Rural development, agriculture, and related agencies appropriations for 1988: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One hundredth Congress, first session, Part 3

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Page 126 - Provided further, That no part of any funds available to the Department, or any bureau, office, corporation, or other agency constituting a part of such Department, shall be used In the current fiscal year for the payment of salary or travel expenses of any person who has been convicted of violating the Act entitled "An Act to prevent pernicious political activities...
Page 126 - No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall, in the absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or written matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress, to favor or oppose, by vote or otherwise, any legislation or appropriation by Congress, whether before or after the introduction of any bill or resolution proposing...
Page 126 - Provided further, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the allocation for the current year's pro9'ram for any county may, on the reconmiendati¿¿n of such county committee. and approval of the State committee, be withheld and allotted to the Soil Conservation Service for services of Its technicians in formulating and carrying out the Agricultural Conservation Program in the participating counties, and shall not be utilized by the Soil Conservation Service for any purpose other than technical and other...
Page 724 - That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 USC 2225), and not to exceed...
Page 119 - ... in making indemnity payments to dairy farmers for milk or cows producing such milk and manufacturers of dairy products who have been directed to remove their milk or dairy products from commercial markets because it contained residues of chemicals registered and approved for use by the Federal Government, and in making indemnity payments for milk, or cows producing such milk, at a fair market value...
Page 153 - Cost-sharing may be offered for emergency conservation measures only to replace or restore a practice or to restore the land to a condition similar to that existing prior to the natural disaster, and may not be offered for the solution of conservation problems existing prior to the disaster involved.
Page 93 - ASCS conducts its programs in the field through a number of offices. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation State and county committees are responsible for local administration of a variety of programs dealing directly with the farmer. Through the farmer-elected ASC county committees, the Service also obtains recommendations and advice in the formulation of program plans and policies. There are ASC State Committees in the SO States and a total of 3,053 county committees.
Page 106 - CCC checks; and (o) monitoring payment limitations. 3. Inventory management and merchandising. This activity includes: (a) overall management of CCC-owned commodities; (b) selling commodities; (c) donating commodities; and (d) accounting for loans and commodities. The foregoing activities serve as administrative support for the following missions of the Department as described previously under Foreign Assistance...
Page 161 - EXPLANATION OF PROGRAM The appropriation "Forestry Incentives Program* of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service funds the activities authorized by the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978, as amended by section 1214 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990.
Page 460 - That not to exceed $25,000 of this appropriation shall be available for payments In foreign currencies for expenses of employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 USC 2225...

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