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[CITE: 7USC7628]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER 103--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION REFORM
 
   SUBCHAPTER II--NEW AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION 
                               INITIATIVES
 
Sec. 7628. Support for research regarding diseases of wheat and 
        barley caused by Fusarium graminearum
        

(a) Research grant authorized

    The Secretary of Agriculture may make a grant to a consortium of 
land-grant colleges and universities to enhance the ability of the 
consortium to carry out a multi-State research project aimed at 
understanding and combating diseases of wheat and barley caused by 
Fusarium graminearum and related fungi (referred to in this section as 
``wheat scab'').

(b) Research components

    Funds provided under this section shall be available for the 
following collaborative, multi-State research activities:
        (1) Identification and understanding of the epidemiology of 
    wheat scab and the toxicological properties of vomitoxin, a toxic 
    metabolite commonly occurring in wheat and barley infected with 
    wheat scab.
        (2) Development of crop management strategies to reduce the risk 
    of wheat scab occurrence.
        (3) Development of--
            (A) efficient and accurate methods to monitor wheat and 
        barley for the presence of wheat scab and resulting vomitoxin 
        contamination;
            (B) post-harvest management techniques for wheat and barley 
        infected with wheat scab; and
            (C) milling and food processing techniques to render 
        contaminated grain safe.

        (4) Strengthening and expansion of plant-breeding activities to 
    enhance the resistance of wheat and barley to wheat scab, including 
    the establishment of a regional advanced breeding material 
    evaluation nursery and a germplasm introduction and evaluation 
    system.
        (5) Development and deployment of alternative fungicide 
    application systems and formulations to control wheat scab and 
    consideration of other chemical control strategies to assist farmers 
    until new more resistant wheat and barley varieties are available.

(c) Communications networks

    Funds provided under this section shall be available for efforts to 
concentrate, integrate, and disseminate research, extension, and 
outreach-orientated information regarding wheat scab.

(d) Management

    To oversee the use of a grant made under this section, the Secretary 
may establish a committee composed of the directors of the agricultural 
experiment stations in the States in which land-grant colleges and 
universities that are members of the consortium are located.

(e) Authorization of appropriations

    There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$5,200,000 for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2002.

(Pub. L. 105-185, title IV, Sec. 408, June 23, 1998, 112 Stat. 574.)
