Commutter 12. Congress, House, Appropria t AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSUMER HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE-ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSUMER PROTECTION APPROPRIATIONS JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky W. R. HULL, JR., Missouri MARK ANDREWS, North Dakota WILLIAM G. BOLING and CHARLES W. SNODGRASS, Staff Assistants PART 3 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Commodity Exchange Authority Consumer and Marketing Service Farmers Home Administration Packers and Stockyards Administration Soil Conservation Service Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations 59-584 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1971 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts GEORGE E. SHIPLEY, Illinois NEAL SMITH, Iowa ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut JULIA BUTLER HANSEN, Washington EDWARD J. PATTEN, New Jersey DAVID PRYOR, Arkansas FRANK E. EVANS, Colorado DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY, Maine NICK GALIFIANAKIS, North Carolina LOUIS STOKES, Ohio J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana K. GUNN MCKAY, Utah WILLIAM GERALD BOLING SAMUEL W. CROSBY GEORGE E. EVANS ROBERT B. FOSTER JOHN M. GARRITY GERARD J. CHOUINARD PAUL V. FARMER DANIEL V. GUN SHOWS FRANK T. BOW, Ohio CHARLES R. JONAS, North Carolina Mos 14 De AGRICULTURE-ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSUMER PROTECTION APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1972 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1971. FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION WITNESSES THOMAS K. COWDEN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE JAMES V. SMITH, ADMINISTRATOR, FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION JOSEPH HASPRAY, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION JOSEPH R. HANSON, ASSISTANT DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, COMMUNITY PROGRAMS, FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION DARREL A. DUNN, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR, FARMER PROGRAMS, FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION JAMES F. NEVILLE, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR, RURAL HOUSING, FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION S. B. BRANGER, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR, MANAGEMENT, FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION DANIEL E. PORTWOOD, DIRECTOR, BUDGET DIVISION, FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION LaBRUCE W. KING, DIRECTOR, FARMERS HOME DIVISION, OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL CHARLES L. GRANT, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Mr. WHITTEN. The committee will be in order. We have with us today the Farmers Home Administration. May I say that this committee welcomes back our former colleague, the Honorable Jim Smith, who has done a fine job of handling this agency. I think I would like to say for the record that I have been on this subcommittee for quite a long time, and I have seen a lot to worry about in your agency's programs. I have lived through the days when this committee helped change the policies of the then Farm Security Administration, which was trying to break up big plantations. I have been through the years when your predecessors said you could hire one person to help you on your farm but not two. If you hired two, they foreclosed you. This committee is also proud of its role in broadening your authority. We are proud of the fact that we changed the old Housing Act, which had a section for farm housing. For years that section was not implemented, while other housing was pushed and promoted. This committee changed the words "farm housing" to "rural housing," which was the beginning of this great rural home improvement which has done so |