§1387 — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

§1387 Photographic Reproductions and Maps

Title 7 › Chapter 35— AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938 › Subchapter II— LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES › Part F— Miscellaneous Provisions and Appropriations › Subpart i— miscellaneous › § 1387

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Secretary may provide copies of maps, aerial photos, mosaics, and geo‑referenced data obtained for Department work. Farmers and government agencies pay the estimated cost. Others pay prices the Secretary sets, but not less than processing and handling costs. Sales go to Treasury and credit the appropriation that paid for them. It does not limit other ways the Secretary may handle these materials.

Title 7, §1387

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The Secretary may furnish reproductions of information such as geo-referenced data from all sources, aerial or other photographs, mosaics, and maps as have been obtained in connection with the authorized work of the Department to farmers and governmental agencies at the estimated cost of furnishing such reproductions, and to persons other than farmers at such prices as the Secretary may determine (but not less than the estimated costs of data processing, updating, revising, reformatting, repackaging and furnishing the reproductions and information), the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation charged with the cost of making such reproductions. This section shall not affect the power of the Secretary to make other disposition of such or similar materials under any other provisions of existing law.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1999—Pub. L. 106–113 substituted “information such as geo-referenced data from all sources, aerial” for “such aerial”, struck out “(not less than estimated cost of furnishing such reproductions)” after “such prices”, and inserted “(but not less than the estimated costs of data processing, updating, revising, reformatting, repackaging and furnishing the reproductions and information)” after “determine”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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