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7 U.S.C. § 3125a — National Agricultural Library
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this section is to consolidate and expand the statutory authority for the operation of the library of the Department of Agriculture established pursuant to [section 2201 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2201&num=0&edition=prelim) as the primary agricultural information resource of the United States.
**(b) Establishment** There is established in the Department of Agriculture the National Agricultural Library to serve as the primary agricultural information resource of the United States.
**(c) Director** The Secretary shall appoint a Director for the National Agricultural Library who shall be subject to the direction of the Secretary.
**(d) Functions of Director** The Director may—
(1) acquire, preserve, and manage information and information products and services in all phases of agriculture and allied sciences;
(2) organize agricultural information and information products and services by cataloging, indexing, bibliographical listing, and other appropriate techniques;
(3) provide agricultural information and information products and services to agencies of the Department of Agriculture and the Federal Government, public and private organizations, and individuals, within the United States and internationally;
(4) plan for, coordinate, and evaluate information and library needs related to agricultural research and education;
(5) cooperate with and coordinate efforts among agricultural college and university libraries, in conjunction with private industry and other agricultural library and information centers, toward the development of a comprehensive agricultural library and information network; and
(6) coordinate the development of specialized subject information services amo
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this section is to consolidate and expand the statutory authority for the operation of the library of the Department of Agriculture established pursuant to [section 2201 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2201&num=0&edition=prelim) as the primary agricultural information resource of the United States.
**(b) Establishment** There is established in the Department of Agriculture the National Agricultural Library to serve as the primary agricultural information resource of the United States.
**(c) Director** The Secretary shall appoint a Director for the National Agricultural Library who shall be subject to the direction of the Secretary.
**(d) Functions of Director** The Director may—
(1) acquire, preserve, and manage information and information products and services in all phases of agriculture and allied sciences;
(2) organize agricultural information and information products and services by cataloging, indexing, bibliographical listing, and other appropriate techniques;
(3) provide agricultural information and information products and services to agencies of the Department of Agriculture and the Federal Government, public and private organizations, and individuals, within the United States and internationally;
(4) plan for, coordinate, and evaluate information and library needs related to agricultural research and education;
(5) cooperate with and coordinate efforts among agricultural college and university libraries, in conjunction with private industry and other agricultural library and information centers, toward the development of a comprehensive agricultural library and information network; and
(6) coordinate the development of specialized subject information services among the agricultural and library information communities.
**(e) Library products and services** The Director may—
(1) make copies of the bibliographies prepared by the National Agricultural Library;
(2) make microforms and other reproductions of books and other library materials in the Department;
(3) provide any other library and information products and services; and
(4) sell those products and services at such prices (not less than the estimated total cost of disseminating the products and services) as the Secretary may determine appropriate.
**(f) Receipts** Funds received from sales under subsection (e) shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the applicable appropriation and shall remain available until expended.
**(g) Agreements**
(1) **In general** — The Director may enter into agreement with, and receive funds from any State, and other political subdivision, organization, business, or individual for the purpose of conducting activities to carry out this section.
(2) **Funds** — Funds received under this subsection for payments for library products and services or other activities shall be deposited to the miscellaneous contributed fund account, and shall remain available until expended.
**(h) Authorization of appropriations** There are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.
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**(a) Identification of suitable property** The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, on a quarterly basis, request information from each landholding agency regarding Federal public buildings and other Federal real properties (including fixtures) that are excess property or surplus property or that are described as unutilized or underutilized in surveys by the heads of landholding agencies under section 524(a)(2) and (3) of title 40. No later than 25 days after receiving a request from the Secretary, the head of each landholding agency shall transmit such information to the Secretary. No later than 30 days after receiving such information, the Secretary shall identify which of those buildings and other properties are suitable for use to assist the homeless.
**(b) Availability of property**
(1) The Secretary shall promptly notify each Federal agency with respect to any property of that agency that the Secretary has identified under subsection (a). No later than 45 days after receipt of such a notice, the head of the appropriate landholding agency shall transmit to the Secretary the agency’s response to property identifications contained in such notification, which shall include—
(A) in the case of unutilized or underutilized property—
(i) a statement of intention to determine the property excess to the agency’s needs;
(ii) a statement of intention to make the property available for use to assist the homeless; or
(iii) a statement of the reasons (including a full explanation of the need) the property cannot be determined excess to the agency’s needs or made available for use to assist the homeless; and
(B) in the case of excess property—
(i) a statement that there is no other compelling Federal need for the property and, therefore,
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Agricultural commodity** — The term “agricultural commodity” has the meaning given the term in [section 5602 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section5602&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher** — The term “geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher” has the meaning given the term in section 10906(a) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ([7 U.S.C. 2204](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2204&num=0&edition=prelim) note; Public Law 107–171).
**(b) Authorization** Subject to the availability of funds under subsection (d), the Secretary may provide geographically disadvantaged farmers or ranchers direct reimbursement payments for activities described in subsection (c).
**(c) Transportation**
(1) **In general** — Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the Secretary may provide direct reimbursement payments to a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher to transport an agricultural commodity, or inputs used to produce an agricultural commodity, during a fiscal year.
(2) **Proof of eligibility** — To be eligible to receive assistance under paragraph (1), a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher shall demonstrate to the Secretary that transportation of the agricultural commodity or inputs occurred over a distance of more than 30 miles, as determined by the Secretary.
(3) **Amount**
(A) *In general* — Subject to paragraph (2), the amount of direct reimbursement payments made to a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher under this section for a fiscal year shall equal the product obtained by multiplying—
(i) the amount of costs incurred by the geographically di
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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 May 23, 1908, ch. 192, 35 Stat. 264, 266; Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 144, 38 Stat. 1109, provided for sale of copies of card index of publications. See [section 3125a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section3125a&num=0&edition=prelim).
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title VII, § 708, 58 Stat. 742, provided for manufacture and sale of copies of bibliographies, photographic reproductions of books, and library supplies. See [section 3125a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section3125a&num=0&edition=prelim).
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the following Department of Agriculture Appropriation Acts:
June 28, 1944, ch. 296, 58 Stat. 429.
July 12, 1943, ch. 215, 57 Stat. 396.
July 22, 1942, ch. 516, 56 Stat. 665.
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 3125a
§ 3125. Annual report of Secretary of Agriculture
to President and Congress
The Secretary shall submit to the President
and Congress by January 1 of each year a report
on the Nation’s agricultural research, extension,
and teaching activities, and such report shall in-
clude—
(1) a review covering the following three cat-
egories of activities of the Department of Ag-
riculture with respect to agricultural re-
search, extension, and teaching activities and
the relationship of these activities to similar
activities of other departments and agencies
of the Federal Government, the States, col-
leges and universities, and the private sector—
(A) a current inventory of such activities
organized by statutory authorization and
budget outlay;
(B) a current inventory of such activities
organized by field of basic and applied
science; and
(C) a current inventory of such activities
organized by commodity and product cat-
egory;
(2) any recommendations of the Advisory
Board; and
(3) in the second and succeeding years, a
five-year projection of national priorities with
respect to agricultural research, extension,
and teaching, taking into account both domes-
tic and international needs.
(Pub. L. 95–113, title XIV, § 1410, Sept. 29, 1977, 91
Stat. 989; Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1411, Dec. 22,
1981, 95 Stat. 1302; Pub. L. 99–198, title XIV,
§ 1408, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1546; Pub. L. 101–624,
title XVI, § 1605(b)(4), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3714;
Pub. L. 104–127, title VIII, §§ 802(b)(2), 852(b)(2),
853(b)(3), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1159, 1171, 1172.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1996—Par. (2). Pub. L. 104–127 substituted ‘‘any rec-
ommendations of the Advisory Board’’ for ‘‘the rec-
ommendations of the Joint Counc
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