AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED FOURTH CONGRESS SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND JOE SKEEN, New Mexico, Chairman NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking PART 4 AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS Rural Utilities Service Rural Housing and Community Development Service .. Page 1 1 1 367 90-803 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1995 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 KFan 1995 PT.4 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana, Chairman JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois JIM KOLBE, Arizona BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada RON PACKARD, California CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan JAY DICKEY, Arkansas JACK KINGSTON, Georgia FRANK RIGGS, California RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi MICHAEL P. FORBES, New York GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington JIM BUNN, Oregon MARK W. NEUMANN, Wisconsin DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina STENY H. HOYER, Maryland RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio DAVID E. SKAGGS, Colorado NANCY PELOSI, California PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA, Pennsylvania ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California NITA M. LOWEY, New York RAY THORNTON, Arkansas JAMES W. DYER, Clerk and Staff Director (II) AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1996 THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1995. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE RURAL HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICE RURAL BUSINESS AND COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT SERVICE WITNESSES MICHAEL V. DUNN, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR RURAL ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WALLY BEYER, ADMINISTRATOR, RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE MAUREEN A. KENNEDY, ACTING ADMINISTRATOR, RURAL HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICE DAYTON J. WATKINS, ACTING ADMINISTRATOR, RURAL BUSINESS AND COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT SERVICE STEPHEN B. DEWHURST, BUDGET OFFICER BRUCE CRAIN, DIRECTOR, ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND COMMERCIALIZATION CENTER Mr. SKEEN. The meeting will please come to order. We have with us today from the Department of Agriculture, the Rural Utilities Service, the Rural Housing and Community Development Service, and the Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service. Now, that's a real mouthful. You folks have really been reorganizing; haven't you? This is kind of like a peanut and shell game. You keep changing the name and moving the peanuts around. Let's start with Michael Dunn, Acting Under Secretary for Rural Economic and Community Development. Mr. Dunn, you can begin your testimony and introduce anybody that you have with you that you may want to give testimony. Your entire written statement will be put in the record and we will go from there. Its all yours. STATEMENT OF UNDER SECRETARY Mr. DUNN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. I have at the table with me Mr. Stephen Dewhurst who is from our Office of Budget and Program Analysis, Maureen Kennedy who is the Acting Administrator of the Rural |