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issues and there are costs associated with that. It would not be our 

 intention to go out and reprint all of our stationery and change all 

 of our signs. In commitment to the environment, we will use up 

 our stock and then as things have to be replaced, the name will be 

 changed. But we do not anticipate any tremendous cost associated 

 with the elevation. 



In terms of the other issue you mentioned, the President's com- 

 mitment to reduction of the Federal workforce, we are working 

 within the agency on that very issue right now. We believe we will 

 be able to meet the President's goals. We are also looking within 

 the office of the administrator, my office, to cut back in terms of 

 our expenses, to cut back in terms of our staff and the pay for that 

 staff. I feel quite confident that we are going to be able to make 

 some significant strides there. 



Senator Cochran. The Department of Agriculture, I was noticing 

 in the news this morning, has some areas where it will be cutting 

 back, too. One of the things that I personally had the privilege of 

 doing earlier in my Senate career was chairing the Subcommittee 

 on Appropriations that funds the Department of Agriculture and 

 related agencies. Within that department, I am familiar with the 

 fact that there are several environmentally related functions. The 

 conservation reserve program, pest management practices, best 

 management practices, that are talked about in terms of technical 

 assistance to farmers and agriculture producers to try to communi- 

 cate the latest in information about how to use pesticides wisely 

 and safely. 



To what extent is this new department, in your view, going to 

 take those responsibilities and manage them and maybe make un- 

 necessary the functions that are now being performed by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture in these environmentally related areas? 



Ms. Browner. We look forward to working with all of the Feder- 

 al agencies that involve themselves with departmental issues in a 

 cooperative, nonduplicative way. My experience at the State level 

 was that the Soil Conservation Service was one of the best tools we 

 had for working with farmers out in the field, on their property, to 

 try and develop best management practices. It was a very coopera- 

 tive relationship. We did not seek to replace them. We did not seek 

 to take over their jobs. Their job is much broader than just the en- 

 vironmental concerns that an environmental agency would be pre- 

 dominantly concerned with. 



So what I will hope to do, and what I think was able to do in 

 Florida, is to look for these opportunities of cooperation, to respect 

 what other agencies have done historically and their expertise, and 

 to bring our expertise to them so that they can use it, and vice 

 versa. 



Senator Cochran. The agency, up to this point, has performed 

 functions under statutes that have given it the responsibility for is- 

 suing regulations and administering laws, like the NEPA. The 

 Council on Environmental Quality, as I understand it, is to be abol- 

 ished. Has that already been abolished just by Executive Order, or 

 will it be? 



Ms. Browner. It is my understanding that that will take an Act 

 of Congress. The CEQ has statutory responsibilities and executive 

 responsibilities. Obviously, the executive responsibilities can be ad- 



