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fiscal year 1963, limiting the amounts which may be expended for personal services, or for purposes involving personal services, or amounts which may be transferred between appropriations or authorizations available for or involving such services, are hereby increased to the extent necessary to meet not to exceed 95 per centum of the increased pay costs authorized by or pursuant to law.

[Total, title II, definite appropriations, $262,778,440.] [Total, title II, indefinite appropriations, $19,000.]

[Grand total, title II, $262,797,440.]

TITLE III

CLAIMS AND JUDGMENTS

For payment of claims as settled and determined by departments and agencies in accord with law and judgments rendered against the United States by the United States Court of Claims and United States district courts, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 14 and House Document Numbered 90, Eighty-eighth Congress, $20,567,545, together with such amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when specified in such judgments or provided by law) and such additional sums due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in foreign currency: Provided, That no judgment herein appropriated for shall be paid until it shall have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise: Provided further, That, unless otherwise specifically required by law or by the judgment, payment of interest wherever appropriated for herein shall not continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of this Act.

Approved May 17, 1963.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

HOUSE REPORTS: No. 198 (Appropriations Committee); 275 (conference committee); 290 (conference committee).

SENATE REPORT No. 155 (Appropriations Committee).

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Volume 109, 1963:

April 9, 1963; Considered in House.

April 10, 1963; Considered and passed House.

April 26, 30, 1963; Considered in Senate.

May 1, 1963; Considered and passed Senate, amended.

May 2, 1963; Senate amendments disagreed to in House.

May 8, 1963; Conference report recommitted in House.

May 14, 1963; Conference report agreed to in House with disagreement on
Senate amendment 76.

May 15, 1963; Conference report agreed to in Senate.

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$20,567, 545 (and indefinite)

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NOTE.-The following tabulation is a classification by fiscal years and by departments and establishments of appropriations made in the foregoing act:

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATION ACT, 1964

Public Law 88-250

88th Congress, H.R. 6754

December 30, 1963

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Agriculture and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964; namely:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

TITLE I-GENERAL ACTIVITIES

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary to perform agricultural research relating to production, utilization, nutrition and consumer use, to control and eradicate pests and plant and animal diseases, and to perform related inspection, quarantine and regulatory work, and meat inspection: 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 (5 U.S.C. 574), and not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for employment under section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a): Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available for the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed two for replacement only: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant to title 5, United States Code, section 565a, 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 $20,000, except for three buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $45,000 each, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed $7,500 or 7.5 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:

Research: For research and demonstrations on the production and utilization of agricultural products; home economics or nutrition and consumer use of agricultural and associated products; and related research and services; and for acquisition of land by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, $91,496,700: Provided, That, in addition, not to exceed $15,000,000 may be transferred from the Commodity Credit Corporation to this appropriation, in accordance with the Act of June 29, 1948 (5 U.S.C. 714b), for

$91,496, 700

utilization research and development, cost of production research, and other related research designed to reduce surplus commodities held or to be held by the Commodity Credit Corporation, including $10,000,000 for the planning, construction, alteration and equipping of research facilities, which amount shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That hereafter the Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service may enter into agreements with and receive funds from any State, other political subdivision, organization, or individual for the purpose of conducting cooperative research projects with such cooperators: Provided further, That the limitations contained herein shall not apply to replacement of buildings needed to carry out the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113 (a)): Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to acquire approximately two-tenths of an acre of land at Pasadena, California; Plant and animal disease and pest control: For operations and measures, not otherwise provided for, to control and eradicate pests and plant and animal diseases and for carrying out assigned inspection, quarantine, and regulatory activities, as authorized by law, including expenses pursuant to the Act of February 28, 1947, as amended (21 U.S.C. 114b-c), $64,449,000, of which $1,500,000 shall be apportioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, for the control of outbreaks of insects and plant diseases to the extent necessary to meet emergency conditions: Provided, 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 no funds shall be available for carrying out the screwworm eradication program that does not require minimum matching by State or local sources of at least 50 per centum of the expenses of production, irradiation, and release of the screwworm flies: 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, contagious 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 under this head in the next preceding fiscal year shall be merged with such transferred amounts;

Meat inspection: For carrying out the provisions of laws relating to Federal inspection of meat, and meat-food products, and the applicable provisions of the laws relating to process or renovated butter, $27,931,000--

Special fund: To provide for additional labor to be employed under contracts and cooperative agreements to strengthen the work at research installations in the field, not more than $1,000,000 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 and merged with the appropriation otherwise available under "Salaries and expenses, Research". [Total, Salaries and expenses, $183,876,700.]

SALARIES AND EXPENSES (SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM)

For purchase of foreign currencies which accrue under title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704), for market development research authorized by section 104 (a) and for agricultural and forestry research and other

$64, 449, 000

27, 931, 000

functions related thereto authorized by section 104 (k) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704(a) (k)), to remain available until expended, $1,250,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available, in addition to other appropriations for these purposes, for the purchase of the foregoing currencies: Provided further, That funds appropriated herein shall be used to purchase such foreign currencies as the Department determines are needed and can be used most effectively to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, and such foreign currencies shall, pursuant to the provisions of section 104(a), be set aside for sale to the Department before foreign currencies which accrue under said title I are made available for other United States uses: Provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of this appropriation shall be available for purchase of foreign currencies for expenses of employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a).

[Total, Agricultural Research Service, $185,126,700.]

COOPERATIVE STATE EXPERIMENT STATION SERVICE

PAYMENTS AND EXPENSES

For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for grants for cooperative forestry research, and for other expenses, including $39,363,000 to carry into effect the provisions of the Hatch Act, approved March 2, 1887, as amended by the Act approved August 11, 1955 (7 U.S.C. 361a-3611), including administration by the United States Department of Agriculture; $500,000 for payments authorized under section 204(b) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623); $1,000,000 for grants for cooperative forestry research under the Act approved October 10, 1962 (76 Stat. 806-807); $310,000 for penalty mail costs of agricultural experiment stations under section 6 of the Hatch Act of 1887, as amended; and $460,000 for necessary expenses of the Cooperative State Experiment Station 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 (5 U.S.C. 574), and not to exceed $25,000 for employment under section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a); in all, $41,633,000__.

EXTENSION SERVICE

COOPERATIVE EXTENSION WORK, PAYMENTS AND EXPENSES

Payments to States and Puerto Rico: For payments for cooperative agricultural extension work under the Smith-Lever Act, as amended by the Act of June 26, 1953 (7 U.S.C. 341-348), the Act of August 11, 1955 (7 U.S.C. 347a) and the Act of October 5, 1962 (76 Stat. 745), $65,725,000; and payments and contracts for such work under section 204(b)-205 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623-1624), $1,570,000; in all, $67,295,000: Provided, That funds hereby appropriated pursuant to section 3 (c) of the Act of June 26, 1953, shall not be paid to any State or Puerto Rico prior to availability of an equal sum from non-Federal sources for expenditure during the current fiscal year.

Retirement and Employees' Compensation costs for extension agents: For cost of employer's share of Federal retirement and for reimbursement for benefits paid from the Employees' Compensation Fund for cooperative extension employees, $7,272,500----. Penalty mail: For costs of penalty mail for cooperative extension agents and State extension directors, $3,113,000-.

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$1,250,000

41, 633, 000

67, 295, 000

7,272, 500

3, 113, 000

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