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 PUBLIC LAW 105-185-JUNE 23, 1998 112 STAT. 523 Public Law 105-185 105th Congress An Act To ensure that federally funded agricultural research, extension, and education address high-priority concerns with national or multistate significance, to reform, extend, and eliminate certain agricultural research programs, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE.—Th is Act may be cited as the "Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998". (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS. —The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. Sec. 3. Short titles for Smith-Lever Act and Hatch Act of 1887. TITLE I—PRIORITIES, SCOPE, REVIEW, AND COORDINATION OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION Sec. 101. Standards for Federal funding of agricultural research, extension, and education. Sec. 102. Priority setting process. Sec. 103. Relevance and merit of agricultural research, extension, and education funded by the Department. Sec. 104. Research formula funds for 1862 Institutions. Sec. 105. Extension formula funds for 1862 Institutions. Sec. 106. Research facilities. TITLE II—REFORM OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION AUTHORITIES Subtitle A—Smith-Lever Act and Hatch Act of 1887 Sec. 201. Cooperative agricultural extension work by 1862, 1890, and 1994 Institutions. Sec. 202. PIEUIS of work to address critical research and extension issues and use of protocols to measure success of plans. Sec. 203. Consistent matching funds requirements under Hatch Act of 1887 and Smith-Lever Act. Sec. 204. Integration of research and extension. Subtitle B—Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act Sec. 211. Competitive grants. Sec. 212. Special grants. Subtitle C—National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 Sec. 221. Definitions regarding agricultural research, extension, and education. Sec. 222. Advisory Board. Sec. 223. Grants and fellowships for food and agricultural sciences education. Sec. 224. Policy research centers. Sec. 225. Plans of work for 1890 Institutions to address critical research and extension issues and use of protocols to measure success of plans. June 23, 1998 [S. 1150] Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 7 USC 7601 note. 69-139 O - 98 (185)

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