FL-25-'-Sag HR T76S Calendar No.522 89TH Conaruss SENATE | Reporr ist Session No. 537 DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRI- ATION BILL, 1966 Aveust 8, 1965.—Ordered to be printed Mr. Hitz, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 7765] The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred the bill (ELR. 7765) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and for other purposes, report the same to the Senate with various amendments and present herewith informa- tion relative to the changes made: Amount of bill passed by House_-__...-_-_--____. $7, 964, 034, 000 Amount added by Senate (net)_..------- 59, 067, 500 Total of bill as reported to Senate______-____ 8, 023, 101, 500 Amount of appropriations, 1965.-........_________ 7, 702, 395, 000 Budget estimates, 1966_._....---- 8, 293, 814, 000 The bill as reported to the Senate: Over the appropriations for 1965__:-...--_____ 820, 706, 500 Under the estimates for 1966_.._.--.-_________ 270, 712, 500 50-006 2 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Orricn or Manrpowrr ADMINISTRATOR SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation_ --- pee None 1966 budget estimate___-.--_-.---------~------------------------ $7, 854, 100 House allowance_----- a _. %, 794, 000 Committee recommendation__.----- %, 794, 000 The committee recommends $7,794,000, the same as the House allow- ance, a decrease of $60,100 from the budget estimate. Funds for these purposes have heretofore been appropriated under the heading “Manpower development and training activities.” The budget request contemplated an addition of eight positions, six for the Office of Manpower Administration and two for the President’s Com- mittee on Manpower. The committee concurs in the House action in denying funds for these additional positions sought. The budget for 1966 proposed the consolidation of three major agencies—the Bureau of Employment Security, the Bureau of Ap- prenticeship and Training, and the salaries and expenses of the man- power program—into a new account styled “Office of Manpower Ad- ministration.” The committee is in complete agreement with the comment of the House report in this connection “The committee has prepared the bill in such a way that these activities will each receive its separate appropriation. The committee would be strongly opposed to any proposition to revive the plan for this reorganization.” MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES 1965 appropriation __------...---------------------------------- $3896,906,000 1966 budget estimate -- 273,500,000 House allowance —- ee 273,500,000 Committee recommendation —~.-----~---~-- _. 273,500,000 The committee recommends approval of the full budget estimate and House allowance, $273,500,000, a reduction of $123,406,000 from the 1965 appropriation. It is estimated that with this allowance a total of 235,000 trainees will be accommodated. There is pending a supplemental estimate in the Congress for an additional $126,070,000 based on. the 1965 amend- ments to the Manpower Development and Training Act. The original act called for 50-50 matching of direct program costs of training and allowance payments, beginning in fiscal year 1965. The States did not respond by appropriating the matching funds, and the act was amended in 1964 to set aside matching for fiscal year 1965, and to require 2-1 matching, two-thirds Federal and one-third States, beginning in fiscal year 1966. There was no evidence of intent by the States to make available matching funds, and the Congress removed any matching for fiscal year 1966 and further liberalized the act. LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS 3 Bureau or APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation__._.--.- $5, 722, 000. 1966 budget estimate a ---. 6, 665, 100 House allowance_-_i--___ aoe 6, 665, 000 Committee. recommendation_.__.....-- =” 6, 665, 000 The committee recommends an appropriation of $6,665,000, the same amount as approved by the House, and $100 under the budget estimate, an increase of $943,000 over the 1965 appropriation, of which $607,000 represents the assumption of responsibilities previously carried under the manpower development and training program. This allowance provides a net increase of 15 positions and $381,700 to provide additional staff resources to promote and develop an ex- panded Manpower Development and Training Act on-the-job training program. Bureav or EmProyMent Sucurrry SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation_____ en $13, 952, 500 1966 budget estimate...------__-- eee” 17, 588, 000 House allowance ane eee nee 17, 594, 000 Committee recommendation__ -- -. 17%, 594, 000 The committee approves a total of $17 994,000, as did the House, of which $15,434,000 is to be derived from the Unemployment Trust, Fund and $2,160,000 from the general fund of the Treasury, an in- crease of $1,481,000 over the trust fund transfer for 1965, and $2,160,- 000 in the direct appropriation. General fund revenues are made available for activities under the manpower development and training program and for the farm labor contractor registration program, here- tofore appropriated separately. The Bureau of the Budget revised the Department’s estimate to reduce funds for the Veterans Employment Service by $427,500. The veterans’ organizations decried this intemperate action by the Budget Bureau, and the House restored the funds, allowing $1,708,000 for the Service, to which this committee subscribes. There is provided $1,946,800 for the farm labor service, an increase of $438,200 over funds available in fiscal year 1965, and $458,000 for farm labor contractor registration activities. ‘The Efouse Appropriation Committee Report has the following to say about the absolute essentiality to assure the timely availability of labor for the harvesting of perishable agricultural products: The committee is convinced that this is an absolute necessity if a critical Situation is to be avoided as a result of loss of foreign agricultural labor due to the expiration. of the Mexican Farm Labor Program and the tightening of reg- ulations relating to.importation of other foreign labor. The committee agrees that foreign labor should not be imported if there is eapable domestic labor available to do the job. However, the timely availability of labor for the har- vesting of perishable agricultural products is essential. Lack of it can mean bankruptcy for individual farmers and shortages and higher prices for consumers, Timely availability of labor under current circumstances eannot to assured with the domestic farm labor programs we have had in the past. The committee strongly urges that this matter be given high priority by the Secretary and all in the Department of Labor with responsibilities in this area. 4 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS This committee underscores the obvious feelings of the House on this matter and, because of instances which have occurred which have resulted in unwarranted crop loss and income to both small and big farmers due to the failure to provide a timely and adequate labor supply, the Department is urged to take immediate steps to insure that this situation is corrected immedately. The Department should be prepared, when it appears to testify be- fore this committee on the pending 1966 supplemental for additional funds under Public Law 414, to inform the Senate of the specific plans which will be used to prevent future crop loss and income loss due to its failure to carry out Its responsibilities. ADVANCES FOR EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 1965 appropriation._.__.__-_-------____.__/-- ----------------~--+--- None 1966 budget estimate________-----------..--------------------~-- $239, 280, 000 House allowance ___.-_____~----_-~~------~------ -- None Committee recommendation._.______---_-_---------~-..----=------- 20, 000, 000 The committee has approved an appropriation of $20 million out of the general funds and not the Unemployment Trust Fund as has been the wont since the passage of the Employment Security Administra- tive Financing Act of 1954 and its later amendments. This appro- priation will by the terms of the bill language be transferred to the account “Grants to States for unemployment compensation and employment service administration” for which the estimate, House allowance and committee recommendation contemplates the full au- thorization of $492,100,060, and is to be repaid as may be hereafter provided by law. The budget request was disallowed in its entirety by the House on the allegation that this request, based on the authorization for appropriations contained in the Wagner-Peyser Act, approved June 6, 1933, was simply a means of setting aside the limitation cited above. The committee felt however that there was some merit to the De- partment’s position there is legal authority for the requested appro- priation, and has accordingly ‘approved $20 million, to be used for the establishment and operation of Youth Opportunity Centers. No funds are provided for the job vacancy information program for which $2,280,000 was budgeted. GRANTS TO STATES FOR UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICE ADMINISTRATION 1965 appropriation____.-----_--_--------~~..~--.--------------- $455, 636, 000 1966 Budget estimate______ -o- 492, 100; 000 House allowance___._--.-----.---__+------------+-----+------ 492, 100, 000: Committee recommendation__._.___.-_--------_-~------------+---- 492, 100, 000 The committee recommends approval of the full budget estimate $4.92,100,000, as did the House, an increase of $36,464,000 over the 1965 appropriation, to be derived from the Unemployment Trust Fund into which are paid the net collections under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. This allowance will provide the full authorization. Grants are made to the States for administration of the programs for the Unemployment Insurance Service and the Employment Service. nw LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS oO The unemployment insurance program estimate contemplated a work- load of 1.5 million insured unemployed average per week; the average for the first 8 weeks in July is 1.1. million. The District of Columbia Employment Service, federally operated and financed through this appropriation, has had a unit housed in the Senate Office Building for several years, serving both sides of the Hill, with less than adequate space. No additional space is available in the Senate Office Buildings. Plans were made to open a unit in the new House Office Building, with more adequate space to serve both sides of the Hill. The Committee on Rules notified this. committee that it wished the unit retained at its present location and with its present resources to serve the Senate. The Bureau of Employment Security is directed to provide sufficient funds for the continued operation of the unit on the Senate side to serve the offices of Senators. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND EX-SERVICEMEN 1965 appropriation _ _-. $187, 000, 000 1966 budget estimate 141, 000, 000 House allowance__ —- -. 181, 000, 000 Committee recommendation ---. 181, 000, 000 The committee recommends approval of $181 million, as did the House, a reduction of $10 million from the budget request, and $6 million less than the 1965 appropriation. The committee has been advised that benefits under the program totaled $132,233,924 during fiscal year 1965, or $4,766,076 less than the appropriation; the estimate for the final quarter of fiscal year 1965, furnished the committee in April, was $37 million; actual disburse- ments were $30,590,968. It must be concluded from the experience of the past few months that the House allowance, with which this com- mittee agrees, is quite adequate for fiscal year 1966. Lasor-MaNAGEMENT SERVICES ADMINISTRATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 apprepriation____________-_-__-_-_-_-__ eee $7, 743, 300 1966 budget estimate..tt-.-..02 ~~ eee 8, 580, 000 House allowance... 5s ee ee eee eee eee 8, 580, 000 Committee recommendation._.._...-_-. --_--_ 5 eee ee eee 8, 580, 000 The committee recommends approval of the full budget estimate, $8,580,000, as did the House, an increase of $836,700 over the 1965 appropriation, but an increase on a comparable basis of only $16,000 inasmuch as funds for the activity, promotion of compliance and as- sistance to veterans, was included last year in the account “Burean of Veterans’ Reemployment Rights” in the amount of $820,700. Funds are provided to cover activities necessary to the administra- tion and enforcement of the Labor-Management Reporting and Dis- closure Act of 1959, the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act, the several provisions of law respecting reemployment rights of veterans and to other functions required to sustain and carry’ out responsibilities of the Secretary in labor-management relations matters. 6 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS Bureau or Lasor STANDARDS SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation.._....----__-__-_--_-_ +e $3, 674, 600 1866 budget estimate__._-____-____-_--_-_-_..-----_----------~~----- 3, 172, 000 House allowance _______--_______ wi eo ee ee 8, 220, 000 Committee recommendation_.....00....----.----+-/-----4-------- ++ 8, 242, 500 The committee recommends an appropriation of $3,242,500, an in- crease of $22,500 over the House allowance and $70,500 over the budget estimate, and a decrease of $432,100 from the 1965 appropriation. The increase over the budget estimate is comprised of two items— $22,500 added by this committee for the work of the President’s Com- mittee on Employment of the Handicapped, an annualization of the supplemental allowance voted last October; and $48,000 added by the House restoring a portion of the proposed reduction of $49,700 in the safety activity which was to have been accomplished by closing the Detroit office and reassigning one of the employees within the region and closing the Fort Lauderdale office and handling the work by the Jacksonville office. These offices will be continued. The youth function activities, for which $469,000 was available in fiscal year 1965, have been transfered tc other accounts. Women’s Bureau 1965 appropriation____..--__-__--_---2----_----- +--+ $799, 200 1966 budget estimate aoe - 860, 000 House allowance .__..--.----------- ee 860, 000 Committee recommendation... ee 860, 000 The committee concurs in the House allowance of $860,000, the full budget estimate, and an increase of $60,800 over the amount appro- priated in 1965. Programs of this Bureau are designed to advance the position of the 26,500,000 women in the labor force through the promotion of im- proved working conditions, expanded job opportunities, better train- ing, and more adequate counseling services. Major increases over 1965 are $42,400 for the appointment of a Di- rector, grade GS-17, a GS-9 secretary, and related costs, and $15,000 to finance a higher rate of average employment. Wace anp Hour Drviston SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation___-__-__-.---/---__--.--------~- $20, 952, 000 1966 budget estimate ____.-______--_-_--_-_--_----u- eee ene 20, 405, 000 House allowance pee een eee 20, 905, 000 Committee recommendation._.--__- --_- ee 20, 905, 000 The committee recommends approval of an appropriation of $20,- 905,000, as did the House, an increase of $500,000 over the budget request, and a decrease of $47,000 from the 1985 appropriation. The budget request contemplated a reduction of 49 positions and approximately $500,000 in the enforcement activities of the Division. The House added $500,000 which will enable the retention of 45 of LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS 7 the 49 positions abolished by the Bureau of the Budget, including full restoration of the 35 investigator positions. The purpose of the Division is to obtain compliance with minimum standards respecting wages, hour, and other employment. conditions in industries engaged in interstate commerce and in certain establish- ments furnishing goods to the Government. Boreav or Empioyrers’ ComMPENSATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation. 2_-_..------__ $4, 586, 300 1966 budget estimate_._____ _ 4,374, 000 House allowance...--.------ 4, 558, 000 Committee recommendation 4, 558, 000 The committee concurs in the House allowance of $4,558,000, includ- ing $68,000 to be derived from the longshoremen’s trust fund, an increase of $184,000 over the budget estimate, and a decrease of $38,300 under the 1965 appropriation. This Bureau administers the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Act, the Defense Bases Act, certain provisions of the War Claims Act, and the Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities Act. The budget estimate contemplated a gross reduction of $189,200 and 22 positions in the Federal employees activity because of an increase in productivity. The committee’s action will add $184,000 to the estimate so that activities can be carried on at approximately the current level. EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION CLAIMS. AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation____-_--_..-----------_+~-~-~---~-----~----- $52, 650, 000 1966 budget estimate____ 49, 606, 000 House allowance____ _- ---- 48, 530, 000 Committee recommendation_________------.---------------~----+- 48, 530, 000 The committee recommends the House allowance of $48,530,000, a decrease of $1,076,000 under the budget estimate, and $4,120,000 less than the amount appropriated in 1965. Under this appropriation benefits are paid to civil employees of the Government disabled in the performance of duty or to their de- pendents, to dependents of certain reservists in the Armed Forces who died while on active duty with the Armed Forces or while engaged in authorized training in time of peace, to members of the Civil Air Patrol, and to others by various extensions of the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act. The budget estimate included an increase of $1,076,000 to fund the increased cost of treatment of injured Federal employees in Public Health Service Hospitals at Chicago and Memphis which the Public Health Service proposed to close, and has closed. The House denied this increase, an action concurred in by this committee. The reduction of $4,120,000 below the 1965 appropriation is more than compensated for by an estimated increase of $5,820,000 in trans- fers from other Government agencies under the provisions of the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act Amendments of 1960. 8 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS Boreav or Lapor Statistics SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation - ane $18, 542, 000 1966 budget estimate . meee eee ee 20, 601, 000 House allowance__..-..- -.-- 19, 661, 000 Cornmittee recommendation... 19, 726, 000 The committee recommends an appropriation of $19,726,000, an increase of $125,000 over the House allowance, and $1,184,000 more than the 1965 appropriation. The allowance recommended will provide $51,500 net increase for certain mandatory items; an increase of $627,500 to expand employ- ment and unemployment statistics; an increase of $300,000 to expand national survey of professional, administrative, technical, and clerical pay; an increase of $80,000 to expand establishment statistics pro- gram; and $125,000 to initiate a revision of the City Worker’s Family Budget and the Retired Couple’s Budget. No appeal was made by the Department for restoration of any part of the House cut; the committee was convinced however that funds should be allowed to initiate the standard budget research referred to above. Bureau or INTERNATIONAL Lapor AFFAIRS 1965 appropriation-___._-.--.--_-_-____ ee $881, 500 1966 budget estimate_ - - _ 1, 204, 000 House allowance. 1, 204, 000 Comniittee recommendation_ _ aoe 1, 204, 000 The committee approves the House allowance of the full budget esti- mate of $1,204,000, an increase of $322,500 over the 1965 appropriation. The Bureau covers international labor affairs and foreign economic activities within the Department and, with other agencies, assists the U.S. participation in the International Labor Organization, and pro- vides for labor and manpower technical services to other Government and international agencies. The activities under the previous appropriation title “Trade adjust- ment activities” for which $344,000 was appropriated in 1965, have been merged with this appropriation item, and this accounts for the sizable increase over 1965. On a comparable basis with 1965, there is a reduction of about $22,000 which will necessitate a reduction in posi- tions from 92 to 90. OFFICE OF TEE SOLICITOR SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation —___.-.--_-- ee $5, 183, 000 1966 budget estimate... 5, 436, 000 House allowance___-_2 5, 537, 000 Committee recommendation.__.___-----_ 5, 537, 000 The committee recommends an appropriation of $5,537,000, of which $5,401,000 is a direct appropriation and $136,000 is to be derived by transfer from the Unemployment Trust Fund, the same allowance as provided by the House, an increase of $354,000 over the 1965 appro- priation and $101,000 over the budget estimate. LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS 9 The increase of $101,000 over the budget request results from a de- cision to appropriate this amount direct to the Office of the Solicitor rather than as a comparative transfer from the Bureau of Employment Security, salaries and expenses. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation._._____._.-.-________+____--_-.------_--_------ $8, 190, 000 1966 budget estimate__-___.-...------_----_-----~-~~------------- 8, 685, 000 House allowance. ee 8, 685, 600 Committee recommendation_____.________ 8, 685, 060 The committee recommends a total allowance of $3,685,000, as did the House, of which $3,545,000 is a direct appropriation, and $140,000 to be derived by transfer from the Unemployment Trust Fund, an increase of $495,000 over available funds in fiscal year 1965. The increases are comprised mainly of two items, $309,000 to finance rental costs and $121,000 for the employees’ compensation appeals board, heretofore budgeted under the Bureau of Employees’ Compensation. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Foop anp Drug ADMINISTRATION SALARTES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation_____ _.. $40, 370, 000 1966 budget estimate ---- 50,352, 000 House allowance 50, 352, 000 Committee recommendation 50, 352, 000 The committee concurs with the House allowance and budget esti- mate of $50,352,000, which is an increase of $9,982,000 and 402 positions over the 1965 appropriation. Every year since 1957, when $6,779,000 was appropriate for this activity, substantial increases have been provided by the Congress to enable the Food and Drug Administration to afford better protection to the health and interests of the Nation’s consumers. The 1966 al- lowance will strengthen and improve the agency’s research and facili- ties in order to move effectively to fulfill its statutory responsibilities in the areas of adulterated and misbranded foods, drugs, cosmetics, therapeutic devices, and household products containing hazardous sibstances. There is an increase of $1,742,175 for various mandatory items. The program increases are for (1) evaluation of drug applications, $2,759,000; (2) applied food and drug research, $1,418,700; (3) scien- tific support of pesticide, food and drug evaluation programs, $817,- 400, (4) consumer education and promotion of voluntary compliance, $207,100, (5) improvement in field office resources, $1,156,800, and (6) support of science information system and administrative and central laboratory services, $2,232,500. 8. Rept. 537, 89-1 2 10 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 1965 appropriation__._---_----_-.--------------~-------~-------- $10, 875, 000 1966 budget estimate.-__.._--_....-----------~-~---------------- 6, 324, 000 House allowance - .--. ‘5, 720, 000 Committee recommendation___ --+- ---- . 6,324, 000 The committee recommends $604,000 above the House allowance, which is the full budget estimate and a decrease of $4,551,000 under the amount appropriated in 1965, The approved funds will provide $604,000, deleted by the House, to plan a laboratory building at the Beltsville, Md., site to house approxi- mately 450 scientists and related personnel, to be available for occu- pancy in 1969. The House committee indicated that it previously raised the question of whether additional work planned to be done in the headquarters laboratories could be decentralized to field labora- tories, and asked that a serious study be made of this question. There is a headquarters laboratory to open there within a short time and an animal-pharmacological laboratory building was opened several years ago. This committee feels that the planning of this enlarged facility in nearby Maryland alongside other similar facilities is a proper one. The major part of the remaining funds will provide fer construction and fixed equipment for district office facilities in St. Louis and San Francisco, $3,945,000, and for equipping newly constructed district office facilities in Chicago, Denver, and Philadelphia, $650,000. OFFICE OF EDUCATION EXPANSION AND IMPROVEMENT OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 1965 appropriation._._-_--.-_-----------_---~~------------------ $158, 296, 000 1966 budget estimate____.-_-_--.-..------- -_------------------ 257, 491, 000 House allowance_________._-_- eee ee ee 262, 491, 000 Committee recommendation_____.. ____-»--- --_--/----~-------------- 252, 491, 000 The committee recommends $252,491,000, a decrease of $10 million under the House allowance, $5 million under the budget estimate, and $94,195,000 over the amount appropriated in 1965. The budget request included $5 million for the construction of one residential vocational education school in the District of Columbia. Funds approved by the House contained $10 million for construction of two of these schools with no sites designated. Last year the esti- mates for both the regular appropriation bill and supplemental appro- priation bill included requests for $25 million for the five schools authorized by section 14 of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. In both instances the Senate committee deleted the entire amount on the basis that no sites were designated, and no funds were appropriated. The committee is once again disallowing funds for these schools on the same grounds—the sites have not been selected. One-third, or $53,250,000, of the funds contained in the estimate for implementing the Vocational Education Act of 1963 must be used for the construction of area vocational education schools and vocational education for school dropouts and high school graduates, so provision is bemg made to erect new vocational education schools in which the States and com- munities share in the construction costs. Principal increases over the 1965 appropriation are: $53,100,000 for grants to States under the Vocational Education Act of 1963; $5,900,- LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS 11 000 for research and special project activities; and $20 million for work-study programs. HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION 1965 appropriation ~ _- --- $468, 150, 000 1966 budget estimate_____.________-.-_ ee 641, 750, 000 House allowance - 641, 750, 000 Committee recommendation___ 6382, 700, 000 The committee approves $632,700,000, a decrease of $9,050,000 under the House allowance and budget estimate, and increase of $169,550,000 over the 1965 appropriation. The budget requested $119,050,000 under title IIT of the Higher Edu- cation Facilities Construction Act of 1963, Public Law 88-204 ap- proved December 16, 1963, for construction loans. Last year $169,- 250,000 was appropriated for the purpose, of which only $107,716,000 was obligated, with the balance of $61,534,000 reverting to the Treasury. In the light of this experience, the committee is allowing $110 million for construction loans, a reduction of $9,050,000 below the estimate and $2,284,000 more than the amount obligated in 1965. The Senate has added language providing for the use of $2 million from funds under title I of the act “Grants for construction of under- graduate academic facilities” for State administrative expenses as authorized in section 105 of the act. Under title I, State commissions are responsible for developing State plans, determining priorities for construction projects, and administering the facilities grant pro- gram, Originally the budget did not provide an amount for State administrative expenses since the act was previously interpreted to authorize Federal funds for this activity only through 1965. A sub- sequent legal opinion concluded that the act authorizes funds for the | first 2 fiscal years of operation of the program—1965 and 1966. A number of States in 1966 would be unable to continue operation of the State commissions which are required for proper administration of the program in the absence of the added language. This allowance provides $460 million for grants for construction of undergraduate academic facilities. The act authorized annual appro- priations of $230 million for each of 8 fiscal years—1964-66, and pro- vided that an unfunded authorization would carry over to the sub- sequent years. No appropriation was made for fiscal year 1964, so the 1966 request is for the 2-year authorization. FURTHER ENDOWMENT OF COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS 1965 appropriation wee $11, 950, 000 1966 budget estimate 11, 950, 000 House allowance. 11, 950, 000 Committee recommendation _. 11, 950, 000 The committee recommends the House allowance of $11,950,000 the full budget estimate and the same as the amount appropriated in 1965. This annual appropriation under the Bankhead-Jones Act plus the permanent appropriation under the Morrill Act for the same purpose, supports college instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts and related fields, in the 68 land-grant colleges. Each State and Puerto 12 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS Rico receives a minimum of $150,000 which totals $7,650,000, and the balance is distributed on a basis of population. Additional grants of $50,000 per State and Puerto Rico are provided through the permanent appropriation. GRANTS FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES 1965 appropriation $55, 000, 000 1966 budget estimate__.__..._-___--_----------------- _ 55, 000, 006 House allowance_________-_------- +--+ ---+-- +--+ _ 55, 000, 000 Committee recommendation___ _ 55, 000, 000 The committee recommends $55 million the same as the House allow- ance, budget estimate, and 1965 appropriation. ; Under this appropriation grants are made to States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands on a matching basis for the promotion and further development of public library service, and for construction of public library buildings. The Library Serv- ices and Construction Act, Public Law 88-269, approved February 11, 1964, amended the Library Services Act by increasing the amount of assistance under such act, and by extending such assistance to non- rural areas, The amount allowed will provide $25 million in grants for library services, and $30 million in grants for library construction, the same distribution of funds as in 1965. Services will be extended to approximately 2 million additional peo- ple in 1966, as well as improving library service for about 20 million people presently receiving inadequate service. Approximately 150 building projects will be under construction in 1966, the same number as in 1965. PAYMENTS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS 1965 appropriation _---._--_-_-----$_---- +--+ ----- +--+ $332, 000, C00 1966 budget estimate 347, 000, 000 House allowance —_ 347, 000, 000 Committee recommendation --- -... 3847, 000, 000 The committee concurs with the House allowance of $347 million, the full budget estimate and an Increase of $15 million over the 1965 appropriation. Public Law 874, as amended, authorizes payments to assist in the maintenance and operation of schools in areas where enrollments are affected by Federal activities. Such payments are made principally to school districts; however, where such districts cannot assume re- sponsibility for educating federally connected children, payments are made to other agencies for the provision of such education under Federal auspices. The approved amount will provide funds for about 4,300 eligibie school districts and Federal agencies because of the school attendance of approximately 2 million federally connected children. It is esti- mated that this allowance will provide for 100 percent of entitlements. The increase in payments to local educational agencies, $13,500,000, and the increase in payments to other Federal agencies, $1,500,000, is due to a greater number of eligible children and a higher per pupil cost. LABOR-HEALTH,. EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS -13 ASSISTANCE FOR SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION 1965 appropriation.___-2.---.-- $58, 400, 000 1966 budget estimate _._...-__-__---____-----.----.------------- 50, 190, 000 House allowance_._-----------.-------------- +--+ 50, 078, 000 Committee recommendation - -. 50, 078, 000 The committee approves the House allowance of $50,078,000, This is a reduction of $112,000 under the budget estimate, and a decrease of $8,322,000 under the amount appropriated in 1965. Public Law 815, as amended, authorizes payments to assist in con- struction of schools in areas where enrollments are affected by Fed- eral activities. From 1951 through 1965, $1.23 billion has been ap- propriated for this program, aiding in the construction of an estimated 63,000 classrooms to house about 1.84 million pupils. The committee recommendation will provide the full amount esti- mated to be needed to fund approximately 225 projects of local edu- cational agencies in federally affected areas, thereby providing about 2,800 classrooms for 68,000 pupils. The decrease in requirements for grants to iccal school districts, compared with 1965, is attributable to an expected decline in the number of children who will be counted for payment, whose parents work or reside on Federal property. The House reduced the $820,000 requested for technical services to be supplied by the Housing and Home Finance Agency by $112,000. The Department has informed the committee that the Housing and Home Finance Agency will take the necessary budgetary and man- agement steps to accommodate technical services operations within the lower allowance. DEFENSE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES 1965 appropriation -_.--___-_ ue $348, 608, 000. 1966 budget estimate__..-_-___-____ ee . 412, 608, 000 House allowance_____..--------- 412, 668, 000 Committee recommendation__.__________-o. 412, 608, 000 The committee concurs in the House allowance of the full budget estimate of $412,608,000, an increase of $64,005,000 over the 1965 appropriation. The substantial increase over last year is due principally to the expanded program resulting from the amendments to the National Defense Education Act, Public Law 88-665, approved October 16, 1964. In 1965 $15 million was included in this appropriation item to finance the area vocational education program. This program is being transferred in 1966 to the appropriation account “Expansion and improvement of vocational education.” Major increases over 1965 are (1) $34,300,000 for contributions to student loan funds, and (2) $25,868,000 for graduate fellowships. These make available the full amounts authorized by law, $179,300,000 for the loan fund and $58,108,000 for graduate fellowships, for these two programs. Provision has been made for several years for making after March dist loans and payments wnder the student loan program for the first quarter of the next succeeding fiscal year such sums as may be neces- sary, the obligations incurred and the expenditures made thereunder 14 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS to be charged to the appropriation for the same purpose for the suc- ceeding year, limited to not in excess of the amount paid for the same purpose under the authority for the current year. The question of the utility of the advance commitment is raised by heavy correspond- ence with Senators from schools participating in the program. The committee is anxious to encourage college attendance and if the late appropriation of funds is not assuaged by this proviso it will wish to consider changes. The Department is asked to prepare a report on the effectiveness of the paragraph authorizing advance commitments for consideration by the committees during consideration of the appro- priations bill for fiscal year 1967. EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT FOR THE HANDICAPPED 1965 appropriation_____..-..-----_-----------_--------_-------- $16, 500, 000 1966 budget estimate________-_____-__________--u--_iu+--+-- 21, 500, 000 House allowance._._ a 21, 500, 000 Committee recommendation.______-____--_-__-_-- ee 21, 500, 000 The committee approves $21,500,000, the same as the budget estimate and House allowance, and an increase of $5 million over the amount appropriated in 1965. Of the funds provided $19,500,000, the full authorization and an increase of $5 million compared with 1965, will finance training grants, and $2 million will finance research and demonstrations. Grants are made (1) to support training of teachers, supervisors, speech correctionists, research and other professional personnel in fields related to the education of handicapped children, and (2) for the development of new curricular materials, teaching techniques, and other research and demonstration projects. COOPERATIVE RESEARCIL 1965 appropriation__.-_______-------------------------------. $15, 840, 000 1966 budget estimate ---- — -aee ~ 25, 000, 000 House allowance_...__________---_- 25, 000, 000 Committee recommendation. a 25, 000, 000 The committee approves $25 million, the full budget estimate and the amount of the House allowance, an increase of $9,160,000 over the 1965 appropriation. Under this appropriation item, research, demonstrations, course content Improvement and related programs are carried out in coopera- tion with colleges, universities, and States education agencies. The allowance will provide an increase of $4,620,437 for continua- tion costs of the 1965 program. New program increases include $4,186,683 for areas of special research emphasis, and $500,000 for research and development centers. There is a decrease of $147,120 in general research support due to the planned expansion of research activities in the areas of special research emphasis referred to above. EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) 1965 appropriation___._-__-__--__-.--_----_- 2 ee $500, 000 1966 budget estimate___.-___.._.---.-_-------_ 1, 000, 000 House allowance____--__-u.0- ee 1, 000, 600 Committee recommendation__._._.--.---.----- ee 1, 000, 000 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS 15 The committee recommends $1 million, the full budget estimate and House allowance, and an increase of $500,000 over the 1965 appropria- tion. Public Law 480, 83d Congress, as amended, authorizes the use of foreign currencies derived from the sale of surplus agricultural com- modities abroad for scientific research, and the promotion and support of educational and cultural development. The approved funds will provide for purchase of currencies of Burma, India, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Poland, United Arab Republic, and Yugoslavia. Foreign currencies from these countries will be used for educational research, comparative education studies, and to support training projects in South Asia and the Far East, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING AND AREA STUDIES 1965 appropriation ane -- $1, 500, 000 1966 budget estimate....----____-_--------- ane _-. 2,000, 000 House allowance wee 2, 000, 000 Committee recommendation.__..---_----_-.-----.+~--------------- 2, 000, 000 The committee concurs in the House allowance of the full budget estimate of $2 million, an increase of $500,000 over the amount appro- priated in 1965. The Commissioner of Education is authorized by Executive Order 11084 to administer section 102(b) (6) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (Fulbright-Hays Act). This sec- tion of the Act provides an opportunity for U.S. teachers and pro- spective teachers of modern foreign languages to live and study in the country whose language they teach. Section 102(b) (6) also permits teachers in foreign countries to participate in foreign language and area studies in the United States. The approved funds will provide for 400 grants, an increase of 86 over the estimated 314 grants in 1965. SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation______---_-----------------------.--------.-- $20, 127, 500 1966 budget estimate_____-__.....--------------------_-----~---- 23, 072, 000 House allowance__----------------~----_~+--+_.~.~--------------- 22, 562, 000 Committee recommendation____...-_.--------~.-------.---------+- 22, 562, 000 The committee recommends the House allowance of $22,562,000, a reduction of $510,000 under the budget estimate, and an increase of $2,484,500 over the 1965 appropriation. An additional 151 positions were included in the budget request for $23,072,000. The approved funds provide for 100 new positions, a reduction of 51. Most of the requested increase was for the purpose of carrying out legislation passed last year, and to improve educational statistics. The committee agrees with the House report comment that in view of the fact that a rather substantial increase was granted last year for the purpose of initiating new programs, it is believed that a creditable job can be done with the allowance recommended in the bill. There is a supplemental estimate before the House now for $4,500,000 and 330 positions, based on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 89-10, approved April 11, 1965. 16 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS VocaATioNsaL REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION GRANTS TO STATES 1965 appropriation See $100, 100, 000 1966 budget estimate_____-__----------_ eee 124, 000, 000 House. allowance__ a ae wee 124, 000, 000 Committee recommendation____--_______---___--_- ae 124, 000, 000 The committee recommends $124 million, which is the same as the budget estimate and House allowance, and an increase of $23,900,000 over the 1965 appropriation. Federal matching grants are made to assist the States in rehabili- tating handicapped individuals so they may prepare for and engage in remunerative employment. The rehabilitation services provided by the States include medical restoration, training, guidance, and placement services. ‘The requisite State matching rate varies between States according to per capita income, and average approximately 38 percent of the total program. It is estimated that 145,000 persons will be rehabilitated during fiscal year 1966. Federal grants are made to States to assist them in maintaining proj- ects for new or improved vocational rehabilitation services. A more favorable matching rate of 25 percent is designed to encourage de- velopment of new methods and techniques. The approved amount will provide $121 million for grants under section 2 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act for support of basic rehabilitation services, an increase of $23,900,000, and $8 million for extension and improvement projects under section 8. The $121 million estimate is intended to permit full matching of available State funds for services to individuals under the grant formula. An allot- ment base of $200 million is used to permit full matching under the formula for nearly all States, and this requires $119,600,000 of section 2 funds. In addition, $1,400,000 is included to match funds in those States which will have State funds available in excess of the amount necessary to match their allotments on the basis of $200 million. RESEARCH AND TRAINING 1965 appropriation______..---___-_- eee eee $41, 065, 006 1965 budget estimate_____.. se. 45, 845, 000 House allowance.__~-.-.-- 46, 045, 000 Committee recommendation________.--__-_-_-__ 46, 095, 006 The committee approves $46,095,000, an increase of $50,000 over the House allowance, $250,000 over the budget estimate and $5,030,000 more than the amount appropriated in 1965. The committee concurs with the House action in approving $300,000 requested by the Department but deleted by the Budget Bureau, for 2 special rehabilitation research and training centers under the Special Center Program to bring the total to 16, and $100,000 for a compre- hensive study of the current vocational rehabilitation program and of the Nation’s vocational rehabilitaton needs. The committee also agrees with the House ‘in expecting that $200,000 of the $400,000 added for these two items is to be absorbed by transfer from other budgeted ac- tivities. An additional $50,000 has been recommended to allow plan- LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS 17 ning grants of $25,000 each for a center at Warm Springs, Ga., and for the Woodrow Wilson. Center at Fisherville, Va. Other increases are for the mandatory costs of maintaining the 1965 program level for research and demonstrations, training and trainee- ships, and special centers, $971,000; for expansion of the grant pro- grams in research and demonstrations, $1,377,000; and training and traineeships, $2,232,000, The Department has advised that the $100,000 provided for the comprehensive study will be used to assemble a citizens advisory panel to review progress and problems in vocational rehabilitation and to recommend the course of future activities. RESEARCH AND TRAINING (SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) 1965 appropriation__ eee - $2, 000, 000 1966 budget estimate.____ --- ene 2, 000, 000 House allowance__.-~--1 2 2, 0006, 000 Committee recommendation_.____..-----_-..---~-----..-----1----- 2, 000, 000 The committee approves $2 million, the same as the budget estimate, House allowance, and the 1965 appropriation. The Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480), and the International Health Research Act of 1960 (Public Law 86-610) authorize the conduct of research.and related activities abroad. The committee recommendation will provide funds for the purchase of currencies of seven foreign countries: Brazil, India, Israel, Paki- stan, Poland, Egypt, and Yugoslavia, to fund about 24 research proj- ects and to pay travel costs between the United States and cooperating foreign countries of experts associated with these projects. These currencies have been determined by the Treasury to be excess to U.S. requirements in 1966 and will be used to initiate and carry to com- pletion over approximately a 3-year period, research and related activities in the field of vocational rehabilitation. Research programs are planned for 1966 in all of the countries mentioned above. SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1965 appropriation $3, 232, 000 1966 budget estimate 3, 415, 000 House allowance_. 8, 415, 000 Committee recommendation --... 8, 415, 000 The committee recommends $3,415,000, the same amount as the budget estimate and House allowance, and an increase of $183,000 and 16 positions over the 1965 appropriation. This appropriation provides funds to administer the program of grants to States for vocational rehabilitation, domestic and inter- national research and training programs, and the program of licensing the blind to operate vending stands on Federal and other properties. Administrative direction is also provided for the Medical Facilities Survey and Construction Act as it pertains to rehabilitation facilities. The committee action allows funds for mandatory annualization costs, $51,000, and an increase of $138,000 for technical and adminis- trative support of expanded grant programs. 8. Rept. 587, 89-1——3 {8 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS Pousric Heatre SERVICE BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 1965 appropriation._.-____-.-_---------------~-----------------~- $22, 512, 000 1966 budget estimate..._-..-.-.----------~--------- 4, 781, 000 House allowance. -... 9, 481, 000 Committee recommendation. - __ 8,977,000 The committee recommends an appropriation of $8,977,000, a reduc- tion of $454,000 from the House, an increase of $1,196,000 over the budget request, and a decrease of $13,535,000 from the 1965 appropriation. Funds in the amount of $1,670,000 were added by the House, in which the committee concurs, to provide for the completion of con- struction of the perinatal physiology laboratory in Puerto Rico for the joint use of the National Institutes of Neurological Diseases and Blindness and Child Health and Human Development as a research facility involving the use of primates. The committee has approved $20,000 for which there is a budget request for planning an Appalachia environmental health field station to be located adjacent to the University of West Virginia. The committee added $250,000 for planning an extension to the Dental Health Center in San Francisco on the Public Health Service hospital grounds, with later construction to cost about $2.5 million. This Center was opened in July 1961, and has been most productive in research and public health demonstration work. The committee added $76,000 for planning funds for an addition needed at the Narragansett Shellfish Laboratory in Rhode Island; the addition is estimated to require about $1.1 million for construction, to be later requested. - The committee learned of the pressing need of clinical space in the Clinical Center for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in order to get its intramural program underway. ‘The 13th floor of the Center was built for clinical space but has been for some time used by administrative personnel.. Discussion with NIH officials indicated that relief could be given both to the Institute of Child Health and the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases in the Clinical Center if the plans for the new library addition could be altered to include a subbasement in the library wing to pro- vide 20,000 additional feet at a cost of $650,000; and to add two floors—six and seven—to Wing D to provide 13,800 gross square feet of area at an estimated cost of $900,000. The committee has approved $1,550,000 for the purposes to permit the relocation of administrative personnel in order to provide clinical and laboratory space needed by the two Institutes. The Federal Water Pollution Act Amendments of 1961 authorized the Secretary “to establish, equip, and maintain field laboratory and research facilities, including, but not limited to, one to be located * * * In each of the seven regions enumerated. Events have proven the need for additional laboratories, especially to serve the Great Plains region, drained by the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and to serve the Lower Mississippi region, neither of which can be adequately served by any of the seven laboratories specifically authorized. The committee directs that the Service utilize out of unobligated funds available—balances from the $1.6 million appropriation for planning LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS 19 and site acquisition for fiscal year 1962—such moneys necessary to plan facilities to serve the regions above identified in the Columbia, Mo., area and in the Vicksburg-Jackson, Miss., area. The budget request. contemplated, and the House allowed, $2,350,000 for construction of a Middle Atlantic water pollution control labora- tory for which no site has been selected but for which planning funds were made available in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1962, approved September 30, 1961. No site has been selected although the laboratory was authorized in the Water Pollution Control Amend- ments of 1961, approved July 20, 1961. The committee has deleted this item from the bill. When the Secretary has selected the site an notified the Congress, funds will be made available. INJURY CONTROL 1965 approépriation _-. $3, 886, 000 1966 budget estimate___ - 4, 199, 000 House allowance 4, 500, 000 Committee recommendation.___..._----- 4, 199, 000 The committee approves the full budget estimate of $4,199,000, a decrease of $301,000 under the House, and an increase of $313,000 over the amount appropriated im 1965. : This appropriation item was previously entitled “Accident Preyen- tion.” The House allowance provided $301,000 over the budget estimate, $276,000 for developmental research and $25,000 for emergency medi- cal services. These unbudgeted items have been deleted by the com- mittee. Approved increases over 1965 include $90,000 for research granis, $50,000 for fellowships, $100,000 for the initiation of training grants, and $73,000 for expansion of the poison control program. CHRONIC DISEASES AND HEALTH OF THE AGED 1965 appropriation -- $53, 908, 000 1966 budget estimate. 61, 203, 000 House allowance --- 66, 453, 000 Committee recommendation _- _ 67, 458, 000 The committee recommends an appropriation of $67,453,000, an increase of $1,000,000 over the House allowance, $6,250,000 over the budget estimate, and $13,545,000 over the 1966 appropriation. The mission of this program is to encourage and assist States and communities in developing, operating, and improving programs for preventing the occurrence and the increase of disability and depend- ency. ‘This is accomplished through a coordinated program of intra- mural and extramural] research, training, and technical services. The committee concurs with the House action in earmarking in- creases of $3,250,000 for work in the field of mental retardation for training personne] to serve the retarded, and $2,000,000 for activities in the field of hemodialvses. which together with the $1,400,000 in the budget will provide $3,400,000 for dialysis centers for the support of 14 centers, and other related work. The committee is concerned by the increased severity of chroni¢ respiratory diseases including emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and asthma. Deaths from emphysema and chronic bronchitis have quad- 20 WLABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS rupled in only 10 years. Emphysema is one of the three most frequent diggnoses for which disability benefits are granted by the Social Security Administration, estimated at $60 million annually. The committee concurs with testimony that the minimal PHS programs need to be accelerated with specific attention given by an identifiable unit of the chronic disease program to demonstrate methods of early detection of cases of emphysema and regimens of disease control and medical rehabilitation to a state of self support: $1,000,000 is recom- mended to help support intensive treatment programs and outpatient programs, COMMUNICABLE DISEASE ACTIVITIES 1865 appropriation $29, 974, 000 1866 budget estimate. --.. 89, 347, 000 House allowance__.-_--__--__.------------- ee 81, 347, 000 Committee recommendation — -- 81, 497, 000 The committee approves an allowance of $31,497,000, which is $150,000 over the House, $7,850,000 under the budget estimate, and $1,523,000 more than the amount appropriated in 1965. This program provides facilities and services for the investigation, prevention, and suppression of communicable diseases other than tuberculosis and venereal diseases by the development, advancement, and demonstration of knowledge and techniques, and for research through grants for all communicable diseases. The budget request of $8,000,000 for community immunization grants, contingent upon the enactment of legislation extending and expanding the community immunization program to include measles and other diseases beyond the June 30, 1965, expiration date, was disallowed for lack of authorization. Legislation to extend the author- ization had not been enacted at the end of July. The Public Health Service called attention to the problem of rabies control along the Mexican border. In 1964, a total of 409 cases of canine rabies occurring in the United States were reported to the Communicable Disease Center. Of these 30 percent were from four States bordering Mexico. This concentration of cases is chiefly due to a lack of effective rabies control in Mexican cities contiguous to the border counties, and not to inadequate control programs in the United States. A joint program of the two Governments coordinated through the Pan American Health Organization should effectively control canine rabies. The Public Health Service informed the committee that an increase of $150,000 over the $335,000 included in the budget, which is the same amount appropriated for the past 5 years, could be elfectively used. The additional $150,000 is being allowed for the rabies control program. COMMUNITY HEALTH PRACTICE AND RESEARCH 1965 appropriation $28, 230, 600 1966 budget estimate 63, 482, 000 House allowance 60, 482, 000 Committee recommendation 55, 482, 000 The committee recommends approval of $55,482,000, a reduction of $5,000,000 under the House, $8,000,000 below the budget estimate, and an increase of $27,252,000 over the 1965 appropriation. LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS 2] The budget request of $63,482,000, an increase of $35,252,000 over the amount appropriated in 1965, includes transfers of the following pro- grams formerly financed under other appropriations: (1) $5,000,000 relating to a nationwide referral program for selective service medical rejectees previously financed by the Office of Economic Opportunity; (2) $15,400,000 for the health professions student loan program funded in 1965 under “Heaith professions educational assistance”; and (3) $8,900,000 for the nursing student loan program funded in 1965 under “Nursing services and resources.” Other increases contemplated in the budget request are $2,500,000 for public health traineeships, $1,506,- 000 for project grants for graduate public health training, and $500,000 for health services for migrant workers. The committee concurs with the House action in deleting the $8,000- 000 request for project grants for domestic agricultural migrant work- ers due to the expiration of the program on June 30, 1965. Legisia- tion to extend the authorization hadn’t been enacted at the end of July. The request for $5,000,000 for the program for selective service medi- cal rejectees is disallowed because the committee believes this activity should continue to be funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity as in 1965, CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS 1965 appropriation__.------_- $10, 982, 000 1966 budget estimate____ ween 15, 666, 600 House allowance___..--__--.v- 15, 666, 606 Committee recommendation______..-...--_- 15, 666, 00d The committee concurs in the House allowance of the full budget estimate of $15,666,000, an increase of $4,734,000 over the 1965. ap- propriation, The 1966 estimate provides for program activities to continue im- plementation of the recommendations of the Surgeon General’s Task Force on Tuberculosis Control, which were contained in the report submitted to the Surgeon General in December 1963. There is an increase of $4,700,000 over 1965 for project grants, thus making a total of $9,700,000 available for this program, and formula grants to States are being supported at the same level, $3,000,000, that they were last year. CONTROL OF VENEREAL DISEASES 1985 appropriation.._--------- $10, 105, 006 1966 budget estimate an -- -~ 10,392, G60 House allowance__.---_.e ~-.. 106, 392, 000 Committee recommendation_____.u.-.- 10, 392, 000 The committee approves the full budget estimate and House allow- ance, an increase of $287,000 over the amount appropriated for 1965, The 1966 budget request contains $6,229,000, the same amount as in 1965, for the continuation of the 1965 level of project grant support for State and local eradication programs. The personnel complement of these programs is expected to be at recommended strength over the entire year and the level of financial assistance required to maintain impetus of the eradication program will be that recommended by the Surgeon General’s Task Force on Syphilis Control. 22 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS The increases include an additional $100,000 to expand the syphilis teaching programs to an additional 10 teaching hospitals, and $180,000 for syphilis research and services. Of the $180,000, two positions and $76,000 are for initiating the development phase of a 8-year program to perfect spectrophotometric methods for reading results in serologic tests for syphilis, and five positions and $104,000 is for intensification of research on production of syphilis immunity in humans. DENTAL. SERVICES AND RESOURCES 1965 appropriation $7, 228, 000 1966 budget estimate. 7, 908, 000 House allowance 7, 908, 000 Committee recommendation 8, 383, 000 The committee approves $8,383,000, an increase of $480,000 over the budget estimate and House allowance, and $1,155,000 more than the 1965 appropriation. The recommended funds provide increases over the 1965 appropri- ation of $160,000 for research grants, $150,000 for research training grants, $130,000 for dental auxiliary utilization grants, $113,000 for expansion of programs at the Dental Health Center, and $65,000 for expansion of research and development in dental technology. The 1966 estimate continues the State formula grants at $520,000, the amount added by the Senate last year to initiate the program, which was approved in conference. The committee has approved an increase of $480,000 to make available a total of $1 million for grants to States to continue State programs for clinical activities in treating the aged and handicapped ; maintain school dental health programs; and disseminate existing research and technical knowledge to the practitioner. NURSING SERVICES AND RESOURCES 1965 appropriation___.-__-------------------