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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 30 -FEB. 16, 1938 (d) The Secretary is authorized to cooperate with and assist coop- erative associations of farmers making complaint to the Interstate Commerce Commission with respect to rates, charges, tariffs, and practices relating to the transportation of farm products. NEW USES AND NEW MARKETS FOR FARM COMMODITIES SEC. 202. (a) The Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to establish, equip, and maintain four regional research laboratories, one in each major farm producing area, and, at such laboratories, to conduct researches into and to develop new scientific, chemical, and technical uses and new and extended markets and outlets for farm commodities and products and byproducts thereof. Such research and development shall be devoted primarily to those farm com- modities in which there are regular or seasonal surpluses, and their products and byproducts. (b) For the purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized to acquire land and interests therein, and to accept in the name of the United States donations of any property, real or personal, to any laboratory established pursuant to this section, and to utilize volun- tary or uncompensated services at such laboratories. Donations to any one of such laboratories shall not be available for use by any other of such laboratories. (c) In carrying out the purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized and directed to cooperate with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, States, State agricultural exper- iment stations, and other State agencies and institutions, counties, municipalities, business or other organizations, corporations, associa- tions, universities, scientific societies, and individuals, upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. (d) To carry out the purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized to utilize in each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, a sum not to exceed $4,000,000 of the funds appropriated pursuant to section 391 of this Act, or section 15 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, for such fiscal year. The Secretary shall allocate one-fourth of such sum annually to each of the four laboratories established pursuant to this section. (e) The Secretary shall make a report to Congress at the begin- ning of each regular session of the activities of, expenditures by, and donations to the laboratories established pursuant to subsection (a). (f) There is hereby allocated to the Secretary of Commerce for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, out of funds appropriated for such fiscal year pursuant to section 391 of this Act, or section 15 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, the sum of $1,000,000 to be expended for the promotion of the sale of farm commodities and products thereof in such manner as he shall direct. Of the sum allocated under this subsection to the Secretary of Commerce for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, $100,000 shall be devoted to making a survey and investigation of the cause or causes of the reduction in exports of agricultural commodities from the United States, in order to ascertain methods by which the sales in foreign countries of basic agricultural commodities produced in the United States may be increased. (g) It shall be the duty of the Secretary to use available funds to stimulate and widen the use of all farm commodities in the United States and to increase in every practical way the flow of such com- modities and the products thereof into the markets of the world. Assistance to coop- erative associations of farmers making com- plaint. New uses and new markets for farm com- modities. Regional research laboratories, estab- lishment, etc. Post, p. 745. Real or personal property, acquisi- tions. Donations. Cooperation with other agencies, etc.; terms and conditions. Sums authorized. Post, pp. 69, 744; 49 Stat. 1151. Annual allocation to each laboratory. Report to Congress. Promotion of sale of farm commodities, etc. Post, p. 745. Post, p. 69; 49 Stat. 1151. Survey of causes of reduction in exports of American agricultural commodities. Use of funds for stimulating, etc., use of farm commodities.

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