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12. Congress, House,
Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agricut re
Environingstal and Consumer Protection

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AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSUMER
PROTECTION APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1972

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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
GEORGE E. SHIPLEY, Illinois
FRANK E. EVANS, Colorado

MARK ANDREWS, North Dakota
ROBERT H. MICHEL, Illinois
WILLIAM J. SCHERLE, Iowa

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

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1971

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman

JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi
GEORGE W. ANDREWS, Alabama
JOHN J. ROONEY, New York
ROBERT L. F. SIKES, Florida
OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana
JOE L. EVINS, Tennessee

EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts
WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky
DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania
TOM STEED, Oklahoma

GEORGE E. SHIPLEY, Illinois
JOHN M. SLACK, West Virginia
JOHN J. FLYNT, JR., Georgia

NEAL SMITH, Iowa

ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut

JULIA BUTLER HANSEN, Washington
JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, New York
JOHN J. MCFALL, California
W. R. HULL, JR., Missouri

EDWARD J. PATTEN, New Jersey
CLARENCE D. LONG, Maryland
SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois
BOB CASEY, Texas

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
HAROLD A. GRIFFIN
AUBREY A. GUNNELS
JAY B. HOWE
THOMAS J. KINGFIELD
KEITH F. MAINLAND

GERARD J. CHOUINARD PAUL V. FARMER DANIEL V. GUN SHOWS

FRANK T. BOW, Ohio

CHARLES R. JONAS, North Carolina
ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan
JOHN J. RHODES, Arizona
WILLIAM E. MINSHALL, Ohio
ROBERT H. MICHEL, Illinois
SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts
GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin
HOWARD W. ROBISON, New York
GARNER E. SHRIVER, Kansas
JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania
MARK ANDREWS, North Dakota
LOUIS C. WYMAN, New Hampshire
BURT L. TALCOTT, California
CHARLOTTE T. REID, Illinois
DONALD W. RIEGLE, JR., Michigan
WENDELL WYATT, Oregon
JACK EDWARDS, Alabama
DEL CLAWSON, California
WILLIAM J. SCHERLE, Iowa
ROBERT C. MCEWEN, New York
JOHN T. MYERS, Indiana

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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

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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

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