---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 8002"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "8002"
heading: "Implementation funding and information management"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/8002"
units:
  - "Chapter 106 — Commodity Programs"
  - "Subchapter VI — Administration"
---

# §8002. Implementation funding and information management

- (a) **Additional funds for administrative costs—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) of Agriculture, acting through the Farm Service Agency, may use not more than $55,000,000 of [funds](/usc/7/4531.md?p=5) of the [Commodity](/usc/7/1a.md?p=9) Credit [Corporation](/usc/7/1502.md?p=b-5) to cover administrative costs associated with the implementation of title I and the amendments made by that title.
  - (2) **Availability—** The [funds](/usc/7/4531.md?p=5) referred to in [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall remain available to the [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) until expended.
  - (3) **Set-aside—** Of the amount specified in [paragraph (1)](#a-1), the [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) shall use not less than $5,000,000, but not more than $8,000,000, to carry out [subsection (b)](#b).
- (b) **Information management—**
  - (1) **Development of system—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) of Agriculture shall develop a comprehensive information management system, using appropriate technologies, to be used in implementing the programs administered by the Federal Crop Insurance [Corporation](/usc/7/1502.md?p=b-5) and the Farm Service Agency.
  - (2) **Elements—** The information management system developed under this subsection shall be designed to—
    - (A) improve access by agricultural [producers](/usc/7/7901.md?p=12) to programs described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1);
    - (B) improve and protect the integrity of the information collected;
    - (C) meet the needs of the agencies that require the data in the administration of their programs;
    - (D) improve the timeliness of the collection of the information;
    - (E) contribute to the elimination of duplication of information collection;
    - (F) lower the overall cost to the Department of Agriculture for information collection; and
    - (G) achieve such other goals as the [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) considers appropriate.
  - (3) **Reconciliation of current information management—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) shall ensure that all current information of the Federal Crop Insurance [Corporation](/usc/7/1502.md?p=b-5) and the Farm Service Agency is combined, reconciled, redefined, and reformatted in such a manner so that the agencies can use the common information management system developed under this subsection.
  - (4) **Assistance for development of system—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) shall enter into an agreement or [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) with a non-Federal entity to assist the [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) in the development of the information management system. The [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) shall give preference in entering into an agreement or [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) to entities that have—
    - (A) prior experience with the information and management systems of the Federal Crop Insurance [Corporation](/usc/7/1502.md?p=b-5); and
    - (B) collaborated with the [Corporation](/usc/7/1502.md?p=b-5) in the development of the identification procedures required by [section 1515(f) of this title](/usc/7/1515.md?p=f).
  - (5) **Use—** The information collected using the information management system developed under this subsection may be made available to—
    - (A) any Federal agency that requires the information to carry out the functions of the agency; and
    - (B) any approved insurance provider, as defined in [section 1502(b) of this title](/usc/7/1502.md?p=b), with respect to [producers](/usc/7/7901.md?p=12) insured by the approved insurance provider.
  - (6) **Relation to other activities—** This subsection shall not interfere with, or delay, existing agreements or requests for proposals of the Federal Crop Insurance [Corporation](/usc/7/1502.md?p=b-5) or the Farm Service Agency regarding the information management activities known as data mining or data warehousing.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** In addition to amounts made available under [subsection (a)(3)](#a-3), there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out [subsection (b)](#b) for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2008.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–171, title X, § 10706, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 519.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Title I and the amendments made by that title, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), is title I of Pub. L. 107–171, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 143, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 7901 of this title and Tables.