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an adequate certification service. Such regulations shall prescribe no standard of identity or of strength, quality, or purity for any drug different from the standard of identity, strength, quality, or purity set forth for such drug in an official compendium.

"(c) Such regulations, insofar as they prescribe tests or methods of assay to determine strength, quality, or purity of any drug, different from the tests or methods of assay set forth for such drug in an official compendium, shall be prescribed, after notice and opportunity for revision of such compendium, in the manner provided in the second sentence of section 501 (b). The provisions of subsections (e), (f), and (g) of section 701 shall be applicable to such portion of any regulation as prescribes any such different test or method, but shall not be applicable to any other portion of any such regulation."

SEC. 4. Regulations initially prescribed under section 506 of such Act, as amended. shall be promulgated and made effective within forty-five days after the date of enactment of this Act.

Approved, December 22, 1941.

[CHAPTER 140-2D SESSION]

[S. 2282]

AN ACT

To provide for the planting of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants and to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 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 seventy-five 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 aeld plants; and to purchase necessary equipment, facilities, and land for nurseries;

(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 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; 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 or 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 of seventyfive 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.

SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary is authorized to appoint such employees, including citizens of countries in the Western Hemisphere, as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act. Such appointments may be made without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws, and the compensation of the persons so appointed may be fixed without regard to the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. All appointments so made by the Secretary shall be made only on the basis of merit and efficiency.

(b) The Secretary may delegate any of the powers and duties conferred on him by this Act to any agency or bureau of the Department of Agriculture.

(c) The Secretary, with the consent of any board, commission, independent establishment, corporation, or executive department of the Government, including any field service thereof, may avail himself of the use of information, services, facilities, officers and employees thereof, in carrying out the provisions of this Act.

(d) The Secretary may allot to bureaus and offices of the Department of Agriculture, or may transfer to such other agencies of the State and Federal Governments as may be requested by him to assist in carrying out this Act, any funds made available to him under this

Act.

SEC. 3. There are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Any amounts so appropriated, and any funds received by the Secretary under this Act, shall remain permanently available for the purposes of this Act without regard to the provisions of any other laws relating to the availability and disposition of appropriated funds and the disposition of funds collected by officers or agencies of the United States.

Approved, March 5, 1942.

[CHAPTER 403-2D SESSION]

[H. J. Res. 315]

JOINT RESOLUTION

To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide Federal meat inspection during the present war emergency in respect of meat-packing establishments engaged in intrastate commerce only, in order to facilitate the purchase of meat and meat food products by Federal agencies, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon application for Federal inspection by any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment which is not subject to the provisions of law, as amended, known as the Meat Inspection Act, which follow the subheading "For Meat Inspection" under the heading "Bureau of Animal Industry" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight", approved March 4, 1907, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to cause to be made the same or similar examinations and inspections and cause such other action to be taken in respect of the soundness, healthfulness, wholesomeness, and fitness for human food of meat and meat food products as would be made or taken if meat and meat food products from such establishment were to be used, transported, or sold in interstate or foreign commerce.

SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed, insofar as may be practicable, to carry out the provisions of this Act through the existing officers, employees, and facilities through which he carries out the provisions of the Meat Inspection Act, as amended.

(b) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary in order to carry out the provisions of this Act.

(c) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to employ persons without regard to the Civil Service Act. as amended, and subsection 6 of section 6 of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, provided that any persons so employed shall be regarded as holding war-service appointments, under Executive Order 9063.

SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and each fiscal year thereafter, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. SEC. 4. This Act shall cease to be in effect six months after the termination of the present war.

Approved, June 10, 1942.

[CHAPTER 421-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 5204]

AN ACT

Authorizing the charging of fees for brand inspection under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That title III of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921. as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:

"SEC. 317. (a) The Secretary may, upon written application made to him, and if he deems it necessary. authorize the charging and collection, at any stockyard subject to the provisions of this Act, by any department or agency of any State in which branding or marking or both branding and marking livestock as a means of establishing ownership prevails by custom or statute, or by a duly organized livestock association of any such State, of a reasonable and nondiscriminatory fee for the inspection of brands. marks, and other identifying characteristics of livestock originating in or shipped from such State, for the purpose of determining the ownership of such livestock. No charge shall be made under any such authorization until the authorized department, agency, or association has registered as a market agency. No more than one such authorization shall be issued with respect to such inspection of livestock originating in or shipped from any one State. If more than one such application is filed with respect to such inspection of livestock originating in or shipped from any one State, the Secretary shall issue such authorization to the applicant deemed by him best qualified to perform the proposed service, on the basis of (1) experience, (2) financial responsibility, (3) extent and efficiency of organization. (4) possession of necessary records, and (5) any other factor relating to the ability of the applicant to perform the proposed service. The Secretary may receive and consider the recommendations of the commissioner, secretary, or director of agriculture, or other appropriate officer or agency of a State as to the qualifications of any applicant in such State. The decision of the Secretary as to the applicant best qualified shall be final.

"(b) The provisions of this title relating to the filing, publication, approval, modification, and suspension of any rate or charge for any stockyard service shall apply with respect to charges authorized to be made under this section.

"(c) Charges authorized to be made under this section shall be collected by the market agency or other person receiving and disbursing the funds received from the sale of livestock with respect to the inspection of which such charge is made, and paid by it to the department, agency, or association performing such service.

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