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 PUBLIC LAW 105-185-JUNE 23, 1998 112 STAT. 567 (A) demonstrate linkages with— (i) agencies of the Department; (ii) other related Federal research laboratories and agencies; (iii) colleges and iiniversities; and (iv) private industry; and (B) guarantee matching funds in excess of the amounts required by paragraph (3). (3) MATCHING FUNDS.— An eligible partnership shall contribute an amount of non-Federal funds for the operation of the partnership that is at least equal to the amount of grant funds received by the partnership under this section. (f) LIMITATION ON USE OF GRANT FUNDS. — Funds provided under this section may not be used for the planning, repair, rehabilitation, acquisition, or construction of a building or facility. (g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—T here are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2002. SEC. 403. PRECISION AGRICULTURE. 7 USC 7623. (a) DEFINITIONS. —In this section: (1) AGRICULTURAL INPUTS.— The term "agricultural inputs" includes all farm management, agronomic, and field-applied agricultural production inputs, such as machinery, labor, time, fiiel, irrigation water, commercial nutrients, feed stuffs, veterinary drugs and vaccines, livestock waste, crop protection chemicals, agronomic data and information, application and management services, seed, and other inputs used in agricultural production. (2) ELIGIBLE ENTITY. — The term "eligible entity" means— (A) a State agricultural experiment station; (B) a college or imiversity; (C) a research institution or organization; (D) a Federal or State government entity or agency; (E) a national laboratory; (F) a private organization or corporation; (G) an agriculkiral producer or other land manager; or (H) a precision agriculture partnership referred to in subsection (g). (3) PRECISION AGRICULTURE.—The term "precision agriculture" means an integrated information- and productionbased farming system that is designed to increase long-term, site-specific, and whole farm production efficiencies, productivity, and profitability while minimizing unintended impacts on wildHfe and the environment by— (A) combining agricultural sciences, agricultural inputs and practices, agronomic production databases, and precision agriculture technologies to efficiently manage agronomic and livestock production systems; (B) gathering on-farm information pertaining to the variation and interaction of site-specific spatial and temporal factors affecting crop and livestock production; (C) integrating such information with appropriate data derived from field scouting, remote sensing, and other precision agriculture technologies in a timely msumer in order to facilitate on-farm decisionmaking; or

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