[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 40 (Monday, October 10, 1994)]
[Page 1924]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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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.