Crop Protection. +59,146,000a/ 1,005,748,000 a/ Includes a total increase of $46,816,000 toward increased operating costs in order to sustain performance levels for continuing programs. Includes a total increase of $3,862,000 for the portion of pay increases effective in FY 1981 which were absorbed in FY 1981 but which are necessary to carry out the programs proposed in FY 1982. Science and Education Administration research and extension activities have been reviewed and evaluated on an agency-wide basis. The table below shows changes, on an activity basis, proposed for FY 1982 over FY 1981. Crop Productivity. Budget Authority (dollars in thousands) 1981 1980 $150,194 $170,223 $187,668 104,164 119,732 1982 Change 1981 to 1982 133.733 +$17,445 4.703 Specific justification of increases and decreases within these totals are described in the following sections of these explanatory notes. a/ Includes $994,000 for FY 1980, $1,017,000 for FY 1981 and FY 1982 for Miscellaneous Contributed Funds. b/ Includes $10 million which (subject to Congressional approval of proposed authorizing legislation) would provide the initial Federal funding for a 5-year 1890's and Tuskegee Institute research facilities improvement program totalling $50 million. SCIENCE AND EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH Purpose Statement Agricultural Research was established on November 2, 1953, pursuant to authority vested in the Secretary of Agriculture by 5 U.S.C. 301 and Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1953, and other authorities. The research performed by Agricultural Research (AR) is authorized by the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1862 (5 U.S.C. 511), the Research and Marketing Act of 1946, as amended (7 U.S.C. 427,4271), and the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-113). Agricultural Research is responsible for conducting basic, applied and developmental research of: - - Use and improvement of soil, water, and air Processing, storage, distribution, food safety, and consumer services -- Human nutrition research It is The research applies to a wide range of goals; commodities; natural resources; field of science; and geographic, climatic, and environmental conditions. categorized into 67 AR National Research Programs and eight Special Research Programs. As the U.S. Department of Agriculture's in-house agricultural research unit SEA/AR has major responsibilities for conducting and leading the national agricultural research effort. SEA/AR provides initiative and leadership in five areas: ⭑ Research on broad regional and national problems. ⭑ Research to support Federal action and regulatory agencies. ⭑ Expertise to meet national emergencies. ⭑ Research support for international programs. Scientific resource to the Executive Branch and Congress. The mission of AR research is to develop new knowledge and technology which will insure an abundance of high quality agricultural commodities and products at reasonable prices to meet the increasing needs of an expanding economy and to provide for the continued improvement in the standard of Living of all Americans. This mission focuses on the development of technical information and technical products which bear directly on the needs to (1) manage and use the Nation's Soil, water, air, and climatic resources, and improve the Nation's environment; (2) provide an adequate supply of agricultural products by practices that will maintain a permanent and effective agriculture; (3) improve the nutrition and well-being of the American people; (4) improve living in rural America; (5) strengthen the Nation's balance of payments; and (6) promote world peace. Research is conducted at numerous field locations in the States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and in several foreign countries. Much of the work is conducted in direct cooperation with the State agricultural experiment stations, other State and Federal agencies, and private organizations. Central offices for the Deputy Director of AR and his staff, which are in the Washington, D. C. Metropolitan Area, provide overall leadership and direction to the programs and activities assigned to Agricultural Research. The field activities are managed on a geographical basis through four Regional Offices, 16 Area Offices, and seven major Research Centers. Research activities are carried out at 148 separate field locations. (As of September 30, 1980, the actual employment was 7,625 PFT employees and 1,479 other than permanent employees.) SCIENCE AND EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION The estimates include proposed changes in the Language of this item as follows (new language underscored; deleted matter enclosed in brackets). Agricultural Research For necessary expenses to enable Agricultural Research to perform agricultural research and demonstration relating to production, utilization, marketing, and distribution (not otherwise provided for), home economics or nutrition and consumer use, and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100 [$414,367,000] $456,881,000: 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 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $115,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That funds appropriated herein can be used to provide financial assistance to the organizers of international conferences, if Such conferences are in support of agency programs: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available for the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed one for replacement only: Provided further, That of the appropriations hereunder, not less than $10,526,600 shall be available to conduct marketing research: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements, but, unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing 2 any one building shall not exceed [$88,000] $100,000, except for headhouses connecting greenhouses which shall each be limited to $500,000, and except for ten buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed [$165,000] $194,000 each, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per centum of the current replacement value of the building or [$88,000] $100,000, whichever is 3 greater: [Provided further, That the limitations on construction contained in this Act shall not apply to the establishment of a fruit and nut germ 4 plasm repository at Davis, California, the establishment of a photo-period house at Canal Point, Florida, and construction of facilities at Plum Island, New York; Beckley, West Virginia; and Stillwater, Oklahoma:] 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: Provided further, That the foregoing limitations shall not apply to replacement of buildings needed to carry out the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a). [Provided further, that $12,100,000 of the 5 6 appropriation provided herein for construction of facilities shall remain available until expended.] [Special fund: To provide for additional labor, subprofessional, and junior scientific help to be employed under contracts and cooperative agreements to strengthen the work at Federal research installations in the field, $2,000,000.] |