AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR EXTENSION PROGRAMS

SEC. 1438. [Amendments to section 1464 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (95 Stat. 1314; 7 U.S.C. 3312), see page 102.]

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

SEC. 1439. [Amendments to subtitle K of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, to add new sections 1471, 1472, and 1473 (95 Stat. 1314; 7 U.S.C. 3317, 3318, and 3319), see page 101.]

AQUACULTURE AND RANGELAND RESEARCH

SEC. 1440. [Amendments to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, to add new subtitle L-Aquaculture, sections 1474 through 1477 (95 Stat. 1316; 7 U.S.C. 3321, 3322, 3323, and 3324), see page 105; and to add new subtitle M-Rangeland Research, sections 1478 through 1483 (95 Stat. 1316; 7 U.S.C. 3331, 3332, 3333, 3334, 3335, and 3336), see page 107.]

COOPERATIVE STATE FORESTRY

SEC. 1441. [Amendments to the Act of October 10, 1962, commonly known as the McIntire-Stennis Act (95 Stat. 1320; 16 U.S.C. 582, 582a-1, 582a-4, and 582a-5), see page 261.]

PROHIBITION AGAINST REDUCTION OF STATE FUNDS UPON INCREASE IN FEDERAL ALLOTMENT

SEC. 1442. (a) [Amendments to section 3 of the Act of March 2, 1887, commonly known as the Hatch Act (95 Stat. 1321; 7 U.S.C. 361c), see page 21.]

(b) [Amendments to section 4 of the Act of October 10, 1962, commonly known as the McIntire-Stennis Act (95 Stat. 1321; 7 U.S.C. 582a-3), see page 262.]

EXCESS FEDERAL PROPERTY

SEC. 1443. [Amendments to section 202(d)(2) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (95 Stat. 1321; 40 U.Š.C. 483(d)(2)), see page 54.]

RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL FARM RESEARCH AND EXTENSION

SEC. 1444. [Amendments to title V of the Rural Development Act of 1972 (95 Stat. 1322; 7 U.S.C. 2261 et seq.), see page 41.]

INCREASED EMPHASIS ON MARKETING EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE FAMILY FARMING OPERATIONS

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SEC. 1445. In carrying out marketing research and education programs, the Secretary of Agriculture shall take such steps as may be necessary to increase the efforts of the Department of Agri

47 U.S.C. 2271 (95 Stat. 1327).

culture in providing marketing education programs for persons engaged in small and medium size family farm operations.

SOYBEAN RESEARCH ADVISORY INSTITUTE

SEC. 1446.5 (a)(1) There is established within the Department of Agriculture a temporary advisory body to be known as the Soybean Research Advisory Institute (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Advisory Institute").

(2) The Advisory Institute shall be composed of eleven members appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Secretary"). Members appointed to the Advisory Institute shall be individuals who are recognized soybean research experts and shall represent the interest of soybean producers, soybean processors, land grant colleges and universities, Federal research agencies, and private industry. The Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, balance the membership of the Advisory Institute geographically on the basis of the soybean producing areas of the United States.

(3) The Secretary shall designate a representative of the soybean producers to serve as Chairman of the Advisory Institute.

(b) It shall be the function of the Advisory Institute to

(1) assess the effectiveness of the ongoing soybean research programs in the United States;

(2) assess the impediments to increased United States soybean production, including the soybean cyst nematode, and consider the most effective means of removing such impediments;

(3) evaluate the available means and the potential for increasing soybean production in the United States;

(4) estimate the amount of funds required to carry out a coordinated program of national soybean research to develop means of effectively increasing the overall United States soybean production and profitability; and

(5) develop plans for and sponsor an international conference on soybean research for the purpose of comparing and sharing current information on the production and utilization of soybeans.

(c) The Advisory Institute shall submit to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the House Committee on Agriculture, not later than March 1, 1983, a comprehensive report on the findings of the Advisory Institute regarding research on soybean production and utilization. The Advisory Institute shall also include in such report its recommendations for actions that should be taken to ensure that an effective soybean research program is carried out in the United States.

(d) Members shall receive no compensation for service on the Advisory Institute but may be paid, while in the performance of their duties away from their homes or regular places of business, travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by sections 5701 through 5707 of title 5, United States Code, for persons employed intermittently in Government service.

57 U.S.C. 2281 note (95 Stat. 1327).

(e) The Advisory Institute shall cease to exist on the day on which it submits its report to the committees referred to in subsection (c).

ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION OVER LANDS

SEC. 1447.6 It is the intent of Congress that dual administration and jurisdiction by the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior over certain lands currently administered by the Secretary of Agriculture should be avoided. Therefore, the Secretary of Agriculture shall have sole administrative jurisdiction of the following described lands: The United States Sheep Experiment Station in Idaho and Summer Range in Montana. These lands, containing a total of 45,013 acres of land, more or less, were withdrawn by Executive Orders 3767, dated December 19, 1922; 2268, dated October 30, 1915; 2491 dated November 21, 1916; 3141, dated August 6, 1919; and 3165, dated September 3, 1919, for agricultural experiment purposes.

695 Stat. 1328.

PART III. AGRICULTURAL MARKETING RESEARCH

COOPERATIVE MARKETING ACT

Act of July 2, 1926, ch. 725, 44 Stat. 802, 7 U.S.C. 451 et seq. Chap. 725.-AN ACT To create a division of cooperative marketing in the Department of Agriculture; to provide for the acquisition and dissemination of information pertaining to cooperation; to promote the knowledge of cooperative principles and practices; to provide for calling advisers to counsel with the Secretary of Agriculture on cooperative activities; to authorize cooperative associations to acquire, interpret, and disseminate crop and market information, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when used in this Act the term "agricultural products" means agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, and dairy products, livestock and the products thereof, the products of poultry and bee raising, the edible products of forestry, and any and all products raised or produced on farms and processed or manufactured products thereof, transported or intended to be transported in interstate and/or foreign

commerce.

SEC. 2.1 The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to establish a division of cooperative marketing with suitable personnel in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture or in such bureau in the Department of Agriculture as may hereafter be concerned with the marketing and distribution of farm products. Such division shall be under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture.

SEC. 3.2 (a) The division shall render service to associations of producers of agricultural products, and federations and subsidiaries thereof, engaged in the cooperative marketing of agricultural products, including processing, warehousing, manufacturing, storage, the cooperative purchasing of farm supplies, credit, financing, insurance, and other cooperative activities.

(b) The division is authorized—

(1) To acquire, analyze, and disseminate economic, statistical, and historical information regarding the progress, organization, and business methods of cooperative associations in the United States and foreign countries.

(2) To conduct studies of the economic, legal, financial, social, and other phases of cooperation, and publish the results thereof. Such studies shall include the analyses of the organization, operation, financial, and merchandising problems of cooperative associations.

17 U.S.C. 452. The functions provided in section 2 are now primarily performed by the Agricultural Cooperative Service and the Economics and Statistics Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.

27 U.S.C. 453.

(3) To make surveys and analyses if deemed advisable of the accounts and business practices of representative cooperative associations upon their request; to report to the association so surveyed the results thereof; and with the consent of the association so surveyed to publish summaries of the results of such surveys, together with similar facts, for the guidance of cooperative associations and for the purpose of assisting cooperative associations in developing methods of business and market analysis.

(4) To confer and advise with committees or groups of producers, if deemed advisable, that may be desirous of forming a cooperative association and to make an economic survey and analysis of the facts surrounding the production and marketing of the agricultural product or products which the association, if formed, would handle or market.

(5) To acquire from all available sources information concerning crop prospects, supply, demand, current receipts, exports, imports, and prices of the agricultural products handled or marketed by cooperative associations, and to employ qualified commodity marketing specialists to summarize and analzye this information and diseminate the same among cooperative associations and others.

(6) To promote the knowledge of cooperative principles and practices and to cooperate, in promoting such knowledge, with educational and marketing agencies, cooperative associations, and others. (7) To make such special studies, in the United States and foreign countries, and to acquire and disseminate such information and findings as may be useful in the development and practice of cooperation.

SEC. 4.3 The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, in his discretion, to call advisers to counsel with him and/or his representatives relative to specific problems of cooperative marketing of farm products or any other cooperative activity. Any person, other than an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, called into conference, as provided for in this section, may be paid actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem to cover subsistence and other expenses while in conference and en route from and to his home.

SEC. 5.4 Persons engaged, as original producers of agricultural products, such as farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, nut or fruit growers, acting together in associations, corporate or otherwise, in collectively processing, preparing for market, handling, and marketing in interstate and/or foreign commerce such products of persons so engaged, may acquire, exchange, interpret, and disseminate past, present, and prospective crop, market, statistical, economic, and other similar information by direct exchange between such persons, and/or such associations or federations thereof, and/or by and through a common agent created or selected by them.

SEC. 6.5 The Secretary of Agriculture may make such rules and regulations as may be deemed advisable to carry out the provisions

37 U.S.C. 454.

47 U.S.C. 455.

JJ.S.C. 456.