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[CITE: 7USC6913]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
          CHAPTER 98--DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE REORGANIZATION
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL REORGANIZATION AUTHORITIES
 
Sec. 6913. Reductions in number of Department personnel


(a) Definitions

    For purposes of this section:

                      (1) Headquarters offices

        The term ``headquarters offices'', with respect to agencies, 
    offices, or other administrative units of the Department, means the 
    offices, functions, and employee positions that are located or 
    performed--
            (A) in Washington, District of Columbia; or
            (B) in such other locations as are identified by the 
        Secretary for purposes of this section.

                         (2) Field structure

        The term ``field structure'' means the offices, functions, and 
    employee positions of all agencies, offices, or other administrative 
    units of the Department, other than the headquarters offices, except 
    that the term does not include State, county, or area committees 
    established under section 590h(b)(5) of title 16. The term includes 
    the physical and geographic locations of such agencies, offices, or 
    other administrative units.

(b) Number of reductions required

    The Secretary shall achieve Federal employee reductions of at least 
7,500 staff years within the Department by the end of fiscal year 1999. 
Reductions in the number of full-time equivalent positions within the 
Department achieved under section 5 of the Federal Workforce 
Restructuring Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-226; 108 Stat. 115; 5 U.S.C. 
3101 note) shall be counted toward the employee reductions required 
under this section.

(c) Emphasis on headquarters offices reductions

    In achieving the employee reductions required by subsection (b) of 
this section, the Secretary shall pursue a goal so that the percentage 
of the total number of employee staff years reduced in headquarters 
offices is at least twice the percentage of the total number of employee 
staff years reduced in the field structure.

(d) Schedule

    The personnel reductions in headquarters offices and in the field 
structure should be accomplished concurrently in a manner determined by 
the Secretary.

(Pub. L. 103-354, title II, Sec. 213, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3211.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 6972 of this title.
