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 PUBLIC LAW 97-370—DEC. 18, 1982

96 STAT. 1793

That the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per centum of the current replacement value of the building or $90,000 whichever is greater: Provided further. That this appropriation shall be available for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100. FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE

For necessary expenses to carry on services to ensure that the Nation's commercial supply of meat and poultry products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled, as authorized by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, as amended, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act, as amended, $315,557,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for field employment pursuant to section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements, but, unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any one building shall not exceed $90,000, except for two buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $150,000, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per centum of the current replacement value of the building: Provided further. That this appropriation shall be available for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100. ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE

For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in conducting economic research and service relating to agricultural production, marketing, and distribution, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621-1627), and other laws, including economics of marketing; analyses relating to farm prices, income and population, and demand for farm products, use of resources in agriculture, adjustments, costs and returns in farming, and farm finance; research relating to the economic and marketing aspects of farmers cooperatives; and for analyses of supply and demand for farm products in foreign countries and their effect on prospects for United States exports, progress in economic development and its relation to sales of farm products, assembly and analysis of agricultural trade statistics and analysis of international financial and monetary programs and policies as they affect the competitive position of United States farm products; $37,751,000, of which not less than $200,000 shall be available for investigation, determination and finding as to the effect upon the production of food and upon the agricultural economy of any proposed action affecting such subject matter pending before the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for presentation, in the public interest, before said Administrator, other agencies or before the courts: Provided, That not less than $350,000 of the funds contained in this appropriation shall be available to continue to gather statistics and conduct a special study on the price spread between the farmer and consumer: Provided further. That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C.

2i use 601 note. 21 USC 451 note. Construction '^osts.

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