[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: 7CFR1150.140]

[Page 182-183]
 
                          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.  1150.140  Duties of the Board.

    The Board shall have the following duties:
    (a) To meet not less than annually, and to organize and select from 
among its members a chairman and such other officers as may be 
necessary;
    (b) To appoint from its members an executive committee whose 
membership shall equally reflect each of the different regions in the 
United States in which milk is produced, and to delegate to the 
committee authority to administer the terms and provisions of this 
subpart under the direction of the Board and within the policies 
determined by the Board;
    (c) To appoint or employ such persons as it may deem necessary and 
define the duties and determine the compensation of each;
    (d) To review all programs that promote milk and dairy products on a 
brand or trade name basis that have requested certification pursuant to 
Sec.  1150.153, and to recommend to the Secretary whether such request 
should be granted;
    (e) To develop and submit to the Secretary for approval, promotion, 
research, and nutrition education plans or projects resulting from 
research or studies conducted either by the Board or others;
    (f) To solicit, among other proposals, research proposals that would 
increase the use of fluid milk and dairy products by the military and by 
persons in developing nations, and that would demonstrate the 
feasibility of converting surplus nonfat dry milk to casein for domestic 
and export use;
    (g) To prepare and submit to the Secretary for approval, budgets on 
a fiscal period basis of its anticipated expenses and disbursements in 
the administration of this subpart, including probable costs of 
promotion, research and nutrition education plans or projects, and also 
including a general description of the proposed promotion, research and 
nutrition education programs contemplated therein;
    (h) To maintain such books and records, which shall be available to 
the Secretary for inspection and audit, and prepare and submit such 
reports from time to time to the Secretary as the Secretary may 
prescribe, and to make appropriate accounting with respect to the 
receipt and disbursement of all funds entrusted to it;
    (i) With the approval of the Secretary, to enter into contracts or

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agreements with national, regional or State dairy promotion and research 
organizations or other organizations or entities for the development and 
conduct of activities authorized under Sec.  Sec.  1150.139 and 1150.161, 
and for the payment of the cost thereof with funds collected through 
assessments pursuant to Sec.  1150.152. Any such contract or agreement 
shall provide that:
    (1) The contractors shall develop and submit to the Board a plan or 
project together with a budgets or budget which shall show the estimated 
cost to be incurred for such plan or project;
    (2) Any such plan or project shall become effective upon approval of 
the Secretary; and
    (3) The contracting party shall keep accurate records of all of its 
transactions and make periodic reports to the Board of activities 
conducted and an accounting for funds received and expended, and such 
other reports as the Secretary or the Board may require. The Secretary 
or employees of the Board may audit periodically the records of the 
contracting party;
    (j) To prepare and make public, at least annually, a report of its 
activities carried out and an accounting for funds received and 
expended;
    (k) To have an audit of its financial statements conducted by a 
certified public accountant in accordance with generally accepted 
auditing standards, at least once each fiscal period and at such other 
times as the Secretary may request, and to submit a copy of each such 
audit report to the Secretary;
    (l) To give the Secretary the same notice of meetings of the Board, 
committees of the Board and advisory committees as is given to such 
Board or committee members in order that the Secretary, or a 
representative of the Secretary, may attend such meetings;
    (m) To submit to the Secretary such information pursuant to this 
subpart as may be requested; and
    (n) To encourage the coordination of programs of promotion, research 
and nutrition education designed to strengthen the dairy industry's 
position in the marketplace and to maintain and expand domestic and 
foreign markets and uses for fluid milk and dairy products produced in 
the United States.

                        Expenses and Assessments