Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-354).

The Act provides a comprehensive reorganization of the United States Department of Agriculture. In addition to mandating specified reductions in personnel, the Act empowers the Secretary of State for Agriculture to establish three Assistant Secretaries and Under-Secretaries for, respectively, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, Rural Economic and Community Development, Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, Natural Resources and Environment, Research, Education and Economics, and Food Safety. In addition, the Act provides for the creation of a Consolidated Farm Service Agency, with responsibility for price and income-support and agricultural credit programmes. It further empowers the Secretary of State to create a number of specialized Services, including, among others, a Natural Resources Conservation Service; and to reorganize the Forest Service. Finally, the Act provides for a National Appeals Division to hear appeals from adverse administrative decisions, and lays down detailed procedural rules for the hearing and adjudication of such appeals.