§ 178d. Research and development program by Secretary of Commerce

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 § 6 · 92 Stat. 2529

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 178d

   Pub. L. 95–592, § 6, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2531

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 95–592, § 6, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2531

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 6. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to 7 USC 178d. initiate and carry out research, technology development, technology transfer, and demonstration projects to test and demonstrate the economic feasibility of the manufacture and commercialization of natural rubber from Parthenium or other hydrocarbon-containing plants. Such research may be carried out through the Regional Commissions or otherwise and shall include but not be limited to— (a) conducting research and development on extraction and processing techniques; (b) economic analysis of the production of native latex, including usable byproducts; (c) studying the environmental, social, and economic impacts of the commercial development of native latex; (d) evaluating the commercial marketability of Parthenium and rubber derived from other hydrocarbon-containing plants; (e) further refining present extraction and manufacturing technologies and future extraction and manufacturing technologies, including technologies which utilize solar energy; and (f) developing pertinent material and records on manufacturing of natural rubber which shall be available to other Federal and State agencies and private persons who are interested in or involved in natural rubber development, or manufacture.

2. 1984

   Pub. L. 98–284 § 6(1) · 98 Stat. 181

   1. Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 178d

      Pub. L. 98–284, § 6(1), (2), inserted in provisions preceding cl. (a) reference to the manufacture and commercialization of other critical agricultural materials from native agricultural crops having strategic and industrial importance

   2. Struck · 7 U.S.C. § 178d

      Pub. L. 98–284, § 6(1), (2), struck out “may be carried out through the Regional Commissions or otherwise and” after “Such research”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 98–284, § 6(1), (2), inserted in provisions preceding cl. (a) reference to the manufacture and commercialization of other critical agricultural materials from native agricultural crops having strategic and industrial importance, and struck out “may be carried out through the Regional Commissions or otherwise and” after “Such research”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) by inserting before the period at the end of the first sentence the following: “or the manufacture and commercialization of other critical agricultural materials from native agricultural crops having strategic and industrial importance”;

3. 1984

   Pub. L. 98–284 § 6(5) · 98 Stat. 181

   Added · 7 U.S.C. § 178d

   Pub. L. 98–284, § 6(5), added cl. (g)

   Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Cl. (g). Pub. L. 98–284, § 6(5), added cl. (g).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (5) by adding after clause (f) the following new clause: “(g) to the extent appropriate, carrying out research activities with respect to native agricultural crops (other than Parthenium and other hydrocarbon-containing plants) that would supply critical agricultural materials for strategic and industrial purposes, in the manner specified in clauses (a) through

4 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision