7 U.S.C. § 87h
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, 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.
In this subsection:
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.
The term "user fee" means a fee collected by the Secretary under section 79, 79a, 79b, 87e, or 87f-1 of this title.
A user fee-
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EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS2020- Pub. L. 116-216, §6(1), substituted "Funding" for "Appropriations" in section catchline.Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116-216, §6(1), (2), designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and substituted "There are authorized" for "There are hereby authorized", "$23,000,000" for "such sums as are necessary", and "2021 through 2025" for "1988 through 2020".Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 116-216, §6(3), added subsec. (b).2015- Pub. L. 114-54 substituted "2020" for "2015".2005- Pub. L. 109-83 substituted "2015" for "2005". 2000- Pub. L. 106-472 substituted "2005" for "2000". 1993- Pub. L. 103-156 substituted "1988 through 2000" for "during the period beginning October 1, 1988, and ending September 30, 1993" and inserted references to sections 79b and 87e of this title. 1988- Pub. L. 100-518 amended section generally, substituting "1988" for "1981" and "1993" for "1984". 1984- Pub. L. 98-469 temporarily substituted "September 30, 1988" for "September 30, 1984". See Effective and Termination Dates of 1984 Amendment note below.1981- Pub. L. 97-35 temporarily amended section, substantially revising enumerated activities for which appropriations are authorized and limiting such authorization for each of the fiscal years during the period beginning Oct. 1, 1981, and ending Sept. 30, 1984. See Effective and Termination Dates of 1981 Amendment note below.1977- Pub. L. 95-113 substituted "Federal administrative and supervisory costs related to the official inspection or the provision of weighing services for grain" for "those Federal administrative and supervisory costs incurred within the Service's Washington office or not directly related to the official inspection or the provision of weighing services for grain" and renumbered this section as section 19 of the United States Grain Standards Act, thereby correcting an error in the 1976 amendment of this section by Pub. L. 94-582 under which this section had inadvertently been renumbered from section 19 of the United States Grain Standards Act to section 21 thereof.1976- Pub. L. 94-582 enumerated specific items for which appropriations are authorized and provided for financing obtained from fees and sales of samples as provided in sections 79a and 87f-1 of this title.
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2000 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 106-472 effective as if enacted Sept. 30, 2000, see section 111 of Pub. L. 106-472 set out as a note under section 79 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1993 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 103-156 effective as of Sept. 30, 1993, see section 16(b) of Pub. L. 103-156 set out as a note under section 75 of this title.
EFFECTIVE AND TERMINATION DATES OF 1988 AMENDMENTThat part of section 2 of Pub. L. 100-518 which provided that amendment made by Pub. L. 100-518 was effective for the period Oct. 1, 1988, through Sept. 30, 1993, inclusive, was repealed, effective Sept. 30, 1993, by Pub. L. 103-156, §§13(a), Nov. 24, 1993, 16, Nov. 24, 1993, 107 Stat. 1529, 1530.
EFFECTIVE AND TERMINATION DATES OF 1984 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 98-469, §2, Oct. 11, 1984, 98 Stat. 1831, provided that the amendment made by Pub. L. 98-469 is effective for period beginning Oct. 11, 1984, and ending Sept. 30, 1988.
EFFECTIVE AND TERMINATION DATES OF 1981 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 97-35, title I, §155, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 371, as amended by Pub. L. 98-469, §1, Oct. 11, 1984, 98 Stat. 1831, provided that the amendment made by Pub. L. 97-35 is effective for period beginning Oct. 1, 1981, and ending Sept. 30, 1988.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1977 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 95-113 effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95-113 set out as a note under section 1307 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1976 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 94-582 effective 30 days after Oct. 21, 1976, see section 27 of Pub. L. 94-582 as amended, set out as a note under section 74 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATEFor effective date of section, see section 2 of Pub. L. 90-487 set out as an Effective Date of 1968 Amendment note under section 78 of this title.
- Secretary
- the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or delegates of the Secretary;
- United States
- the term "United States" means the States (including Puerto Rico) and the territories and possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia);
- grain
- the term "grain" means corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, flaxseed, sorghum, soybeans, mixed grain, and any other food grains, feed grains, and oilseeds for which standards are established under section 76 of this title;
- official inspection
- the term "official inspection" means the determination (by original inspection, and when requested, reinspection and appeal inspection) and the certification, by official inspection personnel of the kind, class, quality, or condition of grain, under standards provided for in this chapter, or the condition of vessels and other carriers or receptacles for the transportation of grain insofar as it may affect the quality or condition of such grain; or other facts relating to grain under other criteria approved by the Secretary under this chapter (the term "officially inspected" shall be construed accordingly);
- official weighing
- the term "official weighing" means the determination and certification by official inspection personnel of the quantity of a lot of grain under standards provided for in this chapter, based on the actual performance of weighing or the physical supervision thereof, including the physical inspection and testing for accuracy of the weights and scales and the physical inspection of the premises at which the weighing is performed and the monitoring of the discharge of grain into the elevator or conveyance (the terms "officially weigh" and "officially weighed" shall be construed accordingly);
- supervision of weighing
- the term "supervision of weighing" means such supervision by official inspection personnel of the grain-weighing process as is determined by the Secretary to be adequate to reasonably assure the integrity and accuracy of the weighing and of certificates which set forth the weight of the grain and such physical inspection by such personnel of the premises at which the grain weighing is performed as will reasonably assure that all the grain intended to be weighed has been weighed and discharged into the elevator or conveyance; and