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[CITE: 7USC3242]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
    SUBCHAPTER VII--PROGRAMS FOR HISPANIC, ALASKA NATIVE, AND NATIVE 
                      HAWAIIAN SERVING INSTITUTIONS
 
Sec. 3242. Education grants to Alaska Native serving 
        institutions and Native Hawaiian serving institutions
        

(a) Education grants program for Alaska Native serving institutions

                         (1) Grant authority

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

                       (2) Use of grant funds

        Grants made under this section shall be used--
            (A) to support the activities of consortia of Alaska Native 
        serving institutions to enhance educational equity for under 
        represented students;
            (B) 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 agriculture sciences;
            (C) to attract and support undergraduate and graduate 
        students from under represented 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 including by 
        village elders and continuing with the provision of financial 
        support for students through their attainment of a doctoral 
        degree; and
            (D) to facilitate cooperative initiatives between two or 
        more Alaska Native serving institutions, or between Alaska 
        Native 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.

                 (3) Authorization of appropriations

        There are authorized to be appropriated to make grants under 
    this subsection $10,000,000 in fiscal years 2001 through 2006.

(b) Education grants program for Native Hawaiian serving institutions

                         (1) Grant authority

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

                       (2) Use of grant funds

        Grants made under this section shall be used--
            (A) to support the activities of consortia of Native 
        Hawaiian serving institutions to enhance educational equity for 
        under represented students;
            (B) 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 agriculture sciences;
            (C) to attract and support undergraduate and graduate 
        students from under represented 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
            (D) to facilitate cooperative initiatives between two or 
        more Native Hawaiian serving institutions, or between Native 
        Hawaiian 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.

                 (3) Authorization of appropriations

        There are authorized to be appropriated to make grants under 
    this subsection $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 
    2006.

(Pub. L. 106-78, title VII, Sec. 759, Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1172.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Agriculture, Rural Development, 
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2000, and not as part of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, 
and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.
