{"identifier":"/us/usc/t7/s178a","title_num":"7","num":"§ 178a.","heading":"Definitions","status":null,"guid":"idfd481f8d-4154-11e7-afbe-9bf2dd35758d","source_credit":"(Pub. L. 95–592, § 3, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2529; Pub. L. 98–284, § 3, May 16, 1984, 98 Stat. 181.)","seq_in_title":226,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t7/ch8A/schII","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t7","level":"title","num":"Title 7—","heading":"AGRICULTURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t7/ch8A","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 8A—","heading":"RUBBER AND OTHER CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t7/ch8A/schII","level":"subchapter","num":"SUBCHAPTER II—","heading":"CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id69b3748f-ec38-11e5-ab42-dae4a1e80e35\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t7/s178a\"><num value=\"178a\">§ 178a.</num><heading> Definitions</heading>\n<chapeau style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">As used in this subchapter—</chapeau><subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id69b37490-ec38-11e5-ab42-dae4a1e80e35\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t7/s178a/a\"><num value=\"a\">(a)</num><content> The term “State” means each of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.</content>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id69b37491-ec38-11e5-ab42-dae4a1e80e35\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t7/s178a/b\"><num value=\"b\">(b)</num><content> The term “Secretaries” means the Secretary of Agriculture and/or the Secretary of Commerce acting each separately or jointly.</content>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id69b37492-ec38-11e5-ab42-dae4a1e80e35\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t7/s178a/c\"><num value=\"c\">(c)</num><content> 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.</content>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id69b37493-ec38-11e5-ab42-dae4a1e80e35\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t7/s178a/d\"><num value=\"d\">(d)</num><content> 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.</content>\n</subsection>\n<sourceCredit id=\"id69b37494-ec38-11e5-ab42-dae4a1e80e35\">(<ref href=\"/us/pl/95/592\">Pub. L. 95–592</ref>, § 3, <date date=\"1978-11-04\">Nov. 4, 1978</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/92/2529\">92 Stat. 2529</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/98/284\">Pub. L. 98–284</ref>, § 3, <date date=\"1984-05-16\">May 16, 1984</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/98/181\">98 Stat. 181</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id69b37495-ec38-11e5-ab42-dae4a1e80e35\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id69b37496-ec38-11e5-ab42-dae4a1e80e35\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1984—Subsec. (d). <ref href=\"/us/pl/98/284\">Pub. L. 98–284</ref>, § 3(a), inserted “and other agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance” and “plants which are”.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Subsec. (e). <ref href=\"/us/pl/98/284\">Pub. L. 98–284</ref>, § 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.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"115-35","currency_date":"2017-05-17","congress":115,"law_num":35,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":99,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","05a","06","07","08","10","12","15","16","19","20","21","22","23","26","28","30","31","33","36","38","40","41","42","43","48","49","50","51","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"115-35","currency_date":"2017-05-17","congress":115,"law_num":35,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":99,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","05a","06","07","08","10","12","15","16","19","20","21","22","23","26","28","30","31","33","36","38","40","41","42","43","48","49","50","51","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"114-115","currency_date":"2015-12-28","congress":114,"law_num":115,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":62,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","07","08","10","15","20","21","23","25","26","29","31","40","42","47","49","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}