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CED-78-73 1 (1978-02-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaawqd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - LM105035 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFrM WASHINGTON, D.C. 2054 8-114824 FS2 7 S The Honorable The Secretary of Aqriculture Dear Mr. Secretary: The U.S. Grain Standards Act of 1976 requires thi Departme't of Agriculture to revise, improve, and expand the natl.JAal grain inspection system and establish a national weighing system. The most significant and urge., changes relate to the arsumption of inspection and weighing functions at export locations. Other areas of major emphasis include: elimination of conflicts of interest in official inspection and weighing agencies; review of grain firms' records and registration of those firms operating in export trade? and a complete reviev rnd revision of U.S. grain standards to insure that their application will result in the production and delivery of high qu*lity .r~in needed to meet the end-use requirements of domestic and forei-n buyers. To provide information fot Congress' use in ,valuating the needs of the grain inspection and weighing 4ystems at points in the United States other than at export locations, the act requires the Department and the General Accounting Office to conduct studies of inspection and weighing proce- dures and management practices in the interior marketing areas. We are also required to evaluate the Department's repor z. Initially, the Department's reports were to be submitted to the House and Senate Agriculture Comittees by May 1978 with our repogt due 6 months later. BecAuse the bepartment had until November 1978 to complete implemen- tation mf the 1976 a. t, the reporting dates were extended 1 year by the Food and Agriculture Act oi 1977. Therefore, we have delayed startiag the review required of us by the act. CED-78-73 (02225)

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