Source: USDA. 3/19/20 U.S. Department of Agriculture service centers are
encouraging visitors to take proactive protective measures to help prevent the
spread of new coronavirus.
All service center visitors wishing to conduct business with
the Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, or any other
service center agency should call service centers and make appointments before
visiting.
Please ask yourself these three questions before visiting a
service center:
Have you, someone living in your household, someone you have
been in close or frequent contact with, or someone you are caring for been
diagnosed with COVID-19 (new Coronavirus) or had any contact with a confirmed
case of COVID-19?
In the last 14 days, have you or someone living in your
household, or someone you have been in close or frequent contact with, or
someone you are caring for returned from, or made a travel connection through a CDC Level 3 or Level 2 country or State Department Level 3 or Level 4 country?
Do you currently have, or have you had within the last 24
hours, any cold or flu symptoms with a fever greater than 100.4 or acute
respiratory distress (e.g., shortness of breath and coughing).
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you must
contact your local service center to make an appointment by phone.
If you answer “no” to all of the above questions, you may
visit the service center as normal. Please call before visiting to ensure your
office is open and make an appointment. You will be asked these screening
questions upon your arrival at the office.
If preferred, customers may contact their local service
center to make arrangements to complete necessary paperwork by alternative means,
such as over the phone, electronically, or by mail. Find your service center’s
phone number at farmers.gov/service-center-locator.
Additional online services are available to customers with
an eAuth account, which provides access to the farmers.gov portal including viewing USDA farm loan
information and payments and viewing and tracking certain USDA program
applications and payments. Customers who do not already have an eAuth
account can enroll at farmers.gov/sign-in.
Rest assured we’re committed to continuing to provide the
best service we can, and this includes keeping our customers and employees
healthy. Updates on service center operational status can be found at farmers.gov/coronavirus.
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