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[CITE: 7USC450]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 17--MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
 
Sec. 450. Cooperation with State agencies in administration and 
        enforcement of laws relating to marketing of agricultural 
        products and control or eradication of plant and animal diseases 
        and pests; coordination of administration of Federal and State 
        laws
        
    In order to avoid duplication of functions, facilities, and 
personnel, and to attain closer coordination and greater effectiveness 
and economy in administration of Federal and State laws and regulations 
relating to the marketing of agricultural products and to the control or 
eradication of plant and animal diseases and pests, the Secretary of 
Agriculture is authorized, in the administration and enforcement of such 
Federal laws within his area of responsibility, whenever he deems it 
feasible and in the public interest, to enter into cooperative 
arrangements with State departments of agriculture and other State 
agencies charged with the administration and enforcement of such State 
laws and regulations and to provide that any such State agency which has 
adequate facilities, personnel, and procedures, as determined by the 
Secretary, may assist the Secretary in the administration and 
enforcement of such Federal laws and regulations to the extent and in 
the manner he deems appropriate in the public interest.
    Further, the Secretary is authorized to coordinate the 
administration of such Federal laws and regulations with such State laws 
and regulations wherever feasible. However, nothing herein shall affect 
the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture under any Federal law, 
or any authority to cooperate with State agencies or other agencies or 
persons under existing provisions of law, or affect any restrictions of 
law upon such cooperation.

(Pub. L. 87-718, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 663.)
