§7751 Cooperation

Summary

Allows the Secretary of Agriculture to work with other U.S. and foreign governments, agencies, groups, and people to carry out the chapter. Anyone who helps must have the legal right to act on the foreign country’s or State’s lands (except land owned or controlled by the United States) and must provide any other facilities or support the Secretary requires. The Secretary may give biological control methods that use living organisms to States, federal agencies, or other parties. The Secretary can also team up with State authorities or others on plant improvement programs. The Secretary must handle plant health issues for imports and exports using sound science and follow international agreements. To do this, the Secretary may negotiate directly with foreign plant health officials, give technical help and training to countries that ask, and keep plant health and quarantine experts working in other countries to help set up systems, resolve problems, and act as a liaison. A State may pass cooperative-agreement money or financing to a local government unit if that unit is working on the pest response covered by the agreement and can document the pest-response work usually done by USDA or the State agriculture agency for that area.