§5663 Departmental Administration System

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must make sure each commercial export promotion program run by the Department of Agriculture or the Commodity Credit Corporation does four things. The Secretary must set clear rules for how proposals are judged and approved, create one central system so the Foreign Agricultural Service can record and share each proposal’s history and current status, run regular audits of program transactions to check they meet goals and rules, and set standards for loans that can get Commodity Credit Corporation guarantees so the Corporation does not take on too much risk. The central system must let people find a proposal’s status by categories the Secretary chooses.