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PUBLIC LAW 92-399-AUG. 22, 1972
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coordinate and provide program leadership for the extension work of the Department and the several States and insular possessions, $4,546,000. N A T I O N A L AGRICULTURAL
58 Stat. 742. 80 Stat. 416.
LIBRARY
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Library $4,226,750: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section Y06(a) of the Orgaiiic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $35,000 shall 1^ available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further. That not to exceed $100,000 shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the alteration and repair of buildings and improvements. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
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60 Stat. 1087.
STATISTICAL REPORTING SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the Statistical Reporting Service in conducting statistical reporting and service work, including crop and livestock estimates, statistical coordination and improvements, and marketing surveys, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621-1627) and other laws, $22,834,200: Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for any expense incident to publishing estimates of apple production for other than the commercial crop: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 LT.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109. ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in con;• ' " ducting economic research and service relating to agricultural production, marketing, and distribution, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621-1627), and other laws, including economics of marketing; analyses relating to farm prices, income and population, and demand for farm products, use of .,. resources in agriculture, adjustments, cost and returns in farming, and farm finance; and for analyses of supply and demand for farm products in foreign countries and their effect on prospects for United States exports, progress in economic development and its relation to sales of farm products, assembly and analysis of agricultural trade statistics and analysis of international financial and monetary pro,. grams and policies as they affect the competitive position of United "' States farm products; $17,829,000 of which not less than $200,000 shall be available for investigation, determination and finding as to the , effect upon the production of food and upon the agricultural economy of any proposed action affecting such subject matter pending before the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for presentation, in the public interest, before said administrator, other agencies or before the courts: Provided, That not less than $350,000 of the funds contained in this appropriation shall be available to continue to gather statistics and conduct a special study on the price spread between the farmer and consumer: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $75,000 shall t ^ available for employment
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