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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 456 

To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require monthly reporting to the Secretary of Agriculture of items contained in the cold storage 

survey and the dairy products survey of the National Agricultural Statistics Service. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 2, 2011 

Mrs. GILLIBRAND introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 

A BILL 

To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require 

monthly reporting to the Secretary of Agriculture of 

items contained in the cold storage survey and the dairy 

products survey of the National Agricultural Statistics 

Service. 

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. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cold Storage Report5 ing Improvement Act of 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 

2 Section 273(b) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 

3 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1637b(b)) is amended— 

4 (1) in paragraph (1), by striking subparagraph 

5 (B) and inserting the following: 

6 ‘‘(B) require each manufacturer and other 

7 appropriate person to report to the Secretary, 

8 at a periodic interval determined by the Sec9 retary, information on the products in the cold 

10 storage survey and the dairy products survey of 

11 the National Agricultural Statistics Service.’’; 

12 and 

13 (2) in paragraph (2)— 

14 (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking 

15 ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

16 (B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the 

17 period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

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

19 ‘‘(E) the Secretary may exempt from all 

20 reporting requirements any manufacturer or fa21 cility that stores less than an average of 10,000 

22 pounds monthly on an annual basis.’’. 


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1 SEC. 3. COLD STORAGE SURVEY AND DAIRY PRODUCTS 

2 SURVEY. 

3 Section 273(c)(3) of the Agricultural Marketing Act 

4 of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1637b(c)(3)) is amended by adding at 

5 the end the following: 

6 ‘‘(C) COLD STORAGE SURVEY.— 

7 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of 

8 the cold storage survey of the National Ag9 ricultural Statistics Service, each facility 

10 storing dairy products shall report to the 

11 Secretary each month information on the 

12 quantity of dairy products stored. 

13 ‘‘(ii) AUDIT.—Subject to the avail14 ability of appropriations, the Secretary 

15 shall take such measures as are necessary 

16 to audit the survey described in paragraph 

17 (1) and ensure compliance with the report18 ing requirement. 

19 ‘‘(D) DAIRY PRODUCTS SURVEY.— 

20 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of 

21 the dairy products survey of the National 

22 Agricultural Statistics Service, each manu23 facturer storing dairy products shall report 

24 to the Secretary each month information 

25 on the quantity of dairy products stored. 


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1 ‘‘(ii) AUDIT.—Subject to the avail2 ability of appropriations, the Secretary 

3 shall take such measures as are necessary 

4 to audit the survey described in paragraph 

5 (1) and ensure compliance with the report6 ing requirement.’’. 

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