The Ukraine Famine Commission is mandated to conduct a study of the 1932-33 man-made famine in the Ukrainian S.S.R, by gathering all available information about the famine, analyzing its causes and effects, and studying and analyzing the reaction to the famine by the United States and other free countries. The resulting study shall be submitted to Congress within two years of the organizational meeting of the full Com¬mission, which can be held only after six members are appointed from the Ukrainian-American community and chartered Ukrainian human rights groups, which has been accomplished.

In order to accomplish the mandate a report will be drafted and submitted to mem¬bers for comment and correction. In order to gain data for the report, documents must be analyzed here and abroad, and a large number of famine eyewitnesses will be interviewed in depth by a contractor.

We will have to talk about this as well.

Other contractors will transcribe oral history tapes. Approximately 100 hours of oral history collected from an earlier pilot project must also be transcribed. The staff director will coordinate and direct the work of contractors, draft portions of the report for the commissioners, conduct basic research in the Washington area, and carry out other duties as commissioners may direct.

The above is a very basic draft budget designed only to give an idea of where we stand in relation to—well, actually now it’s less than eight months remaining for this fis¬cal year.

First of all, G.S.A. support services, which includes equipment, office, things of that nature, is $11,000 for this fiscal year.

Office space and furnishings are $6,500, which for the fiscal year is $4,333.

We estimate telephone and postage to be at approximately $3,000, $1,000 for office supplies.

Contracting and oral historians will cost probably about $8,000, and we’ll talk more about how we intend to do that
Transcribers, another $10,000.
The organizational meeting will cost about $6,000, all told.
The staff director, my salary is $35,000, which for the fiscal year, is $31,000. We es¬timate 15 percent benefits on top of that, which comes to about $3,000 for the fiscal year.
The staff assistant, her fiscal year salary is $10,667, plus an estimated $1,600, 15% benefits.
Miscellaneous travel and research expenses will come to about $12,000.
The last item, miscellaneous contracts and services, is $56,234. That is simply avail¬able for unanticipated expenses to bring our total budget up to the allocation given us by G.S.A., which is $150,000 for the fiscal year.
Any portion of that or other monies which are not spent by the Commission will be available for the succeeding fiscal year.
Congressman GILMAN: Question: is there some provision, Mr. Chairman, for printing in here, printing our report?
Dr. MACE: No, because we will not be printing our report in this fiscal year. It will be in fiscal 1988.
Congressman GILMAN: Alright.