availability of agricultural literature throughout the United States. S00217-002 Food and Nutrition Information and Educational Materials Center (FNIC) Budget Function/Subfunction: Public assistance and other income supplements (604). Agency Contact: Christine Justin, Head, Food and Nutrition Information and Educational Materials Center. (301) 344-3778. The Food and Nutrition Information and Educational Materials Center (FNIC) is designed to assemble, maintain and disseminate resource materials for training School Food Service personnel who implement USDA's Child Nutrition Programs. FNIC collects literature related to food service and nutrition. These materials include books, journal articles, pamphlets, government documents, special reports, proceedings, bibliographies, etc. In addition, FNIC maintains a collection of non-print media in the form of films, filmstrips, slides, games, charts, audiotapes, and video cassettes. Documents, articles, and audiovisual aids of substantial interest to the school food service and nutrition education community are selected for inclusion in the FNIC Catalog. To further aid the user in selecting materials of interest, each document selected for inclusion in this catalog has been indexed using a specialized vocabulary specifically developed for this collection. An informative abstract, extract, or annotation is also included. S00218-001 Watershed Program Systems. Budget Function/Subfunction: Water resources and power (301). Agency Contact: Carter Cochran, Chief, Management Systems Branch. 447-7277. The Soil Conservation Service collects data and reports regularly on the status of Watershed Programs carried out under Public Law 83-566. Data are kept on applications received, important measures of approved projects, cost summaries by state and county, and related status information. Data elements include acres involved, construction dates, and project obligations for SCS and all participating agencies. S00219-001 Census of Agriculture (Data Base). Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. This data base contains information on the social and economic characteristics of farm businesses, farmers, farm workers, and people living on farms for 1949, 1954, 1959, and 1964 as tabulated and published by the Bureau of the Census. In addition special data are available for agricultural subregions by economic class of farm (comparable to that for states in table 17 of Volume 1) from the 1964 Census of Agriculture. These data include selected items on land resources and land use, tenure, and type of farm, equipment and facilities, use of production inputs, and the volume and composition of output. The major part of the data have to do with the characteristics of the members of farm-operator households--age, education, race, outside sources of income, and work on and off the farm operated. These data have not been cleared for publication, but have been adjusted to add to published state totals in consultation with census personnel. S00219-002 Total U.S. Agricultural Production Data. Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. These data have been published annually since 1910 for the United States and for 10 farm production regions since 1939. Official reports of the Statistical Reporting Service are the chief sources of data for crop and livestock production and prices. The data are compiled by the National Economic Analysis Division of the Economic Research Service. S00219-003 Crop Acreage, Yield and Production (Data Base). Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. Data are collected which provide summaries of major agricultural crops of the United States. These data include the acres planted, acres harvested, yield per planted acre and total production of each crop by county. The organization responsible is the National Economic Analysis Division of the Economic Research Service. S00219-004 Crop Estimates Data. Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. Data consist of county, state, and national estimates of planted and harvested acreage, yield, production, value and stocks of major field crops, of fruit, vegetables, and tree nuts. Also included are estimates of pasture condition and winter wheat forage supplies, production and sales of flowers and foilage plants and estimates of mushroom production. Data are obtained from sample surveys of growers and farmers in each state. Data are published monthly and annually in Washington D.C., and in each of the Statistical Reporting Service's State Statistical Offices. S00219-005 Farm Commodity Sales Data. Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. The data base is developed through collection of data maintained by states on farm prices, volume of marketings, and value of sales of farm products for about 150 different commodities. An index of volume of farm marketings is developed monthly. Estimates are made monthly in the Economic Research Service, National Economic Analysis Division. S00219-006 National Food Situation Report. Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. The report is a quarterly publication of per capita food consumption statistics, food expenditures, food price indexes, outlook information, and current food supply data prepared by the National Economic Analysis Division of the Economic Research Service. S00219-007 Net Farm Income (Data Base). Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. The net farm income series is an integral part of the national income accounts. The data are available by states, and are widely used on a per farm as well as an aggregated basis. The information is processed by the National Economic Analysis Division within the Economic Research Service. S00219-008 Fertilizer Use in the U.S. by Crop and Area (Data Base). Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. These data provide, quinquennially, total tons of nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium applied on the major crops in 99 subregions, by states and U.S. Included is the percent of acres receiving each of the primary plant nutrients, rates of applications per acre and total acres of each of the major crops requiring fertilizer. The data are compiled by the National Economic Analysis Division of the Economic Research Service. S00219-009 Shares of Agricultural Exports from States and Regions. Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. Estimates of the shares of U.S. agricultural exports by states and regions are developed annually based upon each state's contribution to the national production of the commodity or product exported. Estimated exports by states and regions are available on the same basis since FY 1970. These data show exports by value for 19 major commodities or commodity groups. Data are available, but not published, on State and regional shares under specified Government-financed programs and commercial sales for dollars. These data are available in 'Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States' and from records in the Statistical Branch of the Economic Research Service. S00219-010 Payment Assistance Provided on United States Agricul tural Exports. Budget Function/Subfunction: Foreign economic and financial assistance (151); Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. An annual fiscal year report published in 'Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States' gives estimates of the value of agricultural exports assisted by export payments in cash and by special Commodity Credit Corporation export sales at competitive world prices. The value of export payments and export differentials on agricultural exports also are estimated by commodities. This information is compiled by the Foreign Demand and Competition Division of the Economic Research Service. S00219-011 Exports of Agricultural Commodities under Government Financed Programs (Data Base). Budget Function/Subfunction: Foreign economic and financial assistance (151); Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. Data on agricultural exports under Governmentfinanced programs are available from operating agencies in USDA and other departments. The Economic Research Service maintains a file on exports under P.L.-480 Title I, Sales for Foreign Currency and Long-term Dollar and Convertible Foreign Currency Credit Sales; and Title II Government-to-government donations for disaster relief and economic development, donations through voluntary relief agencies, and barter for strategic materials. Data are available from AID for mutual security (AID) programs. Data are published on a quarterly cumulative basis, calendar and fiscal years for commodity total, and country totals for each program. Data are now available arranged on a commodity-by-country and country-bycommodity basis and can also be arranged on a commodity group, trade bloc format. Data for specified programs are integrated with the Bureau of Census total data to develop commercial sales for dollars on a quarterly cumulative, fiscal, and calendar year basis. This series contains barter for overseas procurement, CCC Credit Sales and Export Import Bank credits--all considered commercial sales. The Foreign Demand and Competition Division of the Economic Research Service operates the system. S00219-012 Agricultural Trade of Foreign Countries (Data Base). Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352); Foreign economic and financial assistance (151). Agency Contact: Peter J, Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. The most important source of data on the agricultural trade of foreign countries is the magnetic tapes stored at the United Nations statistical center in New York. These tapes contain the import and export data for agricultural commodities of countries reporting trade to the United Nations. Data are available for calendar years 1964 through 1970. The level of commodity detail is dependent upon the reporting country but is usually at the 5-digit Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) level. Origins and destinations are provided with quantities in tons and values in 1,000 U.S. dollars. Data are also tabulated manually from the foreign country trade books which are available in the Department of Agriculture. The system is operated by the Foreign Demand and Competition Division of the Economic Research Service. S00219-013 International Prices for Commodities Competing with United States (Data Base). Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352); Foreign economic and financial assistance (151). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. Data are (1) prices received by U.S. and competitive exporters for major farm commodities and prices paid by buyers for such commodities and (2) prices paid by U.S. importers for major farm products of foreign origin. Monthly price reports, presently covering 12 major commodities, are published in 'Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States. Prices for the most recent month, the same month, 1 year earlier, and the intervening 11 months are shown in each issue. Monthly prices are averages of 4 to 5 weekly quotations, derived from current trade papers. The series are (1) export prices of typical grades of U.S. and Canadian wheat and of Thai rice; foreign import prices of U.S., Canadian, and Australian wheat; U.S. and Argentine corn; grain sorg. hum, U.S. soybeans and soybean meal; and U.S. cotton; and (2) prices of the following U.S. import products: cow meat, coffee, raw sugar, cocoa beans, and rubber. New series are to be added as additional reliable, current price quotations become available. This data base is maintained by the Foreign Demand and Competition Division of the Economics Research Service. S00219-014 Foreign Trade of Member Countries of the OECD (Data Base). Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. Data on the agriculture trade of organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (CFCD) member countries are stored on magnetic tapes at the Archives, Washington D.C. The tapes contain the trade data for both agricultural and nonagricultural products for all OFCD member countries for the years 1961 through 1970. Commodity detail is at the 4-digit Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) level. Origins and destinations are given with quantities in metric tons and values in U.S. dollars. This file is updated by the Federal Reserve Bank as the data types become available from OECD. The system is operated by the Foreign Demand and Competition Division of the Economic Research Service. S00219-015 Foreign Gold and Exchange Reserves (Data Base). Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352); Foreign economic and financial assistance (151). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. The data include international liquidity, total and component parts: exchange rates; money supply; external debt; interest rates; and balance of payments. They are available for nearly all free world nations on an annual, quarterly and monthly basis. The Foreign Demand and Competition Division of the Economic Research Service operates the system. S00219-016 Agricultural Finance Review Statistical Supplement. Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. This publication includes numerous statistical services which are related to or pertain to the financing of U.S. agriculture. Contents include farm mortgage credit, nonreal estate credit, deposits of country bank, interest and money rates, taxes, farm real estate values and transfers, fire and crop insurance, farm income statement, and the balance sheet of the farming sector. It is prepared by National Economic Analysis Division of the Economic Research Service. S00220-001 Statistics of Farmer Cooperatives. Budget Function/Subfunction: Agricultural research and services (352). Agency Contact: Peter J. Doyle, Chief, Paperwork Management Branch, Management Division. 447-5725. This regular publication contains an annual summary of data obtained from 7,800 farmer cooperatives. It includes information on number of cooperatives memberships and volume of business (sales by principal products and receipts from related sources). Data are published by commodities, services, regions, and states. It is assembled by the History and Statistics Group of the Farmer Cooperative Service. Department of Commerce S00300-001 *Information Systems. Catalog. John F. Klein. ADP Operations Division, Office of Organization and Management Systems. August 1975. 143 pp. Budget Function/Subfunction: Commerce and Transportation (400). Public Availability: Office of Organization and Management Systems, ADP Operations Division.. Agency Contact: John F. Klein, Chief, ADP Operations Division. 967-2520. This is a catalog explaining several information systems. A typical entry contains the following: system title; user; project code; an explanation of the objectives of the system; input data, including system management facility statistics, data entry, data base management, administrative terminal system, Computer Center supplies, equipment rental; processing requirements; output, including system management facilities billing; special considerations; and references. S00300-002 Automated Data Systems. 1 vol. Budget Function/Subfunction: Commerce and Transportation (400). Agency Contact: Charles Palla, Office of Operations and Management Systems. 783-3707. This compilation is an inventory of all computer systems software programs within the Commerce Department. For each software system identified the following data are presented: software type, software function, title/acronym, abstract, programming language, status, documentation, and availability. In addition, a technical contact person is identified for each software package, giving organization, address and telephone number. S00300-003 Standard Accounting System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403). Agency Contact: John F. Klein, ADP Operations Division. 967-2520. This system collects, edits, and stores data relative to accounting control, financial management, status reports, and budget planning. Input data are derived from standard or departmental forms used to (1) establish annual operating budgets, (2) procure goods and services, (3) disburse funds and (4) record time worked by employees. These forms are processed on a daily basis with an approximate volume of 2,000 transactions per day. Outputs required from this system include daily activity reports and month-end status reports, including cost statements of current period costs, as well as year-to-date analysis of costs versus planned budgets. A complete description of required input forms and output reports is given in the manual, 'Data Processing Accounting Specifications'. S00300-004 Budget and Fiscal Model. Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403). Agency Contact: John F. Klein, Chief, ADP Operations Division. 967-2520. This model is used by the Office of Budget and Program Analysis to respond quickly to frequent requests for special analytical summaries of budget and fiscal data, such as appropriations, obligations and outlays. Input is accomplished via remote terminals and consists of arrays, matrices, or tables of summarized budget and fiscal data. The arrays are used to establish separate data bases which can be modified from time to time by users constructing the model at a remote terminal. At any given time there may be 100 models in use, each of which produces an array averaging two pages. Approximately one new model constructed each week, and as many as 300 data bases may be in use, consisting of about 90 data elements each. The output of the modelling system consists of budget and statistical summaries in a format determined by the programming language employed in constructing the model. An average of about 10 to 50 reports (arrays) is printed weekly sometimes peaking to about 100. S00300-005 Commerce Resource Allocation and Management Information System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403). Agency Contact: John F. Klein, Chief, ADP Operations Division. 967-2520. This system processes information to support management in planning, budgeting, and allocating resources to accomplish program objectives. The system is divided into two parts: (1) reporting budget formulations and executions at the appropriation level on a monthly cycle, and (2) reporting budgetary and objective data at the budget line-item level on a quarterly cycle. At the appropriation level, the input data consist of planned and actual reports of obligations, outlays, permanent and other than permanent employment. At the budget lineitem level the input consists of monthly and quarterly plans and actuals for costs, accrued expenditures, employment and performance measures. S00300-006 Monthly and Quarterly Reporting of Obligations, Outlays, and Employment (OBPA). Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403). Agency Contact: Edwin A. Anderson, ADP Operations Division. 967-2636. The OBPA system processes data necessary to produce departmental level reports of obligations, outlays and employment. This system operates in both online and batch modes. The on-line mode employs the facilities of ATS, and is used for data collection; batch mode is used for report processing. S00300-007 Productivity Management Systems (PMS). Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403). Agency Contact: Dallas H. Dobelbower, Office of Adminis trative Services. 967-3450. The PMS System generates equations (models) relating workforce to workload using the technique of multiple regression analysis. Equations are used to forecast manpower needs, maintain a productivity index, and develop standard-hour costs for administrative services cost centers. The data system has been periodically updated and refined. S00300-008 Industrial Water Data Base. Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403). Agency Contact: Edwin A. Anderson, ADP Operations Division. 967-2636. The Industrial Water Data base contains records on water requirements by manufacturing industries consisting of name, address, water intake by sources, gross water use by purpose, water discharged by location, employment and treatment of intake water for 15,000 individual establishments, coded by State, SMSA, County, and SIC (Standard Industrial Classification). S00300-009 License Accounting and Reports System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403). Agency Contact: Edwin A. Anderson, ADP Operations Division. 967-2636. This system includes the automation of selected data appearing on the Export License Applications (FC-419) and the automated retrieval of information from this data base. The system also tallies and accounts for shipment under validated licenses and compares this data to authorized shipment data as a part of an improved export control compliance program. The data base contains detailed information on exporters, commodities to be exported, and dollar values of exports derived from export applications. The system prepares statistical and other reports in various predetermined formats, as well as special-request reports which are used to assist OEC in performing special duties and in analyzing historical events. S00300-011 Publications Catalog and Index, 1973 Supplement. E. Nell Sawyer and Doris H. Gerhoff. Office of Publications, Dept. of Commerce. 1974. 78 pp. + index. Budget Function/Subfunction: Commerce and Transportation (400). Public Availability: GPO, $1.10. Agency Contact: Stanley J. Bania, Director, Office of Publications. 783-3794. This catalog supplements the basic volume, 'United States Department of Commerce Publications,' which lists selected publications of the Department and its predecessor agencies up to October 1950. This supplement includes publications listed in the 1973 'Weekly Business Service Checklists,' as well as some additional material. It continues the general arrangement used in the basic volume and in the first 21 supplements. It identifies new, renamed, and removed depository libraries, supplementing the complete list given in the 1972 edition. Many of the publications listed are available for reference at depository libraries. The catalog also includes a current list of Department of Commerce district offices where many of the publications mentioned in the catalog are available for reference. In addition, the catalog contains a list of publications issued in 1973 arranged by issuing bureau or office. Papers and articles are cited by title for five major periodicals: 'Commerce Today,' 'Construction Review,' 'Survey of Current Business,' 'Journal of Research,' and 'Fishery Bulletin.' S00301-001 Index to Foreign Market Reports. Monthly. *Bureau of International Commerce, DIBA. Budget Function/Subfunction: Commerce and Transportation (400). Public Availability: NTIS, $10 per year. Agency Contact: Charles W. Hostler, Director, Bureau of International Commerce. 783-5261. This index lists 1) unclassified commodity, industry, and economic reports prepared by United States commercial officers abroad, 2) Trade Fair participants and visitors lists, and specific market research summaries, and 3) Foreign Market Surveys prepared on a contract basis by private research organizations for the Department of Commerce or by Commerce Department market research officers. These reports are listed in three sections of the index. The first section lists documents by DIBA number, the second by country, and the third by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code and/or general subject matter. In each listing, DIB_number, country, title, and price of report are included. The index is primarily used for ordering reports from the National Technical Information Service. S00301-002 Index to International Business Publications. Bureau of Agency Contact: Charles W. Hostler, Director, Bureau of International business publications published by the U.S. Government are arranged alphabetically by country and region in this index. The index includes three types of reports; overseas business reports, foreign economic trends, and global market surveys. Overseas business reports discuss marketing and doing business in individual countries and regions and cover basic economic data, foreign trade regulations, trade out-looks and statistics, market profiles and factors, etc. Approximately 75-80 are published each year. Foreign economic trends are a series of commercial reports from U.S. Foreign Service posts, and present current business and economic trend developments, with the latest economic indicators, in more than 100 countries that offer a present or potential market for U.S. goods and services. Approximately 150 reports are published each year. Global market surveys are studies that supply detailed data on 14-20 overseas markets for products of selected target U.S. industries with high export potential. The studies assess the U.S. competitive position and pinpoint best sales opportunities and methods to reach the market for U.S. exporters and manufacturers. Five surveys are published each year. S00301-003 Program Management Information System (PMIS). Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403). Agency Contact: John F. Klein, Chief, ADP Operations Division. 967-2520. This system tracks the allocation of resources in terms of dollars and manpower over stated time periods and compares resource expenditures against preestabl |