AGRICULTURAL TRADE Development AND ASSISTANCE ACT OF Sec. 1. Title_ _ . Sec. 2. Declaration of policy Sec. 3. United States contribution for food assistance__ Title I Page 300 300 301 Sec. 101. Agreements with friendly countries__ Sec. 102. Financing sale and exportation of agricultural commodities from private or public stocks... Sec. 103. Agreements with friendly 'countries and organizations; terms and conditions_ Sec. 104. Purposes for which foreign currencies may be used_. Sec. 105. Deposit of foreign currencies in special account; reimbursements Sec. 106. Payment for commodities-dollar credit sales; period__ Sec. 108. Ocean transportation costs.. 301 301 301 304 308 308 309 310 310 Sec. 110. Limitation on transactions__. 311 Sec. 111. Assistance to most seriously affected countries; poverty criterion; report to Congress_ _311 Sec. 112. Agreements prohibited with countries violating internationally recognized human rights; exception for agreements directly benefiting needy people. 312 Sec. 113. Priority for financing sales of food and fiber commodities.. Sec. 302. Participation of developing countries; criteria for eligibility. 315 315 316 Sec. 305. Funds generated from sale of agricultural commodities-deposit into special account; disbursements as payment by recipient government or as full forgiveness of repayment obligations. Sec. 309. (Amendment to Agricultural Act of 1949). 318 318 Title IV. Long-Term Supply Contracts Sec. 403. Authorization of appropriations; reimbursement of Commodity 319 Sec. 406. Food production assistance-authority of President_ 319 Sec. 409. Termination date for agreements to finance sales under Title I and programs of assistance under Title II. 320 FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961 Sec. 103. Agriculture, rural development, and nutrition__. Sec. 103A. Agricultural research___ 321 323 326 327 328 Sec. 298. Board for International Food and Agricultural Development. Sec. 300. Annual report-- PREDATORY ANIMAL CONTROL (Act of MARCH 2, 1931) Sec. 1. Predatory and other wild animals; eradication and control; investigations, experiments, and tests by Secretary of Agriculture; cooperation with other agencies Sec. 3. Authorization of expenditures__ 329 329 FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE ACT Sec. 506. General powers of corporation__ 330 Sec. 508. Agricultural commodity crop insurance_ 331 (a) Insurance against loss authorized; reinsurance; terms and conditions; report to Congress.. 331 (b) Premiums__. 332 (c) Payment of claims; action on claims.. 333 (d) Additional premium and indemnity to cover cottonseed losses(e) Reinsurance__ Research, surveys, pilot programs, and investigations... – 334 ACQUISITION and Development of STRATEGIC RAW MATERIALS Sec. 7. (b) Materials development and research.. HOUSING ACT OF 1949 Sec. 506. Construction in accordance with plans and specifications; supervision and inspection; technical services and research. 335 336 BIOMASS ENERGY AND ALCOHOL FUELS ACT OF 1980 Subtitle C-Rural, Agricultural, and Forestry Biomass Energy Sec. 251. Model demonstration biomass energy facilities__. 338 Sec. 252. Biomass energy research and demonstration projects__ 338 Sec. 253. Applied research regarding energy conservation and biomass energy production and use.. 339 Sec. 254. Forestry energy research 340 Sec. 255. Biomass energy educational and technical assistance. 340 Sec. 256. Rural energy extension_work_-_. 341 Sec. 257. Coordination of research and extension activities__ 341 PART I. BASIC RESEARCH AND EXTENSION AUTHORITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULURE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ORGANIC ACT (The Department of Agriculture was established by the Act of May 15, 1862, ch. 72, 12 Stat. 387. This Act was the source of sections 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 528, and 529 of the Revised Statutes approved June 20, 1874, relating to the establishment and functions of the Department of Agriculture.) SEC. 520.1 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,2 aquaculture, and human nutrition 3 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. 17 U.S.C. 2201. 4 ? Amended by the Act of August 30, 1972, Public Law 92-419, sec. 603, 86 Stat. 675, to include "rural development". 3 Amended by the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, Public Law 95-113, sec. 15029a, 91 Stat. 1021, 7 U.S.C. 2201, to include "aquaculture and human nutrition". 4 Transfers of functions were accomplished by the following Acts: Public Law 86-509, June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 205, which enacted provisions of Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1959, provided: That, except as otherwise provided in section 2 hereof, the following functions are hereby transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture: (a) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of March 20, 1922, 42 Stat. 465, as amended (16 U.S.C. 485, 486), with respect to exchanges of non-Federal lands for national forest lands or timber. (b) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of February 2, 1922 (42 Stat. 362), with respect to exchanges of lands in private ownership within or within six miles of the Deschutes National Forest for national forest lands, or for timber from any national forest, in the State of Oregon. (c) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 643), except section 2 thereof, with respect to exchanges of privately owned lands for national forest timber in New Mexico. (d) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of January 12, 1925 (43 Stat. 739), except section 2 thereof, with respect to exchanges of privately owned lands for national forest timber in New Mexico. (e) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of April 21, 1926 (44 Stat. 303), except section 2 thereof, with respect to exchanges of privately owned lands for national forest lands or timber in New Mexico and Arizona. (f) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under section 2 of the Act of May 26, 1926 (44 Stat. 655; 16 U.S.C. 38), with respect to exchanges of lands held in private or State ownership for national forest lands or timber in Montana. (g) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of June 15, 1926 (44 Stat. 746), with respect to exchanges of State lands for national forest lands in New Mexico. (h) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of December 7, 1942 (56 Stat. 1042), with respect to exchange transactions in which lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture are exchanged for State lands in Minnesota which are to be under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture after their acquisition by the United States. (1) The function of the Secretary of the Interior (originally vested in the Commissioner of the General Land Office) under section 6 of the Act of April 28, 1930 (46 Stat. 257: 43 U.S.C. 872), with respect to execution of quitclaim deeds for lands conveyed to the United States in connection with exchange transactions involving lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture. (j) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under section 2(b) of the Joint Resolution of August 8, 1947 (61 Stat. 921), with respect to appraisals and sales of certain lands within the Tongass National Forest. (k) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under section 10 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 962; 16 U.S.C. 519), with respect to sales of small tracts of acquired national forest lands found chiefly valuable for agriculture. (1) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under section 402 of Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1946 (60 Stat. 1099), section 3 of the Act of September 1, 1949 (63 Stat. 683; 30 U.S.C. 192c), the Act of June 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 311; 16 U.S.C. 508b), section 3 of the Act of June 28, 1952 (66 Stat. 285), or otherwise, with respect to the use and SEC. 521.5 (Repealed) disposal from lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture of those mineral materials which the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to dispose of from other lands under his jurisdiction under the Act of July 31, 1947 (61 Stat. 681), as amended by the Act of July 23, 1955 (69 Stat. 367; 30 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). SEC. 2. (a) In no case covered by subsections (a), (b), (e), (g), and (h) of section 1 hereof shall the exchange provide for the patenting of land by the United States without a reservation of minerals (1) unless the Secretary of Agriculture has obtained the advice of the Secretary of the Interior that the land is nonmineral in character, or (2) unless the Secretary of the Interior approves of the valuation and disposition of the minerals in the lands to be patented. A sale of land covered by subsection (j) of section 1 hereof shall be made by the Secretary of Agriculture without a reservation of minerals only after consultation with, and the approval of, the Secretary of the Interior as to the valuation and disposition of the minerals. No lands of the United States shall be exchanged in any case covered by subsection (f) of section 1 hereof unless the Secretary of Agriculture has obtained the advice of the Secretary of the Interior that such lands are nonmineral in character (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to determine or adjudicate the validity or invalidity of any mining claim or part thereof. (c) Nothing in subsection (1) of section 1 hereof shall be construed to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to dispose of coal, phosphate, sodium, potassium, oil, oil shale, gas, or sulfur, or to dispose of any minerals which would be subject to disposal under the mining laws if said laws were applicable to the lands in which the minerals are situated. (d) Upon approval by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to the provisions of this Act of any exchange or sale, respectively, of national forest lands under the provisions of law referred to in subsections (a), (b), (e), (f), (g), and (j) of section 1, hereof, the Secretary of the Interior, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, shall issue the patent therefor. (e) All conveyances under the Act referred to in subsection (h) of section 1 hereof of national forest lands reserved from the public domain shall, upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, be made by the Secretary of the Interior. REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 2 of 1953 EFFECTIVE JUNE 4, 1953, 18 F.R. 3219, 67 STAT. 633 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SECTION 1. Transfer of functions to the Secretary. (a) Subject to the exceptions specified in subsection (b) of this section, there are hereby transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture all functions not now vested in him of all other officers, and of all agencies and empoyees, of the Department of Agriculture. (b) This section shall not apply to the functions vested by the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) [see §§ 551 et seq.; 701 et seq., 3105, 3344, 5362, 7521 of this title] in hearing examiners employed by the Department of Agriculture nor to the functions of (1) the corporations of the Department of Agriculture, (2) the boards of directors and officers of such corporations, (3) the Advisory Board of the Commodity Credit Corporation, or (4) the Farm Credit Administration or any agency, officer, or entity of, under, or subject to the supervision of the said Administration. SEC. 2. Assis ant Secretaries of Agriculture. Two additional Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each such assistant secretary shall perform such functions as the Secretary of Agriculture shall, from time to time, prescribe and each shall receive compensation at the rate prescribed by law for Assistant Secretaries of executive departments. SEC. 3. Administrative Assistant Secretary. An Administrative Assistant Secretary of Agriculture shall be appointed, with the approval of the President, by the Secretary of Agriculture under the classified civil service, and shall perform such functions as the Secretary of Agriculture shall, from time to time, prescribe. The provisions of the item numbered (1) of the third proviso under the heading "General Provisions" appearing in Chapter XI of the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, approved June 5, 1952, 66 Stat. 121, are hereby made applicable to the position of Administrative Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. SEC. 4. Delegation of functions. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time make such provisions as he shall deem appropriate authorizing the performance by any other officer, or by any agency or employee, of the Department of Agriculture of any function of the Secretary, including any function transferred to the Secretary by the provisions of this reorganization plan. (b) To the extent that the carrying out of subsection (a) of this section involves the assignment of major functions or major groups of functions to major constituent organizational units of the Department of Agriculture, now or hereafter existing, or to the heads or other officers thereof, and to the extent deemed practicable by the Secretary, he shall give appropriate advance public notice of delegations of functions proposed to be made by him and shall afford appropriate opportunity for interested persons and groups to place before the Department of Agriculture their views with respect to such proposed delegations. (c) In carrying out subsection (a) of this section the Secretary shall seek to simplify and make efficient the operation of the Department of Agriculture, to place the administration of farm programs close to the state and local levels, and to adapt the administration of the programs of the Department to regional, state, and local conditions. SEC 5. Incidental transfers. The Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time effect such transfers within the Department of Agriculture of any of the records, property and personnel affected by this reorganization plan and such transfers of unexpended balances (available or to be made available for use in connection with any affected function or agency) of appropriations, allocations, and other funds of such Department, as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this reorganization plan; but such unexpended balances so transferred shall be used only for the purposes for which such appropriation was originally made. 5 Secs. 521 and 522 dealing with establishment of the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture and clerks and employees, respectively, were repealed by the Act of March 3, 1933, ch. 202, 47 Stat. 1428. |