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 82. STAT, 1

PUBLIC LAW 9a-4a7-^AUG..15, 1968

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Public Law 90-487 AN ACT To provide for United States standard s and a national inspection system for grain, and for other purposes.

August 15, 1968 [H-R- 15/94]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United Gra"n*sfand^.rd^s States Grain Standards Act, consisting of part B of "An Act Making Act!" appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes", approved August 11, 1916 (39 Stat. 446, at 482), as amended (7 U.S.C. 71-87), is hereby amended to read as follows: a SHORT TITLE

1. This Act may be cited as the 'United States Grain Standards Act'. "SECTION
 * DECLARATION OF POLICY

"SEC. 2. Grain is an essential source of the world's total supply of Ijuman food and animal feed and is merchandised in interstate and foreign commerce. I t is declared to be the policy of the Congress, for the promotion and protection of such commerce in the interests of producers, merchandisers, warehousemen, processors, and consumers of grain, and the general welfare of the people of the United States, to provide for the establishment of official United States standards for grain, to promote the uniform application thereof by official inspection personnel, and to provide for an official inspection system for grain; with the objectives that grain may be marketed in an orderly manner and that trading in grain may be facilitated. "DEFINITIONS

"SEC. 3. When used in this Act, except where the context requires otherwise— " (a) the term 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or his delegates; " (b) the term 'Department of Agriculture' means the United States Department of Agriculture; "(c) the term 'person' means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business entity; " (d) the term 'United States' means the States (including Puerto Rico) and the territories and possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia); "(e) the term 'State" means any one of the States (including Puerto Rico) or territories or possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia); "(f) the term 'interstate or foreign commerce' means commerce from any State to or through any other State, or to or through any foreign country; " (g) the term 'grain' means corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, flaxseed, grain sorghum, soybeans, mixed grain, and any other food grains, feed grains, and oilseeds for which standards are established under section 4 of this Act; " (h) the term 'export grain' means grain for shipment from the United States to any place outside thereof; " (i) the term 'official inspection' means the determination and the certification, by official inspection personnel, of the kind, class, quality, or condition of grain, under standards provided for in this Act; or, upon request of the interested person applying for

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