§2250b — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

Creates a Nonrecurring Expenses Fund in the U.S. Treasury for the Department of Agriculture (not including the Forest Service). Unused, expired discretionary money that was appropriated from the General Fund to USDA in this or later fiscal years can be moved into this fund, but only within five fiscal years after the last year those original funds were available. Money put into the fund stays available until it is spent. It can be used for facilities, infrastructure, and information technology needed for USDA to operate, but the use must be approved by the Office of Management and Budget. The House and Senate Appropriations Committees must be told at least 15 days before any planned use of the money, and funds can only be obligated after that notice.

Title 7, §2250b

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the “Nonrecurring expenses fund” (the Fund): Provided, That unobligated balances of expired discretionary funds appropriated in this or any succeeding fiscal year from the General Fund of the Treasury to the Department of Agriculture (except the Forest Service) by this or any other Act may be transferred (not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal year for which such funds are available for the purposes for which appropriated) into the Fund: Provided further, That amounts deposited in the Fund shall be available until expended, and in addition to such other funds as may be available for such purposes, for facilities infrastructure and information technology services.11 So in original. necessary for the operation of the Department of Agriculture, subject to approval by the Office of Management and Budget: Provided further, That amounts in the Fund may be obligated only after the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of the planned use of funds.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is div. A of Pub. L. 113–235, Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2135, known as the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Codification Pub. L. 118–42, which directed the amendment of section 2250b of title 7, United States Code, was executed by making the amendment to section 742 of Pub. L. 113–235, which is classified to this section, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

Amendments

2024—Pub. L. 118–42 substituted “infrastructure and information technology services. necessary” for “infrastructure capital acquisition necessary”. See Codification note above.

§2250b Nonrecurring expenses fund