965 
Mr. Tratn. That is correct, sir. 
Mr. Lennon. Of course that money had to be on hand in order to 
let that contract. I am not suggesting that someone took the contract 
to do the work with no money appropriated. 
Mr. Train. As I understand, some million dollars had been appro- 
priated and some $900,000 additional was required in order to com- 
plete the plant. 
Mr. Lennon. Is it my understanding that the land was donated by 
the Port of Grace Harbor in the State of Washington ? 
Mr. Trarn. I believe that is correct, sir. 
Mr. Lennon. Now you have the land. Now you have the funding 
sufficient for the process design and the physical plant and another 
$900,000 is needed and is authorized, but yet unfunded ? 
Mr. Tratn. I believe we have our appropriations not yet completed 
sit. 
Mr. Lennon. In the fiscal 1970 budget was there an item for $900,000 
to complete this job ? : 
Mr. Train. I am trying to recall the details of this, Mr. Chairman, 
and IT am not sure that my memory is too good, but I think that 
$900,000 may not have been in the budget in the form submitted, but 
there was subsequently a partial add-on of a portion of that amount 
by the House Appropriations Committee and later by the Senate 
Appropriations Committee. The total amount added was $0.7 million. 
Mr. Lennon. Mr. Secretary, this might not be relevant to the De- 
partment of the Interior. Perhaps it should be in the Department of 
Agriculture or HEW. Do we have presently now a study that is com- 
pleted or about to be completed on malnourishment in the United. 
States? Would you know about that? 
Mr. Trarn. I do not know the answer to that. 
Mr. Lennon. It is my understanding that both HEW and the De- 
partment of Agriculture have been involved in the study of malnutri- 
cae the United States for the last year, but we haven’t seen any 
results. 
On May 8, I wrote to the President calling his attention to the 
possibility of using FPC in the fight against malnutrition, both at 
home and abroad. I suggested that this product could be used as a 
part of a program for which Mr. Nixon proposed a billion dollars a 
year to fight hunger and malnutrition. 
Last year the appropriations for AID was $1.7 billion. This year 
the administration is asking for $2.7 billion. So in my letter to the 
President I raised the question, if we had moved forward sufficiently 
into the determination that the FPC could be used, why not allocate 
some of these funds to this purpose. Do you know what the present 
administration is doing now to get such a proposal off the ground? 
My response was, “Thank you for your May 8 letter to the President 
concerning malnutrition. We appreciate having your suggestion to 
use fish protein concentrate as a food additive and your comments 
are now receiving careful consideration.” 
That was on May 15. That is the last thing I have heard from 
the President. 
Mr. Kerru. Will the gentleman yield ? 
Mr. Lennon. I will be delighted. 
Mr. Kerry. This is where we really need a lead agency because 
