An Act to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act, as amended, to clarify the provision relating to custom slaughtering operations
PL 91-342 (S.3592), enacted 07/18/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 91-340-JULY 17, 1970 
[84 STAT. 
July 17, 1970 
[H. J. Res. 746] 
Public Law 91-340 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To amend the joint resolution authorizing appropriations for the payment by 
the United States of its share of the expenses of the Pan American Institute 
of Geography and History. 
Pan American 
Institute of Geog-
raphy and History, 
Appropriation 
increase. 
80 Stat. 893. 
Resolved hy tlie Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assemMed, That Public Resolution 42, 
Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 2,1935 (22 U.S.C. 273), is 
amended as follows: 
(1) In paragraph (1)— 
(A) strike out "$90,300" and insert in lieu thereof "$200,000"; 
and 
(B) strike out "and" at the end thereof. 
(2) Strike out the period at the end of paragraph (2) and insert 
in lieu thereof "; and" and immediately after paragraph (2) add the 
following new paragraph: 
"(3) the sum of $386,050 for payment by the United States of 
its assessed annual contributions for the period beginning July 1, 
1964, and extending through the fiscal year expiring June 30, 
1969." 
Approved July 17, 1970. 
Public Law 91-341 
July 
[S. 
18,1970 
1455] 
Apples, 
Marke ting orders. 
68 Stat. 906; 
75 Stat, 
7 u s e 
304. 
: 608c. 
AN ACT 
To amend section 8c(2) (A) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide for 
marketing orders for apples produced in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Illinois, 
and Ohio. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asse'm'bled, That clause (A) of 
the first sentence of section 8c(2) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, 
as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement 
Act of 1937 and subsequent legislation, is amended by striking out 
"and Connecticut" and inserting in lieu thereof "Connecticut, Colo-
rado, Utah, New Mexico, Illinois, and Ohio". 
Approved July 18, 1970. 
Public Law 91-342 
July 18, 1970 
[S. 3592] 
Federal Meat 
Inspection Act, 
amendment, 
81 Stat. 591. 
21 u s e 623. 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act, as amended, to clarify the provisions 
relating to custom slaughtering operations. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^sembled^ That the Federal 
Meat Inspection Act (34 Stat. 1260, as amended by the Wholesome 
Meat Act, 81 Stat. 584), is hereby amended by deleting the proviso 
from paragraph (a) of section 23 of the Act, and the colon preceding 
said proviso, and substituting therefor the following: "; nor to the 
custom preparation by any person, firm, or corporation of carcasses, 
parts thereof, meat or meat food products, derived from the slaughter 
by any person of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats of his own raising, or 
from game animals, delivered by the owner thereof for such custom 
preparation, and transportation in commerce of such custom prepared 
articles, exclusively for use in the household of such owner, by him and 
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members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees: 
Provided^ That in cases where such person, firm, or corporation 
engages in such custom operations at an establishment at which inspec-
tion under this title is maintained, the Secretary may exempt from such 
inspection at such establishment any animals slaughtered or any meat 
or meat food products otherwise prepared on such custom basis: Pro-
vided further^ That custom operations at any establishment shall be 
exempt from inspection requirements as provided by this section only 
if the establishment complies with regulations which the Secretary is 
hereby authorized to promulgate to assure that any carcasses, parts 
thereof, meat or meat food products wherever handled on a custom 
basis, or any containers or packages containing such articles, are 
separated at all times from carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food 
products prepared for sale, and that all such articles prepared on a 
custom basis, or any containers or packages containing such articles, 
are plainly marked 'Not for Sale' immediately after being prepared 
and kept so identified until delivered to the owner and that the 
establishment conducting the custom operation is maintained and 
operated in a sanitary manner." 
Approved July 18, 1970. 
Public Law 91-343 
A N A C T 
j ^ j y jg^ jg^Q 
To amend section 32(e) of title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, 
[S. 3598] 
as amended, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to furnish financial 
assistance in carrying out plans for works of improvement for land conserva-
tion and utilization, and for other purposes. 
Land conserva-
tion. 
Be It enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 32(e) 
of title I I I of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1011), " Development 
as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: projects, financial 
"In providing assistance for carrying out plans developed under this ^^^rsfrt^eo?; 
title, the Secretary shall be authorized to bear such proportionate so stat. uvs. 
share of the costs of installing any works of improvement applicable 
to public water-based fish and wildlife or recreational development 
as IS determined by him to be equitable in consideration of national 
needs and assistance authorized for similar purposes under other 
Federal programs: Provided, That all engineering and other technical 
assistance costs relating to such development may be borne by the 
Secretary: Provided further. That when a State or other public agency 
or local nonprofit organization participating in a plan developed 
under this title agrees to operate and maintain any reservoir or other 
area included in a plan for public water-based fish and wildlife or 
recreational development, the Secretary shall be authorized to bear 
not to exceed one-half of the costs of (a) the land, easements, or 
rights-of-way acquired or to be acquired by the State or other public 
agency or local nonprofit organization for such reservoir or other area, 
and (ib) minimum basic facilities needed for public health and safety, 
access to, and use of such reservoir or other area for such purposes: 
Provided 
further, 
That in no event shall the Secretary share any 
portion of the cost of installing more than one such work of improve-
ment for each seventy-five thousand acres in any project; and that 
any such public water-based fish and wildlife or recreational develop-
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