§19064 Biological research collections

Summary

The Director must keep funding and supporting databases, tools, and actions that protect and improve physical and digital biological research collections. The Director must also make these collections and their data easier for researchers and educators to use, help build skills for caring for collections, and move important collections to museums or universities when needed. Working with other federal research agencies, the Director must require that grant proposals that collect specimens include, in the data management plan under section 19053, a description of how specimens and their data will be entered into and kept in an established collection. The Director must also award competitive grants to colleges, nonprofits, or their groups to help communities share data, train people, evaluate programs, develop business plans, and create an Action Center for Biological Collections.