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[CITE: 7USC3127]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
   SUBCHAPTER II--COORDINATION AND PLANNING OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 
                         EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
Sec. 3127. Support for Advisory Board


(a) Appointment of staff

    To assist the Advisory Board in the performance of its duties, the 
Secretary may appoint, after consultation with the chairperson of the 
Advisory Board--
        (1) a full-time executive director who shall perform such duties 
    as the chairperson of the Advisory Board may direct and who shall 
    receive compensation at a rate not to exceed the rate payable for 
    GS-18 of the General Schedule established in section 5332 of title 
    5; and
        (2) a professional staff of not more than five full-time 
    employees qualified in the food and agricultural sciences, of which 
    one shall serve as the executive secretary to the Advisory Board.

(b) Additional clerical assistance and staff personnel

    The Secretary shall provide such additional clerical assistance and 
staff personnel as may be required to assist the Advisory Board in 
carrying out its duties.

(c) Assistance of outside personnel

    In formulating its recommendations to the Secretary, the Advisory 
Board may obtain the assistance of Department of Agriculture employees, 
and, to the maximum extent practicable, the assistance of employees of 
other Federal departments and agencies conducting related programs of 
agricultural research, extension, and teaching and of appropriate 
representatives of colleges and universities, including State 
agricultural experiment stations, cooperative extension services, and 
other non-Federal organizations conducting significant programs in the 
food and agricultural sciences.

(Pub. L. 95-113, title XIV, Sec. 1412, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 991; 
Pub. L. 97-98, title XIV, Sec. 1413, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1302; Pub. 
L. 101-624, title XVI, Sec. 1605(b)(1), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3713; 
Pub. L. 102-237, title IV, Sec. 402(5), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1863; 
Pub. L. 104-127, title VIII, Secs. 852(b)(3), 853(b)(4), Apr. 4, 1996, 
110 Stat. 1171, 1172; Pub. L. 105-185, title VI, Sec. 606(c)(1), June 
23, 1998, 112 Stat. 603.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 105-185, Sec. 606(c)(1)(A), 
substituted ``its duties'' for ``their duties''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-185, Sec. 606(c)(1)(B), substituted ``its 
recommendations'' for ``their recommendations''.
    1996--Pub. L. 104-127, Secs. 852(b)(3)(A), 853(b)(4)(A), in section 
catchline, substituted ``Advisory Board'' for ``Joint Council, Advisory 
Board, and Technology Board''.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-127, Secs. 852(b)(3)(B)(i), (ii), 
853(b)(4)(B)(i), in introductory provisions, substituted ``To assist the 
Advisory Board in'' for ``To assist the Joint Council, the Advisory 
Board, and the Technology Board in'' and ``with the chairperson of the 
Advisory Board'' for ``with the cochairpersons of the Joint Council and 
the chairperson of the Advisory Board and the Technology Board''.
    Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 104-127, Secs. 852(b)(3)(B)(ii), 
853(b)(4)(B)(i), substituted ``the chairperson of the Advisory Board'' 
for ``the cochairpersons of the Joint Council and the chairperson of the 
Advisory Board and the Technology Board''.
    Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 104-127, Secs. 852(b)(3)(B)(iii), 
853(b)(4)(B)(ii), substituted ``one shall serve as the executive 
secretary to the Advisory Board'' for ``one shall serve as the executive 
secretary to the Joint Council, one shall serve as the executive 
secretary to the Advisory Board, and one shall serve as the executive 
secretary to the Technology Board''.
    Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 104-127, Secs. 852(b)(3)(C), 
853(b)(4)(C), substituted ``Advisory Board'' for ``Joint Council, 
Advisory Board, and Technology Board''.
    1991--Subsecs. (b) and (c). Pub. L. 102-237 substituted ``, Advisory 
Board, and Technology Board'' for ``and Advisory Board''.
    1990--Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1605(b)(1)(A), amended section catchline 
generally.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1605(b)(1)(B), in introductory 
provision, substituted ``, the Advisory Board, and the Technology 
Board'' for ``and the Advisory Board'' and inserted ``and the Technology 
Board'' before the dash, in par. (1), inserted ``and the Technology 
Board'' before ``may direct'', and in par. (2), substituted ``Council,'' 
for ``Council and'' and inserted before period at end ``, and one shall 
serve as the executive secretary to the Technology Board''.
    Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1605(b)(1)(C), (D), which 
directed the substitution of ``, the Advisory Board, and the Technology 
Board'' for ``and the Advisory Board'', could not be executed because 
the phrase ``and the Advisory Board'' did not appear in text.
    1981--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97-98 inserted in provision preceding 
par. (1) provision requiring consultation with the cochairpersons of the 
Joint Council and the chairperson of the Advisory Board, redesignated 
former par. (2) as (1) and substituted provision that a full-time 
executive director perform such duties as the cochairpersons of the 
Joint Council and chairperson of the Advisory Board direct for provision 
that an executive director perform such duties as the chairman of the 
Joint Council and the chairman of the Advisory Board direct, and 
redesignated former par. (1) as (2) and inserted provision that one of 
the full-time staff serve as the executive secretary to the Joint 
Council and one serve as executive secretary to the Advisory Board.


                    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.


         References in Other Laws to GS-16, 17, or 18 Pay Rates

    References in laws to the rates of pay for GS-16, 17, or 18, or to 
maximum rates of pay under the General Schedule, to be considered 
references to rates payable under specified sections of Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees, see section 529 [title I, 
Sec. 101(c)(1)] of Pub. L. 101-509, set out in a note under section 5376 
of Title 5.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 3128 of this title.
