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[CITE: 7USC4909]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
              CHAPTER 80--WATERMELON RESEARCH AND PROMOTION
 
Sec. 4909. Petition and review

    (a) Any person subject to a plan may file a written petition with 
the Secretary, stating that the plan or any provision of the plan, or 
any obligation imposed in connection therewith, is not in accordance 
with law and praying for a modification thereof or to be exempted 
therefrom. The person shall be given an opportunity for a hearing on the 
petition, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. 
After the hearing, the Secretary shall make a ruling on the petition, 
which shall be final if in accordance with the law.
    (b) The district courts of the United States in any district in 
which the person is an inhabitant, or in which the person's principal 
place of business is located, are hereby vested with jurisdiction to 
review such ruling, provided that a complaint for that purpose is filed 
within twenty days from the date of the entry of the ruling. Service of 
process in such proceedings may be had on the Secretary by delivering to 
the Secretary a copy of the complaint. If the court determines that the 
ruling is not in accordance with law, it shall remand the proceedings to 
the Secretary with directions either to (1) make such ruling as the 
court shall determine to be in accordance with law, or (2) take such 
further proceedings as, in its opinion, the law requires. The pendency 
of proceedings instituted under subsection (a) of this section shall not 
impede or delay the United States or the Secretary from obtaining relief 
under section 4910(a) \1\ of this title.
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    \1\ See References in Text note below.
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(Pub. L. 99-198, title XVI, Sec. 1650, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1627.)

                       References in Text

    Section 4910(a) of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was in 
the original ``section 1851(a)'', a nonexistent section in Pub. L. 99-
198, and has been translated as if the reference had been to ``section 
1651(a)'' to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
