Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 1.djvu/1235

 PUBLIC LAW 96-358—SEPT. 25, 1980

94 STAT. 1185

unfinished cotton, wool, leather, or any other unfinished natural material; (3) "Secretary" means Secretary of Agriculture; (4) "subterminal facility" means any facility that is located in the area of production or consumption of agricultural commodities or any major storage or major export point for such commodities and is located at a place that conveniently serves the needs of producers, purchsisers, and consumers of bulk agricultural commodities, and is— (A) used for the transient storage of bulk agricultural commodities and may include equipment or structures necessary for the transportation, upgrading, receiving, drying, or loading out of such commodities; or (B) any rail siding, loading, or unloading facility that can accommodate unit railroad trains or multiple car trains and other appropriate transportation modes designed for the transport of bulk agricultural commodities and production materials; and (5) "region" means two or more States acting together to develop a coordinated regional subterminal facilities plan. STATE AND REGIONAL PLANS; PLANNING GRANTS

SEC. 4. (a)(1) The Secretary shall, beginning not more than one '^ ^^^ ^'^^^ hundred and eighty days after the effective date of this Act, make financial assistance available to any State that makes application therefor, and that otherwise meets the requirements of this section, for the purpose of assisting such State in the development of a subterminal facilities plan (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the "State plan") for such State. Assistance under this section shall be made available in the form of a grant. No grant may be made to any State unless the Governor of such State or the appropriate agency of such State makes an application therefor as provided in this section. To the maximum extent practicable, the personnel and resources of the colleges or universities in the State which are eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 (7 U.S.C. 301-305,307, and 308), or the Act of August 30, 1890 (7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328), including Tuskegee Institute, shall be utilized in developing the subtermin^ facilities plan for that State pursuant to this section. (2) The Secretary may also make grants under this section available to two or more States acting together to develop a coordinated regional subterminal facilities plan (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the "regional plan") for such region. (3) Grants made under this section to any State or region may not exceed 80 per centum of the cost of preparing the State or regional plan. (4) The State or regional plan shall prescribe in detail the actions such State or region proposes to take in order to (A) facilitate the efficient and competitive movement of bulk agricultural commodities from the points of production within such State or region to major market or export points, (B) provide adequate storage facilities for such commodities between points of production and market, (C) provide adequate receiving, storage, and loading facilities for any bulk agricultural commodity, and (D) assure that such facilities will be located at sites that will result in maximum benefits to local producers. (5) Each State or regional plan shall include the following:

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