Sec. 4. Intradepartmental coordination
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The Secretary of Agriculture shall create a cross-agency working group within the office of the Secretary to work with relevant agencies and organizations of the Department of Agriculture and with stakeholders to review and reconsider how all Department procurement of priority agricultural products can be directed to support a wider range of agricultural producers and agricultural product distributors in a manner that meets the Department’s overarching goals of nutrition security, resilient local and regional food systems, rural job creation, and reversal of the concentration of the ownership of the resources for the production and distribution of agricultural products.
The working group established under subsection
(a)shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate, an annual report describing the working group’s accomplishments, suggestions, and recommendations for administrative actions and proposed legislation relating to the activities of such group under such subsection.