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[CITE: 7USC4501]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                CHAPTER 76--DAIRY RESEARCH AND PROMOTION
 
                  SUBCHAPTER I--DAIRY PROMOTION PROGRAM
 
Sec. 4501. Congressional findings and declaration of policy

    (a) Congress finds that--
        (1) dairy products are basic foods that are a valuable part of 
    the human diet;
        (2) the production of dairy products plays a significant role in 
    the Nation's economy the milk from which dairy products are 
    manufactured is produced by thousands of milk producers, and dairy 
    products are consumed by millions of people throughout the United 
    States;
        (3) dairy products must be readily available and marketed 
    efficiently to ensure that the people of the United States receive 
    adequate nourishment;
        (4) the maintenance and expansion of existing markets for dairy 
    products are vital to the welfare of milk producers and those 
    concerned with marketing, using, and producing dairy products, as 
    well as to the general economy of the Nation; and
        (5) dairy products move in interstate and foreign commerce, and 
    dairy products that do not move in such channels of commerce 
    directly burden or affect interstate commerce of dairy products.

    (b) It, therefore, is declared to be the policy of Congress that it 
is in the public interest to authorize the establishment, through the 
exercise of the powers provided herein, of an orderly procedure for 
financing (through assessments on all milk produced in the United States 
for commercial use) and carrying out a coordinated program of promotion 
designed to strengthen the dairy industry's position in the marketplace 
and to maintain and expand domestic and foreign markets and uses for 
fluid milk and dairy products produced in the United States. Nothing in 
this subchapter may be construed to provide for the control of 
production or otherwise limit the right of individual milk producers to 
produce milk.

(Pub. L. 98-180, title I, Sec. 110, Nov. 29, 1983, 97 Stat. 1136.)


                               Short Title

    For short title of title I of Pub. L. 98-180 as the ``Dairy 
Production Stabilization Act of 1983'', see Short Title of 1983 
Amendment note set out under section 1421 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 4502 of this title.
