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[CITE: 7USC7415]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                   CHAPTER 101--AGRICULTURAL PROMOTION
 
     SUBCHAPTER II--ISSUANCE OF ORDERS FOR PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND 
        INFORMATION ACTIVITIES REGARDING AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
 
Sec. 7415. Permissive terms in orders


(a) Exemptions

    An order issued under this subchapter may contain--
        (1) authority for the Secretary to exempt from the order any de 
    minimis quantity of an agricultural commodity otherwise covered by 
    the order; and
        (2) authority for the board established under the order to 
    require satisfactory safeguards against improper use of the 
    exemption.

(b) Different payment and reporting schedules

    An order issued under this subchapter may contain authority for the 
board established under the order to designate different payment and 
reporting schedules to recognize differences in agricultural commodity 
industry marketing practices and procedures used in different production 
and importing areas.

(c) Activities

    An order issued under this subchapter may contain authority to 
develop and carry out research, promotion, and information activities 
designed to expand, improve, or make more efficient the marketing or use 
of the agricultural commodity covered by the order in domestic and 
foreign markets. Section 7414(e) of this title shall apply with respect 
to activities authorized under this subsection.

(d) Reserve funds

    An order issued under this subchapter may contain authority to 
reserve funds from assessments collected under section 7416 of this 
title to permit an effective and continuous coordinated program of 
research, promotion, and information in years when the yield from 
assessments may be reduced, except that the amount of funds reserved may 
not exceed the greatest aggregate amount of the anticipated 
disbursements specified in budgets approved under section 7414(e) of 
this title by the Secretary for any 2 fiscal years.

(e) Credits

                       (1) Generic activities

        An order issued under this subchapter may contain authority to 
    provide credits of assessments for those individuals who contribute 
    to other similar generic research, promotion, and information 
    programs at the State, regional, or local level.

                       (2) Branded activities

        (A) In general

            The Secretary may permit a farmer cooperative that engages 
        in branded activities relating to the marketing of the products 
        of members of the cooperative to receive an annual credit for 
        the activities and related expenditures in the form of a 
        deduction of the total cost of the activities and related 
        expenditures from the amount of any assessment that would 
        otherwise be required to be paid by the producer members of the 
        cooperative under an order issued under this subchapter.

        (B) Election by cooperative

            A farmer cooperative may elect to voluntarily waive the 
        application of subparagraph (A) to the cooperative.

(f) Assessment of imports

    An order issued under this subchapter may contain authority for the 
board established under the order to assess under section 7416 of this 
title an imported agricultural commodity, or products of such an 
agricultural commodity, at a rate comparable to the rate determined by 
the appropriate board for the domestic agricultural commodity covered by 
the order.

(g) Other authority

    An order issued under this subchapter may contain authority to take 
any other action that--
        (1) is not inconsistent with the purpose of this subchapter, any 
    term or condition specified in section 7414 of this title, or any 
    rule issued to carry out this subchapter; and
        (2) is necessary to administer the order.

(Pub. L. 104-127, title V, Sec. 516, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1041.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 7413, 7414, 7416 of this 
title.
