EXPLANATION OF PROPOSED CHANGE The proposed change would add two activities, "Marketing research" and "Interdepartmental pesticides coordination" to the existing activities under .he "Research" subappropriation for the Agricultural Research Service. At the same time, the "Marketing research" activity is being deleted from the activity structure for "Marketing research and service" (now "Marketing services") in the Agricultural Marketing Service. The "Marketing research" activity was transferred from the Agricultural Marketing Service to the Agricultural Research Service by Secretary's Memorandum No. 1554, supplement 1, dated June 19, 1964, and was made effective as of July 1, 1964. Also, Congress, in considering the 1965 appropriation, transferred funds for the activity from the Agricultural Marketing Service to the Agricultural Research Service item. In view of the transfer of this activity, it should now be shown in the budget schedules for the Agricultural Research Service. Item "(e) Interdepartmental pesticides coordination" is an activity established as the result of an increase of $250,000 provided in the 1965 Appropriation Act for this specific purpose. 1 Excludes reappropriation of $1,000,000 of prior year funds for labor at research field stations. The 1966 budget proposes to transfer this amount from section 32 funds and merge with this appropria tion. 1 Excludes $500,000 released from the contingency fund which may be required again in fiscal year 1966. Estimated amount for indemnities. Excludes an additional amount of $163,300 financed by temporary redirection of funds from other eradication activities. 1 Represents total amount available. $783,354 was obligated in 1964, $686,554 under "Salaries and expenses" (1963 authorization) and $96,800 under sec. 32 funds available in 1964. The balance of $12,803,805, $1,900,605 under the 1963 "Salaries and expenses" authorization, and $10,903,200 under section 32, is available until expended. Includes $235,902 for mandatory reimbursement to the employees compensation fund for payments made from that fund in fiscal year 1964. STATUS OF PROGRAM The Agricultural Research Service carries out the Department's scientific research in the fields of livestock, crops, soil and water conservation, agricultural engineering, utilization research and development, nutrition and consumer use, and marketing. It conducts both fundamental and applied research in these fields, utilizing physical, biological and other sciences. Research is conducted at the 10,378-acre Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Md., and at numerous locations in the States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and in foreign countries. A large part of the research is in cooperation with State agricultural experiment stations and other public and private agencies. Research is also conducted under contracts and grants with various public and private agencies and institutions. Programs for control and eradication of plant and animal diseases and pests are conducted to prevent introduction into the United States of pests and diseases of foreign origin, to prevent the spread interstate of those within the country, and to control and eradicate them where found. These programs are conducted at numerous locations in all States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, on farms and ranches, at sea, air, and border ports of entry, in public stockyards and establishments licensed under the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act, etc. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended, is administered and enforced to insure that pesticide products in interstate commerce are correctly labeled, can be used safely, and are effective for intended use. Work of the Service also includes enforcement of the Federal meat inspection and humane slaughter laws to assure production of disease-free, clean, and wholesome meat and meat products for both civilian and military use and for foreign commerce. This is accomplished by supervising slaughtering and meat processing operations at meatpacking plants, application of control over imported meats to assure the same protection as in the case of meats produced domestically, and supervision of a system of certifying meats for export to keep foreign markets open to American meats. As a part of its regular programs, the Agricultural Research Service conducts research and prepares plans for preventing or combating foreign plant and animal diseases which might be intentionally introduced into the United States. Some research is also conducted on devising protective measures for decontamination and utilization of crops, animals, or soils affected by direct radiation or radioactive fallout, and personnel are trained for radiological monitoring services to minimize the effects of any radioactive fallout on the Nation's supply of meat and meat food products. Mr. WHITTEN. We now come to one of the big parts of the Department of Agriculture, one which has contributed greatly to the standard of living of the American people as well as the health of the general public. PERSONNEL CHANGES I think we should take note at this time of the fact that one of our old friends who has contributed so greatly to the research in the Department, Dr. Byron T. Shaw, has taken on a less exacting assignment from choice. We certainly look forward to working with him in his new capacity and regret that his situation was such that he felt he should make this change. At the same time we on this committee have as much understanding of the exacting demands of the position as administrator of the Agricultural Research Service as any other group. I must say, Dr. Irving, I don't know of anyone that we feel more qualified to take over. You have been carrying a large part of it through the years, and there is no problem that Dr. Shaw has had that you have not shared. We have known you well and favorably through the years. I do think it might be fitting to put some background information in the record concerning yourself, because it is quite a signal honor to have you in this position. Also, we would be glad to have the same information concerning Dr. Anderson and any others that you may have on your staff appearing for the first time. (The material referred to follows:) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DR. GEORGE W. IRVING, JR., ADMINISTRATOR, Dr. Irving, Administrator, Agricultural Research Service, was born November 20, 1910, in Caribou, Maine. He attended public schools in Seattle, Wash., and the District of Columbia. He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry and M.A. and Ph. D. degrees in biochemistry from the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He completed part of his graduate studies at the University of Illinois and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School. He worked with the Department of Agriculture as a laboratory assistant from 1928 to 1935 after a year of similar duties at the National Bureau of Standards, during which time he completed his undergraduate studies in evening school at the university. After brief duty as chemist in the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine he left the Department to serve as research fellow in biochemistry at the George Washington University School of Medicine, 1936–38; and at the Cornell University College of Medicine, 1938-39, teaching and conducting research on proteins and pituitary hormones. He was assistant in chemistry, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York City, 1939-42, where his research involved proteolytic enzymes and cancer. Dr. Irving returned to the Department in 1942 to direct protein research at the Southern Regional Research Laboratory, New Orleans. In 1944 he established a laboratory to study the biochemistry of plant disease resistance and the mechanism of action of plant growth regulating chemicals at the Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Md. From 1947 until 1953 he was Assistant Chief, Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, and when research in the Department was reorganized in 1953 he was appointed Chief of the newly formed Biological Sciences Branch of the Agricultural Marketing Service. He was named Deputy Administrator for Research of the Agricultural Research Service in 1954, for Utilization Research and Development in 1957, and for Nutrition, Consumer, and Industrial Use Research in 1963. He served as Associate Administrator of ARS from July 1964 until his appointment as Administrator in March 1965. Dr. Irving was professorial lecturer in biochemistry, George Washington University Medical School, Washington, D.C., 1947-53, and lecturer on antibiotics, USDA Graduate School, 1948-52. He received the Award for Scientific Achievement in the Physical Sciences from the Washington Academy of Sciences in 1946, and was corecipient of a USDA Superior Service Award in 1949. Among the scientific organizations of which he is a member are the American Chemical Society; Chemical Society of Washington, president, 1954; fellow of |