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 118 STAT. 43 PUBLIC LAW 108–199—JAN. 23, 2004 agricultural experiment station, cooperative extension services, and relevant educational programs of the university. ‘‘(2) GRANTS TO LAND GRANT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The sun grant center established for a region shall use the funds that remain available for a fiscal year after expenditures made under paragraph (1) to provide competitive grants to land grant colleges and universities in the region of the sun grant center to conduct, consistent with the purposes described in sub section (a), multiinstitutional and multistate— ‘‘(i) research, extension, and educational programs on technology development; and ‘‘(ii) integrated research, extension, and edu cational programs on technology implementation. ‘‘(B) PROGRAMS.—Of the amount of funds that are used to provide grants for a fiscal year under subparagraph (A), the center shall use— ‘‘(i) not less than 30 percent of the funds to carry out programs described in subparagraph (A)(i); and ‘‘(ii) not less than 30 percent of the funds to carry out programs described in subparagraph (A)(ii). ‘‘(3) INDIRECT COSTS.—A sun grant center may not recover the indirect costs of making grants under paragraph (2) to other land grant colleges and universities. ‘‘(f) PLAN.— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of funds under subsection (j), in cooperation with other land grant colleges and universities and private industry in accordance with para graph (2), the sun grant centers shall jointly develop and submit to the Secretary, for approval, a plan for addressing at the State and regional levels the bioenergy, biomass, and gasifi cation research priorities of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy for the making of grants under paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (e). ‘‘(2) GASIFICATION COORDINATION.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In developing the plan under para graph (1) with respect to gasification research, the sun grant centers identified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of sub section (d) shall coordinate with land grant colleges and universities in their respective regions that have ongoing research activities with respect to the research. ‘‘(B) FUNDING.—Funds made available under sub section (d) to the sun grant center identified in subsection (e)(2) shall be available to carry out planning coordination under paragraph (1) of this subsection. ‘‘(g) GRANTS TO OTHER LAND GRANT COLLEGES AND UNIVER SITIES.— ‘‘(1) PRIORITY FOR GRANTS.—In making grants under sub section (e)(2), a sun grant center shall give a higher priority to programs that are consistent with the plan approved by the Secretary under subsection (f). ‘‘(2) TERM OF GRANTS.—The term of a grant provided by a sun grant center under subsection (e)(2) shall not exceed 5 years. ‘‘(h) GRANT INFORMATION ANALYSIS CENTER.—The sun grant centers shall maintain a Sun Grant Information Analysis Center

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