Title 7 — AGRICULTURE

• § 1— Short title
• § 1a— Definitions
• § 1b— Requirements of Secretary of the Treasury regarding exemption of foreign exchange swaps and foreign exchange forwards from definition of the term “swap”
• § 2— Jurisdiction of Commission; liability of principal for act of agent; Commodity Futures Trading Commission; transaction in interstate commerce
• § 5— Findings and purpose
• § 6— Regulation of futures trading and foreign transactions
• § 6a— Excessive speculation
• § 6b— Contracts designed to defraud or mislead
• § 6b–1— Enforcement authority
• § 6c— Prohibited transactions
• § 6d— Dealing by unregistered futures commission merchants or introducing brokers prohibited; duties in handling customer receipts; conflict-of-interest systems and procedures; Chief Compliance Officer; rules to avoid duplicative regulations; swap requirements; portfolio margining accounts
• § 6e— Dealings by unregistered floor trader or broker prohibited
• § 6f— Registration and financial requirements; risk assessment
• § 6g— Reporting and recordkeeping
• § 6h— False self-representation as registered entity member prohibited
• § 6i— Reports of deals equal to or in excess of trading limits; books and records; cash and controlled transactions
• § 6j— Restrictions on dual trading in security futures products on designated contract markets and registered derivatives transaction execution facilities
• § 6k— Registration of associates of futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, and commodity trading advisors; required disclosure of disqualifications; exemptions for associated persons
• § 6l— Commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; Congressional finding
• § 6m— Use of mails or other means or instrumentalities of interstate commerce by commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; relation to other law
• § 6n— Registration of commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; application; expiration and renewal; record keeping and reports; disclosure; statements of account
• § 6o— Fraud and misrepresentation by commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators, and associated persons
• § 6p— Standards and examinations
• § 6q— Special procedures to encourage and facilitate bona fide hedging by agricultural producers
• § 6r— Reporting and recordkeeping for uncleared swaps
• § 6s— Registration and regulation of swap dealers and major swap participants
• § 6t— Large swap trader reporting
• § 7— Designation of boards of trade as contract markets
• § 7a–1— Derivatives clearing organizations
• § 7a–2— Common provisions applicable to registered entities
• § 7b— Suspension or revocation of designation as registered entity
• § 7b–1— Designation of securities exchanges and associations as contract markets
• § 7b–2— Privacy
• § 7b–3— Swap execution facilities
• § 8— Application for designation as contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility; time; suspension or revocation of designation; hearing; review by court of appeals
• § 9— Prohibition regarding manipulation and false information
• § 9a— Assessment of money penalties
• § 9b— Rules prohibiting deceptive and other abusive telemarketing acts or practices
• § 9c— Notice of investigations and enforcement actions
• § 10a— Cooperative associations and corporations, exclusion from board of trade; rules of board inapplicable to payment of compensation by association
• § 11— Vacation on request of designation or registration as “registered entity”; redesignation or reregistration
• § 12— Public disclosure
• § 12a— Registration of commodity dealers and associated persons; regulation of registered entities
• § 12b— Trading ban violations; prohibition
• § 12c— Disciplinary actions
• § 12d— Commission action for noncompliance with export sales reporting requirements
• § 13— Violations generally; punishment; costs of prosecution
• § 13–1— Violations, prohibition against dealings in motion picture box office receipts or onion futures; punishment
• § 13a— Nonenforcement of rules of government or other violations; cease and desist orders; fines and penalties; imprisonment; misdemeanor; separate offenses
• § 13a–1— Enjoining or restraining violations
• § 13a–2— Jurisdiction of States
• § 13b— Manipulations or other violations; cease and desist orders against persons other than registered entities; punishment
• § 13c— Responsibility as principal; minor violations
• § 15b— Cotton futures contracts
• § 16— Commission operations
• § 16a— Service fees and National Futures Association study
• § 17— Separability
• § 17a— Separability of 1936 amendment
• § 17b— Separability of 1968 amendment
• § 18— Complaints against registered persons
• § 19— Consideration of costs and benefits and antitrust laws
• § 20— Market reports
• § 21— Registered futures associations
• § 22— Research and information programs; reports to Congress
• § 23— Standardized contracts for certain commodities
• § 24— Customer property with respect to commodity broker debtors; definitions
• § 24a— Swap data repositories
• § 25— Private rights of action
• § 26— Commodity whistleblower incentives and protection
• § 27— Definitions
• § 27a— Exclusion of identified banking product
• § 27c— Exclusion of certain other identified banking products
• § 27d— Administration of the predominance test
• § 27f— Contract enforcement
• § 51— Short title
• § 51a— Extension of classification facilities to cotton growers
• § 51a–1— Contracts with cooperatives furnishing classers; amount and type of payment
• § 51b— Licensing samplers; revocation and suspension of license
• § 52— Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted
• § 53— Licensing classifiers; revocation and suspension of license
• § 54— Classification by Department of Agriculture; certification thereof; effect of certificate; regulations for classification
• § 55— Fees and charges for cotton classing and related services; criteria; disposition of moneys and samples
• § 56— Establishment of cotton standards; furnishing copies of established standards sold
• § 57— Disposition of proceeds of sale of cotton and of copies of standards
• § 57a— Agreements with cotton associations, etc., in foreign countries to establish cotton standards
• § 58— General inspection and sampling of cotton
• § 59— Offenses in relation to cotton standards
• § 60— Penalties for violations
• § 61— General regulations, investigations, tests, etc., by Secretary
• § 61a— Annual review meetings with cotton industry representatives; purposes, etc.
• § 62— Definitions
• § 63— Liability of principal for act of agent
• § 64— Appropriation for expenses; appointment by Secretary of officers and agents; compensation
• § 65— Separability
• § 71— Short title
• § 74— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 75— Definitions
• § 76— Standards and procedures; establishment, amendment, and revocation
• § 77— Official inspection and weighing requirements; waiver; supervision by representatives of Secretary
• § 78— Use of official grade designations required; false or misleading grade designations for grain shipped out of the United States
• § 79— Official inspection
• § 79a— Weighing authority
• § 79b— Testing of equipment
• § 79d— Limitation on administrative and supervisory costs
• § 84— Licensing of inspectors
• § 85— Suspension, revocation, and refusal to renew licenses; hearing; grounds; temporary suspension
• § 86— Refusal of inspection and weighing services; civil penalties
• § 87— Conflicts of interest
• § 87a— Records
• § 87b— Prohibited acts
• § 87c— Criminal penalties
• § 87d— Responsibility for acts of others
• § 87e— General authorities
• § 87f— Enforcement provisions
• § 87f–1— Registration requirements
• § 87f–2— Reporting requirements
• § 87g— Relation to State and local laws; separability
• § 87h— Funding
• § 87j— Advisory committee
• § 87k— Standardizing commercial inspections
• § 91— Short title
• § 92— Definitions
• § 93— Establishment of official naval stores standards
• § 94— Supplying duplicates of standards; examination, etc., of naval stores and certification thereof
• § 95— Prohibition of acts deemed injurious to commerce in naval stores
• § 96— Punishment for violation of prohibition
• § 97— Purchase and analysis by Secretary of samples of spirits of turpentine to detect violations; reports to Department of Justice; publication of results of analysis, etc.
• § 98— Fees and charges for naval stores inspection and related services; establishment, collection, etc.; authorization of appropriations; administrative expenses
• § 99— Separability
• § 136— Definitions
• § 136a— Registration of pesticides
• § 136a–1— Reregistration of registered pesticides
• § 136c— Experimental use permits
• § 136d— Administrative review; suspension
• § 136e— Registration of establishments
• § 136f— Books and records
• § 136g— Inspection of establishments, etc.
• § 136h— Protection of trade secrets and other information
• § 136i— Use of restricted use pesticides; applicators
• § 136i–1— Pesticide recordkeeping
• § 136i–2— Collection of pesticide use information
• § 136j— Unlawful acts
• § 136k— Stop sale, use, removal, and seizure
• § 136l— Penalties
• § 136m— Indemnities
• § 136n— Administrative procedure; judicial review
• § 136o— Imports and exports
• § 136p— Exemption of Federal and State agencies
• § 136q— Storage, disposal, transportation, and recall
• § 136r— Research and monitoring
• § 136r–1— Integrated Pest Management
• § 136s— Solicitation of comments; notice of public hearings
• § 136t— Delegation and cooperation
• § 136u— State cooperation, aid, and training
• § 136v— Authority of States
• § 136w— Authority of Administrator
• § 136w–1— State primary enforcement responsibility
• § 136w–2— Failure by the State to assure enforcement of State pesticide use regulations
• § 136w–3— Identification of pests; cooperation with Department of Agriculture’s program
• § 136w–5— Minimum requirements for training of maintenance applicators and service technicians
• § 136w–6— Environmental Protection Agency minor use program
• § 136w–7— Department of Agriculture minor use program
• § 136w–8— Pesticide registration service fees
• § 136x— Severability
• § 136y— Authorization of appropriations
• § 138— Definitions
• § 138a— National Laboratory Accreditation Program
• § 138b— Accreditation
• § 138c— Samples
• § 138d— Application
• § 138e— Reporting
• § 138f— Fees
• § 138g— Public disclosure
• § 138h— Regulations
• § 138i— Effect of other laws
• § 171— Program for development of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants
• § 172— Authorization of Secretary to appoint employees; delegation of powers; cooperation with other agencies; allotment of funds; leases of facilities and disposal of water
• § 173— Authorization of appropriations
• § 175— Lease or sublease of unsuitable lands; disposal of water supply
• § 176— Sale of guayule shrub to Reconstruction Finance Corporation
• § 178— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 178a— Definitions
• § 178b— Joint Commission on Research and Development of Critical Agricultural Materials
• § 178c— Research and development program by Secretary of Agriculture
• § 178d— Research and development program by Secretary of Commerce
• § 178e— Cooperative projects with Mexico, Australia, and Israel
• § 178f— Assistance from States and public agencies; contracts and agreements
• § 178g— Powers of Secretary of Agriculture
• § 178h— Powers of Secretary of Commerce
• § 178i— Coordination of activities with Federal agencies
• § 178j— Laws governing inventions under this subchapter
• § 178k— Disposition of byproducts and strategic and industrially important products
• § 178l— Rules and regulations
• § 178m— Report to President and Congress
• § 178n— Administration and funding
• § 181— Short title
• § 182— Definitions
• § 183— When transaction deemed in commerce; “State” defined
• § 191— “Packer” defined
• § 192— Unlawful practices enumerated
• § 193— Procedure before Secretary for violations
• § 194— Conclusiveness of order; appeal and review
• § 195— Punishment for violation of order
• § 196— Statutory trust established; livestock
• § 197— Statutory trust established; poultry
• § 197a— Production contracts
• § 197b— Choice of law and venue
• § 197c— Arbitration
• § 198— Definitions
• § 198a— Swine packer marketing contracts offered to producers
• § 198b— Report on the Secretary’s jurisdiction, power, duties, and authorities
• § 201— “Stockyard owner”; “stockyard services”; “market agency”; “dealer”; defined
• § 202— “Stockyard” defined; determination by Secretary as to particular yard
• § 203— Activity as stockyard dealer or market agency; benefits to business and welfare of stockyard; registration; penalty for failure to register
• § 204— Bond and suspension of registrants
• § 205— General duty as to services; revocation of registration
• § 206— Rates and charges generally; discrimination
• § 207— Schedule of rates
• § 208— Unreasonable or discriminatory practices generally; rights of stockyard owner of management and regulation
• § 209— Liability to individuals for violations; enforcement generally
• § 210— Proceedings before Secretary for violations
• § 211— Order of Secretary as to charges or practices; prescribing rates and practices generally
• § 212— Prescribing rates and practices to prevent discrimination between intrastate and interstate commerce
• § 213— Prevention of unfair, discriminatory, or deceptive practices
• § 214— Effective date of orders
• § 215— Failure to obey orders; punishment
• § 216— Proceedings to enforce orders; injunction
• § 217— Proceedings for suspension of orders
• § 217a— Fees for inspection of brands or marks
• § 217b— Statutory trust established; dealer
• § 221— Accounts and records of business; punishment for failure to keep
• § 222— Federal Trade Commission powers adopted for enforcement of chapter
• § 223— Responsibility of principal for act or omission of agent
• § 224— Attorney General to institute court proceedings for enforcement
• § 225— Laws unaffected
• § 226— Powers of Interstate Commerce Commission unaffected
• § 227— Powers of Federal Trade Commission and Secretary of Agriculture
• § 228— Authority of Secretary
• § 228a— Authority of Secretary to request temporary injunction or restraining order
• § 228b— Prompt payment for purchase of livestock
• § 228b–1— Final date for making payment to cash seller or poultry grower
• § 228b–2— Violations by live poultry dealers
• § 228b–3— Judicial review of order regarding live poultry dealer
• § 228b–4— Violation of final order by live poultry dealer; penalty
• § 228c— Federal preemption of State and local requirements
• § 228d— Annual assessment of cattle and hog industries
• § 229b— Right to discuss terms of contract
• § 229c— Separability
• § 241— Definitions
• § 242— Powers of Secretary
• § 243— Imposition and collection of fees
• § 244— Quality and value standards
• § 245— Bonding and other financial assurance requirements
• § 246— Maintenance of records
• § 247— Fair treatment in storage of agricultural products
• § 248— Commingling of agricultural products
• § 249— Transfer of stored agricultural products
• § 250— Warehouse receipts
• § 251— Conditions for delivery of agricultural products
• § 252— Suspension or revocation of licenses
• § 253— Public information
• § 254— Penalties for noncompliance
• § 255— Jurisdiction and arbitration
• § 256— Authorization of appropriations
• § 281— Honeybee importation
• § 282— Punishment for unlawful importation
• § 283— Propagation of stock and release of germ plasm
• § 284— Eradication and control of undesirable species and subspecies
• § 285— Uses of funds
• § 286— Authorization of appropriations
• § 291— Authorization of associations; powers
• § 292— Monopolizing or restraining trade and unduly enhancing prices prohibited; remedy and procedure
• § 301— Land grant aid of colleges
• § 302— Method of apportionment and selection; issuance of land scrip
• § 303— Management expenses paid by State
• § 304— Investment of proceeds of sale of land or scrip
• § 305— Conditions of grant
• § 307— Fees for locating land scrip
• § 308— Reports by State governors of sale of scrip
• § 309— Land grants in the State of North Dakota
• § 321— Secretary of Agriculture to administer annual college-aid appropriation
• § 322— Annual appropriation
• § 323— Racial discrimination by colleges restricted
• § 324— Time, manner, etc., of annual payments
• § 325— State to replace funds misapplied, etc.; restrictions on use of funds; reports by colleges
• § 326— Ascertainment and certification of amounts due States; certificates withheld from States; appeal to Congress
• § 326a— Annual appropriations for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau
• § 328— Power to amend, repeal, etc., reserved
• § 329— Additional appropriation for agricultural colleges
• § 331— Retirement of land-grant college employees
• § 341— Cooperative extension work by colleges
• § 342— Cooperative agricultural extension work; cooperation with Secretary of Agriculture
• § 343— Appropriations; distribution; allotment and apportionment; Secretary of Agriculture; matching funds; cooperative extension activities
• § 344— Ascertainment of entitlement of State to funds; time and manner of payment; State reporting requirements; plans of work
• § 345— Replacement of diminished, lost or misapplied funds; restrictions on use; reports of colleges
• § 347a— Disadvantaged agricultural areas
• § 348— Rules and regulations
• § 349— “State” defined
• § 361a— Congressional declaration of purpose; definitions
• § 361b— Congressional statement of policy; researches, investigations and experiments
• § 361c— Authorization of appropriations and allotments of grants
• § 361d— Use of funds
• § 361e— Payment of allotments to State agricultural experiment stations; directors and treasurers or other officers; accounting; reports to Secretary; replacement by States of diminished, lost or misapplied allotments; subsequent allotments or payments contingent on such replacement
• § 361f— Publications of experiment stations; free mailing
• § 361g— Duties of Secretary; ascertainment of entitlement of State to funds; plans of work
• § 361h— Relation of college or university to State unaffected; division of appropriations
• § 361i— Power to amend, repeal, etc., reserved
• § 384— Card index of agricultural literature; copies to be furnished by Secretary
• § 385— South Carolina Experiment Station; cooperation by Secretary of Agriculture; lump sum appropriation
• § 385a— Authorization of appropriations
• § 387— Station for semi-arid or dry-land regions; establishment
• § 387a— Authorization of appropriations
• § 388— Station for southern Great Plains area; establishment
• § 388a— Authorization of appropriations
• § 389— Transfer of certain dry land and irrigation field stations to States
• § 389a— Conditions of transfer of dry land and irrigation field stations; reservation of mineral rights
• § 390— Definitions
• § 390a— Review process
• § 390b— Competitive grant program
• § 390c— Applicability of chapter 10 of title 5
• § 390d— Authorization of appropriations
• § 391— Establishment of bureau; appointment of chief; duties
• § 393— Sale of pathological and zoological specimens; disposition of moneys
• § 394a— Overtime of employees working at establishments which prepare virus, serum, toxin, and analogous products
• § 395— Fees for rabies diagnoses; disposition of moneys
• § 396— Inspection of livestock, hides, animal products, etc.; place; charges; disposition of funds
• § 398— Purchase and testing of serums or analogous products; dissemination of test results
• § 399— Domestic raising of fur-bearing animals; classification
• § 401— Establishment of bureau
• § 402— Chief of bureau; appointment and duties
• § 403— Transfer of activities of Department of Agriculture to bureau; employment of clerks, etc.
• § 404— Authorization of appropriations
• § 451— “Agricultural products” defined
• § 452— Supervision of division of cooperative marketing
• § 453— Authority and duties of division
• § 454— Advisers to counsel with Secretary of Agriculture; expenses and subsistence
• § 455— Dissemination of crop, market, etc., information by cooperative marketing associations
• § 456— Rules and regulations; appointment, removal, and compensation of employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations
• § 457— Separability
• § 471— Statistics and estimates of grades and staple length of cotton; collection and publication
• § 472— Information furnished of confidential character; penalty for divulging information
• § 473— Persons required to furnish information; request; failure to furnish; false information
• § 473a— Cotton classification services
• § 473b— Market supply, demand, condition and prices; collection and publication of information
• § 473c— Rules and regulations
• § 473c–1— Offenses in relation to sampling of cotton for classification
• § 473c–2— Penalties for offenses relating to sampling of cotton
• § 473c–3— Liability of principal for act of agent
• § 473d— Quality tests and analyses by Secretary for breeders and others; fees
• § 474— Powers of Secretary of Agriculture; appropriation
• § 476— Acreage reports
• § 491— Destruction or dumping of farm produce received in interstate commerce by commission merchants, etc.; penalty
• § 493— Enforcement of provisions; prosecution of cases
• § 494— Rules and regulations; cooperation with States, etc., officers and employees; expenditures
• § 495— Authorization of appropriations
• § 496— Validity of other statutes dealing with same subject
• § 497— Separability
• § 499a— Short title and definitions
• § 499b— Unfair conduct
• § 499b–1— Products produced in distinct geographic areas
• § 499c— Licenses
• § 499d— Issuance of license
• § 499e— Liability to persons injured
• § 499f— Complaints, written notifications, and investigations
• § 499g— Reparation order
• § 499h— Grounds for suspension or revocation of license
• § 499i— Accounts, records, and memoranda; duty of licensees to keep; contents; suspension of license for violation of duty
• § 499j— Orders; effective date; continuance in force; suspension, modification and setting aside; penalty
• § 499k— Injunctions; application of injunction laws governing orders of Interstate Commerce Commission
• § 499l— Violations; report to Attorney General; proceedings; costs
• § 499m— Complaints; procedure, penalties, etc.
• § 499n— Inspection of perishable agricultural commodities
• § 499o— Rules, regulations, and orders; appointment, removal, and compensation of officers and employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations; abrogation of inconsistent statutes
• § 499p— Liability of licensees for acts and omissions of agents
• § 499q— Separability
• § 499s— Depositing appropriations in fund
• § 501— Collection and publication; facts required; deteriorated tobacco
• § 502— Standards for classification; returns and blanks
• § 503— Reports; necessity; by whom made; penalties
• § 504— “Person” defined
• § 505— Access to internal-revenue records
• § 506— Returns under oath; administration
• § 507— Limitation on use of statistical information
• § 508— Separability
• § 511— Definitions
• § 511a— Declaration of purpose
• § 511b— Official standards for classification; tentative standards; modification
• § 511c— Demonstration of official standards; samples; cost
• § 511d— Designation of markets; manner; inspection and related services; fees and charges
• § 511e— Sampling and weighing; cost; disposition of moneys received; expenses; purpose
• § 511f— Reinspection and appeal inspection; certificate as evidence
• § 511g— Placing of grade on warehouse tickets, etc.; form
• § 511h— Publication of information relating to tobacco
• § 511i— Offenses
• § 511j— Publication of violations
• § 511k— Penalty for violations
• § 511l— Act of agent as that of principal
• § 511m— Regulation; hearings; employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations
• § 511n— Hearings; examination of witnesses; refusal to testify or produce evidence
• § 511o— Separability
• § 511p— Delegation of duties by Secretary of Agriculture
• § 511q— Short title
• § 511s— Grading of tobacco
• § 518— Definitions
• § 518a— Contract payments to tobacco quota holders
• § 518b— Contract payments for producers of quota tobacco
• § 518c— Administration
• § 518d— Use of assessments as source of funds for payments
• § 518e— Tobacco Trust Fund
• § 518f— Limitation on total expenditures
• § 519— Treatment of tobacco loan pool stocks and outstanding loan costs
• § 519a— Regulations
• § 581— Standards of export; establishment; shipping without certificate forbidden; hearings
• § 582— Notice of establishment of standards; shipments under contracts made before adoption of standards
• § 583— Foreign standards; certification of compliance
• § 584— Exemptions
• § 585— Fees for inspection and certification; certificates as prima facie evidence
• § 586— Refusal of certificates for violations of laws; penalties for violations
• § 587— Rules and regulations; cooperation with other agencies; compensation of officers and employees; effect on other laws
• § 588— Separability
• § 589— Definitions
• § 590— Authorization of appropriations
• § 590a— Estimates of apple production
• § 591— Standards of export; establishment; shipping without certificate forbidden; hearings
• § 592— Notice of establishment of standards; shipments under contracts made before adoption of standards
• § 593— Foreign standards; certification of compliance
• § 594— Exemption of minimum quantities
• § 595— Fees for inspection and certification; certificates as prima facie evidence
• § 596— Refusal of certificates for violations of law; penalties for violations
• § 597— Rules and regulations; cooperation with other agencies; compensation of officers and employees; effect on other laws
• § 598— Separability
• § 599— Definitions
• § 601— Declaration of conditions
• § 602— Declaration of policy; establishment of price basing period; marketing standards; orderly supply flow; circumstances for continued regulation
• § 603— Government owned cotton; transfer to Secretary of Agriculture; powers of Secretary
• § 604— Borrowing money; expenditures; authority of Secretary
• § 607— Sale by Secretary; additional options; validation of assignments; publication of information
• § 608— Powers of Secretary
• § 608a— Enforcement of chapter
• § 608b— Marketing agreements; exemption from anti-trust laws; inspection requirements for handlers not subject to agreements
• § 608c— Orders
• § 608d— Books and records
• § 608e–1— Import prohibitions on specified foreign produce
• § 609— Processing tax; methods of computation; rate; what constitutes processing; publicity as to tax to avoid profiteering
• § 610— Administration
• § 611— “Basic agricultural commodity” defined; exclusion of commodities
• § 612— Appropriation; use of revenues; administrative expenses
• § 612c— Appropriation to encourage exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural products
• § 612c–1— Authorization for appropriations to increase domestic consumption of surplus farm commodities
• § 612c–2— Technical support to exporters and importers of United States agricultural products; scope of support provided by Department of Agriculture
• § 612c–4— Purchase of specialty crops
• § 612c–5— Section 612c funds for purchase of fruits, vegetables, and nuts to support domestic nutrition assistance programs
• § 612c–6— Domestic food assistance programs
• § 613— Termination date; investigations and reports
• § 614— Separability
• § 615— Refunds of tax; exemptions from tax; compensating tax; compensating tax on foreign goods; covering into Treasury
• § 616— Stock on hand when tax takes effect or terminates
• § 617— Refund on goods exported; bond to suspend tax on commodity intended for export
• § 618— Existing contracts; imposition of tax on vendee; collection
• § 619— Collection of tax; provisions of internal revenue laws applicable; returns
• § 619a— Cotton tax, time for payment
• § 620— Falsely ascribing deductions or charges to taxes; penalty
• § 621— Machinery belting processed from cotton; exemption from tax
• § 623— Actions relating to tax; legalization of prior taxes
• § 624— Limitation on imports; authority of President
• § 626— Import inventory
• § 627— Dairy forward pricing pilot program
• § 671— Arbitration of disputes concerning milk
• § 672— Agreements; licenses, regulations, programs, etc., unaffected
• § 673— Taxes under Agricultural Adjustment Act; laws unaffected
• § 674— Short title
• § 851— Declaration of policy
• § 852— Marketing agreements with handlers; exemption from antitrust laws
• § 853— Terms and conditions of marketing agreements
• § 854— Order regulating handlers; issuance and terms
• § 855— Applicability of other laws
• § 901— Short title
• § 902— General authority of Secretary of Agriculture
• § 903— Authorization of appropriations
• § 904— Loans for electrical plants and transmission lines
• § 905— Fees for certain loan guarantees
• § 906— Funding for administrative expenses
• § 906a— Use of funds outside the United States or its territories prohibited
• § 907— Acquisition of property pledged for loans; disposition; sale of pledged property by borrower
• § 908— Limitations on use of assistance
• § 909— Administration on nonpolitical basis; dismissal of officers or employees for violating provision
• § 911— Acceptance of services of Federal or State officers; application of civil service laws; expenditures for supplies and equipment
• § 912— Extension of time for repayment of loans
• § 912a— Rescheduling and refinancing of loans
• § 913— Definitions
• § 914— Separability
• § 915— Purchase of financial and credit reports
• § 916— Criteria for loans
• § 917— Prohibition on restricting water and waste facility services to electric customers
• § 918— General prohibitions
• § 918a— Energy generation, transmission, and distribution facilities efficiency grants and loans in rural communities with extremely high energy costs
• § 918b— Acquisition of existing systems in rural communities with high energy costs
• § 918c— Rural and remote communities electrification grants
• § 921— Congressional declaration of policy
• § 922— Loans for telephone service
• § 923— State regulation of telephone service
• § 924— Definition of telephone service and rural area
• § 925— Loan feasibility
• § 926— Certain rural development investments by qualified telephone borrowers not treated as dividends or distributions
• § 927— General duties and prohibitions
• § 928— Prompt processing of telephone loans
• § 930— Congressional declaration of policy
• § 931— Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
• § 931a— Level of loan programs under Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
• § 932— Liabilities and uses of Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
• § 933— Moneys in the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
• § 934— Authorized financial transactions; interim notes; purchase of obligations for resale; sale of notes and certificates; liens
• § 935— Insured loans; interest rates and lending levels
• § 936— Guaranteed loans; accommodations and subordination of liens; interest rates; assignability of guaranteed loans and related guarantees
• § 936a— Prepayment of loans
• § 936b— Sale or prepayment of direct or insured loans
• § 936c— Refinancing and prepayment of FFB loans
• § 936d— Eligibility of distribution borrowers for loans, loan guarantees, and lien accommodations
• § 936e— Administrative prohibitions applicable to certain electric borrowers
• § 936f— Substantially underserved trust areas
• § 937— Loans from other credit sources
• § 938— Full faith and credit of the United States
• § 939— Loan terms and conditions
• § 940— Refinancing of rural development loans
• § 940b— Use of funds
• § 940c— Cushion of credit payments program
• § 940c–1— Guarantees for bonds and notes issued for electrification or telephone purposes
• § 940c–2— Rural development loans and grants
• § 940e— Expansion of 911 access
• § 940f— Extension of period of existing guarantee
• § 940g— Electric loans for renewable energy
• § 940h— Bonding requirements
• § 940i— Cybersecurity and grid security improvements
• § 950aa— Additional powers and duties
• § 950aaa— Purpose
• § 950aaa–1— Definitions
• § 950aaa–2— Telemedicine and distance learning services in rural areas
• § 950aaa–3— Administration
• § 950aaa–4— Regulations
• § 950aaa–5— Authorization of appropriations
• § 950bb— Access to broadband telecommunications services in rural areas
• § 950bb–1— Expansion of middle mile infrastructure into rural areas
• § 950bb–2— Innovative Broadband Advancement Program
• § 950bb–3— Community Connect Grant Program
• § 950bb–4— Outdated broadband systems
• § 950bb–5— Default and deobligation; deferral
• § 950bb–6— Federal broadband program coordination
• § 950cc— Public notice, assessments, and reporting requirements
• § 950cc–1— Environmental reviews
• § 950cc–2— Use of loan proceeds to refinance loans for deployment of broadband service
• § 951— Collection and publication; facts required; submission of report
• § 953— Reports; by whom made; penalties
• § 954— Grades and standards for classification
• § 955— Limitation on use of statistical information
• § 956— Rules and regulations; cooperation with departments, etc.; officers and employees; expenses of administration; authorization of appropriations
• § 957— Definitions
• § 1000— Short title
• § 1006a— Loans to homestead or desertland entrymen and purchasers of lands in reclamation projects; security; first repayment installment
• § 1006b— Cancellation of entry or purchase upon loan default; entry or resale; conditions; satisfaction of indebtedness
• § 1010— Land conservation and land utilization
• § 1010a— Soil, water, and related resource data
• § 1011— Powers of Secretary of Agriculture
• § 1012— Payments to counties
• § 1012a— Townsites
• § 1013a— Benefits extended to Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands; “county” defined; payments to Governor or fiscal agent of county
• § 1030— Consolidation of agricultural credit and service offices
• § 1031— Conveyance of mineral rights with land
• § 1032— Transfer of rights and duties of Reconstruction Finance Corporation arising out of rehabilitation and farm tenancy loans to Secretary of the Treasury
• § 1032a— Disbursing and certifying officers; exemption from liability for advances to defense relocation corporations
• § 1033— Sale of reserved mineral interests
• § 1034— Persons to whom mineral interests sold; conveyances
• § 1035— Sale of mineral interests; consideration; transfer of unsold interests to Secretary of the Interior
• § 1037— Sale of reserved mineral interests; disposition of proceeds
• § 1038— Regulations; delegations of authority
• § 1039— Time for filing purchase applications
• § 1040— Farmers’ Home Administration funds account
• § 1291— Adjustments in freight rates
• § 1292— New uses and markets for commodities
• § 1301— Definitions
• § 1301a— References to parity prices, etc., in other laws after January 1, 1950
• § 1303— Parity payments
• § 1304— Consumer safeguards
• § 1305— Transfer of acreage allotments or feed grain bases on public lands upon request of State agencies
• § 1306— Projected yields; determination; base period
• § 1307— Limitation on payments under wheat, feed grains, and cotton programs for 1974 through 1977 crops
• § 1308— Payment limitations
• § 1308–1— Notification of interests; payments limited to active farmers
• § 1308–2— Denial of program benefits
• § 1308–3— Foreign persons made ineligible for program benefits
• § 1308–3a— Adjusted gross income limitation
• § 1308–4— Education program
• § 1308–5— Treatment of multiyear program contract payments
• § 1308a— Cost reduction options
• § 1309— Normally planted acreage and target prices
• § 1310— American agriculture protection program
• § 1310a— Normal supply of commodity for 1986 through 1995 crops
• § 1321— Legislative finding of effect on interstate and foreign commerce and necessity of regulation
• § 1326— Adjustment of farm marketing quotas
• § 1329a— Discontinuance of acreage allotments on corn
• § 1331— Legislative finding of effect on interstate and foreign commerce and necessity of regulation
• § 1332— National marketing quota
• § 1333— National acreage allotment
• § 1334— Apportionment of national acreage allotment
• § 1334a–1— Summer fallow farms; upper limit on required set aside acreage for 1971 through 1977 wheat, feed grain, and cotton crops
• § 1334b— Designation of States outside commercial wheat-producing areas
• § 1335— Small-farm exemption; small-farm base acreage; election; acreage allotment; land-use provisions; price support; wheat marketing certificates
• § 1336— Referendum
• § 1338— Transfer of quotas
• § 1339— Land use
• § 1339b— Wheat diversion programs; credits in establishment of State, county and farm acreage allotments for wheat
• § 1339c— Feed grains diversion programs for 1964 and subsequent years; feed grain acreage considered wheat acreage and wheat acreage considered feed grain acreage
• § 1339d— Hay production on set-aside or diverted acreage; storage; emergency use; loans
• § 1340— Supplemental provisions relating to wheat marketing quotas; marketing penalty for rice; crop loans on cotton, wheat, rice, tobacco, and peanuts
• § 1341— Legislative findings
• § 1342— National marketing quota; proclamation; amount; date of proclamation
• § 1342a— National cotton production goal
• § 1343— Referendum
• § 1344— Apportionment of national acreage allotments
• § 1344a— Exclusion of 1949 acreage in computation of future allotments
• § 1344b— Sale, lease, or transfer of cotton acreage allotments
• § 1345— Farm marketing quotas; farm marketing excess
• § 1346— Penalties
• § 1348— Payments in kind to equalize cost of cotton to domestic and foreign users; rules and regulations; termination date; persons eligible; amount; terms and conditions; raw cotton in inventory
• § 1349— Export market acreage
• § 1350— National base acreage allotment
• § 1359aa— Definitions
• § 1359bb— Flexible marketing allotments for sugar
• § 1359cc— Establishment of flexible marketing allotments
• § 1359dd— Allocation of marketing allotments
• § 1359ee— Reassignment of deficits
• § 1359ff— Provisions applicable to producers
• § 1359gg— Special rules
• § 1359hh— Regulations; violations; publication of Secretary’s determinations; jurisdiction of the courts; United States attorneys
• § 1359ii— Appeals
• § 1359jj— Administration
• § 1359kk— Administration of tariff rate quotas
• § 1359ll— Period of effectiveness
• § 1361— Application of subpart
• § 1362— Publication of marketing quota; mailing of allotment notice
• § 1363— Review of quota; review committee
• § 1364— Compensation of review committee
• § 1365— Institution of proceeding for court review of committee findings
• § 1366— Court review
• § 1367— Stay of proceedings and exclusive jurisdiction
• § 1368— Effect of increase on other quotas
• § 1371— General adjustment of quotas
• § 1372— Payment, collection, and refund of penalties
• § 1373— Reports and records
• § 1374— Measurement of farms and report of plantings; remeasurement
• § 1375— Regulations
• § 1376— Court jurisdiction; duties of United States attorneys; remedies and penalties as additional
• § 1377— Preservation of unused acreage allotments
• § 1378— Transfer of acreage allotments ensuing from agency acquisition of farmlands
• § 1379— Reconstitution of farms
• § 1379a— Legislative findings
• § 1379b— Wheat marketing allocation; amount; national allocation percentage; commercial and noncommercial wheat-producing areas
• § 1379c— Marketing certificates
• § 1379d— Marketing restrictions
• § 1379e— Assistance in purchase and sale of marketing certificates; regulations; administrative expenses; interest
• § 1379f— Conversion factors
• § 1379g— Authority to facilitate transition
• § 1379h— Applicability of provisions to designated persons; reports and records; examinations by the Secretary
• § 1379i— Penalties
• § 1379j— Regulations
• § 1383— Insurance of cotton; reconcentration
• § 1383a— Written consent for reconcentration of cotton
• § 1385— Finality of payments and loans; substitution of beneficiaries
• § 1386— Exemption from laws prohibiting interest of Members of Congress in contracts
• § 1387— Photographic reproductions and maps
• § 1388— Utilization of local agencies
• § 1389— Personnel
• § 1390— Separability
• § 1391— Authorization of appropriations; loans from Commodity Credit Corporation
• § 1392— Administrative expenses; posting names and compensation of local employees
• § 1393— Allotment of appropriations
• § 1421— Price support
• § 1421a— Financial impact study
• § 1421b— Costs of production
• § 1421d— Commodity reports
• § 1422— Increase of price support levels
• § 1423— Adjustments of support prices
• § 1424— Utilization of services and facilities of Commodity Credit Corporation
• § 1425— Producer rights and liabilities
• § 1425a— Producers of honey; loan obligations and liabilities
• § 1427— Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions
• § 1427–1— Quality requirements for Commodity Credit Corporation owned grain
• § 1427a— Reserve inventories for alleviation of distress of natural disaster
• § 1428— Definitions
• § 1429— Determinations of Secretary as final and conclusive
• § 1430— Retroactive effect
• § 1431— Disposition of commodities to prevent waste
• § 1431a— Cotton donations to educational institutions
• § 1431b— Distribution of surplus commodities to other United States areas
• § 1431c— Enrichment and packaging of cornmeal, grits, rice, and white flour available for distribution
• § 1431d— Donations for school feeding programs abroad; student financing; priorities
• § 1431e— Distribution of surplus commodities to special nutrition projects; reprocessing agreements with private companies
• § 1431f— Assistance to foreign countries to mitigate effects of HIV and AIDS
• § 1432— Extension of price support on long staple cotton seeds and products
• § 1433a— Forgiveness of violations; determinations
• § 1433b— Processing of surplus agricultural commodities into liquid fuels and agricultural commodity byproducts
• § 1433c— Advance recourse commodity loans
• § 1433c–1— Advance recourse loans
• § 1434— Encouragement of production of crops of which United States is a net importer and for which price support programs are not in effect; authority to plant on set-aside acreage with no reduction in payment rate
• § 1435— Production of commodities for conversion into alcohol or hydrocarbons for use as motor fuels or other fuels; terms and conditions; determinations; payments, etc., for program
• § 1436— Reimbursement of appropriations available for classing or grading agriculture commodities without charge
• § 1436a— Transfer of nonadministrative funds of Commodity Credit Corporation for classing and grading purposes
• § 1441— Price support levels
• § 1441–1a— Marketing certificates for rice
• § 1441a— Cost of production study and establishment of current national weighted average cost of production
• § 1442— Price support and acreage requirements for corn and other feed grains
• § 1444— Cotton price support levels
• § 1444a— Corn and feed grains and cotton programs
• § 1444b— Feed grains; price support program
• § 1444e–1— Loans and purchases for 1986 through 1996 crops of corn
• § 1445–3— Purchase of inventory stock
• § 1445a— Wheat price support levels; “cooperator” defined
• § 1445d— Special wheat acreage grazing and hay program for 1978 through 1990 crop years
• § 1445e— Farmer owned reserve program
• § 1445f— International Emergency Food Reserve
• § 1445g— Production of commodities for conversion into industrial hydrocarbons; terms and conditions; incentive payments; regulations; appropriations; effective date
• § 1445i— Multiyear set-aside contracts for 1986 through 1990 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice
• § 1445j— Deficiency and land diversion payments
• § 1445k— Payments in commodities
• § 1446— Price support levels for designated nonbasic agricultural commodities
• § 1446a— Dairy products; availability through Commodity Credit Corporation
• § 1446a–1— Use of Commodity Credit Corporation funds for purchases of dairy products requirements for school and other programs
• § 1446b— Policy with regard to dairy products
• § 1446c— Domestic disposal programs for dairy products
• § 1446c–1— Reduction of dairy product inventories
• § 1446c–2— Domestic casein industry
• § 1447— Price support levels for other nonbasic agricultural commodities
• § 1448— Price support levels for storable nonbasic agricultural commodities
• § 1449— Determination of price support level
• § 1471— Definitions
• § 1471a— Emergency livestock assistance
• § 1471b— Determination of need for assistance
• § 1471c— Eligible producers
• § 1471d— Assistance programs
• § 1471e— Additional assistance
• § 1471f— Use of Commodity Credit Corporation
• § 1471g— Benefits limitation
• § 1471h— Ineligibility
• § 1471i— Administration
• § 1471j— Penalties
• § 1472— Assistance for livestock producers
• § 1501— Short title and application of other provisions
• § 1502— Purpose; definitions; protection of information; relation to other laws
• § 1503— Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; creation; offices
• § 1504— Capital stock of Corporation
• § 1504a— Capitalization of Corporation
• § 1505— Management of Corporation
• § 1506— General powers
• § 1507— Personnel of Corporation
• § 1508— Crop insurance
• § 1508a— Double insurance and prevented planting
• § 1508b— Stacked Income Protection Plan for producers of upland cotton
• § 1508c— Peanut revenue crop insurance
• § 1508d— Coverage for forage and grazing
• § 1509— Exemption of indemnities from levy
• § 1510— Deposit and investment of funds; Federal Reserve banks as fiscal agents
• § 1511— Tax exemption
• § 1512— Corporation as fiscal agent of Government
• § 1513— Books of account and annual reports of Corporation
• § 1514— Crimes and offenses
• § 1515— Program compliance and integrity
• § 1516— Funding
• § 1517— Separability
• § 1518— “Agricultural commodity” defined
• § 1520— Producer eligibility
• § 1521— Ineligibility for catastrophic risk and noninsured assistance payments
• § 1522— Research and development
• § 1523— Pilot programs
• § 1524— Education and risk management assistance
• § 1531— Supplemental agricultural disaster assistance
• § 1551— Short title
• § 1561— Definition of terms
• § 1562— False representations as certified seed; required provisions
• § 1571— Prohibitions relating to interstate commerce in certain seeds
• § 1572— Records
• § 1573— Exemptions
• § 1574— Disclaimers, limited warranties and nonwarranties
• § 1575— False advertising
• § 1581— Prohibitions relating to importations
• § 1582— Procedure relating to importations; disposal of refuse; exceptions
• § 1585— Certain seeds not adapted for general agricultural use
• § 1586— Certain acts prohibited
• § 1591— Delegation of duties
• § 1592— Rules and regulations
• § 1593— Standards, tests, tolerances
• § 1593a— Seed variety information and survey
• § 1594— Prohibition against alterations
• § 1595— Seizure
• § 1596— Penalties
• § 1597— Agent’s acts as binding principal
• § 1598— Notice of intention to prosecute
• § 1599— Cease and desist proceedings
• § 1600— Appeal to court of appeals
• § 1601— Enforcement of order
• § 1602— Separability
• § 1603— Procedural powers; witness fees and mileage
• § 1604— Publication
• § 1605— Authorization of appropriations
• § 1606— Authorization of expenditures
• § 1607— Cooperation with other governmental agencies
• § 1608— Separability
• § 1609— Repeals
• § 1610— Effective date
• § 1611— Illegal sales of uncertified seed
• § 1621— Congressional declaration of purpose; use of existing facilities; cooperation with States
• § 1622— Duties of Secretary relating to agricultural products
• § 1622a— Authority to assist farmers and elevator operators
• § 1622b— Specialty crops market news allocation
• § 1623— Authorization of appropriations; allotments to States
• § 1624— Cooperation with Government and State agencies, private research organizations, etc.; rules and regulations
• § 1625— Transfer and consolidation of functions, powers, bureaus, etc.
• § 1626— Definitions
• § 1627— Appointment of personnel; compensation; employment of specialists
• § 1627a— Sheep production and marketing grant program
• § 1627b— National Sheep Industry Improvement Center
• § 1627c— Local agriculture market program
• § 1629— Establishment of committees to assist in research and service programs
• § 1631— Protection for purchasers of farm products
• § 1632a— Agricultural marketing resource center pilot project
• § 1632b— Agriculture Innovation Center Demonstration Program
• § 1632c— Acer access and development program
• § 1632d— Dairy business innovation initiatives
• § 1632e— Cattle Contracts Library
• § 1633— Cooperation with State agencies in administration and enforcement of laws relating to marketing of agricultural products and control or eradication of plant and animal diseases and pests; coordination of administration of Federal and State laws
• § 1635— Purpose
• § 1635a— Definitions
• § 1635d— Definitions
• § 1635e— Mandatory reporting for live cattle
• § 1635f— Mandatory packer reporting of boxed beef sales
• § 1635i— Definitions
• § 1635j— Mandatory reporting for swine
• § 1635k— Mandatory reporting of wholesale pork cuts
• § 1635m— Mandatory reporting for lambs
• § 1636— General provisions
• § 1636a— Unlawful acts
• § 1636b— Enforcement
• § 1636c— Fees
• § 1636d— Recordkeeping
• § 1636e— Voluntary reporting
• § 1636f— Publication of information on retail purchase prices for representative meat products
• § 1636g— Suspension authority regarding specific terms of price reporting requirements
• § 1636h— Federal preemption
• § 1636i— Termination of authority
• § 1637— Purpose
• § 1637a— Definitions
• § 1637b— Mandatory reporting for dairy products
• § 1638— Definitions
• § 1638a— Notice of country of origin
• § 1638b— Enforcement
• § 1638c— Regulations
• § 1638d— Applicability
• § 1639— Definitions
• § 1639a— Applicability
• § 1639b— Establishment of national bioengineered food disclosure standard
• § 1639c— Savings provisions
• § 1639i— Federal preemption
• § 1639j— Exclusion from Federal preemption
• § 1639o— Definitions
• § 1639p— State and tribal plans
• § 1639q— Department of Agriculture
• § 1639r— Regulations and guidelines; effect on other law
• § 1639s— Authorization of appropriations
• § 1641— Availability of wheat for export; utilization of funds and facilities; prices; authorization of appropriations
• § 1642— Enforcement by President
• § 1691— United States policy
• § 1691a— Food aid to developing countries
• § 1701— Economic assistance and food security
• § 1702— Agreements regarding eligible countries and private entities
• § 1703— Terms and conditions of sales
• § 1704— Use of local currency payment
• § 1704a— Agreements for use of foreign currencies; reports to Congress
• § 1704c— Payments by Secretary of Defense in liquidation of amount due for foreign currencies
• § 1721— General authority
• § 1722— Provision of agricultural commodities
• § 1723— Generation and use of currencies by private voluntary organizations and cooperatives
• § 1724— Levels of assistance
• § 1725— Food Aid Consultative Group
• § 1726a— Administration
• § 1726b— International food relief partnership
• § 1726c— Local and regional food aid procurement projects
• § 1727— Bilateral grant program
• § 1727a— Eligible countries
• § 1727b— Grant programs
• § 1727c— Direct uses or sales of commodities
• § 1727d— Local currency accounts
• § 1727e— Use of local currency proceeds
• § 1728— Findings regarding emergency food assistance
• § 1728a— President’s Emergency Food Assistance Fund
• § 1731— Commodity determinations
• § 1732— Definitions
• § 1733— General provisions
• § 1734— Agreements
• § 1735— Consultation
• § 1736— Use of Commodity Credit Corporation
• § 1736–1— Special Assistant for Agricultural Trade and Food Assistance
• § 1736a— Administrative provisions
• § 1736b— Expiration date
• § 1736dd— International food security technical assistance
• § 1736e— Debt forgiveness
• § 1736f— Authorization of appropriations
• § 1736f–1— Establishment of commodity trust
• § 1736g— Coordination of foreign assistance programs
• § 1736g–1— Assistance in furtherance of narcotics control objectives of United States
• § 1736g–2— Micronutrient fortification programs
• § 1736g–3— Use of certain local currency
• § 1736h— Congressional consultation on bilateral commodity supply agreements
• § 1736l— Consultation on grain marketing
• § 1736o— Food for progress
• § 1736o–1— McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program
• § 1736p— Trade policy declaration
• § 1736r— Trade negotiations policy
• § 1736u— Cooperator market development program
• § 1736y— Contract sanctity and producer embargo protection
• § 1737— John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer Program
• § 1738— Establishment of Facility
• § 1738a— Purpose
• § 1738b— Eligibility for benefits under Facility
• § 1738c— Reduction of certain debt
• § 1738d— Repayment of principal
• § 1738e— Interest of new obligations
• § 1738f— Environmental framework agreements
• § 1738g— Enterprise for the Americas environmental funds
• § 1738h— Disbursement of environmental funds
• § 1738i— Enterprise for the Americas Board
• § 1738j— Oversight
• § 1738k— Eligible activities and grantees
• § 1738l— Encouraging multilateral debt donations
• § 1738m— Annual report to Congress
• § 1738n— Consultations with Congress
• § 1738o— Sale of qualified debt to eligible countries
• § 1738p— Sale, reduction, or cancellation of qualified debt to facilitate certain debt swaps
• § 1738q— Notification to congressional committees
• § 1738r— “Qualified debt” defined
• § 1741— Maximum and minimum quantities for set-aside; “commodity set-aside” defined
• § 1742— Determination of commodity value for set-aside
• § 1743— Reduction of set-aside
• § 1744— Sale of commodities in set-aside; exemption from pricing limitations
• § 1745— Computation of carryover
• § 1746— Records and accounts
• § 1747— Authorization of appropriations; determination of value of transferred commodity
• § 1748— Annual reports by agricultural attachés
• § 1749— Attaché educational program
• § 1761— Foreign markets; collection of information
• § 1762— Personnel
• § 1764— Reports and dispatches
• § 1765— Foreign service appropriations; applicability
• § 1765a— Agricultural Trade Offices
• § 1765b— Functions
• § 1765c— Performance of functions in foreign localities
• § 1765d— Acquisition of property
• § 1765e— Location of offices
• § 1765f— Availability of agency services, personnel, and facilities
• § 1765g— Availability of reports and dispatches
• § 1765h— Representation allowance
• § 1766— Rules and regulations; advance payment for rent and other service; funds for courtesies to foreign representatives
• § 1766a— Presidential regulations
• § 1766b— Language training for families of officers and employees assigned abroad
• § 1766c— Allowances and benefits
• § 1767— Authorization of appropriations
• § 1768— Foreign Operations Administration unaffected
• § 1769— “Agricultural commodity” defined
• § 1831a— Contract restrictions
• § 1838— Conversion of cropland into vegetative cover, water storage, wildlife and conservation uses; contracts with farmers
• § 1854— Agreements limiting imports
• § 1855— Supplemental appropriations to encourage exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural products
• § 1856— Transfer of bartered materials to supplemental stockpile; limitation of acquisition to certain programs; authorization of appropriations
• § 1859— Donation to penal and correctional institutions
• § 1860— Federal irrigation, drainage, and flood-control projects
• § 1901— Findings and declaration of policy
• § 1902— Humane methods
• § 1904— Methods research; designation of methods
• § 1906— Exemption of ritual slaughter
• § 1907— Practices involving nonambulatory livestock
• § 1911— Consultation of Secretary of Agriculture with farmers, farm and commodity organizations and other persons and organizations; travel and per diem expenses
• § 1912— Submission of legislative proposals
• § 1913— Authority of Secretary of Agriculture under other provisions of law and to establish and consult with advisory committees
• § 1921— Congressional findings
• § 1922— Persons eligible for real estate loans
• § 1923— Purposes of loans
• § 1924— Conservation loan and loan guarantee program
• § 1925— Limitations on amount of farm ownership loans
• § 1926— Water and waste facility loans and grants
• § 1926a— Emergency and imminent community water assistance grant program
• § 1926c— Water and waste facility loans and grants to alleviate health risks
• § 1926d— Water systems for rural and Native villages in Alaska
• § 1926e— Rural decentralized water systems
• § 1926f— Contracts with not-for-profit third parties
• § 1927— Repayment requirements
• § 1927a— Loan interest rates charged by Farmers Home Administration; grant funds associated with loans
• § 1928— Full faith and credit
• § 1929— Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund
• § 1929–1— Level of loan programs under Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund
• § 1929a— Rural Development Insurance Fund
• § 1929b— Purchase of guaranteed portions of loans; terms and conditions; exercise of authorities
• § 1930— Continued availability of appropriated funds for direct real estate loans to farmers and ranchers
• § 1932— Assistance for rural entities
• § 1933— Guaranteed rural housing loans; Hawaiian home lands
• § 1934— Low-income farm ownership loan program; eligibility; repayment requirements
• § 1935— Down payment loan program
• § 1936— Beginning farmer or rancher and socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher contract land sales program
• § 1936a— Use of rural development loans and grants for other purposes
• § 1936b— Intermediary relending program
• § 1936c— Relending program to resolve ownership and succession on farmland
• § 1941— Persons eligible for loans
• § 1942— Purposes of loans
• § 1943— Limitations on amount of operating loans
• § 1944— Soil conservation district loans; limitation; purchase of conservation equipment
• § 1946— Liability of borrower
• § 1949— Graduation of borrowers with operating loans or guarantees to private commercial credit
• § 1961— Eligibility for loans
• § 1962— Loan determination factors; written credit declinations
• § 1963— Purpose and extent of loans
• § 1964— Terms of loans
• § 1966— Emergency Credit Revolving Fund utilization
• § 1967— Addition to Emergency Credit Revolving Fund of sums from liquidation of loans; authorization of appropriations
• § 1970— Eligibility for assistance based on production loss
• § 1981— Farmers Home Administration
• § 1981a— Loan moratorium and policy on foreclosures
• § 1981b— Farm loan interest rates
• § 1981c— Oil and gas royalty payments on loans
• § 1981d— Notice of loan service programs
• § 1981e— Planting and production history guidelines
• § 1981f— Underwriting forms and standards
• § 1982— Relief for mobilized military reservists from certain agricultural loan obligations
• § 1983— Special conditions and limitations on loans
• § 1983a— Prompt approval of loans and loan guarantees
• § 1983b— Beginning farmer and rancher individual development accounts pilot program
• § 1983c— Provision of information to borrowers
• § 1983d— Farmer loan pilot projects
• § 1984— Taxation
• § 1985— Security servicing
• § 1986— Conflicts of interests
• § 1987— Debt adjustment and credit counseling; “summary period” defined; loan summary statements
• § 1988— Appropriations
• § 1989— Rules and regulations
• § 1990— Transfer of lands to Secretary
• § 1990a— Refinancing of certain rural hospital debt
• § 1991— Definitions
• § 1992— Loan limitations
• § 1993— Transition to private commercial or other sources of credit
• § 1994— Maximum amounts for loans authorized; long-term cost projections
• § 1995— Participation and financial and technical assistance by other Federal departments, etc., to program participants
• § 1996— Loans to resident aliens
• § 1997— Conservation easements
• § 1998— Guaranteed farm loan programs
• § 1999— Interest rate reduction program
• § 2000— Homestead protection
• § 2001— Debt restructuring and loan servicing
• § 2001a— Debt restructuring and loan servicing for community facility loans
• § 2002— Transfer of inventory lands
• § 2003— Target participation rates
• § 2004— Expedited clearing of title to inventory property
• § 2005— Payment of losses on guaranteed loans
• § 2006— Waiver of mediation rights by borrowers
• § 2006a— Borrower training
• § 2006b— Loan assessments
• § 2006c— Supervised credit
• § 2006d— Market placement
• § 2006e— Prohibition on use of loans for certain purposes
• § 2006f— Rural development certified lenders program
• § 2008— Rural development and farm loan program activities
• § 2008a— Equitable relief
• § 2008b— Socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers; qualified beginning farmers and ranchers
• § 2008c— Rural Business-Cooperative Service programs technical assistance and training
• § 2008d— Recordkeeping of loans by borrower’s gender
• § 2008e— Prohibition under rural development programs
• § 2008f— Crop insurance requirement
• § 2008g— Payment of interest as condition of loan servicing for borrowers
• § 2008h— Loan and loan servicing limitations
• § 2008i— Short form certification of farm program borrower compliance
• § 2008k— Making and servicing of loans by personnel of State, county, or area committees
• § 2008l— Eligibility of employees of State, county, or area committee for loans and loan guarantees
• § 2008m— National Rural Development Partnership
• § 2008p— Grants for NOAA weather radio transmitters
• § 2008q–1— Grants to improve supply, stability, safety, and training of agricultural labor force
• § 2008s— Rural microentrepreneur assistance program
• § 2008u— Health care services
• § 2008v— Strategic economic and community development
• § 2008w— Rural Innovation Stronger Economy Grant Program
• § 2008x— Reporting
• § 2009— Definitions
• § 2009a— Establishment
• § 2009aa— Definitions
• § 2009aa–1— Delta Regional Authority
• § 2009aa–10— Records
• § 2009aa–11— Annual report
• § 2009aa–12— Authorization of appropriations
• § 2009aa–2— Economic and community development grants
• § 2009aa–3— Supplements to Federal grant programs
• § 2009aa–4— Local development districts; certification and administrative expenses
• § 2009aa–5— Distressed counties and areas and nondistressed counties
• § 2009aa–6— Development planning process
• § 2009aa–7— Program development criteria
• § 2009aa–8— Approval of development plans and projects
• § 2009aa–9— Consent of States
• § 2009b— National objectives
• § 2009bb— Definitions
• § 2009bb–1— Northern Great Plains Regional Authority
• § 2009bb–10— Records
• § 2009bb–11— Annual report
• § 2009bb–12— Authorization of appropriations
• § 2009bb–1a— Interstate cooperation for economic opportunity and efficiency
• § 2009bb–2— Economic and community development grants
• § 2009bb–3— Supplements to Federal grant programs
• § 2009bb–4— Multistate and local development districts and organizations and Northern Great Plains Inc.
• § 2009bb–5— Distressed counties and areas and nondistressed counties
• § 2009bb–6— Development planning process
• § 2009bb–7— Program development criteria
• § 2009bb–8— Approval of development plans and projects
• § 2009bb–9— Consent of States
• § 2009c— Strategic plans
• § 2009cc— Definitions
• § 2009cc–1— Purposes
• § 2009cc–10— Reporting requirements
• § 2009cc–11— Examinations
• § 2009cc–12— Injunctions and other orders
• § 2009cc–13— Additional penalties for noncompliance
• § 2009cc–14— Unlawful acts and omissions; breach of fiduciary duty
• § 2009cc–15— Removal or suspension of directors or officers
• § 2009cc–17— Regulations
• § 2009cc–18— Authorization of appropriations
• § 2009cc–2— Establishment
• § 2009cc–3— Selection of rural business investment companies
• § 2009cc–4— Debentures
• § 2009cc–5— Issuance and guarantee of trust certificates
• § 2009cc–6— Fees
• § 2009cc–7— Operational assistance grants
• § 2009cc–8— Rural business investment companies
• § 2009cc–9— Financial institution investments
• § 2009d— Rural Development Trust Fund
• § 2009e— Transfers of funds
• § 2009f— Grants to States
• § 2009g— Guarantee and commitment to guarantee loans
• § 2009h— Local involvement
• § 2009i— Interstate collaboration
• § 2009j— Annual report
• § 2009k— Rural development interagency working group
• § 2009l— Duties of Rural Economic and Community Development State Offices
• § 2009m— Electronic transfer
• § 2011— Congressional declaration of policy
• § 2012— Definitions
• § 2012a— Publicly operated community health centers
• § 2013— Establishment of supplemental nutrition assistance program
• § 2014— Eligible households
• § 2014a— Notice of change in State of residence of certified household
• § 2015— Eligibility disqualifications
• § 2016— Issuance and use of program benefits
• § 2016a— EBT benefit fraud prevention
• § 2017— Value of allotment
• § 2018— Approval of retail food stores and wholesale food concerns
• § 2019— Redemption of program benefits
• § 2020— Administration
• § 2021— Civil penalties and disqualification of retail food stores and wholesale food concerns
• § 2022— Disposition of claims
• § 2023— Administrative and judicial review; restoration of rights
• § 2024— Violations and enforcement
• § 2025— Administrative cost-sharing and quality control
• § 2026— Research, demonstration, and evaluations
• § 2026a— Healthy fluid milk incentives projects
• § 2027— Appropriations and allotments
• § 2028— Consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa
• § 2029— Workfare
• § 2031— Minnesota Family Investment Project
• § 2032— Automated data processing and information retrieval systems
• § 2034— Assistance for community food projects
• § 2035— Simplified supplemental nutrition assistance program
• § 2036— Availability of commodities for emergency food assistance program
• § 2036a— Nutrition education and obesity prevention grant program
• § 2036b— Retail food store and recipient trafficking
• § 2036c— Annual State report on verification of SNAP participation
• § 2036d— Pilot projects to encourage the use of public-private partnerships committed to addressing food insecurity
• § 2101— Congressional declaration of policy
• § 2102— Orders of Secretary to cotton handlers
• § 2103— Notice and hearing upon proposed orders
• § 2104— Finding and issuance of orders
• § 2105— Permissive terms and conditions in orders
• § 2106— Required terms and conditions in orders
• § 2107— Referenda
• § 2108— Suspension and termination of orders
• § 2109— Provisions applicable to amendments
• § 2110— Refund of producer assessments
• § 2111— Administrative review of orders; petition; hearing; judicial review
• § 2112— Enforcement of orders; penalty for willful violation
• § 2113— Certification of cotton producer organizations
• § 2114— Rules and regulations
• § 2115— Investigations by Secretary; subpenas; oaths and affirmations; judicial aid
• § 2116— Definitions
• § 2117— Separability
• § 2118— Authorization of appropriations
• § 2120— Cotton; investigation of new uses; cooperation with State and other agencies
• § 2121— Cotton ginning investigations; publication of results; cooperation with Federal and State departments and agencies
• § 2122— Authorization of appropriations for cotton ginning studies
• § 2131— Congressional statement of policy
• § 2132— Definitions
• § 2133— Licensing of dealers and exhibitors
• § 2134— Valid license for dealers and exhibitors required
• § 2135— Time period for disposal of dogs or cats by dealers or exhibitors
• § 2136— Registration of research facilities, handlers, carriers and unlicensed exhibitors
• § 2137— Purchase of dogs or cats by research facilities prohibited except from authorized operators of auction sales and licensed dealers or exhibitors
• § 2138— Purchase of dogs or cats by United States Government facilities prohibited except from authorized operators of auction sales and licensed dealers or exhibitors
• § 2139— Principal-agent relationship established
• § 2140— Recordkeeping by dealers, exhibitors, research facilities, intermediate handlers, and carriers
• § 2141— Marking and identification of animals
• § 2142— Humane standards and recordkeeping requirements at auction sales
• § 2143— Standards and certification process for humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation of animals
• § 2144— Humane standards for animals by United States Government facilities
• § 2145— Consultation and cooperation with Federal, State, and local governmental bodies by Secretary of Agriculture
• § 2146— Administration and enforcement by Secretary
• § 2146a— Searchable database requirements
• § 2147— Inspection by legally constituted law enforcement agencies
• § 2148— Importation of live dogs
• § 2149— Violations by licensees
• § 2151— Rules and regulations
• § 2152— Separability
• § 2153— Fees and authorization of appropriations
• § 2154— Effective dates
• § 2156— Animal fighting venture prohibition
• § 2157— Release of trade secrets
• § 2158— Protection of pets
• § 2159— Authority to apply for injunctions
• § 2160— Prohibition on slaughter of dogs and cats for human consumption
• § 2201— Establishment of Department
• § 2202— Executive Department; Secretary
• § 2203— Seal
• § 2204— General duties of Secretary; advisory functions; research and development
• § 2204–1— Delegation of regulatory functions of Secretary of Agriculture; definitions
• § 2204–2— Delegation of regulatory functions to designated employees; status of employees; number; revocation of delegation
• § 2204–3— Authority of designated employees; retroactive revocation of delegation
• § 2204–4— Delegation of functions under other laws as unaffected
• § 2204–5— Authorization of appropriations for cooperative research projects
• § 2204a— Rural development; utilization of non-Federal offices; location of field units; interchange of personnel and facilities
• § 2204b— Rural development policy
• § 2204b–1— Rural development
• § 2204b–2— Temporary prioritization of rural health assistance
• § 2204b–3— Council on Rural Community Innovation and Economic Development
• § 2204b–4— Institute for Rural Partnerships
• § 2204c— Water management for rural areas
• § 2204d— Encouragement of private contracting
• § 2204e— Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis
• § 2204g— Authority of Secretary of Agriculture to conduct census of agriculture
• § 2204h— Local food production and program evaluation
• § 2204i— Reports on land access and farmland ownership data collection
• § 2204j— National agriculture imagery program
• § 2205— Duties of former Commissioner of Agriculture transferred to Secretary
• § 2206— Custody of property and records
• § 2206a— Conveyance of excess Federal personal property
• § 2206b— Availability of excess and surplus computers in rural areas
• § 2207— Reports
• § 2207a— Reports to Congress on obligation and expenditure
• § 2207b— Program metrics
• § 2207c— Annual report on work of agricultural experiment stations and of college extension work; publication and distribution
• § 2207d— Reports on disbursement of funds for agricultural research and extension at 1862 and 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University
• § 2208— Expenditure of appropriations; accounting
• § 2208a— Loan levels provided to Department of Agriculture
• § 2209— Additional statement of expenditures
• § 2209a— Advances to chiefs of field parties
• § 2209b— Availability of appropriations
• § 2209c— Use of funds for one-year contracts to be performed in two fiscal years
• § 2209d— Statement of percentage and dollar amount of Federal funding
• § 2209e— Prohibition on payments to parties involved with prohibited drug-producing plants
• § 2209f— Restriction on commodity purchase program payments
• § 2209g— Availability of funds for uniforms or allowances
• § 2209h— Reimbursement of Office of the General Counsel
• § 2209i— Funding for preparation of final agency decisions regarding discrimination complaints
• § 2209j— Permanent debarment from participation in Department of Agriculture programs for fraud
• § 2209k— Prohibition on payments to fossil fuel refiners and importers
• § 2210— Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; appointment
• § 2211— Powers and duties of Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
• § 2214— General Counsel; appointment
• § 2215— Chief clerk
• § 2217— Oaths, affirmations, and affidavits taken by officers, agents, or employees of Department; use and effect
• § 2217a— Power to administer oaths, examine witnesses, or require production of books, etc.
• § 2218— Fee for administering or taking oaths, affirmations, and affidavits
• § 2219— Salaries; how paid
• § 2219a— Overtime and holiday pay
• § 2220— Certain officials and employees of Department and others not subject to restriction on payment of compensation to Government officials and employees
• § 2221— Details of persons from or to office of Secretary
• § 2222— Details of law clerks
• § 2223— Details of employees from and to library and bureaus and offices
• § 2224— Details of employees from and to Division of Accounts and Disbursements and bureaus and offices; traveling expenses
• § 2224a— Utilization of employees of agencies for part-time and intermittent assistance to other agencies; exclusion of overtime resulting from natural disasters from staff year ceilings
• § 2225— Employment of temporary personnel
• § 2225a— Contracts for consulting services
• § 2225b— Personal service contracts for veterinarians
• § 2225c— Employment contracts for services abroad
• § 2225d— Availability of Department of Agriculture funds for temporary employment
• § 2226— Employment of persons for forest fire fighting, pest control, and handling of animals
• § 2227— Traveling expenses
• § 2228— Emergency subsistence for employees
• § 2229— Travel and per diem expenses of temporary or seasonal employees
• § 2230— Employees in Alaska; subsistence, equipment, and supplies
• § 2231— Official expenses of employees stationed abroad
• § 2231a— Reimbursement of employees for costs of State licenses and certification fees
• § 2231b— First amendment rights of employees of the United States Department of Agriculture
• § 2232— Stenographic reporting service
• § 2233— Funds available for expenses of advisory committees
• § 2234— Purchases for bureaus from appropriations for contingent expenses
• § 2235— Working capital fund established; use of central services by bureaus, etc., of the Department
• § 2235a— Deposit and retention of credit card refunds or rebates
• § 2236— Working capital fund for Agricultural Research Center; establishment
• § 2237— Use of field work funds for employment of men with equipment, etc.
• § 2238— Use of field work funds for purchase of arms and ammunition
• § 2239— Funds for printing, binding, and scientific and technical article reprint purchases
• § 2240— Reimbursement of appropriation for salaries and compensation of employees in mechanical shops
• § 2241— Sale or exchange of animals or animal products
• § 2241a— Exchange or sale authority
• § 2241b— Purchase of seeds and plants for distribution
• § 2242a— User fees for reports, publications, and software
• § 2242b— Translation of publications into foreign languages
• § 2243— Sale of photographic prints and maps
• § 2245— Sale of prints and lantern slides
• § 2246— Loan, rental, or sale of films
• § 2247— Sale of samples of pure sugars
• § 2247a— Farm or food products; sale of samples, practical forms, etc.
• § 2248— Statistics relating to turpentine and rosin
• § 2249— Amount and character of cooperation
• § 2250— Construction and repair of buildings and public improvements
• § 2250a— Erection of buildings and other structures on non-Federal lands; duration of use of such lands; removal of structures after termination of use; availability of funds for expenses of acquiring long-term leases or other agreements
• § 2250b— Nonrecurring expenses fund
• § 2251— Reimbursement of Production and Marketing Administration appropriations for expenses of maintaining registers of indebtedness and making set-offs
• § 2252— Reimbursement of Production and Marketing Administration appropriations for costs of procuring agricultural commodities for nongovernmental agencies or foreign governments
• § 2253— Adjustment by Secretary of titles to lands acquired by Government and subject to his control
• § 2254— Operation, maintenance and purchase of aircraft by Agricultural Research Service; construction and repair of buildings
• § 2254a— Availability of funds appropriated for Agricultural Research Service for research related to tobacco or tobacco products
• § 2254b— Availability of funds appropriated for Agricultural Research Service for research related to tobacco or tobacco products; exception
• § 2254c— Research
• § 2255— Membership in International Wheat Advisory Committee, International Sugar Council, etc.
• § 2255a— Financial assistance to national and international conferences
• § 2255b— Department of Agriculture conference transparency
• § 2256— Inspections, analyses, and tests for other Government departments and agencies; reimbursement
• § 2257— Interchangeability of funds for miscellaneous expenses and general expenses
• § 2258— Purchase of newspapers
• § 2259— Market-inspection certificates as prima facie evidence
• § 2261— Credit of donations and proceeds from exhibitions to appropriations concerned with foreign market development programs
• § 2262— Employee liability insurance on motor vehicles in foreign countries
• § 2262a— Overseas tort claims
• § 2263— Transfer of funds
• § 2264— National Agricultural Library; acceptance of gifts, bequests, or devises; conditional gifts
• § 2265— Deposit of money accepted for benefit of National Agricultural Library; disbursement
• § 2266— Congressional reaffirmation of policy to foster and encourage family farms
• § 2266a— Century Farms program
• § 2266b— Eligibility for operators on heirs property land to obtain a farm number
• § 2268— Public lands; relinquishment
• § 2268a— Acquisition of land; options
• § 2269— Gifts of property; acceptance and administration by Secretary of Agriculture; Federal tax law consideration; separate fund in Treasury; regulations
• § 2270— Authority of Office of Inspector General
• § 2270a— Office of Inspector General; transfer of forfeiture funds for law enforcement activities
• § 2270b— Department of Agriculture Inspector General investigation of Forest Service firefighter deaths
• § 2270c— Submission of results
• § 2271— Marketing education programs for small and medium size family farm operations
• § 2271a— Advanced marketing training for farmers and ranchers
• § 2272— Volunteers for Department of Agriculture programs
• § 2272a— Funds for incidental expenses and promotional items relating to volunteers
• § 2273— Local search and rescue operations
• § 2274— Firearm authority of employees engaged in animal quarantine enforcement
• § 2274a— Firearm authority of employees conducting field work in remote locations
• § 2276— Confidentiality of information
• § 2277— Contracts by Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for services to be performed abroad
• § 2278— Consistency with international obligations of United States
• § 2279— Farming opportunities training and outreach
• § 2279–1— Transparency and accountability for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers
• § 2279–2— Report of civil rights complaints, resolutions, and actions
• § 2279a— Fair and equitable treatment of socially disadvantaged producers
• § 2279b— Department of Agriculture educational, training, and professional development activities
• § 2279c— Student internship programs
• § 2279d— Compensatory damages in claims under Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• § 2279e— Civil penalty
• § 2279f— Subpoena authority
• § 2279g— Marketing services; cooperative agreements
• § 2279h— Cross-servicing activities of National Finance Center
• § 2279i— Cooperation with State and other agencies; expenditures
• § 2279j— Conversion authority
• § 2279k— Authorization of protection operations for the Secretary of Agriculture and others
• § 2279l— National Detector Dog Training Center
• § 2281— Congressional declaration of purpose
• § 2282— Definitions
• § 2283— Membership on advisory committees
• § 2285— Budget prohibitions
• § 2286— Termination of committees
• § 2301— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 2302— Definitions
• § 2303— Prohibited practices
• § 2304— Disclaimer of intention to prohibit normal dealing
• § 2305— Enforcement provisions
• § 2306— Separability
• § 2321— Establishment
• § 2322— Seal
• § 2323— Organization
• § 2324— Restrictions on employees as to interest in plant variety protection
• § 2326— Regulations
• § 2327— Plant Variety Protection Board
• § 2328— Library
• § 2329— Register of protected plant varieties
• § 2330— Publications
• § 2331— Copies for public libraries
• § 2351— Day for taking action falling on Saturday, Sunday, or holiday
• § 2352— Form of papers filed
• § 2353— Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office cases
• § 2354— Subpoenas; witnesses
• § 2355— Effect of defective execution
• § 2356— Regulations for practice before the Office
• § 2357— Unauthorized practice
• § 2371— Plant variety protection fees
• § 2372— Payment of plant variety protection fees; return of excess amounts
• § 2401— Definitions and rules of construction
• § 2402— Right to plant variety protection; plant varieties protectable
• § 2403— Reciprocity limits
• § 2404— Public interest in wide usage
• § 2421— Application for recognition of plant variety rights
• § 2422— Content of application
• § 2423— Joint breeders
• § 2424— Death or incapacity of breeder
• § 2425— Benefit of earlier filing date
• § 2426— Confidential status of application
• § 2427— Publication
• § 2441— Examination of application
• § 2442— Notice of refusal; reconsideration
• § 2443— Initial appeal
• § 2461— Appeals
• § 2462— Civil action against Secretary
• § 2481— Plant variety protection
• § 2482— How issued
• § 2483— Contents and term of plant variety protection
• § 2484— Correction of Plant Variety Protection Office mistake
• § 2485— Correction of applicant’s mistake
• § 2486— Correction of named breeder
• § 2501— Reexamination after issue
• § 2504— Interfering plant variety protection
• § 2531— Ownership and assignment
• § 2532— Ownership during testing
• § 2541— Infringement of plant variety protection
• § 2542— Grandfather clause
• § 2543— Right to save seed; crop exemption
• § 2544— Research exemption
• § 2545— Intermediary exemption
• § 2561— Remedy for infringement of plant variety protection
• § 2562— Presumption of validity; defenses
• § 2563— Injunction
• § 2564— Damages
• § 2565— Attorney fees
• § 2566— Time limitation on damages
• § 2567— Limitation of damages; marking and notice
• § 2568— False marking; cease and desist orders
• § 2569— Nonresident proprietors; service and notice
• § 2570— Liability of States, instrumentalities of States, and State officials for infringement of plant variety protection
• § 2581— Intent
• § 2582— Severability
• § 2611— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 2612— Definitions
• § 2613— Authority for issuance and amendment of plan
• § 2614— Notice and hearings
• § 2615— Finding and issuance of plan
• § 2616— Regulations
• § 2617— Required terms and conditions of plans
• § 2618— Permissive terms and conditions of plans
• § 2619— Assessments
• § 2620— Procedural rights of persons subject to plan
• § 2621— Enforcement
• § 2622— Investigations
• § 2623— Referendum
• § 2624— Suspension or termination of plans
• § 2625— Amendment procedure
• § 2626— Separability
• § 2627— Authorization
• § 2655— Rural firefighters and emergency medical service assistance program
• § 2661— Statement of purposes and goals
• § 2662— Programs authorized
• § 2663— Funding
• § 2664— Cooperating colleges and universities
• § 2665— Withholding funds
• § 2666— Definitions
• § 2667— Regulations
• § 2669— Pilot projects for production and marketing of industrial hydrocarbons and alcohols from agricultural commodities and forest products
• § 2671— Establishment of technical assistance program
• § 2701— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 2702— Definitions
• § 2703— Orders of Secretary to egg producers, etc.
• § 2704— Notice and hearing upon proposed orders
• § 2705— Findings and issuance of orders
• § 2706— Permissive terms and conditions in orders
• § 2707— Required terms and conditions in orders
• § 2708— Referendum among egg producers
• § 2709— Termination or suspension of orders
• § 2710— Applicability of provisions to amendments to orders
• § 2711— Exempted egg producers and breeding hen flocks; conditions and procedures
• § 2712— Refund of assessment from Egg Board
• § 2713— Administrative review of orders; petition; hearing; judicial review
• § 2714— Civil enforcement proceedings
• § 2715— Certification of organizations; required contents of report as criteria
• § 2716— Regulations
• § 2717— Investigations by Secretary; oaths and affirmations; subpenas; judicial enforcement; contempt proceedings; service of process
• § 2718— Authorization of appropriations
• § 2814— Management of undesirable plants on Federal lands
• § 2901— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 2902— Definitions
• § 2903— Issuance of orders
• § 2904— Required terms in orders
• § 2905— Certification of organizations to nominate
• § 2906— Requirement of referendum
• § 2907— Refunds
• § 2908— Enforcement
• § 2909— Investigations by Secretary; oaths and affirmations; subpenas; judicial enforcement; contempt proceedings; service of process
• § 2910— Preemption of other Federal and State programs; applicability of provisions to amendments to orders
• § 2911— Authorization of appropriations
• § 3001— Congressional statement of purpose
• § 3002— Definitions
• § 3003— Survey
• § 3004— Direct marketing assistance within the States
• § 3007— Seniors farmers’ market nutrition program
• § 3101— Purposes of agricultural research, extension, and education
• § 3102— Additional purposes of agricultural research and extension
• § 3103— Definitions
• § 3104— Agriculture research; declaration of policy; duties of Secretary of Agriculture; use of existing facilities
• § 3105— Agricultural research; authorization of additional appropriations; administrative expenses; availability of special research fund
• § 3121— Responsibilities of Secretary and Department of Agriculture
• § 3123— National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board
• § 3123a— Specialty crop committee
• § 3124— Existing research programs
• § 3124a— Federal-State partnership and coordination
• § 3125— Annual report of Secretary of Agriculture to President and Congress
• § 3125a— National Agricultural Library
• § 3125a–1— Agricultural and food law research, legal tools, and information
• § 3125b— National Rural Information Center Clearinghouse
• § 3126— Libraries and information network
• § 3127— Support for Advisory Board
• § 3128— General provisions
• § 3129— Accountability
• § 3129a— Exemption from chapter 10 of title 5 for competitive research, extension, and education programs
• § 3151— Grants to enhance research capacity in schools of veterinary medicine
• § 3151a— Veterinary medicine loan repayment
• § 3151b— Veterinary services grant program
• § 3152— Grants and fellowships for food and agricultural sciences education
• § 3153— National Agricultural Science Award
• § 3155— Agricultural and food policy research centers
• § 3156— Education grants to Alaska Native serving institutions and Native Hawaiian serving institutions
• § 3157— Competitive, special, and facilities research grants
• § 3158— Next generation agriculture technology challenge
• § 3159— Land-grant designation
• § 3171— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 3172— Duties of Secretary of Agriculture
• § 3173— Research by Department of Agriculture
• § 3175— Nutrition education program
• § 3175a— Nutrition and consumer education; Congressional findings
• § 3175b— Expansion of effective food, nutrition, and consumer education services
• § 3175c— Program of food, nutrition, and consumer education by State cooperative extension services
• § 3175d— Administration of program of food, nutrition, and consumer education by State cooperative extension services
• § 3175e— Authorization of appropriations
• § 3178— Nutritional status monitoring
• § 3178a— Nutrition monitoring
• § 3179— Research on strategies to promote the selection and consumption of healthy foods
• § 3191— Purposes and findings relating to animal health and disease research
• § 3192— Definitions
• § 3193— Authorization to Secretary of Agriculture
• § 3195— Continuing animal health and disease, food security, and stewardship research, education, and extension programs
• § 3196— Research on national and regional animal health or disease problems
• § 3197— Availability of appropriated funds
• § 3198— Withholding of appropriated funds
• § 3199— Requirements for use of funds
• § 3200— Matching funds
• § 3201— Funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to other provisions of law
• § 3202— Research and education grants for the study of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
• § 3221— Extension at 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University
• § 3222— Agricultural research at 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University
• § 3222a— Scholarships for students at 1890 Institutions
• § 3222b— Grants to upgrade agricultural and food sciences facilities at 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University
• § 3222b–1— Grants to upgrade agriculture and food sciences facilities at the District of Columbia land-grant university
• § 3222b–2— Grants to upgrade agriculture and food sciences facilities and equipment and support tropical and subtropical agricultural research at insular area land-grant colleges and universities
• § 3222d— Matching funds requirement for research and extension activities at eligible institutions
• § 3222e— New beginning for tribal students
• § 3223— Grants for acquisition and improvement of research facilities and equipment
• § 3241— Education grants programs for Hispanic-serving institutions
• § 3243— Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities
• § 3291— International agricultural research, extension, and teaching
• § 3292— Partnerships to build capacity in international agricultural research, extension, and teaching
• § 3292a— United States-Mexico joint agricultural research
• § 3292b— Competitive grants for international agricultural science and education programs
• § 3293— Agricultural fellowship program for middle income countries, emerging democracies, and emerging markets
• § 3294— Center For North American Studies
• § 3295— International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program
• § 3310— Limitation on indirect costs for agricultural research, education, and extension programs
• § 3310a— Research equipment grants
• § 3311— Authorization of appropriations
• § 3312— Authorization of appropriations for extension education
• § 3313— Payment of funds
• § 3315— Auditing, reporting, bookkeeping, and administrative requirements
• § 3315a— Availability of competitive grant funds
• § 3316— Rules and regulations
• § 3317— Program evaluation studies
• § 3318— Contract, grant, and cooperative agreement authorities
• § 3318a— Cooperative research projects; agreements with and receipt of funds from State and other agencies
• § 3319— Restriction on treatment of indirect costs and tuition remission
• § 3319a— Cost-reimbursable agreements
• § 3319b— Joint requests for proposals
• § 3319d— Supplemental and alternative crops
• § 3319e— New Era Rural Technology Program
• § 3319g— Fees
• § 3319h— Funds for research facilities
• § 3319i— Capacity building grants for NLGCA Institutions
• § 3319j— Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program
• § 3319k— Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority pilot
• § 3321— Statement of purpose
• § 3322— Assistance programs
• § 3324— Authorization of appropriations
• § 3331— Congressional statement of purpose
• § 3332— Program; development, purposes, scope, etc.
• § 3333— Rangeland research grants
• § 3336— Authorization of appropriations; allocation of funds
• § 3351— Special authorization for biosecurity planning and response
• § 3352— Agriculture research facility expansion and security upgrades
• § 3353— Agricultural biosecurity
• § 3354— Agricultural bioterrorism research and development
• § 3361— Definition
• § 3362— Distance education grants for insular areas
• § 3363— Resident instruction grants for insular areas
• § 3401— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 3402— Definitions
• § 3403— Issuance of orders
• § 3404— Permissive terms and conditions of orders
• § 3405— Wheat Industry Council
• § 3406— Exemption for retail bakers
• § 3407— Referendum
• § 3408— Refund of processed wheat assessment
• § 3409— Petition and review
• § 3410— Enforcement of orders and regulations
• § 3411— Suspension and termination of orders
• § 3412— Investigations; power to subpena and take oaths and affirmations; aid of courts
• § 3413— Certification of organizations
• § 3414— Other programs relating to wheat or wheat food research or nutrition education
• § 3415— Regulations
• § 3416— Amendments to orders
• § 3417— Authorization of appropriations
• § 3501— Reporting requirements
• § 3502— Civil penalty
• § 3503— Investigative actions
• § 3505— Reports to the States
• § 3506— Public inspection
• § 3507— Regulations
• § 3508— Definitions
• § 3601— Definitions
• § 3602— Implementation of Agreement
• § 3603— Delegation of powers and duties
• § 3604— Criminal offenses
• § 3701— Congressional findings and declarations
• § 3702— Definitions
• § 3703— State and regional plans
• § 3801— Congressional findings and declaration of purpose
• § 3802— Definitions
• § 3803— Prohibition of certain garbage feeding; exemption
• § 3804— Permits to operate garbage treatment facility
• § 3805— Civil penalties
• § 3806— Criminal penalties
• § 3807— General enforcement provisions
• § 3808— Cooperation with States
• § 3809— Primary enforcement responsibility
• § 3811— Issuance of regulations; maintenance of rec­ords
• § 3812— Authority in addition to other laws; effect on State laws
• § 3813— Authorization of appropriations
• § 3901— Congressional findings
• § 3902— Research program on cancer in animals and birds
• § 3903— Annual program review to achieve coordination with National Cancer Institute program
• § 3904— Authorization of appropriations; restriction
• § 4001— Trade suspension reserves
• § 4002— Alcohol processor grain reserve program
• § 4003— Study of potential for expansion of United States agricultural export markets; report to President and Congress
• § 4004— Food bank special nutrition projects
• § 4004a— Applicability of supplemental nutrition assistance requirements
• § 4005— “Fuel conversion price” defined
• § 4201— General provisions
• § 4202— Identifying effects of Federal programs on conversion of farmland to nonagricultural uses
• § 4203— Existing policies and procedures; review, etc.
• § 4204— Technical assistance
• § 4205— Farmland resource information
• § 4206— Grants, contracts, etc., authority
• § 4207— Reporting requirement
• § 4208— Limitations
• § 4209— Prohibition on maintenance of actions
• § 4301— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 4302— Definitions
• § 4303— Floral research and promotion orders
• § 4304— Notice and hearing
• § 4305— Finding and issuance of orders
• § 4306— Required terms in orders
• § 4307— Permissive terms in orders
• § 4308— Referendum; necessity, etc.
• § 4309— Suspension and termination of orders
• § 4310— Amendments to orders
• § 4311— Exemption from assessments
• § 4312— Refund of assessments
• § 4313— Administrative and judicial review; procedures applicable
• § 4314— Enforcement of provisions
• § 4315— Certification of organizations; applicable criteria and considerations
• § 4316— Regulations
• § 4317— Investigations; subpena powers, etc.; enforcement
• § 4318— Separability
• § 4319— Authorization of appropriations
• § 4401— Congressional findings and declaration of purpose
• § 4402— Definitions
• § 4403— Duties of Secretary of Agriculture
• § 4404— Duties of Secretary of State
• § 4405— Fees and charges
• § 4406— Authorization of appropriations
• § 4501— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 4502— Definitions
• § 4503— Issuance of orders
• § 4504— Required terms in orders
• § 4505— Certification of organizations
• § 4506— Requirement of referendum
• § 4507— Suspension and termination of orders
• § 4508— Cooperative association representation
• § 4509— Petition and review
• § 4510— Enforcement
• § 4511— Investigations; power to subpena and take oaths and affirmations; aid of courts
• § 4512— Administrative provisions
• § 4513— Authorization of appropriations
• § 4514— Dairy reports
• § 4531— Definitions
• § 4532— Establishment of National Dairy Research Endowment Institute
• § 4533— Issuance of order
• § 4534— Required terms of order; agreements under order; records
• § 4535— Petition and review; enforcement; investigations
• § 4536— Dairy Research Trust Fund
• § 4537— Termination of order, Institute, and Fund
• § 4538— Additional authority
• § 4551— Indemnity payments to dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy products; milk removed for its residue of chemical or toxic substances; nuclear radiation or fallout contaminants; other legal recourse
• § 4552— Authorization of appropriations for dairy farmer indemnities
• § 4553— Expiration of dairy farmer indemnity program
• § 4601— Findings and purposes
• § 4602— Definitions
• § 4603— Honey research, promotion, and consumer information order
• § 4604— Notice and hearing
• § 4605— Findings and issuance of order
• § 4606— Required terms of order
• § 4607— Permissive terms and provisions
• § 4608— Collection of assessments; refunds
• § 4609— Petition and review
• § 4610— Enforcement
• § 4610a— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 4611— Requirements of referendum
• § 4612— Termination or suspension
• § 4613— Implementation of amendments made by Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998
• § 4801— Congressional findings and declaration of purpose
• § 4802— Definitions
• § 4803— Pork and pork product orders
• § 4804— Notice and hearing
• § 4805— Findings and issuance of orders
• § 4806— National Pork Producers Delegate Body
• § 4807— Selection of Delegate Body
• § 4808— National Pork Board
• § 4809— Assessments
• § 4810— Permissive provisions
• § 4811— Referendum
• § 4812— Suspension and termination of orders
• § 4813— Refunds
• § 4814— Petition and review
• § 4815— Enforcement
• § 4816— Investigations
• § 4817— Preemption
• § 4818— Administrative provision
• § 4819— Authorization of appropriations
• § 4901— Congressional findings and declaration of policy
• § 4902— Definitions
• § 4903— Issuance of plans
• § 4904— Notice and hearings
• § 4905— Regulations
• § 4906— Required terms in plans
• § 4907— Permissive terms in plans
• § 4908— Assessment procedures
• § 4909— Petition and review
• § 4910— Enforcement
• § 4911— Investigation and power to subpoena
• § 4912— Requirement of referendum
• § 4913— Suspension or termination of plans
• § 4914— Amendment procedure
• § 4915— Separability
• § 4916— Authorization of appropriations
• § 5101— Qualifying States
• § 5102— Matching grants to States
• § 5103— Participation of Federal agencies
• § 5104— Regulations
• § 5105— Report
• § 5106— Authorization of appropriations
• § 5201— Findings
• § 5202— Policy
• § 5203— Purpose
• § 5213— Joint development assistance agreements with certain trading partners
• § 5214— Reorganization evaluation
• § 5234— Cooperator organizations
• § 5235— Authorization of additional appropriations
• § 5301— Congressional statement of purposes
• § 5302— Definitions
• § 5311— Establishment of coordinated program
• § 5311a— Joint nutrition monitoring and related research activities
• § 5312— Functions of Secretaries
• § 5313— Development of comprehensive plan for National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program
• § 5314— Implementation of comprehensive plan
• § 5315— Scientific research and development in support of coordinated program and comprehensive plan
• § 5316— Annual budget submission
• § 5331— Structure of Council
• § 5332— Functions of Council
• § 5341— Establishment of dietary guidelines
• § 5342— Nutrition training report
• § 5401— Establishment of Agricultural Council on Environmental Quality
• § 5402— Office of Agricultural Environmental Quality
• § 5403— Environmental Quality Policy Statement
• § 5404— Good Neighbor Environmental Board
• § 5405— Agricultural air quality research oversight
• § 5506— Water policy with respect to agrichemicals
• § 5601— Purpose
• § 5602— Definitions
• § 5603— Agricultural export promotion strategy
• § 5603a— Global market strategy
• § 5604— Preservation of traditional markets
• § 5605— Independence of authorities
• § 5606— Implementation of commitments under Uruguay Round Agreements
• § 5607— Exporter assistance initiative
• § 5608— Foreign trade missions
• § 5621— Direct credit sales program
• § 5622— Export credit guarantee program
• § 5623— Agricultural trade promotion and facilitation
• § 5623a— Supplemental agricultural trade promotion program
• § 5624— Barter of agricultural commodities
• § 5625— Combination of programs
• § 5641— Funding levels
• § 5652— Relief from unfair trade practices
• § 5653— Equitable treatment of high-value and value-added United States agricultural commodities
• § 5661— Program controls for export programs
• § 5662— Compliance provisions
• § 5663— Departmental administration system
• § 5671— Agricultural embargo protection
• § 5672— Development of plans to alleviate adverse impact of embargoes
• § 5673— Contracting authority to expand agricultural export markets
• § 5674— Trade consultations concerning imports
• § 5675— Technical assistance in trade negotiations
• § 5676— Limitation on use of certain export promotion programs
• § 5677— Trade compensation and assistance programs
• § 5678— Edward R. Madigan United States Agricultural Export Excellence Award
• § 5679— Biotechnology and agricultural trade program
• § 5692— Administrator of Foreign Agricultural Service
• § 5693— Duties of Foreign Agricultural Service
• § 5694— Staff of Foreign Agricultural Service
• § 5695— Authorization of appropriations
• § 5712— Export reporting and contract sanctity
• § 5801— Purpose and definitions
• § 5811— Research and extension projects
• § 5812— Program administration
• § 5813— Federal-State matching grant program
• § 5814— Authorization of appropriations
• § 5821— Integrated management systems
• § 5831— Technical guides and handbooks
• § 5832— National Training Program
• § 5841— Establishment, purpose, and functions of National Genetic Resources Program
• § 5842— Appointment and authority of Director
• § 5843— Advisory council
• § 5844— Definitions and authorization of appropriations
• § 5851— Short title and purposes
• § 5852— Agricultural Weather Office
• § 5854— State agricultural weather information systems
• § 5855— Funding
• § 5856— Improvements to United States Drought Monitor
• § 5921— Biotechnology risk assessment research
• § 5924— Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative
• § 5925— High-priority research and extension initiatives
• § 5925b— Organic agriculture research and extension initiative
• § 5925c— Organic production and market data initiatives
• § 5925d— International organic research collaboration
• § 5925f— Farm business management
• § 5925g— Urban, indoor, and other emerging agricultural production research, education, and extension initiative
• § 5926— Centers of excellence
• § 5930— Reservation extension agents
• § 5933— Assistive technology program for farmers with disabilities
• § 5936— Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network
• § 5936a— Support for farm stress programs
• § 5937— Natural products research program
• § 5939— Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
• § 5941— Purchase of cultures for soil and fertilizer investigations
• § 5942— Wheat and feed grains research; regional and national research programs; utilization of services of Federal, State and private agencies; authorization of appropriations
• § 5943— Rice research
• § 6001— Findings and declaration of policy
• § 6002— Definitions
• § 6003— Issuance of plans
• § 6004— Regulations
• § 6005— Required terms in plans
• § 6006— Permissive terms in plans
• § 6007— Assessments
• § 6008— Petition and review
• § 6009— Enforcement
• § 6010— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 6011— Requirement of referendum
• § 6012— Suspension or termination of plan
• § 6013— Authorization of appropriations
• § 6101— Findings and declaration of policy
• § 6102— Definitions
• § 6103— Issuance of orders
• § 6104— Required terms in orders
• § 6105— Referenda
• § 6106— Petition and review
• § 6107— Enforcement
• § 6108— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 6109— Savings provision
• § 6110— Suspension or termination of orders
• § 6111— Authorization of appropriations
• § 6112— Regulations
• § 6201— Findings, purposes, and limitations
• § 6202— Definitions
• § 6203— Issuance of orders
• § 6204— Required terms in orders
• § 6205— Permissive terms in orders
• § 6206— Petition and review
• § 6207— Enforcement
• § 6208— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 6209— Initial referendum
• § 6210— Suspension and termination
• § 6211— Authorization of appropriations
• § 6212— Regulations
• § 6301— Findings and declaration of policy
• § 6302— Definitions
• § 6303— Issuance and amendment of orders
• § 6304— Required terms in orders
• § 6305— Referenda
• § 6306— Petition and review
• § 6307— Enforcement
• § 6308— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 6309— Administrative provisions
• § 6310— Suspension or termination of orders
• § 6311— Authorization of appropriations; regulations
• § 6401— Findings and declaration of policy
• § 6402— Definitions
• § 6403— Authority to issue orders
• § 6404— Notice and comment
• § 6405— Findings and issuance of orders
• § 6406— Regulations
• § 6407— Required terms in orders
• § 6408— Permissive terms
• § 6409— Assessments
• § 6410— Petition and review
• § 6411— Enforcement
• § 6412— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 6413— Requirement of initial referendum
• § 6414— Suspension or termination of orders
• § 6415— Amendments
• § 6416— Independent evaluation of programs
• § 6417— Authorization of appropriations
• § 6501— Purposes
• § 6502— Definitions
• § 6503— National organic production program
• § 6504— National standards for organic production
• § 6505— Compliance requirements
• § 6506— General requirements
• § 6507— State organic certification program
• § 6508— Prohibited crop production practices and materials
• § 6509— Animal production practices and materials
• § 6510— Handling
• § 6511— Additional guidelines
• § 6512— Other production and handling practices
• § 6513— Organic plan
• § 6514— Accreditation program
• § 6515— Requirements of certifying agents
• § 6516— Peer review of certifying agents
• § 6517— National List
• § 6518— National Organic Standards Board
• § 6519— Recordkeeping, investigations, and enforcement
• § 6520— Administrative appeal
• § 6521— Administration
• § 6521a— Organic agricultural product imports interagency working group
• § 6522— Funding
• § 6523— National organic certification cost-share program
• § 6524— Organically produced food
• § 6601— Forestry rural revitalization
• § 6611— Findings and purposes
• § 6612— Definitions
• § 6613— Rural natural resources and economic diversification action teams
• § 6614— Action plan implementation
• § 6615— Training and education
• § 6616— Loans to economically disadvantaged rural communities
• § 6617— Authorization of appropriations and spending authority
• § 6701— Global Climate Change Program
• § 6702— Study of global climate change, agriculture, and forestry
• § 6704— Office of International Forestry
• § 6705— Line item
• § 6706— Institutes of Tropical Forestry
• § 6707— Urban forestry demonstration projects
• § 6709— Interagency cooperation to maximize biomass growth
• § 6710— Authorization of appropriations
• § 6711— Carbon cycle research
• § 6712— Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program
• § 6801— Findings and declaration of policy
• § 6802— Definitions
• § 6803— Issuance of orders
• § 6804— Required terms in orders
• § 6805— Exclusion; determinations
• § 6806— Referenda
• § 6807— Petition and review
• § 6808— Enforcement
• § 6809— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 6810— Confidentiality
• § 6811— Authority for Secretary to suspend or terminate order
• § 6812— Construction
• § 6813— Regulations
• § 6814— Authorization of appropriations
• § 6901— Purpose
• § 6902— Definitions
• § 6912— Authority of Secretary to delegate transferred functions
• § 6915— Combination of field offices
• § 6916— Improvement of information sharing
• § 6918— Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture
• § 6919— Military Veterans Agricultural Liaison
• § 6920— Office of Energy Policy and New Uses
• § 6921— Office of Tribal Relations
• § 6922— Office of Homeland Security
• § 6923— Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production
• § 6924— Food Loss and Waste Reduction Liaison
• § 6925— Food Access Liaison
• § 6931— Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Production and Conservation
• § 6932— Farm Service Agency
• § 6932a— Prohibition on closure or relocation of county offices for the Farm Service Agency
• § 6933— Office of Risk Management
• § 6934— Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement
• § 6934a— Beginning farmer and rancher coordination
• § 6934b— Agricultural Youth Organization Coordinator
• § 6936— Natural Resources Conservation Service
• § 6941— Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development
• § 6941a— Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas
• § 6942— Rural Utilities Service
• § 6943— Rural Housing and Community Development Service
• § 6944— Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service
• § 6945— Rural Development Disaster Assistance Fund
• § 6946— Rural Health Liaison
• § 6951— Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
• § 6952— Multiagency task force
• § 6953— Healthy food financing initiative
• § 6961— Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment
• § 6962a— Cooperative agreements
• § 6971— Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics
• § 6981— Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety
• § 6982— Conditions for implementation of alterations in the level of additives allowed in animal diets
• § 6991— Definitions
• § 6992— National Appeals Division and Director
• § 6993— Transfer of functions
• § 6994— Notice and opportunity for hearing
• § 6995— Informal hearings
• § 6996— Right of participants to Division hearing
• § 6997— Division hearings
• § 6998— Director review of determinations of hearing officers
• § 6999— Judicial review
• § 7000— Implementation of final determinations of Division
• § 7001— Conforming amendments relating to National Appeals Division
• § 7002— Authorization of appropriations
• § 7005— Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs
• § 7007— Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs
• § 7011— Successorship provisions relating to bargaining units and exclusive representatives
• § 7012— Purchase of American-made equipment and products
• § 7014— Termination of authority
• § 7031— Electronic filing and retrieval
• § 7032— Accessing information and filing over the Internet
• § 7033— Availability of agency information technology funds
• § 7034— Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and Risk Management Agency
• § 7035— Confidentiality
• § 7101— Findings and declaration of policy
• § 7102— Definitions
• § 7103— Issuance and amendment of orders
• § 7104— Required terms in orders
• § 7105— Referenda
• § 7106— Petition and review
• § 7107— Enforcement
• § 7108— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 7109— Administrative provisions
• § 7110— Regulations
• § 7111— Authorization of appropriations
• § 7201— Short title and purpose
• § 7202— Definitions
• § 7211— Authorization for use of production flexibility contracts
• § 7212— Elements of contracts
• § 7213— Amounts available for contract payments
• § 7214— Determination of contract payments under contracts
• § 7215— Applicability of payment limitations
• § 7216— Violations of contract
• § 7217— Transfer or change of interest in lands subject to contract
• § 7218— Planting flexibility
• § 7231— Availability of nonrecourse marketing assistance loans
• § 7232— Loan rates for marketing assistance loans
• § 7233— Term of loans
• § 7234— Repayment of loans
• § 7235— Loan deficiency payments
• § 7236— Special marketing loan provisions for upland cotton
• § 7236a— Special competitive provisions for extra long staple cotton
• § 7237— Availability of recourse loans for high moisture feed grains and seed cotton and other fibers
• § 7251— Milk price support program
• § 7253— Consolidation and reform of Federal milk marketing orders
• § 7254— Effect on fluid milk standards in State of California
• § 7255— Milk manufacturing marketing adjustment
• § 7256— Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact
• § 7257— Authority to assist in establishment and maintenance of one or more export trading companies
• § 7258— Standby authority to indicate entity best suited to provide international market development and export services
• § 7259— Study and report regarding potential impact of Uruguay Round on prices, income, and government purchases
• § 7272— Sugar program
• § 7281— Administration
• § 7282— Adjustments of loans
• § 7283— Commodity Credit Corporation interest rate
• § 7284— Personal liability of producers for deficiencies
• § 7285— Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions
• § 7286— Commodity certificates
• § 7287— Commodity Credit Corporation storage payments
• § 7301— Suspension and repeal of permanent price support authority
• § 7302— Effect of chapter
• § 7311— Establishment
• § 7312— Composition
• § 7313— Comprehensive review of past and future of production agriculture
• § 7314— Reports
• § 7315— Powers
• § 7316— Commission procedures
• § 7317— Personnel matters
• § 7318— Termination of Commission
• § 7331— Options pilot program
• § 7332— Risk management education
• § 7333— Administration and operation of noninsured crop assistance program
• § 7401— Commodity promotion and evaluation
• § 7411— Findings and purpose
• § 7412— Definitions
• § 7413— Issuance of orders
• § 7414— Required terms in orders
• § 7415— Permissive terms in orders
• § 7416— Assessments
• § 7416a— Confirmation of authority of Secretary of Agriculture to collect State commodity assessments
• § 7417— Referenda
• § 7418— Petition and review of orders
• § 7419— Enforcement
• § 7420— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 7421— Suspension or termination
• § 7422— Amendments to orders
• § 7423— Effect on other laws
• § 7424— Regulations
• § 7425— Authorization of appropriations
• § 7441— Findings and declaration of policy
• § 7442— Definitions
• § 7443— Issuance and amendment of orders
• § 7444— Required terms in orders
• § 7445— Assessments
• § 7446— Referenda
• § 7447— Petition and review
• § 7448— Enforcement
• § 7449— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 7450— Suspension or termination
• § 7451— Regulations
• § 7452— Authorization of appropriations
• § 7461— Findings and purposes
• § 7462— Definitions
• § 7463— Issuance of orders
• § 7464— National Kiwifruit Board
• § 7465— Required terms in order
• § 7466— Permissive terms in order
• § 7467— Petition and review
• § 7468— Enforcement
• § 7469— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 7470— Referenda
• § 7471— Suspension or termination
• § 7472— Regulations
• § 7473— Authorization of appropriations
• § 7481— Findings and declaration of policy
• § 7482— Definitions
• § 7483— Issuance of orders
• § 7484— Required terms in orders
• § 7485— Referenda
• § 7486— Petition and review
• § 7487— Enforcement
• § 7488— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 7489— Relation to other programs
• § 7490— Regulations
• § 7491— Authorization of appropriations
• § 7501— Definitions
• § 7502— Availability of CCC commodities
• § 7503— State plan
• § 7504— Initial processing costs
• § 7505— Federal and State responsibilities
• § 7506— Assurances; anticipated use
• § 7507— State and local supplementation of commodities
• § 7508— Authorization and appropriations
• § 7509— Relationship to other programs
• § 7510— Commodities not income
• § 7511— Prohibition against certain State charges
• § 7511a— Emergency food program infrastructure grants
• § 7512— Regulations
• § 7513— Finality of determinations
• § 7514— Incorporation of additional commodities
• § 7515— Allotment and delivery of commodities
• § 7516— Settlement and adjustment of claims
• § 7517— The Gus Schumacher nutrition incentive program
• § 7518— Micro-grants for food security
• § 7601— Definitions
• § 7611— Standards for Federal funding of agricultural research, extension, and education
• § 7612— Priority setting process
• § 7613— Relevance and merit of agricultural research, extension, and education funded by the Department
• § 7614— Definitions
• § 7614a— Roadmap
• § 7614b— Review of plan of work requirements
• § 7614c— Budget submission and funding
• § 7624— Biobased products
• § 7625— National Food Safety Training, Education, Extension, Outreach, and Technical Assistance Program
• § 7626— Integrated research, education, and extension competitive grants program
• § 7627— Coordinated program of research, extension, and education to improve viability of small and medium size dairy, livestock, and poultry operations
• § 7628— Support for research regarding diseases of wheat, triticale, and barley caused by Fusarium graminearum or by Tilletia indica
• § 7630— Grants for youth organizations
• § 7631— Agricultural biotechnology research and development for developing countries
• § 7632— Specialty crop research initiative
• § 7633— Food and agriculture service learning program
• § 7641— Patent Culture Collection fees
• § 7642— Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database program
• § 7643— Distribution of farmers’ bulletins
• § 7651— Nutrient composition data
• § 7652— Role of Secretary regarding food and agricultural sciences research and extension
• § 7653— Office of Pest Management Policy
• § 7654— Food Safety Research Information Office
• § 7655— Safe food handling education
• § 7655a— Food safety education initiatives
• § 7655b— Forestry products advanced utilization research
• § 7655c— Clarification of research and development program for wood building construction
• § 7655d— Wood innovation grant program
• § 7656— Designation of Crisis Management Team within Department
• § 7657— Senior Scientific Research Service
• § 7701— Findings
• § 7702— Definitions
• § 7711— Regulation of movement of plant pests
• § 7712— Regulation of movement of plants, plant products, biological control organisms, noxious weeds, articles, and means of conveyance
• § 7712a— Reduction in backlog of agricultural export petitions
• § 7713— Notification and holding requirements upon arrival
• § 7714— General remedial measures for new plant pests and noxious weeds
• § 7715— Declaration of extraordinary emergency and resulting authorities
• § 7716— Recovery of compensation for unauthorized activities
• § 7717— Control of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets
• § 7718— Certification for exports
• § 7719— Methyl bromide
• § 7720— National plan for control and management of Sudden Oak Death
• § 7721— Plant pest and disease management and disaster prevention
• § 7731— Inspections, seizures, and warrants
• § 7732— Collection of information
• § 7733— Subpoena authority
• § 7734— Penalties for violation
• § 7735— Enforcement actions of Attorney General
• § 7736— Court jurisdiction
• § 7751— Cooperation
• § 7752— Buildings, land, people, claims, and agreements
• § 7753— Reimbursable agreements
• § 7754— Regulations and orders
• § 7755— Protection for mail handlers
• § 7756— Preemption
• § 7757— Severability
• § 7758— Repeal of superseded laws
• § 7759— Fees for inspection of plants for exporting or transiting
• § 7760— State terminal inspection; transmission of mailed packages for State inspection; nonmailable matter; punishment for violations; rules and regulations by United States Postal Service
• § 7771— Authorization of appropriations
• § 7772— Transfer authority
• § 7781— Definitions
• § 7782— Establishment of program
• § 7783— Grants to weed management entities
• § 7784— Agreements
• § 7785— Relationship to other programs
• § 7786— Authorization of appropriations
• § 7801— Findings and declaration of policy
• § 7802— Definitions
• § 7803— Issuance of orders
• § 7804— Required terms in orders
• § 7805— Referenda
• § 7806— Petition and review
• § 7807— Enforcement
• § 7808— Investigations and power to subpoena
• § 7809— Confidentiality
• § 7810— Authority for Secretary to suspend or terminate order
• § 7811— Rules of construction
• § 7812— Regulations
• § 7813— Authorization of appropriations
• § 7901— Definitions
• § 7911— Establishment of base acres and payment acres for a farm
• § 7912— Establishment of payment yield
• § 7913— Availability of direct payments
• § 7914— Availability of counter-cyclical payments
• § 7915— Producer agreement required as condition of provision of direct payments and counter-cyclical payments
• § 7916— Planting flexibility
• § 7917— Relation to remaining payment authority under production flexibility contracts
• § 7918— Period of effectiveness
• § 7931— Availability of nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for loan commodities
• § 7932— Loan rates for nonrecourse marketing assistance loans
• § 7933— Term of loans
• § 7934— Repayment of loans
• § 7935— Loan deficiency payments
• § 7936— Payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments for grazed acreage
• § 7937— Special marketing loan provisions for upland cotton
• § 7938— Special competitive provisions for extra long staple cotton
• § 7939— Availability of recourse loans for high moisture feed grains and seed cotton
• § 7951— Definitions
• § 7952— Establishment of payment yield and base acres for peanuts for a farm
• § 7953— Availability of direct payments for peanuts
• § 7954— Availability of counter-cyclical payments for peanuts
• § 7955— Producer agreement required as condition on provision of direct payments and counter-cyclical payments
• § 7956— Planting flexibility
• § 7957— Marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments for peanuts
• § 7958— Miscellaneous provisions
• § 7959— Termination of marketing quota programs for peanuts and compensation to peanut quota holders for loss of quota asset value
• § 7960— Repeal of superseded price support authority and effect of repeal
• § 7971— Storage facility loans
• § 7981— Milk price support program
• § 7982— National dairy market loss payments
• § 7983— Study of national dairy policy
• § 7984— Studies of effects of changes in approach to national dairy policy and fluid milk identity standards
• § 7991— Administration generally
• § 7992— Suspension of permanent price support authority
• § 7994— Study
• § 7995— Assignment of payments
• § 7996— Equitable relief from ineligibility for loans, payments, or other benefits
• § 7997— Tracking of benefits
• § 7998— Estimates of net farm income
• § 7999— Availability of incentive payments for certain producers
• § 8001— Producer retention of erroneously paid loan deficiency payments and marketing loan gains
• § 8002— Implementation funding and information management
• § 8101— Definitions
• § 8102— Biobased markets program
• § 8103— Biorefinery, renewable chemical, and biobased product manufacturing assistance
• § 8105— Bioenergy program for advanced biofuels
• § 8106— Biodiesel fuel education program
• § 8107— Rural Energy for America Program
• § 8107a— Rural energy savings program
• § 8108— Biomass research and development
• § 8110— Feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers
• § 8111— Biomass Crop Assistance Program
• § 8113— Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program
• § 8114— Sun grant program
• § 8115— Carbon utilization and biogas education program
• § 8201— Definitions
• § 8202— Eligibility
• § 8203— Assistance
• § 8204— Limitations on assistance
• § 8205— Authorization of appropriations
• § 8301— Findings
• § 8302— Definitions
• § 8303— Restriction on importation or entry
• § 8304— Exportation
• § 8305— Interstate movement
• § 8306— Seizure, quarantine, and disposal
• § 8307— Inspections, seizures, and warrants
• § 8308— Detection, control, and eradication of diseases and pests
• § 8308a— Animal disease prevention and management
• § 8309— Veterinary accreditation program
• § 8310— Cooperation
• § 8311— Reimbursable agreements
• § 8312— Administration and claims
• § 8313— Penalties
• § 8314— Enforcement
• § 8315— Regulations and orders
• § 8316— Authorization of appropriations
• § 8317— Effect on regulations
• § 8318— Veterinary training
• § 8319— Surveillance of zoonotic diseases
• § 8320— Expansion of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service activities
• § 8321— Pest and Disease Response Fund
• § 8322— National aquatic animal health plan
• § 8351— Predatory and other wild animals
• § 8352— Authorization of expenditures for the eradication and control of predatory and other wild animals
• § 8353— Control of nuisance mammals and birds and those constituting reservoirs of zoonotic diseases; exception
• § 8354— Expenditures for cooperative agreements to lease aircraft
• § 8355— Losses of livestock due to depredation by federally protected species
• § 8356— Depredation permits for black vultures and common ravens; black vulture livestock protection program
• § 8401— Regulation of certain biological agents and toxins
• § 8411— Interagency coordination
• § 8501— Definitions
• § 8502— Sense of Congress regarding need for improved and better coordinated Federal policy for brown tree snake introduction, control, and eradication
• § 8503— Brown tree snake control, interdiction, research and eradication
• § 8504— Establishment of quarantine protocols to control the introduction and spread of the brown tree snake
• § 8505— Treatment of brown tree snakes as nonmailable matter
• § 8506— Role of brown tree snake Technical Working Group
• § 8507— Miscellaneous matters
• § 8701— Definition of Secretary
• § 8702— Definitions
• § 8711— Base acres
• § 8712— Payment yields
• § 8716— Producer agreement required as condition of provision of payments
• § 8717— Planting flexibility
• § 8718— Special rule for long grain and medium grain rice
• § 8719— Period of effectiveness
• § 8731— Availability of nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for loan commodities
• § 8732— Loan rates for nonrecourse marketing assistance loans
• § 8733— Term of loans
• § 8734— Repayment of loans
• § 8735— Loan deficiency payments
• § 8736— Payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments for grazed acreage
• § 8737— Special marketing loan provisions for upland cotton
• § 8738— Special competitive provisions for extra long staple cotton
• § 8739— Availability of recourse loans for high moisture feed grains and seed cotton
• § 8740— Adjustments of loans
• § 8751— Definitions
• § 8752— Base acres for peanuts for a farm
• § 8755— Producer agreement required as condition on provision of payments
• § 8756— Planting flexibility
• § 8757— Marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments for peanuts
• § 8758— Adjustments of loans
• § 8772— Dairy forward pricing program
• § 8781— Administration generally
• § 8782— Suspension of permanent price support authority
• § 8783— Availability of quality incentive payments for covered oilseed producers
• § 8784— Assignment of payments
• § 8785— Tracking of benefits
• § 8786— Prevention of deceased individuals receiving payments under farm commodity programs
• § 8787— Hard white wheat development program
• § 8788— Durum wheat quality program
• § 8789— Storage facility loans
• § 8790— Signature authority
• § 8791— Information gathering
• § 8792— Geographically disadvantaged farmers and ranchers
• § 8793— Implementation
• § 8901— Definitions
• § 8912— Agricultural biosecurity communication center
• § 8913— Assistance to build local capacity in agricultural biosecurity planning, preparedness, and response
• § 8914— Agriculture and food defense
• § 8921— Research and development of agricultural countermeasures
• § 8922— Agricultural biosecurity grant program
• § 9001— Definition of Secretary of Agriculture
• § 9011— Definitions
• § 9012— Base acres
• § 9013— Payment yields
• § 9014— Payment acres
• § 9015— Producer election
• § 9016— Price loss coverage
• § 9017— Agriculture risk coverage
• § 9018— Producer agreements
• § 9031— Availability of nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for loan commodities
• § 9032— Loan rates for nonrecourse marketing assistance loans
• § 9033— Term of loans
• § 9034— Repayment of loans
• § 9035— Loan deficiency payments
• § 9036— Payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments for grazed acreage
• § 9037— Special marketing loan provisions for upland cotton
• § 9038— Special competitive provisions for extra long staple cotton
• § 9039— Availability of recourse loans for high moisture feed grains and seed cotton
• § 9040— Adjustments of loans
• § 9051— Definitions
• § 9052— Calculation of average feed cost and actual dairy production margins
• § 9053— Dairy margin coverage
• § 9054— Participation of dairy operations in dairy margin coverage
• § 9055— Production history of participating dairy operations
• § 9056— Dairy margin coverage payments
• § 9057— Premiums for dairy margin coverage
• § 9058— Effect of failure to pay administrative fees or premiums
• § 9059— Duration
• § 9060— Administration and enforcement
• § 9071— Milk donation program
• § 9071a— Dairy donation program
• § 9081— Supplemental agricultural disaster assistance
• § 9091— Administration generally
• § 9092— Suspension of permanent price support authority
• § 9093— Prevention of deceased individuals receiving payments under farm commodity programs
• § 9094— Assignment of payments
• § 9095— Tracking of benefits
• § 9096— Signature authority
• § 9097— Implementation
• § 9201— Definitions
• § 9202— National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility
• § 9203— Evaluation and research plan
• § 9204— Availability of data and congressional briefings
• § 9205— Budget and report
• § 9206— Effect on other authorities