90 STAT. 2882
PUBLIC LAW 94-582—OCT. 21, 1976 istrator makes such a determination and makes a delegation or designation to an agency that has a conflict of interest otherwise prohibited by this subsection, the Administrator shall, within thirty days after making such a determination, submit a report to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the Senate, detailing the factual bases for such determination. "(c) The provisions of this section shall not prevent an official agency from engaging in the business of weighing grain.". RECORDS
Regulation.
Maintenance.
Access.
Audits.
SEC. 14. Section 12 of the United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 87a), is amended by amending subsections (a), (b), and (c) and adding a new subsection (d) to read, respectively, as follows: "(a) Every official agency and every person licensed to perform any official inspection or official weighing or supervision of weighing function under this Act shall maintain such samples of officially inspected grain and such other records as the Administrator may by regulation prescribe for the purpose of administration and enforcement of this Act. "(b) Every official agency and every person licensed to perform any official inspection or official weighing or supervision of weighing function under this Act required to maintain records under this section shall keep such records for a period of five years after the inspection, weighing, or transaction, which is the subject of the record, occurred: Provided, That grain samples shall be required to be maintained only for such period not in excess of ninety days as the Administrator, after consultation with the grain trade and taking into account the needs and circumstances of local markets, shall prescribe; and in specific cases other records may be required by the Administrator to be maintained for not more than three years in addition to the five-year period whenever in his judgment the retention of such records for the longer period is necessary for the effective administration and enforcement of this Act. "(c) Every official agency and every person licensed to perform any official inspection or official weighing or supervision of weighing function under this Act required to maintain records under this section shall permit any authorized representative of the Secretary or Administrator or the Comptroller General of the United States to have access to, and to copy, such records at all reasonable times. The Administrator shall, from time to time, perform audits of official agencies and State agencies delegate authority of this Act in such manner and at such periodic intervals as he deems appropriate. " (d) Every State, political subdivision thereof, or person who is the owner or operator of a commercial grain elevator, warehouse, or other storage or handling facility or is engaged in the merchandising of grain other than as a producer, and who, at any time, has obtained or obtains official inspection or weighing services shall, within the five-year period thereafter, maintain complete and accurate records of purchases, sales, transportation, storage, weighing, handling, treating, cleaning, drying, blending, and other processing, and official inspection and official weighing of grain, and permit any authorized representative of the Secretary or the Administrator, at all reasonable times, to have access to, and to copy, such records and to have access to any grain elevator, warehouse, or other storage or handling facility used by such persons for handling of grain.".
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