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[CITE: 16USC1645]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 36--FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES PLANNING
 
                         SUBCHAPTER II--RESEARCH
 
Sec. 1645. General provisions


(a) Availability of funds to cooperators and grantees

    The Secretary may make funds available to cooperators and grantees 
under this subchapter without regard to the provisions of section 
3324(a) and (b) of title 31, which prohibits advances of public money.

(b) Coordination of cooperative aid and grants with other aid and grant 
        authorities

    To avoid duplication, the Secretary shall coordinate cooperative aid 
and grants under this subchapter with cooperative aid and grants the 
Secretary makes under any other authority.

(c) Dissemination of knowledge and technology developed from research 
        activities; cooperation with specified entities

    The Secretary shall use the authorities and means available to the 
Secretary to disseminate the knowledge and technology developed from 
research activities conducted under or supported by this subchapter. In 
meeting this responsibility, the Secretary shall cooperate, as the 
Secretary deems appropriate, with the entities identified in subsection 
(d)(3) of this section and with others.

(d) Additional implementative authorities

    In implementing this subchapter, the Secretary, as the Secretary 
deems appropriate and practical, shall--
        (1) use, and encourage cooperators and grantees to use, the best 
    available scientific skills from a variety of disciplines within and 
    outside the fields of agriculture and forestry;
        (2) seek, and encourage cooperators and grantees to seek, a 
    proper mixture of short-term and long-term research and a proper 
    mixture of basic and applied research;
        (3) avoid unnecessary duplication and coordinate activities 
    under this section among agencies of the Department of Agriculture 
    and with other affected Federal departments and agencies, State 
    agricultural experiment stations, State extension services, State 
    foresters or equivalent State officials, forestry schools, and 
    private research organizations; and
        (4) encourage the development, employment, retention, and 
    exchange of qualified scientists and other specialists through 
    postgraduate, postdoctoral, and other training, national and 
    international exchange of scientists, and other incentives and 
    programs to improve the quality of forest and rangeland renewable 
    resources research.

(e) Construction of statutory provisions

    This subchapter shall be construed as supplementing all other laws 
relating to the Department of Agriculture and shall not be construed as 
limiting or repealing any existing law or authority of the Secretary 
except as specifically cited in this subchapter.

(f) Definitions

    For the purposes of this subchapter, the terms ``United States'' and 
``State'' shall include each of the several States, the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the 
United States, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the territories and 
possessions of the United States.

(Pub. L. 95-307, Sec. 6, June 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 355.)

                          Codification

    In subsec. (a), ``section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31'' substituted 
for ``section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529)'' on 
authority of Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, 
the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular 
Possessions.
