Reorganization of Natural Resource Functions of USDA: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Environment, Soil Conservation, and Forestry of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, April 10, 1979 |
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Page 72 - 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, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 77 - All orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, contracts, certificates, licenses, and privileges — (1) which have been issued, made, granted, or allowed to become effective by the President, any Federal department or agency...
Page 78 - Act, and (2) which are in effect at the time this Act takes effect, shall continue in effect according to their terms until modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked by the President, the Secretary, or other authorized official, a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law.
Page 78 - No suit, action, or other proceeding commenced by or against any officer in his official capacity as an officer of any department or agency, functions of which are transferred by this Act, shall abate by reason of the enactment of this Act. No cause of action by or against any department or agency, functions of which are transferred by this Act...
Page 75 - Department"). There shall be at the head of the Department a Secretary of Transportation (hereafter referred to in this Act as the "Secretary"), who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 78 - Orders shall be issued in such proceedings, appeals shall be taken therefrom, and payments shall be made pursuant to such orders, as if this section had not been enacted...
Page 35 - ... exist since the character of this opposition is to provisions that appeared in earlier versions of wilderness legislation. The present measures would determine the policy of Congress, to establish a Wilderness Preservation System. The wilderness system would comprise the several wilderness areas in the national forests, administered by the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture; areas of the national park system administered by the National Park Service in the Department of Interior;...
Page 77 - The said Secretary shall cause a seal of office to be made for the said department of such device as the President shall approve and judicial notice shall be taken of the said seal.
Page 79 - Commission by this Act, may, with the approval of the President, be used to pay the compensation and expenses of any officer appointed pursuant to this subsection until such time as funds for that purpose are otherwise available.
Page 78 - Act shall take effect one hundred and twenty days after the date of its enactment, or on such earlier date as the President may prescribe and publish in the Federal Register; except that...