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[CITE: 7USC178a]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
      CHAPTER 8A--RUBBER AND OTHER CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS
 
Sec. 178a. Definitions

    As used in this subchapter--
    (a) The term ``State'' means each of the fifty States, the District 
of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
    (b) The term ``Secretaries'' means the Secretary of Agriculture and/
or the Secretary of Commerce acting each separately or jointly.
    (c) The term ``commercialization'' means the stage in the 
development or advancement of a technology at which point private 
enterprise is willing to invest in a full-scale production facility.
    (d) The term ``native'' means hydrocarbon-containing plants and 
other agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance which 
may be cultured in North America, especially plants which are members of 
the genus Parthenium known as Guayule.

(Pub. L. 95-592, Sec. 3, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2529; Pub. L. 98-284, 
Sec. 3, May 16, 1984, 98 Stat. 181.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 98-284, Sec. 3(a), inserted ``and other 
agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance'' and ``plants 
which are''.
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 98-284, Sec. 3(b), struck out subsec. (e) which 
defined ``Regional Commissions'' as the Regional Action Planning 
Commissions established pursuant to title V of the Public Works and 
Economic Development Act of 1965.
