Functions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 55 - Department of Agriculture

Sec. 2201. Establishment of Department
Sec. 2202. Executive Department, Secretary of Agriculture supervision and control
Sec. 2204. General duties of Secretary; advisory functions; research and development


Advisory Committee on Statistics

United States Department of Agriculture - Department Regulation

Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics - DR1042-130


Conduct the Census of Agriculture

Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 55 - Department of Agriculture

Sec. 2204g. Authority of Secretary of Agriculture to conduct Census of Agriculture


Confidentiality of Information and Data Security

Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 55 - Department of Agriculture

Sec. 2276. Confidentiality of information

United States Department of Agriculture - Department Regulation
Agricultural Statistics Board - DR1042-042

Federal Register Notice: June 27, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 124)
Order Providing for the Confidentiality of Statistical Information


Collection of Agricultural Production and Price Data

Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 17 - Miscellaneous Matters
Sec. 411b. Estimates of apple production

Chapter 19 - Cotton Statistics and Estimates
Sec. 473. Persons required to furnish information; request; failure to furnish; false information

Sec. 476. Cotton Acreage reports -- issued a report on or before the 12th

Chapter 32 - Peanut Statistics
Sec. 951. Collection and publication; facts required; submission of report

Chapter 35A - Price Support of Agricultural Commodities Subchapter I - General Provisions
Sec. 1421d. Commodity reports

Chapter 38 - Distribution and Marketing of Agricultural Products
Sec. 1626. Definitions

Subchapter III - Dairy Product Mandatory Reporting
Sec. 1637b. Mandatory Reporting for Dairy Products

Title 13 - CENSUS
Chapter 3 - Collection and Publication of Statistics - Subchapter I - Cotton
Sec. 41. Collection and publication

Sec. 42. Contents of reports; number of bales of linter; distribution; publication by Department of Agriculture


Collection of Environmental and Water Quality Data

Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 6 - Insecticides and Environmental Pesticide Control
Sec. 136i-2. Collection of pesticide use information


Research and International Programs

Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 64 - Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Subchapter I - Findings, Purposes, and Definitions
Sec. 3291. International agricultural research, extension, and teaching


Cooperative Agreements

Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 64 - Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Subchapter X - Funding and Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 3318. Contract, grant, and cooperative agreement authorities


Publication of Reports and Fees

Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 55 - Department of Agriculture
Sec. 2242a. User fees for reports, publications, and software

Title 44 - PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
Chapter 13 - Particular Reports and Documents
Sec. 1302. Agriculture, Department of: monthly crop report and other publications


Penalties for Disclosure and False Reports

Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 93 - Public Officers and Employees
Sec. 1905. Disclosure of confidential information generally


Freedom of Information Act

Title 7-- CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS-AGRICULTURE
Subtitle B--Regulations of the Department of Agriculture
Chapter XXXVI--National Agricultural Statistics Service
Part 3601--Availability of Information to the Public (FOIA)


Guidance Documents

NASS currently does not maintain any guidance documents identified as significant under Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review.

Public comments to request such a document may be addressed to: Associate Administrator at HQ AA
@nass.usda.gov.