{"identifier":"/us/usc/t7/s178a","title_num":"7","num":"§ 178a.","heading":"Definitions","status":null,"guid":"ideee3383a-0974-11f0-9dfd-afe1829a8806","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=\"id3433af2f-7fa0-11ec-94a7-ad9af92efa12\" 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=\"id3433af30-7fa0-11ec-94a7-ad9af92efa12\" 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=\"id3433af31-7fa0-11ec-94a7-ad9af92efa12\" 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=\"id3433af32-7fa0-11ec-94a7-ad9af92efa12\" 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=\"id3433af33-7fa0-11ec-94a7-ad9af92efa12\" 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=\"id3433af34-7fa0-11ec-94a7-ad9af92efa12\">(<ref href=\"/us/pl/95/592/s3\">Pub. L. 95–592, § 3</ref>, <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/s3\">Pub. L. 98–284, § 3</ref>, <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=\"id3433af35-7fa0-11ec-94a7-ad9af92efa12\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id3433af36-7fa0-11ec-94a7-ad9af92efa12\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id3433af37-7fa0-11ec-94a7-ad9af92efa12\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1984—Subsec. (d). <ref href=\"/us/pl/98/284/s3/a\">Pub. L. 98–284, § 3(a)</ref>, 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/s3/b\">Pub. L. 98–284, § 3(b)</ref>, 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":"119-4","currency_date":"2025-03-15","congress":119,"law_num":4,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":352,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","06","07","08","14","16","18","20","22","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"119-4","currency_date":"2025-03-15","congress":119,"law_num":4,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":352,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","06","07","08","14","16","18","20","22","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"117-80","currency_date":"2021-12-27","congress":117,"law_num":80,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":258,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","06","07","12","15","16","19","23","25","26","29","30","33","40","41","42","43","45","46","47","49","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}