[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 7CFR3.5]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3_DEBT MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart A_Settlement of Small or Old Debts
 
Sec. 3.5  Delegations of authority.

    The heads of any administration or other agency having jurisdiction 
over any of the acts or programs listed in Sec. 3.10 (including those 
of Federal Crop Insurance Corporation) are hereby authorized, within 
their respective jurisdictions, to exercise any or all of the functions 
prescribed by this part. The head of each of such agencies may delegate 
and authorize the redelegation of any of the functions vested in him by 
this part: Provided, That the determination of any settlement shall not 
be delegated beyond the head of the highest field office having 
jurisdiction, except that in the case of the Agricultural Stabilization 
and Conservation State Offices, such authority may also be delegated to 
the State Administrative Officers and except that in the case of the 
Farmers Home Administration, such authority may also be delegated to 
Assistant State Directors and Chiefs, Production Loan Operations, in 
State offices of that administration.

[21 FR 3213, May 16, 1956, as amended at 55 FR 18591, May 3, 1990]