---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 7033"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "7033"
heading: "Availability of agency information technology funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/7033"
units:
  - "Chapter 98 — Department of Agriculture Reorganization"
  - "Subchapter X — Freedom to E-File"
---

# §7033. Availability of agency information technology funds

- (a) **Reservation of funds—** From funds made available for agencies of the [Department](/usc/7/6902.md?p=1) specified in [section 7031(b) of this title](/usc/7/7031.md?p=b) for information technology or information resource management, the [Secretary](/usc/7/6902.md?p=3) shall reserve from those agencies’ applicable accounts a total amount equal to not more than the following:
  - (1) For fiscal year 2001, $3,000,000.
  - (2) For each subsequent fiscal year, $2,000,000.
- (b) **Time for reservation—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/6902.md?p=3) shall notify Congress of the amount to be reserved under [subsection (a)](#a) for a fiscal year not later than December 1 of that fiscal year.
- (c) **Use of funds—**
  - (1) **Establishment—** Funds reserved under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be used to establish the Internet-based system required under [section 7031 of this title](/usc/7/7031.md) and to expand the system as required by [section 7032 of this title](/usc/7/7032.md).
  - (2) **Maintenance—** Once the system is established and operational, reserved amounts shall be used for maintenance and improvement of the system.
- (d) **Return of funds—** Funds reserved under [subsection (a)](#a) and unobligated at the end of the fiscal year shall be returned to the agency from which the funds were reserved, to remain available until expended.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–222, § 4, June 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 354.)