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[CITE: 7USC1388]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
             CHAPTER 35--AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING 
                   QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES
 
           Part F--Miscellaneous Provisions and Appropriations
 
                        subpart i--miscellaneous
 
Sec. 1388. Utilization of local agencies


(a) Designation of local agencies and local administrative areas

    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.

(b) Payments to county committees for administrative expenses

    (1) 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.
    (2)(A) 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.
    (B) The rate of compensation received by such persons for such work 
on December 23, 1985, shall be increased at the discretion of the 
Secretary.

(c) Travel expenses

    (1) 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.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should not be capitalized.
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    (2) 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.

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, Sec. 388, 52 Stat. 68; Pub. L. 99-
198, title XVII, Sec. 1713(a), (b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1636, 1637.)

                       References in Text

    Chapter 3B [Sec. 590a et seq.] of title 16, referred to in text, was 
in the original a reference to the Soil Conservation and Domestic 
Allotment Act, as amended.


                               Amendments

    1985--Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 99-198 designated existing 
provisions of subsec. (b) as par. (1), added par. (2), and added subsec. 
(c).


                    Effective Date of 1985 Amendment

    Section 1713(c) of Pub. L. 99-198 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by this section [amending this section] shall become effective on 
January 1, 1986.''
