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PUBLIC LAW 89-686-OCT. 15, 1966

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SEC. 8. Clause (b) of section 201(c) of said Act (53 Stat. 1280; 7 U.S.C. 1571 (c)) is amended to read as follows: "(b) a longer period for any kind of agricultural or vegetable seed which is packaged in such container materials and under such other conditions prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture as he finds will, during such longer period, maintain the viability of said seed under ordinary conditions of handling." SEC. 9. Section 201(i)(4) of said Act (72 Stat. 477; 7 U.S.C. 1571 (i)(4)) is amended to read as follows: "(4) A description, approved by the Secretary of Agriculture as adequate for the protection of the public, of any process used in such SEC. 10.* Section 201 of said Act (53 Stat. 1279; 7 U.S.C. 1571) is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection (j) to read as follows: " (i) Any agricultural seed mixtures intended for lawn and turf T""

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seed purposes, m containers oi fifty pounds or less, unless each container thereof bears a label giving the following information and statements in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed under section 402 of this Act: "(1) The headings 'Fine-textured Grasses' and 'Coarse Kinds', and specified in tabular form thereunder in type no larger than the headings, for each lawn and turf seed component present in excess of 5 per centum of the whole or named on the label: " (i) the name of the kind, or kind and variety, " (ii) the percentage by weight of each, in order of its predominance under the appropriate heading required above, "(iii) the percentage of germination of each, exclusive of hard seed, " f iv) the percentage of hard seed, if present, and "(v) the calendar month and year the test was completed to determine such percentages. "(2) The heading 'Other Ingredients', and specified thereunder in type no larger than the heading the following information: " (A) Percentage by weight of weed seeds, including noxiousweed seeds; " (B) Percentage by weight of agricultural seeds other than those included under paragraph (1) of this subsection; " (C) Percentage by weight of inert matter. " (3) The following additional information: " (A) Lot number or other identification; " (B) Kinds of noxious-weed seeds and the rate of occurrence of each, which rate shall be expressed in accordance with and shall not exceed the rate allowed for shipment, movement, or sale of such noxious-weed seeds by the law and regulations of the State into which the seed is offered for transportation or transported, or in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, when under the provisions of section 101(a) (9)(A) (iii) he shall determine that weeds other than those designated by State requirements are noxious; " (C) Name and address of— '*(i) the person who transports, or delivers for transportation, said seed in interstate commerce, or "(ii) the person to whom the seed is sold or shipped for resale, together with a code designation approved by the Secre-

Lawn and turf s e e d mixtures.

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