Department of Agriculture Appropriations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee, Parts 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - Budget |
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acreage acres activities additional Administration agencies agricultural commodities Agricultural Research Service animal appropriation areas assistance average BENSON bushels Chairman chemical Child Nutrition committee Commodity Credit Corporation Consumer and Marketing Contract Cooperative Agreement Cooperative State Research corn costs cotton counties crops dairy DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE disease dollars economic effective export Extension Service facilities farm income farmers Farmers Home Administration Federal feed fiscal year 1969 Food and Nutrition food stamp program funds grade grain Grant herbicides hundredweight improve increase industry insecticides inspection LANGEN Library livestock loans Marketing Service meat ment million NATCHER National nematode North Dakota Nutrition Service operations organochlorines PAARLBERG parity payments percent pest pesticides plants poultry pounds price support problems production purchase record reduced requested Salaries and expenses school lunch Secretary HARDIN Section 32 soil soybean soybean cyst nematode tion tobacco Total United USDA weevil wheat WHITTEN
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Page 117 - The perishability of the commodity ; 5. The importance of the commodity to agriculture and the national economy ; 6. The ability to dispose of stocks acquired through a price support operation ; 7. The need for offsetting temporary losses of export markets ; and 8. The ability and willingness of producers to keep supplies in line with demand.
Page 14 - A copy of the petition shall be forthwith transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Secretary, or any officer designated by him for that purpose, and thereupon the Secretary shall...
Page 11 - Secretary shall give appropriate consideration, among other relevant factors, (1) to the necessity for the production of an adequate, wholesome, and economical food supply; (2) to the other ways in which the consumer may be affected by the same pesticide chemical or by other related substances that are poisonous or deleterious...
Page 43 - That no additive shall be deemed to be safe if it Ls found to induce cancer when ingested by man or animal, or if it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animal...
Page 11 - Secretary shall specify in the order his findings as to such conditions. (e) The Secretary may at any time, upon his own initiative or upon the request of any interested person, propose the issuance of a regulation establishing a tolerance for a pesticide chemical or exempting it from the necessity of a tolerance.
Page 327 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 15 - ... (1) The Secretary of Agriculture, upon request of any person who has registered, or who has submitted an application for the registration of, an economic poison under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act...
Page 14 - States Code. Upon the filing of such petition, the court shall have exclusive jurisdiction to affirm or set aside the order complained of in whole or in part. The findings of the Secretary with respect to questions of fact shall be sustained if supported by substantial evidence when considered on the record as- a whole.
Page 11 - new drug" means (1) any drug the composition of which is such that such drug is not generally recognized among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the safety of drugs, as safe for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling thereof...
Page 616 - Secretary may authorize financial assistance up to 80 per centum of the operating costs of such a program, including cost of obtaining, preparing, and serving food. In the selection of schools to receive assistance under this section, the State educational agency shall require applicant schools to provide justification of the need for such assistance.