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GGD-93-42R 1 (1993-05-19)

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o United States
General Accounting Office
Washington, D.C. 20548

General Government Division

B-226269

May 19, 1993

The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy
Chairman, Committee on Agriculture,
  Nutrition, and Forestry

The Honorable Kent Conrad
The Honorable Thomas A. Daschle
The Honorable Byron L. Dorgan
The Honorable Tom Harkin
United States Senate
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The Honorable Tim Johnson
The Honorable Timothy J. Penny
The Honorable Robert E. Wise
House of Representatives


This letter responds to your joint request for information
on the extent of small business participation in the
Market Promotion Program (MPP). Currently, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service
(FAS), which administers the program, does not maintain
information on the size of firms that are funded under the
program. We recently testified on the participation level
of small firms and other issues relating to the
administration of MPP.1

SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY

As we discussed with members of your staffs, there are no
comprehensive data available on the size of firms
receiving MPP funds. Thus, the extent to which small and
mid-size firms participate in MPP is not known. In our
ongoing review of MPP, we obtained information from FAS
and standard business directories on the characteristics
of the 50 firms receiving the largest amount of MPP funds
to promote brand-name products during fiscal year 1992.
To identify which of these were small firms we applied the
Small Business Administration's (SBA) size standards to

'U.S. Department of Agriculture: Improvements Needed in

Market Promotion Program (GAO/T-GGD-93-17, Mar. 25, 1993).

      GAO/GGD-93-42R Small Business Participation in MPP

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