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7 U.S.C. § 87h — Funding

submitted 110 years ago by Pub. L. 90-487 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 270 words · no verdicts yet

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Congress can spend up to $23,000,000 a year from 2021 through 2025 on grain standardization and compliance work. This covers costs not already paid by fees and sample sales under other sections. User fees can only pay for official inspection and weighing services, not for developing grain standards.

(a) Congress is authorized to spend $23,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025 on grain standardization and compliance work, on monitoring officially inspected and weighed grain in foreign ports, and on other expenses needed to carry out this chapter. This funding applies only to the extent the work isn't already paid for by the fees and sample sales collected under sections 79, 79a, 79b, 87e, and 87f–1. (b) There are limits on how "user fees" — the fees collected under sections 79, 79a, 79b, 87e, or 87f–1 — can be spent. (1) "Official inspection or weighing service" means official inspection, official weighing, supervising weighing, supervising agency or field-office staff, testing equipment, other related services, or registration, whose cost may be covered by a user fee under those sections. (2) A user fee may only be used to pay the Secretary's cost of providing official inspection or weighing services and the administrative costs directly tied to those services. A user fee may not be used for developing or maintaining grain standards, or for any other activity not directly related to official inspection or weighing services.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain
(a) Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated $23,000,000 for standardization and compliance activities, monitoring in foreign ports grain officially inspected and weighed under this chapter, and any other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter for each of the fiscal years 2021 through 2025,1 to the extent that financing is not obtained from fees and sales of samples as provided for in sections 79, 79a, 79b, 87e, and 87f–1 of this title.

(b) Limitations on uses of user fees
(1) Definitions

In this subsection:

(A) Official inspection or weighing service

The term “official inspection or weighing service” means official inspection, official weighing, supervision of weighing, supervision of agency personnel, supervision of the field office personnel of the Secretary, testing of equipment or instruments, other services, or registration, the cost to the Secretary of which is authorized to be covered by the collection of a user fee pursuant to section 79, 79a, 79b, 87e, or 87f–1 of this title, as applicable.

(B) User fee

The term “user fee” means a fee collected by the Secretary under section 79, 79a, 79b, 87e, or 87f–1 of this title.

(2) Requirement

A user fee—

(A)

shall be used solely to cover—

(i)

the cost to the Secretary for carrying out official inspection or weighing services; and

(ii)

administrative costs to the Secretary directly relating to official inspection or weighing services; and

(B)

shall not be used for—

(i)

activities relating to the development or maintenance of grain standards; or

(ii)

any other activity that is not directly related to the performance of official inspection or weighing services.

Source credit: (Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 313, pt. B, § 19, as added Pub. L. 90–487, § 1, Aug. 15, 1968, 82 Stat. 769; amended Pub. L. 94–582, § 21, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2886; Pub. L. 95–113, title XVI, §§ 1602(c), 1604(n), Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 1025, 1029; Pub. L. 97–35, title I, § 155(4), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 372; Pub. L. 98–469, § 2(3), Oct. 11, 1984, 98 Stat. 1832; Pub. L. 100–518, § 2(4), Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2586; Pub. L. 103–156, § 3, Nov. 24, 1993, 107 Stat. 1525; Pub. L. 106–472, title I, § 108, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2060; Pub. L. 109–83, § 1(a), Sept. 30, 2005, 119 Stat. 2053; Pub. L. 114–54, title III, § 301(f), Sept. 30, 2015, 129 Stat. 520; Pub. L. 116–216, § 6, Dec. 11, 2020, 134 Stat. 1049.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1916Enacted · Pub. L. 90-487 · 82 Stat. 769
  • 1976Amended · Pub. L. 94-582 · 90 Stat. 2886
  • 1977Amended · Pub. L. 95-113 · 91 Stat. 1025, 1029
  • 1981Amended · Pub. L. 97-35 · 95 Stat. 372
  • 1984Amended · Pub. L. 98-469 · 98 Stat. 1832
  • 1988Amended · Pub. L. 100-518 · 102 Stat. 2586
  • 1993Amended · Pub. L. 103-156 · 107 Stat. 1525
  • 2000Amended · Pub. L. 106-472 · 114 Stat. 2060
  • 2005Amended · Pub. L. 109-83 · 119 Stat. 2053
  • 2015Amended · Pub. L. 114-54 · 129 Stat. 520
  • 2020Amended · Pub. L. 116-216 · 134 Stat. 1049

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 90-487 on 1916-08-11.

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