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7 U.S.C. § 2205 — Duties of former Commissioner of Agriculture transferred to Secretary
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to perform all the duties named in all Acts of Congress in force on February 8, 1889, to be performed by the Commissioner of Agriculture.
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to perform all the duties named in all Acts of Congress in force on February 8, 1889, to be performed by the Commissioner of Agriculture.
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There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition, in the most general and comprehensive sense of those terms, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
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**(a)** The Secretary of Agriculture shall procure and preserve all information concerning agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office, by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power; he shall collect new and valuable seeds and plants; shall test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such tests; shall propagate such as may be worthy of propagation; and shall distribute them among agriculturists; and he shall advise the President, other members of his Cabinet, and the Congress on policies and programs designed to improve the quality of life for people living in the rural and nonmetropolitan regions of the Nation.
**(b)** The Secretary is authorized to initiate or expand research and development efforts related to solution of problems of rural water supply, rural sewage and solid waste management, rural housing, rural industrialization, and technology appropriate to small- and moderate-sized family farming operations, and any other problem that the Secretary may determine has an effect upon the economic development or the quality of life in rural areas.
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The Secretary of Agriculture shall have charge, in the building and premises appropriated to the department, of the library, furniture, fixtures, records, and other property appertaining to it, or acquired for use in its business.
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The Secretary of Agriculture shall annually make a general report in writing of his acts to the President, in which he may recommend the publication of papers forming parts of or accompanying his report. He shall also make special reports on particular subjects whenever required to do so by the President or either House of Congress, or when he shall think the subject in his charge requires it.
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The Secretary of Agriculture shall direct and superintend the expenditure of all money appropriated to the Department and render accounts thereof.
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The Secretary of Agriculture shall appoint a chief clerk.
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 2206
1 So in original. Probably should be preceded by ‘‘of’’.
(C) farmland transition and succession.
(b) Farmland ownership
The Secretary shall collect and, not less fre-
quently than once every 3 years report, data and
analysis on farmland ownership, tenure, transi-
tion, and entry of beginning farmers and ranch-
ers and socially disadvantaged farmers and
ranchers (as those terms are defined in section
2279(a) of this title). In carrying out this sub-
section, the Secretary shall, at a minimum—
(1) collect and distribute comprehensive re-
porting of trends in farmland ownership, ten-
ure, transition, barriers to entry, profitability,
and viability of beginning farmers and ranch-
ers and socially disadvantaged farmers and
ranchers;
(2) develop surveys and report statistical and
economic analysis on farmland ownership,
tenure, transition, barriers to entry, profit-
ability, and viability of beginning farmers and
ranchers, including a regular follow-on survey
to each Census of Agriculture with results of
the follow-on survey made public not later
than 3 years after the previous Census of Agri-
culture; and
(3) require the National Agricultural Statis-
tics Service to include in the Tenure, Owner-
ship, and Transition of Agricultural Land sur-
vey questions relating to—
(A) the extent to which non-farming land-
owners are purchasing and holding onto
farmland for the sole purpose of real estate
investment;
(B) the impact of these farmland owner-
ship trends on the successful entry and via-
bility of beginning farmers and ranchers and
socially disadvantaged farmers and ranch-
ers;
(C) the extent to which farm and ranch
land with undivided interests and no admin-
istrative authority identified have farms or
ranches opera
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