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PUBLIC LAW 96-437—OCT. 13, 1980

Public Law 96-437 96th Congress

An Act Oct. 13, 1980 [H.R. 5546]

U.S. Grain Standards Act, amendment.

7 USC 75.

"Intracompany shipment."

To amend the United States Grain Standards Act to permit grain delivered to export elevators by any means of conveyance other than barge to be transferred into such export elevators without official weighing, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 3 of the United States Grain Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 71 et seq.) is amended by(1) in subsection (aa) striking out the period and inserting in lieu thereof "; and", and (2) adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(bb) the term 'intracompany shipment' means the shipment, within the United States, of grain lots between facilities owned or controlled by the person owning the grain. The shipment of grain owned by a cooperative, from a facility owned by that cooperative, to an export facility which it jointly owns with other cooperatives, qualifies as an intracompany shipment.". SEC. 2. Section 5(a)(2) of the United States Grain Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 77(a)) is amended to read as follows: "(2) except as the Administrator may provide in emergency or other circumstances which would not impair the objectives of this Act, all other grain transferred out of and all grain transferred into an export elevator at an export port location shall be officially weighed in accordance with such standards or procedure: Provided, That, unless the shipper or receiver requests that the grain be officially weighed, intracompany shipments of grain into an export elevator by any mode of transportation, grain transferred into an export elevator by transportation modes other than barge, and grain transferred out of an export elevator to destinations within the United States shall not be officially weighed; and". Approved October 13, 1980.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 96-1166 (Comm. on Agriculture). SENATE REPORT No. 96-983 (Comm. on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 126 (1980): Aug. 18, considered and passed House. Sept. 30, considered and passed Senate.

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