OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Mr. NATCHER. Your increases here are, I believe, under the Office of the Associate Director, where you have an increase of $2,326 for classified pay increase within-grade advancements, which is automatic, right? Dr. GRANT. Yes. PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING Mr. NATCHER. Now, under your Public Health Engineering, an increase of $15,467, and two new positions. Justify this for us, please. Dr. GRANT. Other than the mandatory increases for within-grade advancements, we are asking for two secretaries, Mr. Chairman. In the two divisions listed-namely, environmental engineering and water quality division-there is no secretary in either one. Mr. NATCHER. You are starting a new program here then, Doctor, is that right? Dr. GRANT. No, it is an existing program, Mr. Chairman. We have professional staff available, but no secretarial staff. FOOD AND DRUGS Mr. NATCHER. Now, under food and drugs, an increase of $15,888, and one new position. Justify this for us, please. Dr. GRANT. That is also for a secretary, Mr. Chairman We do have some secretarial staff in this area, but this is an area where a great deal of clerical work is involved, and we simply cannot get the work out. Mr. NATCHER. What is the balance of the increase, other than the secretary? Dr. GRANT. The rest is for the mandatory items, within-grade advancements, and classified pay increase. MILK CONTROL Mr. NATCHER. Under milk control, an increase of $19,560, and two additional positions. What would you like to say to us about that, Doctor? Dr. GRANT. Other than the mandatory items, Mr. Chairman, one of those positions is for a clerk-typist. There is presently 1 secretary in this bureau where there are 18 professional people, so there is simply not enough typist support. The other position is for a messenger required to participate in the pesticide program by picking up the milk samples, and a truck for him. Mr. NATCHER. That all goes back into the pesticide program? COMMUNITY HYGIENE Mr. NATCHER. Now, Doctor, under community hygiene, where you have an increase of $67,649, and eight additional positions, justify this for us, please. Dr. GRANT. Mr. Chairman, other than the mandatory pay increases, four of these positions are for our rodent control program in which we currently have two controllers supported by Federal funds who will terminate as of June 30. We are asking for four positions, two to replace the two we have, and two additional. This is a major problem in the District. We have currently close to 100 ratbite cases reported each year, plus a tremendous number of problems involving rodents which we have to investigate and try to control. This is an attempt to develop this program further. We are also asking for $3,000 for the purchase of insecticides and so on in this program. Mr. NATCHER. Now, under administration you are requesting $4,498,348 and 465 positions. Dr. GRANT. May I go back, Mr. Chairman, to one other item? INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE Mr. NATCHER. Take up the industrial hygiene, the new program. Dr. GRANT. We are asking for three positions and some supplies. There are over 300,000 workers engaged in private industry here who look to the Health Department for assistance with their industrial problems. At the present time we have one chief of the division who is the only person there and who really runs this program on a hit-ormiss proposition. Workers are exposed to many different kinds of hazards in the District of Columbia which we have analyzed, and we feel that we need to develop an industrial hygiene program to assist these workers and their employers in reducing the hazards involved. This is the justification for these positions. ADMINISTRATION Mr. NATCHER. Now, under Administration, where we have an increase of $424,917, and 43 positions, we shall insert pages 22-137 through 22-142. (The pages follow :) |