7 U.S.C. § 6521
Not later than 540 days after November 28, 1990, the Secretary shall issue proposed regulations to carry out this chapter.
The Secretary shall provide technical, administrative, and National Institute of Food and Agriculture assistance to assist States in the implementation of an organic certification program under this chapter.
The Secretary may provide financial assistance to any State that implements an organic certification program under this chapter.
The Secretary shall have access to available data from cross-border documentation systems administered by other Federal agencies, including the Automated Commercial Environment system of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Not later than March 1, 2020, and annually thereafter through March 1, 2023, the Secretary shall submit to Congress, and make publicly available on the website of the Department of Agriculture, a report describing national organic program activities with respect to all domestic and overseas investigations and compliance actions taken pursuant to this chapter during the preceding year.
The data described in paragraph (1) shall be broken down by agricultural product, quantity, value, and month.
Any data determined by the Secretary to be confidential business information shall not be provided in the report under paragraph (1).
7 U.S.C. § 6521
EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATION Pub. L. 110-234 and Pub. L. 110-246 made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by Pub. L. 110-234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110-246.
AMENDMENTS2018-Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 115-334 added subsecs. (c) and (d). 2008-Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 110-246, §7511(c)(24), substituted "National Institute of Food and Agriculture" for "Extension Service".
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2008 AMENDMENT Amendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110-234 by Pub. L. 110-246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110-234 except as otherwise provided, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110-246 set out as an Effective Date note under section 8701 of this title. Amendment by section 7511(c)(24) of Pub. L. 110-246 effective Oct. 1, 2009, see section 7511(c) of Pub. L. 110-246 set out as a note under section 1522 of this title.
- Secretary
- The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- agricultural product
- The term "agricultural product" means any agricultural commodity or product, whether raw or processed, including any commodity or product derived from livestock that is marketed in the United States for human or livestock consumption.