[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 92 (Friday, May 10, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 21361-21362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-11467]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Housing and Comunity Development Service
Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service
Rural Utilities Service
Farm Service Agency

7 CFR Parts 1841, 1843, 1845, 1903, 1945, 1980, and 2054

RIN 0560-AE72


Deletion of Obsolete CFR Sections Pertaining to Farm Service 
Agency (Formerly Farmers Home Administration) Programs

AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, USDA.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This final rule removes, as unnecessary, regulations 
pertaining to: the Emergency Livestock and Economic Emergency loan 
programs; the Agricultural Resource Conservation Demonstration Program 
(ARCDP); the employment, pay, and functions of Farmers Home 
Administration (FmHA) county or area committees; and voluntary debt 
adjustment. This action is being taken as part of the National 
Performance Review program to eliminate excess regulations and to 
improve the quality of those that remain in effect.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 3, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven R. Bazzell, Senior Loan 
Officer, Farm Service Agency, United States Department of Agriculture, 
Farm Credit Programs Loan Making Division, Ag Box Code 0522, Room 5438-
S, 14th & Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-0522; 
Telephone: 202-720-3889; or Facsimile: 202-690-1117; E-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Executive Order 12866

    The Office of Management and Budget did not review this rule 
because it was determined to be ``not significant'' for the purposes of 
Executive Order 12866.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

    The Regulatory Flexibility Act is not applicable to this rule since 
the Farm Service Agency (FSA) is not required by 5 U.S.C. 553, or any 
other provision of law, to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking to 
effect these administrative changes.

Environmental Evaluation

    This action will not have a significant impact on the quality of 
the environment. Therefore, neither an Environmental Assessment nor an 
Environmental Impact Statement is required.

Executive Order 12778

    This rule was reviewed in accordance with Executive Order 12778. 
The provisions of the rule do not preempt State laws, are not 
retroactive, and do not involve administrative appeals.

Executive Order 12372

    For reasons set forth in the Notice to 7 CFR, part 3015, subpart V 
(48 FR 29115, June 24, 1983), the programs and activities within in 
this rule are excluded from the scope of Executive Order 12372, which 
requires intergovernmental consultation with State and local officials.

Paperwork Reduction Act

    This final rule does not impose any new information or 
recordkeeping requirements on the public. The Agency will update the 
data documenting the burden on the public at its regularly scheduled 
paperwork burden submissions to OMB.

Background

    This final rule removes obsolete regulations concerning former 
Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) Farmer Programs loans. Under the 
Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (Pub.L. 103-354) 
(1944 Act), FmHA programs were transferred to other USDA agencies. FmHA 
Farmer Programs now are being administered as Farm Credit Programs by 
the Farm Service Agency (FSA). The Emergency Livestock (EL) program 
regulations under CFR parts 1841, 1843, 1845 and 1980, subpart C are 
removed because the Emergency Livestock Credit Act of 1974 (Pub.L. 93-
357), as amended, expired on September 30, 1979. The Economic Emergency 
(EE) program regulations at 7 CFR part 1945, subpart C and part 1980, 
subpart F are removed because the Emergency Agricultural Credit 
Adjustment Act of 1978 (Pub.L. 95-334), was repealed by section 1851 of 
the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-
624). FSA also is deleting the regulations for administering the 
Agricultural Resource Conservation Demonstration Program (ARCDP), 7 CFR 
part 1980 subpart J, because the Department of Agriculture 
Reorganization Act of 1994 transferred the responsibility for 
administering the ARCDP from the former FmHA to the Natural Resources 
Conservation Service, USDA. Regulations concerning the employment, pay, 
and functions of former FmHA county committees at 7 CFR part 2054, 
subpart W also will be eliminated because Sec. 227 of the 1994 Act 
abolished FmHA county committees. FSA is examining the role that the 
county or area county committees of the former Agricultural 
Stabilization and Conservation Service, now part of FSA, can play in 
the agricultural credit area and may promulgate regulations concerning 
this. Finally, regulations concerning voluntary debt adjustment at 7 
CFR part 1903, subpart A, are removed because they are duplicative of 
comprehensive loan servicing regulations under 7 CFR part 1951.

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List of Subjects

7 CFR Part 1841

    Agricultural Credit, Loan Guarantees, Loan Liquidation, Loan 
Servicing, Transfers and Assumptions.

7 CFR Part 1843

    Agricultural Credit, Loan Liquidation, Loan Making, Loan Servicing.

7 CFR Part 1845

    Agricultural Credit, Emergency Assistance, Guaranteed Loans, 
Livestock.

7 CFR Part 1903

    Agricultural Credit, Debt Adjustment, Loan Servicing.

7 CFR Part 1945

    Agricultural Credit, Economic Emergency, Emergency Assistance.

7 CFR Part 1980

    Agricultural Credit, Agricultural Resource Conservation 
Demonstration Program.

7 CFR Part 2054

    County Committee Function, Elections, Employment.
    For the reasons set out in the preamble, CFR Chapter XVIII is 
amended as follows:

PARTS 1841, 1843, 1845, 1903, AND 2054--[REMOVED]

    1. Parts 1841, 1843, 1845, 1903, and 2054 are removed.

PART 1945--[AMENDED]

    2. Part 1945 is amended by removing subpart C (Secs. 1945.101-
1945.150).

PART 1980--[AMENDED]

    3. Part 1980 is amended by removing subpart C (Secs. 1980.201-
1980.294 and Appendix A), subpart F (Secs. 1980.501-1980.600 and 
Appendices A and B), and subpart J (Secs. 1980.901 through 1980.1000 
and Appendices A through D).

    Signed at Washington, D.C. on April 24, 1996.
Eugene Moos,
Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services.
[FR Doc. 96-11467 Filed 5-9-96; 8:45 am]
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