§1354 Five-year Plan; Annual Technical Services Program

Summary

The designated agency must send the Secretary, following the Secretary’s rules, a five-year plan that can be updated each year. The plan must describe the State’s technology and economy and name the main regional and industrial problems; set out broad ways to solve them and how to measure the results; and explain how the technical services program will be run and coordinated. The agency must also send an annual technical services program. It must list specific methods (including contracts) to reach goals and say how they tie to the five-year plan; include a detailed budget and rules for financial control, accounting, and audits to protect funds paid under this chapter; and assign clear duties to each participating institution.