---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 6915"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "6915"
heading: "Combination of field offices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/6915"
units:
  - "Chapter 98 — Department of Agriculture Reorganization"
  - "Subchapter I — General Reorganization Authorities"
---

# §6915. Combination of field offices

- (a) **Combination of offices required—** Where practicable and to the extent consistent with efficient, effective, and improved service, the [Secretary](/usc/7/6902.md?p=3) shall combine field offices of agencies within the [Department](/usc/7/6902.md?p=1) to reduce personnel and duplicative overhead expenses.
- (b) **Joint use of resources and offices required—** When two or more agencies of the [Department](/usc/7/6902.md?p=1) share a common field office, the [Secretary](/usc/7/6902.md?p=3) shall require the agencies to jointly use office space, equipment, office supplies, administrative personnel, and clerical personnel associated with that field office.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 215, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3211.)