Author: United States Congress Se Agriculture

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781332286300

Excerpt from Use of Water to Control Grain Dust: Before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry, and General Legislation of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session on the Use of Water to Control Grai The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, 2:36 p.m., in room SR-332, Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. Thomas A. Daschle, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Present or submitting a statement: Senators Daschle, Kerrey, and Craig. Statement Of Hon. Thomas A. Daschle, A U. S. Senator From South Dakota Senator Daschle. The hearing will come to order. I want to welcome all our witnesses and those who have come to participate today. The U. S. Department of Agriculture's Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) is responsible for designing grain standards that effectively communicate the storability and end-use characteristics of grain, maintaining and supervising the official inspection system, and conducting mandatory inspections of export grain. FGIS was last reauthorized in 1988, and this authority expires September 30th of this year, in a matter of weeks. This subcommittee has conducted frequent and, in my view, fairly intensive oversight activities on FGIS. Also, at the subcommittee's request, the General Accounting Office conducted a yearlong investigation. On May 13th of this year, the subcommittee held a hearing to examine opportunities to improve the operations of FGIS. Among other witnesses at that hearing, GAO presented the results of their investigation. The hearing demonstrated a consensus of views that were incorporated into a discussion draft of legislation to reauthorize FGIS. This discussion draft was recently distributed to interested parties, as well as to today's witnesses, for comment. With the exception of the proposal to ban the use of water on grain, the legislation has been generally received with virtual unanimity. Very briefly, the bill extends FGIS inspection operations and authorizes appropriations with FGIS through September 30th of the year 2003. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.