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

(LATEST SUMMARY)

Makes it the sense of the Senate that: (1) the option to reseal loans on farm-stored wheat and feed grain should be made available to farmers by the Commodtiy Credit Corporation with respect to the 1971 and 1972 crops; and (2) 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, one from the National Grain and Feed Association, one from the Forest Industries Council, and one from the Association of American Railroads, and an appropriate representative of organized labor to conduct a study of the railroad freight car shortage problem and to submit to the President and to the Senate Agriculture and Forestry and Senate Commerce Committees, 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 wheat to millers and feed grains to farmers and stockmen in the United States dependent upon such grain for feeding their livestock, (B) alleviating the backup at those ports where numerous ships and railroad cars are waiting to be loaded and unloaded.