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United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1978
Designates the United States Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, as the "Carl Hayden Bee Research Center."
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, through grants made under contracts or other arrangements, to establish and operate, near the District of Columbia, an international agricultural trade center, in order to: (1) demonstrate the latest methods and technology, equipment, facilities, chemicals, and seeds being used in the United States to produce agricultural products; (2) exhibit the latest varieties of agricultural commodities and breeds of poultry and livestock being produced and raised in the United States; (3) provide a facility for holding international conferences on agricultural production and trade; and (4) improve and expand exportation of agricultural products and equipment, facilities, chemicals, and seeds used in producing such products. Authorizes the appropriation of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1978
Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 to authorize the use of value based or percentage tariffs by firms selling livestock on a commission basis.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1978
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to the two workfare pilot projects involving the performance of work in return for food stamp benefits in each of the seven administrative regions of the Food and Nutrition Service of the Department of Agriculture. Sets the deadline for an interim report on such projects at no later than October 1, 1979, and for a final report at no later than October 1, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to relinquish to a State all or part of the legislative jurisdiction of the United States over lands or interests under his control in that State.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1978
Declares it to be the sense of the House of Representatives that in any governmental reorganization, the Department of Agriculture should not be changed in any way that would diminish its ability to perform any of its vital functions.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1978
Sugar Act - Sets forth the policy of Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement 1977 - Authorizes the President to limit or prohibit the importation of sugar and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Import Adjustments - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine each July, the minimum domestic market price per pound for the coming sugar supply year (October 1 through September 30 of the two succeeding calender years). Establishes a minimum price of $13.50 cents per pound, raw sugar equivalent. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee to achieve the domestic market price objective. Requires the Secretary to recommend to the President quotas for the importation of sugar if necessary to achieve the domestic price objective. Exempts certain items from the fee and quota provisions. Title III: Sugar Payment Program - Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to make deficiency payments available to processors or producers of domestic sugarbeets and sugarcane each year through the 1982 sugar supply year. Specifies the formula that should be used. Conditions such payments on: (1) fair and reasonable wages for employees as determined by the Secretary of Labor; and (2) observance of specified restrictions concerning the employment of children under age 16. Title IV: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Grants jurisdiction to the U.S. district courts to enforce this Act. Specifies penalties for violations of this Act. Requires all persons engaged in the manufacturing, marketing, or transportation or industrial use of sugar to furnish the Secretary information on request. Prohibits investments or speculation in sugar by officials engaged in the administration of this Act. Directs the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act. Suspends certain price support provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949 for the 1977 and 1978 crops of sugarcane and sugarbeets. Terminates the Secretary's power under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1978
Makes supplemental appropriations of $57,145,000 for salaries and expenses of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture. Permits the transfer to and merger with this sum of $23,391,000 from the Commodity Credit Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1978
Consumer Beef-Grading Act - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a Task Force on Beef-Grading Standards, which shall make determinations and recommendations with respect to establishing new beef-grading standards to replace existing standards. Specifies nutritional, cost, consumer preference, health need, and other factors to be considered by the Task Force. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish new beef-grading standards within three months after receiving the Task Force's recommendations. Requires the Secretary to establish a consumer education program regarding the new standards, including the preparation of notices for display at retail stores.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1978
Meat and Poultry Inspection Consumer Protection Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to increase the fines and maximum prison terms for bribery of and assaults on Federal meat and poultry inspectors, and for other violations of the respective Acts. Subjects any person, firm, or corporation guilty of such violations to liability for a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each violation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1978
Prohibits the purchase of United States agricultural land by foreign persons, including individuals, organizations, and foreign governments, or any combination of such. Requires foreign persons currently holding interests in United States agricultural land to submit to the Secretary of Agriculture a report on such interests containing specified information as to the nature of the interests, the particular land involved, and the identity and home address of the foreign persons holding such interests. Establishes a civil penalty in the amount of 25 percent of the fair market value of such agricultural land for knowingly incomplete or false reports, or for failure to submit any report.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1978
Requires the General Accounting Office to conduct an annual audit of all records by any person pertaining to the amount of grain being stored by such person under any program carried out by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to review and consider such audit results in preparing any statistics regarding the actual or estimated quantity of grains in storage.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1978
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to two pilot projects involving the performance of work in return for food stamp benefits. Sets the deadline for an interim report on such projects at no later than October 1, 1979, and for a final report at no later than October 1, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1978
Requires that Congress be notified of proposed actions of the President affecting the importation of certain meats and certain agricultural commodities into the United States. Stipulates that under specified conditions if both Houses of Congress adopt a concurrent resolution opposing such Presidential actions, such actions shall not become effective.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Title I: Agriculture Programs - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1979 for programs of the Department of Agriculture, relating to production, processing and marketing and to farm income stabilization. Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1979 for programs of the Department of Agriculture relating to rural development assistance and to conservation. Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1979 for the Food and Nutrition Service programs of the Department of Agriculture. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1979 for the Foreign Agricultural Service and the Public Law 480 (Food for Peace) programs of the Department of Agriculture. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1979 for specified programs of the Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Farm Credit Administration. Title VI: General Provisions - States limitations and prohibitions on the use of appropriations for specified purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1978
Disapproves the suspension of the quota on imported meat and the President's announced intention of permitting the import this year of 200,000,000 pounds of meat in excess of the established limit before imposing new quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1978
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to compile and publish a report, to be revised every three years, containing specific recommendations for a railroad transportation system adequate to meet the essential needs of the agricultural industry of the United States. Requires annual reports to Congress regarding the capability of the Nation's transportation system (all forms of transportation) to meet such needs. Directs the Secretary to participate in all proceedings of any Federal agencies likely to make an impact on the agricultural industry of the United States or on rural development in order to foster the cause of an efficient and economical transportation system serving such interests.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1978
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to grant eligibility to receive food stamps to individuals who participate in psychiatric residential treatment programs conducted by a private nonprofit organization or institution approved licensed, or certified by the State, for meals prepared and served under such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Appropriates $6,488,000 for the Federal Grain Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1978
Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to repeal the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to determine rates and charges for stockyard services. Requires the authorized State department, agency, or association which is registered as a market agency to determine brand inspection fees.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1978
Humane Methods of Slaughter Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint inspectors to examine the method by which cattle sheep and other equines are slaughtered and handled in the Federal Meat Inspection Act. Provides that such inspectors shall prevent the inhumane slaughtering of livestock. Directs such inspectors to label, mark, stamp or tag as "inspected and condemned" all carcasses of animals which were not slaughtered by a humane method. Forbids the importation of meat into the United States unless the livestock from which it was produced was slaughtered by a humane method.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1978
Requires the President to direct the United States Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank, and the Executive Director representing the United States at the African Development Fund to consider the extent to which any loan, credit, or other utilization of the funds of such institutions is likely to have an adverse effect on industries, including agriculture, and employment in the United States, either by reducing demand for United States goods or by increasing imports. Requires the United States Executive Director of each such institution to request, and the United States International Trade Commission to furnish, a report assessing the impact of such loans or assistance on industries and employment in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1978
Economic Recovery Act - Title I: Production and Sale of Agricultural Commodities - Directs the National Board of Agricultural Governors (created by Title II of this Act) to establish, on a monthly basis for each agricultural commodity, a parity price and a comprehensive cost of production price, taking into account for the latter: (1) machinery ownership costs; (2) farm overhead costs; (3) a value for the management services contributed by the producer; (4) labor costs; and (5) a value for the land utilized. Directs the Board to establish for each commodity a national production goal based on estimated domestic and export requirements, and levels of production consistent with established agricultural conservation or soil management programs. Directs the Board to allocate acreage allotments or marketing quotas based upon the production history of each farm during three out of the five preceding calendar years. Limits such allocations to individual farmers and farmer-owned or controlled cooperatives and corporations. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans available to producers of Board-selected commodities. Requires the Board to establish a program to acquire reserve stocks of agricultural commodities. Directs the Board to establish quotas for each agricultural commodity imported into the United States. Establishes in the United States Treasury the Agricultural Export Fund for the deposit of any tariff revenues received from a foreign country in which an agricultural commodity was produced, for use in the purchase of any United States products. Prohibits the sale of any United States agricultural commodity for export at less than 100 percent of the established price. Requires the Board to conduct, upon petition, producer referendums on proposed regulations. Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to make it an unfair or deceptive trade practice for any person engaged in the retail sale of food to sell any food product without a sign at the point of sale stating the amount received by farmers for the agricultural commodities which were used to produce the food product involved. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to any producer who reduces, during 1978, by more than 50 percent either his normal crop acreage or the number of acres planted to any agricultural commodity (compared to 1977). Prescribes civil penalties for anyone who buys, sells, or trades any agricultural commodity at a price less than a specified percent (increasing from 85 percent in 1979 to 100 percent after 1981), or more than 110 percent, of the established price. Title II: National Board of Agricultural Governors - Establishes a National Board of Agricultural Governors composed of 57 members appointed by the President. Title III: General Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act and sets the effective date.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Soil Conservation Service, and the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to conduct investigations for water resource development projects within their respective jurisdictions. Requires the Secretaries for each detailed feasibility investigation undertaken to prepare a feasibility report to be submitted to Congress describing the water resource problems of the area with respect to national economic development, regional development, water resource conservation, environmental quality, and social well-being. Sets forth required contents to be included in feasibility reports. Provides for the reimbursement of the United States for water resource development projects planned under this Act according to a set percentage of the cost and the purpose of the project.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1978
Humane Methods of Slaughter Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint inspectors to examine the method by which cattle sheep and other equines are slaughtered and handled in the Federal Meat Inspection Act. Provides that such inspectors shall prevent the inhumane slaughtering of livestock. Directs such inspectors to label, mark, stamp or tag as "inspected and condemned" all carcasses of animals which were not slaughtered by a humane method. Forbids the importation of meat into the United States unless the livestock from which it was produced was slaughtered by a humane method.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1978
National Sweetener Act - Title I: The National Sweetener Advisory Board - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the National Sweetener Advisory Board which shall, each marketing year, make non-binding recommendations to the Secretary regarding sweetener marketing quotas. Title II: Marketing Quotas - Directs the Secretary to establish an overall quota for the marketing of sweetener products within the United States, subdivided into marketing quotas for domestic-source and for foreign-source sweetener products, and subdivided further, in the domestic-source category, into three individual quotas for products made from domestically grown sugar beets, sugarcane, and corn, respectively. Specifies the consumers needs, market expansion, and price objective factors to be taken into consideration in the determination of each quota. Directs the Secretary to assign individual marketing quotas to individual processors and refiners of domestic-source sweetener crops, based on specified factors. Requires the provision of administrative and judicial review procedures for such individuals aggrieved by the assignment or non-assignment of quotas. Prescribes administrative penalties for exceeding quotas. Directs the Secretary to allocate the overall marketing quota for foreign- source sweeteners to specifically licensed individual refiners of raw sugar products, with the same review rights and penalty liabilities as the processors and refiners of domestic-source sweetener products. States that import licenses under the quota program shall be nonnegotiable. Exempts from such quota and license requirements imported sugar, liquid sugar, and other sweetener products which are re-exported in the form of refined sugar and/or other sweetener-containing products. Authorizes the Secretary to extend such exemption to sweetener products imported for use as livestock feed, distillation of alcohol (not for human consumption), or any other sweetener deemed appropriate. Authorizes the Secretary to extend the quota and license system to any other imported product deemed threatening to the National Sweetener Program. Title III: Production Quotas - Authorizes the Secretary to establish restrictions on the production of sugar beets and sugarcane through the use of the acreage set-asides, whenever he determines that: (1) production within the United States or any portion thereof is in excess of the amount needed to satisfy the related refiner or processor marketing quotas under this Act; and (2) such excess production threatens to interfere with the orderly operation of the National Sweetener Program. Requires the assignment of production quotas to individual producers of sugarcane and sugar beets. Title IV: Price Objectives - Directs the Secretary to insure that prices to processors and refiners of sugar products do not fall below 15 cents per pound New York raw value equivalent and do not exceed 18 cents per pound New York raw value equivalent. Directs the Secretary to recommend the imposition of import fees on any imported product which threatens the National Sweetener Program or its price objectives. Title V: Labor Provisions - Prohibits the marketing of sweetener products derived from domestic sugarcane or sugar beets where minimum wage levels established by the Secretary have not been paid to agricultural workers involved in production of such cane or beets. Requires such level to be the same as the national minimum wage rate. Title VI: General Provisions - Establishes criminal penalties for violations of specified provisions of this Act. Requires the Secretary to conduct surveys and investigations deemed necessary regarding the manufacturing, marketing, transportation, or industrial use of sweeteners.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1978
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to deny eligibility for food stamps to any household including a person participating in a strike or labor dispute which the President determines is causing or substantially contributing to: (1) a critical shortage of any essential resource or strategic material; or (2) unemployment in an industry not directly involved in such strike or labor dispute.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1978
National Sweetener Act - Title I: The National Sweetener Advisory Board - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the National Sweetener Advisory Board which shall, each marketing year, make non-binding recommendations to the Secretary regarding sweetener marketing quotas. Title II: Marketing Quotas - Directs the Secretary to establish an overall quota for the marketing of sweetener products within the United States, subdivided into marketing quotas for domestic-source and for foreign-source sweetener products, and subdivided further, in the domestic-source category, into three individual quotas for products made from domestically grown sugar beets, sugarcane, and corn, respectively. Specifies the consumers needs, market expansion, and price objective factors to be taken into consideration in the determination of each quota. Directs the Secretary to assign individual marketing quotas to individual processors and refiners of domestic-source sweetener crops, based on specified factors. Requires the provision of administrative and judicial review procedures for such individuals aggrieved by the assignment or non-assignment of quotas. Prescribes administrative penalties for exceeding quotas. Directs the Secretary to allocate the overall marketing quota for foreign-source sweeteners to specifically licensed individual refiners of raw sugar products, with the same review rights and penalty liabilities as the processors and refiners of domestic-source sweetener products. States the import licenses under the quota program shall be nonnegotiable. Exempts from such quota and license requirements imported sugar, liquid sugar, and other sweetener products which are re-exported in the form of refined sugar and/or other sweetener-containing products. Authorizes the Secretary to extend such exemption to sweetener products imported for use as livestock feed, distillation of alcohol (not for human consumption), or any other sweetener deemed appropriate. Authorizes the Secretary to extend the quota and license system to any other imported product deemed threatening to the National Sweetener Program. Title III: Production Quotas - Authorizes the Secretary to establish restrictions on the production of sugar beets and sugarcane through the use of the acreage set-asides, whenever he determines that: (1) production within the United States or any portion thereof is in excess of the amount needed to satisfy the related refiner or processor marketing quotas under this Act; and (2) such excess production threatens to interfere with the orderly operation of the National Sweetener Program. Requires the assignment of production quotas to individual producers of sugarcane and sugar beets. Title IV: Price Objectives - Directs the Secretary to insure that prices to processors and refiners of sugar products do not fall below 15 cents per pound New York raw value equivalent and do not exceed 18 cents per pound New York raw value equivalent. Directs the Secretary to recommend the imposition of import fees on any imported product which threatens the National Sweetener Program or its price objectives. Title V: Labor Provisions - Prohibits the marketing of sweetener products derived from domestic surgarcane or sugar beets where minimum wage levels established by the Secretary have not been paid to agricultural workers involved in production of such cane or beets. Title VI: General Provisions - Establishes criminal penalties for violations of specified provisions of this Act. Requires the Secretary to conduct surveys and investigations deemed necessary regarding the manufacturing, marketing, transportation, or industrial use of sweeteners.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1978
Declares it the sense of the Senate that efforts should be made to increase the agricultural exports of the United States. Declares it the sense of the Senate that the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations increase its expertise in international agricultural trade.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1978
Agricultural Trade Act - Title I: Establishment of United States Agricultural Trade Offices - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1954 to add a new title authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to establish abroad not less than 25 United States Agricultural Trade Offices to perform duties relating to foreign market development. Enumerates the functions of each Office, including: (1) to increase the effectiveness of agricultural export promotion; (2) to develop listings of commodity area contracts; and (3) to provide assistance for the export credit sales program and the export incentives program. Title II: Intermediate Commercial Credit - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to finance, under its export credit sales program, export sales of agricultural commodities out of Commodity Credit Corporation and private stocks on credit terms in excess of three but not more than ten years. Exempts such sales from specified provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936. Title III: Reorganization - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture: (1) an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Commodity Programs to perform agricultural stabilization and conservation functions; and (2) an Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs to exercise functions related to foreign agriculture. Title IV: Agricultural Counselors - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1954 to redesignate agricultural attaches as agricultural counselors, and to require such counselors to submit annual reports to Congress on the agricultural situation in the area to which the counselor is assigned. Title V: Reporting Requirements for Sales of Agricultural Commodities - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1970 to require rapid reporting to the Secretary of Agriculture of large export sales. Title VI: General Provisions - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture: (1) to implement this Act as expeditiously as possible; and (2) to transmit annual reports to Congress on Department of Agriculture activities including those of Agricultural Trade Offices, in developing foreign markets for United States agricultural commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1978
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to include animal feeds which are admixtures of soybeans (rather than grains) and other specified products in the definitions of "mixed feeds" and "mixed-feed ingredients."
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1978
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to increase from $100,000 to $500,000 the fine and from five to ten years the imprisonment term for specified prohibited acts by any person in connection with any account, agreement, or transportation involving a regulated options contract for the sale of an agricultural commodity for future delivery. Authorizes a civil cause of action for triple damages and reasonable attorney's fees by any person injured by a prohibited act. Authorizes the district court with jurisdiction over either a criminal trial or civil action brought by a State to order all or any part of a fine or judgment to be paid to the victim of the offense or to the injured person. Directs the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as plaintiff in an in rem civil proceeding, to seize money, securities, or property that a defendant has been ordered to forfeit to the United States, and to make due provision for the rights of any innocent person from the proceeds of any disposition of such property. Authorizes the Commission to perform the duties of customs officers in the enforcement of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1978
International Sugar Agreement Act - Title I: Short Title, Declaration of Policy, Definitions - Sets forth the policy of the United States with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title II: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to limit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Title III: Domestic Sugar Price Support Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Directs the President to impose a fee on the importation of sugar in order to attain specified price objectives for domestic sugar. Authorizes the President to impose a quota on sugar imports, in accordance with certain restrictions. Makes such quota inapplicable to sugar imported for specified uses. Declares the domestic sugar price support program, but not the import fee and quota authority, to be a program within the Agricultural Act of 1949. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a system of domestic sugar price support payments, in accordance with specified formulae. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transport, or industrial use of sugar. Suspends other price support programs for sugar. Title IV: General Provisions - Prohibits officials engaged in the Administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Sets forth penalties for violation of this Act, or rules and regulations issued under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Agricultural Export Credit Act - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to permit the Commodity Credit Corporation to finance export sales of agricultural commodities on credit terms in excess of three years, but not more than ten years.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
National Consumer Nutrition Information Act - States the findings of Congress. Title I: Interdepartmental Planning and Coordination and Intradepartmental Coordination - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a National Nutrition Education Council to plan and coordinate the activities of Federal agencies concerning nutrition education and nutrition education research. Title II: Research and Demonstration Projects on Dissemination of Nutrition Information to Consumers at the Community Level - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct, between April 1, 1979 and September 30, 1981, in standard metropolitan and rural areas, demonstration projects pertaining to dissemination of nutrition information. Requires: (1) consumer participation in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of such projects; (2) the utilization of local resources and services; and (3) at least two projects each through the Department, local government units, and nonprofit organizations. Title III: Demonstration Program on Graphic Labeling - Directs the Secretary to conduct studies and demonstrations of methods of graphically indicating nutritional values of fresh fruit and vegetables in supermarkets and other places where consumers purchase groceries. Title IV: Television Demonstration Projects - Directs the Secretary to solicit and receive proposals for the purpose of producing not more than 15 public service announcements concerning the relationship between diet and health and concerning methods of achieving a healthy diet. Title V: General Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act, with respect to the payment limitation per person for cotton, feed grain, rice, and wheat programs, to state that any two individuals who are married to each other shall be considered as separate persons if each, either separately or jointly: (1) has acquired land by means independent of the spouse; and (2) is currently operating such land for agricultural purposes with funds or other assets acquired independently of the spouse.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1978
Dairy Head Reduction Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Agricultural Stablilization and Conservation Service and the Commodity Credit Corporation, to make incentive payments to any qualified dairyman of 15 cents per pound with respect to: (1) any dairy cow which such person markets and delivers for slaughter; and (2) any bred dairy heifer or dairy cow exported. Limits the number of animals for which such payments may be made to those in excess of 12 percent but not more than 25 percent of the average number of dairy cows which the dairyman owns during the 90 day period preceding the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transport, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to collect statistics pertaining to all aspects of agriculture in the United States. Requires the Secretary to limit access to the identity of the sources of such statistics to those officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture who require such information for the performance of official duties related to the collection and dissemination of agricultural statistics.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Consumer Beef-Grading Act - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a Task Force on Beef-Grading Standards, which shall make determinations and recommendations with respect to establishing new beef-grading standards to replace existing standards. Specifies nutritional, cost, consumer preference, health need, and other factors to be considered by the Task Force. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish new beef-grading standards within three months after receiving the Task Force's recommendations. Requires the Secretary to establish a consumer education program regarding the new standards, including the preparation of notices for display at retail stores.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, whenever a set-aside is in effect for one or more of the 1978 through 1981 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice, to increase the established price for any such commodity by such amount as the Secretary determines appropriate to compensate producers for participation in any such set-aside.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1978
Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 to restrict the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the justness or reasonableness of any stockyard service rate or charge to only those rates or charges for services at stockyards which have a certain minimum annual sales volume.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Agricultural Export Expansion Act - Title I: Establishment of United States Agricultural Trade Offices - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1954 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish abroad not less than six nor more than 25 United States Agricultural Trade Offices, for the purpose of developing, maintaining, and expanding international markets for United States agricultural commodities. Title II: Intermediate Commercial Credit - Amends the Food for Peace Act to permit the Corporation to finance, under its export credit sales program, export sales of agricultural commodities, commodity facilities, and export sales of agricultural commodities for reserve use. Title III: Reorganization - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture an Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs to perform duties related to foreign agriculture and agricultural stabilization and conservation. Title IV: Agricultural Counselors - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1954 to change the title of Agricultural Attaches to Agricultural Counselors, and to require each Counselor to submit to the Secretary annual report detailing the social, political and economic factors affecting agriculture and agricultural trade in the country or area to which such Counselor is assigned. Title V: General Provisions - Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress annual reports on the activities and accomplishments of the Department, especially those of the United States Agricultural Trade Offices, in developing, maintaining, and expanding foreign markets for United States agricultural commodities.