To amend the Export Apple Act to permit the export of apples to Canada in bulk bins without certification by the Department of Agriculture.

Amends the Export Apple Act to permit apples to be exported to Canada in bulk bins (a quantity of apples weighing more than 100 pounds) without complying with certain inspection and certification requirements.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1298 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1298

To amend the Export Apple Act to permit the export of apples to Canada 
  in bulk bins without certification by the Department of Agriculture.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 20, 2013

 Mr. Owens (for himself and Mr. Hanna) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Export Apple Act to permit the export of apples to Canada 
  in bulk bins without certification by the Department of Agriculture.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. BULK SHIPMENTS OF APPLES TO CANADA.

    (a) Bulk Shipment of Apples to Canada.--Section 4 of the Export 
Apple Act (7 U.S.C. 584) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Apples in'' and inserting ``(a) Apples 
        in''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Apples may be shipped to Canada in bulk bins without 
complying with the provisions of this Act.''.
    (b) Definition of Bulk Bin.--Section 9 of the Export Apple Act (7 
U.S.C. 589) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(5) The term `bulk bin' means a bin that contains a 
        quantity of apples weighing more than 100 pounds.''.
    (c) Regulations.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall issue 
regulations to carry out the amendments made by this section.
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