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Panel debates clearer emergency-waiver authority, advisory-committee role and fee stability in USGSA reauthorization
Summary
Members and witnesses discussed clarifying the statute’s emergency-waiver language, preserving the Grain Inspection Advisory Committee and ensuring predictable user fees for export inspection supervision during a House Agriculture Subcommittee hearing on reauthorization of the United States Grain Standards Act.
Lawmakers and witnesses at a House Agriculture Subcommittee hearing focused part of their questions on three governance and funding issues: the scope and definition of emergency waivers for official inspection, the future of the Grain Inspection Advisory Committee if reauthorization lapses, and needed stability in user fees that finance inspection services.
Industry witness Nick Friant told the committee that "we do not want waivers in any at any time. We want it to be very specific during times of service disruption," and recommended…
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