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 PUBLIC LAW 97-312—OCT. 14, 1982 Public Law 97-312 97th Congress

96 STAT. 1461

An Act

To authorize certain employees of the United States Department of Agriculture charged with the enforcement of animal quarantine laws to carry firearms for selfrotection and to improve the quality of table grapes for marketing in the United tates.

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Oct. 14, 1982 [H.R. 2035]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That any employee Certain of the United States Department of Agriculture designated by the Agriculture Department Secretary of Agriculture and the Attorney General of the United employees, States may carry a firearm and use a firearm when necessary for firearm authorization. self-protection, in accordance with rules and regulations issued by 7 USC 2274. the Secretary of Agriculture and the Attorney General of the United States, while such employee is engaged in the performance of the employee's official duties to (1) carry out any law or regulation related to the control, eradication, or prevention of the introduction or dissemination of communicable disease of livestock or poultry into the United States or (2) perform any duty related to such disease control, eradication, or prevention, subject to the direction of the Secretary. SEC. 2. The first sentence of section 8e of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended (7 U.S.C. 608e-l), is amended by inserting "table grapes," after "filberts,". Approved October 14, 1982.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2035: HOUSE REPORT No. 97-515 (Comm. on Agriculture). SENATE REPORT No. 97-569 (Comm. on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982): May 18, considered and passed House. Sept. 29, considered and passed Senate, amended. Sept. 30, House concurred in Senate amendments.

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