2. DETAILS FROM COAST GUARD Act of March 3, 1885 (23 Stat. 494), as amended (16 U.S.C. 743) DETAILS FROM COAST GUARD The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to detail from time to time for duty under the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service any officers and men of the Coast Guard whose services can be spared for such duty. (Mar. 3, 1885, c. 360, 23 Stat. 494; Reorg. Plan No. III, § 3, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232; Aug. 4, 1949, c. 393, §§ 1, 20, 63 Stat. 495, 561.) HISTORICAL NOTE 1949 Amendment.-Act of Aug. 4, 1949, amended section by reestablishing the Coast Guard and by repealing Act Jan. 28, 1915, c. 20, § 1, 38 Stat. 800. Effective Date of 1949 Amendment.-Amendment of section by Act Aug. 4, 1949, effective as of the first day of the third month after the month of approval August 1949, see note set out preceding chapter I of Title 14, Coast Guard, U.S. Code. Transfer of Functions.-All functions of all officers of the Department of the Treasury, and all functions of all agencies and employees of the Department, were transferred, with certain exceptions, to the Secretary of the Treasury, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions, by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 26, §§ 1, 2, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, set out in note under section 241 of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees. The Coast Guard, referred to in this section, is generally a service in the Treasury Department, but the Plan excepted, from the transfer, the functions of the Coast Guard, and of the Commandant thereof, when the Coast Guard is operating as a part of the Navy under sections 1 and 3 of Title 14, Coast Guard. 204 T. Fishery attaché program Act of August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1002; 22 U.S.C. 846) SERVICES FOR GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND ESTABLISHMENTS SEC. 311. The officers and employees of the [Foreign] Service shall, under such regulations as the President may prescribe, perform duties and functions in behalf of any Government agency or any other establishment of the Government requiring their services, including those in the legislative and judicial branches, but the absence of such regulations shall not preclude officers and employees of the Service from acting for and on behalf of any such Government agency or establishment whenever it shall, through the Department, request their services. (Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957, title III, § 311, 60 Stat. 1002.) EFFECTIVE DATE Effective three months after Aug. 13, 1946. NOTE Regulations with respect to reporting functions.-Ex. Ord. This Order provided: "SECTION 1. As used in this order, the words 'foreign data' shall mean any data obtained or to be obtained in foreign countries, including reports, statistics, and publications. "SEC. 2. Subject to the provisions of this order, the Department of State shall obtain for any Federal department or agency, through the Foreign Service of the United States, such foreign data as such department or agency may request through the Department of State. "SEC. 3. The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to prepare and maintain, for use in carrying out the purposes of this order, (a) a comprehensive statement of the types of foreign data appropriate to be obtained through the Foreign Service which would be of substantial use to the United States, with due attention in the preparation of this statement to the relative importance of the several types of data, and (b) standards which shall govern the determination by the Department of State to transmit or not to transmit to the Foreign Service, for action, any request for foreign data, and which shall also govern the assignment of priorities by the Department of State to the several requests transmitted by it to the Foreign Service for action. In connection with the preparation of the said statement and standards and any re vision thereof, the Department of State shall afford interested Federal departments and agencies opportunity for consultation and shall accord their advice appropriate consideration. "SEC. 4. The Department of State may assign priorities to requests for foreign data, which priorities shall govern the Foreign Service in connection with the furnishing of the requested data; and it may take such measures as may be necessary or appropriate to keep the work falling upon the Foreign Service by reason of the furnishing of data to Federal departments and agencies within the resources of the Foreign Service available for such work. In carrying out the provisions of this section, the Department of State shall, to the extent practicable, be guided by the determinations of any other department or agency requesting foreign data as to the relative priorities of any two or more requests made by such department or agency." U. Loans to farmers, including fish farmers Act of August 8, 1961-Title III (75 Stat. 307), as amended (7 U.S.C. 1921-1991) TITLE III-AGRICULTURAL CREDIT SHORT TITLE SEC. 301. (a) This title may be cited as the "Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961." CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS (b) The Congress finds that the statutory authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, hereinafter referred to in this title as the "Secretary," for making and insuring loans to farmers and ranchers should be revised and consolidated to provide for more effective credit services to farmers. (Pub. L. 87-128, title III, § 301(b), Aug. 8, 1961, 75 Stat. 307.) TITLE A-REAL ESTATE LOANS PERSONS ELIGIBLE FOR LOANS SEC. 302. The Secretary is authorized to make and insure loans under this title to farmers and ranchers in the United States and in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands who (1) are citizens of the United States, (2) have a farm background and either training or farming experience which the Secretary determines is sufficient to assure reasonable prospects of success in the proposed farming operations, (3) are or will become owner-operators of not larger than family farms, and (4) are unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere to finance their actual needs at reasonable rates and terms, taking into consideration prevailing private and cooperative rates and terms in the community in or near which the applicant resides for loans for similar purposes and periods of time. (Pub. L. 87-128, title III, § 302, Aug. 8, 1961, 75 Stat. 307.) SEC. 311. The Secretary is authorized to make loans under this title to farmers and ranchers in the United States and in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands who (1) are citizens of the United States, (2) have a farm background and training or farming experience which the Secretary determines is sufficient to assure reasonable prospects of success in the proposed farming operation, (3) are or will become operators of not larger than family farms, and (4) are unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere to finance their actual needs at reasonable rates and terms, taking into consideration prevailing private and cooperative rates and terms in the community in or near which the applicant resides for loans for similar purposes and periods of time. (Pub. L. 87-128, title III, § 311, Aug. 8, 1961, 75 Stat. 310.) DESIGNATION OF EMERGENCY AREAS; PERSONS ELIGIBLE FOR LOANS SEC. 321. (a) The Secretary may designate any area in the United States and in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as an emergency area if he finds (1) that there exists in such areas a general need for agricultural credit which cannot be met for temporary periods of time by private, cooperative, or other responsible sources (including loans the Secretary is authorized to make under title B of this title or to make or insure under title A of this title or any other Act of Congress), at reasonable rates and terms for loans for similar purposes and periods of time, and (2) that the need for such credit in such area is the result of a natural disaster. (b) The Secretary is authorized to make loans in any such area (1) to establish farmers, ranchers, or oyster planters who are citizens of the United States and (2) to private domestic corporations or partnerships engaged primarily in farming, ranching, or oyster planting provided they have experience and resources necessary to assure a reasonable prospect for successful operation with the assistance of such loan, and are unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere to finance their actual needs at reasonable rates and terms, taking into consideration prevailing private and cooperative rates and terms in the community in or near which the applicant resides for loans for similar purposes and periods of time. (Pub. L. 87-128, title III, § 321, Aug. 8, 1961, 75 Stat. 311, amended Pub. L. 87-832, Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 958.) AMENDMENTS 1962. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 87-832 authorized loans to established oyster planters and to private domestic corporations or partnerships engaged primarily in oyster planting. SEC. 401. As used in this title (1) the term "farmers" shall be deemed to include persons who are engaged in, or who, with assistance afforded under this title, intend to engage in, fish farming, and (2) the term "farming" shall be deemed to include fish farming. (Pub. L. 87-128, title III, § 343, as added Pub. L. 87-703, title IV § 401 (5), Sept. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 632.) |