§ 171. — Program for development of guayule and other rubberbearing plants.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC171]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 8A--RUBBER AND OTHER CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 171. Program for development of guayule and other rubber-
bearing plants
The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter called the ``Secretary'')
is authorized--
(1) To acquire by purchase, license, or other agreement, the
right to operate under processes or patents relating to the growing
and harvesting of guayule or the extraction of rubber therefrom, and
such properties, processes, records, and data as are necessary to
such operation, including but not limited to any such rights owned
or controlled by the Intercontinental Rubber Company, or any of its
subsidiaries, and all equipment, materials, structures, factories,
real property, seed, seedlings, growing shrub, and other facilities,
patents and processes of the Intercontinental Rubber Company, or any
of its subsidiaries, located in California, and for such rights,
properties, and facilities of the Intercontinental Rubber Company or
any of its subsidiaries, the Secretary is authorized to pay not to
exceed $2,000,000;
(2) To plant, or contract for the planting of, not in excess of
five hundred thousand acres of guayule in areas in the Western
Hemisphere where the best growth and yields may be expected in order
to maintain a nucleus planting of guayule to serve as a domestic
source of crude rubber as well as of planting material for use in
further expanding guayule planting to meet emergency needs of the
United States for crude rubber; to establish and maintain nurseries
to provide seedlings for field plants; and to purchase necessary
equipment, facilities, land for nurseries and administrative sites
and water rights;
(3) To acquire by lease, or other agreement, for not exceeding
ten years, rights to land for the purpose of making plantings of
guayule; to acquire water rights; to erect necessary buildings on
leased land where suitable land cannot be purchased; to make
surveys, directly or through appropriate Government agencies, of
areas in the Western Hemisphere where guayule might be grown; and to
establish and maintain records indicating areas to which guayule
cultivation could be extended for emergency production;
(4) To construct or operate, or to contract for the operation
of, factories for the extraction of rubber from guayule, and from
Chrysothamnus, commonly known as rabbit brush; to purchase guayule
shrub; and to purchase, operate, and maintain equipment for the
harvesting, storing, transporting, and complete processing of
guayule, and Chrysothamnus, commonly known as rabbit brush, and to
purchase land as sites for processing plants;
(5) To conduct studies, in which he may cooperate with any other
public or private agency, designed to increase the yield of guayule
by breeding to by selection, and to improve planting methods; to
make surveys of areas suitable for cultivating guayule; to make
experimental plantings; and to conduct agronomic tests;
(6) To conduct tests, in which he may cooperate with any other
public or private agency, to determine the qualities of rubber
obtained from guayule and to determine the most favorable methods of
compounding and using guayule in rubber manufacturing processes;
(7) To improve methods of processing guayule shrubs and rubber
and to obtain and hold patents on such new processes;
(8) To sell guayule or rubber processed from guayule and to use
funds so obtained in replanting and maintaining an area not in
excess of five hundred thousand acres of guayule inside the Western
Hemisphere; and
(9) To exercise with respect to rubber-bearing plants other than
guayule the same powers as are granted in the foregoing provisions
of this section with respect to guayule.
(Mar. 5, 1942, ch. 140, Sec. 1, 56 Stat. 126; Oct. 20, 1942, ch. 617,
Secs. 1-4, 56 Stat. 796, 797.)
Amendments
1942--Par. (2). Act Oct. 20, 1942, Sec. 1, increased acreage from
75,000 to 500,000 and inserted reference to land for administrative
sites and water rights.
Par. (3). Act Oct. 20, 1942, Sec. 2, inserted ``to acquire water
rights; to erect necessary buildings on leased land where suitable land
cannot be purchased;''.
Par. (4). Act Oct. 20, 1942, Sec. 3, inserted ``to purchase guayule
shrub;''.
Par. (8). Act Oct. 20, 1942, Sec. 4, substituted ``not in excess of
five hundred'' for ``of seventy-five''.
Additional Acreage Authorized
Act Oct. 26, 1942, ch. 629, title II, 56 Stat. 1002, provided that:
``The Secretary of Agriculture, in connection with the appropriations
herein and heretofore made for such project, is authorized to plant, or
contract for the planting of, not to exceed twenty-five thousand acres
of guayule in areas in the Western Hemisphere in addition to the acreage
permitted under the provisions of paragraph (1), section 1 of the act of
March 5, 1942 (Public Law 473) [par. (1) of this section].''
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 172, 173, 175 of this title.
