Files
republic-os/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-98/section-6932a.md
T
Fabio 00a184bb3c Legal corpus: U.S. Code titles 1–11 from pinned OLRC XML (11,050 sections)
Raw OLRC USLM XML zips @ release 119-100 (retrieved 2026-07-04 via
Atlas depot), ingested with the standard pipeline: raw snapshot ->
per-section OKF markdown -> manifest + checksums. Title 52 untouched.
LegalText: 171 -> 11,221. Titles 12-54 await a clean OLRC retry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 09:52:37 -04:00

4.0 KiB
Raw Blame History

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction corpus kind title_number title_name chapter_number chapter_name section citation status release_point release_date source source_url source_identifier source_file source_hash raw_snapshot_hash text_hash retrieved_at confidence tags
LegalText 7 U.S.C. § 6932a Prohibition on closure or relocation of county offices for the Farm Service Agency us united_states_code code_section 7 AGRICULTURE 98 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE REORGANIZATION 6932a 7 U.S.C. § 6932a current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc07@119-100.zip /us/usc/t7/s6932a data/legal/raw/us/code/title-07/usc07.xml 4dd9a03ade6d76e576b0a0d6bb595607077ad1a758dfbacbf49e9e7e80536ea8 50edab1679a711653797362c0aeb8f2273303fe473fb7fa16df1ee76bdd6e984 87095e641521732023b37283b8b7a89cc5157bee18f273ced1a94efff4efdbb5 2026-07-04 official
legal
us-code

7 U.S.C. § 6932a - Prohibition on closure or relocation of county offices for the Farm Service Agency

Text

(a) Temporary prohibition (1) In general Subject to paragraph (2), until the date that is two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may not close or relocate a county or field office of the Farm Service Agency.

(2) Exception Paragraph (1) shall not apply to—

(A) an office that is located not more than 20 miles from another office of the Farm Service Agency; or

(B) the relocation of an office within the same county in the course of routine leasing operations.

(b) Limitation on closure; notice (1) Limitation After the period referred to in subsection (a)(1), the Secretary shall, before closing any office of the Farm Service Agency that is located more than 20 miles from another office of the Farm Service Agency, to the maximum extent practicable, first close any offices of the Farm Service Agency that—

(A) are located less than 20 miles from another office of the Farm Service Agency; and

(B) have two or fewer permanent full-time employees.

(2) Notice After the period referred to in subsection (a)(1), the Secretary of Agriculture may not close a county or field office of the Farm Service Agency unless—

(A) not later than 30 days after the Secretary proposes to close such office, the Secretary holds a public meeting regarding the proposed closure in the county in which such office is located; and

(B) after the public meeting referred to in subparagraph (A), but not less than 90 days before the date on which the Secretary approves the closure of such office, the Secretary notifies the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, each Senator representing the State in which the office proposed to be closed is located, and the member of the House of Representatives who represents the Congressional district in which the office proposed to be closed is located of the proposed closure of such office.

(Pub. L. 110234, title XIV, § 14212, May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1465; Pub. L. 110246, § 4(a), title XIV, § 14212, June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2227.)

Notes

Editorial Notes

References in TextThe date of the enactment of this Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110246, which was approved June 18, 2008.

Codification Pub. L. 110234 and Pub. L. 110246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110246. Section was enacted as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, and not as part of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994, which in part comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective DateEnactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110234 by Pub. L. 110246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110246, set out as a note under section 8701 of this title.