ciation of Counties combine forces to produce a comprehensive plan for the abatement and prevention of substandard urban expansion embracing corrective measures suitable for application at all levels of government. Model State laws and ordinances, recommended procedures and organizational structures, and other information should be developed as guides to State and local governments. We strongly endorse the concept of standards to govern local use of Federal program funds contained in the "workable program for community improvement” of the Housing and Home Finance Agency. For 10 years, in order to qualify for Federal urban renewal and low-rent housing programs, municipalities have met the "workable program" standards for planning and regulatory codes designed to prevent spread of blight. Comparable standards are a prerequisite for State or local participation in other Federal aid programs, including assistance for planning, highways, airports, hospitals, open space, etc. It is urgent that a comparable "workable program for urban development in suburban and rural areas" be developed and adopted by the Congress as a prerequisite for use of Federal housing and public facility programs in new urban development. We recommend that this task force give high priority to efforts to accomplish this objective. We authorize appropriate cooperation with public services foundations, the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and other governmental agencies, and other private associations concerned with this problem. (NOTE. The drafts of model legislation and regulations submitted by Mr. Healy are on file with the committee.) BALA-CYNWYd, Pa., June 18, 1965. Senator ALLEN J. ELLENDER, Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, My name is John H. Murdoch, Jr., and I am president of National Water Company Conference, a nonprofit trade association of investor-owned water companies. My office is 309 Barclay Building, No. 1 Belmont Avenue, Bala-Cynwwyd, Pa. I am also a member of the legislative committee of the American Water Works Association. I ask that this telegram be presented to the members of Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry at its meeting at which the committee will consider S. 1766 and that this telegram be incorporated in the hearing record as my statement. I fully concur in the statements made by E. R. Healy in his telegram to you dated June 16, 1965, concerning S. 1766. It is my suggestion that your committee recognize the fact that most of the areas in which water facilities would be installed under the bill are fringe tracts adjacent to core communities within which core communities adequate water works systems owned by either municipally owned or by investor-owned public utilities are in existence and are operating. It is also a fact that when the fringe tracts develop after water becomes available under such programs as are contemplated in S. 1766 the fringe system becomes inadequate and a need develops to unite that system with the core system under common operation. I respectfully urge that S. 1766 be so amended as to require that fringe area water systems be so designed, constructed, and legally constituted as to facilitate combination with the water system in the core community. This is in the public interest. Respectfully submitted. JOHN H. MURDOCH, Jr. EXPLANATION OF THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ACT OF 1965 H.R. 9811 PREPARED BY Senator ALLEN J. ELLENDER, Chairman OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNITED STATES SENATE OCTOBER 12, 1965 Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry 54-599 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1965 COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY ALLEN J. ELLENDER, Louisiana, Chairman SPESSARD L. HOLLAND, Florida B. EVERETT JORDAN, North Carolina JOSEPH M. MONTOYA, New Mexico GEORGE D. AIKEN, Vermont HARKER T. STANTON, Counsel FOREWORD The statement contained herein following the short explanation of H.R. 9811 was made by me, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, in presenting the Conference Report on the eight titles of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965. It attempts to show very briefly the contribution that agriculture has made to our national economy: to consumers at home; and to millions of people abroad. It sketches briefly the development of agricultural legislation since 1933 and points the direction that the Act of 1965 will take. ALLEN J. ELLENDER, Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. III |