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[CITE: 7USC3241]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
    SUBCHAPTER VII--PROGRAMS FOR HISPANIC, ALASKA NATIVE, AND NATIVE 
                      HAWAIIAN SERVING INSTITUTIONS
 
Sec. 3241. Education grants programs for Hispanic-serving 
        institutions
        

(a) Grant authority

    The Secretary may make competitive grants (or grants without regard 
to any requirement for competition) to Hispanic-serving institutions for 
the purpose of promoting and strengthening the ability of Hispanic-
serving institutions to carry out education, applied research, and 
related community development programs.

(b) Use of grant funds

    Grants made under this section shall be used--
        (1) to support the activities of consortia of Hispanic-serving 
    institutions to enhance educational equity for underrepresented 
    students;
        (2) to strengthen institutional educational capacities, 
    including libraries, curriculum, faculty, scientific 
    instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student 
    recruitment and retention, in order to respond to identified State, 
    regional, national, or international educational needs in the food 
    and agricultural sciences;
        (3) to attract and support undergraduate and graduate students 
    from underrepresented groups in order to prepare them for careers 
    related to the food, agricultural, and natural resource systems of 
    the United States, beginning with the mentoring of students at the 
    high school level and continuing with the provision of financial 
    support for students through their attainment of a doctoral degree; 
    and
        (4) to facilitate cooperative initiatives between 2 or more 
    Hispanic-serving institutions, or between Hispanic-serving 
    institutions and units of State government or the private sector, to 
    maximize the development and use of resources, such as faculty, 
    facilities, and equipment, to improve food and agricultural sciences 
    teaching programs.

(c) Authorization of appropriations

    There are authorized to be appropriated to make grants under this 
section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1997 through 2002.

(Pub. L. 95-113, title XIV, Sec. 1455, as added Pub. L. 104-127, title 
VIII, Sec. 815(a), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1166; amended Pub. L. 105-
185, title III, Sec. 301(a)(11), June 23, 1998, 112 Stat. 562.)


                            Prior Provisions

    For prior section 3241 and prior section 1455 of Pub. L. 95-113, see 
note set out preceding this section.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-185 substituted ``each of fiscal 
years 1997 through 2002'' for ``fiscal year 1997''.
