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United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to exempt State prison farms from the paying of marketing quota penalties.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1979
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act or any other law to ban the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect they may be represented to have in humans, until three months after the submission of the results of the study required by the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 percent of their respective parity prices. Reduces the price levels at which producers participating in the wheat and feed grains storage program: (1) may redeem and market commodities securing price support loans (from between 140 to 160 percent of their respective parity prices to 100 percent); and (2) must repay such loans (from 175 to 110 percent of their respective parity prices).
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1979
Agricultural Subterminal Storage Facilities Act of 1979 - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to make financial assistance (in the form of grants) available to States to assist in the development of a subterminal facilities plan for such State. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary to make and insure loans to States which have experienced serious storage and transportation problems in order to construct or improve subterminal facilities. Directs the Secretary to grant such assistance to qualified States and to groups of States which develop a coordinated regional subterminal facilities plan. Defines "subterminal facility" as any facility used for the transient storage of bulk agricultural commodities or for transporting, upgrading, receiving, drying, or loading them out. Requires such facilities to be located between an area of agricultural production and any major storage or major export point, at a place that conveniently serves the needs of producers and purchasers of such commodities, including rail sidings, and loading or unloading facilities which can accommodate unit railroad cars and other appropriate transportation modes designed for the transport and storage of bulk agricultural commodities. Prescribes the necessary content of the grain shipment and storage plans required from applicant States. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the nonrecognition of any gain properly allocable to the sale or exchange of any single purpose agricultural structure due to the construction of a subterminal facility.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1979
Authorizes additional expenditures not to exceed $766,000 from March 1, 1979, through February 29, 1980, by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry for inquiries and investigations. Directs the committee to report its findings and recommendations to the Senate not later than February 29, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1979
Food Research Corporation Act of 1979 - Title I: Food Research Corporation - Establishes a private, nonmember, nonprofit Food Research Corporation to make financial, technical, and educational assistance grants to individuals, nonprofit organizations, or the governments of States or foreign countries or political subdivisions thereof, for: (1) provision of implements, low-energy intensive machinery, and seeds to individuals in agriculture or aquaculture who cannot produce the food necessary to nourish their families adequately; and (2) teaching individuals who are suffering from malnutrition methods to maximize food production and nutrition. Requires the Corporation to operate a national clearinghouse for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of food production and nutrition information. Title II: Designation by Individuals of Income Tax Payments to Food Research Corporation Fund - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual taxpayer to designate that $2.50 of his or her paid taxes be paid over to the Food Research Corporation Fund established by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to exclude from eligibility for food stamps any household whose principal wage earner is on strike for the duration of such strike. Excepts a household from this exclusion if it was participating in the food stamp program immediately prior to the start of such strike, or if any of its members is subject to an employer's lockout.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1979
Establishes a National Agricultural Cost of Production Board to review, and advise the Secretary of Agriculture concerning, the adequacy and accuracy of the cost-of-production formulas used by the Department of Agriculture in connection with the administration of its price support programs.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1979
Quality Dairy Imports Act of 1979 - Prohibits the importation of dairy products unless: (1) they have been inspected and found to be wholesome; and (2) the foreign farms and plants processing the dairy products comply with standards prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Directs the Secretary to require certificates of compliance with such standards issued by the exporting country. Subjects all imported dairy products to the same laws that apply to domestic dairy products. Authorizes the Secretary to assess the fees necessary to cover the cost of inspection services. Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to convey all right, title, and interest held by the United States in specified lands located in Bell County, Kentucky, to the Bell County Board of Education.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1979
Rural Economic Development Bank Act of 1979 - Establishes the Rural Economic Development Bank to provide financial, technical, and planning assistance to State and local governments in the preparation and implementation of comprehensive rural community development projects and programs. Provides for the management and capitalization of such Bank.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate April 17, 1979, as "National Food Day."
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 percent of their respective parity prices. Reduces the price levels at which producers participating in the wheat and feed grains storage program: (1) may redeem and market commodities securing price support loans (from between 140 to 160 percent of their respective parity prices to 100 percent); and (2) must repay such loans (from 175 to 110 percent of their respective parity prices).
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1979
Declares that the President should establish a Commission on Domestic and International Hunger and Malnutrition which should: (1) collect and generate information and resources on food, hunger, malnutrition and related concerns; (2) assess current programs affecting domestic and international hunger and malnutrition; (3) analyze and report its findings and recommendations to the President, the Congress, and the public; and (4) assist the President and the Congress in implementing its recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1979
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that every person in the United States and throughout the world has the right to a nutritionally adequate diet, and that the United States should increase its assistance for self-help development among the world's poorest people until such assistance reaches one percent of its total national production (GNP).
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide for the acceptance by pharmacies of food stamps in exchange for food or food supplements prescribed for cancer patients.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Young Farmers Investment Act of 1979 - Amends the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make direct and insured loans to farmers with low net income or low net worth for the acquisition and improvement of owner-operated farms. Grants special consideration to young farmers with respect to such loans. Limits the amount of any such loan to the present market value of the farm as improved. Permits the amortization of at least 50 percent of such loan over a period of 40 years.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to exclude from eligibility for food stamps any household whose principal wage earner is on strike for the duration of such strike. Excepts a household from this exclusion if it was participating in the food stamp program immediately prior to the start of such strike, or if any of its members is subject to an employer's lockout.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1979
Establishes a National Agricultural Cost of Production Board to review and advise the Secretary of Agriculture concerning the adequacy and accuracy of the cost-of-production formulas used by the Department of Agriculture in connection with the administration of its price support programs.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 percent of their respective parity prices. Reduces the price levels at which producers participating in the wheat and feed grains storage program: (1) may redeem and market commodities securing price support loans (from between 140 and 160 percent of their respective parity prices to 100 percent); and (2) must repay such loans (from 175 to 110 percent of their respective parity prices).
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 percent of their respective parity prices. Reduces the price levels at which producers participating in the wheat and feed grains storage program: (1) may redeem and market commodities securing price support loans (from between 140 to 160 percent of their respective parity prices to 100 percent); and (2) must repay such loans (from 175 to 110 percent of their respective parity prices).
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 percent of their respective parity prices. Reduces the price levels at which producers participating in the wheat and feed grains storage program: (1) may redeem and market commodities securing price support loans (from between 140 to 160 percent of their respective parity prices to 100 percent); and (2) must repay such loans (from 175 to 110 percent of their respective parity prices).
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
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 which is approved, licensed, or certified by the State for meals prepared and served under such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to exclude from eligibility for food stamps any household whose principal wage earner is on strike for the duration of such strike. Excepts a household from this exclusion if it was participating in the food stamp program immediately prior to the start of such strike, or if any of its members is subject to an employer's lockout.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretaries which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretaries determine, and publish in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretaries to conduct or support, by grant or contract, research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Amends the Agriculture Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to proclaim a national program acreage for feed grains no later than October 15 (currently November 15) of each year for crops harvested in the next succeeding calendar year.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Agricultural Parity Equity Act of 1979 - Title I: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the established price for an individual producer for the 1979 and 1980 crops of wheat at levels related to such producer's voluntary set-aside, so that if the set-aside is: (1) 20 percent, the established price shall be 66 2/3 percent of parity per bushel; (2) 40 percent, 80 percent of parity per bushel; or (3) 50 percent, 100 percent of parity per bushel. Title II: Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the established price for an individual producer for the 1979 and 1980 crops of corn at levels related to such producer's voluntary set-aside, so that if the set-aside is: (1) 20 percent, the established price shall be 66 2/3 percent of parity per bushel; (2) 40 percent, 80 percent of parity per bushel; or (3) 50 percent, 100 percent of parity per bushel. Title III: Upland Cotton - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the established price for an individual producer for the 1979 crop of upland cotton at levels related to such producer's voluntary set- aside, so that if the set-aside is: (1) 20 percent, the established price shall be 72 1/2 percent of parity per pound; (2) 40 percent, 85 percent of parity per pound; or (3) 50 percent, 100 percent of parity per pound. Title IV: Grain Release Prices - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949: (1) to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from providing for the redemption of stored wheat and feed grains loans unless the market price for such commodities is not less than parity; (2) to prohibit the Secretary from calling such loans until the market price for wheat and feed grains is at least 105 percent of parity; and (3) to prohibit the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling its stocks of wheat and feed grains for less than the parity price of such commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to exclude from eligibility for food stamps any household whose principal wage earner is on strike for the duration of such strike. Excepts a household from this exclusion if it was participating in the food stamp program immediately prior to the start of such strike, or if any of its members is subject to an employer's lockout.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to exclude from eligibility for food stamps any household whose principal wage earner is on strike. Excepts a household from this exclusion if it was participating in the food stamp program immediately prior to the start of such strike, or if any of its members is subject to an employer's lockout.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends the Agriculture Act of 1949 to extend from March 31, 1979, through September 30, 1981, the price support of milk at not less than 80 percent of parity.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to commend the United States Jaycees, the Saint Albans Jaycees, and Deere and Company, for their part in recognizing the outstanding contributions of the young American farmer to the greatness of the United States through the young farmer program.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Family Farm Antitrust Act of 1979 - Finds that vertical integration of the agricultural industry by corporations engaged in the processing, distributing and retail industries, and other conglomerate corporations, tends to create monopolies in the agricultural industry and produce unfair competition for family farms, contributing to the decline of rural populations and the consequent crowding of metropolitan centers. Declares it to be the national policy to restore competition to the agricultural industry and to provide for the continuance of the family farm. Provides that no person engaged in commerce in a business other than farming, whose nonfarming business assets exceed $3,000,000, shall engage in farming or the production of agricultural products, or participate in farming by any means of acquisition or control of another person who is engaged in farming. Specifies exceptions including charitable, educational, or nonprofit institutions, and farmer-owned and controlled cooperatives. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire at fair market value any property or interest of which a person is required to divest himself under the provisions of this Act, if the person is otherwise unable to divest himself of such property.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act to: (1) make technical amendments; (2) repeal the bonding requirement for designated employees of the Plant Variety Protection Office; (3) extend the term of plant variety protection from 17 to 18 years; (4) authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to issue corrected certificates of plant variety protection instead of the current certificates of correction; and (5) allow application of its provisions to the seeds, plants or transplants of okra, celery, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, and cucumbers, which are currently excluded from the protection of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to exempt State prison farms from the paying of marketing quota penalties.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Establishes a National Agricultural Cost of Production Board to review, and advise the Secretary of Agriculture concerning, the adequacy and accuracy of the cost-of-production formulas used by the Department of Agriculture in connection with the administration of its price support programs.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretaries which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretaries determine, and publish in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretaries to conduct or support, by grant or contract, research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to commend the United States Jaycees, the Saint Albans Jaycees, and Deere and Company, for their part in recognizing the outstanding contributions of the young American farmer to the greatness of the United States through the young farmer program.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the price support of milk, for the period beginning with the date of enactment and ending September 30, 1981, at not less than 80 percent of parity.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to convey all right, title, and interest held by the United States in specified lands located in Bell County, Kentucky, to the Bell County Board of Education.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Sugar Act of 1979 - Subchapter I: Definitions - Defines terms used in this Act. Subchapter II: Quota Provisions - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to determine annually the amount of sugar needed to meet consumer requirements and to attain the price objective for sugar. Sets forth the formula for determining the price objective. Requires the Secretary to establish or revise sugar quotas based on such determinations. Apportions 6,820,000 short tons of raw value sugar according to specified percentages among domestic beet sugar, mainland cane sugar, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Permits 1,210,000 short tons of raw value sugar to be imported from the Philippines. Apportions the remaining amount of raw sugar determined necessary among specified countries according to specified percentages. Permits the President to suspend any sugar quota if such importation would be contrary to U.S. national interests. Prohibits any importation of sugar from Cuba until diplomatic relations are resumed by the United States. Stipulates that reductions or deficiencies in a sugar quota shall be prorated among the other foreign countries under enumerated circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to limit the importation of sugar on only a quarterly basis through the first quarter of 1980; and thereafter only on a yearly basis. Stipulates procedures for making adjustments in determining consumer requirements in order to attain the price objective. Prohibits the Secretary from restricting the importation, shipment, or storage of sugar to one or more geographical areas. Requires sugar quotas for foreign countries to be filled only with sugar beets or sugarcane grown in that country. Directs the Secretary to establish quotas for sugar which may be marketed for local consumption in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Provides for domestic sugar producers to fill any deficits in such quotas. Authorizes the Secretary to make allotments of quotas to persons marketing sugar to assure an orderly and adequate flow of sugar or liquid sugar. Limits such allotments to 25,000 short tons of raw value sugar for sugar beet processors and to the effective inventory of sugar of a sugarcane processor as of January 1st of the year the allotment is made. Permits any person aggrieved by such decision to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Permits the Secretary to limit the importation of sugar- containing products or beet sugar molasses if it is determined such importation will substantially interfere with the objectives of this Act. Sets forth the amount of quota for Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Ireland, and Panama which may be filled by direct-consumption sugar. Sets forth the amount of liquid sugar which may be imported from foreign countries. Prohibits the importation, transportation, or marketing of sugar in excess of the established quota or allotment. Exempts from the quota provisions the first ten short tons of raw value direct-consumption or liquid sugar imported for religious, sacramental, educational, or experimental purposes. Subchapter III: Conditional Payment Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to producers who have not marketed sugar in excess of their proportionate share for the farm and to processors who have paid fair and reasonable prices for sugar beets or sugarcane. Directs the Secretary to establish proportionate shares for farms in those areas where the production of sugar is estimated to be greater than the quantity needed to enable the area to meet its quota and provide a normal carryover inventory. Requires the Secretary to protect the interests of new producers. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments for bona fide abandonment of planted acreage or for crop deficiencies due to natural disasters. Establishes the base rate of payment at 80 cents per hundred pounds of raw value sugar. Sets forth a graduated scale of reductions for sugar in excess of specified amounts. Stipulates that the Secretary's determinations are final and conclusive. Subchapter IV: Administrative Provisions - Authorizes appropriations necessary for the payments specified in Subchapter III. Authorizes the Secretary to make such orders or regulations as may be necessary to carry out this Act. Grants jurisdiction to the appropriate U.S. district courts to enforce this Act. Sets forth the fines or forfeitures imposed for violations of this Act. Authorizes the President to withhold or suspend any quota or to levy a duty on sugar imported from any foreign country which nationalizes or effectively expropriates, without compensation, any property at least 50 percent owned by U.S. citizens. Authorizes the Secretary, under specified circumstances, to study labor contracts and the methods of accomplishing most effectively the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to issue the necessary regulations to carry out the International Sugar Agreement. Provides for the termination of the provisions of this Act on December 31, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Eat and Agriculture Act of 1979 - Title I: Price Support for Wheat, Feed Grains, and Upland Cotton; Grain Release Prices - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, with respect to the 1980 and 1981 crops of wheat, feed grains, and upland cotton, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to formulate and put into operation coordinated set-aside and price support programs under which: (1) the level of established (target) price paid to any producer shall be based on the amount of cropland voluntarily set-aside from production; (2) the higher the established price elected to receive, the greater the amount of cropland which must set-aside; and (3) if he sets aside the highest percentage of cropland prescribed by the Secretary, the producer shall be entitled to the maximum established price, which shall be 100 percent of the parity price of such commodity. Requires the producer storage program, for the 1980 and 1981 crops of wheat and feed grains, to provide for: (1) the redemption of any commodity securing a storage loan whenever its market price attains a specified level not less than 90 percent of parity; and (2) the calling of storage loans on a particular commodity whenever its market price is not less than 105 percent of parity. Prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling any of its stocks of wheat or feed grains at less than 90 percent of parity. Title II: Milk Price Support - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend from March 31, 1979, to March 31, 1981, the current authority of the Secretary to maintain the price support of milk at 80 percent of parity. Title III: Sugar Price Support - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the price support of the 1979 through 1981 crops of sugar beets and sugarcane at a level not in excess of 70 percent nor less than 57 percent of parity, but in no event less than 16.5 cents per pound raw sugar equivalent. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend the operation of the price support program whenever an international sugar agreement is in effect which assures the maintenance in the United States of a price for sugar not less than 16.5 cents per pound raw sugar equivalent. Directs the Secretary to establish minimum wage rates for agricultural employees engaged in the production of sugar. Title IV: Food Stamp Program - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to remove the ceiling on appropriations authorizations for fiscal years 1980 and 1981. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the food stamp program and to report the results to Congress by July 1, 1979, with recommendations for legislative changes that will: (1) reduce error rates by increasing the accuracy of eligibility determinations; (2) provide more effective monitoring and control of food coupon redemption; and (3) provide more timely investigation and resolution of suspected violations. Title V: Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require the export of a minimum aggregate quantity of 7,000,000 metric tons of United States farm commodities under the commodity sales, famine relief, and barter programs in each of fiscal years 1980 through 1982. Specifies circumstances under which such minimum exports shall not be mandatory. Requires the President to report to the appropriate committees of Congress if less than the required minimum should be exported because such circumstances have arisen. Title VI: National Agricultural Production Cost and Statistical Standards Board - Establishes the National Agricultural Production Cost and Statistical Standards Board to coordinate and assist in the development and improvement of cost of production and financial statistical standards relating to agricultural production in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act: (1) to make numerous technical amendments; (2) repeal the bonding requirement for designated employees of the Plant Variety Protection Office; (3) extend the term of plant variety protection from 17 to 18 years; (4) authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to issue corrected certificates of plant variety protection instead of (the current) mere certificates of correction; and (5) allow application of its provisions to the seeds, plants or transplants of okra, celery, peppers, tomatoes, carrots and cucumbers, which are currently excluded from the protection of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to permit owners of domesticated animals to pasture their animals in foreign countries up to 24 months (presently eight months) and be accorded duty-free status on reentry into the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Food Stamp Nutrition Improvement Act of 1979 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1964, as amended by the Food Stamp Act of 1977, to limit food purchasable by food stamps to food or food products of only high nutritional value. Specifies a formula for determining such high nutritional value. Requires food manufacturers or processors desiring approval to apply to the Secretary of Agriculture, and require the Secretary to approve only foods of high nutritional value, and to transmit lists of such food to Congress, to food stamp recipients, and to retail food stores. Provides for periodic review of such approved. Requires approval foods to be labeled as such.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
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.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Sugar Disclosure Labeling Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that any packaged food containing sugar prominently display a declaration of such fact on its label if the sugar provides at least ten percent of the total number of calories in such food. Excludes fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, and alcoholic beverages from the requirement imposed by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Marketing Assistance Act of 1979 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, to buy and sell substantially equivalent quantities of any commodity for which a reserve program has been established, to the extent needed to properly handle, rotate, distribute, and relocate such reserve or facilitate the operation of the price support program. Requires such sales to be at an equivalent or higher price than the purchases, allowing for customary location and grade differentials. Requires purchases to offset sales within two market days. Directs the Secretary to make available a daily list showing the price, location, and quantity of the transactions entered into pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend from March 31, 1979, through October 1, 1981, the price support of milk at not less than 80 percent of parity.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt from its inspection requirements the custom slaughtering of livestock by any person not engaged in buying or selling meat or meat products when: (1) such livestock is delivered by the owner thereof; (2) there is no change of ownership in such livestock; (3) the meat and meat food products are to be used exclusively by the owner; and (4) the premises and slaughtering meet the sanitation requirements of the State.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
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 energy resource or strategic material; or (2) unemployment in an industry not directly involved in such strike or labor dispute.