---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3808"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3808"
heading: "Cooperation with States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3808"
units:
  - "Chapter 69 — Swine Health Protection"
---

# §3808. Cooperation with States


In order to avoid duplication of functions, facilities, and personnel, and to attain closer coordination and greater effectiveness and economy in administration of this chapter and [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) laws and regulations relating to the feeding of [garbage](/usc/7/3802.md?p=2) to [swine](/usc/7/198.md?p=6), the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with State departments of agriculture and other [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) agencies charged with the administration and enforcement of such [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) laws and regulations and to provide that any such [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) agency which has adequate facilities, personnel, and procedures, as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1), may assist the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) in the administration and enforcement of this chapter and regulations hereunder. The [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) is further authorized to coordinate the administration of this chapter and regulations with such [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) laws and regulations whenever feasible: Provided, That nothing herein shall affect the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) under any other Federal law, or any authority to cooperate with [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) agencies or other agencies or [persons](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) under existing provisions of law, or affect any restrictions upon such cooperation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–468, § 9, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2232.)