§1292 — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

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The Secretary must set up, equip, and run four regional research labs, one in each major farm area. The labs must find new scientific, chemical, and technical uses and new or bigger markets for farm commodities, their products, and byproducts. The work should mainly focus on commodities that often have regular or seasonal surpluses. The Secretary may buy land, accept donations and unpaid help for each lab (donations to one lab cannot be used by another), and work with other federal and state agencies, experiment stations, local governments, businesses, universities, scientific groups, and individuals on terms the Secretary sets. Starting with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, up to $4,000,000 each year from funds under section 1391 of this title or section 590o of title 16 may be used for the labs, with one-fourth of that money given to each lab. Also, beginning July 1, 1938, $1,000,000 each year from those funds is set aside for the Secretary of Commerce to promote sales of farm commodities, and $100,000 of that must pay for a study of why U.S. agricultural exports fell and how to increase foreign sales. The Secretary must use available funds to expand use of farm commodities in the United States and boost their sales overseas.

Title 7, §1292

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(a)The Secretary is authorized and directed to establish, equip, and maintain four regional research laboratories, one in each major farm producing area, and, at such laboratories, to conduct researches into and to develop new scientific, chemical, and technical uses and new and extended markets and outlets for farm commodities and products and byproducts thereof. Such research and development shall be devoted primarily to those farm commodities in which there are regular or seasonal surpluses, and their products and byproducts.

(b)For the purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized to acquire land and interests therein, and to accept in the name of the United States donations of any property, real or personal, to any laboratory established pursuant to this section, and to utilize voluntary or uncompensated services at such laboratories. Donations to any one of such laboratories shall not be available for use by any other of such laboratories.

(c)In carrying out the purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized and directed to cooperate with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, States, State agricultural experiment stations, and other State agencies and institutions, counties, municipalities, business or other organizations, corporations, associations, universities, scientific societies, and individuals, upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe.

(d)To carry out the purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized to utilize in each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, a sum not to exceed $4,000,000 of the funds appropriated pursuant to section 1391 of this title, or section 590o of title 16, for such fiscal year. The Secretary shall allocate one-fourth of such sum annually to each of the four laboratories established pursuant to this section.

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(f)There is allocated to the Secretary of Commerce for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, out of funds appropriated for such fiscal year pursuant to section 1391 of this title, or section 590o of title 16 the sum of $1,000,000 to be expended for the promotion of the sale of farm commodities and products thereof in such manner as he shall direct. Of the sum allocated under this subsection to the Secretary of Commerce for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, $100,000 shall be devoted to making a survey and investigation of the cause or causes of the reduction in exports of agricultural commodities from the United States, in order to ascertain methods by which the sales in foreign countries of basic agricultural commodities produced in the United States may be increased.

(g)It shall be the duty of the Secretary to use available funds to stimulate and widen the use of all farm commodities in the United States and to increase in every practical way the flow of such commodities and the products thereof into the markets of the world.

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1954—Subsec. (e). Act Aug. 30, 1954, repealed subsec. (e) which required reports to Congress of the activities of, expenditures by, and donations to, the laboratories established pursuant to subsec. (a).

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Wheat Research and Promotion Act Pub. L. 91–430, Sept. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 885, provided: “[section 1.

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]. That this Act shall be known as the ‘Wheat Research and Promotion Act.’ “Sec. 2 [Contract authority; sale of export marketing certificates and pro rata share of such certificates for financing agreements;

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]. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to enter into agreements with organizations of wheat growers, farm organizations, and such other organizations as he may deem appropriate to carry out a program of research and promotion designed to expand domestic and foreign markets and increase utilization for United States wheat and to carry out any other such program which he deems will benefit wheat producers in the United States. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall use the total net proceeds from the sale of export marketing certificates during the marketing year ending June 30, 1969, to finance the cost of such agreements, except that he shall provide for the issuance of a pro rata share of export marketing certificates for such marketing year to any producer eligible therefor under section 379c of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended [section 1379c of this title], who applies for such certificates not later than ninety days after the date of enactment of this Act [Sept. 26, 1970]. The Secretary is authorized to prescribe such

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as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.”

§1292 New Uses and Markets for Commodities

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