---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 5663"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "5663"
heading: "Departmental administration system"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/5663"
units:
  - "Chapter 87 — Export Promotion"
  - "Subchapter IV — General Provisions"
  - "Part A — Program Controls"
---

# §5663. Departmental administration system

- (a) **In general—** With respect to each commercial export promotion program of the Department of Agriculture or the Commodity Credit Corporation, the [Secretary](/usc/7/5602.md?p=3) shall—
  - (1) specify by regulation the criteria used to evaluate and approve proposals for that program;
  - (2) establish a centralized system to permit the Foreign Agricultural [Service](/usc/7/5602.md?p=4) to provide the history and current status of any proposal;
  - (3) provide for regular audits of program transactions to determine compliance with program objectives and requirements; and
  - (4) establish criteria to evaluate loans eligible for guarantees by the Commodity Credit Corporation, so as to ensure that the Corporation does not assume undue risk in providing such guarantees.
- (b) **Accessibility of information—** Information pertaining to the status of a particular proposal shall be retrievable within the central system by appropriate categories, as determined appropriate by the [Secretary](/usc/7/5602.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 403, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3682.)