7 U.S.C. § 6901 — Purpose

Page 1916 TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE § 6901 CHAPTER 98—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE REORGANIZATION Sec. 6901. Purpose. 6902. Definitions. SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL REORGANIZATION AUTHORITIES 6911. Repealed. 6912. Authority of Secretary to delegate trans- ferred functions. 6913, 6914. Repealed. 6915. Combination of field offices. 6916. Improvement of information sharing. 6917. Repealed. 6918. Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture. 6919. Military Veterans Agricultural Liaison. 6920. Office of Energy Policy and New Uses. 6921. Office of Tribal Relations. 6922. Office of Homeland Security. 6923. Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production. 6924. Food Loss and Waste Reduction Liaison. 6925. Food Access Liaison. SUBCHAPTER II—FARM PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION 6931. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Pro- duction and Conservation. 6932. Farm Service Agency. 6932a. Prohibition on closure or relocation of county offices for the Farm Service Agency. 6933. Office of Risk Management. 6934. Office of Partnerships and Public Engage- ment. 6934a. Beginning farmer and rancher coordination. 6934b. Agricultural Youth Organization Coordi- nator. 6935. Repealed. 6936. Natural Resources Conservation Service. SUBCHAPTER III—RURAL ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 6941. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural De- velopment. 6941a. Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas. 6942. Rural Utilities Service. 6943. Rural Housing and Community Development Service. 6944. Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service. 6945. Rural Development Disaster Assistance Fund. 6946. Rural Health Liaison. SUBCHAPTER IV—FOOD, NUTRITION, AND CONSUMER SERVICES 6951. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nu- trition, and Consumer Services. 6952. Multiagency task force. 6953. Healthy food financing initiative. SUBCHAPTER V—NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 6961. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment. 6962. Transferred. 6962a. Cooperative agreements. 6963. Repealed. SUBCHAPTER VI—RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND ECONOMICS 6971. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics. 6972. Repealed. SUBCHAPTER VII—FOOD SAFETY 6981. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safe- ty. Sec. 6982. Conditions for implementation of alterations in the level of additives allowed in animal diets. SUBCHAPTER VIII—NATIONAL APPEALS DIVISION 6991. Definitions. 6992. National Appeals Division and Director. 6993. Transfer of functions. 6994. Notice and opportunity for hearing. 6995. Informal hearings. 6996. Right of participants to Division hearing. 6997. Division hearings. 6998. Director review of determinations of hearing officers. 6999. Judicial review. 7000. Implementation of final determinations of Di- vision. 7001. Conforming amendments relating to National Appeals Division. 7002. Authorization of appropriations. SUBCHAPTER VIII–A—MARKETING AND REGULATORY PROGRAMS 7005. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs. SUBCHAPTER VIII–B—TRADE AND FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS 7007. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. SUBCHAPTER IX—MISCELLANEOUS REORGANIZATION PROVISIONS 7011. Successorship provisions relating to bar- gaining units and exclusive representatives. 7012. Purchase of American-made equipment and products. 7013. Repealed. 7014. Termination of authority. SUBCHAPTER X—FREEDOM TO E-FILE 7031. Electronic filing and retrieval. 7032. Accessing information and filing over the Internet. 7033. Availability of agency information tech- nology funds. 7034. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and Risk Management Agency. 7035. Confidentiality. § 6901. Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to provide the Secretary of Agriculture with the necessary au- thority to streamline and reorganize the Depart- ment of Agriculture to achieve greater effi- ciency, effectiveness, and economies in the orga- nization and management of the programs and activities carried out by the Department. (Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 202, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3209.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ‘‘this title’’, meaning title II of Pub. L. 103–354, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3209, known as the Department of Agri- culture Reorganization Act of 1994. For complete classi- fication of title II to the Code, see Short Title note below and Tables. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries SHORT TITLE OF 2000 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 106–222, § 1, June 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 353, pro- vided that: ‘‘This Act [enacting subchapter X of this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Freedom to E-File Act’.’’ Page 1917 TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE § 6912 1 See References in Text note below. SHORT TITLE Pub. L. 103–354, § 1(a), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3178, pro- vided that: ‘‘This Act [see Tables for classification] may be cited as the ‘Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994’.’’ Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 201(a), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3209, provided that: ‘‘This title [see Tables for classi- fication] may be cited as the ‘Department of Agri- culture Reorganization Act of 1994’.’’ § 6902. Definitions Except where the context requires otherwise, for purposes of this chapter: (1) Department The term ‘‘Department’’ means the Depart- ment of Agriculture. (2) National Appeals Division The term ‘‘National Appeals Division’’ means the National Appeals Division of the Department established under section 6992 of this title. (3) Secretary The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of Agriculture. (4) Function The term ‘‘function’’ means an administra- tive, financial, or regulatory activity of an agency, office, officer, or employee of the De- partment. (Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 203, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3209.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ‘‘this title’’, meaning title II of Pub. L. 103–354, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3209, known as the Department of Agri- culture Reorganization Act of 1994. For complete classi- fication of title II to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6901 of this title and Tables. SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL REORGANIZATION AUTHORITIES § 6911. Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12414(a)(1), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4981 Section, Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 211, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3209; Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 722(c), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1115; Pub. L. 107–171, title VI, § 6201(d)(3), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 419, related to transfer of Department functions to Secretary of Agriculture. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries CONSTRUCTION OF 2018 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12414(c), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4981, provided that: ‘‘Nothing in the amendments made by this section [repealing sections 6911, 6913, 6914, 6917, 6935, 6963, 6972, and 7013 of this title] shall be con- strued as affecting— ‘‘(1) the authority of the Secretary to continue to carry out a function vested in, and performed by, the Secretary as of the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 20, 2018] under any provision of Federal law other than the provisions repealed by subsections (a) and (b); or ‘‘(2) the authority of an agency, office, officer, or employee of the Department of Agriculture to con- tinue to perform all functions delegated or assigned to the agency, office, officer, or employee as of the date of enactment of this Act any provision of Fed- eral law other than the provisions repealed by sub- sections (a) and (b).’’ § 6912. Authority of Secretary to delegate trans- ferred functions (a) Delegation of authority (1) Delegation authorized Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary may delegate to any agency, office, officer, or em- ployee of the Department the authority to per- form any function transferred to the Sec- retary under section 6911(a) 1 of this title or any other function vested in the Secretary as of October 13, 1994. The authority provided in the preceding sentence includes the authority to establish, consolidate, alter, or discontinue any agency, office, or other administrative unit of the Department. (2) Condition on authority The delegation authority provided by para- graph (1) shall be subject to— (A) sections 6942, 6971(f), 6993, and 2204e of this title and subsections (a) and (b)(1) of section 6981 of this title; (B) sections 5692 and 5693 of this title; and (C) section 590h(b)(5) of title 16. (b) Cost-benefit analysis required for name change (1) Analysis required Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Sec- retary shall conduct a cost-benefit analysis before changing the name of any agency, of- fice, division, or other unit of the Department to ensure that the benefits to be derived from changing the name of the agency, office, divi- sion, or other unit outweigh the expense of executing the name change. (2) Exception Paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to any name change required or authorized by this chapter. (c) Public comment on proposed reorganization To the extent that the implementation of the authority provided to the Secretary by this chapter to reorganize the Department involves the creation of new agencies or offices within the Department or the delegation of major func- tions or major groups of functions to any agency or office of the Department (or the officers or employees of such agency or office), the Sec- retary shall, to the extent considered prac- ticable by the Secretary— (1) give appropriate advance public notice of the proposed reorganization action or delega- tion; and (2) afford appropriate opportunity for inter- ested parties to comment on the proposed re- organization action or delegation. (d) Interagency transfer of records, property, personnel, and funds (1) Related transfers Subject to paragraph (2), as part of the transfer or delegation of a function of the De-