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that are getting fast acceptance. Under a modem food technology, you 

 can start with the raw materials and build almost any type of food as 

 long as you keep the cost down. 



The unfortunate part of it is that until we can start mass production 

 we will not have the lowest cost of a good protein concentrate. 



Mr. Pollock. When do you visualize this plan will be completed for 

 this mild price tag ? 



Mr. Waters. We have taken a gamble ourselves by setting aside 

 out of fiscal year 1968 funds — and we certainly don't have any surplus 

 of funds — $1 million for this purpose. We are working with the De- 

 partment of Agriculture and people from the Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries, Health, Education, and Welfare and others, to come up 

 with the specifications of the food product that we can ask industry 

 to produce with fish protein concentrate in it. We are going to try to 

 do it in this fiscal year. 



Mr. Pollock. When you come up with this coordinated plan, could 

 you advise this committee and the chairman of this subcommittee? 



Mr. Waters. I would be glad to. 



Mr. Pollock. We would all be very interested in that. 



Mr. Waters. Very good. 



Mr. Pollock. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Lennon. Thank you, Mr. Pollock. 



Mr. Waters, over how many hundreds of years has AID been in- 

 volved in the worldwide food assistance program ? 



Mr. Waters. Mr. Chairman, AID itself. Agency for International 

 Development, was created by a combination of predecessor agencies 

 in 1961, combining the old International Cooperation Administration 

 and Development Loan Fund. 



Mr. Lennon. I am speaking of AID as we know it now and prede- 

 cessor organizations. How long has your organization, AID and 

 predecessors in title, been actively engaged in the worldwide food 

 assistance program ? 



Mr. Waters. Ever since the ^start of any of these foreign assistance 

 programs, primarily after World War 11. It started with the Marshall 

 plan days in Europe and Greece and Turkey assistance program, in 

 one form or another as food assistance has been developed. The food 

 assistance programs took a large expansion in 1954 with the enact- 

 ment of Public Law 480. That is funded out of Department of Agri- 

 culture funds. 



The overseas administration and planning use of that is coordinated 

 and handled through the AID agency but it is done on an interagency 

 basis with the cooperation of the Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. Lennon. The reason I ask that question is to get the record as 

 complete as we could, because you make the statement about AID food 

 assistance program, as programs undertaken in cooperation with the 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Food for Freedom Act 

 of 1966. The inference to the outsider is that you became involved in 

 a worldwide food assistance program under the Food for Freedom 

 Act of 1966. That is not the substance of that ? 



Mr. Waters. That is right. 



Mr. Lennon. Then you go on to say, "The proposal on which we 

 are working actively is to use the domestically produced FPC to 



