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C Setting and Acting upon Budget Priorities
Pages 139-143

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From page 139...
... In response to a decision to offer grants on water quality, the research community, organized through a program advisory committee, would need to articulate the areas of research most essential to establishing an improved science base for water quality protection. Proposals would then be sought in response to a program announcement describ~ng high-pnonty water quality research needs.
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From page 140...
... Congress on the need for an expanded federal commitment to higher education fellowships in the agricultural and food sciences. In developing its budget requests, USDA generally follows to some degree the budget recommendations offered by ESCOP, ECOP, and RICOP.
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From page 141...
... Priorities within each major program area could be expected to change more frequently. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACTIONS Congressional action on annual executive branch budget proposals for USDA's competitive grants program, from FY 1980 through FY 1989, appears in Table C.1, which present the President's budget request, the funds voted by the appropriations bills of the House and Senate, and the conference agreement between the two houses of the U.S.
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From page 142...
... · The $21 billion appropriated for nutrition programs is accompanied by less than a page of amendments and instructions in the conference report. In addition to establishing funding levels for specific programs, like food stamps, language calls for only two specific projects: -$5.2 million to develop a system for independent verification of school food service claims, of which half is to be used for training state and local food service officials in new procedures for meal counting and claim procedures.
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From page 143...
... Total changes of $26 million in the proposed ARS research budget, representing about 4.6 per 143 cent of total research activity; $17.35 million of additional funding appropriated for buildings and facilities, representing another 3 percent of total agency resources. (The funds needed to equip and staff the new research facilities established in the FY 1989 budget will pose a difficult challenge for agency administrators in future years.)
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  • science priorities
  • billion appropriated
  • food sciences
  • school food

  • joint council
  • appropriations subcommittees
  • budget review
  • agricultural appropriations
  • ars research

  • congressional action
  • challenges confronting
  • including recommendations
  • funding sought
  • congressional office

  • station committee
  • science base
  • biotechnology initiative
  • conference agreement
  • resident instruction


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