SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE BUDGET REQUEST FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996
(Millions $)
PROGRAM AUTHORIZED LEVEL FY '94 FY '95 FY '96 (CLINTON
BUDGET)
SARE 40.0 7.4 8.1 9.5
(Chpt. 1)
SATDTP 20.0 3.0 3.5 5.0
(Chpt. 3)
RTCDG 50.0 1.5 1.8 3.8***
SDA 10.0 3.0 3.0 3.0
ARCDP 3.6 0 0
FMNP 8.0 5.5 6.8 6.8
OFPA 0.5 0.5 1.1
WQIP * 18.5 15.0 15.0
WRP ** 66.7 83.2 210.0
WBP 8.0 0.9 0
DEPT. OF INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
ATTRA 1.3 1.3 ***
SARE Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (Ch 1)
SATDTP Sustainable Agriculture Technology Development and
Transfer Program (Ch 3)
RTCDG Rural Technology and Cooperative Development Grants
SDA Outreach and Technical Assistance for Socially
Disadvantaged/Minority Farmers
ARCDP Agriculture Resource Conservation Demonstration Program
("Farmers for the Future")
FMNP Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (part of WIC program)
OFPA Organic Foods Production Act
WQIP Water Quality Incentive Program
WRP Wetlands Reserve Program
WBP Water Bank Program
ATTRA Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
* The Water Quality Initiative Program is currently administered
and funded through the Agricultural Conservation Program (ACP).
ACP funding for FY '95 is $100 million; the Administration's budget
request cuts ACP to $50 million. The authorization for WQIP is for
"such sums as are necessary" to carry out the program. The 1990
Farm Bill goal was to enroll 10 million acres by 1995.
** The Wetland Reserve Program is authorized to reach not less
than 330,000 acres by the end of 1995 and not less than 975,000
acres by the end of 2000. The budget request is sufficient to
enroll 300,000 acres, or 528, acres total through FY '96.
***ATTRA funding for FY '96 is transferred back to USDA and is
funded at 1.3 million within the $3.8 million requested for RTCDG.
The RTCGD will be designed in legislation to be proposed by the
Administration to be one of 14 programs combined into a "reinvented
government" rural development "performance partnership" program to
increase state flexibility.