---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3804"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3804"
heading: "Permits to operate garbage treatment facility"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3804"
units:
  - "Chapter 69 — Swine Health Protection"
---

# §3804. Permits to operate garbage treatment facility

- (a) **Application; issuance—** Any [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) desiring to obtain a permit to operate a facility to treat [garbage](/usc/7/3802.md?p=2) that is to be fed to swine shall apply therefor to (1) the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1), or (2) the chief agricultural or [animal](/usc/7/8901.md?p=7) health official of the [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) where the facility is located if such [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) has entered into an agreement with the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) pursuant to [section 3808 of this title](/usc/7/3808.md) or has primary enforcement responsibility pursuant to [section 3809 of this title](/usc/7/3809.md), and provide such information as the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) shall by regulation prescribe. No permit shall be issued unless the facility—
  - (1) meets such requirements as the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) shall prescribe to prevent the introduction or dissemination of any infectious or communicable disease of [animals](/usc/7/8901.md?p=7) or poultry, and
  - (2) is so constructed that swine are unable to have access to untreated [garbage](/usc/7/3802.md?p=2) of such facility or material coming in contact with such untreated [garbage](/usc/7/3802.md?p=2).
- (b) **Cease and desist orders; suspension or revocation orders; judicial review—** Whenever the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) finds, after notice and opportunity for a hearing on the record in accordance with sections [554](/usc/5/554.md) and [556](/usc/5/556.md) of title 5, that any [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) holding a permit to operate a facility to treat [garbage](/usc/7/3802.md?p=2) in any [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) is violating or has violated this chapter or any regulation of the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) issued hereunder, the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) may issue an [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) requiring such [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) to cease and desist from continuing such violations or an [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) suspending or revoking such permit, or both. Any [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) aggrieved by an [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) of the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) issued pursuant to this subsection may, within sixty days after entry of such [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10), seek review of such [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) in the appropriate [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) court of appeals in accordance with the provisions of sections [2341](/usc/28/2341.md), [2343 through 2350](/usc/28/2343..2350.md) of title 28, and such court shall have jurisdiction to enjoin, set aside, suspend (in whole or in part), or to determine the validity of the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1)’s [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10). Judicial review of any such [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) shall be upon the record upon which the determination and [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) are based.
- (c) **Automatic revocation—** The permit of any [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) to operate a facility to treat [garbage](/usc/7/3802.md?p=2) in any [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) shall be automatically revoked, without action of the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1), upon the final effective date of the second conviction of such [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) pursuant to [section 3806 of this title](/usc/7/3806.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–468, § 5, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2230.)