Sec. 7602. Agricultural and food law research, legal tools, and information
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Congress finds that— the farms, ranches, and forests of the United States are impacted by a complex and rapidly evolving web of competition and international, Federal, State, and local laws (including regulations); objective, scholarly, and authoritative agricultural and food law research, legal tools, and information helps the farm, ranch, and forestry community contribute to the strength of the United States through improved conservation, environmental protection, job creation, economic development, renewable energy production, outdoor recreational opportunities, and increased and diversified local and regional supplies of food, fiber, and fuel; and the vast agricultural community of the United States, including farmers, ranchers, foresters, attorneys, policymakers, and extension personnel, need access to agricultural and food law research and information provided by an objective, scholarly, and neutral source.
The Secretary, acting through the National Agricultural Library, shall support the dissemination of objective, scholarly, and authoritative agricultural and food law research, legal tools, and information by entering into cooperative agreements with institutions of higher education that on the date of enactment of this Act are carrying out objective programs for research, legal tools, and information in agricultural and food law. For each fiscal year, the Secretary may use not more than $5,000,000 of the amounts made available to the National Agricultural Library to carry out this section.