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            United States General Accounting Office
                     Washington, D.C. 20548
                                     For Release on Delivery
                                     Expected at 9:30 a.m. EDT
                                     Thursday, September 17, 1981

                          Statement of
           Brian P. Crowley, Senior Associate Director
           Community and Economic Development Division

                           Before the
          Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer
                    Relations, and Nutrition

                               and                             116388

         Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research
                     and Foreign Agriculture
                 House Committee on Agriculture
                               on

      REORGANIZATION OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Messrs. Chairmen and Members of the Subcommittees:

     We are here today at your request to discuss our August 17,

1981 report on the recent reorganization of the U.S. Department of

Agriculture (USDA) (CED 81-150). As you know, on June 17, 1981,

the Secretary of Agriculture announced a reorganization which

established several agencies; abolished others; and changed the

responsibilities of USDA officials in several areas, including

marketing, inspection, grading, economics, consumer affairs, nutri-

tion, environmental quality, and science and education. Our re-

port on the reorganization addressed only those areas that relate

to USDA's nutrition responsibilities and activities.

     Any reorganization can be expected to disrupt operations in

the short-run and affect the momentum in program operations.

Whether the momentum built up in nutrition programs over the last



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