82 FR 20237 - Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America

Executive Office of the President

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 81 (April 28, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 81 (Friday, April 28, 2017)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 20237-20239]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-08818]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 82 , No. 81 / Friday, April 28, 2017 / 
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                Executive Order 13790 of April 25, 2017

                
Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in 
                America

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, and in order to ensure the informed exercise 
                of regulatory authority that affects agriculture and 
                rural communities, it is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. Policy. A reliable, safe, and affordable 
                food, fiber, and forestry supply is critical to 
                America's national security, stability, and prosperity. 
                It is in the national interest to promote American 
                agriculture and protect the rural communities where 
                food, fiber, forestry, and many of our renewable fuels 
                are cultivated. It is further in the national interest 
                to ensure that regulatory burdens do not unnecessarily 
                encumber agricultural production, harm rural 
                communities, constrain economic growth, hamper job 
                creation, or increase the cost of food for Americans 
                and our customers around the world.

                Sec. 2. Establishment of the Interagency Task Force on 
                Agriculture and Rural Prosperity. There is hereby 
                established the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture 
                and Rural Prosperity (Task Force). The Department of 
                Agriculture shall provide administrative support and 
                funding for the Task Force to the extent permitted by 
                law and within existing appropriations.

                Sec. 3. Membership. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture 
                shall serve as Chair of the Task Force, which shall 
                also include:

(i) the Secretary of the Treasury;

(ii) the Secretary of Defense;

(iii) the Attorney General;

(iv) the Secretary of the Interior;

(v) the Secretary of Commerce;

(vi) the Secretary of Labor;

(vii) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;

(viii) the Secretary of Transportation;

(ix) the Secretary of Energy;

(x) the Secretary of Education;

(xi) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;

(xii) the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission;

(xiii) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;

(xiv) the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy;

(xv) the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy;

(xvi) the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers;

(xvii) the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy;

(xviii) the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy;

(xix) the Administrator of the Small Business Administration;

(xx) the United States Trade Representative;

(xxi) the Director of the National Science Foundation; and

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(xxii) the heads of such other executive departments, agencies, and offices 
as the President or the Secretary of Agriculture may, from time to time, 
designate.

                    (b) A member of the Task Force may designate a 
                senior-level official who is a full-time officer or 
                employee of the member's department, agency, or office 
                to perform the member's functions on the Task Force.

                Sec. 4. Purpose and Functions of the Task Force. (a) 
                The Task Force shall identify legislative, regulatory, 
                and policy changes to promote in rural America 
                agriculture, economic development, job growth, 
                infrastructure improvements, technological innovation, 
                energy security, and quality of life, including changes 
                that:

(i) remove barriers to economic prosperity and quality of life in rural 
America;

(ii) advance the adoption of innovations and technology for agricultural 
production and long-term, sustainable rural development;

(iii) strengthen and expand educational opportunities for students in rural 
communities, particularly in agricultural education, science, technology, 
engineering, and mathematics;

(iv) empower the State, local, and tribal agencies that implement rural 
economic development, agricultural, and environmental programs to tailor 
those programs to relevant regional circumstances;

(v) respect the unique circumstances of small businesses that serve rural 
communities and the unique business structures and regional diversity of 
farms and ranches;

(vi) require executive departments and agencies to rely upon the best 
available science when reviewing or approving crop protection tools;

(vii) ensure access to a reliable workforce and increase employment 
opportunities in agriculture-related and rural-focused businesses;

(viii) promote the preservation of family farms and other agribusiness 
operations as they are passed from one generation to the next, including 
changes to the estate tax and the tax valuation of family or cooperatively 
held businesses;

(ix) ensure that water users' private property rights are not encumbered 
when they attempt to secure permits to operate on public lands;

(x) improve food safety and ensure that regulations and policies 
implementing Federal food safety laws are based on science and account for 
the unique circumstances of farms and ranches;

(xi) encourage the production, export, and use of domestically produced 
agricultural products;

(xii) further the Nation's energy security by advancing traditional and 
renewable energy production in the rural landscape; and

(xiii) address hurdles associated with access to resources on public lands 
for the rural communities that rely on cattle grazing, timber harvests, 
mining, recreation, and other multiple uses.

                    (b) The Task Force shall, in coordination with the 
                Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental 
                Affairs, provide State, local, and tribal officials--
                and farmers, ranchers, foresters, and other rural 
                stakeholders--with an opportunity to suggest to the 
                Task Force legislative, regulatory, and policy changes.
                    (c) The Task Force shall coordinate its efforts 
                with other reviews of regulations or policy, including 
                those conducted pursuant to Executive Order 13771 of 
                January 30, 2017 (Reducing Regulation and Controlling 
                Regulatory Costs), Executive Order 13778 of February 
                28, 2017 (Restoring the Rule of Law, Federalism, and 
                Economic Growth by Reviewing the ``Waters of the United 
                States'' Rule), and Executive Order 13783 of March 28, 
                2017 (Promoting Energy Independence and Economic 
                Growth).

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                Sec. 5. Report. Within 180 days of the date of this 
                order, the Secretary of Agriculture, in coordination 
                with the other members of the Task Force, shall submit 
                a report to the President, through the Assistant to the 
                President for Economic Policy and the Assistant to the 
                President for Domestic Policy, recommending the 
                legislative, regulatory, or policy changes identified 
                pursuant to section 4 of this order that the Task Force 
                considers appropriate. The Secretary of Agriculture 
                shall provide a copy of the final report to each member 
                of the Task Force.

                Sec. 6. Revocation. Executive Order 13575 of June 9, 
                2011 (Establishment of the White House Rural Council), 
                is hereby revoked.

                Sec. 7. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    April 25, 2017.

[FR Doc. 2017-08818
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