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Bill· SS. 2184 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Agricultural Transportation and Distribution Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, beginning in 1982, to prepare annual reports on: (1) the capability of the U.S. transportation system to meet the needs of the agricultural sector and of rural areas (including rural development needs and noting impediments to the transportation needs of rural people and to the movement of agricultural commodities to domestic and international markets); and (2) the principal marketing, distribution, and utilization systems, other than transportation, serving the agricultural industry, including both domestic and international aspects. Establishes in the Department of Agriculture a transportation and distribution agency to coordinate Department programs and responsibilities involved with the transportation and distribution of agricultural commodities. Directs the Secretary to require the use of written contracts, with minimum requirements and conditions, covering the interstate movement by motor carriage of agricultural freight, where such movement involves the services of a broker or other third party. Directs the transportation and distribution agency to carry out a program of research, education, and technical assistance to small businesses engaged in the transportation of agricultural commodities. Requires that shippers of agricultural commodities have a nondelegable financial responsibility for loading such commodities upon any truck or motor vehicle engaged in interstate commerce. Prohibits shippers from making any charge, suffering any charge to be made, or attempting to evade such responsibility therefor. Makes receivers of such goods similarly responsible for the unloading and prohibited from charging for or evading such responsibility. Prohibits any person engaged in the operation of warehouses, ports, terminals, or distribution centers or any shipper or receiver of agricultural commodities from knowingly permitting any robbery, extortion or extortionate practice against truck owners or drivers. Provides for: (1) the investigation and hearing by the Secretary of complaints of violations of this Act; (2) cease and desist orders regarding such violations; and (3) punishment for violations of such orders. Authorizes the Secretary to make rules and regulations and to cooperate with Federal, State, and local agencies to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations after fiscal year 1980 to carry out this Act. Provides for the separability of the provisions of this Act.
Bill· SS. 2149 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for crediting the pro-rata expense obligations of a handler of grapefruit, lemons, and oranges from California and Arizona, pursuant to a marketing order, with all or any portion of such handler's direct expenditures for such marketing promotion.
Bill· HRH.R. 6113 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1979
Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, to include in the definition of "dealer" any person engaged in the business of packing in wholesale or jobbing quantities any perishable agricultural commodity in interstate or foreign commerce. Excludes from such definition: (1) any producer who raises a commodity and does not engage in the packing of such commodity in containers with specified descriptive markings; and (2) buyers of potatoes for canning and/or processing within the State where grown. Lowers from $200,000 to $100,000 the amount of the invoice cost of purchases of perishable agricultural commodities in any calendar year which a retailer may spend without being considered a "dealer". Requires that specified misrepresentations be knowing or negligent in order to be unlawful under this Act. Declares unlawful specified unwitting misrepresentations. Includes the assignees of the claims of nonresidents among those complainants required to furnish a bond in a specified amount before formal action is taken on their complaints under such Act. Terminates the authority of the Secretary to waive the furnishing of such bonds by complainants who are residents of countries which permit the filing of complaints by U.S. residents without the furnishing of a bond. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a civil fine for specified unwitting misrepresentations under such Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6087 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1979
Agricultural Transportation Improvement and Regulatory Reform Act of 1979 - Excludes from the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission the transportation of specified property used in agricultural or horticultural production. Permits the Commission to inspect and copy the motor vehicle transportation records of specified cooperative associations or federations of cooperative associations and any record relating to the tonnage of property transported by specified motor agricultural carriers.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 460 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1979
Requests the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop a plan for local nutrition monitoring including: (1) the identification of priority target areas; (2) the development of a structure for monitoring specified regions; and (3) the choice of methodology and a timetable.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 123 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the calendar week beginning with the first Sunday of June of each year as "National Garden Week."
Law· HRH.R. 6029 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1979
Authorizes the President to implement the International Sugar Agreement, 1977, by: (1) regulating the entry of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization; and (2) requiring records and reports concerning the entry of sugar. Establishes criminal penalties for violating such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement.
Bill· SS. 2060 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1979
Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish and maintain the Packers and Stockyards Administration as an agency within the Department of Agriculture; (2) appoint and supervise the Administrator of such agency; and (3) enforce and administer such Act through such agency.
Bill· HRH.R. 5983 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 1979
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation to make unsecured and secured conservation loans, in specified amounts and for specified periods, to agricultural producers for conservation and environmental enhancement measures recommended by county and State ASC committees and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture as necessary to maintain or improve the productivity of farmland.
Bill· HRH.R. 5956 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1979
Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish and maintain the Packers and Stockyards Administration as an agency within the Department of Agriculture; (2) appoint and supervise the Administrator of such agency; and (3) enforce and administer such Act through such agency.
Bill· SS. 2036 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the established price for wheat at $3.63 per bushel for the 1979 crop and at $3.88 per bushel for the 1980 crop. Sets the established price for corn at $2.35 per bushel for the 1979 crop and at $2.51 per bushel for the 1980 crop. Declares that the payment rate for grain sorghums and barley shall be such rate as the Secretary of Agriculture determines fair and reasonable in relation to the payment rate for corn. Directs the Secretary to make available to producers loans and purchases on the 1979 and 1980 crops at per bushel levels of $2.51 for wheat and $2.14 for corn. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend to the 1980 and 1981 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice the farm and prevented planting disaster payment programs. Denies eligibility for such payments to anyone electing to be covered by crop insurance paid for in part by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. Requires the Secretary to notify producers of such commodities of their right to elect between disaster payments and crop insurance coverage. Authorizes the Secretary to require, as a condition of eligibility for specified loans, purchases, and payments, that producers of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice not to exceed the normal crop acreage for the 1980 and 1981 crops adjusted to be fair and equitable among producers. Authorizes the Secretary, in making such requirement, to increase the established price for any such commodity to compensate producers for participation in such commodity program. Directs the Secretary, in making such increases, to take into consideration changes in production costs resulting from such participation.
Bill· SS. 2029 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend to the 1980 and 1981 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice, the farm and prevented planning disaster payment programs. Denies eligibility for such payments to anyone electing to be covered by crop insurance paid for in part by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to notify producers of such commodities of their right to elect between disaster payments and crop insurance coverage.
Bill· SS. 2028 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the established price for wheat at $3.63 per bushel for the 1979 crop and at $4.08 per bushel for the 1980 crop. Sets the established price for corn at $2.35 per bushel for the 1979 crop and at $2.64 per bushel for the 1980 crop. Declares that the payment rate for grain sorghums and barley shall be such rate as the Secretary of Agriculture determines fair and reasonable in relation to the payment rate for corn. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend to the 1980 and 1981 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice, the farm and prevented planting disaster payment programs. Denies eligibility for such payments to anyone electing to be covered by crop insurance paid for in part by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. Requires the Secretary to notify producers of such commodities of their right to elect between disaster payments and crop insurance coverage. Authorizes the Secretary to require, as a condition of eligibility for specified loans, purchases, and payments, that producers of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice not exceed the normal crop acreage for the 1980 and 1981 crops adjusted to be fair and equitable among producers. Authorizes the Secretary, in making such requirement, to increase the established price for any such commodity to compensate producers for participation in such commodity program. Directs the Secretary, in making such increases, to take into account consideration changes in production costs resulting from such participation.
Bill· SS. 2016 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the established price for wheat at $3.63 per bushel for the 1979 crop and at $3.88 per bushel for the 1980 crop. Sets the established price for corn at $2.35 per bushel for the 1979 crop and at $2.51 per bushel for the 1980 crop. Declares that the payment rate for grain sorghums and barley shall be such rate as the Secretary of Agriculture determines fair and reasonable in relation to the payment rate for corn.
Bill· HRH.R. 5907 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1979
Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1980 Title I: Reduction in Food Stamp Error and Fraud and Revision of Deductions - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to extend coverage under the food stamp program to shelters that prepare and serve meals for battered women and/or children. Excludes from household income payments or allowances made under any Federal, State, or local laws for the purpose of providing energy assistance for the purposes of the food stamp program. States that the Consumer Price Index referred to in the computation of household income is the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers. Permits a dependent care deduction from household income up to a maximum of $160 per month under specified conditions. Expands medical deductions for the elderly. Includes medical deductions for the blind and disabled in specified areas. Directs participating State agencies to elect and utilize, in calculating income for most households applying for food stamps, either of the following two methods: (1) taking into account the income reasonably anticipated to be received in the certification period and the income received during the 30 days preceding application, so as to ascertain the income actually available to the household for the certification period; or (2) using income received in a previous month as the basis in accordance with standards prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture (retrospective accounting). Grants State agencies the opportunity to proceed against alleged fraudulent activity by specified means. Prescribes general standards for State periodic household income reporting requirements. Requires each State agency to determine the eligibility of applicant households by verifying includable income by specified means. Permits such agency to verify, prior to certification, the size of any applicant household and factors of eligibility for households falling within error-prone household profiles. Directs each State agency to require the use of photo identification for the receipt of coupons in specified metropolitan areas. Sets forth the methods the Secretary of Agriculture may use to determine when a State agency has failed to comply with: (1) the provisions of this Act; or (2) the Secretary's standards for the efficient and effective administration of such program. Permits the Secretary to withhold from such State such funds as he deems appropriate. Authorizes the Secretary to assume specified percentages of the administrative costs of State agencies whose rates of error and/or error reduction are at specified levels. Directs the Secretary to institute an error liability program under which each State agency shall pay to the Secretary the amount by which the dollar equivalent of the agency's payment error rate exceeds the dollar value equivalent of the national standard payment error rate, or an amount determined by a specified formula, whichever is higher. Requires the Secretary to change the method of calculating each State agency's payment error rate if, after study, the Secretary determines that it is feasible to include in such calculation invalid decisions denying eligibility to households which are in fact eligible. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to disclose to the Secretary and such agencies specified information about employment earnings and benefit payments contained in Social Security Administration records, and also any tax return information previously disclosed to him from the master files of the Internal Revenue Service, which is necessary for determining or auditing a household's eligibility. Requires similar disclosure regarding unemployment compensation and any refused offers of employment from State unemployment compensation agencies. Requires reports describing the results of workfare projects through fiscal year 1981. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to pay 50 percent of the administrative costs of such projects. Title II: Food Stamp Funding - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1980 and 1981 for the food stamp program.
Law· SS. 1985 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to specified lands in Coconino County, Arizona. Requires the Secretary to enter into agreements, before any conveyances are made, sufficient to assure that the party to such agreement will construct administrative improvements equal to value to land and improvements to be conveyed. Allows parties to which conveyances are made to deposit cash in an amount not less than the fair market value of such conveyed land, to be expended by the Secretary for constructing such improvements. Declares that if the value of any land and improvements to be conveyed exceeds the value of administrative improvements, the party to which such land is to be conveyed shall pay the difference in value to the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to expend such difference for the purposes of acquiring other lands for the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. Directs the Secretary to offer to sell at the fair market value specified lands to the Flagstaff Medical Regional Center and to the city of Flagstaff, Arizona, under a special use permit in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to solicit public offers for the remaining lands and improvements, to accept those offers determined to be most advantageous to the Government and to reject those offers determined not to be in the public interest.
Bill· HRH.R. 5816 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1979
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to each State in quarterly installments for five fiscal years to finance State programs designed to meet the nutritional needs of such State's residents. Requires each State receiving such payments to: (1) provide for the administrative review of any ruling made by the State agency administering such program; (2) make annual reports to the Secretary for specified purposes; (3) publish reports and regulations in at least one general circulation newspaper; (4) limit the expenditure of such funds for administration and Federal grant-seeking purposes; and (5) permit the Secretary access to the records and files of such programs. Directs the Secretary to withhold payment from any State in violation of such requirements. Requires each State to return unobligated funds to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to return such amounts to the State when a review of the Secretary's determination is favorable to such State. Grants jurisdiction to review such determinations to the appropriate United States court of appeals. Establishes in the Treasury a Nutritional Program Trust Fund to be used by the Secretary in making payments to States and for other specified purposes. Authorizes appropriations for five fiscal years. Repeals the Food Stamp Act of 1977 at the beginning of the first fiscal year payments are made under this Act. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue regulations within a specified period to terminate the programs established and maintained under the Food Stamp Act.
Bill· SS. 1978 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to change specified levels of price support loans and price support payments for the 1980 and each subsequent crop of extra long staple cotton. Amends the Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1938 to require that extra long staple cotton acreage allotments voluntarily surrendered to county committees be so surrendered not later than January 15 of the crop harvest year. Directs (formerly authorized) the Secretary of Agriculture to permit owners or operators of farms for which an extra long staple cotton acreage allotment is established to sell or lease all or part of such allotment for transfer to farms owned or operated by others, or to transfer such allotment to other farms owned by themselves. Stipulates that farms to which such allotments are transferred may be in any State or county. Requires that such sale, lease, or transfer occur not later than January 15 of the crop harvest year. Prohibits the leasing of any such allotment for a total period greater than three years.
Bill· HRH.R. 5795 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for crediting the pro rata expense obligations of a handler of grapefruit, lemons, and oranges from California and Arizona, pursuant to a marketing order, with all or any portion of such handler's direct expenditures for such marketing promotion.
Bill· HRH.R. 5758 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate September 23, 1980, as "National Farmers' Day."
Bill· SS. 1955 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1979
Permits the Secretary of Agriculture to make indemnity payments to producers, growers, and processors of poultry, eggs, poultry or egg products, swine, swine products, livestock, livestock products, and animal feeds who suffer losses because of contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls. Sets forth the formula for determining the amount of such payments. Authorizes the Secretary to use the funds and facilities of the Commodity Credit Corporation in carrying out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5739 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1979
Permits the Secretary of Agriculture to make indemnity payments to producers, growers, and processors of poultry, eggs, poultry or egg products, swine, swine products, livestock, livestock products, and animal feeds who suffer losses because of contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls. Sets forth the formula for determining the amount of such payments. Authorizes the Secretary to use the funds and facilities of the Commodity Credit Corporation in carrying out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5733 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1979
Meat Industry Act To Preserve Competition - Declares that it is the policy of this Act to prevent, and as rapidly as possible to eliminate, marketing conditions in the livestock production, processing, and meat packing industries which are detrimental to the maintenance of a free and competitive environment needed for the health, efficiency, and general well-being of business. Requires any packer whose slaughter or processing of certain classifications of livestock or meat products exceeds specified minimum levels to file with the Secretary of Agriculture on February 1 of each year information for each plant owned or operated by such packer regarding the number by month of: (1) steers and heifers, cows and bulls, and hogs purchased or acquired for slaughter during the preceding calendar year; (2) such livestock classifications slaughtered by such packer, or for or on behalf of such packer by another under any custom slaughtering arrangement, during such preceding year; (3) carcasses of such classifications of livestock purchased or acquired from any other person or packer during such period; (4) pounds of boxed beef and pounds of centrally cut beef produced, purchased, or acquired during such period. Requires the Secretary to compile the information provided by such reports and on March 1 of each year publish the total number identified by plant and by State of each classification of livestock and meat product, and to aggregate such totals per State into national totals for each classification. Establishes criminal penalties for failure to file such reports or for the filing of fraudulent reports. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend all inspection and all grading services at any plant owned or operated by a packer guilty of any such violations. Prohibits any packer from slaughtering, or contracting for the custom slaughter of, or purchasing carcasses of more than 25 percent of the currently published national slaughter for any classification during any calendar year. Prohibits any packer, during any such year, from producing, processing, purchasing, or acquiring, either directly or indirectly, more than 25 percent of the currently published national boxed beef production, or 25 percent of the currently published national centrally cut beef production. Prohibits any packer required to file a report, who meets certain criteria, from slaughtering in the United States more than 30 percent of any concentrated State's portion of the currently published national slaughter for any classification. States that any plant owned or operated by a packer within 100 miles of the border of a concentrated State shall be counted for such purposes. Limits such prohibition to any packer who during any reporting period owns or operates three or more plants, or who slaughters during such period more than five percent of the currently published national slaughter for any classification. Prohibits any packer who has more than a five percent share of the currently published national slaughter for any classification, or national boxed beef production, or national centrally cut beef production, from owning, leasing, or operating any retail meat outlet in the United States. Establishes criminal penalties for the violation of such prohibitions.
Bill· SS. 1926 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1979
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available price supports to producers of sunflower seeds. Requires the Secretary to make available loans and purchases on the 1980 and 1981 crops at a level which is fair and reasonable in relation to the level available for soybeans. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring a set-aside of sunflower seed acreage as a condition to such price support.
Bill· SS. 1920 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1979
Transfers to the Secretary of Agriculture: (1) all range improvement functions currently carried out by the Department of the Interior; and (2) certain obligations, property, funds, and personnel related to such functions.
Bill· SS. 1922 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1979
Directs the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to stay any order, resulting from a court ordered environmental impact statement, canceling or modifying any permit or lease for grazing livestock on the public rangelands, to enable the permittee or lessee to appeal such order and exhaust all applicable administrative remedies.
Bill· SS. 1898 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1979
National Child Nutrition Act - Title I: Declaration of Policy - Integrates the declarations of policy of the National School Lunch Act (NSLA) and the Child Nutrition Act (CNA). Title II: Definitions - Integrates definitions set forth in the NSLA and the CNA. Title III: School Lunch Program - Retains the School lunch program provisions of the NSLA. Title IV: School Breakfast Program - Integrates the school breakfast program provisions of the CNA and the NDSLA. Title V: Department of Defense Overseas Dependents' Schools - Integrates the provisions relating to Department of Defense dependents' schools in the NSLA and the CNA. Title VI: Special Milk Program - Retains the special milk program provisions of the CNA. Title VII: Food Service Equipment Assistance Program for Schools - Retains the food service equipment assistance program for schools provisions of the CNA. Title VIII: Summer Food Service Program - Retains the summer food service program provisions of the NSLA. Title IX: Child Care Food Program - Retains the child care food program provisions of the NSLA. Directs (formerly authorized) the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out such program. Title X: State Plans of Operation-Schools, Service Institutions - Integrates the provisions of the NSLA and the CNA relating to State plans of operation for schools, service institutions, and other institutions. Title XI: Miscellaneous Program Provisions - Integrates specified program provisions of the NSLA and the CNA relating to the nonprofit basis of specified programs, preschool programs, prohibitions regarding instruction, State and local expenditures, value of assistance, separate cost accounting, and State advisory councils. Title XII: Federal Administration of Programs - Integrates provisions of the NSLA and the CNA relating to Federal administration of programs. Title XIII: State Administrative Expenses - Retains the State administrative expenses provisions of the CNA. Title XIV: Special Supplemental Food Program - Retains the special supplemental food program provisions of the CNA. Title XV: Food Donations - Integrates the provisions of the NSLA and the CNA relating to food donations. Title XVI: Nutrition Education and Training - Retains the nutrition education and training provisions of the CNA. Title XVII: Additional Education and Training Authorizations-Surveys, Projects - Integrates provisions of the NSLA and the CNA relating to additional education and training authorizations and to surveys and projects. Title XVIII: Accounts and Records - Integrates provisions of the NSLA and the CNA relating to accounts and records. Title XIX: Criminal Provisions - Retains the criminal penalty provisions of the NSLA. Title XX: Advisory Councils - Integrates the provisions of the NSLA and the CNA relating to advisory councils. Title XXI: Regulations - Retains provisions of the CNA relating to regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the transfer of funds by any State between the programs authorized under this Act on the basis of an approved State plan of operation for the use of funds. Prohibits the Secretary from providing for the transfer of funds from the nutrition education and training program to any other program. Title XXII: Appropriations Authorized - Integrates authorizations of appropriations provided for in the NSLA and the CNA. Extends, without expiration date, such authorizations for programs for summer food service, State administrative expenses, and nutrition education and training which were to expire at the end of fiscal year 1980. Title XXIII: Administration and Budget - Retains provisions of the CNA relating to administration and budget, whereby administration of programs under this Act shall be centralized in the Department of Agriculture, but appropriations and expenditures for this Act shall be considered Department of Health, Education, and Welfare functions for budget purposes. Title XXIV: Treasury Payments - Integrates provisions of the NSLA and the CNA relating to Treasury payments. Title XXV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Declares that provisions of such Acts which are relevant to current regulations of the Secretary governing all programs authorized under such Acts shall remain in effect until such regulations are revoked, suspended, amended, or modified by regulations issued pursuant to this Act.
Law· HRH.R. 5523 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to change specified levels of price support loans and price support payments for the 1980 and each subsequent crop of extra long staple cotton. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to require that extra long staple cotton acreage allotments voluntarily surrendered to county committees be so surrendered not later than January 30 of the crop harvest year. Directs (formerly authorized) the Secretary of Agriculture to permit owners or operators of farms for which an extra long staple cotton acreage allotment is established to sell or lease all or part of such allotment for transfer to farms owned or operated by others, or to transfer such allotment to other farms owned by themselves. Stipulates that farms to which such allotments are transferred may be in any State or county. Requires that such sale, lease, or transfer occur not later than January 30 of the crop harvest year. Prohibits the leasing of any such allotment for a total period greater than three years.
Bill· HRH.R. 5528 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1979
Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to prohibit the owner or operator of an export elevator at an export port location to knowingly add or mix grain dust or any nongrain related material to any grain shipped from such elevator. Permits fumigation of grain and blending of separate lots of the same kind of grain.
Bill· HRH.R. 5526 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to subject imported grapes to the same regulation as to grade, size, quality, or maturity as table grapes which are made subject to a marketing order regulating such items.
Bill· SS. 1852 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1979
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to permit the duty-free entry of long, green, 6-4 anaheim peppers until June 30, 1982.
Bill· HRH.R. 5448 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to lease real property as necessary to carry out departmental programs. Requires the Secretary to obtain specified spaces through the General Services Administration.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 433 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1979
Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Agriculture, using all the agencies of his Department and working closely with the State land grant colleges, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Cooperative Federal-State Extension Service, devote increased emphasis to teaching farmers how to better market their agricultural commodities. Urges the Secretary, in consultation with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to appoint a task force to educate farmers as to the availability of futures markets and forward contracting as a means of hedging against future risks. States that the Secretary should report to the House with plans 120 days after enactment of this Resolution.
Bill· SS. 1776 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1979
Lamb Meat Quota Act of 1979 - Limits the aggregate quantity of lamb meat that may be imported into the United States after 1979 to the smaller of: (1) 24,500,000 pounds; or (2) ten percent of the domestic slaughter of land during the preceding year. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to estimate quarterly whether the domestic price of lamb exceeds the parity price and, on the basis of such estimate, to adjust the aggregate quantity of lamb meat which may enter the United States. Requires the Secretary to estimate annually the quota established, the domestic price of lamb, and any adjustment of the quota. Directs the Secretary to allocate such quotas among supplying countries on the basis of their share of the U.S. market.
Bill· HRH.R. 5329 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to change specified levels of price support loans and price support payments for the 1980 and each subsequent crop of extra long staple cotton. Amends the Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1938 to require that extra long staple cotton acreage allotments voluntarily surrendered to county committees be so surrendered not later than January 15 of the crop harvest year. Directs (formerly authorized) the Secretary of Agriculture to permit owners or operators of farms for which an extra long staple cotton acreage allotment is established to sell or lease all or part of such allotment for transfer to farms owned or operated by others, or to transfer such allotment to other farms owned by themselves. Stipulates that farms to which such allotments are transferred may be in any State or county. Requires that such sale, lease, or transfer occur not later than January 15 of the crop harvest year. Prohibits the leasing of any such allotment for a total period greater than three years.
Bill· SS. 1768 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to permit the owners and operators of flue-cured tobacco farms in North and South Carolina to: (1) lease or transfer all or part of the 1979 crop allotment and quota attributable to tobacco destroyed due to contamination by the herbicide picloram to other owners and operators in the same State with the same allotment and quota; and (2) carry over to the 1980 crop year that part of such allotment and quota which the owner and operator is unable to lease and transfer during the 1979 crop year. Requires any such lease to be filed with the county committee of the county to which such transfer is made.
Law· HRH.R. 5326 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1979
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey specified Federal land in the Louisiana National Forest to the State of Louisiana on the following conditions: (1) such conveyed property shall be used for the training and support of the National Guard of Louisiana; (2) the United States shall retain all mineral rights of such property and the right to use such land in a national emergency or for national defense; (3) such land shall remain subject to all existing easements, servitudes, and rights-of-way; and (4) the State of Louisiana shall convey certain State-owned land in Camp Livingston, Louisiana, to the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to accept such land subject to all existing easements, servitudes, and rights of way. Requires such land conveyed to the United States to be designated as national forest land and administered by the Secretary.
Bill· HRH.R. 5265 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1979
Emergency Fuel and Food Relief Act of 1979 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the cost of the thrifty food plan in specified States for the months of December, 1979, and January through March of 1980, by a formula based on the increase in the costs of home heating oil.
Bill· HRH.R. 5208 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1979
Cancels the liability of any qualified recipient for excess payments made for the self-hauling of hay and other roughages under the Hay Transportation Assistance Program (HTAP). Obligates the Department of Agriculture to make all payments pursuant to Departmental directives issued prior to December 1, 1976.
Bill· HRH.R. 5216 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1979
Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to provide that the United States shall bear the cost, except overtime, of inspection, certification, and identification of domesticated rabbits, carcasses, parts, or products thereof slaughtered or processed for human consumption, when such items are shipped or received in interstate commerce.
Bill· SS. 1696 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1979
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, effective for one or more of the 1980 and 1981 crops of upland cotton, feed grains, rice, and wheat, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to require producers not to exceed the acreage on the farm normally planted to crops designated by the Secretary. States that such acreage shall be reduced by any set-aside or diverted acreage. Authorizes the Secretary to increase the established price for any such commodity for which he requires producers not to exceed normally planted acreage. Sets the established prices for the 1980 and 1981 crops of such commodities at not less than the established prices for the previous year's crop of the respective commodities adjusted to reflect any change in the inflation rate for such previous crop year.
Law· SS. 1650 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
National Aquaculture Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior, after consultation with appropriate Federal and State officials and regional fishery management councils, 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. Directs the Secretaries to make periodic reviews of the operation and effectiveness of the Plan and to amend the plan as necessary. Requires the Secretaries, through the Joint Subcommittee on Aquaculture, to make a continuing assessment of aquaculture in the United States. Requires the Secretaries, 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 Secretaries 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 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 Secretaries, through the Joint Subcommittee on Aquaculture, established by this Act, to prepare and submit to Congress a biennial report on the status of aquaculture in the United States. Establishes the Joint Subcommittee on Aquaculture of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology to increase the overall effectiveness and productivity of Federal aquaculture research, transfer, and assistance programs. Authorizes the Secretaries, according to their responsibilities under the Plan, 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. Directs the Secretaries, through the Joint Subcommittee on Aquaculture, to conduct and submit to Congress, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, a study of the capital requirements of the United States aquaculture industry which shall: (1) document and analyze any capital constraints that affect the development of aquaculture in the United States; and (2) evaluate the role that appropriate Federal financial assistance does or could play in filing gaps in the normal credit market with respect to aquaculture. Requires the Secretaries to formulate and submit to Congress a capital requirements plan, based on such study, which shall include: (1) those Federal actions, if any, found to be necessary to meet financial needs unmet through normal credit channels and existing Federal programs; and (2) recommendations for legislative actions. Requires the Secretaries, through the Joint Subcommittee on Aquaculture, to conduct and submit to Congress a study of the State and Federal regulatory restrictions to aquaculture development in the United States and, based upon the results of such study, to formulate and submit to Congress a plan for acting on the study's findings.
Bill· SS. 1652 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Nutrition Labeling and Information Amendments of 1979 to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act -- Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the publication of additional nutritional information on food package labels. Authorizes exemptions from prescribed guidelines for such labeling if the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare determines that compelling local conditions require the application of a satisfactory, but otherwise federally-pre-empted, State or local labeling statute or regulation. Authorizes the Secretary to approve demonstrations to ascertain the most effective methods of organizing a food label and of conveying required information to consumers. Requires written evaluations of such demonstrations. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to develop, pilot test, and implement a program of consumer education on how to use nutrition labels effectively. Directs the Secretary to notify the Federal Trade Commission of the nutritional information required on labeling and to recommend what information should be required on advertising.
Bill· SS. 1651 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Department of Agriculture Nutrition Labeling and Information Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, after consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop and implement a nutrition labeling and information system for meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry products capable of use as human food. Specifies general contents of such nutrition labeling. Authorizes exemptions from the requirements of this Act to the extent that compliance is impracticable, would result in unfair competition, or is not necessary to provide such health information to consumers. Vests the United States district courts with jurisdiction to specifically enforce, and to prevent and restrain violations of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to approve demonstrations to ascertain the most effective methods of organizing the information on labels of such meat and poultry products. Requires written evaluations of such demonstrations. Authorizes the Secretary to develop and publish a standardized reference on the nutrient composition of all foods. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for the development of such reference. Directs the Secretary to notify the Federal Trade Commission of the nutrition information required on labeling and to recommend what information should be required on advertising. Requires the Secretary to develop and promulgate a system of retail quality grade standards for meat, poultry, and dairy products, fresh fruits, and vegetables, expressed in a uniform nonmenclature. Requires all such products sold after implementation of such standards to be conspicuously labeled with such standards, or with the statement: "Not quality graded by the United States Department of Agriculture." Requires implementation of the grade system two years after enactment.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 225 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture, using all the agencies of his Department and working closely with the State land grant colleges, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Cooperative Federal-State Extension Service, devote increased emphasis to teaching farmers how to better market their agricultural commodities. Urges the Secretary, in consultation with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to appoint a task force to educate farmers as to the availability of futures markets and forward contracting as a means of hedging against future risks. States that the Secretary should report to the Senate with plans 120 days after enactment of this Resolution.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 222 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture act now, under the authority of existing law, to implement research, information, and loan programs to develop advanced technology and production facilities for obtaining energy from agricultural commodities produced by United States farmers and other renewable resources.
Bill· HRH.R. 5137 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Department of Agriculture Nutrition Labeling and Information Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, after consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop and implement a nutrition labeling and information system for meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry products, capable of use as human food. Specifies general contents of such nutrition labeling. Authorizes exemptions from the requirements of this Act to the extent that compliance is impracticable, would result in unfair competition, or is not necessary to provide such health information to consumers. Vests the United States district courts with jurisdiction to specifically enforce, and to prevent and restrain violations of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to approve demonstrations to ascertain the most effective methods of organizing the information on labels of such meat and poultry products. Requires written evaluations of such demonstrations. Authorizes the Secretary to develop and publish a standardized reference on the nutrient composition of all foods. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for the development of such reference. Directs the Secretary to notify the Federal Trade Commission of the nutrition information required on labeling and to recommend what information should be required on advertising. Requires the Secretary to develop and promulgate a system of retail quality grade standards form meat, poultry, and dairy products, fresh fruits, and vegetables, expressed in a uniform nonmenclature. Requires all such products sold after implementation of such standards to be conspicuously labeled with such standards, or with the statement: "Not quality graded by the United States Department of Agriculture." Requires implementation of the grade system two years after enactment of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5125 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to subject imported grapes to the same regulation as to grade, size, quality, or maturity as table grapes from the Coachella Valley, California, whenever such table grapes are made subject to a marketing order regulating such items.
Bill· HRH.R. 5127 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Lamb Meat Quota Act of 1979 - Limits the aggregate quantity of lamb meat that may be imported into the United States after 1979 to the smaller of: (1) 24,500,000 pounds; or (2) ten percent of the domestic slaughter of land during the preceding year. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to estimate quarterly whether the domestic price of lamb exceeds the parity price and, on the basis of such estimate, to adjust the aggregate quantity of lamb meat which may enter the United States. Requires the Secretary to annually estimate the quota established, the domestic price of lamb, and any adjustment of the quota. Directs the Secretary to allocate such quotas among supplying countries on the basis of their share of the U.S. market.
Bill· HRH.R. 5069 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Amends the Egg Research and Consumer Information Act to increase the rate of the assessment which egg producers must pay egg handlers: (1) for fiscal year 1979, from a maximum five cents to seven-and-one-half cents per case of commercial eggs; and (2) for each succeeding fiscal year, to a maximum increment of three-quarters of a cent per case each fiscal year, up to an absolute maximum of ten cents per case.