Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 91.djvu/1019

 PUBLIC LAW 95-113—SEPT. 29, 1977

91 STAT. 985

(14) the term "teaching" means the formal classroom and laboratory instruction and training in the food and agricultural sciences conducted at colleges and universities and leading to baccalaureate and other recognized degrees. 8ubtitle B—Coordination and Planning of Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SECRETARY AND DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

SEC. 1405. The Department of Agriculture is designated as the lead 7 USC 3121. agency of the Federal Government for agricultural research (except with respect to the biomedical aspects of human nutrition concerned with diagnosis or treatment of disease), extension, and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences, and the Secretary, in carrying out the Secretary's responsibilities, shall— (1) establish jointly with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare procedures for coordination with respect to nutrition research in areas of mutual interest; (2) keep informed of developments in, and the Nation's need for, research, extension, teaching, and manpower development in the food and agricultural sciences and represent such need in deliberations within the Department of Agriculture, elsewhere within the executive branch of the United States Government, and with the several States and their desi^ated land-grant colleges and universities, other colleges and universities, agricultural and related industries, and other interested institutions and groups; (3) coordinate all agricultural research, extension, and teaching activity conducted or financed by the Department of Agriculture and, to the maximum extent practicable, by other agencies of the executive branch of the United States Government; (4) take the initiative in establishing coordination of State- State-Federal Federal cooperative agricultural research, extension, and teach- agricultural ing programs, funded in whole or in part by the Department of programs, Agriculture in each State, through the administrative heads of coordination. land-grant colleges and universities and the State directors of agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension services, and other appropriate program administrators; (5) consult the Joint Council, Advisory Board, and other appropriate advisory committees of the Department of Agriculture in the formulation of basic policies, goals, strategies, and priorities for programs of agricultural research, extension, and teaching; (6) report (as a part of the Department of Agriculture's Report to annual budget submissions) to the House Committee on Agricul- congressional ture, the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Com- committees. mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the Senate Committee on Appropriations actions taken to support the recommendations of the Advisory Board; (7) establish appropriate review procedures to assure that agri- Research projects cultural research projects are timely and properly reported and review published and that there is no unnecessary duplication of effort procedures. or overlapping between agricultural research units; (8) establish Federal or cooperative multidisciplinary research Multidisciplinary t^ams on major agricultural research problems with clearly research teams, defined leadership, budget responsibility, and research programs; establishment. and

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