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mined by the Secretary, have been engaged in canning or freezing such commodity for market and have canned or frozen for market more than 50 per centum of the total volume of such commodity canned or frozen for market during such representative period; and (B) any agricultural commodity (except honey, cotton, rice, wheat, corn, grain sorghums, oats, barley, rye, sugarcane, sugarbeets, wool, mohair, livestock, soybeans, cottonseed, flaxseed, poultry (but not excepting turkeys, eggs (but not excepting turkey hatching eggs), fruits and vegetables for canning or freezing including potatoes for canning, freezing, or other processing, and apples), or any regional or market classification thereof, not subject to orders under (A) of this paragraph, but not the products (including canned or frozen commodities or products) thereof. No order issued pursuant to this section shall be effective as to cherries, apples, or cranberries for canning or freezing unless the Secretary of Agriculture determines, in addition to other required findings and determinations, that the issuance of such order is approved or favored by processors who, during a representative period determined by the Secretary, have engaged in canning or freezing such commodity for market and have frozen or canned more than 50 per centum of the total volume of the commodity to be regulated which was canned or frozen within the production area, or marketed within the marketing area, defined in such order, during such representative period. No order issued pursuant to this section shall be applicable to peanuts produced in more than one of the following production areas: the Virginia-Carolina production area, the Southeast production area, and the Southwest production area. If the Secretary determines that the declared policy of the title will be better achieved thereby (i) the commodities of the same general class used wholly or in part for the same purposes may be combined and treated as a single commodity and (ii) the portion of an agricultural commodity devoted to or marketed for a particular use or combination of uses, may be treated as a separate agricultural commodity. All agricultural commodities and products covered hereby shall be deemed specified herein for the purposes of section 8c (6) and (7) of this title.

(Note. The changes above are effective only for the 2-year period beginning with the date of enactment of S. 2214.)

91ST CONGRESS 1st Session

SENATE

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REPORT No. 91-419

PROVIDING FOR THE TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF RURAL HOUSING PROGRAMS AND FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION INSURANCE AUTHORITY, AND TO EXTEND THE PERIOD DURING WHICH THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT MAY ESTABLISH MAXIMUM INTEREST RATES ON

INSURED LOANS

SEPTEMBER 18, 1969.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. SPARKMAN, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S.J. Res. 152]

The Committee on Banking and Currency, having considered the same, reports favorably a committee joint resolution (S.J. Res. 152) to provide for the temporary extension of rural housing programs and Federal Housing Administration insurance authority, and to extend the period during which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may establish maximum interest rates on insured loans, and recommends that the joint resolution do pass.

GENERAL STATEMENT

The purpose of the joint resolution is to extend for 3 months, until January 1, 1970, all Federal housing programs which would otherwise expire on October 1, 1969. This temporary extension will keep the programs going until such time as the bill, S. 2864, entitled "The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1969" can pass the Congress and become law. This bill is on the Senate Calendar but, because of the pressure of other business, it will not be finally approved by both Houses of Congress before the October 1, 1969, deadline.

The joint resolution involves three basic programs: (1) Rural housing under title V of the Housing Act of 1949; (2) Federal Housing Administration insurance program under the National Housing Act; and (3) FHA and VA interest rate ceilings. All of these have October 1, 1969, deadlines which must be extended to keep these programs in operation. A 3-month extension is being recommended by the committee to assure that the programs will be kept in operation until such time as S. 2864, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1969, is enacted into law.

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Mr. BIBLE, from the Committee on Appropriations,
submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H.R. 12781]

The Committee on Appropriations, to which was referred the bill (H.R. 12781) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and for other purposes, reports the same to the Senate with various amendments and presents herewith information relative to the changes recommended:

Amount of budget estimates, 1970--

Bill as passed by the House...

Increases over House bill recommended by committee_

Total of bill as reported...

Appropriations, 1969____

Bill as reported to the Senate:

Under budget estimates, 1970..
Over appropriations, 1969--

$1, 569, 454, 500

1, 540, 184, 700

4, 635, 200

1, 544, 819, 900

1, 530, 166, 135

24, 634, 600

14, 653, 765

SUMMARY OF BILL

Estimates totaling $1,569,454,500, which includes new obligational authority and amounts necessary to liquidate contract authorization, were considered by the committee for the programs and activities of the agencies and bureaus of the Department of the Interior-except the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, the Alaska Power Administration, the Southeastern Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, the Bonneville Power Administration, and the Bureau of Reclamation-and the following related agencies:

Forest Service (Department of Agriculture).
Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review.

Commission of Fine Arts.

Indian Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare).

Indian Claims Commission.

National Capital Planning Commission.

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities.

Public Land Law Review Commission.

Smithsonian Institution.

National Gallery of Art.

National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Develop

ment.

Federal Field Committee for Development Planning in Alaska.
Lewis and Clark Trail Commission.

American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.

National Council on Indian Opportunity.

The committee recommends appropriations totaling $1,544,819,900 ($1,225,277,900 for definite appropriations, $127,444,000 for indefinite appropriations of receipts, $165,898,000 to liquidate contract authorizations and authorization to spend $26,200,000 from public debt receipts) for the programs and activities of these agencies. The sum recommended by the committee is a decrease of $24,634,600 under the budget estimates considered, an increase of $4,635,200 over the sums included in the House bill, and an increase of $14,653,765 over the appropriations for the current fiscal year.

It is estimated that the agencies included in this bill will produce $1,355,344,096 in receipts during fiscal year 1970. The committee's recommendations of appropriations are only $189,475,804 more than receipts accruing from the activities of the several agencies included in this bill.

FUNDING OF INTERAGENCY ACTIVITIES

The committee has again included a provision in the bill to prohibit the funding of committees, boards, and other interagency groups by assessments against the various activities included in this bill. This action does not indicate that the committee disapproves of the entity concerned, but does mean that the committee desires to know what financing it is providing and prefers not to have approved budgets reduced without committee consideration.

The committee reiterates its position of last year that the entities concerned receive specific prior congressional approval of their financing.

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