A resolution relating to the railroad transportation crisis caused by the freight car shortage and other factors.

Summary

Makes it the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture should impose a moratorium on the disposal of grain owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation and that such moratorium should be continued until the Secretary of Agriculture, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the American Association of Railroads jointly determine and notify the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the Senate that a termination of the moratorium would not worsen the transportation situation or precipitate a new transportation crises; (2) the option to resale loans on farm-stored wheat and feed grains should be made available to farmers by the Commodity Credit Corporation with respect to the 1970, 1971, and 1972 crops; (3) the President should, and is hereby urged and requested to, immediately appoint a special committee composed of one representative from the Department of Agriculture, one from the Department of Labor, one from the Interstate Commerce Commission, one from the Office of Emergency Preparedness, and one from the American Association of Railroads to conduct a study of the railroad freight car shortage problem and to submit to the President and to the Congress, within thirty days after its appointment, the results of its study together with its recommendations for the most effective and practical means of (A) delivering adequate quantities of feed grains to farmers and stockmen in the United States dependent upon such grain for feeding their livestock, and (B) alleviating the backup at those ports where numerous ships and railroad cars are waiting to be unloaded. Makes it the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should notify the Committee on Agriculture and Foresty of the Senate at least seventy-two hours prior to the termination of any moratorium imposed pursuant to the recommendation set forth in this resolution.

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 19 February 1973

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 2 February 1973

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