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As used in this chapter: (1) Alternative trading system The term ''alternative trading system'' means an organization, association, or group of persons that - ...

(a) Jurisdiction of Commission; Commodity Futures Trading Commission (1) Jurisdiction of Commission (A) In general The Commission shall have...

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(a) Findings The transactions subject to this chapter are entered into regularly in interstate and international commerce and are affected with a national public interest...

(a) Restriction on futures trading Unless exempted by the Commission pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to offer to enter into,...

(a) Burden on interstate commerce; trading or position limits Excessive speculation in any commodity under contracts of sale of such commodity for future delivery made on or...

(a) Contracts designed to defraud or mislead; bucketing orders It shall be unlawful (1) for any member of a registered entity, or for any correspondent, agent, or employee of...

(a) In general (1) Prohibition It shall be unlawful for any person to offer to enter into, enter into, or confirm the execution of a transaction described in...

(a) Registration requirements; duties of merchants in handling customer receipts It shall be unlawful for any person to engage as futures commission merchant or...

It shall be unlawful for any person to act as floor trader in executing purchases and sales, or as floor broker in executing any orders for the purchase or sale, of any commodity...

(a) Registration of futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, and floor brokers and traders (1) Any person desiring to register as a futures commission ...

(a) In general Every person registered hereunder as futures commission merchant, introducing broker, floor broker, or floor trader shall make such reports as are required by...

It shall be unlawful for any person falsely to represent such person to be a member of a registered entity or the representative or agent of such member, or to be a registrant...

It shall be unlawful for any person to make any contract for the purchase or sale of any commodity for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any contract market or...

(a) Issuance of regulations The Commission shall issue regulations to prohibit the privilege of dual trading in security futures products on each contract market and...

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to be associated with a futures commission merchant as a partner, officer, or employee, or to be associated with an introducing broker as...

It is hereby found that the activities of commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators are affected with a national public interest in that, among other things - ...

(1) It shall be unlawful for any commodity trading advisor or commodity pool operator, unless registered under this chapter, to make use of the mails or any means or...

(1) Any commodity trading advisor or commodity pool operator, or any person who contemplates becoming a commodity trading advisor or commodity pool operator, may register under...

(1) It shall be unlawful for a commodity trading advisor, associated person of a commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, or associated person of a commodity pool...

(a) Authority The Commission shall consider issuing rules or orders which - (1) prescribe procedures under which each contract market is to provide for orderly...

(a) The Commission may specify by rules and regulations appropriate standards with respect to training, experience, and such other qualifications as the Commission finds necessary...

(a) Applications A board of trade applying to the Commission for designation as a contract market shall submit an application to the Commission that includes any...

(a) In general In lieu of compliance with the contract market designation requirements of sections 6(a) and 7 of this title, a board of trade may elect to operate as a...

(a) Registration requirement It shall be unlawful for a derivatives clearing organization, unless registered with the Commission, directly or indirectly to make use of the...

(a) Acceptable business practices under core principles (1) In general Consistent with the purposes of this chapter, the Commission may issue interpretations, or...

(a) Election to register with the Commission A board of trade that meets the requirements of subsection (b) of this section may operate as an exempt board of trade on receipt ...

The failure of a registered entity to comply with any provision of this chapter, or any regulation or order of the Commission under this chapter, shall be cause for the suspension...

(a) Any board of trade that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a national securities exchange, is a national securities association registered pursuant...

(a) Treatment as financial institutions Notwithstanding section 509(3)(B) of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. 6809(3)(B)), any futures commission merchant, commodity ...

(a) Any person desiring to be designated or registered as a contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility shall make application to the Commission for the...

If the Commission has reason to believe that any person (other than a registered entity) is manipulating or attempting to manipulate or has manipulated or attempted to manipulate...

(1) In determining the amount of the money penalty assessed under sections 9 and 15 of this title, the Commission shall consider the appropriateness of such penalty to the gravity...

(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), not later than six months after the effective date of rules promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission under section 6102(a) of title 15,...

The Commission shall provide the Securities and Exchange Commission with notice of the commencement of any proceeding and a copy of any order entered by the Commission pursuant...

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(a) No board of trade which has been designated or registered as a contract market or a derivatives transaction execution facility exclude (FOOTNOTE 1) from membership in, and...

Any person that has been designated or registered a registered entity in the manner provided in this chapter may have such designation or registration vacated and set aside by...

(a) Investigations respecting operations of boards of trade and others subject to this chapter; publication of results; restrictions; information received from foreign futures ...

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The Commission is authorized - (1) to register futures commission merchants, associated persons of futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, associated persons...

It shall be unlawful for any person, against whom there is outstanding any order of the Commission prohibiting him from trading on or subject to the rules of any registered...

(a) Action taken; written notice of reasons for action (1) Any exchange or the Commission if the exchange fails to act, may suspend, expel, or otherwise discipline any person who...

The Commission may, in accordance with the procedures provided for in this chapter, refuse to register, register conditionally, or suspend, place restrictions upon, or revoke...

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(a) Felonies generally It shall be a felony punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000,000 (or $500,000 in the case of a person who is an individual) or imprisonment for...

(a) No contract for the sale of onions for future delivery shall be made on or subject to the rules of any board of trade in the United States. The terms used in this section...

If any registered entity is not enforcing or has not enforced its rules of government made a condition of its designation or registration as set forth in sections 7 through 7a-2...

(a) Action to enjoin or restrain violations Whenever it shall appear to the Commission that any registered entity or other person has engaged, is engaging, or is about to ...

(1) Whenever it shall appear to the attorney general of any State, the administrator of the securities laws of any State, or such other official as a State may designate, that...

If any person (other than a registered entity) is manipulating or attempting to manipulate or has manipulated or attempted to manipulate the market price of any commodity,...

(a) Any person who commits, or who willfully aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces, or procures the commission of, a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or any...

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For the purpose of securing effective enforcement of the provisions of this chapter, for the purpose of any investigation or proceeding under this chapter, and for the purpose of...

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(a) Short title This section may be cited as the ''United States Cotton Futures Act''. (b) Repeal of tax on cotton futures Subchapter D of chapter 39 of title 26...

(a) Cooperation with other agencies The Commission may cooperate with any Department or agency of the Government, any State, territory, district, or possession, or ...

(a) Development and implementation of plan for user fees; report to and approval by Congressional committees Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commodity Futures ...

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter and of the application of...

If any provision of the act of June 15, 1936, ch. 545, 49 Stat. 1491, which amends this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid,...

If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the application of such...

(a) Petition for actual damages (1) Any person complaining of any violation of any provision of this chapter, or any rule, regulation, or order issued pursuant to this chapter,...

(a) Costs and benefits (1) In general Before promulgating a regulation under this chapter or issuing an order (except as provided in paragraph (3)), the Commission ...

(a) Information The Commission may conduct regular investigations of the markets for goods, articles, services, rights, and interests which are the subject of futures...

(a) Registration statement Any association of persons may be registered with the Commission as a registered futures association pursuant to subsection (b) of this section,...

(a) The Commission shall establish and maintain, as part of its ongoing operations, research and information programs to (1) determine the feasibility of trading by computer, and...

(a) Margin accounts or contracts and leverage accounts or contracts prohibited except as authorized Except as authorized under subsection (b) of this section, no person...

(a) Notwithstanding title 11, the Commission may provide, with respect to a commodity broker that is a debtor under chapter 7 of title 11, by rule or regulation - (1)...

(a) Actual damages; actionable transactions; exclusive remedy (1) Any person (other than a registered entity or registered futures association) who violates this chapter or...

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(a) Bank In sections 27 to 27f of this title, the term ''bank'' means - (1) any depository institution (as defined in section 1813(c) of title 12); (2) any...

No provision of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.) shall apply to, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall not exercise regulatory authority with respect...

No provision of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.) shall apply to, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall not exercise regulatory authority with respect...

(a) In general No provision of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.) shall apply to, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall not exercise regulatory...

(a) In general No provision of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.) shall apply to, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall not regulate, a...

No provision of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.) (other than section 5b of such Act (7 U.S.C. 7a-1) with respect to the clearing of covered swap agreements) shall...

(a) Hybrid instruments No hybrid instrument shall be void, voidable, or unenforceable, and no party to a hybrid instrument shall be entitled to rescind, or recover any...

This chapter shall be known by the short title of ''United States Cotton Standards Act.'' ...

The Secretary of Agriculture is requested to extend to cotton growers facilities for the classification of cotton authorized in this chapter, with such supervision of...

On and after July 5, 1952 the Secretary may contract with cooperatives furnishing classers and other facilities for classing cotton and may pay for such services in amount, some...

Further to carry out the purposes of this chapter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to issue to any qualified person, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence...

It shall be unlawful (a) in or in connection with any transaction or shipment in commerce made after August 1, 1923, or (b) in any publication of a price or quotation determined in...

The Secretary of Agriculture may, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence of competency, issue to any person a license to grade or otherwise classify cotton and to certificate...

Any person who has custody of or a financial interest in any cotton may submit the same or samples thereof, drawn in accordance with the regulations of the Secretary of...

(a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be collected such fees and charges for licenses issued to classifiers of cotton under section 53 of this title, for determinations...

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to establish from time to time standards for the classification of cotton by which its quality or value may be judged or determined...

Any moneys received from or in connection with the sale of cotton purchased for the preparation of the copies mentioned in section 56 of this title and condemned as unsuitable...

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to effectuate agreements with cotton associations, cotton exchanges, and other cotton organizations in foreign countries, for (1)...

In order to carry out the provisions of this chapter, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to cause the inspection, including the sampling, of any cotton involved in...

It shall be unlawful for any person (a) with intent to deceive or defraud, to make, receive, use, or have in his possession any simulate or counterfeit practical form or copy of...

(a) Any person who shall knowingly violate any provision of sections 52 or 59 of this title, or (b) any person licensed under this chapter who, for the purposes of or in...

For the purposes of this chapter the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be promulgated such regulations, may cause such investigations, tests, demonstrations, and publications...

The Secretary of Agriculture shall hold annual meetings with representatives of the cotton industry to review (1) activities and operations under the Cotton Standards Act (7 U.S.C....

Wherever used in this chapter, (a) the word ''person'' imports the plural or the singular, as the case demands, and includes an individual, a partnership, a corporation, or two...

When construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, omission, or failure of any agent, officer, or other person acting for or employed by any person, within...

There are authorized to be appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this...

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter and the application of...

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(a) Grain is an essential source of the world's total supply of human food and animal feed and is merchandised in interstate and foreign commerce. It is declared to be the policy...

When used in this chapter, except where the context requires otherwise - (a) the term ''Secretary'' means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or delegates...

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(a) Authority of Secretary The Secretary is authorized to investigate the handling, weighing, grading, and transportation of grain and to fix and establish (1) standards of...

(a) Official samples and certificates; waiver; excepted grains Whenever standards or procedures are effective under section 76 of this title for any grain - (1) no...

(a) Whenever standards relating to kind, class, quality, or condition of grain are effective under section 76 of this title for any grain no person shall in any sale, offer for...

(a) Grain required to be officially inspected The Secretary is authorized to cause official inspection under the standards provided for in section 76 of this title to be made ...

(a) Official weighing in accordance with prescribed regulations The Secretary shall cause official weighing under standards or procedures provided for in section 76 of this title...

(a) Random and periodic testing at least annually; fees The Secretary shall provide for the testing of all equipment used in the sampling, grading, inspection, and weighing for...

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The total administrative and supervisory costs which may be incurred under this chapter for services performed (excluding standardization, compliance, and foreign...

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(a) Authorization The Secretary is authorized (1) to issue a license to any individual upon presentation to the Secretary of satisfactory evidence that such individual...

The Secretary may refuse to renew, or may suspend or revoke, any license issued under this chapter whenever, after the licensee has been afforded an opportunity for a hearing,...

(a) Grounds for refusal of services The Secretary may (for such period, or indefinitely, as the Secretary deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter) refuse...

(a) Prohibition with respect to persons licensed or authorized by Secretary to perform official functions No person licensed or authorized by the Secretary to perform any ...

(a) Samples of grain Every official agency, every State agency delegated authority under this chapter, and every person licensed to perform any official inspection or...

(a) No person shall - (1) knowingly falsely make, issue, alter, forge, or counterfeit any official certificate or other official form or official mark; (2)...

(a) Any person who commits any offense prohibited by section 87b of this title (except an offense prohibited by paragraphs (a)(7), (a)(8), and (b)(4) in which case the person shall...

When construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, omission, or failure of any official, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any...

(a) Authority of Secretary The Secretary is authorized to conduct such investigations; hold such hearings; require such reports from any official agency, any State...

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(a) Subpena power For the purposes of this chapter, the Secretary shall at all reasonable times have access to, for the purpose of examination, and the right to copy...

(a) General requirement The Secretary shall provide, by regulation, for the registration of all persons engaged in the business of buying grain for sale in foreign commerce,...

(a) General requirements; annual report to Congressional committees On December 1 of each year, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Agriculture of the House...

(a) No State or subdivision thereof may require the inspection or description in accordance with any standards of kind, class, quality, condition, or other characteristics of grain...

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary for standardization and compliance activities, monitoring in foreign ports grain officially inspected...

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(a) Establishment; number and terms of members Not later than ninety days after October 24, 1988, the Secretary shall establish an advisory committee to provide advice to the ...

(a) Testing equipment To promote greater uniformity in commercial grain inspection results, the Secretary may work in conjunction with the National Institute for Standards...

For convenience of reference, this chapter may be designated and cited as ''The Naval Stores Act.'' ...

When used in this chapter - (a) ''Naval stores'' means spirits of turpentine and rosin. (b) ''Spirits of turpentine'' includes gum spirits of turpentine and wood turpentine. ...

For the purposes of this chapter the kinds of spirits of turpentine defined in subdivisions (c), (e), and (f) of section 92 of this title and the rosin types heretofore prepared and ...

The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide, if practicable, any interested persons with duplicates of the official naval stores standards of the United States upon request...

The following acts are hereby declared injurious to commerce in naval stores and are hereby prohibited and made unlawful: (a) The sale in commerce of any naval stores, or...

Any person willfully violating any provision of section 95 of this title shall, on conviction, be punished for each offense by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or by imprisonment for...

The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to purchase from time to time in open market samples of spirits of turpentine and of anything offered for sale as such for...

(a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall fix and cause to be collected fees and charges for the establishment of standards under section 93 of this title and for...

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter and of the application of...

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For purposes of this subchapter - (a) Active ingredient The term ''active ingredient'' means - (1) in the case of a pesticide other than a plant regulator, ...

(a) Requirement of registration Except as provided by this subchapter, no person in any State may distribute or sell to any person any pesticide that is not registered under...

(a) General rule The Administrator shall reregister, in accordance with this section, each registered pesticide containing any active ingredient contained in any pesticide...

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(a) Issuance Any person may apply to the Administrator for an experimental use permit for a pesticide. The Administrator shall review the application. After completion of...

(a) Existing stocks and information (1) Existing stocks The Administrator may permit the continued sale and use of existing stocks of a pesticide whose registration...

(a) Requirement No person shall produce any pesticide subject to this subchapter or active ingredient used in producing a pesticide subject to this subchapter in any State...

(a) Requirements The Administrator may prescribe regulations requiring producers, registrants, and applicants for registration to maintain such records with respect to...

(a) In general (1) For purposes of enforcing the provisions of this subchapter, officers or employees of the Environmental Protection Agency or of any State duly designated by...

(a) In general In submitting data required by this subchapter, the applicant may (1) clearly mark any portions thereof which in the applicant's opinion are trade secrets...

(a) Certification procedure (1) Federal certification In any State for which a State plan for applicator certification has not been approved by the Administrator, the ...

(a) Requirements (1) The Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall require certified applicators of...

(a) In general The Secretary of Agriculture shall collect data of statewide or regional significance on the use of pesticides to control pests and diseases of major crops...

(a) In general (1) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person in any State to distribute or sell to any person - (A)...

(a) Stop sale, etc., orders Whenever any pesticide or device is found by the Administrator in any State and there is reason to believe on the basis of inspection or tests...

(a) Civil penalties (1) In general Any registrant, commercial applicator, wholesaler, dealer, retailer, or other distributor who violates any provision of this ...

(a) General indemnification (1) In general Except as otherwise provided in this section, if - (A) the Administrator notifies a registrant under section ...

(a) District court review Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, the refusal of the Administrator to cancel or suspend a registration or to change a classification...

(a) Pesticides and devices intended for export Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, no pesticide or device or active ingredient used in producing a ...

The Administrator may, at the Administrator's discretion, exempt any Federal or State agency from any provision of this subchapter if the Administrator determines that...

(a) Storage, disposal, and transportation (1) Data requirements and registration of pesticides The Administrator may require under section 136a or 136d of this title that...

(a) Research The Administrator shall undertake research including research by grant or contract with other Federal agencies, universities, or others as may be necessary to...

The Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Administrator, shall implement research, demonstration, and education programs to support adoption of Integrated Pest ...

(a) Secretary of Agriculture The Administrator, before publishing regulations under this subchapter, shall solicit the views of the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with...

(a) Delegation All authority vested in the Administrator by virtue of the provisions of this subchapter may with like force and effect be executed by such employees of...

(a) Cooperative agreements The Administrator may enter into cooperative agreements with States and Indian tribes - (1) to delegate to any State or Indian tribe the...

(a) In general A State may regulate the sale or use of any federally registered pesticide or device in the State, but only if and to the extent the regulation does not permit...

(a) In general (1) Regulations The Administrator is authorized, in accordance with the procedure described in paragraph (2), to prescribe regulations to carry out...

(a) In general For the purposes of this subchapter, a State shall have primary enforcement responsibility for pesticide use violations during any period for which...

(a) Referral Upon receipt of any complaint or other information alleging or indicating a significant violation of the pesticide use provisions of this subchapter,...

(a) In general The Administrator, in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall identify those pests that must be brought under control. The Administrator shall...

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Each State may establish minimum requirements for training of maintenance applicators and service technicians. Such training may include instruction in the safe and...

(a) The Administrator shall assure coordination of minor use issues through the establishment of a minor use program within the Office of Pesticide Programs. Such office shall...

(a) In general The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ''Secretary'') shall assure the coordination of the responsibilities of the...

If any provision of this subchapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of...

There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subchapter (other than section 136u(a) of this title) - (1) $83,000,000 for fiscal year 1989, of which not more than ...

As used in this chapter: (1) Agricultural product The term ''agricultural product'' means any fresh fruit or vegetable or any commodity or product derived from...

(a) Establishment of Program The Secretary shall administer a National Laboratory Accreditation Program under which laboratories that request accreditation and conduct...

(a) In general The Secretary shall issue certificates of accreditation to laboratories that meet the requirements of this chapter, as determined by the Secretary. ...

(a) Performance evaluation samples (1) Provided by Secretary The Secretary shall ensure that performance evaluation samples are provided to any laboratory that has...

(a) Contents of application An application for accreditation under this chapter shall be prepared and submitted to the Secretary and shall include - (1) the name and...

(a) In general Each laboratory or individual that performs, brokers, or otherwise arranges for the performance of a pesticide chemical analysis of food shall prepare and submit...

(a) In general At the time that an application for accreditation is received by the Secretary and annually thereafter, a laboratory seeking accreditation by the Secretary...

The results of the evaluations of laboratories conducted by the Secretary under this chapter shall be made available to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and to the...

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Nothing in this chapter shall alter the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.). ...

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The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter called the ''Secretary'') is authorized - (1) To acquire by purchase, license, or other agreement, the right to operate...

(a) The Secretary is authorized to appoint such employees, including citizens of other countries, as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of sections 171 to 173 of...

There are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 171 to 173 of this title. Any amounts so appropriated, and any...

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Subject to conditions prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, any part of the land acquired by lease, deed, or other agreement pursuant to sections 171 to 173 of this title,...

Guayule shrub may be sold to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation at a price reflecting the net realization from the sale of the rubber recovered from such shrub in mills...

(a)(1) Congress recognizes that natural latex rubber is a commodity of vital importance to the economy, the defense, and the general well-being of the Nation. The United States...

As used in this subchapter - (a) The term ''State'' means each of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (b) The term...

(a) Establishment; function There is established a Joint Commission on Research and Development of Critical Agricultural Materials, hereinafter referred to as the...

(a) Designation of Department as lead agency The Department of Agriculture shall be the lead agency in carrying out this subchapter. (b) Scope of program The Secretary...

The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to initiate and carry out research, technology development, technology transfer, and demonstration projects to test...

The Secretaries, in consultation with the Secretary of State, are authorized and encouraged to enter into cooperative projects with the Government of Mexico, the Government...

The Secretaries are authorized to accept financial or other assistance from any State or public agency to aid in carrying out the provisions of this subchapter and to enter...

In carrying out the provisions of this subchapter, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to - (a) make grants to States, education institutions, scientific ...

In carrying out the provisions of this subchapter, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to - (a) make grants to States, education institutions, scientific ...

In carrying out the provisions of this subchapter, the Secretaries and the Joint Commission shall cooperate with each other in the conduct of their activities under this...

Relative to the definitions of, title to, and licensing of inventions made or conceived in the course of or under any contract or grant pursuant to this subchapter,...

The Secretaries may dispose of any latex, resin, wax, pulp, and any other byproducts, as well as products, other than rubber, developed from agricultural crops which are of...

The Secretaries may issue rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this subchapter. ...

The Secretaries shall submit to the President and the Congress, no later than December 31, 1980, and each year thereafter through 1987, a report on the status of the...

(a) Authorization of appropriations to Secretary of Agriculture There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture such sums as are necessary to carry out...

This chapter may be cited as the ''Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921.'' ...

When used in this chapter - (1) The term ''person'' includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations; (2) The term ''Secretary'' means the Secretary...

For the purpose of this chapter (but not in anywise limiting the definition in section 182 of this title) a transaction in respect to any article shall be considered to be in...

When used in this chapter the term ''packer'' means any person engaged in the business (a) of buying livestock in commerce for purposes of slaughter, or (b) of manufacturing...

It shall be unlawful for any packer with respect to livestock, meats, meat food products, or livestock products in unmanufactured form, or for any live poultry dealer with respect...

(a) Complaint; hearing; intervention Whenever the Secretary has reason to believe that any packer has violated or is violating any provision of this subchapter, he shall cause...

(a) Filing of petition; bond An order made under section 193 of this title shall be final and conclusive unless within thirty days after service the packer appeals to the court...

Any packer, or any officer, director, agent, or employee of a packer, who fails to obey any order of the Secretary issued under the provisions of section 193 of this title, or...

(a) Protection of public interest from inadequate financing arrangements It is hereby found that a burden on and obstruction to commerce in livestock is caused by...

(a) Protection of public interest from inadequate financing arrangements It is hereby found that a burden on and obstruction to commerce in poultry is caused by...

Except as provided in section 198b(a) of this title, in this part: (1) Market The term ''market'' means the sale or disposition of swine, pork, or pork products...

(a) In general Subject to the availability of appropriations to carry out this section, the Secretary shall establish and maintain a library or catalog of each type of...