Sec. 3. Authorization of United States-Israel Expanded-Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund
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The Secretary of Agriculture, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, is authorized to establish a program for cooperative research and development in agriculture with the Government of Israel. The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish and carry out the program authorized under subsection
(a)in a manner consistent with the Secretary’s authority under section 1458 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 ( 7 U.S.C. 3291 ). The purpose of the program authorized under subsection
(a)shall be to establish a framework to enhance the collaboration between the United States and Israel in research and development activities relating to agriculture, including between public and private entities. Activities that may be supported under the program authorized under subsection
(a)include— activities authorized under the Agreement to establish the United States-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development
(BARD)Fund; and activities authorized under section 1458 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. Projects and activities under the program authorized under subsection
(a)may be carried out by nongovernmental and private entities, including through collaboration with private universities, research institutions, and corporations if such projects and activities support the objectives of the Agreement to establish the United States-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development
(BARD)Fund. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section. Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under paragraph (1)— shall be known as the United States-Israel Expanded-Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund or E–BARD Fund ; and are authorized to remain available until expended. The Secretary of Agriculture may transfer amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under paragraph
(1)to the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, including the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development, for purposes of carrying out the program authorized under subsection (a). The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture, is authorized to seek to establish a binational task force to provide guidance and oversight with respect to the program authorized under subsection (a), including to address matters described in paragraph (2). The matters described in this paragraph are the following: Identifying funding priorities and innovative developments in agriculture in evaluating projects under the program. Proposing research competitions among universities and private entities in selecting projects under the program. It is the sense of Congress that the task force established under paragraph
(1)should be comprised of the following: The Secretary of Agriculture. The Israeli Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development. Members of the board of directors of the BARD Fund. The administrators of the Agriculture Research Service, Economic Research Service, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The chief scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and the director of the Agricultural Research Organization—Volcani Center.
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