JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE

COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

The Managers on the part of the House and the Senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 7108) to authorize appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency for FY 1976 for Research, Development and Demonstration, submit the following joint statement to the House and the Senate in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the Managers and recommended in the accompanying conference report.

The points in disagreement and the conference resolution of them are as follows:

(1) On the recommendation of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, the Senate voted to add the following new sections to the bill:

SEC. 6. Whenever in any fiscal year funds appropriated for the purposes of administering laws through the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency exceed $718,192,000, such excess amounts up to $3,000,000 and if such excess is greater than such amount, any of such greater excess which the Administrator finds necessary shall be used solely for the purposes of monitoring and assuring the adequacy reliability and quality of the testing of chemicals under any provision of law administered by him.

SEC. 7. Chapter VII of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 371) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:

"RELIABILITY AND QUALITY TESTING

"SEC. 708. Whenever in any fiscal year funds appropriated for the purposes of this Act exceed $223,000,000, such excess amounts up to $25,280,000 and if such excess is greater than such amount, any of such greater excess which the Secretary finds necessary shall be used solely for the purposes of monitoring and assuring the adequacy, reliability, and quality of preclinical and clinical testing of drugs, food additives, devices and cosmetics which are tested under the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.".

The Conferees agree that these two new sections 6 and 7 are not appropriate to the bill, and have agreed to delete these sections.

(2) The House authorized not to exceed $12,789,200 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and not to exceed $3,197,300 for the fiscal transitional period ending September 30, 1976 for research, development, and demonstration under The Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f, et seq.)

Authorization of appropriations for research, development, and demonstration under The Safe Drinking Water Act has already been approved under existing legislation, which authority extends beyond

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fiscal year 1976 and the fiscal transitional period. Accordingly, on recommendation of the Senate Committee on Commerce, the Confer ees agree to delete all references to The Safe Drinking Water Act in this bill.

(3) The Conferees agree that Section 5 of the bill which requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to revise annually a comprehensive 5-year plan for environmental research. development and demonstration and to transmit such revisions to the Congress no later than November 10 of each year should be modified to require transmittal of such revisions no later than two weeks after the President submits his annual budget to the Congress each year.

AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF OLDER NAVAL VESSELS TO CERTAIN FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SEPTEMBER 22, 1976.-Committeed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. BENNETT, from the Committee on Armed Services,
submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 3734]

[Including cost estimated of the Congressioinal Budget Office]

The Committee on Armed Services, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3734) to sell certain naval vessels to foreign governments and to amend subsection 7307 (b) (1) of title 10, United States Code to increase the weight exemption to 3,000 tons for legislative approval of ship transfers, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.

PURPOSE

The purpose of S. 3734 as reported is to authorize the sale of 45 naval vessels to 11 foreign governments as follows:

Argentina, 3 destroyers.

Republic of China, 2 landing ships docks and 1 auxiliary repair dry dock.

Colombia, 1 destroyer.

Germany, 4 destroyers.

Greece, 7 destroyers and 2 tank landing ships.

Iran, 1 repair ship and 1 auxiliary repair dry dock.

Korea, 7 destroyers and 1 landing craft repair ship.

Pakistan, 2 destroyers.

Philippines, 1 landing craft repair ship and 1 inshore patrol craft. Spain, 5 destroyers and 3 tank landing ships.

Venezuela, 1 landing craft repair ship, 1 tank landing ship and 1 auxiliary repair dry dock.

This bill also amends subsection 7307(b) (1) of title 10, United States Code. Subsection 7307 (b) (1) now requires a legislative authorization for the transfer of any naval vessel to a foreign country if