Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service

Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service For necessary expenses of the Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service to carry out the Act of July 2, 1926 (7 U.S.C. 451–457), and as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627), and other laws, in conducting: statistical reporting and service work, including crop and livestock estimates, statistical coordination and improvements, and marketing surveys; research relating to the economic and marketing aspects of farmer cooperatives; economic research and service relating to agricultural production, marketing, and distribution, including economics of marketing; analyses relating to farm prices, income and 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 effect92 STAT. 1079 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; $80,112,000, of which not less than $200,000 shall be 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 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: Provided further, 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 $140,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.