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 81 STAT.]

597

PUBLIC LAW 90-201-DEC. 15, 1967

(3) Whenever the Secretary determines that any State designated under this paragraph (c) has developed and will enforce State meat inspection requirements at least equal to those imposed under titles I and IV, with respect to the operations and transactions within such State which are regulated under subparagraph (1), he shall terminate the designation of such State under this paragraph (c), but this shall not preclude the subsequent redesignation of the State at any time upon thirty days notice to the Governor and publication in the Federal Register in accordance with this paragraph, and any State may be designated upon such notice and publication at any time after the period specified in this paragraph whether or not the State has theretofore been designated upon the Secretary determining that it is not effectively enforcing requirements at least equal to those imposed under titles I and IV. (4) The Secretary shall promptly upon enactment of the Wholesome Meat Act and periodically thereafter, but at least annually, review the requirements, including the enforcement thereof, of the several States not designated under this paragraph (c), with respect to the slaughter, and the preparation, storage, handling and distribution of carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products, of such animals, and inspection of such operations, and annually report thereon to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the Senate in the report required under section 17 of the Wholesome Meat Act. " (d) As used in this section, the term 'State' means any State (including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) or organized Territory." SEC. 16. Said Act is hereby further amended by adding after title III thereof, the following new sections as:

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State requirements, periodic review.

Report.to cong r e s s i o n a l committees. Post, p. 600. "State.'

"TITLE IV—AUXILIARY PROVISIONS "SEC. 401. The Secretary may (for such period, or indefinitely, as se1?wcV"with-*'°" he deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act) refuse to drawai.' provide, or withdraw, inspection service under title I of this Act with respect to any establishment if he determines, after opportunity for a hearing is accorded to the applicant for, or recipient of, such service, that such applicant or recipient is unfit to engage in any business requiring inspection under title I because the applicant or recipient, or anyone responsibly connected with the applicant or recipient, has been convicted, in any Federal or State court, of (1) any felony, or (2) more than one violation of any law, other than a felony, based upon the acquiring, handling, or distributing of unwholesome, mislabeled, or deceptively packaged food or upon fraud in connection with transactions in food. This section shall not affect in any way other provisions of this Act for withdrawal of inspection services under title I from establishments failing to maintain sanitary conditions or to destroy condemned carcasses, parts, meat or meat food products. "For the purpose of this section a person shall be deemed to be responsibly connected with the business if he was a partner, officer, director, holder, or owner of 10 per centum or more of its voting stock or employee in a managerial or executive capacity. "The determination and order of the Secretary with respect thereto under this section shall be final and conclusive unless the affected applicant for, or recipient of, inspection service files application for judicial review within thirty days after the effective date of such order in the appropriate court as provided in section 404. Judicial review Post, p. 599. of any such order shall be upon the record upon which the determination and order are based.

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