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[CITE: 7USC3125b]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
   SUBCHAPTER II--COORDINATION AND PLANNING OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 
                         EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
Sec. 3125b. National Rural Information Center Clearinghouse


(a) Establishment

    The Secretary shall establish, within the National Agricultural 
Library, in coordination with the Extension Service, a National Rural 
Information Center Clearinghouse (in this section referred to as the 
``Clearinghouse'') to perform the functions specified in subsection (b) 
of this section.

(b) Functions

    The Clearinghouse shall provide and distribute information and data 
to any industry, organization, or Federal, State, or local government 
entity, on request, about programs and services provided by Federal, 
State, and local agencies and private nonprofit organizations and 
institutions under which individuals residing in, or organizations and 
State and local government entities operating in, a rural area may be 
eligible for any kind of assistance, including job training, education, 
health care, and economic development assistance, and emotional and 
financial counseling. To the extent possible, the National Agricultural 
Library shall use telecommunications technology to disseminate 
information to rural areas.

(c) Federal agencies

    On request of the Secretary, the head of a Federal agency shall 
provide to the Clearinghouse such information as the Secretary may 
request to enable the Clearinghouse to carry out subsection (b) of this 
section.

(d) State and local agencies and nonprofit organizations

    The Secretary shall request State and local governments and private 
nonprofit organizations and institutions to provide to the Clearinghouse 
such information as such agencies and organizations may have about any 
program or service of such agencies, organizations, and institutions 
under which individuals residing in a rural area may be eligible for any 
kind of assistance, including job training, educational, health care, 
and economic development assistance, and emotional and financial 
counseling.

(e) Limitation on authorization of appropriations

    To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated 
$500,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 through 2002.

(Pub. L. 101-624, title XXIII, Sec. 2381, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4049; 
Pub. L. 104-127, title VIII, Sec. 842, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1170; 
Pub. L. 105-185, title III, Sec. 301(b)(3), June 23, 1998, 112 Stat. 
563.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Rural Economic Development Act of 
1990, and also as part of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade 
Act of 1990, and not as part of the National Agricultural Research, 
Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 105-185 substituted ``2002'' for 
``1997''.
    1996--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104-127 substituted ``1997'' for 
``1995''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 917 of this title.
