§3353 — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture can give grants to certain colleges and to groups of food producers to help protect against bioterrorist attacks. Colleges and universities that have food and agricultural science programs can get one grant of up to $50,000 to review security at their facilities. They can use the money to hire outside private security experts to do the reviews. Associations of food producers or consortia of those associations can get one grant to create and run farm biosecurity training. Each association can get up to $100,000, and a consortium can get $100,000 for each participating association. Money may be provided as needed each fiscal year to fund these grants.

Title 7, §3353

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(a)(1)The Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this section as the “Secretary”) may award grants to covered entities to review security standards and practices at their facilities in order to protect against bioterrorist attacks.

(2)Covered entities under this subsection are colleges or universities that—

(A)are colleges or universities as defined in section 3103 of this title; and

(B)have programs in food and agricultural sciences, as defined in such section.

(3)Each individual covered entity may be awarded one grant under paragraph (1), the amount of which shall not exceed $50,000.

(4)Colleges and universities receiving grants under paragraph (1) may use such grants to enter into contracts with independent private organizations with established and demonstrated security expertise to conduct the security reviews specified in such paragraph.

(b)(1)The Secretary may award grants to associations of food producers or consortia of such associations for the development and implementation of educational programs to improve biosecurity on farms in order to ensure the security of farm facilities against potential bioterrorist attacks.

(2)Each individual association eligible under paragraph (1) may be awarded one grant under such paragraph, the amount of which shall not exceed $100,000. Each consortium eligible under paragraph (1) may be awarded one grant under such paragraph, the amount of which shall not exceed $100,000 per association participating in the consortium.

(3)Associations of food producers receiving grants under paragraph (1) may use such grants to enter into contracts with independent private organizations with established and demonstrated expertise in biosecurity to assist in the development and implementation of educational programs to improve biosecurity specified in such paragraph.

(c)There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, and not as part of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.

§3353 Agricultural Biosecurity

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