                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                CHAPTER 13--TRADE AGREEMENTS ACT OF 1979
 
         SUBCHAPTER II--TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE (STANDARDS)
 
   Part E--Standards and Measures Under the North American Free Trade 
                                Agreement
 
             subpart 1--sanitary and phytosanitary measures
 
Sec. 2575a. Inquiry point

    The standards information center maintained under section 2544 of 
this title shall, in addition to the functions specified therein, make 
available to the public relevant documents, at such reasonable fees as 
the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, and information regarding--
        (1) any sanitary or phytosanitary measure of general 
    application, including any control or inspection procedure or 
    approval procedure proposed, adopted, or maintained by a Federal or 
    State agency;
        (2) the procedures of a Federal or State agency for risk 
    assessment, and factors the agency considers in conducting the 
    assessment and in establishing the levels of protection that the 
    agency considers appropriate;
        (3) the membership and participation of the Federal Government 
    and State governments in international and regional sanitary and 
    phytosanitary organizations and systems, and in bilateral and 
    multilateral arrangements regarding sanitary and phytosanitary 
    measures, and the provisions of those systems and arrangements; and
        (4) the location of notices of the type required under article 
    719 of the NAFTA, or where the information contained in such notices 
    can be obtained.

(Pub. L. 96-39, title IV, Sec. 462, as added Pub. L. 103-182, title III, 
Sec. 351(a), Dec. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2118.)
