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[CITE: 7USC3317]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
           SUBCHAPTER X--FUNDING AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3317. Program evaluation studies

    (a) The Secretary shall regularly conduct program evaluations to 
meet the purposes of this chapter and the responsibilities assigned to 
the Secretary and the Department of Agriculture in this chapter. Such 
evaluations shall be designed to provide information that may be used to 
improve the administration and effectiveness of agricultural research, 
extension, and teaching programs in achieving their stated objectives.
    (b) The Secretary is authorized to encourage and foster the regular 
evaluation of agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs 
within the State agricultural experiment stations, cooperative extension 
services, and colleges and universities, through the development and 
support of cooperative evaluation programs and program evaluation 
centers and institutes.

(Pub. L. 95-113, title XIV, Sec. 1471, as added Pub. L. 97-98, title 
XIV, Sec. 1439(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1314.)

                       References in Text

    For definition of ``this chapter'', referred to in subsec. (a), see 
note set out under section 3102 of this title.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97-98, 
set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.
