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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73

§61a Annual review meetings with cotton industry representatives; purposes, etc.

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 2— - COTTON STANDARDS › § 61a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each year the Secretary of Agriculture must meet with cotton industry representatives. They will review how programs under the Cotton Standards Act, the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act, and the United States Warehouse Act are working and how those programs affect growers’ prices and sales at home and abroad, and look for ways to improve funding and management. No matter what other laws say, the Secretary must also keep the national cotton standards, warehouse licensing and inspection rules, and the federal cotton grading system running so U.S. cotton has a government-backed description of its quality.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §61a

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

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. 51 et seq.], and the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act [7 U.S.C. 471 et seq.], (2) activities and operations relating to cotton under the United States Warehouse Act [7 U.S.C. 241 et seq.], and (3) the effect of such activities and operations on prices received by producers and sales to domestic and foreign users, for the purpose of improving procedures for financing and administering such activities and operations for the benefit of the industry and the Government. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall take such action as may be necessary to insure that the universal cotton standards system and the licensing and inspection procedures for cotton warehouses are preserved and that the Government cotton classification system continues to operate so that the United States cotton crop is provided an official quality description.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Cotton Standards Act, referred to in text, probably meaning the United States Cotton Standards Act, is act Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 288, 42 Stat. 1517, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 51 of this title and Tables. The Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act, referred to in text, is act Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 337, 44 Stat. 1372, which is classified generally to chapter 19 (§ 471 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 471 of this title and Tables. The United States Warehouse Act, referred to in text, is part C of act Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 313, 39 Stat. 486, which is classified generally to chapter 10 (§ 241 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 241 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, and not as part of the United States Cotton Standards Act which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 97–35, title I, § 156(e), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 374, provided that: “The provisions of this section [enacting this section, amending section 15b, 55, and 473a of this title, and enacting provision set out as a note under section 473a of this title] shall become effective October 1, 1981.”

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 61a

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73