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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. R. 4788

To amend the United States Grain Standards Act to extend the authority

of the Secretary of Agriculture to collect fees to cover the cost of

services performed under the Act, to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Act, and to improve the administration of the Act.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JUNE 29, 2000

Mr. BARRETT of Nebraska (for himself and Mr. MINGE) introduced the

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To amend the United States Grain Standards Act to extend

the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to collect

fees to cover the cost of services performed under the

Act, to extend the authorization of appropriations for

the Act, and to improve the administration of the Act.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the

5 ‘‘United States Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of

6 2000’’.
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1 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for

2 this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.

TITLE I—EXTENSION OF EXPIRING AUTHORITIES AND

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

Sec. 101. Collection of certain fees.

Sec. 102. Limitation on administrative and supervisory costs.

Sec. 103. Advisory committee.

Sec. 104. Authorization of appropriations.

TITLE II—ADMINISTRATION OF ACT

Sec. 201. Increased flexibility in obtaining sample of export grain for inspection

and weighing.

Sec. 202. Geographic boundaries for official agencies.

Sec. 203. Elimination of annual requirement regarding testing of equipment.

Sec. 204. Prohibition on use of grain additives to disguise quality of grain.

TITLE III—REPEAL OF OBSOLETE PROVISIONS

Sec. 301. United States Grain Standards Act of 1976.

3 TITLE I—EXTENSION OF EXPIR4 ING AUTHORITIES AND AU5 THORIZATION OF APPRO6 PRIATIONS

7 SEC. 101. COLLECTION OF CERTAIN FEES.

8 (a) INSPECTION AND SUPERVISORY FEES.—Section

9 7(j)(4) of the United States Grain Standards Act (7

10 U.S.C. 79(j)(4)) is amended by striking ‘‘2000’’ and in11 serting ‘‘2005’’.

12 (b) WEIGHING AND SUPERVISORY FEES.—Section

13 7A(l)(3) of the United States Grain Standards Act (7

14 U.S.C. 79a(l)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘2000’’ and in15 serting ‘‘2005’’.
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1 SEC. 102. LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPER2 VISORY COSTS.

3 Section 7D of the United States Grain Standards Act

4 (7 U.S.C. 79d) is amended by striking ‘‘2000’’ and insert5 ing ‘‘2005’’.

6 SEC. 103. ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

7 Section 21(e) of the United States Grain Standards

8 Act (7 U.S.C. 87j(e)) is amended by striking ‘‘2000’’ and

9 inserting ‘‘2005’’.

10 SEC. 104. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

11 Section 19 of the United States Grain Standards Act

12 (7 U.S.C. 87h) is amended by striking ‘‘2000’’ and insert13 ing ‘‘2005’’.

14 TITLE II—ADMINISTRATION OF

15 ACT

16 SEC. 201. INCREASED FLEXIBILITY IN OBTAINING SAMPLE

17 OF EXPORT GRAIN FOR INSPECTION AND

18 WEIGHING.

19 Section 5(a)(1) of the United States Grain Standards

20 Act (7 U.S.C. 77(a)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘(on the

21 basis’’ and all that follows through ‘‘United States)’’.

22 SEC. 202. GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES FOR OFFICIAL AGEN23 CIES.

24 (a) INSPECTION AUTHORITY.—Section 7(f) of the

25 United States Grain Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 79(f)(2))
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1 is amended by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the

2 following:

3 ‘‘(2) Not more than one official agency designated

4 under paragraph (1) or State delegated authority under

5 subsection (e)(2) to carry out the inspection provisions of

6 this Act shall be operative at the same time in any geo7 graphic area defined by the Secretary, except that the

8 Secretary—

9 ‘‘(A) may implement a pilot program (or con10 tinue an existing pilot program) to allow more than

11 one official agency designated under paragraph (1)

12 to carry out inspections within the same geo13 graphical area without undermining the policy stated

14 in section 2; and

15 ‘‘(B) may allow an official agency designated

16 under paragraph (1) or State agency delegated au17 thority pursuant to subsection (e)(2) to cross bound18 ary lines to carry out inspections in another geo19 graphic area if the Secretary determines, after con20 sultation with the current designated official agency

21 or delegated State agency for that geographic area,

22 that the presence of more than one designated offi23 cial agency or delegated State agency in that geo24 graphic area will maintain the integrity and viability

25 of the official grain inspection system and that—
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1 ‘‘(i) the current designated official agency

2 or delegated State agency for that geographic

3 area is unable to provide inspection services in

4 a timely manner;

5 ‘‘(ii) a person requesting inspection serv6 ices in that geographic area has not been re7 ceiving official inspection services from the cur8 rent designated official agency or delegated

9 State agency for that geographic area; or

10 ‘‘(iii) a person requesting inspection serv11 ices in that geographic area requests a probe

12 inspection on a barge-lot basis.’’.

13 (b) WEIGHING AUTHORITY.—Section 7A(i) of the

14 United States Grain Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 79a(i)) is

15 amended—

16 (1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(i)’’;

17 (2) by striking the second sentence; and

18 (3) by adding at the end the following:

19 ‘‘(2) Not more than one designated official agency re20 ferred to in paragraph (1) or State agency delegated au21 thority pursuant to subsection (c)(2) to carry out the

22 weighing provisions of this Act shall be operative at the

23 same time in any geographic area defined by the Sec24 retary, except that the Secretary—
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1 ‘‘(A) may implement a pilot program (or con2 tinue an existing pilot program) to allow more than

3 one official agency to carry out the weighing provi4 sions within the same geographical area without un5 dermining the policy stated in section 2; and

6 ‘‘(B) may allow a designated official agency or

7 State agency delegated authority pursuant to sub8 section (c)(2) to cross boundary lines to carry out

9 the weighing provisions in another geographic area

10 if the Secretary determines, after consultation with

11 the current designated official agency or delegated

12 State agency for that geographic area, that the pres13 ence of more than one designated official agency or

14 delegated State agency in that geographic area will

15 maintain the integrity and viability of the official

16 grain inspection system and that—

17 ‘‘(i) the current designated official agency

18 or delegated State agency for that geographic

19 area is unable to provide the weighing services

20 in a timely manner; or

21 ‘‘(ii) a person requesting weighing services

22 in that geographic area has not been receiving

23 official weighing services from the current des24 ignated official agency or delegated State agen25 cy for that geographic area.’’.
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1 SEC. 203. ELIMINATION OF ANNUAL REQUIREMENT RE2 GARDING TESTING OF EQUIPMENT.

3 Section 7B(a) of the United States Grain Standards

4 Act (7 U.S.C. 79b(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘but at least

5 annually and’’.

6 SEC. 204. PROHIBITION ON USE OF GRAIN ADDITIVES TO

7 DISGUISE QUALITY OF GRAIN.

8 Section 13(e)(1) of the United States Grain Stand9 ards Act (7 U.S.C. 87b(e)(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘,

10 or prohibit disguising the quality of grain,’’ after ‘‘sound

11 and pure grain’’.

12 TITLE III—REPEAL OF

13 OBSOLETE PROVISIONS

14 SEC. 301. UNITED STATES GRAIN STANDARDS ACT OF 1976.

15 The following provisions of the United States Grain

16 Standards Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–582) are repealed:

17 (1) Section 8(b) (7 U.S.C. 79 note).

18 (2) Section 23 (7 U.S.C. 87e–1).

19 (3) Section 24 (7 U.S.C. 76 note).

20 (4) Section 25.

21 (5) Section 27 (7 U.S.C. 74 note).

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