91ST CONGRESS 1st Session SENATE { REPORT No. 91-419 PROVIDING FOR THE TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF RURAL HOUSING PROGRAMS AND FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION INSURANCE AUTHORITY, AND TO EXTEND THE PERIOD DURING WHICH THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT MAY ESTABLISH MAXIMUM INTEREST RATES ON INSURED LOANS SEPTEMBER 18, 1969.-Ordered to be printed Mr. SPARKMAN, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S.J. Res. 152] The Committee on Banking and Currency, having considered the same, reports favorably a committee joint resolution (S.J. Res. 152) to provide for the temporary extension of rural housing programs and Federal Housing Administration insurance authority, and to extend the period during which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may establish maximum interest rates on insured loans, and recommends that the joint resolution do pass. GENERAL STATEMENT The purpose of the joint resolution is to extend for 3 months, until January 1, 1970, all Federal housing programs which would otherwise expire on October 1, 1969. This temporary extension will keep the programs going until such time as the bill, S. 2864, entitled "The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1969" can pass the Congress and become law. This bill is on the Senate Calendar but, because of the pressure of other business, it will not be finally approved by both Houses of Congress before the October 1, 1969, deadline. The joint resolution involves three basic programs: (1) Rural housing under title V of the Housing Act of 1949; (2) Federal Housing Administration insurance program under the National Housing Act; and (3) FHA and VA interest rate ceilings. All of these have October 1, 1969, deadlines which must be extended to keep these programs in operation. A 3-month extension is being recommended by the committee to assure that the programs will be kept in operation until such time as S. 2864, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1969, is enacted into law. о Mr. BIBLE, from the Committee on Appropriations, REPORT [To accompany H.R. 12781] The Committee on Appropriations, to which was referred the bill (H.R. 12781) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and for other purposes, reports the same to the Senate with various amendments and presents herewith information relative to the changes recommended: Amount of budget estimates, 1970.. Bill as passed by the House... Increases over House bill recommended by com mittee... Total of bill as reported... Appropriations, 1969----. Bill as reported to the Senate: Under budget estimates, 1970---- Over appropriations, 1969 $1, 569, 454, 500 1, 540, 184, 700 4, 635, 200 1, 544, 819, 900 1, 530, 166, 135 24, 634, 600 14, 653, 765 SUMMARY OF BILL Estimates totaling $1,569,454,500, which includes new obligational authority and amounts necessary to liquidate contract authorization, were considered by the committee for the programs and activities of the agencies and bureaus of the Department of the Interior-except the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, the Alaska Power Administration, the Southeastern Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, the Bonneville Power Administration, and the Bureau of Reclamation-and the following related agencies: Forest Service (Department of Agriculture). Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review. Commission of Fine Arts. Indian Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare). Indian Claims Commission. National Capital Planning Commission. National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities. Public Land Law Review Commission. Smithsonian Institution. National Gallery of Art. National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Develop ment. Federal Field Committee for Development Planning in Alaska. American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. The committee recommends appropriations totaling $1,544,819,900 ($1,225,277,900 for definite appropriations, $127,444,000 for indefinite appropriations of receipts, $165,898,000 to liquidate contract authorizations and authorization to spend $26,200,000 from public debt receipts) for the programs and activities of these agencies. The sum recommended by the committee is a decrease of $24,634,600 under the budget estimates considered, an increase of $4,635,200 over the sums included in the House bill, and an increase of $14,653,765 over the appropriations for the current fiscal year. It is estimated that the agencies included in this bill will produce $1,355,344,096 in receipts during fiscal year 1970. The committee's recommendations of appropriations are only $189,475,804 more than receipts accruing from the activities of the several agencies included in this bill. FUNDING OF INTERAGENCY ACTIVITIES The committee has again included a provision in the bill to prohibit the funding of committees, boards, and other interagency groups by assessments against the various activities included in this bill. This action does not indicate that the committee disapproves of the entity concerned, but does mean that the committee desires to know what financing it is providing and prefers not to have approved budgets reduced without committee consideration. The committee reiterates its position of last year that the entities concerned receive specific prior congressional approval of their financing. EMPLOYEE HOUSING In this committee's report on the appropriations act for fiscal year 1963, the limitation on the cost of employee housing, except in Alaska, was set at $21,500, including engineering and design costs but excluding provision for utilities to the lot line. The committee increases the cost limitation to $29,000 in all areas, but directs continued adherence to remaining requirements heretofore established. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS The committee recommends revision of section 102 of the bill pertaining to fire suppression costs by agencies of the Department of the Interior to delete the phrase "within each bureau or office." This will permit the Secretary of the Interior to make temporary transfers of funds between bureaus of the Department to meet firefighting costs when such action is deemed necessary to avoid disrupting other bureau programs. This action is taken with the explicit understanding that such fund transfers are to be made from "no-year" appropriations. Such transfers are not to become permanent but are to be of a temporary nature only. The bureau from which funds are transferred is to be repaid either from funds made available in a supplemental appropriation or from funds appropriated to the receiving bureau in a subsequent year. TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR The committee recommends an appropriation of $52,573,000 which is $27,000 under the allowance of the House of Representatives and $1,067,000 under the budget estimate. The following table compares the actions: |