---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 371.10"
title: "7"
number: "371.10"
heading: "Legislative and Public Affairs."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/371.10"
---

# §371.10. Legislative and Public Affairs.

- (a) **General statement.** Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) is the communications arm of APHIS.
- (b) **Director of LPA.** The Director of LPA is responsible for:
  - (1) Advising and assisting the Administrator and other officials on matters relating to agency legislative and media affairs.
  - (2) **Preparing legislative proposals for APHIS programs and responsibilities.** Assisting in compiling support material for agency witnesses for congressional hearings. Preparing legislative reports.
  - (3) Establishing and maintaining liaison with Members of Congress, various congressional committees and subcommittees, and their staffs on matters pertaining to APHIS.
  - (4) Planning and conducting an information program to promote interest in and increase the public knowledge of APHIS programs and activities.
  - (5) Drafting and administering policy guidelines on press contacts, photography, audiovisual activities, graphic design, radio-TV, and policy/editorial/graphics clearances for publications. Planning and conducting a program to explain APHIS policies in written form to Members of Congress, State and industry leaders, officials of foreign governments, and private citizens.
  - (6) Preparing replies to written inquiries and establishing and maintaining a system for the control of written inquiries referred by the Office of the Secretary or sent directly to the agency.
  - (7) **Assisting in the preparation of position papers regarding APHIS programs.**
  - (8) Assisting in the preparation of directives, procedural manuals, articles for publication, and agency correspondence. Coordinating APHIS activities within the scope of the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 1299, Jan. 10, 2000, unless otherwise noted.