[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1250.336]

[Page 257-258]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XI--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND 
      ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1250_EGG RESEARCH AND PROMOTION--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart_Egg Research and Promotion Order
 
Sec. 1250.336  Duties.

    The Board shall have the following duties:
    (a) To meet and organize and to select from among its members a 
chairman and such other officers as may be necessary, to select 
committees and subcommittees of Board members, to adopt such rules for 
the conduct of its business as it may deem advisable, and it may 
establish advisory committees of persons other than Board members;
    (b) To appoint or employ such persons as it may deem necessary and 
to define the duties and determine the compensation of each;
    (c) To prepare and submit to the Secretary for his approval budgets 
on a fiscal-period basis of its anticipated expenses and disbursements 
in the administration of this subpart, including probable cost of plans 
and projects as estimated in the budget or budgets submitted to it by 
prospective contractors, with the Board's recommendations with respect 
thereto. In preparing a budget for each of the 1994 and subsequent 
fiscal years, the Board shall, to the maximum extent practicable, 
allocate a proportion of funds for research projects comparable to the 
proportion of funds allocated for research projects in the Board's 
fiscal year 1993 budget.
    (d) With the approval of the Secretary, to enter into contracts or 
agreements with persons, including, but not limited to, State, regional, 
or national agencies or State, regional, or

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national egg organizations which administer research, education, or 
promotion programs, advertising agencies, public relations firms, public 
or private research organizations, advertising and promotion media, and 
egg producer organizations, for the development and submission to it of 
plans and projects authorized by Sec. 1250.341 and for the carrying out 
of such plans or projects when approved by the Secretary, and for the 
payment of the cost thereof with funds collected pursuant to Sec. 
1250.347. Any such contracts or agreements shall provide that such 
contractors shall develop and submit to the Board a plan or project 
together with a budget or budgets which shall show estimated costs to be 
incurred for such plan or project, and that any such plan or project 
shall become effective upon approval by the Secretary. Any such contract 
or agreement shall also provide that the contractor shall keep accurate 
records of all of its transactions and make periodic reports to the 
Board of activities carried out and an accounting for funds received and 
expended, and such other reports as the Secretary may require;
    (e) To review and submit to the Secretary any plans or projects 
which have been developed and submitted to it by the prospective 
contractor, together with its recommendations with respect to the 
approval thereof by the Secretary;
    (f) To maintain such books and records and prepare and submit such 
reports from time to time to the Secretary as he may prescribe, and to 
make appropriate accounting with respect to the receipt and disbursement 
of all funds entrusted to it;
    (g)-(h) [Reserved]
    (i) To prepare and make public, at least annually, a report of 
activities carried out and an accounting for funds received and 
expended;
    (j) To cause its books to be audited by a certified public 
accountant at least once each fiscal period and at such other times as 
the Secretary may request, and submit a copy of each such audit to the 
Secretary;
    (k) To give the Secretary the same notice of meetings of the Board 
as is given to members in order that he or his representative may attend 
such meetings;
    (l) To act as an intermediary between the Secretary and any producer 
or handler; and
    (m) To submit to the Secretary such information pursuant to this 
subpart as he may request.

[40 FR 59190, Dec. 22, 1975, as amended at 54 FR 99, Jan. 4, 1989, and 
54 FR 11493, Mar. 21, 1989; 54 FR 12310, Mar. 24, 1989; 59 FR 38876, 
Aug. 1, 1994; 60 FR 66861, Dec. 27, 1995]

                   Research, Education, and Promotion