Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/1341

 PUBLIC LAW 97-98—DEC. 22, 1981

95 STAT. 1315

"PROGRAM EVALUATION STUDIES

"SEC. 1471. (a) The Secretary shall regularly conduct program '^ use 3317. evaluations to meet the purposes of this title and the responsibilities assigned to the Secretary and the Department of Agriculture in this title. Such evaluations snail be designed to provide information that may be used to improve the administration and effectiveness of agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs in achieving their stated objectives. "(b) The Secretary is authorized to encourage and foster the regular evaluation of agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs within the State agricultural experiment stations, cooperative extension services, and colleges and universities, through the development and support of cooperative evaluation programs and program evaluation centers and institutes. "GENERAL AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS

"SEC. 1472. (a) The purpose of this section is to confer upon the ^ use 3318. Secretary general authority to enter into contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements to further the research, extension, or teaching programs m the food and agricultural sciences of the Department of Agriculture. This authority supplements all other laws relating to the Department of Agriculture and is not to be construed as limiting or repealing any existing authorities. "(b) The Secretary may enter into contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for periods not to exceed five years, with State agricultursil experiment stations. State cooperative extension services, all colleges and universities, other research or education institutions and organizations. Federal and private agencies and organizations, individuals, and any other contractor or recipient, either foreign or domestic, to further research, extension, or teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences of the Department of Agriculture. "(c) The Secretary may vest title to expendable and nonexpendable equipment and supplies and other tangible personal property in the contractor or recipient when the contractor or recipient purchases such equipment, supplies, and property with contract, grant, or cooperative agreement funds and the Secretary deems such vesting of title a furtherance of the agricultural research, extension, or teaching objectives of the Department of Agriculture. "(d) Unless otherwise provided in this title, the Secretary may enter into contracts, grante, or cooperative agreements, as authorized by this section, without regard to any requirements for competition, the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5), and the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529). "RESTRICTION ON TREATMENT OF INDIRECT COSTS AND TUITION

REMISSION

"SEC. 1473. Funds made available by the Secretary under estab- 7 USC 3319. lished Federal-State partnership arrangements to State cooperative institutions under the Acts referred to in section 1404(16) of this title ^"-te, p. 1297. and funds made available under subsection (c)(2) and subsection (d) of section 2 of the Act of August 4, 1965 (7 U.S.C. 450i) shall not be Ante, p. 1304. sub^'ect to reduction for indirect costs or for tuition remission. No indirect costs or tuition remission shall be charged against funds in

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