Sec. 401. Agriculture and food research initiative
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(b)of the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act ( 7 U.S.C. 450i(b) ) is amended— in paragraph (1), by striking food and agricultural sciences and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting the following: food and agricultural sciences (as defined under section 1404 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103))— in the case of a grant made under paragraph (6), to an entity described in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), or
(D)of such paragraph; and in the case of any other grant made under this subsection, to any eligible entity described in paragraph (7), including a grant made for— fundamental research (as defined in section 251(f)(1) of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 ( 7 U.S.C. 6971(f)(1) )); applied research (as defined in such section 251(f)(1)); integrated research conducted pursuant to section 406 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 ( 7 U.S.C. 7626 ); or integrated research so conducted that is applied or fundamental research. ; in paragraph (2)— in subparagraph (A)(iii), by striking conventional breeding, including cultivar and breed development, and inserting public cultivar development through conventional breeding with no requirement or preference for the use of marker-assisted or genomic selection methods, including ; in subparagraph (B)(iv), by striking conventional breeding, including breed development, and inserting public breed development through conventional breeding with no requirement or preference for the use of marker-assisted or genomic selection methods, including ; and in subparagraph (F)— in clause (v), by striking and at the end; in clause (vi), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new clause: new approaches to advance systems that enhance the markets for, and policy related to, locally or regionally produced agricultural food products, as defined in section 310B(g)(9)(A) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932(g)(9)(A)). ; in paragraph (4)(A), by inserting , including by conducting each fiscal year at least 1 separate request for applications for grants for research on public cultivar development through conventional breeding as described in paragraph
(2)before the semicolon at the end; by redesignating paragraph
(11)as paragraph (12); by inserting after paragraph
(10)the following new paragraph: In this subsection: The term conventional breeding means the development of new varieties of an organism through controlled mating and selection without the use of transgenic methods. The term public breed means a breed that is the commercially available uniform end product of a publicly funded breeding program that— has been sufficiently tested to demonstrate improved characteristics and stable performance; and remains in the public domain for research purposes. The term public cultivar means a cultivar that is the commercially available uniform end product of a publicly funded breeding program that— has been sufficiently tested to demonstrate improved characteristics and stable performance; and remains in the public domain for research purposes. ; and in paragraph (12)(A) (as redesignated by paragraph (4)), in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking 2012 and inserting 2018 .
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