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[CITE: 7USC1632]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
     CHAPTER 38--DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1632. Market expansion research

    (a) The Secretary of Agriculture, using available funds, shall 
increase and intensify research programs conducted by or for the 
Department of Agriculture that are directed at developing technology to 
overcome barriers to expanded sales of United States agricultural 
commodities and the products thereof in domestic and foreign markets, 
including research programs for the development of procedures to meet 
plant quarantine requirements and improvement in the transportation and 
handling of perishable agricultural commodities.
    (b)(1) The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct a research and 
development program to formulate new uses for farm and forest products. 
Such program shall include, but not be limited to, research and 
development of industrial, new, and value-added products.
    (2) To the extent practicable, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
carry out the program authorized in this subsection with colleges and 
universities, private industry, and Federal and State entities through a 
combination of grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and 
interagency agreements.
    (3)(A) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are 
necessary to carry out the program authorized under this subsection.
    (B) In addition, the Secretary may use funds appropriated or made 
available to the Secretary under provisions of law other than 
subparagraph (A) to carry out such program.
    (C) To the extent requests are made for matching funds under such 
program, the total amount of funds used by the Secretary to carry out 
the program under this subsection may not be less than $10,000,000 for 
each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1986, through September 
30, 1990.
    (4) Funds appropriated under subparagraph (A) or made available 
under subparagraph (B) may be transferred among appropriation accounts 
to carry out the purposes of the program authorized under this 
subsection.
    (5) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal share of 
the cost of each research or development project funded under this 
subsection may not exceed 50 percent of the cost of such project.

(Pub. L. 99-198, title XIV, Sec. 1436, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1558.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Food Security Act of 1985, and 
not as part of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 which comprises 
this chapter.
