Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 14 — Agricultural Experiment Stations
§ 390b. Competitive grant program
Statutory text
The Secretary shall establish a program to make competitive grants to assist in the construction, alteration, acquisition, modernization, renovation, or remodeling of agricultural research facilities.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 88–74 § 4 · 77 Stat. 90
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 390b
(Pub. L. 88–74, § 4, as added Pub. L. 115–334, title VII, § 7503(c), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4821.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 88–74, § 4, as added Pub. L. 115–334, title VII, § 7503(c), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4821.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for allocation Allocation of funds. to the States for the purposes of section 2 such sums as the Congress deems advisable. (b) (1) One-third of the funds appropriated pursuant to this section for any fiscal year shall be allotted equally among the States. (2) Two-thirds of the funds appropriated pursuant to this section for any fiscal year shall be allocated among the States as follows: One-half in an amount which bears the same ratio to the total amount to be allotted as the rural population of the State bears to the total rural population of all the States as determined by the last preceding decennial census current at the time each such sum is first appropriated; and one-half in an amount which bears the same ratio to the total amount to be allotted as the farm population of the State bears to the total farm population of all the States as determined by the last preceding decennial census current at the time such sum is first appropriated. (c) It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Secretary to administer the provisions of section 4 of this Act under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe as necessary therefor.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 390b, Pub. L. 88–74, § 4, as added Pub. L. 104–127, title VIII, § 884(a), , 110 Stat. 1178; amended Pub. L. 105–185, title I, § 106(c), (d), , 112 Stat. 530, related to task force on 10–year strategic plan for agricultural research facilities, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 107–171, title VII, § 7308(a), , 116 Stat. 455.
Another prior section 390b, Pub. L. 88–74, § 3, , 77 Stat. 90; Pub. L. 95–113, title XIV, § 1416(1), , 91 Stat. 994; Pub. L. 99–198, title XIV, § 1411(c), , 99 Stat. 1547, related to definitions, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 104–127.
A prior section 4 of Pub. L. 88–74 was classified to section 390c of this title prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 104–127.
Credits
(Pub. L. 88–74, § 4, as added Pub. L. 115–334, title VII, § 7503(c), , 132 Stat. 4821.)