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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 8308', '§8308', '§10409', '§11011', '§4', '§11011', '§10401', '§11011', '§12107', 'art 146']

[USC02] 7 USC 8308: Detection, control, and eradication of diseases and pests
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7 USC 8308: Detection, control, and eradication of diseases and pests Text contains those laws in effect on August 4, 2020
From Title 7-AGRICULTURECHAPTER 109-ANIMAL HEALTH PROTECTION
§8308. Detection, control, and eradication of diseases and pests
The Secretary may carry out operations and measures to detect, control, or eradicate any pest or disease of livestock (including the drawing of blood and diagnostic testing of animals), including animals at a slaughterhouse, stockyard, or other point of concentration.
(b) Compensation
The Secretary may pay a claim arising out of the destruction of any animal, article, or means of conveyance consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
(2) Specific cooperative programs
The Secretary shall compensate industry participants and State agencies that cooperate with the Secretary in carrying out operations and measures under subsection (a) for 100 percent of eligible costs relating to cooperative programs involving Federal, State, and industry participants to control diseases of low pathogenicity in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary.
(3) Reviewability
The action of the Secretary in carrying out paragraph (1) shall not be subject to review by any officer or employee of the Federal Government other than the Secretary or the designee of the Secretary.
( Pub. L. 107–171, title X, §10409, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 501 ; Pub. L. 110–234, title XI, §11011(2), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1360 ; Pub. L. 110–246, §4(a), title XI, §11011(2), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664 , 2122.)
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), was in the original "this subtitle", meaning subtitle E (§§10401–10418) of title X of Pub. L. 107–171, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 494 , which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of subtitle E to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 8301 of this title and Tables.
2008-Subsec. (b)(2), (3). Pub. L. 110–246, §11011(2), added par. (2), redesignated former par. (2) as (3), and, in par. (3), struck out "of longer than 60 days" after "review".
For transfer of functions of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to agricultural import and entry inspection activities under this chapter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 231, 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
Pub. L. 113–79, title XII, §12107, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 982 , provided that: "The Secretary of Agriculture shall ensure that the Department of Agriculture continues to administer the diagnostic surveillance program for H5/H7 low pathogenic avian influenza with respect to commercial poultry under section 146.14 of title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation), without amending the regulations in section 147.43 of title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [Feb. 7, 2014]), with respect to the governance of the General Conference Committee established under such section. The Secretary of Agriculture shall maintain-
"(1) the operations of the General Conference Committee-
"(A) in the physical location at which the Committee was located on the date of the enactment of this Act; and
"(B) with the organizational structure within the Department of Agriculture in effect as of such date; and
"(2) the funding levels for the National Poultry Improvement Plan for Commercial Poultry (established under part 146 of title 9, Code of Federal Regulations, or a successor regulation) at the fiscal year 2013 funding levels for the Plan."