domly selected lots of grain shipped to and from such terminal marketing areas. (4) The Director of the Office of Investigation and the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service shall complete their investigations and study and shall submit their reports to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and the Comptroller General not later than thirty months after the effective date of this Act. (5) The Comptroller General, in making his investigations and study, shall (A) assess the present grain inspection and weighing system in the interior of the United States, and (B) evaluate the reports submitted under this subsection by the Director of the Office of Investigation and the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service. The Comptroller General shall submit a report setting forth the findings of such study and evaluation and his recommendations for changes in the United States Grain Standards Act to such Committees not later than three years after the effective date of this Act. STUDIES OF GRAIN STANDARDS SEC. 24.2 (a) In order to assure that producers, handlers, and transporters of grain are encouraged and rewarded for the production, maintenance, and delivery of high quality grain and grain of the type needed to meet the end-use requirements of domestic and foreign buyers, the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service shall conduct an investigation and make a study regarding the adequacy of the current grain standards established under the United States Grain Standards Act. (b) To determine the items of concern to buyers, both foreign and domestic, and how sellers in the United States might best satisfy those needs, the Administrator may seek the advice of and may employ the services of representatives of the grain industry, landgrant colleges, and other members of the public (without regard to the provisions of title 5 of the United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service). (c) The study shall address specifically, but is not limited thereto, the tasks of determining (A) if standards may be developed that would reduce grading errors and remove, where possible, subjective human judgment from grading by increased utilization of mechanical, electrical, and chemical means of grading, (B) whether grain should be subclassed according to color or other factor not affecting the quality of grain, (C) whether the protein factor should be included in the standards, and (D) whether broken grain should be grouped together with foreign material. (d) On the basis of the results of such study, the Administrator, in accordance with section 4 of the United States Grain Standards Act, shall make such changes in the grain standards as he determines necessary and appropriate, and, not later than two years after the date of enactment of this Act, submit a report to the Con 27 U.S.C. 76 note. PART VI. FORESTRY CLARKE-MCNARY ACT Act of June 7, 1924, ch. 348, 43 Stat. 653 Chap. 348.-AN ACT To provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor SEC. 5.1 The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed, in cooperation with the land grant colleges and universities of the various States or, in his discretion, with other suitable State agencies, to aid farmers through advice, education, demonstrations, and other similar means in establishing, renewing, protecting, and managing wood lots, shelter belts, windbreaks, and other valuable forest growth, and in harvesting [,] utilizing, and marketing the products thereof. Except for preliminary investigations, the amount expended by the Federal Government under this section in cooperation with any State or other cooperating agency during any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount expended by the State or other cooperating agency for the same purpose during the same fiscal year, and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make expenditures on the certificate of the appropriate State official that the State expenditures, as provided for in this section, have been made. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not more than $500,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of this section. 1 16 U.S.C. 568. Amended in its entirety by Sec. 3 of the Act of October 26, 1949, ch. 735, 63 Stat. 910. (257) KNUTSON-VANDENBERG ACT Act of June 9, 1930, ch. 416, 46 Stat. 527, 16 U.S.C. 576 et seq. Chap. 416.-AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to enlarge Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to establish forest tree nurseries and do all other things needful in preparation for planting on national forests on the scale possible under the appropriations authorized by this Act: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be deemed to restrict the authority of the said Secretary under other authority of law. SEC. 2.1 There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, not to exceed $250,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, not to exceed $300,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, not to exceed $400,000; and for each fiscal year thereafter, not to exceed $400,000, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and operate nurseries, to collect or to purchase tree seed or young trees, to plant trees, and to do all other things necessary for reforestation by planting or seeding national forests and for the additional protection, care, and improvement of the resulting plantations or young growth. SEC. 3.2 The Secretary of Agriculture may, when in his judgment such action will be in the public interest, require any purchaser of national-forest timber to make deposits of money, in addition to the payments for the timber, to cover the cost to the United States of (1) planting (including the production or purchase of young trees), (2) sowing with tree seeds (including the collection or purchase of such seeds), (3) cutting, destroying, or otherwise removing undesirable trees or other growth, on the national-forest land cut over by the purchaser, in order to improve the future stand of timber, or (4) protecting and improving the future productivity of the renewable resources of the forest land on such sale area, including sale area improvement operations maintenance and construction, reforestation and wildlife habitat management. Such deposits shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is hereby appropriated and made available until expended, to cover the cost to the United States of such tree planting, seed sowing, and forest improvement work, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct: Provided, That any portion of any deposit found to be in excess of the cost of doing said work shall, upon the determination that it is so in excess, be transferred to miscellaneous re 1 16 U.S.C. 576a. 216 U.S.C. 576b. Amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, Public Law 94588, section 18, 90 Stat. 2962. ceipts forest reserve fund, as a national-forest receipt of the fiscal year in which such transfer is made: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, upon application of the Secretary of the Interior, to furnish seedlings and/or young trees for replanting of burned-over areas in any national park. |