Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations for 1985: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 |
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1984 Estimated acreage acres activities Administration agreement allocation amount AMSTUTZ appropriation approved areas ASCS authorized budget Center Colorado River Committee Commodity Credit Corporation Computer Conservation Program contract cost cost-share crop dairy decrease Department of Agriculture Departmental diseases employee erosion export farm Farmers Home Administration Federal fiscal year 1983 FLOOD PREVENTION FmHA Food Forest Service funds Government grain improve increase information follows land loans ment million MISSISSIPPI ACCELERATE National needs North Dakota Office OPERATIONS WS OPERATIONS payment-in-kind payments percent personnel PETER MYERS planning plant priority problems production projects proposed Public RC&D reduce regulations request resource Rural Salinity Control Secretary September 30 soil and water Soil Conservation Service soybeans staff targeting technical assistance tion Total upland cotton USDA water conservation watershed wheat WHITTEN WS OPERATIONS WS
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Page 84 - Prime farmland is land that has the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for producing food, feed, forage, fiber, and oilseed crops and is also available for these uses (the land could be cropland, pastureland, rangeland, forest land, or other land, but not urban built-up land or water). It has the soil quality, growing season, and moisture supply needed to produce, economically, sustained high yields of crops when treated and managed, including water management, according to...
Page 754 - Government employee, participates personally and substantially as a Government officer or employee, through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or otherwise, in a judicial or other proceeding, application, request for a ruling or other determination, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other particular matter in which, to his knowledge, he, his spouse, minor child, partner, organization in which he is serving as officer,...
Page 353 - Provided, That none of the funds contained in this Act shall be used to make indemnity payments to any farmer whose milk was removed from commercial markets as a result of his willful failure to follow procedures prescribed by the Federal Government: Provided further, That this amount shall be transferred to the Commodity Credit Corporation: Provided further.
Page 754 - ... and receives in advance a written determination made by such official that the interest is not so substantial as to be deemed likely to affect the integrity of the services which the Government may expect from...
Page 750 - ... tendered in recognition of active field service in time of combat operations or awarded for other outstanding or unusually meritorious performance, subject to the approval of the employing agency of such employee. Without this approval, the decoration is deemed to have been accepted on behalf of the United States...
Page 753 - Department shall participate directly or indirectly in any transaction concerning the purchase or sale of corporate stocks or bonds, commodities, or other property for speculative purposes if such action might tend to interfere with the proper and impartial performance of his duties or bring discredit upon the Department.
Page 152 - Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for field employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 USC 2225), and not to exceed...
Page 745 - supervisor" means any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment.
Page 443 - Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, Public Law 480, as amended (7 USC 1701-1715, 1721-1726, 1727-1727f, 1731-1736g).
Page 741 - SEC. 406. The statements and amended statements required by or pursuant to this part shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, or in derogation of, any similar requirement imposed by law, regulation, or order. The submission of a statement or amended statements required by or pursuant to this part shall not be deemed to permit any person to participate in any matter in which his participation is prohibited by law, regulation, or order. PART V — DELEGATING AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT...