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[CITE: 7USC3319a]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
           SUBCHAPTER X--FUNDING AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3319a. Cost-reimbursable agreements

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Agriculture may enter into cost-reimbursable agreements with State 
cooperative institutions or other colleges and universities without 
regard to any requirement for competition, for the acquisition of goods 
or services, including personal services, to carry out agricultural 
research, extension, or teaching activities of mutual interest. 
Reimbursable costs under such agreements shall include the actual direct 
costs of performance, as mutually agreed on by the parties, and the 
indirect costs of performance, not exceeding 10 percent of the direct 
cost.

(Pub. L. 95-113, title XIV, Sec. 1473A, as added Pub. L. 99-198, title 
XIV, Sec. 1426, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1553; amended Pub. L. 105-185, 
title II, Sec. 231, June 23, 1998, 112 Stat. 547.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Pub. L. 105-185 inserted ``or other colleges and 
universities'' after ``institutions'' in first sentence.
