TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PART 300_AGENCY MISSION AND ORGANIZATION--Table of Contents Sec. 300.3 FSIS organization. (a) General. The organization of FSIS reflects the agency's primary regulatory responsibilities: implementation of the FMIA, the PPIA, and the EPIA. (b) Headquarters. FSIS has four principal components or offices, each of which is under the direction of a Deputy Administrator. The Deputy Administrators, along with their staffs, and the Administrator, along with the Office of the Administrator and three staff offices that report to the Administrator, are located at U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters in Washington, DC. (1) Program offices. FSIS's headquarters offices are the Office of Public Health and Science, which provides scientific analysis, advice, data, and recommendations on matters involving public health and science; the Office of Management, which provides centralized administrative and support services; the Office of Policy, Program Development and Evaluation, which develops and recommends domestic and international policy activities; and the Office of Field Operations, which manages regulatory oversight and inspection (see paragraph (c) of this section). [[Page 82]] (2) Staff offices. The Administrator's staff offices are the Food Safety Executive Management and Coordination Staff, the Legislative Liaison Staff, and the Food Safety Education and Communications Staff. (c) Field. FSIS's field structure consists of eighteen district offices and a technical center. (1) District offices. Each district office, under the direction of a District Manager, manages a farm-to-table food safety program of regulatory oversight and inspection in a district consisting of a State or several States and territories. The locations of the district offices and the districts' geographic boundaries are as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alameda, CA....................... California. Salem, OR......................... Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, and Washington. Boulder, CO....................... Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah. Minneapolis, MN................... Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Des Moines, IA.................... Iowa and Nebraska. Lawrence, KS...................... Kansas and Missouri. Springdale, AR.................... Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. Dallas, TX........................ Texas. Madison, WI....................... Michigan and Wisconsin. Chicago, IL....................... Illinois and Indiana. Pickerington, OH.................. Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. Philadelphia, PA.................. Pennsylvania. Albany, NY........................ New Jersey and New York. Boston, MA........................ Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virgin Islands. Greenbelt, MD..................... Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Raleigh, NC....................... North Carolina and South Carolina. Atlanta, GA....................... Florida and Georgia. Jackson, MS....................... Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (2) Technical Service Center. The Technical Service Center, which is located in Omaha, Nebraska, provides technical guidance, review, and training on the interpretation and application of regulatory requirements.