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7 U.S.C. § 2208 — Expenditure of appropriations; accounting
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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 Department of Agriculture shall be an executive department, under the supervision and control of a Secretary of Agriculture, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The provisions of title 4 of the Revised Statutes, including all amendments thereto, shall be applicable to said department; and all laws and parts of laws relating to the Department of Agriculture in existence February 9, 1889, as far as the same are applicable and not in conflict with this section, and only so far, are continued in full force and effect.
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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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It is declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grants-in-aid and other means, in providing an adequate supply of foods and other facilities for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of nonprofit school lunch programs.
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Agricultural commodity** — The term “agricultural commodity” has the meaning given the term in [section 5602 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section5602&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher** — The term “geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher” has the meaning given the term in section 10906(a) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ([7 U.S.C. 2204](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2204&num=0&edition=prelim) note; Public Law 107–171).
**(b) Authorization** Subject to the availability of funds under subsection (d), the Secretary may provide geographically disadvantaged farmers or ranchers direct reimbursement payments for activities described in subsection (c).
**(c) Transportation**
(1) **In general** — Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the Secretary may provide direct reimbursement payments to a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher to transport an agricultural commodity, or inputs used to produce an agricultural commodity, during a fiscal year.
(2) **Proof of eligibility** — To be eligible to receive assistance under paragraph (1), a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher shall demonstrate to the Secretary that transportation of the agricultural commodity or inputs occurred over a distance of more than 30 miles, as determined by the Secretary.
(3) **Amount**
(A) *In general* — Subject to paragraph (2), the amount of direct reimbursement payments made to a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher under this section for a fiscal year shall equal the product obtained by multiplying—
(i) the amount of costs incurred by the geographically di
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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)** This section applies, according to the provisions thereof, when a hearing is required to be conducted in accordance with [section 556 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section556&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b)** When the agency did not preside at the reception of the evidence, the presiding employee or, in cases not subject to [section 554(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section554/d&num=0&edition=prelim), an employee qualified to preside at hearings pursuant to [section 556 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section556&num=0&edition=prelim), shall initially decide the case unless the agency requires, either in specific cases or by general rule, the entire record to be certified to it for decision. When the presiding employee makes an initial decision, that decision then becomes the decision of the agency without further proceedings unless there is an appeal to, or review on motion of, the agency within time provided by rule. On appeal from or review of the initial decision, the agency has all the powers which it would have in making the initial decision except as it may limit the issues on notice or by rule. When the agency makes the decision without having presided at the reception of the evidence, the presiding employee or an employee qualified to preside at hearings pursuant to [section 556 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section556&num=0&edition=prelim) shall first recommend a decision, except that in rule making or determining applications for initial licenses—
(1) instead thereof the agency may issue a tentative decision or one of its responsible employees
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Page 1446
TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 2207d
agricultural extension work and expenditures of
the Department of Agriculture and of agricul-
tural colleges under the Act of May eighth,
nineteen hundred and fourteen [7 U.S.C. 341 et
seq.], and there shall be printed annually eight
thousand copies of said report, of which one
thousand copies shall be for the use of the Sen-
ate, two thousand copies for the use of the
House of Representatives, and five thousand
copies for the use of the Department of Agri-
culture.
(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 144, 38 Stat. 1110.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Act of Congress of March second, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-seven, referred to in text, is act Mar.
2, 1887, ch. 314, 24 Stat. 440, known as the Hatch Act,
which is classified generally to sections 361a to 361i of
this title. For complete classification of this Act to the
Code, see Short Title note set out under section 361a of
this title and Tables.
The Act of May eighth, nineteen hundred and four-
teen, referred to in text, is act May 8, 1914, ch. 79, 38
Stat. 372, known as the ‘‘Smith-Lever Act’’, and also
known as the ‘‘Agricultural Work Extension Act’’,
which is classified generally to subchapter IV (§ 341 et
seq.) of chapter 13 of this title. For complete classifica-
tion of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set
out under section 341 of this title and Tables.
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 418 of this
title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering
as this section.
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. 32
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