Footnotes: Status of Construction Projects as of December 1980 (Cont.) construction. a/ Planning funds were not appropriated separately, but are included in the funds appropriated for b/ $194,000 were redirected from the air pollution abatement and sewage treatment project to provide funds for c/ Due to cost escalation and to provide funds to complete facilities as originally planned and designed at the d/ Program funds in the amount of $900,000 were reprogrammed to finance additional costs for this project. e/ Due to cost escalation, funds for the Ithaca, New York, project were redirected to Beckley, West Virginia, for this project. g/ Human Nutrition reprogrammed $389,000 to accept two alternates. Passenger Motor Vehicles The 1982 Budget Estimate does not include the purchase of additional passenger motor vehicles to its 472 passenger motor vehicles. The passenger motor vehicles of this Agency are used by research scientists and staff personnel in the course of their daily work. These vehicles are operated chiefly at field stations engaged in research. These vehicles are used in travel where the use of common carriers is seldom feasible. This involves travel to individual farms, ranches, commerical firms, cooperating experiment stations, etc. The vehicles are essential for collecting experimental data and materials necessary for facilitating research work. It is SEA's policy to pool the use of motor vehicles to keep the number of vehicles to a minimum and reduce overall costs for maintenance. Replacement of passenger motor vehicles. Replacement would be made of 118 of the 472 (including 8 buses) passenger motor vehicles operated at field stations engaged in research. It is estimated that all of the 118 passenger vehicles to be replaced will have mileage of more than 60,000 or be 7 or more years old. Age and Mileage Data for passenger-carrying vehicles on hand as of * Includes 7 vehicles used in foreign countries, and 8 buses. Aircraft There will be no additional or replacements made of any of the seven aircraft owned by this Agency in FY 1982. These aircraft are located at College Station, Texas, Weslaco, Texas, and Yakima, Washington. They are used in control methods, application of agricultural materials, infrared and color photography, and evaluating effects on weather conditions. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1981. SCIENCE AND EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH EXTENSION SERVICE TECHNICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM WITNESSES ANSON R. BERTRAND, DIRECTOR WALTER I. THOMAS, ADMINISTRATOR, COOPERATIVE RESEARCH R. A. FARLEY, ADMINISTRATOR, TECHNICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS ROBERT E. SHERMAN, DEPUTY BUDGET OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Mr. WHITTEN. The Committee will come to order. We continue with the hearings on the Science and Education Administration. Today, we will hear from Dr. Thomas, Administrator for Cooperative Research, Science and Education Administration and Dr. Mary Nell Greenwood, Administrator, Extension, Science and Education Administration. We'll be glad to have such statements as you wish to present at this time, and then we'll proceed from there. [CLERK'S NOTE.-The statements of Dr. Thomas, Dr. Greenwood, and Dr. Farley begin on pages 394, 403, and 412, respectively. The Explanatory Notes appear on pages 447 through 565.] Dr. BERTRAND. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are pleased to be back this afternoon to cover these other two very important areas. Yesterday, we covered our in-house research program, and this afternoon we will deal with our partnership programs with the states, the Cooperative Research Program and the Extension Program in SEA. A unique feature of our American agriculture is that we have the in-house research programs and the cooperative programs with the states, which team together for the good of the nation. Without the Extension Program our research would not be delivered to the farmers, so it is indeed a very important program. I think you have already met Dr. Walter Thomas, Administrator of Cooperative Research, and Dr. Mary Nell Greenwood, Administrator of Extension. Also present is Dr. Richard Farley. We failed to cover our Technical Information System activities yesterday and we'd like to touch on that with you today. Mr. Chairman, we also have with us this afternoon Dr. Keith Shea. Dr. Shea is with Forest Service in charge of the three bug programs which you had questions about yesterday. Mr. WHITTEN. Does he have the answer? Dr. BERTRAND. Yes, sir. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, we'll turn to Dr. Thomas for his introductory remarks. COOPERATIVE RESEARCH OPENING REMARKS Dr. THOMAS. Thank you, sir. The states depend on federal formula funds for partial support of their basic and applied research programs. These funds are the basis for them to build and maintain the scientific expertise so that their programs can respond to state, regional and national research needs. It's extremely important to maintain that research base with formula funds. It encourages the states to develop their state-supported research programs in coordination with other states and with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This planning combines their research knowledge with other states' research expertise in order to respond to the changing circumstances at state and regional levels with consideration to national perceptions of needs. This kind of coordination is necessary if we are to have an adequate research planning system that meets the needs of all facets of agriculture. The state institutions that receive research funding through SEA Cooperative Research conduct about 60 percent of the publicly supported agricultural and forestry research of the nation. The budget request for Cooperative Research this fiscal year is $234,188,000, which represents an increase of $33,291,000 over the funds available in 1981. The major changes requested for Cooperative Research are increases for Hatch, McIntire-Stennis, and 1890 institutions to provide for increased operating costs and also for some expansion in some parts of their research programs. There is an elimination of the funding for the Animal Health and Disease Research formula funds under Section 1433 of Public Law 95-113. There is an increase for Competitive Research Grants for basic research in the plant sciences, and there is a net increase for Special Research Grants of $7.4 million, which includes, specifically, some increases in animal health. With that, Mr. Chairman, I'll conclude my remarks. EXTENSION OPENING REMARKS Mr. WHITTEN. You might proceed with your statement at this time, Dr. Greenwood. Dr. BERTRAND. Dr. Greenwood? Dr. GREENWOOD. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before this subcommittee to discuss the proposed fiscal year 1982 budget for the Cooperative Extension System. As has been mentioned, I did submit a statement for the record, so I'll make my comments very brief, and highlight some of the elements of the submitted statement. The Cooperative Extension Service has been involved, since 1914, in the dissemination of useful and practical information to the people of this nation. Through a continued interface with the land grant universities, experiment stations and the Agricultural Research units of the Science and Education Administration, the latest research findings are translated into a useable form, and their applications made available to the citizens of this country, through Extension offices in nearly every county of the nation. Some of the characteristics of the Cooperative Extension System are that it provides opportunities for lifelong off-campus education; that for every dollar appropriated at the federal level, another oneand-a-half dollars is generated at the state and county level; and that the partnership with the land grant universities has provided a nationwide network for addressing local and state as well as national priorities. Extension has over the years continued its belief in the partnership with its shared program determination. Citizen advisory groups throughout this country influence the type of program carried out by the Cooperative Extension Service. FISCAL YEAR 1982 PROPOSED BUDGET The budget which we are proposing in fiscal year 1982 is designed to preserve the concept of shared program determination and shared funding between the Federal Government and the state and county cooperators. In terms of our fiscal year 1982 budget, with the exception of a very moderate request for increased operating costs for our State Cooperators, and a small increase for expanded work in nonpoint source pollution, we do not propose to undertake any new program efforts in fiscal year 1982. Rather we reviewed and examined our present programs to ascertain whether those that are targeted for a particular clientele group or special problem can be possibly sustained through the Smith-Lever formula funding with accompanying state or local support. In line with this, we are proposing that two such targeted programs be eliminated beginning in fiscal year 1982. These are the Urban Gardening Program currently funded at $3 million and the Farm Safety Program, at $1.02 million. We recommend a budget of $317,378,000 for Extension activities for fiscal year 1982. This is $25,109,000 over our fiscal year 1981 appropriation. The adjustments we propose include, an increase of $27.7 million for increased operating costs of the State Extension Services; an increase of $1.4 million for nonpoint source pollution Extension programs; a decrease of $4 million plus, to eliminate the two earmarked programs I mentioned above and an increase of $22,000, for federal pay increases. The increase in operating costs will consist of $19.9 million for Smith-Lever 3(b), 3(c) formula. These will be provided to the 1862 institutions and will be utilized to support the core extension programs in the states. Other elements of the increased operating costs are $5.3 million for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Program-EFNEP-and $1 million plus for 1890 colleges and Tuskegee. Other increased operating costs are also requested for other high priority programs. These include pest management, pesticide impact assessment, energy and D.C. Extension programs. As I indicated earlier, we are also seeking additional funding to expand our efforts in the area of nonpoint source pollution. An |