Departments DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Fourteenth Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250 Phone, 202-447-2791 RICHARD LYNG Peter C. Myers Delores A. Flowers Floyd Gaibler M. Gerraine Holcombe Diane McCoy McIntyre Lynne Melileo Christopher Hicks J. Robert Franks Robert Beuley Leon Snead James R. Ebbitt Craig L. Beauchamp Lawrence Wachs Daniel Amstutz Richard W. Goldberg Joan S. Wallace Howard S. Marks Milton J. Hertz George E. Ripple Angelena V. Bracht LaVerne F. Neppl Louis G. Davis SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE Executive Assistant for Operations and Executive Assistant for Programs and Policy Special Assistant to the Secretary Office of the General Counsel, General Deputy General Counsel Office of the Inspector General, Inspector Deputy Inspector General Assistant Inspector General, Auditing Office of Budget and Program Analysis, Associate Director International Affairs and Commodity Deputy Under Secretary Office of International Cooperation and Associate Administrator Commodity Credit Corporation, President Secretary Deputy Secretary Treasurer Chief Accountant Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Administrator Associate Administrator Deputy Administrator, Management Foreign Agricultural Service, Administrator Associate Administrator and General Sales Assistant Administrator, Management LaVerne G. Ausman LaVerne G. Ausman Jack Van Mark E. Ray Fosse Edward D. Hews Kenneth A. Gilles Karen Darling Randall E. Torgerson Jack H. Armstrong Larry T. Thackston B.H. Jones Calvin W. Watkins Bert W. Hawkins James W. Glosser Larry B. Slagle Walter K. Miller David R. Galliart Lester M. Crawford Martin F. Fitzpatrick, Jr. Suzanne Harris S. Anna Kondratas Sonia F. Crow Ann C. Chadwick Douglas W. MacCleery William L. Rice George W. Scaling Small Community and Rural Development, Acting Under Secretary Deputy Under Secretary Farmers Home Administration, Administrator Deputy Administrator, Management Deputy Administrator Assistant Administrator, Management Deputy Manager Marketing and Inspection Services, Assistant Deputy Assistant Secretary Agricultural Cooperative Service, Administrator Deputy Administrator Agricultural Marketing Service, Administrator Deputy Administrator Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Associate Administrator Deputy Administrator, Administrative Federal Grain Inspection Service, Deputy Administrator Food Safety and Inspection Service, Associate Administrator Deputy Administrator, Administrative Office of Transportation, Administrator Deputy Assistant Secretary Food and Nutrition Service, Acting Associate Administrator Deputy Administrator, Management Office of the Consumer Advisor, Director Natural Resources and Environment, Assistant Deputy Assistant Secretary Forest Service, Chief Associate Chief Deputy Chief, Administration Soil Conservation Service, Chief Joseph Haas John W. Peterson James B. Boillot John Frydenlund Samuel J. Cornelius Frank Gearde, Jr. John E. Carson Clyde G. McShan II Ewen Wilson Ewen Wilson James R. Donald Gerald A. Bange Charles E. Caudill Raymond R. Hancock John E. Lee, Jr. Bobby H. Robinson Myron D. Johnsrud Denzil O. Clegg John P. Jordan Claire I. Harris Mary E. Carter Joseph H. Howard Samuel T. Waters Associate Chief Deputy Chief, Administration Office of Governmental and Public Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary Acting Director for Congressional Affairs Administration, Assistant Secretary Board of Contract Appeals, Acting Chairman Office of Advocacy and Enterprise, Director Management, Director Office of Operations, Director Office of Finance and Management, Director Office of Personnel, Director Economics, Acting Assistant Secretary World Agricultural Outlook Board, Deputy Chairperson National Agricultural Statistics Service, Deputy Administrator Economic Research Service, Administrator Deputy Administrator Office of Energy, Director Economics Management Staff, Director Economic Analysis Staff, Director Science and Education, Assistant Secretary Deputy Assistant Secretary Extension Service, Administrator Associate Administrator Cooperative State Research Service, Administrator Associate Administrator Agricultural Research Service, Administrator National Agricultural Library, Administrator [For the Department of Agriculture statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 7, Part 2] The Department of Agriculture serves all Americans daily. It works to improve and maintain farm income and to develop and expand markets abroad for agricultural products. The Department helps to curb and to cure poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. It works to enhance the environment and to maintain our production capacity by helping landowners protect the soil, water, forests, and other natural resources. Rural development, credit, and conservation programs are key resources for carrying out national growth policies. Department research findings directly or indirectly benefit all Americans. The Department, through inspection and grading services, safeguards and ensures standards of quality in the daily food supply. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) was created by act of May 15, 1862 (7 U.S.C. 2201), and was administered by a Commissioner of Agriculture until 1889 (12 Stat. 387; 5 U.S.C. 511, 514, 516). By act of February 9, 1889 (25 Stat. 659), the powers and duties of the Department were enlarged. The Department was made the eighth executive department in the Federal Government, and the Commissioner became the Secretary of Agriculture. Staff Offices Administration The Assistant Secretary for Administration serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary on all administrative management and related matters. Five departmental staff offices report to the Assistant Secretary and assist in providing staff support to top policy officials and program agencies to ensure the efficient and effective management and operation of the Department. These are the Office of Personnel, the Office of Finance and Management, the Office of Information Resources Management, the Office of Advocacy and Enterprise, and the Office of Operations. These offices coordinate the Department's personnel management program; equal opportunity and civil rights activities; safety and health activities; management improvement programs; accounting, fiscal, and financial activities; automated data processing administration; procurement and contracts; and management of real and personal property. In addition, two quasi-judicial agencies, the Office of Administrative Law Judges and the Board of Contract Appeals, report to the Assistant Secretary. Both organizations operate autonomously when adjudicating cases and deciding contract disputes. The Assistant Secretary for Administration serves as the Department's Director of Equal Employment Opportunity and oversees all equal opportunity and civil rights programs within USDA. General Counsel The General Counsel is the principal legal adviser to the Secretary and is responsible for providing all legal advice and representation in the Department. Inspector General The Office of Inspector General was established administratively by the Secretary of Agriculture in 1962. The Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) created statutory inspectors general in the Department of Agriculture and a number of other Federal executive departments and independent agencies. The Inspector General conducts and supervises all audits and investigations relating to the programs and operations of the Department. The Office also is responsible for coordinating, conducting, or supervising all other activities carried out by the Department for the purpose of promoting program economy and efficiency and preventing and detecting fraud. The investigation of employee complaints, physical security of the Secretary, review of legislation and regulations for their impact on program efficiency and susceptibility to abuse, and relations with governmental and nongovernmental units concerning program efficiency and prevention of fraud also are responsibilities of the Office. The Office is headed by an Inspector General who is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. For further information, call 202-447-8001. Office of Budget and Program Analysis The Office of Budget and Program Analysis coordinates the preparation of departmental budget estimates and legislative reports; administers systems for the management and control of funds; provides policy, program, and budgetary analysis of USDA proposals; and provides staff assistance to USDA agencies in meeting |