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U.S. Code as of:
01/03/05
Section 171. Program for development of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants
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
five hundred 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 field plants; and to
purchase necessary equipment, facilities, land for nurseries and
administrative sites and water rights;
(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 acquire water rights; to erect necessary buildings on
leased land where suitable land cannot be purchased; 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; to purchase
guayule shrub; 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 to 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 not in
excess of five hundred 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.
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