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The Food and Agriculture Council (FAC) at the national, state, and local levels are the vehicles used to coordinate the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s programs, initiatives, and activities requiring cooperative involvement across mission area and agency lines. FACs were instituted by the Secretary of Agriculture in order to provide a policy level, cross agency, decision making and communication medium as needed to achieve the USDAs goals and objectives.

The National FAC (NFAC) is the management entity designated by the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out USDA's field restructuring and modernization effort. The NFAC is comprised of the Administrators of all USDA agencies that are active at the State level. The Chair of the NFAC rotates annually between the Administrators of the Farm Service Agency, the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Deputy Under Secretary for Operations and Management of the Rural Development agencies.

The NFAC is supported by an Executive Officer who also heads USDAs Service Center Implementation Team (SCIT). The SCIT is an interagency staff that supports the activities of the NFAC, and initiates activities and projects on behalf of the partner agencies to ensure the successful implementation of the USDAs Service Center Initiative.

State FACs are the primary USDA interagency forums in each State/Territory through which State-level agency heads of the three partner agencies can efficiently coordinate seamless interagency program delivery, collocated offices, and streamlined operations of the three county based USDA agencies.

Local FACs are the management structure in each USDA Service Center that implement programs, policies, and procedures at the local level. Local FACs are charged with the responsibility of exploring the potential for collocating offices that are located in the same community and service delivery territory, and for increasing the sharing of personnel and material resources.

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