§ 178a. Definitions

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1978

   Native Latex Commercialization and Economic Development Act of 1978

   Pub. L. 95–592 § 3 · 92 Stat. 2529

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 178a

   Pub. L. 95–592, § 3, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2529

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 95–592, § 3, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2529

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. As used in this Act— Definitions. 7 USC 178a. (a) The term “State” means each of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (b) The term “Secretaries” means the Secretary of Agriculture and/or the Secretary of Commerce acting each separately or jointly. (c) The term “commercialization” means the stage in the development or advancement of a technology at which point private enterprise is willing to invest in a full-scale production facility. (d) The term “native” means hydrocarbon-containing plants which may be cultured in North America, especially members of the genus Parthenium known as Guayule. (e) “Regional Commissions” means the Regional Action Planning Commissions established pursuant to title V of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. 42 USC 3181.

2. 1984

   Pub. L. 98–284 § 3(a) · 98 Stat. 181

   Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 178a(d)

   Pub. L. 98–284, § 3(a), inserted “and other agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance” and “plants which are”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 98–284, § 3(a), inserted “and other agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance” and “plants which are”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) Section 3(d) of the Act is amended to read as follows: 7 USC 178a. “(d) The term ‘native’ means hydrocarbon-containing plants and other agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance which may be cultured in North America, especially plants which are members of the genus Parthenium known as Guayule.”; and

3. 1984

   Pub. L. 98–284 § 3(b) · 98 Stat. 181

   Struck · 7 U.S.C. § 178a(e)

   Pub. L. 98–284, § 3(b), struck out subsec. (e) which defined “Regional Commissions” as the Regional Action Planning Commissions established pursuant to title V of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 98–284, § 3(b), struck out subsec. (e) which defined “Regional Commissions” as the Regional Action Planning Commissions established pursuant to title V of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Section 3 of the Act is further amended by striking out subsection (e).

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