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 PUBLIC LAW 94-294—MAY 28, 1976

90 STAT. 531

Act, or by any interested person affected by the provisions of this Act, including the Secretary. F I N D I N G AND ISSUANCE OF A N ORDER

SEC. 6. After notice and opportunity for hearing as provided in Notice and section 5, the Secretary shall issue an order if he finds, and sets forth hearing. in such order, upon the evidence introduced at such hearing, that the 7 USC 2905. issuance of such order and all the terms and conditions thereof will tend to effectuate the declared policy of this Act. PERMISSIVE TERMS I N ORDER

SEC. 7. Any order issued pursuant to this Act shall contain one or more of the following terms and conditions, and except as provided in section 8, no others: (a) Providing for the establishment, issuance, effectuation, and administration of appropriate plans or projects for advertising, promotion, producer information, and consumer information with respect to the use of cattle, beef, or beef products and for the disbursement of necessary funds for such purposes: Provided, however, That any such plan or project shall be directed toward increasing the general demand for cattle, beef, or beef products. No reference to a private brand or trade name shall be made if the Secretary determines that such reference will result in undue discrimination against the cattle, beef, or beef products of other persons. No such advertising, consumer education, or sales promotion programs shall make use of false or misleading claims in behalf of cattle, beef, or beef products, or false or misleading statements with respect to quality, value, or use of any competing product. (b) Providing for, establishing, and carrying on research, market development projects, and studies with respect to sale, distribution, marketing, utilization, or production of cattle, beef, or beef products, and the creation of new products thereof, to the end that the production, marketing, and utilization of cattle, beef, or beef products may be encouraged, expanded, improved, or made more acceptable, and the data collected by such activities may be disseminated, and providing for the disbursement of necessary funds for such purposes. (c) Providing that slaughterers shall maintain and make available for the inspection such books and records as may be required by any order or regulations issued pursuant to this Act and for the filing of reports by such persons at the time, in the manner, and having content prescribed by the order or regulations to the end that information and data shall be made available to the Beef Board and to the Secretary which is appropriate or necessary to the effectuation, administration, or enforcement of the Act, or of any order or regulation issued pursuant to this Act: Provided, however. That all information so obtained shall be kept confidential by all officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture and of the Beef Board, and by all officers and employees of contracting agencies having access to such information, and only such information so furnished or acquired as the Secretary deems relevant shall be disclosed by them, and then only in a suit or administrative hearing brought at the direction, or upon the request, of the Secretary, or to which he or any officer of the United States is a party, and involving the order with reference to which the information so to be disclosed was furnished or acquired. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit (1) the issuance of general statements based upon the reports of the number of persons subject to an order or

7 USC 2906

Slaughterers, record maintenance.

Confidential information.

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