Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture either independently or in cooperation with States or farmers organizations to carry out operations to detect and eradicate plant pests.
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with the Governments of all countries of the Western Hemisphere, or the local authorities thereof, in carrying out necessary surveys and control operations in those countries in connection with the eradication, suppression, control and prevention or retardation of the spread of plant pests.
Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as the Congress may annually determine to be necessary to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of this Act. States that unless otherwise specifically authorized, or provided for in appropriations, no part of such sums shall be used to pay the cost or value of property injured or destroyed.
Repeals the provisions of law which limit the Secretary's pest control authority to the Mexican pink bollworm.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
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