NOTE.-Details may not add to totals shown due to rounding. 1 Since the expenditures under this working capital fund are reimbursable and are For 1947, 1948, 1949, funds were transferred from sec. 32 for the School Lunch Act, in 3 Figures for fiscal years 1947 through 1953 do not include comparable amounts for the expenses related to agricultural attachés, since data are not available with respect to the portion of State Department funds used for this purpose during these years. Minus figure indicates excess of collections over expenditures. $ Represents a nonfund appropriation provided in the 1953 Agriculture Appropriation Act. This amount is not reflected as an expenditure in official Government reports. It is shown here for informational purposes. This amount represents the unrestored portion of the Corporation's realized loss for fiscal year 1954. The act of Mar. 20, 1954, changed the method of restoring the capital appropriation of $1,634,659 is proposed in 1956 to restore the remainder. Feb. 12, 1954; $41,332,837 relating to CCC's cost of furnishing feed under the 1953 emergency The total realized loss for the year ended June 30, Of this amount $545,534,162 was restored by the act of feed program is included in a separate appropriation item in the 1956 estimates; and an advances from the Commodity Credit Corporation pursuant to annual legislative authorBeginning with the fiscal year 1948, this eradication program has been financed by Ity to the Secretary to transfer the amounts required from any funds available to the De partment. This item reflects reimbursement to CCC for funds so advanced. Net program expenditures (taking into account credits for sale of canned meat and charges for Interest on advances from CCC) are as follows (in millions): 1947, $8.9; 1948, $29.3; 1949, $45.5; 1950, $31.3; 1951, $1.4; 1952, $6.9; 1953, $2.4; and 1954, $5.9. Exclusive of expenditures from funds transferred to "National school lunch program." (See footnote 2.) TABLE 6.-Receipts to U. S. Treasury arising from Department of Agriculture activities, fiscal year 1954 and estimated fiscal years 1955 and 1956 ments for professional and topcje scientific services rendered. 11, 614, 914.000 1,297, 050 1 Revenue and nonrevenue receipts available to the Treasury for general expenditures of the Government. 2 Revenue and nonrevenue receipts deposited in the Treasury for specific purposes, pursuant to various legislative authorizations. 3 Receipts deposited in trust in the Treasury for expenditure by the Department, as trustee, for specified purposes. 4 Represents the portion of the total receipts from national forests available for (1) 25percent fund for payments to States for benefit of roads and schools, (2) 10-percent fund for construction and maintenance of roads and trails in States from which proceeds are derived, and (3) appropriations from forest receipts for acquisition of lands, cooperative range improvements, and special payments to Minnesota counties in which Superior National Forest lands are located. 5 For payment to counties in which such lands are located. TABLE 7.-Estimated obligations for research and education, appropriated funds, fiscal years 1947 through 1955, and budget estimates, 19561 1 Amounts adjusted for comparability with the appropriation structure in the 1956 budget. NOTE,-Details may not add to totals shown due to rounding. Mr. WHEELER. Table 1 shows the budget estimates for fiscal year 1956, compared with the figures for fiscal year 1955. This is a summary table, and shows the figures for each agency, substantially in the order that Mr. Roberts described them from the organizational chart. This table, as has been the case in past years, is segregated into several groups or types of appropriations and authorizations. We have shown separately the annual appropriations for regular activities, the appropriations for restoration of capital impairment of the Commodity Credit Corporation, special activities, permanent appropriations and loan authorizations. ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR REGULAR ACTIVITIES In the first group of annual appropriations for regular activities there is an overall net increase of $26,388,308. I would like to go down the right-hand column and briefly indicate the purpose of the various increases and decreases. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE In the first item, the Agricultural Research Service, there is an increase of $1,426,000. That is a net figure, and includes increases for various categories of research, such as crop research, farm and land management research, livestock research, and utilization research. The increases aggregate about $1.8 million. That is offset, in part, by a net decrease totaling $435,000 in the plant and animal disease and pest-control item. About half of that decrease constitutes an assignment to the Extension Service of the demonstrational and educational work in connection with the control of grasshoppers on croplands. It does not affect the funds in the emergency contingency fund for the grasshopper action program on rangelands. Mr. WHITTEN. Could I interrupt you at that point? That is a proposal in this budget? Mr. WHEELER. Yes, sir. Mr. WHITTEN. Did you transfer any money for that purpose during the current fiscal year? Mr. WHEELER. No, sir. The amounts appropriated for the current fiscal year for these activities are all allocated and being used for the purposes for which they were appropriated. No reserves have been established under this activity. The second item reflects an increase of $5.3 million for payments to the State experiment stations, pursuant to section 9 of the BankheadJones Act. Actually, if this amount is appropriated in 1956, there will be a total of $16.8 million appropriated under the authorization of $20 million in that act. EXTENSION SERVICE The next item, the Extension Service, reflects an increase of $5.8 million and is entirely for payments to States. There is no change contemplated in the Federal Extension Service item. There is no change in the Farmers Cooperative Service. |