§713d–2 Food and conservation program; appropriations; administrative expenses

Summary

The President must run a program to save food and animal feed when supplies are low and to help keep prices steady. He can use public information, education, assistance, and other voluntary steps to promote better use and storage of food and feed, stop waste, control insects and rodents, and encourage people to eat less of scarce items and more of plentiful ones. He may carry this out through federal, state, local, or private agencies. Congress can provide whatever money is needed. For the rest of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, up to $1,000,000 may be used from funds set aside for Public Law 84 of the Eightieth Congress or from interim foreign aid. That money may pay administrative costs like staff in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, buying or renting vehicles, and hiring temporary experts or organizations (including stenographic reporting) by contract without following the usual civil service and classification rules (individuals may be paid no more than $50 per day). Funds can be allotted or transferred to any department or agency to help run the program, and those agencies may obligate and spend the money under their normal rules, except as to section 6101 of title 41 and sections 3324(a) and (b) of title 31.