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Discussion

When it comes to providing technical assistance, the United States Department of Agriculture has had much experience since most of the agricultural extension programs involve the provisions of technical assistance to farmers. FOA makes use of this experience by calling on the Department of Agriculture in many ways. This does not involve a duplication since the FOA programs are overseas and the programs of Agriculture are domestic, except that FOA may recruit for overseas under its own personnel system rather than secure personnel on a reimbursable basis.

The agricultural attaché service was resorted to the Department of Agriculture because of dissatisfaction with the results achieved through the foreign service of the State Department. Whether independence of the agricultural attaché from State will bring better results cannot be determined after so short a period of operation. In any event, the Department of Agriculture will continue to require services from State Department personnel in areas of the world where there are no agricultural attachés.

Responsibility for operations under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 454) is now exercised by both Agriculture and FOA, with policy guidance from State. Placing FOA responsibilities in State will simply and improve the admittedly complex administration of this act.

VII. Department of Labor

While the Department of Labor is responsible for a number of economic programs, they are of relatively small magnitude overseas. Its overseas functions do include, according to the department, advice on the implications of international labor developments; analysis of the impact of domestic policy on labor aspects of foreign affairs; operation of programs affecting labor which are designed to implement established foreign policy; development and analysis of information on labor developments in foreign countries.

Organization

The functions of the Department of Labor in Washington are carried out by the Office of International Labor Affairs, under the supervision of the Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs, and by the Division of Foreign Labor Conditions of the Bureaus of Labor Statistics.

Overseas, the labor attaché and Foreign Service labor reporting programs are carried on by the Foreign Service Corps and are integrated with the other aspects of the foreign service.

Assistance to FOA

The Department of Labor also provides advice, assistance, and technical support to the Foreign Operations Administration on a reimbursable basis for a number of overseas programs in the general field of labor.

These programs have included: labor-management relations, tradeunion organization and operations, labor statistics, productivity, industrial and apprenticeship training, and Government labor administration.

For the current fiscal year, these assistance and support activities involved 87 domestic employees, 23 serving overseas, and programs for training foreign nationals in the United States, at a total cost of $1,036,000.

Discussion

The programs of FOA in the labor field overlap with those of the Department of Labor to a considerable degree. Duplicate functions

and responsibilities result from a determination by the Congress that it shall be the United States policy to strengthen free labor unions abroad. Both agencies are engaged in operations to carry out and further this policy which overlap or duplicate the other. Both Labor and FOA have labor advisory committees with largely similar membership. The duplications can be eliminated, without impairing the effectiveness of the program, by concentration of labor activities within the Department of Labor.

VIII. Department of the Interior

The Department of the Interior is not involved in foreign aid except incidentally, but it has overseas responsibilities in connection with the economic development of the Territories and island possessions of the United States, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific. Aside from these areas, which are not generally considered in connection with foreign aid programs, the Department conducts studies and collects information on the production, distribution, and consumption of foreign mineral commodities.

Within the Department of the Interior, the Office of Territories exercises the United States responsibilities for the Territories, and the Bureau of Mines is concerned with information on foreign mineral commodities. The Office of Territories maintains its own staffs in the Territories involved. The other overseas responsibilities are discharged through the economic reporting function of the Department of State.

The Department does provide advice, assistance, and technical support, on a reimbursable basis, to FOA in connection with foreign aid projects within the Department's area of competency. In the current fiscal year, this involves service overseas of 159 persons in the following fields: Reclamation, 80; geological survey, 49; mines, 15; land management, 9; and fish and wildlife, 7. The annual cost of these services is $3,500,000, including salaries, expenses, administrative costs, and training of foreign nationals in the United States.

Discussion

There is no duplication between the overseas economic functions of the Department of the Interior and those of any other agency, although FOA has placed on its personnel rolls, technical experts from Interior who might more effectively be secured on a loan basis.

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