    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1994, Book II)]
    [September 30, 1994]
    [Page 1673]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Statement on Signing the Agricultural, Rural Development, Food and Drug
    Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995
    September 30, 1994

        Today I have signed into law H.R. 4554, the ``Agriculture, Rural
    Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
    Appropriations Act, 1995.''
        The Act provides $13.4 billion in discretionary budget authority for
    programs of the Department of Agriculture, including the special
    supplemental feeding program for women, infants, and children (WIC);
    food safety programs; and various programs to protect and support rural
    communities.
        The Act also provides a total of $39.2 billion for the Food Stamp
    program, the Commodity Credit Corporation, and other mandatory programs.
        The Act includes authority for providing disaster assistance for
    losses to 1994 crops due to natural disasters. The Administration is
    currently reviewing estimates of the need for this assistance. I will be
    transmitting to the Congress requests for the release of these emergency
    funds in the near future.
        The Act also includes the following appropriations that I hereby
    designate as emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i)
    of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
    amended:
        Emergency community water assistance grants, $10,000,000;
        Very low-income housing repair grants, $15,000,000;
        Agricultural credit insurance fund program account: For the cost of
            emergency loans, $7,670,000; and
        Emergency conservation program: Transfer from Watershed and flood
            prevention operations, $23,000,000
        These funds will be used to provide needed assistance to victims of
    natural disasters, including flooding victims of Tropical Storm Alberto
    in south Alabama, south Georgia, and north Florida.

                                                          William J. Clinton

    The White House,
    September 30, 1994.

    Note: H.R. 4554, approved September 30, was assigned Public Law No. 103-
    330. This statement was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on
    October 1.