Agricultural Appropriations for 1965

REQUEST FOR FUNDS INFORMATION ON ACTIVITIES

Senator HOLLAND. I think the committee wants to economize where it can safely. I am sure it does, but we also want to know where the economies can be practiced and have a chance to make up our own minds as to whether it is safe to practice them there.

I am going to ask you to furnish a compilation showing the 1964 amounts appropriated for the various activities, the 1965 requests for those same activities, all the way through, and the 1965 budgeted amounts as finally approved for each of the activities in the plant and animal disease and pest control field.

Let's furnish this tabulation in four parts: First, show the 1964 amount as appropriated; second, the agency request; third, the amount the Department requested; and fourth, the amount actually submitted in the budget and then you might show this amount plus or minus the 1964 appropriation. This should cover every item in the bill because I think the committee has some serious decisions to make in regard to what has transpired in connection with some of these activities.

Mr. Grant, while we are on this subject, will you instruct the agencies in the preparation of the justifications for future years to show in the appropriate place the base amount appropriated from the previous year and the amount of increase proposed in the budget, so anyone looking at an individual item of increase will know what changes are proposed in the total of the appropriation item and for the component increases or decreases within that appropriation item.

Mr. GRANT. We will be glad to do so.

(Information requested for 1964, estimated amounts for fiscal 1965 and comparisons follows:)

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Comparative table of appropriations, 1964, and agency, Department, and budget estimates, 1965

Agricultural Research Service:

Salaries and expenses:

agriculture and forestry research)

Salaries and expense (pecial foreign currency program) (Increase for market development,
Total, Agricultural Research Service
Cooperative State Research Service;
Payment and expenses----

(1) Research programs under the Hatch Act at the agricultural experiment stations.
Federal administration under the 3-percent Hatch Act provision included in
the above amount.

(2) Marketing research under the Agricultural Marketing Act.

(3) For increased pay act costs related to the 1965 base.

(4) All other (grants for cooperative forestry research, Federal administration, and penalty mail appropriation).

Cooperative extension work, payments and expenses.