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[CITE: 7USC171]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
      CHAPTER 8A--RUBBER AND OTHER CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 171. Program for development of guayule and other rubber-
        bearing plants
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter called the ``Secretary'') 
is authorized--
        (1) To acquire by purchase, license, or other agreement, the 
    right to operate under processes or patents relating to the growing 
    and harvesting of guayule or the extraction of rubber therefrom, and 
    such properties, processes, records, and data as are necessary to 
    such operation, including but not limited to any such rights owned 
    or controlled by the Intercontinental Rubber Company, or any of its 
    subsidiaries, and all equipment, materials, structures, factories, 
    real property, seed, seedlings, growing shrub, and other facilities, 
    patents and processes of the Intercontinental Rubber Company, or any 
    of its subsidiaries, located in California, and for such rights, 
    properties, and facilities of the Intercontinental Rubber Company or 
    any of its subsidiaries, the Secretary is authorized to pay not to 
    exceed $2,000,000;
        (2) To plant, or contract for the planting of, not in excess of 
    five hundred thousand acres of guayule in areas in the Western 
    Hemisphere where the best growth and yields may be expected in order 
    to maintain a nucleus planting of guayule to serve as a domestic 
    source of crude rubber as well as of planting material for use in 
    further expanding guayule planting to meet emergency needs of the 
    United States for crude rubber; to establish and maintain nurseries 
    to provide seedlings for field plants; and to purchase necessary 
    equipment, facilities, land for nurseries and administrative sites 
    and water rights;
        (3) To acquire by lease, or other agreement, for not exceeding 
    ten years, rights to land for the purpose of making plantings of 
    guayule; to acquire water rights; to erect necessary buildings on 
    leased land where suitable land cannot be purchased; to make 
    surveys, directly or through appropriate Government agencies, of 
    areas in the Western Hemisphere where guayule might be grown; and to 
    establish and maintain records indicating areas to which guayule 
    cultivation could be extended for emergency production;
        (4) To construct or operate, or to contract for the operation 
    of, factories for the extraction of rubber from guayule, and from 
    Chrysothamnus, commonly known as rabbit brush; to purchase guayule 
    shrub; and to purchase, operate, and maintain equipment for the 
    harvesting, storing, transporting, and complete processing of 
    guayule, and Chrysothamnus, commonly known as rabbit brush, and to 
    purchase land as sites for processing plants;
        (5) To conduct studies, in which he may cooperate with any other 
    public or private agency, designed to increase the yield of guayule 
    by breeding to by selection, and to improve planting methods; to 
    make surveys of areas suitable for cultivating guayule; to make 
    experimental plantings; and to conduct agronomic tests;
        (6) To conduct tests, in which he may cooperate with any other 
    public or private agency, to determine the qualities of rubber 
    obtained from guayule and to determine the most favorable methods of 
    compounding and using guayule in rubber manufacturing processes;
        (7) To improve methods of processing guayule shrubs and rubber 
    and to obtain and hold patents on such new processes;
        (8) To sell guayule or rubber processed from guayule and to use 
    funds so obtained in replanting and maintaining an area not in 
    excess of five hundred thousand acres of guayule inside the Western 
    Hemisphere; and
        (9) To exercise with respect to rubber-bearing plants other than 
    guayule the same powers as are granted in the foregoing provisions 
    of this section with respect to guayule.

(Mar. 5, 1942, ch. 140, Sec. 1, 56 Stat. 126; Oct. 20, 1942, ch. 617, 
Secs. 1-4, 56 Stat. 796, 797.)


                               Amendments

    1942--Par. (2). Act Oct. 20, 1942, Sec. 1, increased acreage from 
75,000 to 500,000 and inserted reference to land for administrative 
sites and water rights.
    Par. (3). Act Oct. 20, 1942, Sec. 2, inserted ``to acquire water 
rights; to erect necessary buildings on leased land where suitable land 
cannot be purchased;''.
    Par. (4). Act Oct. 20, 1942, Sec. 3, inserted ``to purchase guayule 
shrub;''.
    Par. (8). Act Oct. 20, 1942, Sec. 4, substituted ``not in excess of 
five hundred'' for ``of seventy-five''.


                      Additional Acreage Authorized

    Act Oct. 26, 1942, ch. 629, title II, 56 Stat. 1002, provided that: 
``The Secretary of Agriculture, in connection with the appropriations 
herein and heretofore made for such project, is authorized to plant, or 
contract for the planting of, not to exceed twenty-five thousand acres 
of guayule in areas in the Western Hemisphere in addition to the acreage 
permitted under the provisions of paragraph (1), section 1 of the act of 
March 5, 1942 (Public Law 473) [par. (1) of this section].''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 172, 173, 175 of this title.
