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7 U.S.C. § 344 — Ascertainment of entitlement of State to funds; time and manner of payment; State reporting requirements; plans of work
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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) 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 will meet the requirements of [section 343(h) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section343/h&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) A description of the manner in which the State will meet the requirements of [section 361c(i)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361c/i/2&num=0&edition=prelim).
(4) A description of matching funds provided by the State with respect to the previous fiscal year.
**(d) Extension protocols**
(1) **Development** — The Secretary of Agriculture shall develop protocols to be used to evaluate the success of multistate, multi-institutional, and multidisciplinary extension activities and joint research and extension activities in addressing critical agricultural issues identified in the plans of work submitted under subsection (a).
(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.
**(e) Treatment of plans of work for other purposes** To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall consider a plan of work submitted under subsection (a) to satisfy other appropriate Federal reporting requirements.
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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) 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)** There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this subchapter such sums as Congress may from time to time determine to be necessary.
**(b)**
(1) Out of such sums, each State and the Secretary of Agriculture shall be entitled to receive annually a sum of money equal to the sums available from Federal cooperative extension funds for the fiscal year 1962, and subject to the same requirements as to furnishing of equivalent sums by the State, except that amounts heretofore made available to the Secretary for allotment on the basis of special needs shall continue available for use on the same basis.
(2) There is authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and for each fiscal year thereafter, for payment to the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, $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. The amount paid by the Federal Government to the Virgin Islands and Guam pursuant to this paragraph shall not exceed during any fiscal year, except the fiscal years ending June 30, 1971, and June 30, 1972, when such amount may be used to pay the total cost of providing services pursuant to this subchapter, the amount available and budgeted for expenditure by the Virgin Islands and Guam for the purposes of this subchapter.
(3) There are authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1996, and for each fiscal year thereafter, for payment on behalf of the 1994 Institutions (as defined in section 532 of the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994), such sums as are necessary for the purposes set forth in [section 342 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r
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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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**(a) Review** The Secretary shall work with university partners in extension and research to review and identify measures to streamline the submission, reporting under, and implementation of plan of work requirements, including those requirements under—
(1) sections 3221(d) and 3222(c) of this title;
(2) [section 361g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section361g&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(3) [section 344 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section344&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Consultation** In carrying out the review and formulating and compiling the recommendations, the Secretary shall consult with the land-grant institutions.
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 344
§ 343d. Transferred
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section, act June 29, 1935, ch. 338, title II, § 22, 49 Stat.
439, as amended, which related to additional appropria-
tions for agricultural colleges, was transferred to sec-
tion 329 of this title.
§§ 343d–1 to 343d–5. Repealed. June 26, 1953, ch.
157, § 2, 67 Stat. 86
Section 343d–1, act June 29, 1935, ch. 338, title II, § 23,
as added June 6, 1945, ch. 175, § 1, 59 Stat. 231, authorized
further additional appropriations, commencing with
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1946 and continuing on an
ascending scale until they amounted to $12,500,000 for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1948 and each subsequent
fiscal year, further to develop the cooperative agricul-
tural extension system inaugurated under sections 341
to 343, 344 to 346, and 347a to 349 of this title, and pro-
vided for their disposition.
Sections 343d–2 and 343d–3, act Oct. 26, 1949, ch. 753,
§§ 1, 2, 63 Stat. 926, extended the provisions of former
section 343d–1 of this title to Puerto Rico and for such
purposes, authorized additional appropriations on an
ascending scale until they should amount to $401,090
annually.
Sections 343d–4 and 343d–5, act Oct. 27, 1949, ch. 768,
§§ 1, 2, 63 Stat. 939, extended the provisions of former
sections 343a, 343b, 343c and 343d–1 of this title to Alas-
ka, and, for such purpose, authorized annual appropria-
tions in amounts to be computed on the same basis as
computations of appropriations to States, subject to
annual estimates as to funds and amounts by the Sec-
retary of Agriculture.
See, generally, sections 341 to 343, 344 to 346, and 347a
to 349 of this title.
§ 343e. Repealed. Oct. 27, 1949, ch. 768, § 3, 63
Stat. 940
Section, act June 20, 1936, ch. 631, §§
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