7 U.S.C. § 3363: Resident instruction grants…

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must award competitive grants to eligible insular-area colleges and universities to improve education in food and agricultural sciences. Grants are for strengthening school resources (like libraries, curriculum, teachers, lab equipment, teaching systems, and student recruitment), supporting undergraduate and graduate students, promoting cooperation between insular institutions and state or private partners to share resources, and running undergraduate scholarship programs. Before getting funds, a school must show a strong commitment to food and agricultural higher education and to the specific subjects funded. The Secretary may require grants to meet needs listed in section 3101. Funding is authorized as needed for fiscal years 2002–2013, and $2,000,000 each year for fiscal years 2014–2023.

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(a)In general

The Secretary of Agriculture shall make competitive grants to eligible institutions to—

(1)strengthen institutional educational capacities, including libraries, curriculum, faculty, scientific instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student recruitment and retention, in order to respond to identified State, regional, national, or international education needs in the food and agricultural sciences;

(2)attract and support undergraduate and graduate students in order to educate them in identified areas of national need in the food and agriculture sciences;

(3)facilitate cooperative initiatives between two or more insular area eligible institutions, or between those institutions and units of State Government or organizations in the private sector, to maximize the development and use of resources such as faculty, facilities, and equipment to improve food and agricultural sciences teaching programs; and

(4)conduct undergraduate scholarship programs to assist in meeting national needs for training food and agricultural scientists.

(b)Grant requirements

(1)The Secretary of Agriculture shall ensure that each eligible institution, prior to receiving grant funds under subsection (a), shall have a significant demonstrable commitment to higher education programs in the food and agricultural sciences and to each specific subject area for which grant funds under this section are to be used.

(2)The Secretary of Agriculture may require that any grant awarded under this section contain provisions that require funds to be targeted to meet the needs identified in section 3101 of this title.

(c)Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section— (1)

(2)$2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2023.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical

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to this section. The

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by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “2023” for “2018”. 2014—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 113–79 substituted “to carry out this section—” for “such sums as are necessary for each of the fiscal years 2002 through 2012 to carry out this section.” and added pars. (1) and (2). 2008—Subsecs. (c), (e). Pub. L. 110–246, § 7143(b), redesignated subsec. (e) as (c) and substituted “2012” for “2007”.

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of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

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note under section 8701 of this title.

§3363 Resident Instruction Grants for Insular Areas

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