Word: omb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...products from contaminating reservoirs, drinking wells and rivers. One reason for this colossal failure is the division's miniscule funding, which amounts to less than 1 per cent of the total EPA budget--and is being cut even more by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB...
...OMB environment chief James Tozzi admits that the fledgling EPA program will remain a low priority and that "there'll be no big changes" in the hazardous waste budget until "all the various options are weighed." EPA official Hugh Kaufman observes, "The president wants to hold down the budget. It doesn't come cheap, saving people's lives...
...growing Soviet threat. To a significant degree, it has been the clarity and force of Jones' arguments that transformed these hearings into a wide-ranging analysis of national defense needs. The Jones touch was also evident in a successful campaign against the Office of Management and Budget; OMB wanted to limit military pay raises to 5%, but Jones got 7%. He has been equally persuasive at the White House, where he helped sell Jimmy Carter on the MX mobile ICBM...
...programs that add up to much spending, this one makes payments to beekeepers who suffer losses because of insecticides approved by the U.S. Government. In recent years farmers have become much more judicious in using poisons, spraying has been reduced, and beekeepers are taking better care of their colonies. OMB argues that there is no longer a need for the $3 million-a-year program...
...Enforcement Assistance Grants. They began in 1968 primarily to help communities upgrade the caliber and training of police. But many towns and cities spend the money on new hardware, from high-powered radio sets to patrol cars. Outlays last fiscal year reached $724 million. For 1980 OMB proposes a cut to $524.5 million...