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7 U.S.C. 178a: DefinitionsText contains those laws in effect through Public Law 119-120 (October 7, 2026).
From Title 7-AGRICULTURECHAPTER 8A-RUBBER AND OTHER CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS
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§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, § 3 , Nov. 4, 1978 , 92 Stat. 2529 ; Pub. L. 98–284, § 3 , May 16, 1984 , 98 Stat. 181 .)

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Amendments

1984⁠—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 98–284, § 3(a), inserted “and other agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance” and “plants which are”.

Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 98–284, § 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.