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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1141h. Avoidance of duplication; cooperation with other governmental establishments; obtaining information and data; cooperation with States, Territories, and agencies or subdivisions thereof; indicating research problems; transfer of offices, functions, etc.
(a) The administration shall, in cooperation with any
governmental establishment in the Executive branch of the
Government, including any field service thereof at home or abroad,
avail itself of the services and facilities thereof in order to
avoid preventable expense or duplication of effort.
(b) The President may by Executive order direct any such
governmental establishment to furnish the administration such
information and data as such governmental establishment may have
pertaining to the functions of the administration; except that the
President shall not direct that the administration be furnished
with any information or data supplied by any person in confidence
to any governmental establishment in pursuance of any provision of
law or of any agreement with a governmental establishment.
(c) The administration may cooperate with any State or Territory,
or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, or with
any person.
(d) The administration shall, through the governor, indicate to
the appropriate bureau or division of the Department of Agriculture
any special problem on which a research is needed to aid in
carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
(e) The President is authorized, by Executive order, to transfer
to or retransfer from the jurisdiction and control of the
administration the whole or any part of (1) any office, bureau,
service, division, commission, or board in the Executive branch of
the Government engaged in scientific or extension work, or the
furnishing of services, with respect to the marketing of
agricultural commodities, (2) its functions pertaining to such work
or services, and (3) the records, property, including office
equipment, personnel, and unexpended balances of appropriation,
pertaining to such work or services.
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