Federal · Title 7 — Agriculture
7 U.S.C. § 178a: Definitions
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The term “State” means each of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The term “Secretaries” means the Secretary of Agriculture and/or the Secretary of Commerce acting each separately or jointly. 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. 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.
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