[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 26]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
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[CITE: 7CFR24.4]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
PART 24--BOARD OF CONTRACT APPEALS, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart A--Organization and Functions
 
Sec. 24.4  Jurisdiction.

    (a) Contract Disputes Act. Pursuant to the Contract Disputes Act of 
1978 (41 U.S.C. 601-613), the Board shall consider and determine appeals 
from decisions of contracting officers relating to contracts entered 
into on or after March 1, 1979, and, at the contractor's election, 
contracts entered into prior to March 1, 1979, with respect to claims 
pending before the contracting officer on March 1, 1979, or initiated 
thereafter. For purposes of this paragraph (a) the term ``contracts'' 
shall mean express or implied contracts made by the Department of 
Agriculture, agencies of the Department, or by any other executive 
agency when such agency or the Administrator for Federal Procurement 
Policy has designated the Board to decide the appeal, for:
    (1) The procurement of property, other than real property in being;
    (2) The procurement of services;
    (3) The procurement of construction, alternation, repair, or 
maintenance of real property; or
    (4) The disposal of personal property.
    (b) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. The Board shall have 
jurisdiction of appeals of final administrative determinations of the 
Corporation pertaining to standard reinsurance agreements under 7 CFR 
400.169(d). Decisions of the Board shall be final within the Corporation 
and the Department.
    (c) Suspension and debarment. (1) The Board shall have jurisdiction 
to hear and determine the issue of suspension or debarment, and the 
period thereof, on an appeal by a person suspended or debarred by:
    (i) An authorized official of the Department of Agriculture under 48 
CFR 409.470; or
    (ii) An authorized official of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
under 7 CFR part 1407.
    (2) In addition, the Board shall have jurisdiction to hear and 
determine the issue of debarment, and the period thereof, on an appeal 
by a timber purchaser debarred by an authorized official of the Forest 
Service under 36 CFR 223.138.
    (3) Decisions of the Board shall be final within the Department.
    (d) Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act. The Board shall 
have jurisdiction to act for the head of the agency in appeals of the 
administrative determinations of liquidated damages under the Contract 
Work Hours and Safety Standards Act (40 U.S.C. 327-333), 40 U.S.C. 330.