7 U.S.C. § 1388 — Utilization of local agencies
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This section uses specified State, county, and local agencies and committees to administer this chapter. It authorizes payments and compensation for county committees and reimburses committee members’ travel expenses.
(a) Local agencies and areas. The rules in sections 590h(b) and 590k of title 16 about using State*, county, and local committees, the extension service, other approved agencies, and cooperative associations apply to administering this chapter. For those purposes, the Secretary* must use the same local, county, and State committees used under sections 590g through 590q of title 16. The local administrative areas for chapter 3B of title 16 and for this chapter must be the same.
(b) County-committee administrative expenses.
(1) From funds available for this chapter and chapter 3B when county committees are used, the Secretary must pay farmer county committees’ estimated expenses of cooperating in carrying out those chapters. Unless another law provides payment, all or part of the estimate may be deducted proportionally from chapter 3B payments, parity payments, loans, or other payments under either chapter. The Secretary may pay in advance of determining farmers’ performance.
(2)(A) The Secretary must compensate committee members for work actually performed in carrying out the chapters, at no less than the level in effect for county committees on December 31, 1985.
(B) The Secretary may increase the rate that applied on December 23, 1985.
(c) Travel expenses.
(1) The Secretary must pay local, county, and State committee members’ travel expenses incurred while cooperating in carrying out these chapters. For local and county members, this includes travel between home and the local county office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service.
(2) Travel expenses must be paid as section 5703 of title 5 permits for intermittent Federal employees’ expenses and allowances.
The provisions of sections 590h(b) and 590k of title 16, relating to the utilization of State*, county, local committees, the extension service, and other approved agencies, and to recognition and encouragement of cooperative associations, shall apply in the administration of this chapter; and the Secretary* shall, for such purposes, utilize the same local, county, and State committees as are utilized under sections 590g, 590h, 590i, and 590j to 590q of title 16. The local administrative areas designated under section 590h(b) of title 16, for the administration of programs under chapter 3B of title 16, and the local administrative areas designated for the administration of this chapter shall be the same.
The Secretary is authorized and directed, from any funds made available for the purposes of this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16 in connection with which county committees are utilized, to make payments to county committees of farmers to cover the estimated administrative expenses incurred or to be incurred by them in cooperating in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16. All or part of such estimated administrative expenses of any such committee may be deducted pro rata from chapter 3B of title 16 payments, parity payments, or loans, or other payments under this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16, made unless payment of such expenses is otherwise provided by law. The Secretary may make such payments to such committees in advance of determination of performance by farmers.
The Secretary shall provide compensation to members of such county committees (at not less than the level in effect on December 31, 1985 for county committees) for work actually performed by such persons in cooperating in carrying out this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16 in connection with which such committees are used.
The rate of compensation received by such persons for such work on December 23, 1985, shall be increased at the discretion of the Secretary.
The Secretary shall make payments to members of local, county, and State committees to cover expenses for travel incurred by such persons (including, in the case of a member of a local or county committee, travel between the home of such member and the local county office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service) in cooperating in carrying out this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16 in connection with which such Committees 1 are used.
Such travel expenses shall be paid in the manner authorized under section 5703 of title 5 for the payment of expenses and allowances for individuals employed intermittently in the Federal Government service.
Source credit: (Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 388, 52 Stat. 68; Pub. L. 99–198, title XVII, § 1713(a), (b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1636, 1637.)
- 1938Enacted · Act of Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30 · 52 Stat. 68
- 1985Amended · Pub. L. 99-198 · 99 Stat. 1636, 1637
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