7 U.S.C. § 178d
Research and development program by Secretary of Commerce
United States · Title 7 — AGRICULTURE · Status: effective
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The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to 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 or the manufacture and commercialization of other critical agricultural materials from native agricultural crops having strategic and industrial importance. Such research shall include but not be limited to—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Native Latex Commercialization and Economic Development Act of 1978House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Target Prices and Export Initiatives Act of 1983House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally