Sec. 3. **[**[7 U.S.C. 178a](/us/usc/t7/s178a)**]**
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## Sec. 3 **[**[7 U.S.C. 178a](/us/usc/t7/s178a)**]** As used in this Act— ###
(a)The term “**State**” means each of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. ###
(b)The term “**Secretaries**” means the Secretary of Agriculture and/or the Secretary of Commerce acting each separately or jointly. ###
(c)The term “**commercialization**” means the stage in the development or advancement of a technology at which point private enterprise is willing to invest in a full-scale production facility. ###
(d)The term “**native**” means hydrocarbon-containing plants and other agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance which may be cultured in North America, especially plants which are members of the genus Parthenium known as Guayule.
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**[**[7 U.S.C. 178a](/us/usc/t7/s178a)**]**
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