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[CITE: 7USC3322]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
                       SUBCHAPTER XI--AQUACULTURE
 
Sec. 3322. Assistance programs


(a) Research and extension program

    The Secretary may develop and implement a cooperative research and 
extension program to encourage the development, management, and 
production of important aquatic food species within the several States 
and territories of the United States and to enhance further the safety 
of food products derived from the aquaculture industry, in accordance 
with the national aquaculture development plan, and revisions thereto, 
developed under the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 [16 U.S.C. 2801 et 
seq.].

(b) Grants

    The Secretary may make grants to--
        (1) land-grant and sea grant colleges and universities;
        (2) State agricultural experiment stations;
        (3) colleges, universities, and Federal laboratories having a 
    demonstrable capacity to conduct aquacultural research, as 
    determined by the Secretary; and
        (4) nonprofit private research institutions;

for research and extension to facilitate or expand promising advances in 
the production and marketing of aquacultural food species and products 
and to enhance further the safety and wholesomeness of those species and 
products, including the development of reliable supplies of seed stock 
and therapeutic compounds. Except in the case of Federal laboratories, 
no grant may be made under this subsection unless the State in which the 
grant recipient is located makes a matching grant (of which amount an 
in-kind contribution may not exceed 50 percent) to such recipient equal 
to the amount of the grant to be made under this subsection, and unless 
the grant is in implementation of the national aquaculture development 
plan, and revisions thereto, developed under the National Aquaculture 
Act of 1980 [16 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.].

(c) Aquaculture development plans

    The Secretary may assist States to formulate aquaculture development 
plans for the enhancement of the production and marketing of 
aquacultural species and products from such States and may make grants 
to States on a matching basis, as determined by the Secretary. The 
aggregate amount of the grants made to any one State under this 
subsection may not exceed $50,000. The plans shall be consistent with 
the national aquaculture development plan, and revisions thereto, 
developed under the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 [16 U.S.C. 2801 et 
seq.].

(d) Aquacultural centers

    To provide for aquacultural research, development, and demonstration 
projects having a national or regional application, the Secretary may 
establish in existing Federal facilities or in cooperation with any of 
the non-Federal entities specified in subsection (b) of this section up 
to five aquacultural research, development, and demonstration centers in 
the United States for the performance of aquacultural research, 
extension work, and demonstration projects. Funds made available for the 
operation of such regional centers may be used for the rehabilitation of 
existing buildings or facilities to house such centers, but may not be 
used for the construction or acquisition of new buildings or facilities. 
To the extent practicable, the aquaculture research, development, and 
demonstration centers established under this subsection shall be 
geographically located so that they are representative of the regional 
aquaculture opportunities in the United States. To the extent 
practicable, the Secretary shall ensure that equitable efforts are made 
at these centers in addressing the research needs of those segments of 
the domestic aquaculture industry located within that region.

(e) Listing of laws on aquaculture

    The interagency aquaculture coordinating group established under 
section 6(a) of the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 2805(a)) 
shall, in consultation with appropriate Federal and State agencies, 
compile a listing of Federal and State laws, rules, and regulations 
materially affecting the production, processing, marketing, and 
transportation of aquaculturally produced commodities and the products 
thereof. The interagency aquaculture coordinating group shall make such 
listing available to the public not later than January 1, 1992, and 
shall update and revise such listing not later than January 1, 1996, to 
show such laws, rules, and regulations as in effect on that date.

(f) Fish disease program

    The Secretary shall implement, in consultation with the Joint 
Subcommittee on Aquaculture referred to in section 6 of the National 
Aquaculture Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 2805), a fish disease program to 
include the development of new diagnostic procedures for fish diseases, 
the determination of the effect of water environment on the development 
of the fish immune system, and the development of therapeutic, 
synthetic, or natural systems, for the control of fish diseases.

(Pub. L. 95-113, title XIV, Sec. 1475, as added Pub. L. 97-98, title 
XIV, Sec. 1440(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1316; amended Pub. L. 99-198, 
title XIV, Sec. 1429(a), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1555; Pub. L. 101-624, 
title XVI, Sec. 1614(a), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3727; Pub. L. 104-66, 
title I, Sec. 1011(u), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 711; Pub. L. 104-127, 
title VIII, Sec. 820(b), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1168.)

                       References in Text

    The National Aquaculture Act of 1980, referred to in subsecs. (a), 
(b), and (c), is Pub. L. 96-362, Sept. 26, 1980, 94 Stat. 1198, which is 
classified generally to chapter 48 (Sec. 2801 et seq.) of Title 16, 
Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Short Title note set out under section 2801 of Title 16 and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsecs. (e) to (g). Pub. L. 104-127 redesignated subsecs. (f) 
and (g) as (e) and (f), respectively, and struck out heading and text of 
former subsec. (e). Text read as follows: ``Not later than March 1 of 
each year, the Secretary shall submit a report to the President, the 
House Committee on Agriculture, the House Committee on Merchant Marine 
and Fisheries, the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the Senate 
Committee on Appropriations, containing a summary outlining the progress 
of the Department of Agriculture in meeting the purposes of the programs 
established under this subchapter.''
    1995--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104-66 struck out ``(1)'' before ``Not 
later than'' and struck out par. (2) which required Secretary to conduct 
a study assessing economic impact of animal damage to the United States 
aquaculture industry.
    1990--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1614(a)(1), inserted 
heading and substituted ``United States and to enhance further the 
safety of food products derived from the aquaculture industry,'' for 
``United States,''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1614(a)(2), inserted heading, 
inserted ``and sea grant'' after ``land-grant'' in par. (1), and 
inserted before period at end ``and to enhance further the safety and 
wholesomeness of those species and products, including the development 
of reliable supplies of seed stock and therapeutic compounds''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1614(a)(3), inserted heading.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1614(a)(4), inserted heading, 
substituted ``five aquacultural'' for ``four aquacultural'', and 
inserted at end ``To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall ensure 
that equitable efforts are made at these centers in addressing the 
research needs of those segments of the domestic aquaculture industry 
located within that region.''
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1614(a)(5), inserted heading, 
designated existing provisions as par. (1), substituted ``Not later than 
March 1 of each year,'' for ``Not later than one year after the 
effective date of this subchapter and not later than March 1 of each 
subsequent year,'', and added par. (2).
    Subsecs. (f), (g). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1614(a)(6), added subsecs. 
(f) and (g).
    1985--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99-198, Sec. 1429(a)(1), (2), added par. 
(4) and inserted ``(of which amount an in-kind contribution may not 
exceed 50 percent)'' after ``matching grant''.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 99-198, Sec. 1429(a)(3), (4), substituted in 
first sentence ``any of the non-Federal entities specified in subsection 
(b) of this section'' for ``State agencies (including State departments 
of agriculture), and land-grant colleges and universities,'' and 
inserted provision respecting geographic location of aquaculture 
research, development, and demonstration centers.
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 99-198, Sec. 1429(a)(5), inserted ``the House 
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries,''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 3321 of this title.
