---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 6006"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "6006"
heading: "Permissive terms in plans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/6006"
units:
  - "Chapter 89 — Pecan Promotion and Research"
---

# §6006. Permissive terms in plans

- (a) **In general—** A plan issued pursuant to this chapter may contain one or more of the terms and conditions contained in this section.
- (b) **Exemptions—** The plan may provide authority to exempt from the plan [pecans](/usc/7/6002.md?p=16) used for nonfood uses and authority for the [Board](/usc/7/6002.md?p=1) to require satisfactory safeguards against improper uses of such exemptions.
- (c) **Different payment and reporting schedules—** The plan may provide authority to designate different payment and reporting schedules for [growers](/usc/7/6002.md?p=8), [grower-shellers](/usc/7/6002.md?p=9), [first handlers](/usc/7/6002.md?p=7) and [importers](/usc/7/6002.md?p=11) to recognize differences in marketing practices and procedures utilized in different production areas.
- (d) **Promotion—** The plan may provide for the establishment, issuance, effectuation, and administration of appropriate programs or projects for the [promotion](/usc/7/6002.md?p=19) of [pecans](/usc/7/6002.md?p=16) and for the disbursement of necessary funds for such purposes, except that—
  - (1) any such program or project shall be directed toward increasing the general demand for [pecans](/usc/7/6002.md?p=16); and
  - (2) such promotional activities shall comply with other restrictions on the use of funds that are established under this chapter.
- (e) **Research and information—** The plan may provide for establishing and carrying on [research](/usc/7/6002.md?p=20), [consumer information](/usc/7/6002.md?p=4), and [industry information](/usc/7/6002.md?p=12) projects and studies to the end that the marketing and utilization of [pecans](/usc/7/6002.md?p=16) may be encouraged, expanded, improved, or made more efficient, and for the disbursement of necessary funds for such purposes.
- (f) **Reserve funds—** The plan may provide authority to accumulate reserve funds from assessments collected pursuant to this chapter, to permit an effective and continuous coordinated program of [research](/usc/7/6002.md?p=20), [consumer information](/usc/7/6002.md?p=4), [industry information](/usc/7/6002.md?p=12) and [promotion](/usc/7/6002.md?p=19) in years when the production and assessment income may be reduced, except that the total reserve fund may not exceed the amount budgeted for the operation of the plan for 2 years.
- (g) **Foreign markets—** The plan may provide authority to use funds collected under this chapter, with the approval of the [Secretary](/usc/7/6002.md?p=21), for the development and expansion of [pecan](/usc/7/6002.md?p=16) sales in foreign [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–624, title XIX, § 1911, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3847.)