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[CITE: 7USC3102]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--FINDINGS, PURPOSES, AND DEFINITIONS
 
Sec. 3102. Additional purposes of agricultural research and 
        extension
        
    The purposes of this chapter are to--
        (1) establish firmly the Department of Agriculture as the lead 
    agency in the Federal Government for the food and agricultural 
    sciences, and to emphasize that agricultural research, extension, 
    and teaching are distinct missions of the Department of Agriculture;
        (2) undertake the special measures set forth in this chapter to 
    improve the coordination and planning of agricultural research, 
    extension, and teaching programs, identify needs and establish 
    priorities for these programs, assure that national agricultural 
    research, extension, and teaching objectives are fully achieved, and 
    assure that the results of agricultural research are effectively 
    communicated and demonstrated to farmers, processors, handlers, 
    consumers, and all other users who can benefit therefrom;
        (3) increase cooperation and coordination in the performance of 
    agricultural research by Federal departments and agencies, the 
    States, State agricultural experiment stations, colleges and 
    universities, and user groups;
        (4) enable the Federal Government, the States, colleges and 
    universities, and others to implement needed agricultural research, 
    extension, and teaching programs, through the establishment of new 
    programs and the improvement of existing programs, as provided for 
    in this chapter;
        (5) establish a new program of grants for high-priority 
    agricultural research to be awarded on the basis of competition 
    among research workers and all colleges and universities;
        (6) establish a new program of grants for facilities and 
    instrumentation used in agricultural research; and
        (7) establish a new program of education grants and fellowships 
    to strengthen research, extension, and teaching programs in the food 
    and agricultural sciences, to be awarded on the basis of 
    competition.

(Pub. L. 95-113, title XIV, Sec. 1403, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 983; 
Pub. L. 97-98, title XIV, Sec. 1403, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1296; Pub. 
L. 101-624, title XVI, Sec. 1602(b), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3705.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original this 
``title'', meaning title XIV of Pub. L. 95-113, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 
981, as amended, which enacted this chapter and sections 2669 and 2670 
of this title, amended sections 341, 342, 343, 361c, 390 to 390j, 427, 
450i, 1923, 1942, 2662, 2663, and 2667 of this title and section 6651 of 
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and repealed section 390k of 
this title. For complete classification of such title to the Code, see 
Short Title note set out under section 3101 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1990--Pub. L. 101-624 amended section catchline generally.
    1981--Par. (2). Pub. L. 97-98, Sec. 1403(1), inserted ``extension, 
and teaching programs,'' and substituted ``these programs'' for ``such 
research, assure that high priority research is given adequate 
funding''.
    Par. (4). Pub. L. 97-98, Sec. 1403(2), substituted ``programs 
through'' for ``programs, including the initiatives specified in section 
3101(8) of this title, through''.
    Par. (5). Pub. L. 97-98, Sec. 1403(3), substituted ``among research 
workers'' for ``among scientific research workers''.
    Par. (7). Pub. L. 97-98, Sec. 1403(4), substituted ``research, 
extension, and teaching'' for ``training and research''.


                    Effective Date of 1981 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 97-98 effective Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1801 
of Pub. L. 97-98, set out as an Effective Date note under section 4301 
of this title.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95-113, 
set out as an Effective Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 1307 
of this title.
