[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2022 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2022

To prohibit the closure or relocation of any county office of the Farm 
Service Agency until at least one year after the enactment of an Act to 
provide for the continuation of agricultural programs for fiscal years 
                              after 2007.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 6, 2007

   Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Conrad, Mr. 
  Baucus, Mr. Tester, and Mr. Dorgan) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the closure or relocation of any county office of the Farm 
Service Agency until at least one year after the enactment of an Act to 
provide for the continuation of agricultural programs for fiscal years 
                              after 2007.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON CLOSURE OR RELOCATION OF FARM SERVICE AGENCY 
              COUNTY OFFICES.

    The Secretary of Agriculture may not close or relocate any county 
or field office of the Farm Service Agency until at least one year 
after the date of the enactment of an omnibus law to provide for the 
continuation of agricultural programs for fiscal years after 2007 
unless such office, for 180 consecutive days during the two-year period 
ending on such date of enactment, had zero employees.
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