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 124 STAT. 3950 PUBLIC LAW 111–353—JAN. 4, 2011 ‘‘(e) DURATION OF AWARDS.—The Secretary may award grants to an individual grant recipient under this section for periods of not more than 3 years. In the event the Secretary conducts a program evaluation, funding in the second year or third year of the grant, where applicable, shall be contingent on a successful program evaluation by the Secretary after the first year. ‘‘(f) PROGRESS AND EVALUATION.— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall measure the status and success of each grant program authorized under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (and any amendment made by such Act), including the grant program under this section. A recipient of a grant described in the preceding sentence shall, at the end of each grant year, provide the Secretary with information on how grant funds were spent and the status of the efforts by such recipient to enhance food safety. To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall take the performance of such a grant recipient into account when determining whether to continue funding for such recipient. ‘‘(2) NO DUPLICATION.—In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary shall not duplicate the efforts of the Secretary under other provisions of this Act or the FDA Food Safety Moderniza- tion Act that require measurement and review of the activities of grant recipients under either such Act. ‘‘(g) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Grant funds received under this section shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, non- Federal funds and any other Federal funds available to carry out the activities described in this section. ‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the purpose of making grants under this section, there are authorized to be appro- priated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2011 through 2015.’’. (b) CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.—Part P of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280g et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘SEC. 399V–5. FOOD SAFETY INTEGRATED CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE. ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, the Sec- retary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention and in consultation with the working group described in subsection (b)(2), shall designate 5 Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (referred to in this section as the ‘Centers of Excellence’) to serve as resources for Federal, State, and local public health professionals to respond to foodborne illness outbreaks. The Centers of Excellence shall be headquartered at selected State health departments. ‘‘(b) SELECTION OF CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.— ‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to be designated as a Center of Excellence under subsection (a), an entity shall— ‘‘(A) be a State health department; ‘‘(B) partner with 1 or more institutions of higher edu- cation that have demonstrated knowledge, expertise, and meaningful experience with regional or national food production, processing, and distribution, as well as leader- ship in the laboratory, epidemiological, and environmental detection and investigation of foodborne illness; and Deadline. Designation. 42 USC 280g–16.