(6) Specification of the proposed allocations 
within the Administration of the functions of the 
agencies and subdivisions that are not related di-
rectly to ensuring the safety of food. 
(c) MODIFICATION OF PLAN.—The President may, 
on the basis of consultations with the appropriate congres-
sional committees, modify or revise any part of the plan 
until that part of the plan becomes effective in accordance 
with subsection (d). 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The reorganization plan de-
scribed in this section, including any modifications 
or revisions of the plan under subsection (c), shall 
become effective for an agency on the earlier of— 
(A) the date specified in the plan (or the 
plan as modified pursuant to subsection (c)), 
except that such date may not be earlier than 
90 days after the date the President has trans-
mitted the reorganization plan to the appro-
priate congressional committees pursuant to 
subsection (a); or 
(B) the end of the transition period. 
(2) STATUTORY
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in 
this subsection may be construed to require the 
transfer of functions, personnel, records, balances of 
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appropriations, or other assets of an agency on a 
single date. 
(3) SUPERCEDES
EXISTING
LAW.—Paragraph 
(1) shall apply notwithstanding section 905(b) of 
title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 503. TRANSITIONAL AUTHORITIES. 
(a) PROVISION
OF ASSISTANCE
BY OFFICIALS.— 
Until the transfer of an agency to the Administration, any 
official having authority over or function relating to the 
agency on the day before the date of enactment of this 
Act shall provide the Administrator such assistance, in-
cluding the use of personnel and assets, as the Adminis-
trator may request in preparing for the transfer and inte-
gration of the agency to the Administration. 
(b) SERVICES AND PERSONNEL.—During the transi-
tion period, upon the request of the Administrator, the 
head of any Executive agency may, on a reimbursable 
basis, provide services or detail personnel to assist with 
the transition. 
(c) ACTING OFFICIALS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—During the transition pe-
riod, pending the advice and consent of the Senate 
to the appointment of an officer required by this Act 
to be appointed by and with such advice and con-
sent, the President may designate any officer whose 
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appointment was required to be made by and with 
such advice and consent and who was such an officer 
on the day before the date of enactment of this Act 
(and who continues to be in office) or immediately 
before such designation, to act in such office until 
the same is filled as provided in this Act. 
(2) COMPENSATION.—While acting pursuant to 
paragraph (1), such officers shall receive compensa-
tion at the higher of— 
(A) the rates provided by this Act for the 
respective offices in which they act; or 
(B) the rates provided for the offices held 
at the time of designation. 
(3) LIMITATION.—Nothing in this Act shall be 
construed to require the advice and consent of the 
Senate to the appointment by the President to a po-
sition in the Administration of any officer whose 
agency is transferred to the Administration pursuant 
to this Act and whose duties following such transfer 
are germane to those performed before such trans-
fer. 
(d) TRANSFER OF PERSONNEL, ASSETS, OBLIGA-
TIONS, AND FUNCTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Consistent with section 1531 
of title 31, United States Code, the personnel, as-
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sets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and un-
expended balances of appropriations, authorizations, 
allocations, and other funds that relate to the func-
tions transferred under subsection (a) from a Fed-
eral agency shall be transferred to the Administra-
tion. 
(2) UNEXPENDED FUNDS.—Unexpended funds 
transferred under this subsection shall be used by 
the Administration only for the purposes for which 
the funds were originally authorized and appro-
priated. 
SEC. 504. SAVINGS PROVISIONS. 
(a) COMPLETED ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS.—The 
enactment of this Act or the transfer of functions under 
this Act shall not affect any order, determination, rule, 
regulation, permit, personnel action, agreement, grant, 
contract, certificate, license, registration, privilege, or 
other administrative action issued, made, granted, or oth-
erwise in effect or final with respect to that agency on 
the day before the transfer date with respect to the trans-
ferred functions. 
(b) PENDING PROCEEDINGS.—Subject to the author-
ity of the Administrator under this Act— 
(1) pending proceedings in an agency, including 
notices of proposed rulemaking, and applications for 
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licenses, permits, certificates, grants, and financial 
assistance, shall continue notwithstanding the enact-
ment of this Act or the transfer of the agency to the 
Administration, unless discontinued or modified 
under the same terms and conditions and to the 
same extent that such discontinuance could have oc-
curred if such enactment or transfer had not oc-
curred; and 
(2) orders issued in such proceedings, and ap-
peals from those orders, and payments made pursu-
ant to such orders, shall be issued in the same man-
ner on the same terms as if this Act had not been 
enacted or the agency had not been transferred, and 
any such order shall continue in effect until amend-
ed, modified, superceded, terminated, set aside, or 
revoked by an officer of the United States or a court 
of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law. 
(c) PENDING CIVIL ACTIONS.—Subject to the author-
ity of the Administrator under this Act, any civil action 
commenced with regard to that agency pending before 
that agency on the day before the transfer date with re-
spect to the transferred functions shall continue notwith-
standing the enactment of this Act or the transfer of an 
agency to the Administration. 
(d) REFERENCES.— 
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