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fConstruction Progress and Problems of the Darien Gap Highway].
PSAD-77-154; B-118653. August 15, 1977. 9 pp. + enclosure (I
pp.).
Report to Secretary, Department of Agriculture; by Renry
Eschvege, Director, Community and Economic Development Div.
Issue Area: Federal Procurement of Goods and Services: Notifying
the Congress of Status of Important Procurement Programs
(1905).
Contact: Procurement and Systems icquisition Div.
Budget Function: Agriculture: Agricultural Research and Services
(352) ; Commerce and Transportation: Ground Transportation
(4041); Health: Prevention and Control of Health Problems
(553).
Organization Concerned: Department of State; Department of
Transportation.
Conqressional Relevance: house Committee on Agriculture; Senate
Committee on Agricultute, Nutrition, and Forestry
Completion of the Darien Gap Highway, the final link of
:h; Pan Arerican Highway system located in Panama and Colombia,
is currently dependent upon establishing successful ccntrol of
foot-ana.-mouth disease in Colombia. Afte. 3 years of cooperation
between the United States and Colombia, mostly at U.S. expense,
littlV has been achieved. Findings/Conclusions: Safeguards
outlined in a 1973 cooperative agre.ment have not been
implemented, and there were more oucbreaks of the 8isease
reported in 1976 than in either 197 or 1975. There is no
assurance that the Colombians are fully committed to the
foot-and-moutb disease eradication program.. Recommendations:
The Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Secretary
of State, should develop an overall plan that sets forth
realistic target dates for eradicating and controlling
foot-and-mouth disease within the existing program area of
Colombia to the extent that the disease would no longer pose a
threat for transmission northward via the Pan American Highway
system. The plan should also proyide for the commitment by
Colombia of sufficient resources that will assure its
willingness to participate in a control program following the
eradication and control of the disea-se from the program areas in
Colombia. Because control of the disease is also important to
the Cen+ral American countries and Meico, consideratio.. should
be given to involving them in the planning and financing of
control and eradication programs in Colombia. (SC)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaacph0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)