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 PROCLAMATION 4495—APR. 1, 1977

91 STAT. 1729

nation. As we enter our third century, the majority of our people no longer live on farms, but each farmer and farm worker has a more vital role than ever before in our common welfare. Not only our own people in cities and towns, but millions of others around the world, depend on the food and fiber produced on America's farms. Every year hundreds of thousands of farm and ranch residents suffer unnecessary injury, and sometimes disability and death, from accidents on the farm. The dollar loss is great, but the cost in human suffering is even greater. We have already done much to make agriculture safer, but we can do more. With a new awareness of the importance of farm safety we can insure that the equipment and chemicals used on the farm are safe for both farmer and consumer. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of July 25 through July 31, 1977, as National Farm Safety Week. I urge all who live and work on the nation's farms and ranches to commit themselves to safe conduct in all activities. Further, I urge all who work with and serve agricultural producers to assist and support them in this eflfort in every possible way. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand this twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and first. JIMMY CARTER

Proclamation 4495

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April 1, 1977

Termination of Natural Gas Emergency By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation On February 2, 1977, Proclamation No. 4485 was issued which proclaimed and Ante, p. 1720. declared the existence of a natural gas emergency within the meaning of Section 3 of the Emergency Natural Gas Act of 1977. Such action was necessary because of the Ante, p. 4. imminent shortage of natural gas for high-priority uses and the inadequacy of remedial measures other than the extraordinary measures authorized by Section 4 of that Act. Section 3 of the Emergency Natural Gas Act of 1977, however, requires termination of such emergency when the President finds that such shortages no longer exist and are no longer imminent. I now find that the severe natural gas shortages which necessitated the declaration of a natural gas emergency within the meaning of Section 3 of said Act no longer exist and are no longer imminent. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including the Emergency Natural Gas Act of 1977, do hereby proclaim

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