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[CITE: 7USC2207a]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                  CHAPTER 55--DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
Sec. 2207a. Reports to Congress on obligation and expenditure

    (a) Not later than 20 days after the end of each fiscal year, the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to Congress a report on the 
amounts obligated and expended by the Department during that fiscal year 
for the procurement of advisory and assistance services.
    (b) Each report submitted under subsection (a) of this section shall 
include a list with the following information:
        (1) All contracts awarded for the procurement of advisory and 
    assistance services during the fiscal year and the amount of each 
    contract.
        (2) The purpose of each contract.
        (3) The justification for the award of each contract and the 
    reason the work cannot be performed by civil servants.

(Pub. L. 101-161, title VI, Sec. 641, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 986; Pub. 
L. 104-316, title I, Sec. 104(b), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3829.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-316, in subsec. (a), struck out par. (1) 
designation before ``Not later than'', struck out subpar. (A) 
designation before ``submit to Congress'', struck out ``, and (B) 
transmit a copy of such report to the Comptroller General of the United 
States'' after ``and assistance services'', redesignated par. (2) as 
subsec. (b) and in introductory provisions substituted ``subsection (a) 
of this section shall'' for ``paragraph (1) shall'', redesignated 
subpars. (A) to (C) as pars. (1) to (3), respectively, and struck out 
former subsec. (b) which read as follows: ``The Comptroller General of 
the United States shall review the reports submitted under subsection 
(a) of this section and transmit to Congress any comments and 
recommendations the Comptroller General considers appropriate regarding 
the matter contained in such reports.''
