[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 9]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1150.139]

[Page 182]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER X--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
                 Orders; Milk) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1150_DAIRY PROMOTION PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart_Dairy Promotion and Research Order
 
Sec.  1150.139  Powers of the Board.

    The Board shall have the following powers:
    (a) To receive and evaluate, or on its own initiative develop, and 
budget for plans or projects to promote the use of fluid milk and dairy 
products as well as projects for research and nutrition education and to 
make recommendations to the Secretary regarding such proposals;
    (b) To administer the provisions of this subpart in accordance with 
its terms and provisions;
    (c) To make rules and regulations to effectuate the terms and 
provisions of this subpart;
    (d) To receive, investigate, and report to the Secretary complaints 
of violations of the provisions of this subpart;
    (e) To disseminate information to producers or eligible 
organizations through programs or by direct contact utilizing the public 
postage system or other systems;
    (f) To select committees and subcommittees of Board members, and to 
adopt such rules for the conduct of its business as it may deem 
advisable;
    (g) To establish advisory committees of persons other than Board 
members and pay the necessary and reasonable expenses and fees of the 
members of such committees;
    (h) To recommend to the Secretary amendments to this subpart; and
    (i) With the approval of the Secretary, to invest, pending 
disbursement pursuant to a plan or project, funds collected through 
assessments authorized under Sec.  1150.152 in, and only in, obligations 
of the United States or any agency thereof, in general obligations of 
any State or any political subdivision thereof, in any interest-bearing 
account or certificate of deposit of a bank that is a member of the 
Federal Reserve System, or in obligations fully guaranteed as to 
principal and interest by the United States.