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[CITE: 7USC390]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
              CHAPTER 14--AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
 
                   SUBCHAPTER III--RESEARCH FACILITIES
 
Sec. 390. Definitions

    In this subchapter:

                 (1) Agricultural research facility

        The term ``agricultural research facility'' means a proposed 
    facility for research in food and agricultural sciences for which 
    Federal funds are requested by a college, university, or nonprofit 
    institution to assist in the construction, alteration, acquisition, 
    modernization, renovation, or remodeling of the facility.

              (2) Congressional agriculture committees

        The term ``congressional agriculture committees'' means the 
    Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Agriculture of the 
    House of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations and the 
    Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate.

                 (3) Food and agricultural sciences

        The term ``food and agricultural sciences'' means--
            (A) agriculture, including soil and water conservation and 
        use, the use of organic materials to improve soil tilth and 
        fertility, plant and animal production and protection, and plant 
        and animal health;
            (B) the processing, distribution, marketing, and utilization 
        of food and agricultural products;
            (C) forestry, including range management, production of 
        forest and range products, multiple use of forests and 
        rangelands, and urban forestry;
            (D) aquaculture (as defined in section 3103(3) of this 
        title);
            (E) human nutrition;
            (F) production inputs, such as energy, to improve 
        productivity; and
            (G) germ plasm collection and preservation.

                            (4) Secretary

        The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Agriculture.

                           (5) Task force

        The term ``task force'' means the Strategic Planning Task Force 
    established under section 390b of this title.

(Pub. L. 88-74, Sec. 2, as added Pub. L. 104-127, title VIII, 
Sec. 884(a), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1176.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 390, Pub. L. 88-74, Sec. 1, July 22, 1963, 77 Stat. 
90; Pub. L. 95-113, title XIV, Sec. 1416(3), Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 
996; Pub. L. 99-198, title XIV, Sec. 1411(a), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 
1547, related to congressional declaration of policy, prior to the 
general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 104-127.
    A prior section 2 of Pub. L. 88-74 was classified to section 390a of 
this title prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 
104-127.


                             Effective Date

    Section 884(b) of Pub. L. 104-127 provided that: ``The amendment 
made by subsection (a) [enacting this subchapter], other than section 4 
of the Research Facilities Act [section 390b of this title] (as amended 
by subsection (a)), shall not apply to any project for an agricultural 
research facility for which funds have been made available for a 
feasibility study or for any phase of the project prior to October 1, 
1995.''


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 88-74, as added by Pub. L. 104-127, title VIII, 
Sec. 884(a), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1176, provided that: ``This Act 
[enacting this subchapter] may be cited as the `Research Facilities 
Act'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 390b of this title.
