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United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1970 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire hay for inclusion in the separate reserve established for the alleviation of distress caused by natural disasters.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat 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 Secretary 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 Secretary determines, and publishes 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 Secretary to conduct or support, by grant or contract research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites.
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 Food Stamp Act of 1964 to prohibit from receiving food stamps any individual 18 years of age or older who receives at least one-half of his income from any other individual who belongs to another household which is ineligible for food stamps.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Emergency Food and Fiber Supply Stabilization Act of 1979 - Title I: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the price support for the 1979 through 1981 crops of wheat at not less than $3.25 per bushel. Provides for a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required acreage set-aside level, ranging from 65 percent of parity per bushel for a 20 percent set-aside up to 100 percent of parity for a 50 percent set-aside. Title II: Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the price support for the 1979 through 1981 crops of feed grains at not less than $2.25 per bushel. Provides for a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required set-aside level, ranging from 60 percent of parity per bushel for a 10 percent set-aside up to 100 percent of parity for a 50 percent set-aside. Title III: Upland Cotton - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the nonrecourse loan level for the 1979 through 1981 crops of upland cotton at not less than 55 cents per pound for Strict Low Middling one and one-sixteenth-inch upland cotton. Provides for a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required set-aside level, ranging from 64 percent of parity per pound for a 20 percent set-aside up to 100 percent of parity for a 50 percent set-aside. 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 · 15 January 1979
Sugar Stabilization Act of 1979 - 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 17 cents per pound raw sugar equivalent. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture 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 17 cents per pound raw sugar equivalent.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
National Agricultural Bargaining Act of 1979 - Repeals the Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967 and establishes an agricultural bargaining policy substantially identical but expanded. Enumerates the unfair practices a handler of agricultural products is forbidden to commit under existing law, and adds a list of unfair practices an association of producers may not commit, including: (1) refusal to bargain in good faith with a handler over prices, terms of sale, and compensation for products produced under contract; (2) coercing or intimidating a handler to breach or terminate marketing contracts and association membership agreements; (3) circulating false reports about an association's or handler's finances, management, or activities; and (4) conspiracy to commit an unfair practice. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to accredit an association for bargaining with respect to the specified agricultural products of its members with handlers designated individually or by production or marketing area or by some other appropriate classification. Defines good faith bargaining for the purposes of this Act and specifies the conditions and procedure for the accreditation of producer associations. Requires each accredited association to submit an annual report to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to notify any association of the ways in which he believes it has ceased to maintain accreditation standards, and to allow it a reasonable time to answer or correct the deficiencies noted. Provides a procedure for revocation of accreditation. Provides for the assignment of association dues and fees. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide mediation services when bargaining between a handler and an association reaches an impasse; and (2) establish a procedure for compulsory and binding arbitration whenever such an impasse will result in a serious interruption in the flow of products to consumers, or will cause substantial economic hardship to the producers or handlers involved in the bargaining. Provides an administrative procedure for processing charges of unfair practices. Authorizes the Secretary to institute inquiries on his own motion, and to commence a civil action for injunctive and other relief. Specifies the Secretary's investigative powers. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for the violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 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 · 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.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Emergency Farm Act of 1977 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the price supports for each of the 1977 through 1981 crops of feed grains, cotton, peanuts, rice, tobacco, wheat, soybeans, sugar, wool, mohair, milk and honey at 100 percent of parity, unless a majority of the producers of any such commodity, in a referendum, vote to exempt such commodity from such support price.
United States · United States Congress · 15 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 · 15 January 1979
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the regulation of tobacco products in the same manner as food is regulated.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to subject imported tomatoes to restrictions comparable to those applicable to domestic tomatoes.
United States · United States Congress · 15 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 · 15 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 parity.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Fair Meat Trading Act of 1979 - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, within 120 days of passage, to report to Congress his recommendations for alternative substitute procedures involving the marketing and pricing of meat commodities, including: (1) the banning of formula base pricing, that is, all buying and selling where price is based or determined by the quote of a market price reporting service, not by agreement between the parties to the trade; and (2) a system for electronic base marketing as part of a centralized national market system. Requires a minimum three-year maintenance of all records necessary to carry out this Act, or a longer period if the Secretary so directs. Directs the Secretary to appoint a Meat Industry Marketing Standards Board: (1) to recommend standards of identity for meat commodities and other appropriate terms and rules necessary for orderly trading on any centralized national market which may be established for the trading of all meat commodities; and (2) to develop and present to the Secretary proposals relating to market price reporting services. Requires the Board to consider: (1) establishing a volume standard as a basis for price reporting; and (2) proscribing formula based trading using only one market news reporting service. Requires licensing by the Secretary of any market price reporting service for meat commodities, for renewable terms of three years. Requires every trader in meat commodities to furnish full and accurate information concerning all trades to all licensed market price reporting services in any transaction over carload lots in excess of 35,000 pounds (and any other transaction when such trader is contacted by a licensed market price reporting service), except when traded on a centralized market. Requires, if requested, confirmation of such information in writing to such reporting service within 48 hours. Directs the Packers and Stockyards Administration to audit the records of authorized market price reporting services at least once 30 days after licensing is granted, and at least once a year thereafter. Requires a good faith effort by each licensed service to obtain an accurate sampling of all items reported in its sheet or disseminated to its customers in any manner. Establishes administrative and criminal penalties for: (1) the furnishing of false information; (2) the manipulation of prices or figures shown on any market price reporting service; and (3) other specified violations of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to subpoena documents and witnesses, and to grant immunity to witnesses, to secure effective enforcement of this Act, or to carry out any investigation or proceeding authorized by it.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
National Land Resources Act of 1979 - Declares that topsoil is a valuable, unique and peculiar natural resource upon which future generations will be dependent. Declares that ownership of land carries with it a responsibility not to destroy the topsoil or so intermingle or bury it that it will not be easily and economically accessible for use at a later date. Establishes a National Land Resources Protection Commission. Directs the Commission to establish standards with respect to the stockpiling and replacing of topsoil on all (1) federally assisted projects, including highways; (2) projects on federally held land; and (3) projects which affect interstate commerce. Prescribes minimum criteria to be included in such standards. Directs the Commission to establish minimum standards to assure that projects covered by this Act will not cause pollution of existing streams, land slides, flooding or substantial changes in the volume of water to be carried by adjacent waterways except where such change is consistent with State or Federal water resource policy. Stipulates that no dirt shall be moved on any project where the moving or covering of topsoil covers an area in excess of 100,000 square feet until a license or letter has been issued by the Commission or by a commission to whom authority has been delegated under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of $6,000,000 annually for the administration of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
National Aquaculture Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, after consultation with the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture and certain other Federal and State officials, to establish a National Aquaculture Development Plan. Requires that such plan identify each aquatic species which can be cultured on a commercial or other basis, and contain a program of aquaculture development for such species. Stipulates that each such program shall be implemented either individually, jointly, or collectively by the Secretaries of Commerce, Agriculture and the Interior according to responsibilities vested in the respective Secretaries by law, or on the basis of departmental expertise and resources. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to make periodic reviews of the operation and effectiveness of the Plan and to amend the plan as necessary. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to make a continuing assessment of aquaculture in the United States and complete an initial assessment within six months after the enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of the Interior, or the Secretary of Agriculture, in implementing the aquaculture development programs, to: (1) provide advisory, educational, or technical assistance to interested persons; (2) consult and cooperate with persons, agencies, and regional commissions; (3) encourage the implementation of aquacultural technology; and (4) prescribe such regulations as necessary to carry out such a program. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish an aquaculture information service; (2) maintain an inventory of public and private aquaculture being carried out in the United States; (3) arrange for the mutual exchange of information relating to aquaculture with foreign nations; and (4) conduct a study to determine whether existing capture fisheries could be adversely affected by competition from products produced by commercial aquaculture enterprises. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to prepare and submit to Congress a biennial report on the status of aquaculture in the United States. Establishes the Interagency Aquaculture Coordination Committee to insure that there is a continuing exchange of information relating to the aquacultural programs and projects of the various agencies and to review on a continuing basis the relevant program and projects of all Federal agencies. Authorizes the Secretaries of Commerce, Agriculture, and the Interior, according to their powers under this Act, to carry out their functions through grants or contracts. Limits the amount of any such grant to one-half of the estimated cost of the project. Allows the Secretaries of Commerce, Agriculture, and the Interior to provide financial assistance for aquacultural demonstration projects in the form of grants in an amount not to exceed 50 percent of the estimated cost. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to guarantee obligations issued for the financing of any aquaculture facility within the United States. Stipulates that the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all such guaranteed obligations shall not exceed $150,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to collect a fee for guaranteed obligations not to exceed one-half of one percent per annum of the outstanding principal balance of the obligation. Sets forth the allowable interest rate, maturity date, and default procedures relating to such loans. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program to provide essential property or liability insurance to owners of aquaculture facilities at reasonable rates upon a determination that the issuance of such insurance is necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Establishes a Federal Aquaculture Assistance Fund to enable the Secretary to guarantee obligations, make disaster loans, and implement the insurance program established under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to issue notes or obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury if the monies in the loan fund are insufficient to pay such a loan in the event of default.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat 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 Secretary 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 Secretary determines, and publishes 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 Secretary to conduct or support, by grant or contract research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Consumer Food Labeling Act - Title I: Truth in Food Labeling Act - Truth in Food Labeling Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that the labels on all foods disclose each of their ingredients in order of predominance and the percentage of each ingredient in the food. Title II: Nutritional Labeling Act - Nutritional Labeling Act - Requires the processor to label any packaged consumer food product with specified information, including an analysis of nutritional contents, net weight and drained weight, where appropriate. Requires such label to state the nutritional value of the commodity, and to appear in conspicuous and easily legible type in distinct contrast with other matters on the package. Requires the conspicuous statement of any difference in weight or volume which may have occurred in the repackaging of a consumer product from a container of any given net content to a container of a different net content. Empowers the appropriate agencies to prescribe regulations and to petition for injunctive relief to carry out and enforce the provisions of this Act. Prescribes a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for willful violation of any provision of this Act. Title III: Open Dating of Perishable Food Act - Open Dating of Perishable Food Act - Amends the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act to require the manufacturer or packager of a perishable or semiperishable food to state on its label the pull date for such food and the optimum temperature and humidity conditions for its storage by the ultimate consumer. Requires pull dates also on shipping containers or wrappings. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the display, offer for sale, or sale of any such food whose pull date has expired. Prohibits the change, alteration, defacement, or removal of any pull date before sale of such food to the ultimate consumer. Prescribes criminal penalties for the violation of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to report annually to Congress on the enforcement of this Act. Title IV: Marketing Practices Disclosure Act - Marketing Practices Disclosure Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that labels on packaged foods contain the names and places of business of the manufacturer, the packer, and the distributor, not, as currently, only one of them. Title V: Consumer Food Grading Act - Consumer Food Grading Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and promulgate a system of retail quality grade designations for consumer food products expressed in a uniform nomenclature, giving consideration to nutritional quality and wholesomeness of food products, as well as acceptability. Title VI: Unit and Item Pricing Act - Unit and Item Pricing Act - Amends the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act to require retailers to mark plainly the total selling price of any packaged consumer commodity on its package, and the retail unit price on either the package or a point of display, like a shelf, in close proximity thereto. Exempts from the requirements of this Act certain small retail outlets, and any retail outlet in any State or political subdivision which has enacted mandatory unit pricing laws which are, in the judgment of the Federal promulgating authority, superior to the requirements of this Act. Title VII: New Ingredient Notification Act - New Ingredient Notification Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require any food product to carry a label setting forth in a conspicuous manner any change in its ingredients for six months after such change. Title VIII: Misleading Brand Names Act - Misleading Brand Names Act - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to make it an unfair or deceptive act or practice to advertise a brand name of a product which inherently misleads the public as to the product's value, quantity, quality of contents, or performance.
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.