---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1635m"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1635m"
heading: "Mandatory reporting for lambs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1635m"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Distribution and Marketing of Agricultural Products"
  - "Subchapter II — Livestock Mandatory Reporting"
  - "Part D — Lamb Reporting"
---

# §1635m. Mandatory reporting for lambs

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may establish a program of mandatory lamb price information reporting that will—
  - (1) provide timely, accurate, and reliable [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) information;
  - (2) facilitate more informed marketing decisions; and
  - (3) promote competition in the lamb slaughtering industry.
- (b) **Notice and comment—** If the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) establishes a mandatory price reporting program under [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall provide an opportunity for comment on proposed regulations to establish the program during the 30-day period beginning on the date of the publication of the proposed regulations.

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1946, ch. 966, title II, § 241, as added Pub. L. 106–78, title IX, § 911(2), Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1200.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Lamb Reporting

Pub. L. 114–54, title I, § 103, Sept. 30, 2015, 129 Stat. 514, provided that: “Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act [Sept. 30, 2015], the Secretary of Agriculture shall revise section 59.300 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, so that— the definition of the term ‘importer’— includes only those importers that imported an average of 1,000 metric tons of lamb meat products per year during the immediately preceding 4 calendar years; and may include any person that does not meet the requirement referred to in subparagraph (A), if the Secretary determines that the person should be considered an importer based on their volume of lamb imports; and the definition of the term ‘packer’— applies to any entity with 50 percent or more ownership in a facility; includes a federally inspected lamb processing plant which slaughtered or processed the equivalent of an average of 35,000 head of lambs per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years; and may include any other lamb processing plant that does not meet the requirement referred to in subparagraph (B), if the Secretary determines that the processing plant should be considered a packer after considering the capacity of the processing plant.”