[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1412.102]

[Page 388-389]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1412_DIRECT AND COUNTER-CYCLICAL PROGRAM AND PEANUT QUOTA BUYOUT 
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec.  1412.102  Administration.

    (a) The program is administered under the general supervision of the 
Executive Vice-President, CCC, and shall be carried out by Farm Service 
Agency (FSA) State and county committees (State and county committees).
    (b) State and county committees, and representatives and their 
employees, do not have authority to modify or waive any of the 
provisions of the regulations of this part.
    (c) The State committee shall take any action required by the 
regulations of this part that the county committee has not taken. The 
State committee shall also:
    (1) Correct, or require a county committee to correct any action 
taken by such county committee that is not in

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accordance with the regulations of this part; or
    (2) Require a county committee to withhold taking any action that is 
not in accordance with this part.
    (d) No provision or delegation to a State or county committee shall 
preclude the Executive Vice President, or a designee, from determining 
any question arising under the program or from reversing or modifying 
any determination made by a State or county committee.
    (e) The Deputy Administrator may authorize State and county 
committees to waive or modify deadlines, except statutory deadlines, and 
other non-statutory requirements in cases where lateness or failure to 
meet such other requirements does not adversely affect operation of the 
program.
    (f) A representative of CCC may execute the FSA forms entitled 
``Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program Contract''; and ``2002 Peanut 
Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program Contract'' only under the terms and 
conditions determined and announced by the Executive Vice President, 
CCC. Any contract that is not executed in accordance with such terms and 
conditions, including any purported execution prior to the date 
authorized by the Executive Vice President, CCC, is null and void and 
shall not be considered to be a contract between CCC and the operator or 
any other producer on the farm.