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7 U.S.C. § 79b — Testing of equipment

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7 U.S.C. § 79b — Testing of equipment

**(a) Random and periodic testing at least annually; fees** The Secretary shall provide for the testing of all equipment used in the sampling, grading, inspection, and weighing for the purpose of official inspection, official weighing, or supervision of weighing of grain located at all grain elevators, warehouses, or other storage or handling facilities at which official inspection or weighing services are provided under this chapter, to be made on a random and periodic basis, under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, as the Secretary deems necessary to assure the accuracy and integrity of such equipment. Such regulations shall provide for the charging and collection of reasonable fees to cover the estimated costs to the Secretary incident to the performance of such testing by employees of the Secretary. Such fees shall be deposited into the fund created by [section 79(j) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section79/j&num=0&edition=prelim). **(b) Personnel to conduct testing** The Secretary is authorized to cause such testing provided for in subsection (a) to be performed (1) by personnel employed by the Secretary, or (2) by States, political subdivisions thereof, or persons under the supervision of the Secretary, under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. **(c) Use of non-approved equipment prohibited** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall use for the purposes of this chapter any such equipment not approved by the Secretary.

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7 U.S.C. § 1307 — Consumer safeguards

The powers conferred under this chapter shall not be used to discourage the production of supplies of foods and fibers sufficient to maintain normal domestic human consumption as determined by the Secretary from the records of domestic human consumption in the years 1920 to 1929, inclusive, taking into consideration increased population quantities of any commodity that were forced into domestic consumption by decline in exports during such period, current trends in domestic consumption and exports of particular commodities, and the quantities of substitutes available for domestic consumption within any general class of food commodities. In carrying out the purposes of this chapter it shall be the duty of the Secretary to give due regard to the maintenance of a continuous and stable supply of agricultural commodities from domestic production adequate to meet consumer demand at prices fair to both producers and consumers.

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7 U.S.C. § 74 — Congressional findings and declaration of policy

**(a)** Grain is an essential source of the world’s total supply of human food and animal feed and is merchandised in interstate and foreign commerce. It is declared to be the policy of the Congress, for the promotion and protection of such commerce in the interests of producers, merchandisers, warehousemen, processors, and consumers of grain, and the general welfare of the people of the United States, to provide for the establishment of official United States standards for grain, to promote the uniform application thereof by official inspection personnel, to provide for an official inspection system for grain, and to regulate the weighing and the certification of the weight of grain shipped in interstate or foreign commerce in the manner hereinafter provided; with the objectives that grain may be marketed in an orderly and timely manner and that trading in grain may be facilitated. It is hereby found that all grain and other articles and transactions in grain regulated under this chapter are either in interstate or foreign commerce or substantially affect such commerce and that regulation thereof as provided in this chapter is necessary to prevent or eliminate burdens on such commerce and to regulate effectively such commerce. **(b)** It is also declared to be the policy of Congress— (1) to promote the marketing of grain of high quality to both domestic and foreign buyers; (2) that the primary objective of the official United States standards for grain is to certify the quality of grain as accurately as practicable; and (3) that official United States standards for grain shall— (A) define uniform and accepted descriptive terms to facilitate trade in grain; (B) provide information to aid in determining grain storability; (C) offer users of such standards th

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7 U.S.C. § 79b — Testing of equipment

Page 181 TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE § 79d § 79b. Testing of equipment (a) Random and periodic testing at least annu- ally; fees The Secretary shall provide for the testing of all equipment used in the sampling, grading, in- spection, and weighing for the purpose of official inspection, official weighing, or supervision of weighing of grain located at all grain elevators, warehouses, or other storage or handling facili- ties at which official inspection or weighing services are provided under this chapter, to be made on a random and periodic basis, under such regulations as the Secretary may pre- scribe, as the Secretary deems necessary to as- sure the accuracy and integrity of such equip- ment. Such regulations shall provide for the charging and collection of reasonable fees to cover the estimated costs to the Secretary inci- dent to the performance of such testing by em- ployees of the Secretary. Such fees shall be de- posited into the fund created by section 79(j) of this title. (b) Personnel to conduct testing The Secretary is authorized to cause such testing provided for in subsection (a) to be per- formed (1) by personnel employed by the Sec- retary, or (2) by States, political subdivisions thereof, or persons under the supervision of the Secretary, under such regulations as the Sec- retary may prescribe. (c) Use of non-approved equipment prohibited Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall use for the purposes of this chap- ter any such equipment not approved by the Secretary. (Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 313, pt. B, § 7B, as added Pub. L. 94–582, § 9, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2877; amended Pub. L. 95–113, title XVI, § 1604(f), Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 1028; Pub. L. 103–156, § 12(f), Nov. 24, 1993, 107 Stat. 1528; Pub. L. 103–354, title

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