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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · establish a Federal Farm Board to promote the effective merchandising of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce, and to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with othe · Sec. 13

Sec. 13. avoidance of duplication

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## Sec. 13 avoidance of duplication **[**[12 U.S.C. 1141h](/us/usc/t12/s1141h)**]** ###
(a)The board shall, in cooperation with any governmental establishment in the Executive branch of the Government, including any field service thereof at home or abroad, avail itself of the services and facilities thereof in order to avoid preventable expense or duplication of effort. ###
(b)The President may by Executive order direct any such governmental establishment to furnish the board such information and data as such governmental establishment may have pertaining to the functions of the board; except that the President shall not direct that the board be furnished with any information or data supplied by any person in confidence to any governmental establishment in pursuance of any provision of law or of any agreement with a governmental establishment. ###
(c)The board may cooperate with any State or Territory, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, or with any person. ###
(d)The board shall, through the Secretary of Agriculture, indicate to the appropriate bureau or division of the Department of Agriculture any special problem on which a research is needed to aid in carrying out the provisions of this Act. ###
(e)The President is authorized, by Executive order, to transfer to or retransfer from the jurisdiction and control of the board the whole or any part of
(1)any office, bureau, service, division, commission, or board in the Executive branch of the Government engaged in scientific or extension work, or the furnishing of services, with respect to the marketing of agricultural commodities,
(2)its functions pertaining to such work or services, and
(3)the records, property, including office equipment, personnel, and unexpended balances of appropriation, pertaining to such work or services. **[**Section 14 repealed.**]**
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