§713d–2 Food and Conservation Program; Appropriations; Administrative Expenses

Summary

The President must run a program to save and conserve food and animal feed when supplies are low and to help keep prices steady. The President can use education, information, help, and other voluntary steps to teach people to use food carefully, avoid waste, control pests, eat less of scarce items and more of abundant ones, and do other conservation activities. The President can work with federal, state, local, and private groups to do this. Congress can give whatever money is needed. For the rest of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, up to $1,000,000 is available from funds for carrying out Public Law 84 (Eighty‑ieth Congress) or from interim foreign aid funds. The money can pay normal admin costs, including staff pay in Washington and elsewhere, buying or renting vehicles, and hiring temporary experts or consultants (including stenographers) by contract, even if civil service rules do not apply, but no one can be paid more than $50 per day. Funds can be given or moved to other departments or agencies asked to help. Once given to a department or agency, the money is spent under that department’s usual spending rules and not under section 6101 of title 41 or section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31.