---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1636g"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1636g"
heading: "Suspension authority regarding specific terms of price reporting requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1636g"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Distribution and Marketing of Agricultural Products"
  - "Subchapter II — Livestock Mandatory Reporting"
  - "Part E — Administration"
---

# §1636g. Suspension authority regarding specific terms of price reporting requirements

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may suspend any requirement of this subchapter if the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) determines that application of the requirement is inconsistent with the purposes of this subchapter.
- (b) **Suspension procedure—**
  - (1) **Period—** A suspension under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be for a period of not more than 240 days.
  - (2) **Action by Congress—** If an Act of Congress concerning the requirement that is the subject of the suspension under [subsection (a)](#a) is not enacted by the end of the period of the suspension established under [paragraph (1)](#b-1), the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall implement the requirement.

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1946, ch. 966, title II, § 258, as added Pub. L. 106–78, title IX, § 911(2), Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1205.)