work carried out. This change will result in elimination of substantial paperwork in nearly 3,000 county offices. 3. EMPLOYMENT CONTROLS Employment controls in ASCS include a personnel ceiling system, quarterly budgetary reviews, special management surveys, and work measurement procedures wherever they can be applied. Despite the impact of new programs and increased responsibilities, these controls are operating effectively to keep employment down and to encourage improved efficiency so that we can get more work done with fewer people. I would like to show you these charts on various categories of our employment, and make some comments on our actual employment as of April 30 as I go along. Mr. WHITTEN. Please feel free to explain the charts in the best manner possible for the reader of the record; and feel free to revise your remarks. Mr. GODFREY. This first chart gives our total employment broken down to show Washington divisions and offices, commodity offices, State offices, the large group of milk market order personnel (not paid from Federal funds) transferred to us in the reorganization, and other field offices. (The chart referred to follows:) Mr. GODFREY. You will notice that commodity offices are the most volatile sector of our employment. If you exclude commodity office and milk market order personnel, you will see that we have been able to keep employment relatively low even in spite of the increased program responsibilities assigned to the agency. Now to comment specifically on April 30 employment-I should point out that this chart includes part-time and other employment, but I will direct my remarks to full-time employment only, since it is most directly related to work performed. Mr. WHITTEN. Mr. Godfrey, I can appreciate the fact that permanent employees are the prime thing to be considered, but by the same token, part-time and seasonal workers cost money, too. I trust you will reflect in the record the average man-years? Mr. GODFREY. Yes, sir, we will do that. (The information requested, follows:) Estimated cumulative man-years of employment (including temporary and part time) fiscal year 1962 1 Excludes man-years of employment in milk market administrators' offices. These employees are not paid from Federal funds. Mr. GODFREY. The statement here outlines very well the total fulltime and part-time employees. Mr. MICHEL. What specifically is involved in the green colored bar, milk market administrators? Mr. GODFREY. They operate under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Order Act of 1937. They are paid by funds derived from deductions made from sales of milk by farmers. We only service them from the Washington office. The only personnel we pay are the ones that are stationed here in Washington to service these various milk marketing orders through the country. Mr. MICHEL. How many are stationed in Washington? Mr. BEACH. Eighty-eight. One other point, Mr. Michel, is that those milk marketing order personnel are under civil service and that is the reason they show up in our personnel listings, even though they are paid from non-Federal funds. TOTAL FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT (OTHER THAN COUNTY) Mr. GODFREY. ASCS total full-time employment other than in county offices was 8,201 as of April 30, 1962. Adjusting this total for reorganization transfers-1,173 milk market order personnel and 56 ACP personnel transferred to ASCS, and 86 employees transferred from ASCS to FAS-leaves a total of 7,058 as the figure comparable to ASCS employment before the reorganization. This is 14 less than on April 30, 1961, and 1,030 less than the peak of 8,088 reached in November 1959. We have been able to accomplish this in spite of the new and heavy workload created by the 1961 and 1962 feed grain programs and the 1962 wheat program. The peak employment of ASCS for all time to date was 8,088 in November 1959. At the present time we are actually 1,030 people below that and we are 14 people below where we were on April of last year before we got the wheat stabilization program. WASHINGTON OFFICES The total number of full-time Washington employees was 1,380. Adjusted for reorganization transfers, the total is lower than at any time since April 1961, and 94 less than the peak reached in July 1958 COMMODITY OFFICES April 30 full-time employment in commodity offices was 3,423. This is an increase of 20 over a year ago which is very slight considering the additional work in handling feed grain sales, feed grain and wheat certificates, and increased dairy activity. However, employment is 953 less than the peak of 4,376 reached in November 1959 even with the additional workload. Here is another chart showing man-years worked in commodity offices compared with man-years which would have been required at 1952 production rates. In the last completed fiscal year, 1961, these offices performed 21⁄2 times as much work per man-year as in fiscal year 1952, based on measured workload and production. (The chart used by Mr. Godfrey follows:) |