PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Provides money to research new and better uses for farm products and to share what is learned. It authorizes $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947 and each year after. It adds another $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1948, 1949, 1950, and 1951. Starting with the year ending June 30, 1952, Congress can add more funds if it thinks they are needed. The Secretary of Agriculture may hire public or private groups or people to do the work when that is faster, cheaper, or better. Contracts can run up to four years. The Secretary can make advance payments and ignore certain usual payment and procurement limits. Unspent contract money can stay on the Treasury books up to five fiscal years. Work should be done at USDA labs when practical, and contract projects must support and be coordinated with those labs. Contract results must be made available to the public. Separately, for cooperative research with state experiment stations and other agreed agencies, it authorizes $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947 and each year after, plus an extra $1,500,000 for each of the years ending June 30, 1948, 1949, and 1950, with Congress able to add more starting with the year ending June 30, 1951. The Secretary may spend up to 3 percent of each year’s appropriations for necessary administrative costs. The Special Research Fund remains available for broad basic and applied agricultural research, and Department appropriations may be used for contracts as described above.

Title 7, §3105

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(a)In order to carry out further research on utilization and associated problems in connection with the development and application of present, new, and extended uses of agricultural commodities and products thereof authorized by section 3104 of this title, and to disseminate information relative thereto, and in addition to all other appropriations authorized by this title, there is authorized to be appropriated the following sums:

(1)$3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, and each subsequent fiscal year.

(2)An additional $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, and each subsequent fiscal year.

(3)An additional $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, and each subsequent fiscal year.

(4)An additional $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and each subsequent fiscal year.

(5)An additional $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and each subsequent fiscal year.

(6)In addition to the foregoing, such additional funds beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and thereafter, as the Congress may deem necessary.

The Secretary of Agriculture, in accordance with such regulations as he deems necessary, and when in his judgment the work to be performed will be carried out more effectively, more rapidly, or at less cost than if performed by the Department of Agriculture, may enter into contracts with such public or private organizations or individuals as he may find qualified to carry on work under this section without regard to the provisions of section 6101 of title 41, and with respect to such contracts he may make advance progress or other payments without regard to the provisions of section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31. Contracts under this section may be made for work to continue not more than four years from the date of any such contract. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, as amended (31 U.S.C. 713),1 any unexpended balances of appropriations properly obligated by contracting with an organization as provided in this subsection may remain upon the books of the Treasury for not more than five fiscal years before being carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury. Research authorized under this subsection shall be conducted so far as practicable at laboratories of the Department of Agriculture. Projects conducted under contract with public and private agencies shall be supplemental to and coordinated with research of these laboratories. Any contracts made pursuant to this authority shall contain requirements making the results of research and investigations available to the public through dedication, assignment to the Government, or such other means as the Secretary shall determine.

(b)In order to carry out further the purposes of section 3104 of this title, other than research on utilization of agricultural commodities and the products thereof, and in addition to all other appropriations authorized by this title,1 there is authorized to be appropriated for cooperative research with the State agricultural experiment stations and such other appropriate agencies as may be mutually agreeable to the Department of Agriculture and the experiment stations concerned, the following sums:

(1)$1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, and each subsequent fiscal year.

(2)An additional $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, and each subsequent fiscal year.

(3)An additional $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, and each subsequent fiscal year.

(4)An additional $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and each subsequent fiscal year.

(5)In addition to the foregoing such additional funds beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and thereafter, as the Congress may deem necessary.

(c)The Secretary may incur necessary administrative expenses not to exceed 3 per centum of the amount appropriated in any fiscal year in carrying out this section, including the specific objects of expense enumerated in section 427b 1 of this title.

(d)The “Special research fund, Department of Agriculture,” provided by section 427c 1 of this title, shall continue to be available solely for research into laws and principles underlying basic problems of agriculture in its broadest aspects; research relating to the improvement of the quality of, and the development of, new and improved methods of production of, distribution of, and new and extended uses and markets for, agricultural commodities and byproducts and manufactures thereof; and research relating to the conservation, development, and use of land and water resources for agricultural purposes. Such research shall be in addition to research provided for under other law (but both activities shall be coordinated so far as practicable) and shall be conducted by such agencies of the Department of Agriculture as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate or establish.

(e)Appropriations for research work in the Department of Agriculture shall be available for accomplishing such purposes by contract through the means provided in subsection (a) of this section.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This title, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), means title I of act June 29, 1935, ch. 338, 49 Stat. 436. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

of 1935 Amendment note set out under section 3101 of this title and Tables. section 5 of the Act of

June 20, 1874, as amended (31 U.S.C. 713), referred to in subsec. (a), was repealed by act

July 6, 1949, ch. 299, § 3, 63 Stat. 407. section 427b of this title, referred to in subsec. (c), was repealed by act Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 790, § 2, 69 Stat. 674. section 427c of this title, referred to in subsec. (d), was repealed by act Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 790, § 2, 69 Stat. 674. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 427i of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section was enacted as part of act

June 29, 1935, ch. 338, popularly known as the “Agricultural Research Act” and also as the “Bankhead-Jones Act”, and not as part of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter. In subsec. (a), “section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “section 3709, Revised Statutes” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts. In subsec. (a), “section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31” substituted for “section 3648, Revised Statutes [31 U.S.C. 529]” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

Amendments

1954—Subsec. (e). Act July 23, 1954, added subsec. (e).

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of Department of Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18 F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.

§3105 Agricultural Research; Authorization of Additional Appropriations; Administrative Expenses; Availability of Special Research Fund