Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 62 Part 3.djvu/528

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3140 62 Stat., Pt. 1, p. 159. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. (d) To establish standards of performance for implementation of the Program, including the qualifications, type and number of personnel to be used by cooperating agencies in the Program, and to maintain a constant supervision of all phases of the Program, with authority to recommend changes in or stoppage of any phase of the Program; (e) To appoint such executive officers and administrative staff as the Commission deems necessary to carry out the Program, it being understood that the chief executive officer shall be a citizen of China. Salaries, expenses of travel and other expenses incident to the administrative functions of the Commission itself shall be paid from funds made available under Section 407 (b) of the Act. Program activities. (3) In its Program the Commission may include the following types of activity to be carried out in agreement with the agencies referred to in paragraph (2) (a); (a) A coordinated extension-type program in agriculture, home demonstration, health and education, for initiation in a selected group of hsien in several provinces to include a limited number of subsidiary projects suited to conditions in the areas where the program is developed, in such fields as agricultural production, marketing, credit, irrigation, home and community industries, nutrition, sanitation, and education of a nature which will facilitate the promotion of all projects being undertaken; (b) Consultation with the Chinese Government concerning ways and means of progressively carrying out land reform measures; (c) Subsidiary projects in research, training and manufactur- ing, to be carried out in suitable locations to provide infor- mation, personnel and materials required by the Program; (d) Projects to put into effect over a wider area than provided for in the coordinated extension-type program specified in (a), any of the above lines of activity which can be de- veloped soundly on a larger scale, of which examples might be the multiplication and distribution of improved seeds, the control of rinderpest of cattle, the construction of irri- gation and drainage facilities, and the introduction of health and sanitation measures; (e) Related measures, in line with the general objectives of this Program; (f) The distribution of the assistance in this Program, on the principle of giving due attention to strengthening rural improvement in areas where selected projects can be pro- gressively developed and where their development will con- tribute most effectively to the achievement of purposes for which this Program is undertaken, but that the principle