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7 U.S.C. § 1292 — Declaration of policy
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It is declared to be the policy of Congress to continue the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended [[16 U.S.C. 590a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], for the purpose of conserving national resources, preventing the wasteful use of soil fertility, and of preserving, maintaining, and rebuilding the farm and ranch land resources in the national public interest; to accomplish these purposes through the encouragement of soil-building and soil-conserving crops and practices; to assist in the marketing of agricultural commodities for domestic consumption and for export; and to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in cotton, wheat, corn, and rice to the extent necessary to provide an orderly, adequate, and balanced flow of such commodities in interstate and foreign commerce through storage of reserve supplies, loans, marketing quotas, assisting farmers to obtain insofar as practicable, parity prices for such commodities and parity of income, and assisting consumers to obtain an adequate and steady supply of such commodities at fair prices.
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It is declared to be the policy of Congress to continue the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended [[16 U.S.C. 590a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], for the purpose of conserving national resources, preventing the wasteful use of soil fertility, and of preserving, maintaining, and rebuilding the farm and ranch land resources in the national public interest; to accomplish these purposes through the encouragement of soil-building and soil-conserving crops and practices; to assist in the marketing of agricultural commodities for domestic consumption and for export; and to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in cotton, wheat, corn, and rice to the extent necessary to provide an orderly, adequate, and balanced flow of such commodities in interstate and foreign commerce through storage of reserve supplies, loans, marketing quotas, assisting farmers to obtain insofar as practicable, parity prices for such commodities and parity of income, and assisting consumers to obtain an adequate and steady supply of such commodities at fair prices.
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In this subchapter and subchapter II:
(1) **Agricultural Act of 1949** — The term “Agricultural Act of 1949” means the Agricultural Act of 1949 ([7 U.S.C. 1421](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1421&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), as in effect on the day before October 22, 2004.
(2) **Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938** — The term “Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938” means the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ([7 U.S.C. 1281](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1281&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), as in effect on the day before October 22, 2004.
(3) **Considered planted** — The term “considered planted” means tobacco that was planted, but failed to be produced as a result of a natural disaster, as determined by the Secretary.
(4) **Contract** — The term “contract” means a contract entered into under section 518a or 518b of this title.
(5) **Contract payment** — The term “contract payment” means a payment made under section 518a or 518b of this title pursuant to a contract.
(6) **Producer of quota tobacco** — The term “producer of quota tobacco” means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shared in the risk of producing tobacco on a farm where tobacco was produced or considered planted pursuant to a tobacco farm poundage quota or farm acreage allotment established under part I of subtitle B of title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ([7 U.S.C. 1311](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1311&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(7) **Quota tobacco** — The term ‘quota tobacco’ 11 So in original. means a kind of tobacco that is subject to a farm marketing quota or farm acreage allotment for the 2004 tobacco marketin
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It is recognized that the wastage of soil and moisture resources on farm, grazing, and forest lands of the Nation, resulting from soil erosion, is a menace to the national welfare and that it is declared to be the policy of Congress to provide permanently for the control and prevention of soil erosion to preserve soil, water, and related resources, promote soil and water quality, control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs, and maintain the navigability of rivers and harbors, protect public health, public lands and relieve unemployment, and the Secretary of Agriculture, from now on, shall coordinate and direct all activities with relation to soil erosion and in order to effectuate this policy is authorized, from time to time—
(1) To conduct surveys, investigations, and research relating to the character of soil erosion and the preventive measures needed, to publish the results of any such surveys, investigations, or research, to disseminate information concerning such methods, and to conduct demonstrational projects in areas subject to erosion by wind or water;
(2) To carry out preventive measures, including, but not limited to, engineering operations, methods of cultivation, the growing of vegetation, and changes in use of land;
(3) To cooperate or enter into agreements with, or to furnish financial or other aid to, any agency, governmental or otherwise, or any person, subject to such conditions as he may deem necessary, for the purposes of this chapter; and
(4) To acquire lands, or rights or interests therein, by purchase, gift, condemnation, or otherwise, whenever necessary for the purposes of this chapter.
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**(a) Appointment of officers and employees; impounding appropriations** The Secretary of Agriculture may appoint such officers and employees, subject to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, and such experts, as are necessary to execute the functions vested in him by this chapter: Provided, That the Secretary shall establish the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in the Department of Agriculture for the administration of the functions vested in him by this chapter: And provided further, That the State Administrator appointed to administer this chapter in each State shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Section 8 of Title II of the Act entitled “An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government,” approved March 20, 1933, to the extent that it provides for the impoundment of appropriations on account of reductions in compensation, shall not operate to require such impoundment under appropriations contained in this chapter.
**(b) State and local committees or associations of producers; handlers’ share of expenses of authority or agency**
(1) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to establish, for the more effective administration of the functions vested in him by this chapter, State and local committees, or associations of producers, and to permit cooperative associations of producers, when in his judgment they are qualified to do so, to act as agents of their members and patrons in connection with the distribution of payments authorized to be made under [section 608 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section608&num=0&edition=prelim). The Secretary, in the administration of this chapter, shall accord such recognition a
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section, acts July 1, 1941, ch. 270, § 4, 55 Stat. 498; Oct. 2, 1942, ch. 578, § 9(a), 56 Stat. 768; Feb. 28, 1944, ch. 71, § 2, 58 Stat. 105; Ex. Ord. No. 9577, June 30, 1945, 10 F.R. 8087, which related to operations to cover the expansion of production of nonbasic agricultural commodities and to fulfillment of commitments to producers during the existing emergency, was omitted in light of the termination of hostilities declared by Proc. No. 2714 of Dec. 31, 1946 and Joint Res. July 25, 1947, ch. 327, § 3, 61 Stat. 451, providing that July 25, 1947, be deemed the date of termination of any state of war or national emergency theretofore declared or proclaimed.
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**(a)** This chapter shall apply to the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands, and, as used in this chapter, the term “State” includes Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
**(b)** This chapter may be cited as the “Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act”.
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The Secretary of Defense shall pay to the Commodity Credit Corporation an amount not to exceed $6,000,000 per year until the amount due for foreign currencies used for housing constructed or acquired under title II of the Food for Peace Act ([7 U.S.C. 1721–172](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1721–172&num=0&edition=prelim)6) has been liquidated.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 590a
Act Apr. 8, 1935, ch. 48, § 14, 49 Stat. 119, formerly clas-
sified to section 590 of this title, was repealed by Pub.
L. 89–554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 649.
CHAPTER 3B—SOIL CONSERVATION
Sec.
590a.
Purpose.
590b.
Lands on which preventive measures may be
taken.
590c.
Conditions under which benefits of law ex-
tended to nongovernment controlled lands.
590d.
Cooperation of governmental agencies; offi-
cers and employees, appointment and com-
pensation; expenditures for personal serv-
ices and supplies.
590e to 590e–2. Repealed or Omitted.
590f.
Authorization of appropriations and con-
servation technical assistance funds.
590g.
Additional policies and purposes of chapter.
590g–1, 590g–2. Omitted.
590h.
Payments and grants of aid.
590h–1 to 590h–4. Omitted or Repealed.
590i.
Surveys and investigations; publication of in-
formation.
590i–1, 590i–2. Omitted.
590j.
Definitions.
590k.
Availability of funds.
590l.
Expansion of domestic and foreign markets
for agricultural commodities; advances for
crop insurance; transfer of funds to corpora-
tion.
590m.
Execution of powers of Secretary by Produc-
tion and Marketing Administration.
590n.
Payments reviewable only by Secretary.
590o.
Authorization of appropriations; distribution
of appropriated funds.
590p.
Repealed.
590p–1.
Limitation on wetlands drainage assistance
to aid wildlife preservation; termination of
limitation; redetermination of need for as-
sistance upon change of ownership of lands.
590q.
Coverage; ‘‘State’’ defined; short title.
590q–1.
Sale and distribution of supplies, materials,
and equipment to other Government agen-
cies; reimbursement.
590q–2.
Voluntary relinquishment of allotments.
590q–3.
Critical lands re
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 1293
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1995—Pub. L. 104–88 substituted ‘‘Surface Transpor-
tation Board’’ for ‘‘Interstate Commerce Commission’’
in subsecs. (a), (c), and (d), ‘‘Board’’ for ‘‘Commission’’
wherever appearing in subsecs. (a) and (b), and
‘‘Board’s’’ for ‘‘Commission’s’’ in subsec. (b).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1995 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 104–88 effective Jan. 1, 1996,
see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as an Effective
Date note under section 1301 of Title 49, Transpor-
tation.
§ 1292. New uses and markets for commodities
(a) Regional research laboratories
The Secretary is authorized and directed to es-
tablish, equip, and maintain four regional re-
search laboratories, one in each major farm pro-
ducing area, and, at such laboratories, to con-
duct researches into and to develop new sci-
entific, chemical, and technical uses and new
and extended markets and outlets for farm com-
modities and products and byproducts thereof.
Such research and development shall be devoted
primarily to those farm commodities in which
there are regular or seasonal surpluses, and
their products and byproducts.
(b) Acquisition of land for laboratories; dona-
tions
For the purposes of subsection (a), the Sec-
retary is authorized to acquire land and inter-
ests therein, and to accept in the name of the
United States donations of any property, real or
personal, to any laboratory established pursuant
to this section, and to utilize voluntary or un-
compensated services at such laboratories. Do-
nations to any one of such laboratories shall not
be available for use by any other of such labora-
tories.
(c) Cooperation with governmental agencies, as-
sociations, etc.
In carrying out the p
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