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AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
FOR 1982

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION

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AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
FOR 1982

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION

SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND
RELATED AGENCIES

JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman

BOB TRAXLER, Michigan

BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas

MATTHEW F. MCHUGH, New York

WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky
JACK HIGHTOWER, Texas

DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii

WES WATKINS, Oklahoma

VIRGINIA SMITH, Nebraska

J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia
JOHN T. MYERS, Indiana

JERRY LEWIS, California

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COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman

EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts
WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky
NEAL SMITH, Iowa

JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, New York
CLARENCE D. LONG, Maryland
SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois
DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin
EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California
LOUIS STOKES, Ohio

TOM BEVILL, Alabama
BILL CHAPPELL, Florida
BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas

JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania
BOB TRAXLER, Michigan

JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts
CHARLES WILSON, Texas

LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana
ADAM BENJAMIN, JR., Indiana
NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
MATTHEW F. MCHUGH, New York
BO GINN, Georgia

WILLIAM LEHMAN, Florida
JACK HIGHTOWER, Texas

MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota

JULIAN C. DIXON, California

VIC FAZIO, California

W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina

LES AUCOIN, Oregon

DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii

WES WATKINS, Oklahoma

WILLIAM H. GRAY, III, Pennsylvania

BERNARD J. DWYER, New Jersey

SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts
JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania
JACK EDWARDS, Alabama

JOHN T. MYERS, Indiana

J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia
CLARENCE E. MILLER, Ohio
LAWRENCE COUGHLIN, Pennsylvania
C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida
JACK F. KEMP, New York
RALPH S. REGULA, Ohio

CLAIR W. BURGENER, California
GEORGE M. O'BRIEN, Illinois
VIRGINIA SMITH, Nebraska

ELDON RUDD, Arizona
CARL D. PURSELL, Michigan
MICKEY EDWARDS, Oklahoma
BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana
BILL GREEN, New York
TOM LOEFFLER, Texas
JERRY LEWIS, California
CARROLL A. CAMPBELL, JR.,
South Carolina

JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois

KEITH F. MAINLAND, Clerk and Staff Director

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CHARLES MILLER, ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH, PHS/ HHS

MARK NOVITCH, M.D., ACTING COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS JEFFREY B. SPRINGER, ACTING CHIEF COUNSEL, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

GERALD F. MEYER, ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER FOR MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS, FDA

FRANK P. CLAUNTS, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, FDA

ELLEN F. WORMSER, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF HEALTH BUDGET ANALYSIS, OS/HHS

GERALD B. GUEST, D.V.M., ACTING DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF VETERINARY MEDICINE, FDA

CALL TO ORDER

Mr. WHITTEN. We have before us today Dr. Mark Novitch and his associates in the Food and Drug Administration, accompanied by Mr. Miller, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health.

We are glad to have all of you here, and to see that the former Deputy Commissioner still attends our hearings. We do not get into the habit of it, but now and then we are fortunate enough to give someone downtown a nickname-Mr. Zero Gardner. He changed the definition of zero. I never did understand it. I don't know how a zero can be changed.

We are glad to have you with us. Dr. Novitch, we would be glad to have you present your associates who are new to the subcommittee, and we will put your biographical sketches in the record at this point.

[The information follows:]

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES-BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Name: Charles Miller II.

Position: Acting Assistant Secretary for Health.

Birthplace and date: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1923.

Education: BA, Princeton University 1947, Major, History; MA, University of Pennsylvania 1948, Major, Political Science.

Honors: Graduated Cum Laude from Princeton, 1947; elected to National Social Science Honor Society (Pi Gamma Mu) 1948; Superior Service Award, DHEW, 1964; Quality Salary Increase, November 1968; Distinguished Service Award, April 1972;

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