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PUBLIC LAW 91-127-NOV. 26, 1969 CooPKKATivE

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STATE RESEARCH SERVICE

PAYMENTS AND

EXPENSES

For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for grants for cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and for other expenses, including $55,189,000 to carry into eirect the provisions of the Hatch Act, approved March 2, 1887, as amended by the Act approved August 11, 1955 (7 U.S.G. 361a-861i), including administra- ^^ ^'^*- ^^^• tion by the United States Department of Agriculture; $3,785,000 for grants for cooperative forestry research under the Act approved October 10, 19B2 (16 TT.S.(\ 582a-582a-7), $2,000,000 in addition to ^^ ^'^'- ^°^funds otherwise available for contracts and grants for scientific research under the Act of August 4, 1965 (7 II.S.C. 450i) of which 79 Stat. 43i. $1,000,000 shall be for the special cotton research program and $400,000 for soybean research; $1,000,000 for grants for facilities under the Act approved July 22, 1963 (7 l '. S. ( \ 390-390k); $160,000 ^7 Stat. 90. for penalty mail costs of agricultural experiment stations under section 6 of the Hatch Act of 1887, as amended; and $376,000 for ^^^^^03!^' necessary expenses of the Cooperative State Research Service, including administration of payments to State agricultural experiment stations, funds for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to ^s Stat. 742. exceed $50,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; in all, $62,510,000. 80 Stat. 416. EXTENSION SERVICE COOPERATIVE EXTENSION W ORK, PAYMENTS AND EXPENSES

Payments to States and Puerto Rico: For payments for cooperative agricultural extension work under the Smith-I^ever Act, as amended by the Act of June 26, 1953, the Act of August 11, 1955, and the Act of October 5, 1962 (7 U.S.C. 341-349), to be distributed under sections H s;«t; 83^ 3(b) and 3(c) of the Act, $83,621,000; payments for the nutrition 76 Stat. 745! education program for low-income areas under section 3(d) of the Act, $28,560,000; payments and contracts for such work under section 204(b)-205 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623-1624), $1,450,000; and payments for extension work under sec- ^^ Stat. io89. tion 109 of the District of Columbia Public Education Act, as amended by the Act of June 20, 1968 (7 U.S.C. 329), $375,000; in all, ^^c^'code Vi$114,006,000: Provided, That funds hereby appropriated pursuant to 1609. section 3(c) of the Act of June 26, 1953, shall not be paid to any State or Puerto Rico prior to availability of an equal sum from nonFederal sources for expenditure during the current fiscal year. Retirement and employees' compensation costs for extension agents: For cost of employer's share of Federal retirement and for reimbursement for benefits paid from the P^mployees' Compensation Fund for cooperative extension employees, $10,240,000. Penalty mail: For costs of penalty mail for cooperative extension agents and State extension directors, $3,400,000. Federal Extension Service: For administration of the Smith-Lever Act, as amended by the Act of June 26, 1953, the Act of August 11, 1955, and the Act of October 5, 1962 (7 U.S.C. 341-349), and extension aspects of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 ILS.C. 16211627), and of the District of Columbia Public Education Act, as amended by the Act of June 20, 1968 (7 U.S.C. 329), and to coordinate and provide program leadership for the extension work of the Department and the several States and insular possessions, $3,838,000.

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