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[CITE: 7USC1445f]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
         CHAPTER 35A--PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
 
              SUBCHAPTER II--BASIC AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
 
Sec. 1445f. International Emergency Food Reserve

    The President is encouraged to enter into negotiations with other 
nations to develop an international system of food reserves to provide 
for humanitarian food relief needs and to establish and maintain a food 
reserve, as a contribution of the United States toward the development 
of such a system, to be made available in the event of food emergencies 
in foreign countries. The reserves shall be known as the International 
Emergency Food Reserve.

(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title I, Sec. 111, as added Pub. L. 95-113, 
title XI, Sec. 1102, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 953.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95-113, 
set out as an Effective Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 1307 
of this title.