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CED-81-101 1 (1981-05-14)

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                      UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                              WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

                                        May 14, 1981
COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

    B-199148
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    The Honorable Max Baucus
    United States Senate                                  11111111i11
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    Dear Senator Baucus:

         Subject: The &edral Role in Developing Grain
                   Subterminals Should Be Coordinated by USD)A
                   (CED-81-101)

         This report is in further response to your request that we
    undertake a comprehensive review of grain transportation problems,
    including the role of grain subterminals (large transient grain
    storage installations). We are issuing this report on subterminals
    separately because the subject matter is more specific than the
    general topic covered by our report on grain transportation prob-
    lems (U.S. Grain Transportation Network Needs System Perspective
    To Meet Future World Needs, CED-81-59, Apr. 8, 1981.)

         In 1980 the Congress enacted the Agricultural Subterminal
    Storage Act (Public Law 96-358), to help develop subterminals
    through State and regional planning grants and construction loan
    guarantees. The Secretary of Agriculture was to administer the
    act's provisions.

         Subterminals facilitate, through large scale operations, the
    efficient rail shipment and receipt of agricultural commodities
    by making the most effective use of rail cars. Subterminals devel-
    oped in the midwestern corn and soybean 1/ producing areas as crop











    l/Though soybeans are actually a legume, they are handled
      and transported like grain, and for the purpose of this
      report are considered a grain.
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