Managers' statement: evaluation of USDA commodity purchases

From page 244 of the managers' statement of the conference farm bill, the provision for evaluation of USDA commodity purchases:


(8) Independent evaluation of Department of Agriculture commodity purchase process The House bill requires an independent evaluation of the commodity purchasing processes and the importance of increasing purchases of specialty crops. (Section 10104) The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision. The Conference substitute adopts the House provision with an amendment to require the Secretary to arrange to have performed an independent evaluation of the purchasing processes used by the Department of Agriculture to implement the
requirement that funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 be principally devoted to perishable agricultural commodities. (Section 10101)