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[CITE: 7USC1736-1]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
        CHAPTER 41--AGRICULTURAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
           SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL AUTHORITIES AND REQUIREMENTS
 
Sec. 1736-1. Special Assistant for Agricultural Trade and Food 
        Assistance
        

(a) Appointment by President

    The President shall appoint a Special Assistant to the President for 
Agricultural Trade and Food Assistance (hereinafter in this section 
referred to as the ``Special Assistant''). The President shall appoint 
the initial Special Assistant not later than May 1, 1986.

(b) Service in Executive Office of President

    The Special Assistant shall serve in the Executive Office of the 
President.

(c) Required functions

    The Special Assistant shall--
        (1) assist and advise the President in order to improve and 
    enhance food assistance programs carried out in the United States 
    and foreign countries;
        (2) be available to receive suggestions and complaints 
    concerning the implementation of United States food aid and 
    agricultural export programs anywhere in the United States 
    Government and provide prompt responses thereto, including 
    expediting the program implementation in any instances in which 
    there is unreasonable delay;
        (3) make recommendations to the President on means to coordinate 
    and streamline the manner in which food assistance programs are 
    carried out by the Department of Agriculture and the Agency for 
    International Development, in order to improve their overall 
    effectiveness;
        (4) make recommendations to the President on measures to be 
    taken to increase use of United States agricultural commodities and 
    the products thereof through food assistance programs;
        (5) advise the President on agricultural trade;
        (6) advise the President on the Food for Progress Program and 
    expedite its implementation;
        (7) serve as a member of the Development Coordination Committee 
    and the Food Aid Subcommittee of such Committee;
        (8) advise departments and agencies of the Federal Government on 
    their policy guidelines on basic issues of food assistance policy to 
    the extent necessary to assure the coordination of food assistance 
    programs, consistent with law, and with the advice of such 
    Subcommittee; and
        (9) submit a report to the President and Congress each year 
    through 1990 containing--
            (A) a global analysis of world food needs and production; 
        and
            (B) a detailed plan for using available export and food aid 
        authorities to increase United States agricultural exports to 
        those targeted countries.

(d) Compensation

    Compensation for the Special Assistant shall be fixed by the 
President at an annual rate of basic pay of not less than the rate 
applicable to positions in level III of the Executive Schedule.

(Pub. L. 99-198, title XI, Sec. 1113(a)-(d), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 
1479; Pub. L. 99-260, Sec. 4(a)(1), (b), (d), Mar. 20, 1986, 100 Stat. 
49; Pub. L. 101-624, title XV, Sec. 1572(2), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 
3702.)

                       References in Text

    Level III of the Executive Schedule, referred to in subsec. (d), is 
set out in section 5314 of Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees.

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Food Security Act of 1985, and 
not as part of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
1954 which comprises this chapter.
    Another section 1113(d) of Pub. L. 99-198 amended section 5312 of 
Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.


                               Amendments

    1990--Subsec. (c)(9)(B), (C). Pub. L. 101-624 redesignated subpar. 
(C) as (B) and struck out former subpar. (B) which required that report 
contain identification of at least 15 target countries most likely to 
emerge as growth markets for commodities in next 5 to 10 years.
    1986--Pub. L. 99-260, Sec. 4(a)(1)(A), substituted ``Food 
Assistance'' for ``Food Aid'' in section catchline.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99-260, Sec. 4(a)(1)(B), (b), substituted 
``Food Assistance'' for ``Food Aid'' and inserted provision that the 
President appoint the initial Special Assistant not later than May 1, 
1986.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 99-260, Sec. 4(d), amended subsec. (d) 
generally, substituting provision relating to compensation of the 
Special Assistant for provision relating to additional required 
functions of the Special Assistant.
