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Bill· HRH.R. 10764 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Breakfast Preservation Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture, for a two-year period, from issuing any order or regulation: (1) restricting the use of nitrites or nitrates as preservatives in meat products beyond the degree recommended in the final report of the Department of Agriculture's Expert Panel on Nitrates, Nitrites and Nitrosamines; or (2) requiring labeling on meat products concerning nitrites or nitrates in addition to the requirements in effect on January 1, 1978.
Bill· SS. 2483 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
More Adequate Title I, Public Law 480 Program Act - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide Commodity Credit Corporation financing for a minimum of $1,000,000,000 for the purchase of United States farm commodities under dollar agreements to be entered into in fiscal year 1978 with friendly developing nations.
Bill· SS. 2482 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to price support loans in the producer storage program for wheat and feed grains: (1) to require a minimum cost of storage payment to producers of 25 cents per bushel annually; and (2) to set as a ceiling on the interest rate for such loans the rate of interest charged the Commodity Credit Corporation by the United States Treasury, adjusted quarterly.
Bill· SS. 2484 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Beef Import Act - Title I: Import Quotas - Revises the quotas on the importation of beef. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the domestic production quantity of beef each quarter in order that the import quota may be determined. Directs the Secretary to establish a system for the equitable distribution of such quota among importers. Title II: Customs Duties - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the customs duties on beef whenever domestic production is too low to trigger the imposition of import quotas.
Bill· HRH.R. 10724 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Agriculture Refinance Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit insured loans of up to $1,000,000 to farm owners and operators for refinancing existing indebtedness incurred between January 1, 1973, and December 31, 1977. Allows a repayment period for refinancing loans of 40 years for real estate loans, 12 years for equipment loans, and five years for operating loans. Defers the first payment for the interest and principal of such loans for five years for real estate loans, for three years for equipment loans, and for two years for operating loans.
Bill· HRH.R. 10723 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Agriculture Refinance Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit insured loans of up to $1,000,000 to farm owners and operators for refinancing existing indebtedness incurred between January 1, 1973, and December 31, 1977. Allows a repayment period for refinancing loans of 40 years for real estate loans, 12 years for equipment loans, and five years for operating loans. Defers the first payment for the interest and principal of such loans for five years for real estate loans, for three years for equipment loans, and for two years for operating loans.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 384 (95th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978
Authorizes additional expenditures, not to exceed $766,000, by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry for inquiries and investigations.
Bill· HRH.R. 10690 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978
Repeals the 1976 Official Standards for Grades of Carcass Beef promulgated under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, and deems as still in effect the previous regulations superceded by them, until such time as the Secretary of Agriculture promulgates further regulations pursuant to such Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 10666 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 10660 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Agricultural Trade 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 Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Corporation to finance, under its export credit sales program, export sales of agricultural commodities out of its own private stocks on credit terms in excess of three years, but not more than ten years. Title III: Reorganization - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture: (1) an Assistant Secretary for Commodity Programs, to perform duties related to agricultural stabilization and conservation; and (2) an Under Secretary for International Affairs to perform duties related to foreign agriculture. 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 an 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 10641 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Agriculture Refinance Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit insured loans of up to $1,000,000 to farm owners and operators for refinancing existing indebtedness incurred between January 1, 1973, and December 31, 1977. Allows a repayment period for refinancing loans of 40 years for real estate loans, 12 years for equipment loans, and five years for operating loans. Defers the first payment for the interest and principal of such loans for five years for real estate loans, and for two years for equipment and operating loans.
Bill· HRH.R. 10644 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the price supports for each crop year in regard to any crop of corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, tobacco, wheat, barley, oats, rye, grain sorghums, soybeans, sugar, wool, mohair, milk, and honey at 100 percent of parity, except in any case in which producers disapprove any marketing quota for any crop involved.
Bill· HRH.R. 10621 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exclude from the definition of "food additive", and to include in the definition of "adulterated food", environmental contaminants in raw or processed fish or shellfish, when such contamination is due directly or indirectly to agricultural, industrial, or other activities, and not to deliberately use in the production, processing, treatment, packaging, holding, or transportation of such fish or shellfish. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to promulgate regulations establishing tolerance levels for unavoidable environmental contaminants in such fish or shellfish. Specifies factors in the determination of such tolerance levels.
Bill· HRH.R. 10603 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1978
Title I: Meat and Meat Products - Requires, under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the package or container of any imported meat or meat products capable of use as human food to be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported. Requires that such products meet the same health standards as domestically produced meats. Requires testing of imported meat in the countries from which such meat is being imported. Directs that periodic tests be conducted in the United States by the Department of Agriculture also. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such assessments and fees as he determines necessary to cover the Departments costs under this Title. Title II: Dairy Products - Prohibits the importation of dairy products into the United States unless the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certifies the products as wholesome and pure. Requires the Secretary to establish standards for imported products comparable to standards imposed upon domestic dairy products. Directs the Secretary, where and to the extent necessary, to inspect imported dairy products and require such products to be accompanied by a certificate of compliance issued by the Secretary. Requires imported dairy products to comply with United States labeling and packaging requirements. Requires that imported dairy products be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported.
Bill· HRH.R. 10584 (95th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978
Agricultural Trade 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 Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Corporation to finance, under its export credit sales program, export sales of agricultural commodities out of its own private stocks on credit terms in excess of three years, but not more than ten years. Title III: Reorganization - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture: (1) an Assistant Secretary for Commodity Programs, to perform duties related to agricultural stabilization and conservation; and (2) an Under Secretary for International Affairs to perform duties related to foreign agriculture. 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 an 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 10583 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978
Palm Oil and Palm Oil Products Inspection and Identification Act - Prohibits the importation of palm oil unless the Secretary of Agriculture has certified that such imports originate from pure and wholesome supplies and that such imports were processed in plants meeting minimum sanitation standards. Directs the Secretary to establish standards which are comparable to domestic standards for purity, wholesomeness, and sanitation. Directs the Secretary to inspect such imports. Subjects such imports to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act after entry. Requires that such imports be labeled (1) to indicate country of origin, and (2) as containing palm oil. Imposes a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year or both for violation of the content labeling requirements. Increases this penalty to a fine of $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than three years or both where such violation involves intent to defraud.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 983 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978
Declares the sense of the House that the Secretary of Agriculture study the impact of the foreign palm oil industry on the domestic vegetable oil industry and, if justified, recommend that the administration negotiate agreements with the principal palm oil producing countries to restrain excessive imports of palm oil into the United States.
Bill· SS. 2425 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Eliminates the requirement, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, that the package label of margarine or oleomargarine bear those words in typeface or lettering as large as any other typeface or lettering. Repeals the requirement that the individually wrapped contents of such a package contain the word margarine or oleomargarine. Repeals the requirement that public eating places when serving margarine or oleomargarine must: (1) give prominent and conspicuous display, in a manner likely to be understood, of such fact; and (2) either label each separate serving margarine or oleomargarine, or serve such separate serving in a triangular shape. Requires that public eating places when serving margarine or oleomargarine must: (1) prominently and conspicuously display such fact; or (2) label such product in a manner likely to be understood by the ordinary patron in such eating place.
Bill· SS. 2426 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Emergency Agriculture Act - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agriculture Act of 1949 to establish the price support of milk at not less than 90 percent of parity. Title II: Wool Program - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to establish the price support of wool and mohair at not less than 100 percent of parity. Title III: Wheat Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the price support of wheat, effective with the 1978 crop, at not less than 90 percent of the established price. Sets the established price per bushel at 100 percent of parity. Title IV: Feed Grain Program - Sets the price support of corn, effective with the 1978 crop, at not less than 90 percent of the established price. Sets the established price at 100 percent of parity. Title V: Upland Cotton Program - Sets the level of nonrecourse loans for cotton at not less than 90 percent of the established price. Sets the established price per pound at 100 percent of parity. Title VI: Rice Program - Sets the price support for rice at not less than 90 percent of the established price per hundredweight. Sets the established price at 100 percent of parity. Title VII: Soybean Program - Sets the price support for soybeans at not less than 90 percent of the established price per bushel. Sets the established price at 100 percent of parity. Title VIII: Dry Edible Beans - Sets the price support of dry edible beans at not less than 90 percent of the established price per hundredweight. Sets the established price at 100 percent of parity.
Bill· HRH.R. 10554 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Title I: Meat and Meat Products - Requires, under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the package or container of any imported meat or meat products capable of use as human food to be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported. Requires that such products meet the same health standards as domestically produced meats. Requires testing of imported meat in the countries from which such meat is being imported. Directs that periodic tests be conducted in the United States by the Department of Agriculture also. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such assessments and fees as he determines necessary to cover the Departments costs under this Title. Title II: Dairy Products - Prohibits the importation of dairy products into the United States unless the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certifies the products as wholesome and pure. Requires the Secretary to establish standards for imported products comparable to standards imposed upon domestic dairy products. Directs the Secretary, where and to the extent necessary, to inspect imported dairy products and require such products to be accompanied by a certificate of compliance issued by the Secretary. Requires imported dairy products to comply with United States labeling and packaging requirements. Requires that imported dairy products be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported.
Bill· HRH.R. 10539 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Agriculture Refinance Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit insured loans of up to $1,000,000 to farm owners and operators for refinancing existing indebtedness incurred between January 1, 1973, and December 31, 1977. Allows a repayment period for refinancing loans of 40 years for real estate loans, 12 years for equipment loans, and five years for operating loans. Defers the first payment for the interest and principal of such loans for five years for real estate loans, and for two years for equipment and operating loans.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 690 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Directs the President of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Foreign Service, and the Department of State to formulate and implement a plan for the expansion of sales of American agricultural commodities abroad, including increased food-for-peace (Public Law 480) sales as well as private international transfers of food.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 974 (95th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H. R. 6362 (Timber Sales Procedure Advisory Committee).
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 460 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Petitions the President and the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) increase price supports to bring commodity prices up to parity; (2) provide diversion payments for devoting land to conservation practices; (3) implement the critical lands and graze-out programs; (4) prevent Government dumping of surplus grain and dairy products into already depressed markets; (5) re-implement fully the summer-fallow provisions of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973; and (6) maximize agricultural exports.
Bill· SS. 2417 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1978
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1970 to change from seventy-five million bushels to three million tons the amount of wheat, feed grains, and soybeans which the Secretary of Agriculture is required to keep in separate disaster reservee inventories. Directs the Secretary to purchase three million tons of feed grains for such reserves within six months of the enactment of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 10520 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1978
Agricultural Trade 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 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 Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Corporation to finance, under its export credit sales program, export sales of agricultural commodities out of its own and private stocks on credit terms in excess of three years, but not more than ten years. Title III: Reorganization - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture: (1) an Assistant Secretary for Commodity Programs, to perform duties related to agricultural stabilization and conservation; and (2) an Under Secretary for International Affairs to perform duties related to foreign agriculture. 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 an 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 10505 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1978
Title I: Meat and Meat Products - Requires, under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the package or container of any imported meat or meat products capable of use as human food to be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported. Requires that such products meet the same health standards as domestically produced meats. Requires testing of imported meat in the countries from which such meat is being imported. Directs that periodic tests be conducted in the United States by the Department of Agriculture also. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such assessments and fees as he determines necessary to cover the Departments costs under this Title. Title II: Dairy Products - Prohibits the importation of dairy products into the United States unless the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certifies the products as wholesome and pure. Requires the Secretary to establish standards for imported products comparable to standards imposed upon domestic dairy products. Directs the Secretary, where and to the extent necessary, to inspect imported dairy products and require such products to be accompanied by a certificate of compliance issued by the Secretary. Requires imported dairy products to comply with United States labeling and packaging requirements. Requires that imported dairy products be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 459 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1978
Declares that it is the sense of Congress that full parity remains the goal of American agriculture and is a standard which represents a fair return to producers of agricultural commodities.
Bill· SS. 2405 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1978
Intermediate Term Agricultural Export Credit Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, to provide intermediate export loans on terms of from five to ten years in order to develop and expand foreign markets for United State agricultural commodities, including breeding livestock. Prohibits any sale involving such intermediate credit unless the Secretary determines that such sale will develop, expand, or maintain a particular country as a long-term foreign market for United States agricultural commodities.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 458 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1978
Petitions the President and the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) increase price supports to bring commodity prices up to parity; (2) provide diversion payments for devoting land to conservation practices; (3) implement the critical lands and graze-out programs; (4) prevent Government dumping of surplus grain and dairy products into already depressed markets; (5) re-implement fully the summer-fallow provisions of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973; and (6) maximize agricultural exports.
Law· SS. 2391 (95th)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to: (1) extend the authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission through September 30, 1983; (2) provide for appointment of the Commission Chairman by the President, to serve at the President's pleasure; and (3) prohibit options trading until such time as the Commission can document to Congress its ability to regulate specified options transactions successfully, and 90 calendar days pass without disapproval by either House of the proposed regulations. Grants immunity from prosecution to witnesses claiming self incrimination who testify before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Bill· HRH.R. 10440 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to permit without separate inspection the interstate movement of meat food products processed by federally inspected establishments and which are derived from meat slaughtered or processed at a State-inspected establishment in a State whose meat inspection requirements are at least equal to the Federal requirements.
Bill· HRH.R. 10434 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Agricultural Trade 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 Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Corporation to finance, under its export credit sales program, export sales of agricultural commodities out of its own private stocks on credit terms in excess of three years, but not more than ten years. Title III: Reorganization - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture: (1) an Assistant Secretary for Commodity Programs, to perform duties related to agricultural stabilization and conservation; and (2) an Under Secretary for International Affairs to perform duties related to foreign agriculture. 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 an 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 10451 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 and the Agriculture Act of 1949 to: (1) increase the established prices of wheat and corn for the 1978 crops; (2) require land diversion payments whenever a set-aside of wheat or feed grains cropland is in effect for the 1978 crop year; (3) declare that no further acreage set-aside shall be required in any year on a summer fallow farm if at least 55 percent of cropland acreage is diverted to summer fallow use; (4) require implementation of the critical lands resource conservation program for the Great Plains states for the 1978 crop year; and (5) allow, under specified circumstances, interest-free extensions of the repayment period on wheat and feed grains loans.
Bill· HRH.R. 10414 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the price supports for each crop year in regard to any crop of corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, tobacco, wheat, barley, oats, rye, grain sorghums, soybeans, sugar, wool, mohair, milk, and honey at 100 percent of parity, except in any case in which producers disapprove any marketing quota for any crop involved.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 954 (95th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Directs the payment of expenses, not to exceed $1,010,000, for investigations and studies to be conducted by the House Committee on Agriculture.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 456 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Petitions the President and the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) increase price supports to bring commodity prices up to parity; (2) provide diversion payments for devoting land to conservation practices; (3) implement the critical lands and graze-out programs; (4) prevent Government dumping of surplus grain and dairy products into already depressed markets; (5) re-implement fully the summer-fallow provisions of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973; and (6) maximize agricultural exports.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 455 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Declares that it is the sense of Congress that full parity remains the goal of American agriculture and is a standard which represents a fair return to producers of agricultural commodities.