Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73

§6006 Permissive terms in plans

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 89— - PECAN PROMOTION AND RESEARCH › § 6006

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Plans under this law can include several optional rules about how pecans are handled, promoted, and paid for. They can let the Board exempt pecans used for nonfood purposes and require safeguards for those exemptions. They can set different payment and reporting schedules for people and businesses that grow, shell, handle, or import pecans. Plans can run promotion, research, and information programs to try to increase overall demand for pecans, following other funding limits. Plans can also save reserve money from fees to keep programs going in low-income years, but the reserve cannot be more than the plan’s two-year budget. With the Secretary’s approval, plan funds may be used to develop and expand pecan sales in foreign markets.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §6006

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)A plan issued pursuant to this chapter may contain one or more of the terms and conditions contained in this section.

(b)The plan may provide authority to exempt from the plan pecans used for nonfood uses and authority for the Board to require satisfactory safeguards against improper uses of such exemptions.

(c)The plan may provide authority to designate different payment and reporting schedules for growers, grower-shellers, first handlers and importers to recognize differences in marketing practices and procedures utilized in different production areas.

(d)The plan may provide for the establishment, issuance, effectuation, and administration of appropriate programs or projects for the promotion of pecans and for the disbursement of necessary funds for such purposes, except that—

(1)any such program or project shall be directed toward increasing the general demand for pecans; and

(2)such promotional activities shall comply with other restrictions on the use of funds that are established under this chapter.

(e)The plan may provide for establishing and carrying on research, consumer information, and industry information projects and studies to the end that the marketing and utilization of pecans may be encouraged, expanded, improved, or made more efficient, and for the disbursement of necessary funds for such purposes.

(f)The plan may provide authority to accumulate reserve funds from assessments collected pursuant to this chapter, to permit an effective and continuous coordinated program of research, consumer information, industry information and promotion in years when the production and assessment income may be reduced, except that the total reserve fund may not exceed the amount budgeted for the operation of the plan for 2 years.

(g)The plan may provide authority to use funds collected under this chapter, with the approval of the Secretary, for the development and expansion of pecan sales in foreign markets.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 6006

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73