and Management, $3,307,721; for General Operations, $1,528,217; for ADP Systems, $192,335; for Personnel Administration, $2,012,127; for Equal Opportunity, $2,420,600; for Information Services provided by the Office of Communication, including the dissemination of agricultural information and the coordination of informational work and programs authorized by Congress in the Department, $4,684,000; making a total of $14,145,000 for Departmental Administration to provide for necessary expenses for management support services to offices of the Department of Agriculture, and for general administration of the Department of Agriculture, repairs and alterations, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department of Agriculture, of which not to exceed $10,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109 and, not to exceed $1,269,000 may be used for farmers’ bulletins and not less than two hundred thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty copies for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives of part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture) as authorized by A4 U.S.C. 1301: Provided, That in the preparation of motion pictures or exhibits by the Department, this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225). 90 STAT. 852 economic management support center For necessary expenses of the Economic Management Support Center to provide management support services to selected agencies of the Department of Agriculture, $2,802,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $25,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109 (7 U.S.C. 2201–2202). office of the inspector general For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General, including employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic. Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $10,000, for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $18,434,000 and in addition, $7,932,000 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation, “Food Stamp Program” and merged with this appropriation. office of the general counsel For necessary expenses, including payment of fees or dues for the use of law libraries by attorneys in the field service, $8,708,000. agricultural research service For expenses necessary to enable the Agricultural Research Service to perform agricultural research and demonstration relating to production, utilization, marketing, and distribution (not otherwise provided for), home economics or nutrition and consumer use, and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, except that the foregoing limitation shall not apply to the acquisition of lands for the U.S. Sugarcane Laboratory, Houma, Louisiana, at a cost not to exceed $450,000; $270,576,000: 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 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available for the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed one for replacement only and for the acquisition without cost of not to exceed one to be obtained by transfer: Provided further, That of the appropriations hereunder, not less than $10,526,600 shall be available to conduct, marketing research: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant, to 7 U.S.C. 2250, 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 $57,500, except for six buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $112,500 each, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed $21,500, or 22 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: Provided further, That the foregoing limitations shall not apply to replacement of buildings needed to carry out the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a). 90 STAT. 853 Special fund: To provide for additional labor, subprofessional, and junior scientific help to be employed under contracts and cooperative agreements to strengthen the work at research installations in the field, not more than $2,000,000 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 andmerged with the appropriation otherwise available under “Agricultural Research Service”. scientific activities overseas (special foreign currency program) For payments in foreign currencies owed to or owned by the United States for market development research authorized by section 104 (b)(1) and for agricultural and forestry research arid other functions related thereto authorized by section 104(b)(3) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704(b)(1), (8)), $7,500,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available, in addition to other appropriations for these purposes, for payments in the foregoing currencies: Provided further, That funds appropriated herein shall be used for payments in such foreign currencies as the Department determines are needed, and can be used most effectively to carry out the purposes of this paragraph: Provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of this appropriation shall be available for payments in foreign currencies for expenses of employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), as amended by 5 U.S.C. 3109. animal and plant health inspection service For expenses, not otherwise provided for, including those pursuant to the Act of February 28, 1947, as amended (21 U.S.C. 114b–c) necessary to prevent, control, and eradicate pests and plant and animal diseases; to carry out inspection, quarantine, and regulatory activities; to carry on services related to consumer protection; and to protect the environment, as authorized by law, $403,667,000, of which $2,500,000 shall be available for the control of outbreaks of insects, plant diseases and animal diseases to the extent necessary to meet emergency conditions and $833,000 shall be for repayment to the Commodity Credit Corporation of advances (and interest thereon) made in accordance with authorities contained in the provisions of the appropriation items for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in the Agriculture-Environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriation Act, 1975: Provided, That $1,000,000 of the funds for control of the fire ant shall be placed in reserve for matching purposes with States which may come into the program: Provided further, 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 this appropriation shall be available for field employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $60,000 shall lie available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That, this appropriation shall be available for the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed four, of which two shall be for replacement only: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, alteration,90 STAT. 854 and repair of buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any one building shall not exceed $52,500, except for two buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost of not to exceed $105,000 each, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed $20,000, or 20 per centum of the cost of the building, whichever is greater: Provided further, That $3,800,000 shall remain available until expended for plans, construction and improvement of facilities without regard to limitations contained herein: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100: 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, contagions 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 for such emergency purposes in the next preceding fiscal year shall be merged with such transferred amounts. cooperative state research service For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for grants for cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and for other expenses, including $97,973,000 to carry into effect the provisions of the Hatch Act, approved March 2, 1387, as amended by the Act approved August 11, 1955 (7 U.S.C. 361a–361i), and further amended by Public Law 92–318 approved June 23, 1972, and further amended by Public Law 93–471 approved October 26, 1974, including administration by the United States Department of Agriculture, and penalty mail costs of agricultural experiment stations under section 6 of the Hatch Act of 1887, as amended; $8,212,000 for grants for cooperative forestry research under the Act approved October 10, 1962 (16 U.S.C. 582a–582a–7), as amended by Public Law 92–318 approved June 23, 1972; $17,852.000, in addition to funds otherwise available for contracts and grants for scientific research under the. Act of August 4, 1965 (7 U.S.C. 450i); $1,500,000 for Rural Development Research as authorized under the Rural Development Act of 1972 (7 U.S.C. 2661–2668), including administrative expenses; and $1,115,000 for necessary expenses of the Cooperative State Research Service, including administration of payments to State agricultural experiment stations, funds for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C, 2225), and not to exceed $50,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; in nil $126,652,000. extension service Payments to States. Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands: For payments for cooperative agricultural extension work under the Smith-Lever Act, as amended by the Act of June 26, 1953, the Act of August 11, 1955, the Act of October 5, 1962 (7 U.S.C, 341–349), and section 506 of the Act of June 23, 1972, to be distributed under sections 3(b) and 3(c) of the Act, for retirement and employees’ compensation costs for extension agents, and for costs of penalty mail90 STAT. 855 for cooperative extension agents and State extension directors, $168,225,000; payments for the nutrition and family education program for low-income, areas under section 3(d) of the Act, $50,560,000; payments for extension work by the colleges receiving the benefits of the second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 321–326, 328) and Tuskegee Institute under section 3(d) of the Act, $8,400,000; payments for rural development work under section 3(d) of the Act, $1,000,000; payments for the pest management program under section 3(d) of the Act, $2,935,000; payments for the farm safety program under section 3(d) of the Act, $1,020,000; and payments for extension work under section 208(c) of Public Law 93–471, $910,000; and $1,500,000 for Rural Development Education as authorized under the Rural Development Act of 1972 (7 U.S.C. 2661–2668); in all, $234.550,000: Provided, That funds hereby appropriated pursuant to section 3(c) of the Act of June 26, 1953, and section 506 of the Act of June 23, 1972, as amended, shall not lie paid to any State, Puerto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands prior to availability of an equal sum from non-Federal sources for expenditure during the current fiscal year. Federal administration and coordination: For administration of the Smith-Lever Act, as amended by the Act of June 26, 1953, the Act of August 11, 1955, the Act of October 5, 1962 (7 U.S.C. 341–349), and section 506 of tile Act of June 23, 1972, and section 208(d) of Public Law 93–471, and to coordinate and provide program leadership for the extension work of the Department and the several States and insular possession, $5,658,000. national agricultural library For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Library, $6,026,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225). and not to exceed $35,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That not. to exceed $100,000 shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C, 2250 for the alteration and repair of buildings and improvements. statistical reporting service For necessary expenses of the Statistical Reporting Service in conducting statistical reporting and service work, including crop and livestock estimates, statistical coordination and improvements, and marketing surveys, as authorized by the. Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627) and other laws, $33,827.000: Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for any expense incident to publishing estimates of apple production for other than the commercial crop: Provided, further, That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109. economic research service For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in conducting economic research and service relating to agricultural production, marketing, and distribution, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627), and other laws, including economics of marketing; analyses relating to farm prices, income and90 STAT. 856 population, and demand for farm products, use of resources in agriculture, adjustments, cost and returns in farming, and farm finance; and for analyses of supply and demand for farm products in foreign countries and their effect on prospects for United States exports, progress in economic development and its relation to sales of farm products, assembly and analysis of agricultural trade statistics and analysis of international financial and monetary programs and policies as they affect the competitive position of United States farm products; $28,080,000, of which not less than $200,000 shall he available for investigation, determination and finding as to the effect upon the production of food and upon the agricultural economy of any proposed action affecting such subject matter pending before the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for presentation, in the public interest, before said administrator, other agencies or before the courts: Provided, That not less than $350,000 of the funds contained in this appropriation shall be available to continue to gather statistics and conduct a special study on the price spread between the farmer and consumer: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That not. less than $145,000 of the funds contained in this appropriation shall be available for analysis of statistics and related facts on foreign production and full and complete information on methods used by other countries to move farm commodities in world trade on a competitive basis.