§8310 Cooperation

Summary

The Secretary may work with other federal agencies, states, foreign governments, tribes, local groups, organizations, associations, and other people to carry out this law. Anyone who helps must have the legal authority to act on land in a foreign country, a State, or tribal land (but not on land owned by the United States) and to use whatever facilities the Secretary allows. The Secretary can make and sell sterile screwworms to foreign governments or international groups if doing so won’t hurt U.S. livestock industries. If the Secretary sells them alone, the money must go into the U.S. Treasury and be credited to the account that paid the facility’s operating costs. If sold with a foreign government or international group, the Secretary will decide how to split the money; the U.S. share goes into the Treasury and is credited to that same account. The Secretary can also work with states, tribes, or others on rules to improve livestock and livestock products. The Secretary must talk and coordinate with other federal agency heads when their authority is involved, and, after doing that, the Department of Agriculture will be the lead agency for livestock pest and disease issues.