SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the [Office of Rural Areas Development] Rural Community Development Service in providing leadership, coordination, liaison, and reiated services in the rural areas development activities of the Department, [$124,000] $750,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for field employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574), and not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for employment under section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a). (Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1965.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) Identification code 05-64-0800-0-1-355 10 [OFFICE OF RURAL AREAS DEVELOPMENT] RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICE 43 44 Financing: New obligational authority... New obligational authority: 40 Appropriation.. 41 Transferred to "Operating expenses, Public Buildings Service,' General Services 2 Appropriation (adjusted) Proposed supplemental due to civilian 1964 actual Includes capital outlays as follows: 1964, $0; 1965, $0; 1966, $10 thousand. Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid undelivered orders, 1963, $16 thousand; 1964. $1 thousand; 1965, $1 thousand: 1966, $1 thousand. The Service will provide leadership, coordination, liaison, and related services in the Rural community development activities of the Department of Agriculture. It will utilize the resources of Department agencies in assisting State, Federal, local, private, community, and farm organizations and individuals working for the improvement of economic conditions in rural communities. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 750 750 750 750 750 750 10 -38 516 39 95 721 Relation of obligations to expenditures: 10 Total obligations..... 1 70 Receipts and other offsets (items 11-17)... 71 Obligations affecting expenditures... 90 Personnel Summary 11.1 11.3 11.4 Program by activities: For carrying out responsibilities and 1 Total obligations................ Financing: 11 Receipts and reimbursements from: Ad- New obligational authority.... ALLOCATIONS RECEIVED FROM OTHER ACCOUNTS Note. Obligations incurred under allocations from other accounts are included in the schedules of the parent appropriation, Funds appropriated to the President. "Public works acceleration." ADVANCES AND REIMBURSEMENTS Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) Personnel compensation: Total personnel compensation. 1964 actual 23.0 Rent, communications, and utilities.. 24.0 Printing and reproduction......... 25.1 Other services.. 25.2 Services of other agencies.. 26.0 Supplies and materials.. 4 44 6 31.0 Equipment...--- 8 8 99.0 8 10.6 $10,931 Total obligations... 1964 actual 373 -9 364 -364 364 -364 119 269 14 291 20 40 3 1 1965 1966 estimate estimate 1 3 8 10.5 $11,536 364 398 398 1965 1966 estimate estimate -398 398 -398 132 298 8 306 23 43 6 2 15 1 398 53 50 9.4 $10.502 378 378 -378 378 -378 255 8 750 19 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL General and special funds: SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General, including employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574) [, $9,874,000] and not to exceed $10,000 for employment under section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5′′ U.S.C. 55a), $10,961,000. (5 U.S.C. 511-512, 563-564; Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1965.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) 1 Includes capital outlay as follows: 1964, $7 thousand; 1965, $7 thousand; 1966. $7 thousand. the Secretary of Agriculture and performs all audit and The Office serves as the audit and investigative arm of investigative activities of the Department. The Office pletely independent and objective selection of departof the Inspector General assures the Secretary of comexamination of the Department's' programs and activimental activities to be audited; critical reviews and ties; and factual, unbiased reporting of the results of effectively complied with; and insures corrective action these audits and investigations. In so doing the Office where necessary. It also coordinates internal audit and assures that existing laws, policies and programs are investigative activities of the Department with the legislative branches of the Government. Increases are various investigative agencies of the executive and provided in the budget to strengthen the audit and neral, ection of the S.C. notes 66 Eate 313 investigative services primarily due to the increased activities under the Food Stamp program. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) Financing: 16 Comparative transfers to other accounts... 25 Unobligated balance lapsing.... New obligational authority.. New obligational authority: 40 Appropriation.... 41 Transferred to "Operating expenses, Public Buildings Service," General Service Ad ministration (77 Stat. 436). 185 ALLOTMENTS RECEIVED FROM OTHER ACCOUNTS Note. Obligations incurred under allotments from other accounts are included in the schedule of the parent appropriations as follows: General and special funds: OFFICE OF INFORMATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the Office of Information for the dissemination of agricultural information and the coordination of informational work and programs authorized by Congress in the Department, [$1,648,000] $1,689,000, of which total appropriation not to exceed $537,000 may be used for farmers' bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be available to be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct (7 U.S.C. 417), and not less than two hundred and thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty copies for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives of part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture) as authorized by section 73 of the Act of January 12, 1895 (44 U.S.C. 241): Provided, That in the preparation of motion pictures or exhibits by the Department, this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574), and not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for employment under section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a). (5 U.S.C. 511-512; Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1965.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) The Office has responsibility for the information work of the entire Department. Its major objective is to report to farmers, agricultural, and closely related groups, and to the public the Department's research, action, regulatory, and other programs, using all information media. This work is carried on in close cooperation with the landgrant institutions and with private industries which serve agriculture. Workload depends upon Department program demands, direct requests, and legislative require ments. 1. Publications review and distribution.-The Department's printed publications are reviewed, published, and distributed. Processed publications are reviewed. Publications include farmers' bulletins, leaflets, periodicals, scientific, research, and marketing publications, and agricultural statistics. 2. Review and distribution of current agricultural information. The Department's widespread activities require extensive preparation of information material for press, radio, and television use, as well as for specific agricultural outlets and the general public. Over 4,000 periodic crop, price, and market reports and press releases are issued annually. Digests, newsletters, special articles, and other editorial services are made available to press associations, farm and general publications, trade publications, daily newspapers, and encyclopedic annuals. Radio is used to reach farmers locally through single stations, and to broadcast nationally through the major networks. Films, television packages, and other services are prepared for the use of land-grant institutions, television farm broadcasters and TV networks. Information campaigns involving activities of cross-agency interest are developed using all media. The Yearbook of Agriculture is published by the Office and distributed by the Members of Congress. 3. Review, preparation and distribution of visual agricultural information.-Motion pictures for the Department and nonprofit organizations associated with agriculture, produced on a reimbursable basis under the Department's working capital fund, are distributed through nearly 70 cooperating State film libraries. Still photographs, illustrations, graphics, and exhibits are similarly produced for use in explaining and reporting on Department programs. News and general-type photographs of Department programs and activities are available to news media from a centralized library. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) |