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 104 STAT. 3782 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 with disabilities, and their families, who engage in farming or farm-related occupations; and (E) mobilize rural volunteer resources, including peer counseling among farmers with disabilities and rural ingenuity networks promoting cost effective methods or accommodating disabilities in farming and farm-related activities. (4) EXTENSION SERVICE AGENCIES. —Grsints shall be awarded under this subsection directly to State Extension Service agencies to enable them to enter into contracts, on a multiyear basis, with private nonprofit community-based direct service organizations to initiate, expand, or sustain cooperative programs described under paragraphs (2) and (3). (5) MINIMUM AMOUNT. — A grant awarded under this subsection may not be less than $150,000. (6) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. —There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection— (A) not less than $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 and 1992; and (B) not less than $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1993 through 1996. (h) NATIONAL GRANT FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRAINING AND DISSEMINATION.— (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall award a competitive grant to a national private nonprofit disability organization to enable such organization to provide technical assistance, training, information dissemination and other activities to support community-based direct service programs of onsite rural rehabilitation and assistive technology for individuals with disabilities, and their families, who are engaged in farming or farm-related occupations. (2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. —There are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 to carry out this subsection for each of the fiscal years 1991 through 1996. 7 USC 5934. SEC. 1681. RESEARCH ON HONEYBEE DISEASES. (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS. — It is the sense of Congress that— (1) diseases affecting the entire honeybee population impact on the ability of honeybees to carry out crop pollination and honey production, gind therefore impact negatively on beekeepers, producers and consumers; and (2) certain diseases (such as those caused by teacheal mite, varroa mite, and the Africanized honeybee) pose a threat to the continued well-being of the general honeybee population, and thus merit further study. (b) RESEARCH. —Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall give priority attention to the funding of research regarding the diseases referred to in subsection (a) that are affecting the honeybee population.

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