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[CITE: 21USC114h]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 114h. Advisory committee


(a) Establishment; membership

    The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to establish 
an advisory committee composed of (1) eleven members selected from 
representatives of the swine and related industries, State and local 
government agencies, professional and scientific groups, and the general 
public, and (2) one member selected from the officers and employees of 
the Department of Agriculture who shall serve as chairman of the 
Committee. The Committee shall meet at the call of the Secretary.

(b) Functions

    It shall be the function of the Committee to advise the Secretary 
with respect to the initiation of the national hog cholera eradication 
program referred to in section 114g of this title, and with respect to 
the development of plans and procedures for carrying out such program.

(c) Employment status; expenses

    Committee members other than the chairman shall not be deemed to be 
employees of the United States and shall not be entitled to 
compensation, but the Secretary is authorized to pay their travel and 
subsistence expenses (or per diem in lieu thereof) in connection with 
their attendance at meetings of the Committee.

(Pub. L. 87-209, Sec. 2, Sept. 6, 1961, 75 Stat. 481.)


                   Termination of Advisory Committees

    Advisory committees in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not 
later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, 
unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an 
officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by 
appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in 
the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is 
otherwise provided by law. See section 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 
1972, 86 Stat. 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 136a of this title; title 16 
section 1540.
