Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-110

§5663 Departmental Administration System

Title 7 › CHAPTER 87 — EXPORT PROMOTION › SUBCHAPTER IV — GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part A — Program Controls › § 5663

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require the Secretary to set up rules and tools for each USDA or Commodity Credit Corporation export promotion program. They must set clear criteria for approving proposals, create a central database that shows a proposal’s history and current status, run regular audits to check compliance, and set standards to judge loans before CCC guarantees so the CCC does not take on too much risk. The central database must let people find a proposal’s status by categories the Secretary chooses.

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Title 7, §5663

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(a)In general

With respect to each commercial export promotion program of the Department of Agriculture or the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall—

(1)specify by regulation the criteria used to evaluate and approve proposals for that program;

(2)establish a centralized system to permit the Foreign Agricultural Service to provide the history and current status of any proposal;

(3)provide for regular audits of program transactions to determine compliance with program objectives and requirements; and

(4)establish criteria to evaluate loans eligible for guarantees by the Commodity Credit Corporation, so as to ensure that the Corporation does not assume undue risk in providing such guarantees.

(b)Accessibility of information

Information pertaining to the status of a particular proposal shall be retrievable within the central system by appropriate categories, as determined appropriate by the Secretary.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 5663

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110