(a) Duties of department.— The department shall have the following duties:

1. (1) To administer this chapter in a manner consistent with the general evaluation criteria, including the application, evaluation and reporting processes required and employed under the annual Federal Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.
2. (2) To develop all necessary documents and transmit a notice of all parameters of the program, including eligible specialty crops, evaluation criteria, submittal dates, application and reporting forms and requirements and template grant agreements to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin and on the department's publicly available Internet website.