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enrioli wheat or a combination of grains provided by the Commodity 

 Credit Corporation," and so forth and so on. 



Are you speaking there in terms of domestic U.S. production of 

 FPC? 



Mr. Waters. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Chairman, if I may explain, I think it may clarify that some- 

 what. Our problem has been how to blend together some of the AID 

 appropriations and the Department of Agriculture appropriations to 

 come out with what w^e want to achieve. 



After Public Law 480 was enacted in 1954, the direction of Con- 

 gress was that w^e should use the availalbility of food under that act 

 rather than our direct aid money to buy food products, rather than 

 having duplication of effort in Government funding of food products. 

 Unfortunately, the Department of Agriculture has had no provision 

 for funding fisheries products. 



As a result of that, fish products were not included in our food 

 assistance efforts. 



Mr. Lennon. The Department of Agriculture and the administra- 

 tion have at no time in history asked for this legislation to permit 

 that? 



Mr. Waters. That is right. ISTo funds are j)rovided by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



Mr. Lennon. We cannot put the responsibility there on the Con- 

 gress, because the administration didn't ask for what you indicated we 

 didn't have ? 



Mr. Waters. That is right. 



Mr. Lennon. I assume that you are familiar with Public Law 89- 

 701 which was signed into law and became Public Law 89-701 on 

 November 2 of last year ; are you familiar with that public law ? 



Also, you are familiar with the conference report which preceded 

 the acceptance of that bill by both branches of the Congress? You 

 recollect that in that law the Secretary of the Interior was authorized 

 to conduct grants-in-aid and contract with public and private agencies 

 to promote studies, experiments, and so forth, in the development of 

 the most economical process and method to produce. 



Getting back to FPC, can you tell us how many contracts, how manj'^ 

 grants have been made under the authority of this law by the Secre- 

 tary^ of the Interior for this purpose ? 



Mr. Waters. Mr. Chairman, I could not answer for the Secretary 

 of Interior on this. None to AID. In fact, it is the other way. We have 

 provided money to them to expedite the program. 



Mr. Lexnoj^-. I want to ask the counsel to direct a series of questions, 

 which would follow the hearings by these gentlemen from the Bureau 

 of Commercial Fisheries, particularly the Secretary of the Interior, 

 as to the implementation of this act since it became law on November 

 2 last year. 



Of course, you do not know whether the law also authorized the 

 Secretary not to exceed one experimental demonstration plant for the 

 FPC and also to operate and maintain a contract for operation of up 

 to five others. We authorized funding both in the acquisition and also 

 for the contracting up to five others. I believe it was for this purpose. 



We would like to make inquiry with respect to that, too, Mr. Counsel. 



