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7 U.S.C. § 2276 — Confidentiality of information
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**(a) In general** In the case of information furnished under a provision of law referred to in subsection (d), neither the Secretary of Agriculture, any other officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture or agency thereof, nor any other person may—
(1) use such information for a purpose other than the development or reporting of aggregate data in a manner such that the identity of the person who supplied such information is not discernible and is not material to the intended uses of such information;
(2) disclose such information to the public, unless such information has been transformed into a statistical or aggregate form that does not allow the identification of the person who supplied particular information; or
(3) in the case of information collected under the authority described in paragraph (12) or (13) of subsection (d), disclose the information to any person or any Federal, State, local, or tribal agency outside the Department of Agriculture, unless the information has been converted into a statistical or aggregate form that does not allow the identification of the person that supplied particular information.
**(b) Duty of Secretary; immunity from disclosure; necessary consent**
(1) In carrying out a provision of law referred to in subsection (d), no department, agency, officer, or employee of the Federal Government, other than the Secretary of Agriculture, shall require a person to furnish a copy of statistical information provided to the Department of Agriculture.
(2) A copy of such information—
(A) shall be immune from mandatory disclosure of any type, including legal process; and
(B) shall not, without the consent of such person, be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose in any action, suit, or other judicial or administrative pr
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**(a) In general** In the case of information furnished under a provision of law referred to in subsection (d), neither the Secretary of Agriculture, any other officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture or agency thereof, nor any other person may—
(1) use such information for a purpose other than the development or reporting of aggregate data in a manner such that the identity of the person who supplied such information is not discernible and is not material to the intended uses of such information;
(2) disclose such information to the public, unless such information has been transformed into a statistical or aggregate form that does not allow the identification of the person who supplied particular information; or
(3) in the case of information collected under the authority described in paragraph (12) or (13) of subsection (d), disclose the information to any person or any Federal, State, local, or tribal agency outside the Department of Agriculture, unless the information has been converted into a statistical or aggregate form that does not allow the identification of the person that supplied particular information.
**(b) Duty of Secretary; immunity from disclosure; necessary consent**
(1) In carrying out a provision of law referred to in subsection (d), no department, agency, officer, or employee of the Federal Government, other than the Secretary of Agriculture, shall require a person to furnish a copy of statistical information provided to the Department of Agriculture.
(2) A copy of such information—
(A) shall be immune from mandatory disclosure of any type, including legal process; and
(B) shall not, without the consent of such person, be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose in any action, suit, or other judicial or administrative proceeding.
**(c) Violations; penalties** Any person who shall publish, cause to be published, or otherwise publicly release information collected pursuant to a provision of law referred to in subsection (d), in any manner or for any purpose prohibited in section 11 So in original. Probably should be “subsection”. (a), shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or both.
**(d) Provisions of law references** For purposes of this section, a provision of law referred to in this subsection means—
(1) the first section of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and publish statistics of the grade and staple length of cotton”, approved March 3, 1927 ([7 U.S.C. 471](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section471&num=0&edition=prelim)) (commonly referred to as the “Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act”);
(2) the first section of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the collection and publication of statistics of tobacco by the Department of Agriculture”, approved January 14, 1929 ([7 U.S.C. 501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section501&num=0&edition=prelim));
(3) the first section of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the collection and publication of statistics of peanuts by the Department of Agriculture”, approved June 24, 1936 ([7 U.S.C. 951](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section951&num=0&edition=prelim));
(4) section 203(g) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 ([7 U.S.C. 1622(g)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1622/g&num=0&edition=prelim));
(5) section 526(a) of the Revised Statutes ([7 U.S.C. 2204(a)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2204/a&num=0&edition=prelim));
(6) the Act entitled “An Act providing for the publication of statistics relating to spirits of turpentine and resin”, approved August 15, 1935 ([7 U.S.C. 2248](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2248&num=0&edition=prelim));
(7) [section 42 of title 13](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title13-section42&num=0&edition=prelim);
(8) section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor”, approved February 14, 1903 ([15 U.S.C. 1516](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section1516&num=0&edition=prelim));
(9) section 2 of the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution relating to the publication of economic and social statistics for Americans of Spanish origin or descent”, approved June 16, 1976 ([15 U.S.C. 1516a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section1516a&num=0&edition=prelim));
(10) section 3(e) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 ([16 U.S.C. 1642(e)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1642/e&num=0&edition=prelim));
(11) [section 2204g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2204g&num=0&edition=prelim);
(12) section 302 of the Rural Development Act of 1972 ([7 U.S.C. 1010a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1010a&num=0&edition=prelim)) regarding the authority to collect data for the National Resources Inventory; or
(13) section 10109 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.
**(e) Information provided to Secretary of Commerce** This section shall not prohibit the release of information under [section 2204g(f)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2204g/f/2&num=0&edition=prelim).
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The Department of Commerce, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Agriculture shall each collect, and publish regularly, statistics which indicate the social, health, and economic condition of Americans of Spanish origin or descent.
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**(a) Census of agriculture required**
(1) **In general** — In 1998 and every fifth year thereafter, the Secretary of Agriculture shall take a census of agriculture.
(2) **Inclusion of specialty crops** — Effective beginning with the census of agriculture required to be conducted in 2008, the Secretary shall conduct as part of each census of agriculture a census of specialty crops (as that term is defined in section 3 of the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 ([7 U.S.C. 1621](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1621&num=0&edition=prelim) note; Public Law 108–465)).
**(b) Methods** In connection with the census, the Secretary may conduct any survey or other information collection, and employ any sampling or other statistical method, that the Secretary determines is appropriate.
**(c) Year of information** The information collected in each census taken under this section shall relate to the year immediately preceding the year in which the census is taken.
**(d) Enforcement**
(1) **Fraud** — A person over 18 years of age who willfully gives an answer that is false to a question, which is authorized by the Secretary to be submitted to the person in connection with a census under this section, shall be fined not more than $500.
(2) **Refusal or neglect to answer questions** — A person over 18 years of age who refuses or willfully neglects to answer a question, which is authorized by the Secretary to be submitted to the person in connection with a census under this section, shall be fined not more than $100.
(3) **Social Security number** — The failure or refusal of a person to disclose the person’s Social Security number in response to a request made in connection with any census or other activity under this section sha
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to collect and/or compile and publish annually, and at such other times, and in such form and on such date or dates as he shall prescribe, statistics and essential information relating to spirits of turpentine and rosin produced, held, and used in the domestic and foreign commerce of the United States.
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to collect and publish statistics of the quantity of leaf tobacco in all forms in the United States and Puerto Rico, owned by or in the possession of dealers, manufacturers, quasi-manufacturers, growers’ cooperative associations, warehousemen, brokers, holders, or owners, other than the original growers of tobacco. The statistics shall show the quantity of tobacco in such detail as to types, groups of grades, and such other subdivisions as to quality, color, and/or grade for particular types, as the Secretary of Agriculture shall deem to be practical and necessary for the purposes of this chapter, shall be summarized as of January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year, and an annual report on tobacco statistics shall be issued: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall not be required to collect statistics of leaf tobacco from any manufacturer of tobacco who, in the first three quarters of the preceding calendar year, according to the returns of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue or the record of the Treasurer of Puerto Rico, manufactured less than thirty-five thousand pounds of tobacco, or from any manufacturer of cigars who, during the first three quarters of the preceding calendar year, manufactured less than one hundred and eighty-five thousand cigars, or from any manufacturer of cigarettes who, during the first three quarters of the preceding year, manufactured less than seven hundred and fifty thousand cigarettes: And provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture may omit the collection of statistics from any dealer, manufacturer, growers’ cooperative association, warehouseman, broker, holder, or owner who does not own and/or have in stock, in the aggregate, fifty thousand pounds or m
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The Secretary of Commerce shall have control of the work of gathering and distributing statistical information naturally relating to the subjects confided to his department; and he shall have the power and authority to rearrange the statistical work of the bureaus and offices confided to the Department of Commerce, and to consolidate any of the statistical bureaus and offices above described. He shall also have authority to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and he may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise.
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to collect and publish annually, on dates to be announced by him, statistics or estimates concerning the grades and staple length of stocks of cotton, known as the carry-over, on hand on the 1st of August of each year in warehouses and other establishments of every character in the continental United States; and following such publication each year, to publish, at intervals in his discretion, his estimate of the grades and staple length of cotton of the then current crop: Provided, That not less than three such estimates shall be published with respect to each crop. In any such statistics or estimates published, the cotton which on the date for which such statistics are published may be recognized as tenderable on contracts of sale of cotton for future delivery under the United States Cotton Futures Act, shall be stated separately from that which may be untenderable under said Act.
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The Secretary is authorized and directed to develop a program of land conservation and land utilization, in order thereby to correct maladjustments in land use, and thus assist in controlling soil erosion, reforestation, preserving natural resources, protecting fish and wildlife, developing and protecting recreational facilities, mitigating floods, preventing impairment of dams and reservoirs, developing energy resources, conserving surface and subsurface moisture, protecting the watersheds of navigable streams, and protecting the public lands, health, safety, and welfare, but not to build industrial parks or establish private industrial or commercial enterprises.
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to collect and publish statistics of raw peanuts, shelled, unshelled, and crushed, and peanut oil, in the United States, received, processed, shipped, and owned by or in the possession of warehousemen, brokers, cleaners, shellers, dealers, growers’ cooperative associations, crushers, salters, manufacturers of peanut products, and owners other than the original producers of peanuts: Provided, That the Secretary may, in his discretion, omit for any period of time to collect such statistics from any or all salters of peanuts or manufacturers of peanut products who used, during the calendar year preceding that for which statistics are being collected, less than thirty thousand pounds of shelled and unshelled peanuts. Such statistics shall show the quality of peanuts in such details as to kinds—Virginias, Runners, Spanish, and imported varieties—as the Secretary shall deem necessary for the purposes of this chapter. All reports shall be submitted monthly in each year, except as otherwise prescribed by the Secretary.
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**(a)** The statistics of the quantity of cotton ginned shall show the quantity ginned from each crop prior to August 1, September 1, September 15, October 1, October 15, November 1, November 15, December 1, December 15, January 1, January 15, February 1, and March 1; but the Secretary may limit the canvasses of August 1 and September 1 to those sections of the cotton-growing States in which cotton has been ginned.
**(b)** The quantity of cotton consumed in manufacturing establishments, the quantity of baled cotton on hand, the number of active consuming cotton spindles, the number of active spindle-hours, and the statistics of cotton imported and exported shall relate to each month, and shall be published as soon as possible after the close of the month.
**(c)** In collecting and publishing statistics of cotton on hand in warehouses and other storage establishments, and of cotton known as the “carry-over” in the United States, the Secretary shall ascertain and publish as a separate item in the report of cotton statistics the number of bales of linters as distinguished from the number of bales of cotton.
**(d)** The Secretary shall furnish to the Department of Agriculture, immediately prior to the publication of each report of that Department regarding the cotton crop, the latest available statistics hereinbefore mentioned, and the Department of Agriculture shall publish the same in connection with each of its reports concerning cotton.
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**(a) Succession** The Corporation shall have succession in its corporate name.
**(b) Corporate seal** The Corporation may adopt, alter, and use a corporate seal, which shall be judicially noticed.
**(c) Property** The Corporation may purchase or lease and hold such real and personal property as it deems necessary or convenient in the transaction of its business, and may dispose of such property held by it upon such terms as it deems appropriate.
**(d) Suit** Subject to [section 1508(j)(2)(A) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1508/j/2/A&num=0&edition=prelim), the Corporation, subject to the provisions of [section 1508(j) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1508/j&num=0&edition=prelim),11 So in original. may sue and be sued in its corporate name, but no attachment, injunction, garnishment, or other similar process, mesne or final, shall be issued against the Corporation or its property. The district courts of the United States, including the district courts of the District of Columbia and of any territory or possession, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction, without regard to the amount in controversy, of all suits brought by or against the Corporation. The Corporation may intervene in any court in any suit, action, or proceeding in which it has an interest. Any suit against the Corporation shall be brought in the District of Columbia, or in the district wherein the plaintiff resides or is engaged in business.
**(e) Bylaws and regulations** The Corporation may adopt, amend, and repeal bylaws, rules, and regulations governing the manner in which its business may be conducted and the powers granted to it by law may be exercised and enjoyed.
**(f) Mails**
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