PUBLIC LAW 99-500—OCT. 18, 1986
100 STAT. 1783-2
OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
For necessary expenses to carry on services relating to the coordination of programs involving public affairs, and for the dissemination of agricultural information and the coordination of information, work and programs authorized by Congress in the Department, $7,293,000, of which not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $2,000,000 may be used for farmers' bulletins and not fewer than two hundred 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 44 U.S.C. 1301: 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 (7 U.S.C. 2225). For necessary expenses for liaison with the Congress on legislative matters, $465,000. For necessary expenses for programs involving intergovernmental affairs and liaison within the executive branch, $440,000. OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
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 (7 U.S.C. 2225), $44,461,000, including such sums as may be necessary for contracting and other arrangements with public agencies and private persons pursuant to section 6(a)(8) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-452), and including a sum not to exceed $50,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; and including a sum not to exceed $75,000 for certain confidential operational expenses including the payment of informants, to be expended under the direction of the Inspector General pursuant to Public Law 95-452 and section 1337 of Public Law 97-98. OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General Counsel, $17,131,000. p
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMICS
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economics to carry out the programs funded in this Act, $448,000. ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in conducting 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, costs and returns in farming, and farm finance; research relating to the economic and marketing aspects of farmer cooperatives; and for analyses of supply and
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