Title 13 › CHAPTER 3 — COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF STATISTICS › SUBCHAPTER II — OILSEEDS, NUTS, AND KERNELS; FATS, OILS, AND GREASES › § 61
The Secretary must gather, organize, and publish monthly numbers about fats and oils. That includes oilseeds and nuts (like cottonseed, soybeans, peanuts, flaxseed, corn germs, copra, sesame seed, babassu, and similar crops) showing amounts received, crushed, and on hand at oil mills. It also covers crude and refined oils and byproducts (cakes, meals), how much is made, shipped, and stored at mills and processors; oils held or used by big manufacturers (for shortening, margarine, soap, and similar products); and oils kept in warehouses or moving to buyers. The same kinds of monthly data must be collected for animal fats, greases, and fish or marine mammal oils: how much is produced, shipped, held by producers, used by large manufacturers, and stored or in transit. The Secretary does not have to collect frequent reports from anyone who only handles tiny, unimportant amounts.
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13 U.S.C. § 61
Title 13, Census
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Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102