It is our intention to use a 12month period for each certificate of registration based on the applicants date of birth rather than the current calendar year method which creates an unnecessary administrative burden upon the Department at the close of each calendar year. Mr. Chairman. in concluding my statement. I want to reemphasize two major points. First. the revised farm labor statute that we are proposing today greatly enhances the Labor Departments ability to protect migrant and seasonal agricultural workers. Second. the bill eliminates the unnecessary. burdensome and costly regulation of fixedsitus agricultural employers which has been so toublesome under current law. Enactment of the bill will. therefore. enable the Depi.rtment to concentrate its enforcement efforts on those areas of farmworker employment where the most egregious violations of workers rights occur.