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 PUBLIC LAW 105-185-JUNE 23, 1998 112 STAT. 587 (7) provide professional advice for determining the withdrawgil times necessary for food safety in the use of drugs in food animals; and (8) engage in other activities designed to promote food safety. (c) CONTRACT, GRANTS, AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS. —The Secretary shall offer to enter into a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement with 1 or more appropriate colleges and universities to operate the FARAD program. The term of the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement shall be 3 years, with options to extend the term of the contract triennially. (d) INDIRECT COSTS. — Federal funds provided by the Secretary under a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement under this section shall be subject to reduction for indirect costs of the recipient of the funds in an Eimount not to exceed 19 percent of the total Federal funds provided under the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement. SEC. 605. HONEY RESEARCH, PROMOTION, AND CONSUMER INFORMA- TION. (a) FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.— Section 2 of the Honey Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act (7 U.S.C. 4601) is amended— (1) by striking the section heading and all that follows through "The Congress finds that:" and inserting the following: "SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. "(a) FINDINGS.— Congress makes the following findings:"; (2) in subsection (a) (as so designated)— (A) in paragraphs (6) and (7), by striking "and consumer education" each place it appears and inserting "consumer education, and industry information"; and (B) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following: "(8) The ability to develop and maintain purity standards for honey and honey products is critical to maintaining the consumer confidence, safety, and trust that are essential components of any undertaking to maintain and develop markets for honey and honey products. "(9) Research directed at improving the cost effectiveness and efficiency of beekeeping, as well as developing better means of dealing with pest and disease problems, is essential to keeping honey and honey product prices competitive and facilitating market growth as well as maintaining the financial well-being of the honey industry. "(10) Research involving the quality, safety, and image of honey and honey products and how that quality, safety, and image may be affected during the extraction, processing, packaging, marketing, and other stages of the honey and honey product production and distribution process, is highly important to building and maintaining markets for honey and honey products."; and (3) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following: "(b) PURPOSES.— The purposes of this Act are— "(1) to authorize the establishment of an orderly procedure for the development and financing, through an adequate assessment, of an effective, continuous, and nationally coordinated program of promotion, research, consumer education, and industry information designed to—

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