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[CITE: 12USC2275]

 
                       TITLE 12--BANKS AND BANKING
 
                     CHAPTER 23--FARM CREDIT SYSTEM
 
          SUBCHAPTER V--FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION ORGANIZATION
 
                          Part D--Miscellaneous
 
Sec. 2275. General Accounting Office audit; report to Congress

    (a) The Comptroller General shall conduct an evaluation of the 
programs and activities authorized under the 1980 amendments to this 
chapter, and shall make an interim report to the Congress no later than 
December 31, 1982, and a final report to the Congress no later than 
December 31, 1984. The Comptroller General shall include in such 
evaluation the effect that this chapter, as amended, will have on 
agricultural credit services provided by the Farm Credit System, Federal 
agencies, and other entities. The Comptroller General may make such 
interim reports to the Congress on the programs and activities under 
these amendments as the Comptroller General deems necessary or as 
requested by Members of Congress.
    (b) For the purpose of conducting program evaluations required in 
subsection (a) of this section, the Comptroller General or his duly 
authorized representatives shall have access to and the right to examine 
all books, documents, papers, records, or other recorded information 
within the possession or control of the Federal land banks and Federal 
land bank associations, Federal intermediate credit banks and production 
credit associations and banks for cooperatives.

(Pub. L. 92-181, title V, Sec. 5.44, formerly Sec. 5.30, as added Pub. 
L. 96-592, title V, Sec. 509, Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3450; renumbered 
Sec. 544, Pub. L. 99-205, title II, Sec. 205(a)(2), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 
Stat. 1703.)

                       References in Text

    The 1980 amendments to this chapter and these amendments, referred 
to in subsec. (a), are the amendments made to this chapter by the Farm 
Credit Act Amendment of 1980, Pub. L. 96-592, Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 
3437. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title of 1980 Amendment note set out under section 2001 of this title 
and Tables.

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 2260 of this title.
    Similar provisions relating to general powers of the Comptroller 
General with respect to access and examination of books, documents, 
etc., are set out in section 2276 of this title.
