Sec. 7505. Extension design and demonstration initiative

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The Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act ( 7 U.S.C. 3157 ) is amended by inserting after subsection

(c)the following: The purpose of this subsection is to encourage the design of adaptive prototype systems for improving extension and education that seek to advance the application, translation, and demonstration of scientific discoveries and other agricultural research for the adoption and understanding of food, agricultural, and natural resources practices, techniques, methods, and technologies using digital or other novel platforms. The Secretary shall award grants each fiscal year on a competitive basis— for the design of 1 or more extension and education prototype systems— that leverage digital platforms or other novel means of translating, delivering, or demonstrating agricultural research; and to adapt, apply, translate, or demonstrate scientific findings, data, technology, and other research outcomes to producers, the agricultural industry, and other interested persons or organizations; and to demonstrate, by incorporating analytics and specific metrics, the value, impact, and return on the Federal investment of a prototype system designed under subparagraph

(A)as a model for use by other eligible entities described in paragraph

(3)for improving, modernizing, and adapting applied research, demonstration, and extension services. An entity that is eligible to receive a grant under paragraph

(2)is— a State agricultural experiment station (as defined in section 1404 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 ( 7 U.S.C. 3103 )); a cooperative extension service (as defined in such section); and a land-grant college or university (as defined in such section) . The Secretary shall award grants under paragraph

(2)to not fewer than 2 and not more than 5 eligible entities described in paragraph

(3)that represent a diversity of regions, commodities, and agricultural or food production issues. The term of a grant awarded under paragraph

(2)shall be not longer than 5 years. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023, to remain available until expended. . The Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act ( 7 U.S.C. 3157 ) is amended— in subsection (c)(2), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking subsection— and all that follows through for the planning in subparagraph

(B)and inserting subsection for the planning ; and in subsection (h), by inserting , (d), after subsections

(b).

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