7 U.S.C. § 4203 — Existing policies and procedures; review, etc.
submitted 45 years ago by Pub. L. 97-98 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 111 words · no verdicts yet
This section requires federal departments, agencies, commissions, and other units to review the laws, rules, policies, and procedures that apply to them. They must identify barriers to complying with this chapter and, when appropriate, propose changes to align their programs and activities with the chapter’s purpose and policy.
(a) Each federal department, agency, independent commission, or other unit, with help from the Department of Agriculture, must review the laws, administrative rules and regulations, policies, and procedures that apply to it. The review must determine whether any provision would stop the unit from taking appropriate action to fully comply with this chapter.
(b) Each such federal unit, with help from the Department of Agriculture, must, when appropriate, develop proposals for action to bring its programs, authorities, and administrative activities into conformity with this chapter’s purpose and policy. This section does not define the quoted terms “appropriate action,” “fully,” “programs,” “authorities,” or “administrative activities.”
Each department, agency, independent commission, or other unit of the Federal Government, with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture, shall review current provisions of law, administrative rules and regulations, and policies and procedures applicable to it to determine whether any provision thereof will prevent such unit of the Federal Government from taking appropriate action to comply fully with the provisions of this chapter.
Each department, agency, independent commission, or other unit of the Federal Government, with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture, shall, as appropriate, develop proposals for action to bring its programs, authorities, and administrative activities into conformity with the purpose and policy of this chapter.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1542, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1343.)
- 1981Enacted · Pub. L. 97-98 · 95 Stat. 1343
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