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1 To provide for increased pay costs for fiscal year 1966 positions.

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The estimate for 1967 is $212,000 and 11 permanent positions, an increase of $1,432 over 1966; $969 of this increase is for pay costs and the $463 for program is due to rounding.

Program of work.-The estimate of $212,000 will be used to fulfill the responsibility of the Department of the Interior under the agreement for "Interdepartmental coordination of activities relating to pesticides," between the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, and Health, Education, and Welfare. Review will be continued for the steadily increasing lists of applications for label registration of new chemical formulations under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act as received from the Department of Agriculture and to assist and advise the Food and Drug Administration in establishing tolerances under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. This program involves extensive reviews and evaluations of literature, reports, correspondence, and data; frequent consultations with research and individual scientists; and requires the establishment of a system of data storage for rapid data retrieval. Also, information will be compiled on chemicals previously registered which are considered to be dangerous to fish and wildlife. These activities, initiated in 1965, will be expanded within the estimate of $212,000 to assure that fish and wildlife resources are given maximum protection against environmental pollution.

The widespread use of certain types of pesticidal chemicals has created a new kind of environmental pollution. The chemical stability of some of these products has resulted in pesticidal residues in soils and waters. The tendency of many of these toxicants to persist for long periods and to concentrate in fish and wildlife food organisms has caused acute or chronic poisoning of fishes, birds, and mammals. Mortality of this nature is likely to become increasingly serious as more land and water areas of the country are subjected to treatments by such pesticidal materials and as the accumulative effects of these chemicals build up in areas subjected to repeated treatment.

Pesticide applications sometimes are the only immediate answer to serious economic or health problems. A careful review of the various chemicals is required and well defined application instructions need to be developed, and applied to these chemicals. Scientists on the staff who have intimate knowledge of research and research results do not conduct any research but evaluate the toxicities and potential hazards of such pesticide chemicals to different species of fish and wildlife. Recommendations deemed necessary to safeguard the valuable fish and wildlife resources of the Nation are forwarded to the other departments.

The review of referrals from the Department of Agriculture of applications for label registration of chemicals under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act determines the actual or potential hazards to fish and wildlife from the proposed use of the chemical. Reports are prepared recommending to the Department of Agriculture the approval or disapproval of the application or essential changes in the labeling of the product so that fish and wildlife resources may be given maximum protection while the beneficial uses of pesticides are realized. To a similar but lesser extent the Food and Drug Administration is assisted in establishing food residue tolerances.

EXAMPLES OF RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

This activity was initiated in 1965 and in slightly less than a year, the pesticide review staff reviewed 7,164 labels. The 1966 program will accomplish the review of an estimated 8,000 of a backlog of 40,000 compounds plus an estimated 400 new compounds and formulations submitted for initial registration. By the end of 1967, with the same level of program as 1966, it is anticipated that twofifths of the backlog will have been eliminated.

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Mr. DENTON. The next appropriation item is "Construction." Insert pages 109 through 123 of the justifications.

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CONSTRUCTION

HIGHLIGHT STATEMENT

The purpose and long-range objectives of the program for construction are to provide land, buildings, and other facilities for the conservation, management, and investigations of the Nation's sport fish and wildlife resources.

The 1966 program provided for replacement of raceways at the Pisgah Forest No. 2 National Fish Hatchery in North Carolina; planning, initiation of construction, continuation of construction, completion of construction, completion of redevelopment or improvement, or expansion of facilities at 24 fish hatcheries; completion of construction of the Narragansett Marine Laboratory; rehabilitation and repair of dock facilities at Sandy Hook Marine Laboratory; site selection, architectural and engineering design, and planning for 2 marine game fish research laboratories on the eastern and western Gulf of Mexico; complete con

struction of an operable unit at the fish-pesticide laboratory in Columbia, Mo.; construction and development of 22 refuges; engineering planning at refuges; storm damage repairs at 5 refuges; completion of operable facilities at the Northern Great Plains Research Station in Jamestown, N. Dak.; and the pesticide research laboratory at Denver, Colo.; and land acquisition for the Northern Wildlife Research Center at Jamestown, N. Dak.

Supplemental appropriations provided for repair of hurricane and storm damage to hatchery, refuge, and research facilities and the construction of the National Fisheries Center and Aquarium.

The estimates for fiscal year 1967 provide for design and site preparation for replacement of a fishery research facility, construction and development on 26 national wildlife refuges, engineering planning at refuges, and construction of a general purpose laboratory-office building for the Migratory Bird Population Station at Patuxent, Md.

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1. SPORTFISH FACILITIES-FISHERY RESEARCH FACILITIES, $84,000 The estimate of $84,000 is for detailed engineering design and site preparation for replacement of the Eastern Fish Nutrition Laboratory's research facility. This unique laboratory, in spite of its dilapidated, outmoded, and unsafe physical plant, has a long history of successful operation as an applied research installation and an in service training center operated in conjunction with the Cortland National Fish Hatchery with cooperative assistance of the New York Conservation Department. Replacement of fish hatchery structures is currently underway. The estimated cost of complete construction of the new research building

is $575,000.

2. WILDLIFE FACILITIES, $3,085,000

(a) Wildlife refuges facilities, $1,985,000

The estimate of $1,985,000 consists of $1,785,000 for development on 26 national wildlife refuges, and $200,000 for advance planning, as follows:

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The Nation's wildlife habitat is shrinking at an alarming and accelerating rate under the twin pressures of population growth and developments demanded by an affluent society. Small portions of the country's original vast acreage of water and marshland are retained as national wildlife refuges and must be developed intensively to partially offset the loss of wildland areas.

This Bureau is charged with the responsibility for perpetuating the migratory bird resource. Other goals include the preservation of rare and endangered species such as the whooping crane, key deer, the protection of certain big game species that require special management such as bighorn sheep and bison, and the preservation of unique ecological areas which would otherwise be lost. All of the management and protection afforded wildlife and its habitat would be meaningless unless the Nation's people could enjoy their wildlife. The National Wildlife Refuge System was host to over 14 million visitors in 1964. Most people came to observe wildlife, to picnic in the unspoiled out of doors, to swim or boat, and to hunt or fish. These visitors require major expenditures for roads, parking lots, picnic areas, and swimming beaches.

Refuge lands must be developed to their maximum to provide food, cover, and sanctuary for wildlife while permitting public enjoyment of this valuable reThe 1967 estimate will provide 2 percent of annual capital investment needed for full development of the refuge system. The estimate will provide:

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