Amounts available and related obligations and balances, fiscal year 1958 as of Feb. 28, 1958 (excluding Forest Service)-Continued

Source: Prepared by Office of Budget and Finance, Division of Estimates and Allotments, Mar. 17, 1958.

24,000,000 180, 000, 000 5,500,000 430, 503, 221

19, 395, 768 115, 919, 640 3, 451, 779 15, 152, 614

195,388, 598 38, 420, 853 233,809, 451

4,604, 232 64,080, 360 2,048, 221 415, 350, 607

640, 003, 221

153, 919, 801

486, 083, 420

1,050, 573, 257

330, 680, 386

719, 892, 871

Amounts available and related obligations and balances, fiscal year 1958 as of Feb. 28, 1958 (excluding Forest Service)

Amounts available and related obligations and balances, fiscal year 1958 as of Feb. 28, 1958 (excluding Forest Service)—Continued

Source: Prepared by Office of Budget and Finance, Division of Estimates and Allotments, Mar. 17, 1958.

1 Includes employees outside the continental United States.
? Includes 6,631 FHA State and county committeemen who performed service during the month.

1959 BUDGET AMENDMENTS FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION AND

FLOOD PREVENTION

Mr. WHITTEN. We will insert in the record House Document No. 351, a communication from the President transmitting the amendments to the budget for flood prevention and watershed protection. (The document referred to follows:)

[H. Doc. No. 351, 85th Cong., 2d sess.]

AMENDMENTS TO THE BUDGET FOR DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Communication from the President of the United States, transmitting amendments to the budget for the fiscal year 1959, involving increases in the amount of $14,780,000 for the Department of Agriculture and $70,823,000 for the Department of the Interior

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, March 12, 1958.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith for the consideration of the Congress amendments to the budget for the fiscal year 1959, involving increases in the amount of $14,780,000 for the Department of Agriculture and $70,823,000 for the Department of the Interior.

The details of these amendments, the necessity therefor, and the reasons for their submission at this time are set forth in the attached letter from the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, with whose comments and observations thereon I

concur.

Respectfully yours,

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

The PRESIDENT,

The White House.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET,
Washington, March 12, 1958.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith for your consideration amendments to the budget for the fiscal year 1959, involving increases in the amount of $14,780,000 for the Department of Agriculture and $70,823,000 for the Department of the Interior. These increases, which were among those mentioned in your letter of March 8, 1958, to the minority leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives, are for continued acceleration of certain Federal water-resources programs and for the initiation of loans to non-Federal agencies for construction of small reclamation projects. Details of the amendments are as follows:

The additional amount for watershed protection is to permit the Department of Agriculture to increase, from 60 to approximately 100 in 1959, the number of watershed projects on which the installation of works of improvement will commence, and permit some acceleration of going projects. The proposed increase for flood prevention is to permit the acceleration of work now in progress on the 11 projects authorized under this program.

Mr. WHITTEN. We will also place in the record the Department's justification for these additional amounts.

(The material is as follows:)

WATERSHED PROTECTION

BUDGET ESTIMATE AS AMENDED BY HOUSE DOCUMENT NO. 351

The revised estimate for the fiscal year 1959 provides for maintaining the 1958 level of project investigations and the development of watershed work plans. An increased rate of watershed work plan preparation over 1958 is anticipated as a result of increased efficiency and simplified procedures. It also provides for accelerating the installation of works of improvement in Public Law 566 watersheds by $2 million above the previously planned rate during the balance of the fiscal year 1958 and by $7,200,000 during 1959 fiscal year. An appropriation of $24 million rather than the original budget estimate of $14 million would be required to effect the proposed changes. To the extent possible, the construction work would be accelerated in areas of unemployment. The following table provides a comparison of the revised estimate with the original budget estimate by projects.