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| Date May 13, 1983 |
Report No. 121372 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY EXPECTED AT 9:00 A.M. MST FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1983 STATEMENT OF WILLIAM E. GAHR, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR RESOURCES, COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT, HOUSE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON
I USE OF FEDERALLY SUPPORTED RESEARCH FACILITIES MR. CHAIRM... |
| Date Feb. 9, 1983 |
Report No. RCED-83-83 |
Title
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GENERAL ACCOUNTING D.C. 20548 OFFICE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, RESOURCES, COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION . B-199623 FEBRUARY 9,1983 The Honorable The Secretary Dear M r. John R. Block of Agriculture Secretary: Research and Extension Programs Small Farms (GAO/RCED-83-83) to Aid 111111 I
120543 Subject: In a 1975 report to the Congress entitled "Some Problems Impeding Econom... |
| Date Jan. 31, 1983 |
Report No. RCED-83-89 |
Title
c /aoL(sd +m=- . ’ 1 BY THEUS GENERALACCOUNTING OFFICE
Report To The Secretary Of Agriculture Agricultural Economics Research And Analysis Needs Mission Clarification
A systemattc and well orgamzed program of agricultural economics research IS needed to monitor and assess the health of the foodagriculture sector and the effectiveness of farm pollcles and programs However, wlthln the agricultural... |
| Date Jan. 14, 1983 |
Report No. RCED-83-20 |
Title
BY -1 COMPTROLLER GENERAL t-it. Report To The Congress
Federal Agricultural Research Facilities Are Underused
Many of the Agrrcultural Research Service’s 148 domestic research locations are not staffed to rherr designed capacity, Service scientists use about 73 percent of that capacity and other Federal and State scientists use an additional 10 percent. Meanwhile, new facilities are under constr... |
| Date July 27, 1982 |
Report No. 119114 |
Title
United States General Accounting Washington, D.C. 20548 Office FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY EXPECTEDAT 9:OO A.M. EDT TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1982 Statement of William E. Gahr, Associate Director Community and Economic Development Division Subcommittee Before the on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment House Committee on Science and Technology on General Accounting Office Reviews of Agricul... |
| Date Feb. 26, 1982 |
Report No. CED-82-46 |
Title
UNITED GTAT& GENERAL ACC~UNTJNG OFFJCE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 COMMUNITY ONELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC DIVISION S-206415 FEBRUARY 26,1982 The Honorable United States Dear Senator Subject: Thad Cochran Senate Cochran: Better Ways To Provide Information (CED-82-46) for Use of Agricultural In your May 11, 1981, letter you expressed a desire to gain a better understanding of information sources, both Governm... |
| Date Feb. 3, 1982 |
Report No. 117437 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON,D.d. 20548 The Honorable Administrator, Development M. Peter McPherson Agency for International 117437 Dear Mr. McPherson: We have completed our survey of AID's agricultural research Our survey shows that many problems relating to agriactivities. identified in several studies and reports by cultural research, (See attachment for a list of continue... |
| Date Dec. 4, 1981 |
Report No. CED-82-7 |
Title
BY THE US GENERAL ACCOUNTING GFFICE rtToT riculture Better Collection And Maint nance Procedures__Needed --To Help Protect -Agriculture’s Germplasm Resources
The Department of Aqrlculture IS responsible for preserving the base stock of domestic and wild food plants This stock contains the genetic material, germplasm, necessary for U S crop development Yet, a number of serious problems In collect... |
| Date July 24, 1981 |
Report No. CED-81-141 |
Title
. r’ I BY-THE GENERALACCOUNTIN US.
Report To The Honorable George E. Brown, House Of Representatives Jr. Long-Range Planning Can Improve The Efficiency Of Agricultural Research And Development
Increasing demands for food and fiber combined with increasing pressures on agricultural inputs--water, land, and energy--make it all the more important that national long-rang(! planning be undertaken for... |
| Date June 24, 1981 |
Report No. 088053 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY EXPECTED AT 2:00 P.M. EDT WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1981 STATEMENT OF BRIAN P, CROWLEY, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR SENIOR LEVEL COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FOREIGN AGRICULTURE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE ON DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE'S GERMPLASM... |
| Date June 24, 1981 |
Report No. CED-81-96 |
Title
,‘. - /dss(c, /LQQlf B’i TH+E GENERAL ACCOUNTING U.S. OFFICE Report To The Secretary Of Agriculture Weak Management In Animal Disease Control Program ResuItS J-I Large Economic Losses
Brucellosis, a major problem to beef and dairy producers, is a disease which attacks the reproductive system of livestock, causing abortion, slow breeding, and sterility. Each year livestock producers lose millio... |
| Date April 16, 1981 |
Report No. CED-81-49 |
Title
BY THECCjMfTROLLERGENERAL OF THEUNITEDSTATES 7 --~ju!!!&J3 * RkqcxxtTo The Congress
Department Of Agriculture Should Have More Authority To Assess User Charges
Federal appropriations could be reduced as much as $48 million annually if the recipients of Department of Agriculture special benefit services were charged for all costs, except those which can be readily identified with public benefits. M... |
| Date April 10, 1981 |
Report No. CED-81-75 |
Title
BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL Report ToThe Congress
OF THEUNITEDSTATES The Department Of Agriculture Can Minimize The Risk Of Potential Crop Failures
The Nation’s crops are vulnerable to damage from disease, insects, and adverse weather conditions which could limit crop production. The Department of Agriculture is responsible for reducing the vulnerability of the Nation’s crops, but it has not full... |
| Date March 11, 1981 |
Report No. CED-81-82 |
Title
COWMV’NITY AND CEVELCPMENT ECONOMIC DIVISION S-202425 . The Honor able United States Dear Senator Subject: Jepsen:
114875 in Hourly Rate Charged by li-- ncrease Department of Agriculture for Resident Inspectors at Egg Processing Plants CED-81-82) 3 In response to your January 28, 1981, letter, we reviewed the Department of Agriculture’s justification for the 40-percent increase in hourly fees,... |
| Date Dec. 31, 1980 |
Report No. CED-81-19 |
Title
BY THE COMPiROLLER GENERAL
Report To The Chairman Committee On Appropriations United States Senate OF THE UNITED STATES Further Federal Action Needed To Detect And Control Environmental Contamination Of Food
The Food Safety and Quality Service and the Food and Drug Administration took much longer than necessary to identify the presence and source of chemical contamination in a case involving polyc... |
| Date Dec. 23, 1980 |
Report No. 120259 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACC~UNTUG
REGIONAL
SUITE 300-D, 2420 W. ~OFFKE OFFICE
26Ti-l AVENUE T)ENVER, COLORADQ Mr. Jeff M. Sirmon Regional Forester Intermountain Region Federal Office Building 324 25th Street Ogden, Utah S4401 Dear Mr. Sirmon: 80211 Accounting Office recently coup e ed.a limited survey of practices and procedures of 't%e "ii~n~~&%untain Regionprocedures for determining needs,Aobtaini... |
| Date Oct. 17, 1980 |
Report No. CED-81-18 |
Title
c :’ . RESTRICTED - Nat to he r&and ‘outside the Accolsnting off race! oxecl.:r.,C c2 21s !:ar~~s'of specific by the wl;ice off’ cmgs~;;:o:~a~ iii~~at~oas. UNITEDSTATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 general approval GENERALACCOUNTMOFFKE RELEASED
COMMUNITT OKVICLOPMKNT AN0 -MIC OIVI8ION OCTOBER 17,198O B-199623 The Honorable United States Dear Senator Subject: Donald W. Stewart Senate Stewart: lllll... |
| Date Sept. 3, 1980 |
Report No. 113292 |
Title
UNITEDSTATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 COMMIJNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVkLOPMENT DIVISION SEf’ 3 1980 Dr. Harry C. Mussman, Administrator Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Department of Agriculture Dear Dr. Mussman: As part of our review of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's efforts to control anim diseases and pests, ,we have revie ed that portion of the'... |
| Date Aug. 11, 1980 |
Report No. CED-80-95 |
Title
BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Report ToThe HonorableJames Abdnor House of Representatives
OF THE UNITED STATES Problemsllagued Department Of Agriculture’s Grasshopper Control Program In 1979
The 1979 grasshopper infestation in 17 Western States was the worst since the 1930s. The Department of Agriculture’s program to control the grasshoppers was not effective because --it was badly managed, --it ... |
| Date July 16, 1980 |
Report No. ID-80-39 |
Title
BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL Repor
OF THEUNITEDSTATES AID Must Consider Social Factors In Establishing Cooperatives In Developing Countries
Political, economic, and cultural factors play a large role in determining whether efforts by the Agency for International Development (AID) to establish cooperatives in developing countries succeed or fail. Yet, as the GAO review of AID-sponsored cooperatives in ... |
| Date April 30, 1980 |
Report No. CED-80-68 |
Title
. BY THECOMP-fRbLLER GENERAL Report ToThe Congress
OF THEUNITEDSTATES What Foods Should Americans Eat? Better Information Needed On Nutritional Quality Of Foods
Consumers, Government, industry, and others need better information on the nutritional value of foods. Presently there are no generally accepted nutrition principles and no authoritative guidance on what amounts are too much or too little ... |
| Date Sept. 26, 1978 |
Report No. CED-78-178 |
Title
DOCU ENT RESOE
07350 -- C2867977] Changing Character and Structure of American Agriculture: An Overview. CED-78-178; -114824. September 26, 1978. 152 pp. Staff study By Henry Eschcege, Director, Community and Economic Development Div. Issue Area: Food: Future Cost and Supply of Resources for Focil Production (1711); Domestic Housing and Community High Development: Economic Development in Rural Are... |
| Date Sept. 25, 1978 |
Report No. CED-78-152 |
Title
i B’?THECOMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THEUNITED STATES Sewage SludgeHow Ba We Cop LM107107 With It? Coping with rapidly increasing volumeD of sewage sludge, a potentially toxic substance, is a nationwide problem. Some disposal methods are being phased out, and others are being increasingly restricted by governmental actions. To compound the problem, the lack of scientific data on environmental and heal... |
| Date April 13, 1978 |
Report No. GGD-78-29 |
Title
DOCUMENT RESUME
05630 r B104 5986l|/J The Statistical Reporting Service's Crop Reports Could Be of More Use to Farmers. GGD-78-29; B-137762.34. hpril 13, 1978. Geleased April 19, 1978. 29 pp. + 6 appendices (15 pp.), Report to Sen. George McGovern; by Slmer B. Staats, Comptroller General. Issue Area, Statistical and Paperwork Implications of bon-Federal Data (3100); Food (17C0). Contact: General G... |
| Date Jan. 27, 1978 |
Report No. ID-77-55 |
Title
< . .. ’ . REPOfii’ TO THE CUNGRESS
BYTHECOMPTROLLER~ENERAL OFTHE UNITEDSTATES U.S. Participation In International Agricultural Research The importance of research to aid developing countries in m.eeting their food needs is being etiphasis&d increasingly. Much attention has I.. focused on the” international agriculturzll research centers as a result of the development of high-yield varieties... |
| Date Jan. 1, 1978 |
Report No. 090959 |
Title
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| Date Jan. 1, 1978 |
Report No. 090968 |
Title
SCULPTURES AT THE “G” STREET ENTRANCE (Compressed urew)
American laborers and professional workers are depicted in the bas-relief sculptures that decorate the red granite portals of the recessed entrance of the buff limestone GAO Building on “G” Street. The sculptures were designed in 1951 by Joseph Kiselewski, noted U.S. sculptor, of New York. Nine feet high and 15 feet long, the two pan... |
| Date Aug. 23, 1977 |
Report No. CED-77-121 |
Title
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES far-r l-c.-.llkLC& Management Of Agricultural Research: Need And Opportunities For Improvement
Department of Agriculture The extremely complex and highly diversified agricultural research system in the United States has made notable contributions to the Nation’s well-being. However, there is an increasing realization that a... |
| Date April 9, 1976 |
Report No. RED-76-92 |
Title
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STUDY BY THE STAFF OF THE U.S. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
LM099381 llllIllIlIllIIlllIlllllllYlllllllllllll Agricultural Research- Its Organization And Management
Department
The information of Agriculture
contained herein identifies --the acts which provide for Federal support of agricultural research, --the organizations search, --the diversity and involved in that re- of the research conduct... |
| Date Aug. 15, 1975 |
Report No. RED-76-2 |
Title
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LM096852 . I . 3.mi.f m ,, ., h , ‘7’ TM? m3t=3SCR8USwas that the failure to ef fective~y ‘48C .imaild3le eechnolo9y and effietent msnegeraent practbccs ~318 a prifzary Peason &?any Eaerrtsrs ?.ave lower vo~up3es of Carei seles than they might have ami k3 major factor linft Inq iq9ravcnenrs tn the %arming operntions of rrrrst sea:ll-farm epefators ... |
| Date June 10, 1975 |
Report No. RED-75-379 |
Title
B-181844 f 0 1975 The Honorable .. ) United States I Dear Senator Jesse Helms Senate Helms: % 7:,‘ib ._ I - 1. \ : :‘, -This report relates to your February 4, 1975, request -and later discussions with your office that we take another look at the Department of Agriculture’s plans to consolidate the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service /” aerial photography operations on an i... |
