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[CITE: 7USC5312]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
     CHAPTER 84--NATIONAL NUTRITION MONITORING AND RELATED RESEARCH
 
         SUBCHAPTER I--NUTRITION MONITORING AND RELATED RESEARCH
 
Sec. 5312. Functions of Secretaries


(a) In general

    The Secretaries, with the advice of the Board, shall--
        (1) establish the goals of the coordinated program, identify the 
    activities required to meet such goals, and identify the responsible 
    agencies with respect to the coordinated program;
        (2) update the Joint Implementation Plan for a Comprehensive 
    National Nutrition Monitoring System, and integrate it into the 
    coordinated program;
        (3) ensure the timely implementation of the coordinated program 
    and the comprehensive plan prepared under section 5313 of this 
    title;
        (4) include in the coordinated program and the comprehensive 
    plan a competitive grants program, to be implemented to the extent 
    funds are available, in accordance with the provisions of this 
    chapter to encourage and assist the conduct, by Federal entities, 
    and by non-Federal entities on an appropriate matching funds basis, 
    of research (including research described in section 5313(a)(3) of 
    this title) that will accelerate the development of uniform and 
    cost-effective standards and indicators for the assessment and 
    monitoring of nutritional and dietary status and for relating food 
    consumption patterns to nutritional and health status;
        (5) include in the coordinated program and the comprehensive 
    plan a grants program, in accordance with the provisions of this 
    chapter, to encourage and assist State and local governments in 
    developing the capacity to conduct monitoring and surveillance of 
    nutritional status, food consumption, and nutrition knowledge and in 
    using such capacity to enhance nutrition services (including 
    activities described in section 5313(a)(5) and 5313(b)(9) of this 
    title);
        (6) include in the coordinated program each fiscal year an 
    annual interagency budget for each fiscal year of the program;
        (7) foster productive interaction, with respect to nutrition 
    monitoring and related research, among Federal efforts, State and 
    local governments, the private sector, scientific communities, 
    health professionals, and the public;
        (8)(A) contract with a scientific body, such as the National 
    Academy of Sciences or the Federation of American Societies for 
    Experimental Biology, to interpret available data analyses, and 
    publish every two years, or more frequently if appropriate, except 
    as provided in subparagraph (B), a report on the dietary, 
    nutritional, and health-related status of the people of the United 
    States and the nutritional quality (including the nutritive and 
    nonnutritive content) of food consumed in the United States; or
        (B) if the Secretaries determine that sufficient data analyses 
    are not available to warrant interpretation of such data analyses, 
    inform Congress of such fact at the time a report required in 
    subparagraph (A) would have been published, and publish such report 
    at least once every five years; and
        (9)(A) foster cost recovery management techniques in the 
    coordinated program; and
        (B) impose appropriate charges and fees for publications of the 
    coordinated program, including print and electronic forms of data 
    and analysis, and use the proceeds of such charges and fees for 
    purposes of the coordinated program (except that no such charge or 
    fee imposed on an educational or other nonprofit organization shall 
    exceed the actual costs incurred by the coordinated program in 
    providing the publications involved).

(b) Biennial report

    The Secretaries shall submit to the President for transmittal to 
Congress by January 15 of each alternate year, beginning with January 15 
following October 22, 1990, a biennial report that shall--
        (1) evaluate the progress of the coordinated program;
        (2) summarize the results of such coordinated program components 
    as are developed under section 5313 of this title;
        (3) describe and evaluate any policy implications of the 
    analytical findings in the scientific reports required under 
    subsection (a)(8) of this section, and future priorities for 
    nutrition monitoring and related research;
        (4) include in full the annual reports of the Council provided 
    for in section 5332 of this title; and
        (5) include an executive summary of the report most recently 
    published by the scientific body, as provided for in subsection 
    (a)(8) of this section.

(Pub. L. 101-445, title I, Sec. 102, Oct. 22, 1990, 104 Stat. 1036.)


                  Termination of Reporting Requirements

    For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in subsec. 
(b) of this section requiring submission of biennial report to Congress, 
see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under 
section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 31 of House 
Document No. 103-7.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 5332 of this title.
