[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR371.11]

[Page 505]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 371--ORGANIZATION, FUNCTIONS, AND DELEGATIONS OF AUTHORITY--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 371.11  Delegations of authority.

    (a) Associate Administrator. The Associate Administrator is 
delegated the authority to perform the duties and to exercise the 
functions and powers that are now, or that may become, vested in the 
Administrator, including the power of redelegation except where 
prohibited, and including authority reserved to the Administrator in 
Sec. 371.14 of this part. The Associate Administrator is also authorized 
to act for the Administrator in the absence of the Administrator.
    (b) Deputy Administrators and Directors. The Deputy Administrators 
of Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ), Veterinary Services (VS), 
Wildlife Services (WS), Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business 
Services (MRPBS), Animal Care (AC), and International Services (IS); the 
Directors of Policy and Program Development (PPD) and Legislative and 
Public Affairs (LPA); and the officers they designate to act for them, 
with prior specific approval of the Administrator, are delegated the 
authority, severally, to perform duties and to exercise the functions 
and powers that are now, or that may become vested in the Administrator 
(including the power of redelegation, except where prohibited) except 
authority that is reserved to the Administrator. Each Deputy 
Administrator or Director shall be responsible for the programs and 
activities in APHIS assigned to that Deputy Administrator or Director.