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 PUBLIC LAW 107-171—MAY 13, 2002 116 STAT. 519 (b) CONFORMING REPEAL.—Section 1669 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5922) is repealed. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE. —The amendments made by this section 7 USC 2279b take effect on October 1, 2002. note. SEC. 10706. IMPLEMENTATION FUNDING AND INFORMATION MANAGE- MENT. 7 USC 8002. (a) ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.— (1) IN GENERAL. —The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Farm Service Agency, may use not more than $55,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to cover administrative costs associated with the implementation of title I and the amendments made by that title. (2) AVAILABILITY. —The funds referred to in paragraph (1) shall remain available to the Secretary until expended. (3) SET-ASIDE. —Of the amount specified in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall use not less than $5,000,000, but not more than $8,000,000, to carry out subsection (b). (b) INFORMATION MANAGEMENT.— (1) DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEM.—The Secretary 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 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 to programs described in paragraph (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 considers appropriate. (3) RECONCILIATION OF CURRENT INFORMATION MANAGE- MENT. —The Secretary shall ensure that all current information of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation 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 Sec- Contracts, retary shall enter into an agreement or contract with a non- Federal entity to assist the Secretary in the development of the information management system. The Secretary shall give preference in entering into an agreement or contract to entities that have— (A) prior experience with the information and management systems of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and 99-194O-03 -18:QL3Partl

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