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7 U.S.C. § 361g — Duties of Secretary; ascertainment of entitlement of State to funds; plans of work
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**(a) Duties of Secretary** The Secretary of Agriculture is charged with the responsibility for the proper administration of sections 361a to 361i of this title, and is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provisions. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of said sections, including participation in coordination of research initiated under said sections by the State agricultural experiment stations, from time to time to indicate such lines of inquiry as to him seem most important, and to encourage and assist in the establishment and maintenance of cooperation by and between the several State agricultural experiment stations, and between the stations and the United States Department of Agriculture.
**(b) Ascertainment of entitlement** On or before the first day of October in each year after the passage of sections 361a to 361i of this title, the Secretary of Agriculture shall ascertain as to each State whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriations for agricultural experiment stations under said sections and the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive.
**(c) Carryover**
(1) **In general** — The balance of any annual funds provided under sections 361a to 361i of this title to a State agricultural experiment station for a fiscal year that remains unexpended at the end of the fiscal year may be carried over for use during the following fiscal year.
(2) **Failure to expend full allotment**
(A) *In general* — If any unexpended balance carried over by a State is not expended by the end of the second fiscal year, an amount equal to the unexpended balance shall be deducted from the next
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**(a) Duties of Secretary** The Secretary of Agriculture is charged with the responsibility for the proper administration of sections 361a to 361i of this title, and is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provisions. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of said sections, including participation in coordination of research initiated under said sections by the State agricultural experiment stations, from time to time to indicate such lines of inquiry as to him seem most important, and to encourage and assist in the establishment and maintenance of cooperation by and between the several State agricultural experiment stations, and between the stations and the United States Department of Agriculture.
**(b) Ascertainment of entitlement** On or before the first day of October in each year after the passage of sections 361a to 361i of this title, the Secretary of Agriculture shall ascertain as to each State whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriations for agricultural experiment stations under said sections and the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive.
**(c) Carryover**
(1) **In general** — The balance of any annual funds provided under sections 361a to 361i of this title to a State agricultural experiment station for a fiscal year that remains unexpended at the end of the fiscal year may be carried over for use during the following fiscal year.
(2) **Failure to expend full allotment**
(A) *In general* — If any unexpended balance carried over by a State is not expended by the end of the second fiscal year, an amount equal to the unexpended balance shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual allotment to the State.
(B) *Redistribution* — Federal funds that are deducted under subparagraph (A) for a fiscal year shall be redistributed by the Secretary in accordance with the formula set forth in [section 361c(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361c/c&num=0&edition=prelim) to those States for which no deduction under subparagraph (A) has been taken for that fiscal year.
**(d) Plan of work required** Before funds may be provided to a State under sections 361a to 361i of this title for any fiscal year, a plan of work to be carried out under sections 361a to 361i of this title shall be submitted by the proper officials of the State and shall be approved by the Secretary of Agriculture.
**(e) Requirements related to plan of work** Each plan of work for a State required under subsection (d) shall contain descriptions of the following:
(1) A summary of planned projects or programs in the State using formula funds.
(2) A description of the manner in which the State will meet the requirements of subsections (c)(3) and (i)(2) of [section 361c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361c&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) A description of matching funds provided by the State with respect to the previous fiscal year.
**(f) Research protocols**
(1) **Development** — The Secretary of Agriculture shall develop protocols to be used to evaluate the success of multistate, multi-institutional, and multidisciplinary research activities and joint research and extension activities in addressing critical agricultural issues identified in the plans of work submitted under subsection (d).
(2) **Consultation** — The Secretary of Agriculture shall develop the protocols in consultation with the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board established under [section 3123 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section3123&num=0&edition=prelim) and land-grant colleges and universities.
**(g) Treatment of plans of work for other purposes** To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall consider a plan of work submitted under subsection (d) to satisfy other appropriate Federal reporting requirements.
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**(a) Establishment** The Secretary shall establish within the Department of Agriculture a board to be known as the “National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board”.
**(b) Membership**
(1) **In general** — The Advisory Board shall consist of 15 members, appointed by the Secretary.
(2) **Selection of members** — The Secretary shall appoint members of the Advisory Board from nominations submitted by organizations, associations, societies, councils, federations, groups, and companies fitting the criteria specified in paragraph (3).
(3) **Membership categories** — The Advisory Board shall consist of members from each of the following categories:
(A) 3 members representing national farm or producer organizations, which may include members—
(i) representing farm cooperatives;
(ii) who are producers actively engaged in the production of a food animal commodity and who are recommended by a coalition of national livestock organizations;
(iii) who are producers actively engaged in the production of a plant commodity and who are recommended by a coalition of national crop organizations; or
(iv) who are producers actively engaged in aquaculture and who are recommended by a coalition of national aquacultural organizations.
(B) 2 members representing academic or research societies, which may include members representing—
(i) a national food animal science society;
(ii) a national crop, soil, agronomy, horticulture, plant pathology, or weed science society;
(iii) a national food science organization;
(iv) a national human health association; or
(v) a national nutritional science society.
(C) 5 members representing agricultural research, extension, and education, which shall include each of th
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**(a) Ascertainment of entitlement** On or about the first day of October in each year after June 26, 1953, the Secretary of Agriculture shall ascertain as to each State whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriation for cooperative agricultural extension work under this subchapter and the amount which it is entitled to receive. Before the funds herein provided shall become available to any college for any fiscal year, plans for the work to be carried on under this subchapter shall be submitted by the proper officials of each college and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary shall ensure that each college seeking to receive funds under this subchapter has in place appropriate guidelines, as determined by the Secretary, to minimize actual or potential conflicts of interest among employees of such college whose salaries are funded in whole or in part with such funds.
**(b) Time and manner of payment; related reports** The amount to which a State is entitled shall be paid in equal quarterly payments in or about July, October, January, and April of each year to the treasurer or other officer of the State duly authorized by the laws of the State to receive the same, and such officer shall be required to report to the Secretary of Agriculture on or about the first day of April of each year, a detailed statement of the amount so received during the previous fiscal year and its disbursement, on forms prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.
**(c) Requirements related to plan of work** Each extension plan of work for a State required under subsection (a) shall contain descriptions of the following:
(1) A summary of planned projects or programs in the State using formula funds.
(2) A description of the manner in which the State wi
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**(a) Authorization** There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of sections 361a to 361i of this title such sums as Congress may from time to time determine to be necessary.
**(b) Allotments to States; authorization of appropriations for Virgin Islands and Guam; limitation**
(1) Out of such sums each State shall be entitled to receive annually a sum of money equal to and subject to the same requirement as to use for marketing research projects as the sums received from Federal appropriations for State agricultural experiment stations for the fiscal year 1955, except that amounts heretofore made available from the fund known as the “Regional research fund, Office of Experiment Stations” shall continue to be available for the support of cooperative regional projects as defined in subsection (c)(3), and the said fund shall be designated “Regional research fund, State agricultural experiment stations,” and the Secretary of Agriculture shall be entitled to receive annually for the administration of sections 361a to 361i of this title, a sum not less than that available for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955: Provided, That if the appropriations hereunder available for distribution in any fiscal year are less than those for the fiscal year 1955 the allotment to each State and the amounts for Federal administration and the regional research fund shall be reduced in proportion to the amount of such reduction.
(2) There is authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and for each fiscal year thereafter, for payment to the Virgin Islands and Guam, $100,000 each, which sums shall be in addition to the sums appropriated for the several States of the United States and Puerto Rico under the provisions of this section. Th
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Nothing in sections 361a to 361i of this title shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the colleges or universities under whose direction State agricultural experiment stations have been established and the government of the States in which they are respectively located. States having agricultural experiment stations separate from such colleges or universities and established by law, shall be authorized to apply such benefits to research at stations so established by such States: Provided, That in any State in which more than one such college, university, or agricultural experiment station has been established the appropriations made pursuant to sections 361a to 361i of this title for such State shall be divided between such institutions as the legislature of such State shall direct.
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There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition, in the most general and comprehensive sense of those terms, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, acts Mar. 16, 1906, ch. 951, § 4, 34 Stat. 64; Feb. 24, 1925, ch. 308, § 4, 43 Stat. 971, provided for the administration of the agricultural experiment station program. See [section 361g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361g&num=0&edition=prelim).
#### Existing Rights and Liabilities
Act Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 790, § 2, 69 Stat. 674, which repealed sections 361, 364, 366, 369, 369a, 371 to 376, 380, 382, 383, 386 to 386f, 427a to 427h, and 427j of this title, provided in part that any rights or liabilities existing under such repealed sections or parts of sections should not be affected by their repeal.
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Bulletins, reports, periodicals, reprints of articles, and other publications necessary for the dissemination of results of the researches and experiments, including lists of publications available for distribution by the experiment stations, shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States. Such publications may be mailed from the principal place of business of the station or from an established subunit of said station.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 368, act Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 3, 24 Stat. 441, as amended, was transferred to [section 361c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361c&num=0&edition=prelim). For provisions of section 368 which provided for assistance and advice by the Secretary of Agriculture, see [section 361g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361g&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 368a, act Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 5, 24 Stat. 441, as amended, was transferred to [section 361e of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361e&num=0&edition=prelim). For provisions of section 368a which authorized appropriations for investigations and experiments, see sections 361c and 361d of this title.
Section 368b, act Mar. 8, 1887, ch. 314, § 9, 24 Stat, 442, as amended, was transferred to [section 361i of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361i&num=0&edition=prelim). Former provisions of section 368b making grants of money authorized by [section 368a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section368a&num=0&edition=prelim) subject to the legislative assent of the States and Territories were eliminated from section 361i.
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### Statutory Notes
Section 369, act Mar. 16, 1906, ch. 951, § 1, 34 Stat. 63, authorized annual appropriations for agricultural experiment stations. See [section 361c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361c&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 369a, acts June 20, 1936, ch. 631, §§ 1, 2, 49 Stat. 1553, 1554; Aug. 29, 1950, ch. 820, 64 Stat. 563, extended provisions of former sections 343a, 343b, 361, 366, 369, 370, 371, 373 to 376, 380, and 382 of this title to Alaska. See [section 361a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361a&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 370, act Feb. 24, 1925, ch. 308, § 1, 43 Stat. 970, authorized an additional appropriation of $60,000 for each fiscal year. See [section 361c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361c&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 371, acts Mar. 16, 1906, ch. 951, § 2, 34 Stat. 63; Feb. 24, 1925, ch. 308, § 2, 43 Stat. 971, made grants of money authorized for agricultural experiment stations subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories.
Section 372, act June 7, 1888, ch. 373, 25 Stat. 176, provided for assent to installments of appropriations when the legislature is not in session.
Section 373, acts Mar. 16, 1906, ch. 951, § 2, 34 Stat. 63; Feb. 24, 1925, ch. 308, § 2, 43 Stat. 971, prescribed the time and manner of payments to agricultural experiment stations and required a report of expenditures to the Secretary of Agriculture. See sections 361c and 361e of this title.
Section 374, acts Mar. 16, 1906, ch. 951, § 3, 34 Stat. 63; Feb. 24, 1925, ch. 308, § 3, 43 Stat. 971, required the State to replace moneys misapplied. See [section 361e of this
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 377, act Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 6, 24 Stat. 441, as amended, was transferred to [section 361f of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361f&num=0&edition=prelim). For provisions of section 377 which related to unexpended part of annual appropriations, see [section 361g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361g&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 378, act Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 8, 24 Stat. 441, as amended, was transferred to [section 361h of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361h&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 379, act Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 7, 24 Stat. 441, as amended, was transferred to [section 361g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361g&num=0&edition=prelim). For provisions of section 379 which provided that the relation of the college to the State was unaffected, see [section 361h of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361h&num=0&edition=prelim).
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