§ 178a. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC178a]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 8A--RUBBER AND OTHER CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS
SUBCHAPTER II--CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS
Sec. 178a. Definitions
As used in this subchapter--
(a) The term ``State'' means each of the fifty States, the District
of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) The term ``Secretaries'' means the Secretary of Agriculture and/
or the Secretary of Commerce acting each separately or jointly.
(c) The term ``commercialization'' means the stage in the
development or advancement of a technology at which point private
enterprise is willing to invest in a full-scale production facility.
(d) The term ``native'' means hydrocarbon-containing plants and
other agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance which
may be cultured in North America, especially plants which are members of
the genus Parthenium known as Guayule.
(Pub. L. 95-592, Sec. 3, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2529; Pub. L. 98-284,
Sec. 3, May 16, 1984, 98 Stat. 181.)
Amendments
1984--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 98-284, Sec. 3(a), inserted ``and other
agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance'' and ``plants
which are''.
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 98-284, Sec. 3(b), struck out subsec. (e) which
defined ``Regional Commissions'' as the Regional Action Planning
Commissions established pursuant to title V of the Public Works and
Economic Development Act of 1965.
