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[CITE: 7USC1392]

 
                          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 ii--appropriations and administrative expenses
 
Sec. 1392. Administrative expenses; posting names and 
        compensation of local employees
        
    (a) The Secretary is authorized and directed to make such 
expenditures as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this 
chapter and sections 590g, 590h, 590i, and 590j to 590q of title 16, 
including personal services and rents in the District of Columbia and 
elsewhere; traveling expenses; supplies and equipment; lawbooks, books 
of reference, directories, periodicals, and newspapers; and the 
preparation and display of exhibits, including such displays at 
community, county, State, interstate, and international fairs within the 
United States. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed 
upon the request of the Secretary to establish one or more separate 
appropriation accounts into which there shall be transferred from the 
respective funds available for the purposes of this chapter and chapter 
3B of title 16, in connection with which personnel or other facilities 
of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration are utilized, 
proportionate amounts estimated by the Secretary to be required by the 
Agricultural Adjustment Administration for administrative expenses in 
carrying out or cooperating in carrying out any of the provisions of 
this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16.
    (b) In the administration of this subchapter and sections 590g, 
590h, 590i, and 590j to 590q of title 16, the aggregate amount expended 
in any fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, 
for administrative expenses in the District of Columbia, including 
regional offices, and in the several States (not including the expenses 
of county and local committees) shall not exceed 3 per centum of the 
total amount available for such fiscal year for carrying out the 
purposes of this subchapter and chapter 3B of title 16, unless otherwise 
provided by appropriation or other law. In the administration of section 
612c of this title, and sections 601, 602, 608a, 608b, 608c, 608d, 610, 
612, 614, 624, and 671 to 673 of this title, the aggregate amount 
expended in any fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ending June 
30, 1942, for administrative expenses in the District of Columbia, 
including regional offices, and in the several States (not including the 
expenses of county and local committees) shall not exceed 4 per centum 
of the total amount available for such fiscal year for carrying out the 
purposes of said sections, unless otherwise provided by appropriation or 
other law. In the event any administrative expenses of any county or 
local committee are deducted in any fiscal year, beginning with the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, from chapter 3B of title 16 payments, 
parity payments, or loans, each farmer receiving benefits under such 
provisions shall be apprised of the amount or percentage deducted from 
such benefit payment or loan on account of such administrative expenses. 
The names and addresses of the members and employees of any county or 
local committee, and the amount of such compensation received by each of 
them, shall be posted annually in a conspicuous place in the area within 
which they are employed.

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, Sec. 392, 52 Stat. 69; Jan. 31, 1942, 
ch. 32, 56 Stat. 41; Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 950, Sec. 7, 70 Stat. 1034.)

                       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

    1956--Subsec. (b). Act Aug. 3, 1956, changed the period to a comma 
at end of first and second sentences and inserted ``unless otherwise 
provided by appropriation or other law''.
    1942--Subsecs. (a), (b). Act Jan. 31, 1942, among other changes, 
inserted reference to sections of title 16, after ``this chapter'' and 
``this subchapter''.


                    Effective Date of 1942 Amendment

    Act Jan. 31, 1942, provided that the amendments made by that act are 
effective for the fiscal year 1942 and subsequent fiscal years.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Agricultural Adjustment Administration consolidated into Production 
and Marketing Administration by 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, eff. July 4, 
1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees. See note set out under section 
610 of this title.


    Expenses of an Advisory Committee on Soil and Water Conservation

    Act Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 934, 70 Stat. 989, provided: ``That the 
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay expenses of an Advisory 
Committee on Soil and Water Conservation and related matters, but such 
Committee members (other than ex officio members) shall not be deemed to 
be employees of the United States and shall not receive compensation.''


                   Termination of Advisory Committees

    Advisory committees in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not 
later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, 
unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an 
officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by 
appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in 
the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is 
otherwise provided by law. See section 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 
1972, 86 Stat. 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees.
