Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/1400

 90 STAT. 2868

Post, p. 2870. Post, p. 2875.

7 USC 75.

PUBLIC LAW 94-582—OCT. 21, 1976 (c) Subsection (k) is amended to read as follows: " (k) The term 'official mark' means any symbol prescribed by regulations of the Administrator to show the official determination of official inspection or official weighing;". (d) Subsection (1) defining the term "official grade designation" is amended by inserting immediately after the word "standards", the following: "relating to kind, class, quality, and condition of grain,". (e) Subsection (m) is amended to read as follows: "(m) The term 'official agency' means any State or local governmental agency, or any person, designated by the Administrator pursuant to subsection (f) of section 7 of this Act for the conduct of official inspection (other than appeal inspection), or subsection (b) of section 7A of this Act for the conduct of supervision of weighing;". (f) Subsection (n) is amended by striking out the word "Secretary" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Administrator". (g) Subsection (u) is amended to read as follows: " (u) The term 'deceptive loading, handling, weighing, or sampling' means any manner of loading, handling, weighing, or sampling that deceives or tends to deceive official inspection personnel, as specified by regulations of the Administrator under this Act;". (h) Section 3 is.further amended by adding at the end thereof new subsections (v), (w), (x), (y), (z), and (aa) as follows: "(v) The term 'export elevator' means any grain elevator, warehouse, or other storage or handling facility in the United States as determined by the Administrator, from which grain is shipped from the United States to an area outside thereof; "(w) The term 'export port location' means a commonly recognized port of export in the United States or Canada, as determined by the Administrator, from which grain produced in the United States is shipped to any place outside the United States; "(x) The term 'official weighing' means the determination and certification by official inspection personnel of the quantity of a lot of grain under standards provided in this Act, based on the actual performance of weighing or the physical supervision thereof, including the physical inspection and testing for accuracy of the weights and scales and the physical inspection of the premises at which the weighing is performed and the monitoring of the discharge of grain into the elevator or conveyance (the terms 'officially weigh' and 'officially weighed' shall be construed accordingly); "(y) The term 'supervision o,f weighing' means the supervision of the weighing process and of the certification of the weight of grain, and the physical inspection of the premises at which the weighing is performed to assure that all the grain intended to be weighed has been weighed and discharged into the elevator or conveyance represented on the weight certificate or other document; "(z) The term 'Administrator' means the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service or his delegates; "(aa) The term 'Service' means the Federal Grain Inspection Service.". FEDERAL GRAIN INSPECTION SERVICE

SEC. 4. The United States Grain Standards Act, as amended, is amended by adding a new section 3A as follows: " FEDERAL G R A I N INSPECTION SERVICE

Establishment. 7 USC 75a.

"SEC. 3 A. There is created and established in the Department of Agriculture a Service to be known as the Federal Grain Inspection

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