Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 73 — Farmland Protection Policy
§ 4203. Existing policies and procedures; review, etc.
Statutory text
Each department, agency, independent commission, or other unit of the Federal Government, with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture, shall review current provisions of law, administrative rules and regulations, and policies and procedures applicable to it to determine whether any provision thereof will prevent such unit of the Federal Government from taking appropriate action to comply fully with the provisions of this chapter.
Each department, agency, independent commission, or other unit of the Federal Government, with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture, shall, as appropriate, develop proposals for action to bring its programs, authorities, and administrative activities into conformity with the purpose and policy of this chapter.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Agriculture and Food Act of 1981
Pub. L. 97–98 title XIV § 1542 · 95 Stat. 1213
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 4203
(Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1542, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1343.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1542, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1343.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 1542. existing policies and procedures (a) Each department, agency, independent commission, 7 USC 4203. or other unit of the Federal Government, with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture, shall review current provisions of law, administrative rules and regulations, and policies and procedures applicable to it to determine whether any provision thereof will prevent such unit of the Federal Government from taking appropriate action to comply fully with the provisions of this subtitle. (b) Each department, agency, independent commission, or other unit of the Federal Government, with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture, shall, as appropriate, develop proposals for action to bring its programs, authorities, and administrative activities into conformity with the purpose and policy of this subtitle.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective six months after , see section 1549 of Pub. L. 97–98, set out as a note under section 4201 of this title.