[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1.77]

[Page 27]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1_ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart E_Cooperative Production of Television Films
 
Sec. 1.77  Assignment of priorities.

    (a) Authority. (1) The Director of Information or his designee will 
make assignment of priorities for the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 
a television film company's and/or individual producer's story treatment 
of the subject matter, but no such priority shall limit use of the 
subject matter itself.
    (2) A priority will be given in writing upon acceptance in writing 
by the producer of the stipulations in Sec. 1.75(b). The U.S. 
Department of Agriculture will hold the producer's treatment of the 
story material in confidence until the producer has made a public 
release pertaining to the subject.
    (b) Time and scope. A priority will be given on the producer's story 
treatment for an agreed upon period of time. Requests for cooperation 
with similar or conflicting ideas and backgrounds will be considered 
only after holder of the first priority has used the agreed upon time to 
develop the materials.
    (1) Details on priorities will be written into the agreements.
    (2) The Director of Information will retain the right to cancel 
priorities when the producer at any stage violates the provisions of the 
regulations or of a particular agreement, or when public interest is no 
longer served.
    (3) No priority will be canceled until the producer has had an 
opportunity to appear before the Secretary of Agriculture or his 
designee.