AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES JOE SKEEN, New Mexico, Chairman JAMES T. WALSH, New York JAY DICKEY, Arkansas JACK KINGSTON, Georgia MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio JOSÉ E. SERRANO, New York GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut HENRY BONILLA, Texas TOM LATHAM, Iowa NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. TIMOTHY K. SANDERS, CAROL MURPHY, JOHN J. ZIOLKOWSKI, and JOANNE L. ORNDORFF, Staff Assistants PART 3 MARKETING AND REGULATORY PROGRAMS AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS Marketing and Regulatory Programs Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Natural Resources Conservation Service Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations Page 1 493 United States. AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND JOE SKEEN, New Mexico, Chairman JAMES T. WALSH, New York JAY DICKEY, Arkansas JACK KINGSTON, Georgia MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio JOSE E. SERRANO, New York GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut HENRY BONILLA, Texas TOM LATHAM, Iowa NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Staff Assistants PART 3 MARKETING AND REGULATORY PROGRAMS AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS Marketing and Regulatory Programs Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration Natural Resources Conservation Service 40-551 O Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1997 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 Page 1 493 4628 1997. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana, Chairman JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois RON PACKARD, California CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan JAY DICKEY, Arkansas JACK KINGSTON, Georgia MIKE PARKER, Mississippi RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM, California TODD TIAHRT, Kansas ZACH WAMP, Tennessee TOM LATHAM, Iowa ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia DAVID E. SKAGGS, Colorado PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA, Pennsylvania ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California NITĄ M. LOWEY, New York JOSE E. SERRANO, New York ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina JAMES W. DYER, Clerk and Staff Director (II) 97187383 AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1998 TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1997. MARKETING AND REGULATORY PROGRAMS WITNESSES MICHAEL DUNN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY, MARKETING AND REGULATORY PROGRAMS TERRY MEDLEY, ADMINISTRATOR, ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE LON HATAMIYA, ADMINISTRATOR, AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE JAMES R. BAKER, ADMINISTRATOR, GRAIN INSPECTION PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION STEPHEN B. DEWHURST, BUDGET OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OPENING REMARKS Mr. SKEEN. The committee will come to order. The people who are here today start off our fourth week of budget hearings. If you'd be brief in your testimony, we would appreciate it. You usually are; and we appreciate that too. Of course, all statements will be included in full in the record. Mike, it's all yours. Mr. DUNN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to address you today. I'm pleased to appear here before you and to discuss the activities for Marketing and Regulatory Programs for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and to present its fiscal year 1998 budget. I've prepared statements and I'd like to make that a part of the record. With me today are Terry Medley, the Administrator of APHIS; Lon Hatamiya, the Administrator of Agricultural Marketing Service; and Jim Baker, Administrator of Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; and Stephen Dewhurst from OPBA. They have written statements and we'd also like those to be a part of the record. Mr. SKEEN. That will be so done. Mr. DUNN. The Marketing Regulatory Program activities are funded by both taxpayers and beneficiaries of program services. Programs are proposed to carry out $789 million of activities. Over $396 million will be funded through user fees from beneficiaries of these services. |