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[CITE: 7USC361g]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
              CHAPTER 14--AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 361g. Duties of Secretary; ascertainment of entitlement of 
        State to funds; plans of work
        

(a) Duties of Secretary

    The Secretary of Agriculture is charged with the responsibility for 
the proper administration of sections 361a to 361i of this title, and is 
authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may 
be necessary to carry out its provisions. It shall be the duty of the 
Secretary to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the 
purposes of said sections, including participation in coordination of 
research initiated under said sections by the State agricultural 
experiment stations, from time to time to indicate such lines of inquiry 
as to him seem most important, and to encourage and assist in the 
establishment and maintenance of cooperation by and between the several 
State agricultural experiment stations, and between the stations and the 
United States Department of Agriculture.

(b) Ascertainment of entitlement

    On or before the first day of October in each year after the passage 
of sections 361a to 361i of this title, the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall ascertain as to each State whether it is entitled to receive its 
share of the annual appropriations for agricultural experiment stations 
under said sections and the amount which thereupon each is entitled, 
respectively, to receive.

(c) Effect of failure to expend full allotment

    Whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of Agriculture from the 
annual statement of receipts and expenditures of funds by any State 
agricultural experiment station that any portion of the preceding annual 
appropriation allotted to that station under sections 361a to 361i of 
this title remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the 
next succeeding annual allotment to the State concerned.

(d) Plan of work required

    Before funds may be provided to a State under sections 361a to 361i 
of this title for any fiscal year, a plan of work to be carried out 
under sections 361a to 361i of this title shall be submitted by the 
proper officials of the State and shall be approved by the Secretary of 
Agriculture.

(e) Requirements related to plan of work

    Each plan of work for a State required under subsection (d) of this 
section shall contain descriptions of the following:
        (1) The critical short-term, intermediate, and long-term 
    agricultural issues in the State and the current and planned 
    research programs and projects targeted to address the issues.
        (2) The process established to consult with users of 
    agricultural research regarding the identification of critical 
    agricultural issues in the State and the development of research 
    programs and projects targeted to address the issues.
        (3) The efforts made to identify and collaborate with other 
    colleges and universities within the State, and within other States, 
    that have a unique capacity to address the identified agricultural 
    issues in the State and the extent of current and emerging efforts 
    (including regional efforts) to work with those other institutions.
        (4) The manner in which research and extension, including 
    research and extension activities funded other than through formula 
    funds, will cooperate to address the critical issues in the State, 
    including the activities to be carried out separately, the 
    activities to be carried out sequentially, and the activities to be 
    carried out jointly.

(f) Research protocols

                           (1) Development

        The Secretary of Agriculture shall develop protocols to be used 
    to evaluate the success of multistate, multi-institutional, and 
    multidisciplinary research activities and joint research and 
    extension activities in addressing critical agricultural issues 
    identified in the plans of work submitted under subsection (d) of 
    this section.

                          (2) Consultation

        The Secretary of Agriculture shall develop the protocols in 
    consultation with the National Agricultural Research, Extension, 
    Education, and Economics Advisory Board established under section 
    3123 of this title and land-grant colleges and universities.

(g) Treatment of plans of work for other purposes

    To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall consider a 
plan of work submitted under subsection (d) of this section to satisfy 
other appropriate Federal reporting requirements.

(Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, Sec. 7, 24 Stat. 441; Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 790, 
Sec. 1, 69 Stat. 673; Pub. L. 86-533, Sec. 1(22), June 29, 1960, 74 
Stat. 249; Pub. L. 94-273, Sec. 3(2), Apr. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 376; Pub. 
L. 105-185, title I, Sec. 103(f)(2), title II, Sec. 202(b), June 23, 
1998, 112 Stat. 528, 532.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 379 of this title. See 
section 361h of this title.


                               Amendments

    1998--Pub. L. 105-185, Sec. 202(b), inserted section catchline, 
designated existing provisions as subsecs. (a) to (c), inserted subsec. 
headings, and added subsecs. (d) to (g).
    Pub. L. 105-185, Sec. 103(f)(2), struck out at end ``If the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall withhold from any State any portion of 
the appropriations available for allotment, the facts and reasons 
therefor shall be reported to the President and the amount involved 
shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next 
Congress. If the next Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid, it 
shall be carried to surplus.''
    1976--Pub. L. 94-273 substituted ``October'' for ``July'' in second 
par.
    1960--Pub. L. 86-533 repealed provisions which required the 
Secretary of Agriculture to make a report to the Congress of the 
receipts, expenditures and work of the agricultural experiment stations 
in all the States under the provisions of sections 361a to 361i of this 
title.
    1955--Act Aug. 11, 1955, amended section generally to prescribe the 
powers and duties of the Secretary of Agriculture, to provide for the 
determination of the amount of entitlement, to authorize deduction of 
unexpended balances, and to require reports. For provisions which stated 
that the relation of the college to the State was unaffected, see 
section 361h of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

    Amendment by section 202(b) of Pub. L. 105-185 effective Oct. 1, 
1999, see section 202(c) of Pub. L. 105-185, set out as a note under 
section 344 of this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of Department of 
Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, Sec. 1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18 
F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 361c of this title.
