Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73
§1632e Cattle Contracts Library
Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 38— - DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 1632e
Summary
USDA must run a Cattle Contracts Library pilot in its Market News Division. $1,000,000 is available until September 30, 2023. It must be like the swine contract library as the Secretary decides and is exempt from section 553 and the Paperwork Reduction Act (chapter 35 of title 44).
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Title 7, §1632e
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There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2023, for a Cattle Contracts Library pilot program that the Agricultural Marketing Service shall develop and maintain within the Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News Division. This program shall be similar, as determined by the Secretary, to the swine contract library the U.S. Department of Agriculture currently maintains pursuant to section 198a of this title. The promulgation of the regulations and administration of this section shall be made without regard to: (1) the notice and comment provisions of section 553 of title 5; and (2) chapter 35 of title 44 (commonly known as the “Paperwork Reduction Act”).
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section was enacted as part of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, and not as part of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 which comprises this chapter.
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7 U.S.C. § 1632e
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73