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7 U.S.C. § 3703 — State and regional plans
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**(a) Grants; requisite provisions of plans**
(1) The Secretary shall, beginning not more than one hundred and eighty days after October 1, 1980, make financial assistance available to any State that makes application therefor, and that otherwise meets the requirements of this section, for the purpose of assisting such State in the development of a subterminal facilities plan (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “State plan”) for such State. Assistance under this section shall be made available in the form of a grant. No grant may be made to any State unless the Governor of such State or the appropriate agency of such State makes an application therefor as provided in this section. To the maximum extent practicable, the personnel and resources of the colleges or universities in the State which are eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 ([7 U.S.C. 301–305](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section301–305&num=0&edition=prelim), 307, and 308), or the Act of August 30, 1890 ([7 U.S.C. 321–326](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section321–326&num=0&edition=prelim) and 328), including Tuskegee Institute, shall be utilized in developing the subterminal facilities plan for that State pursuant to this section.
(2) The Secretary may also make grants under this section available to two or more States acting together to develop a coordinated regional subterminal facilities plan (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “regional plan”) for such region.
(3) Grants made under this section to any State or region may not exceed 80 per centum of the cost of preparing the State or regional plan.
(4) The State or regional plan shall prescribe in detail the actions such State or region
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**(a) Grants; requisite provisions of plans**
(1) The Secretary shall, beginning not more than one hundred and eighty days after October 1, 1980, make financial assistance available to any State that makes application therefor, and that otherwise meets the requirements of this section, for the purpose of assisting such State in the development of a subterminal facilities plan (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “State plan”) for such State. Assistance under this section shall be made available in the form of a grant. No grant may be made to any State unless the Governor of such State or the appropriate agency of such State makes an application therefor as provided in this section. To the maximum extent practicable, the personnel and resources of the colleges or universities in the State which are eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 ([7 U.S.C. 301–305](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section301–305&num=0&edition=prelim), 307, and 308), or the Act of August 30, 1890 ([7 U.S.C. 321–326](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section321–326&num=0&edition=prelim) and 328), including Tuskegee Institute, shall be utilized in developing the subterminal facilities plan for that State pursuant to this section.
(2) The Secretary may also make grants under this section available to two or more States acting together to develop a coordinated regional subterminal facilities plan (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “regional plan”) for such region.
(3) Grants made under this section to any State or region may not exceed 80 per centum of the cost of preparing the State or regional plan.
(4) The State or regional plan shall prescribe in detail the actions such State or region proposes to take in order to (A) facilitate the efficient and competitive movement of bulk agricultural commodities from the points of production within such State or region to major market or export points, (B) provide adequate storage facilities for such commodities between points of production and market, (C) provide adequate receiving, storage, and loading facilities for any bulk agricultural commodity, and (D) assure that such facilities will be located at sites that will result in maximum benefits to local producers.
(5) Each State or regional plan shall include the following:
(A) an analysis of the marketing, shipping, storage, and production of bulk agricultural commodities produced in that State or region and the short- and long-range projections with respect to the marketing, shipping, storage, and production of such commodities in that State or region;
(B) a determination, on the basis of the analysis and projections required under clause (A) of this paragraph, of the needs of the State or region for subterminal facilities;
(C) an assessment of the use of existing on-farm storage facilities located within the State or region and an assessment of the ways in which subterminal facilities can benefit the continued use of on-farm storage facilities;
(D) an evaluation of the effect of the development of new subterminal facilities on small capacity rural shipping and storage facilities within the State or region;
(E) an evaluation of ways to ensure adequate rail service for subterminal facilities described in clause (D) of this paragraph, including an evaluation of the use and feasibility of contract rates;
(F) an assessment of the ways that subterminal facilities can enhance the operation of small capacity shipping and storage facilities within the State or region;
(G) an assessment of other actions being taken or considered in such State or region for the improvement of agricultural transportation, including an evaluation of the use being made of shuttle or collector trains and combinations of rail and barge service;
(H) an evaluation of the potential benefits of subterminal ownership and leasing arrangements for rail rolling stock (including locomotive power), motor trucks, barge equipment, and other bulk agricultural commodity transport equipment that may help achieve maximum benefits from the operation of subterminal facilities within the State or region;
(I) an assessment of the overall transportation system in the State or region and future plans for that overall system, including the adequacy of highways and bridges; and
(J) consideration of the feasibility and advisability of the ownership and operation of rail branch lines by farmer-owned cooperatives, and the role that such cooperatives might play in any overall planning for the restructuring and rehabilitation of rail service and marketing facilities within the State or region.
**(b) Plan review commissions** Funds made available to a State or region under this chapter for the purposes of assisting such State or region to develop a plan shall be subject to the condition that the State or region establish a plan review commission composed of local producers, local elevator operators, representatives of affected motor and rail carriers, other interested individuals, and, when appropriate in the judgment of the Secretary, consumers of bulk agricultural commodities used in the production of unprocessed agricultural products. A majority of the members of any plan review commission must be local producers or, when appropriate in the judgment of the Secretary, consumers of bulk agricultural commodities used in the production of unprocessed agricultural products. The plan review commission shall consider the information and analyses developed by the State or region in the development of a State or regional plan and make appropriate recommendations regarding the State or regional plan. The plan review commission shall also make recommendations, based on information developed in the plan, for the most beneficial location of subterminal facilities.
**(c) Recommendations of need** No application for planning assistance authorized pursuant to this section may be submitted by a State or region until the appropriate plan review commission established in accordance with this chapter has had the opportunity to make recommendations to the Governor or Governors that a need exists for the development of a State or regional plan, and a majority of the members of such plan review commission concur that such application should be submitted.
**(d) Prerequisites for receipt of grant** No State or region may receive a grant under this section unless—
(1) an application therefor has been submitted that complies with the provisions of this chapter;
(2) the average annual production of bulk agricultural commodities produced within such State or region, or shipments of such commodities transported into such State or region, meets minimum levels established by the Secretary for a period the Secretary considers appropriate preceding the year in which application for such grant is made;
(3) the Governor of such State or the Governors of the States in such region certify to the Secretary that producers of agricultural commodities have experienced serious storage and transportation problems within such State or region during the three years preceding the year in which application for such grant is made; and
(4) such State or each State within such region has established an adequate plan, as described in [section 22102 of title 49](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section22102&num=0&edition=prelim), for rail service in such State or States, or such State or each State in such region is actively developing such a plan.
**(e) Approved State plans; approved regional plans** Whenever any State or region has submitted a State or regional plan under this section, the Secretary shall approve such plan only if it has been approved by a majority of the members of the appropriate plan review commission established pursuant to this chapter, and it meets the other conditions specified in this chapter and those prescribed in regulations issued by the Secretary to carry out this chapter. When a plan is approved by the Secretary, such plan shall be known as an “approved State plan” or an “approved regional plan”, as appropriate.
**(f) Authorization of appropriations** To carry out the purposes of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $3,300,000 for each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1981, September 30, 1982, and September 30, 1983.
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The Secretary of Agriculture is charged with the proper administration of this subchapter.
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Congress finds and declares that—
(1) an adequate system for the efficient transient storage and movement of bulk agricultural commodities is essential to the overall success of the agricultural industry of the Nation, the development of rural areas of the Nation, and the economic stability of the Nation;
(2) the movement and storage of bulk agricultural commodities has been seriously and repeatedly impeded by shortages of transient storage facilities, adequate rail rolling stock, and the deterioration of many railroad track beds and rural highways throughout the United States;
(3) the efficient movement and storage of bulk agricultural commodities may be achieved and facilitated by the joint location at strategic points throughout the United States of transient storage facilities and multimodal terminal facilities constructed especially for the efficient shipment and receipt of agricultural commodities; and
(4) the location of such facilities must be carefully planned to assure maximum benefits to producers of agricultural commodities and unprocessed agricultural products and utilization of the most efficient means of transporting bulk agricultural commodities for domestic and export markets.
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A State is eligible to receive financial assistance under this chapter only when the State complies with regulations the Secretary of Transportation prescribes under this chapter and the Secretary decides that—
(1) the State has an adequate plan for rail transportation in the State and a suitable process for updating, revising, and modifying the plan;
(2) the State plan is administered or coordinated by a designated State authority and provides for a fair distribution of resources;
(3) the State authority—
(A) is authorized to develop, promote, supervise, and support safe, adequate, and efficient rail transportation;
(B) employs or will employ sufficient qualified and trained personnel;
(C) maintains or will maintain adequate programs of investigation, research, promotion, and development with opportunity for public participation; and
(D) is designated and directed to take all practicable steps (by itself or with other State authorities) to improve rail transportation safety and reduce energy use and pollution related to transportation; and
(4) the State has ensured that it maintains or will maintain adequate procedures for financial control, accounting, and performance evaluation for the proper use of assistance provided by the United States Government.
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There is granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned in this subchapter, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of said sections.
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Page 366
TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 301
Sec.
327.
Repealed.
328.
Power to amend, repeal, etc., reserved.
329.
Additional appropriation for agricultural col-
leges.
SUBCHAPTER III—RETIREMENT OF EMPLOYEES
331.
Retirement of land-grant college employees.
SUBCHAPTER IV—AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
WORK APPROPRIATION
341.
Cooperative extension work by colleges.
342.
Cooperative agricultural extension work; co-
operation with Secretary of Agriculture.
343.
Appropriations; distribution; allotment and
apportionment; Secretary of Agriculture;
matching funds; cooperative extension ac-
tivities.
343a to 343g. Repealed or Transferred.
344.
Ascertainment of entitlement of State to
funds; time and manner of payment; State
reporting requirements; plans of work.
345.
Replacement of diminished, lost or mis-
applied funds; restrictions on use; reports of
colleges.
346, 347.
Repealed.
347a.
Disadvantaged agricultural areas.
348.
Rules and regulations.
349.
‘‘State’’ defined.
SUBCHAPTER I—COLLEGE-AID LAND
APPROPRIATION
§ 301. Land grant aid of colleges
There is granted to the several States, for the
purposes hereinafter mentioned in this sub-
chapter, an amount of public land, to be appor-
tioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty
thousand acres for each Senator and Represent-
ative in Congress to which the States are respec-
tively entitled by the apportionment under the
census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands
shall be selected or purchased under the provi-
sions of said sections.
(July 2, 1862, ch. 130, § 1, 12 Stat. 503.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Act July 2, 1862, with the exception of section 7, was
not incorporated into the Revised Statutes, probably
because the grants made thereby were regarded as exe-
cuted, and the provisions in
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Page 371
TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 322
SUBCHAPTER II—COLLEGE-AID ANNUAL
APPROPRIATION
§ 321. Secretary of Agriculture to administer an-
nual college-aid appropriation
The Secretary of Agriculture is charged with
the proper administration of this subchapter.
(Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 841, § 4, 26 Stat. 419; 1939 Reorg.
Plan No. 1, §§ 201, 204, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2728,
53 Stat. 1424; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§ 5, 8, eff.
Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; Pub. L.
96–88, title III, § 301(a)(2)(E), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat.
677; Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1419, Dec. 22, 1981,
95 Stat. 1306.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section constitutes part of section 4 of act Aug. 30,
1890. Remainder of section 4 is classified to section 326
of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
SHORT TITLE
Act Aug. 30, 1890, as amended, which is classified to
this subchapter, is popularly known as the ‘‘Agricul-
tural College Act of 1890’’ and also as the ‘‘Second Mor-
rill Act’’.
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Functions and duties of Secretary of Education under
this subchapter transferred to Secretary of Agriculture
by section 1419 of Pub. L. 97–98.
Functions of Secretary of Health, Education, and
Welfare under this subchapter transferred to Secretary
of Education by section 301(a)(2)(E) of Pub. L. 96–88,
which is classified to section 3441(a)(2)(E) of Title 20,
Education.
Functions of Federal Security Administrator trans-
ferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
and all agencies of Federal Security Agency transferred
to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by
section 5 of 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, set out in the Ap-
pendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Em-
ployees. Federal Security Agency and office of Admin-
istrator abolishe
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Page 1666
TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 3606
§ 3606. Repealed. Pub. L. 105–362, title I, § 101(g),
Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3281
Section, Pub. L. 96–236, § 6, Apr. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 337,
related to protection of interests of United States con-
sumers.
CHAPTER 68—AGRICULTURAL
SUBTERMINAL FACILITIES
Sec.
3701.
Congressional findings and declarations.
3702.
Definitions.
3703.
State and regional plans.
§ 3701. Congressional findings and declarations
Congress finds and declares that—
(1) an adequate system for the efficient tran-
sient storage and movement of bulk agricul-
tural commodities is essential to the overall
success of the agricultural industry of the Na-
tion, the development of rural areas of the Na-
tion, and the economic stability of the Nation;
(2) the movement and storage of bulk agri-
cultural commodities has been seriously and
repeatedly impeded by shortages of transient
storage facilities, adequate rail rolling stock,
and the deterioration of many railroad track
beds and rural highways throughout the
United States;
(3) the efficient movement and storage of
bulk
agricultural
commodities
may
be
achieved and facilitated by the joint location
at strategic points throughout the United
States of transient storage facilities and
multimodal terminal facilities constructed es-
pecially for the efficient shipment and receipt
of agricultural commodities; and
(4) the location of such facilities must be
carefully planned to assure maximum benefits
to producers of agricultural commodities and
unprocessed agricultural products and utiliza-
tion of the most efficient means of trans-
porting bulk agricultural commodities for do-
mestic and export markets.
(Pub. L. 96–358, § 2, Sept. 25, 1980, 94 Stat. 1184.)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiar
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