the purposes for which the checkoff funds could be expended. There is no gap in the statute and no gap in the Order. They are explicit in terms as to the use of the checkoff funds. There is no authority to use the checkoff funds for producer information of the type being used to promote the existence of the Board and the checkoff itself.
[¶ 31] The 1976 Beef Research and Information Act, Pub.L. No. 94-294, the predecessor to the 1985 Beef Promotion and Research Act, differed substantially from the 1985 Act. In particular, under the 1976 Act, the Order authorized the plan to include "producer information." The term "producer information" is noticeably absent from the 1985 Act. It was removed by Congress. This may well show a legislativeIn the Secretary's possible decision to validate (or invalidate) the signatures of those who signed the various petitions, the Secretary employed PWC to track the validity of the signatures and ensure that each signer was a producer. Ten months had elapsed between the time the signatures were turned over to USDA and the date the Secretary actually began to look at them. PWC was employed to attempt to obtain certain information from each of the signers to verify their status. When PWC sent out the survey forms, the defendants had not obtained permission from the Office of Management and Budget, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The defendants completely ignored the law. The statute specifically states that "no person is subject to any" penalty. Refusing to allow