Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 98 — Department of Agriculture Reorganization
§ 6962a. Cooperative agreements
Statutory text
Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including provisions of law requiring competition), the Secretary of Agriculture may on and after , enter into cooperative agreements (which may provide for the acquisition of goods or services, including personal services) with a State, political subdivision, or agency thereof, a public or private agency, organization, or any other person, if the Secretary determines that the objectives of the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual interest of the parties to the agreement in carrying out the programs administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service; and (2) all parties will contribute resources to the accomplishment of these objectives: Provided, That Commodity Credit Corporation funds obligated for such purposes shall not exceed the level obligated by the Commodity Credit Corporation for such purposes in fiscal year 1998.
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.
Pub. L. 106–387 § 1(a)(tVII)(s714) · 114 Stat. 1549
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 6962a
(Pub. L. 106–387, § 1(a) [title VII, § 714], Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A–30.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 106–387, § 1(a) [title VII, § 714], Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A–30.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) The provisions of H.R. 5426 of the 106th Congress, as introduced on October 6, 2000, are hereby enacted into law.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, and not as part of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994, which in part comprises this chapter.
Credits
(Pub. L. 106–387, § 1(a) [title VII, § 714], , 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A–30.)