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7 U.S.C. § 2256 — Inspections, analyses, and tests for other Government departments and agencies; reimbursement
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The head of any department or independent establishment of the Government requiring inspections, analyses, and tests of food and other products, within the scope of the functions of the Department of Agriculture and which that Department is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary, transfer to the Department for direct expenditure such sums as may be necessary for the performance of such work.
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The head of any department or independent establishment of the Government requiring inspections, analyses, and tests of food and other products, within the scope of the functions of the Department of Agriculture and which that Department is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary, transfer to the Department for direct expenditure such sums as may be necessary for the performance of such work.
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For the purposes of this subchapter, the term—
(1) “agency” has the same meaning as in [section 551(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section551/1&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) “administrative program” includes a Federal function which involves protection of the public interest and the determination of rights, privileges, and obligations of private persons through rule making, adjudication, licensing, or investigation, as those terms are used in subchapter II of this chapter;
(3) “alternative means of dispute resolution” means any procedure that is used to resolve issues in controversy, including, but not limited to, conciliation, facilitation, mediation, factfinding, minitrials, arbitration, and use of ombuds, or any combination thereof;
(4) “award” means any decision by an arbitrator resolving the issues in controversy;
(5) “dispute resolution communication” means any oral or written communication prepared for the purposes of a dispute resolution proceeding, including any memoranda, notes or work product of the neutral, parties or nonparty participant; except that a written agreement to enter into a dispute resolution proceeding, or final written agreement or arbitral award reached as a result of a dispute resolution proceeding, is not a dispute resolution communication;
(6) “dispute resolution proceeding” means any process in which an alternative means of dispute resolution is used to resolve an issue in controversy in which a neutral is appointed and specified parties participate;
(7) “in confidence” means, with respect to information, that the information is provided—
(A) with the expressed intent of the source that it not be disclosed; or
(B) under circumstances that would create the reasonable expectat
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section, which was from the appropriation acts of Jan. 18, 1927, ch. 39, 44 Stat. 984; May 16, 1928, ch. 572, 45 Stat. 548; Feb. 16, 1929, ch. 227, 45 Stat. 1198; May 27, 1930, ch. 341, 46 Stat. 424, and subsequent Department of Agriculture Appropriation Acts to and including act June 28, 1944, ch. 296, § 4, 58 Stat. 461, and related to inspection of food and other products, is covered by [section 2256 of Title 7](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2256&num=0&edition=prelim), Agriculture.
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 2255a
Section was formerly classified to sections 570 and 574
of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment
of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by
Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of
Department of Agriculture transferred, with certain ex-
ceptions, to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg.
Plan No. 2, § 1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18 F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633,
set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
§ 2255a. Financial assistance to national and
international conferences
On and after October 21, 1993, appropriations
available to the Department of Agriculture can
be used to provide financial assistance to the or-
ganizers of national and international con-
ferences, if such conferences are in support of
agency programs.
(Pub. L. 103–111, title I, Oct. 21, 1993, 107 Stat.
1050.)
§ 2255b. Department of Agriculture conference
transparency
(a) Report
(1) Requirement
Not later than September 30 of each year,
the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to
the Committee on Agriculture of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Agri-
culture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate,
a report on conferences sponsored or held by
the Department of Agriculture or attended by
employees of the Department of Agriculture.
(2) Contents
Each report under paragraph (1) shall con-
tain—
(A) for each conference sponsored or held
by the Department or attended by employ-
ees of the Department—
(i) the name of the conference;
(ii) the location of the conference;
(iii) the number of Department of Agri-
culture employees attending the con-
ference; and
(iv) the costs (including travel expen
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