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[CITE: 7USC178d]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
      CHAPTER 8A--RUBBER AND OTHER CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS
 
Sec. 178d. Research and development program by Secretary of 
        Commerce
        
    The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to initiate and 
carry out research, technology development, technology transfer, and 
demonstration projects to test and demonstrate the economic feasibility 
of the manufacture and commercialization of natural rubber from 
Parthenium or other hydrocarbon-containing plants or the manufacture and 
commercialization of other critical agricultural materials from native 
agricultural crops having strategic and industrial importance. Such 
research shall include but not be limited to--
        (a) conducting research and development on extraction and 
    processing techniques;
        (b) economic analysis of the production of native latex, 
    including usable byproducts;
        (c) studying the environmental, social, and economic impacts of 
    the commercial development of native latex;
        (d) evaluating the commercial marketability of Parthenium and 
    rubber derived from other hydrocarbon-containing plants;
        (e) further refining present extraction and manufacturing 
    technologies and future extraction and manufacturing technologies, 
    including technologies which utilize solar energy;
        (f) developing pertinent material and records on manufacturing 
    of natural rubber which shall be available to other Federal and 
    State agencies and private persons who are interested in or involved 
    in natural rubber development, or manufacture; and
        (g) to the extent appropriate, carrying out research activities 
    with respect to native agricultural crops (other than Parthenium and 
    other hydrocarbon-containing plants) that would supply critical 
    agricultural materials for strategic and industrial purposes, in the 
    manner specified in clauses (a) through (f).

(Pub. L. 95-592, Sec. 6, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2531; Pub. L. 98-284, 
Sec. 6, May 16, 1984, 98 Stat. 183.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Pub. L. 98-284, Sec. 6(1), (2), inserted in provisions 
preceding cl. (a) reference to the manufacture and commercialization of 
other critical agricultural materials from native agricultural crops 
having strategic and industrial importance, and struck out ``may be 
carried out through the Regional Commissions or otherwise and'' after 
``Such research''.
    Cl. (g). Pub. L. 98-284, Sec. 6(5), added cl. (g).
