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§1388 Utilization of Local Agencies

Title 7 › 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 i — miscellaneous › § 1388

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must use the same state, county, and local farm committees, the extension service, and other approved agencies that are used for related programs under Title 16. The local administrative areas for this program must be the same as those set for chapter 3B of Title 16. The Secretary must pay county farmer committees from funds for this chapter and chapter 3B to cover their estimated administrative costs. Those costs can be taken out of chapter 3B payments, parity payments, loans, or other payments under these chapters unless another law says otherwise. The Secretary can pay before farmer performance is finally determined. Committee members must be paid for work they actually do at no less than the level in effect on December 31, 1985, and the pay rate in effect on December 23, 1985 may be increased at the Secretary’s choice. The Secretary must also pay travel expenses for local, county, and state committee members, including travel between a member’s home and the local county ASCS office, under the rules in section 5703 of Title 5.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §1388

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(a)Designation of local agencies and local administrative areas
The provisions of section 590h(b) and 590k of title 16, relating to the utilization of State, county, local committees, the extension service, and other approved agencies, and to recognition and encouragement of cooperative associations, shall apply in the administration of this chapter; and the Secretary shall, for such purposes, utilize the same local, county, and State committees as are utilized under section 590g, 590h, 590i, and 590j to 590q of title 16. The local administrative areas designated under section 590h(b) of title 16, for the administration of programs under chapter 3B of title 16, and the local administrative areas designated for the administration of this chapter shall be the same.
(b)Payments to county committees for administrative expenses
(1)The Secretary is authorized and directed, from any funds made available for the purposes of this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16 in connection with which county committees are utilized, to make payments to county committees of farmers to cover the estimated administrative expenses incurred or to be incurred by them in cooperating in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16. All or part of such estimated administrative expenses of any such committee may be deducted pro rata from chapter 3B of title 16 payments, parity payments, or loans, or other payments under this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16, made unless payment of such expenses is otherwise provided by law. The Secretary may make such payments to such committees in advance of determination of performance by farmers.
(2)(A)The Secretary shall provide compensation to members of such county committees (at not less than the level in effect on December 31, 1985 for county committees) for work actually performed by such persons in cooperating in carrying out this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16 in connection with which such committees are used.
(B)The rate of compensation received by such persons for such work on December 23, 1985, shall be increased at the discretion of the Secretary.
(c)Travel expenses
(1)The Secretary shall make payments to members of local, county, and State committees to cover expenses for travel incurred by such persons (including, in the case of a member of a local or county committee, travel between the home of such member and the local county office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service) in cooperating in carrying out this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16 in connection with which such Committees are used.
(2)Such travel expenses shall be paid in the manner authorized under section 5703 of title 5 for the payment of expenses and allowances for individuals employed intermittently in the Federal Government service.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Chapter 3B [§ 590a et seq.] of title 16, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.

Amendments

1985—Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 99–198 designated existing provisions of subsec. (b) as par. (1), added par. (2), and added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1985 Amendment Pub. L. 99–198, title XVII, § 1713(c), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1637, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [amending this section] shall become effective on January 1, 1986.”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 1388

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110