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Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-110

§7000 Implementation of Final Determinations of Division

Title 7 › CHAPTER 98 — DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE REORGANIZATION › SUBCHAPTER VIII — NATIONAL APPEALS DIVISION › § 7000

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

When a case is returned to an agency because of a final decision by the Division, the agency head must carry out that decision within 30 days after the decision’s notice takes effect. Within 180 days after this rule is enacted, and every 180 days after that, each agency head must send a report to the House Agriculture Committee and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and post it on the Department’s website. The report must list all cases returned under Division final decisions during the period, say whether each decision has been carried out, and if not, explain why and give a projected date for doing so. The agency must also post any updates to those reports on the Department’s website each month.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §7000

Agriculture, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In general
On the return of a case to an agency pursuant to the final determination of the Division, the head of the agency shall implement the final determination not later than 30 days after the effective date of the notice of the final determination.
(b)Reports
(1)In general
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this subsection, and every 180 days thereafter, the head of each agency shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate, and publish on the website of the Department, a report that includes—
(A)a description of all cases returned to the agency during the period covered by the report pursuant to a final determination of the Division;
(B)the status of implementation of each final determination; and
(C)if the final determination has not been implemented—
(i)the reason that the final determination has not been implemented; and
(ii)the projected date of implementation of the final determination.
(2)Updates
Each month, the head of each agency shall publish on the website of the Department any updates to the reports submitted under paragraph (1).

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The date of the enactment of this subsection, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–246, which was approved June 18, 2008. Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical

Amendments

to this section. The

Amendments

by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Amendments

2008—Pub. L. 110–246, § 14009, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 8701 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 7000

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110