Sec. 7. DUTIES OF SECRETARY; ASCERTAINMENT OF ENTITLEMENT OF STATE TO FUNDS; PLANS OF WORK
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## SEC. 7 DUTIES OF SECRETARY; ASCERTAINMENT OF ENTITLEMENT OF STATE TO FUNDS; PLANS OF WORK **[**[7 U.S.C. 361g](/us/usc/t7/s361g)**]** ###
(a)Duties of Secretary The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby charged with the responsibility for the proper administration of this Act, and is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provisions. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this Act, including participation in coordination of research initiated under this Act by the State agricultural experiment stations, from time to time to indicate such lines of inquiry as to him seem most important, and to encourage and assist in the establishment and maintenance of cooperation by and between the several State agricultural experiment stations, and between the stations and the United States Department of Agriculture. ###
(b)Ascertainment of Entitlement On or before the first day of October in each year after the passage of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall ascertain as to each State whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriations for agricultural experiment stations under this Act and the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive. ###
(c)Carryover ####
(1)In general The balance of any annual funds provided under this Act to a State agricultural experiment station for a fiscal year that remains unexpended at the end of the fiscal year may be carried over for use during the following fiscal year. ####
(2)Failure to expend full allotment #####
(A)In general If any unexpended balance carried over by a State is not expended by the end of the second fiscal year, an amount equal to the unexpended balance shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual allotment to the State. #####
(B)Redistribution Federal funds that are deducted under subparagraph
(A)for a fiscal year shall be redistributed by the Secretary in accordance with the formula set forth in section 3(c) to those States for which no deduction under subparagraph
(A)has been taken for that fiscal year. ###
(d)Plan of Work Required Before funds may be provided to a State under this Act for any fiscal year, a plan of work to be carried out under this Act shall be submitted by the proper officials of the State and shall be approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. ###
(e)Requirements Related to Plan of Work Each plan of work for a State required under subsection
(d)shall contain descriptions of the following: ####
(1)A summary of planned projects or programs in the State using formula funds. ####
(2)A description of the manner in which the State will meet the requirements of subsections (c)(3) and (i)(2) of section 3. ####
(3)A description of matching funds provided by the State with respect to the previous fiscal year. ###
(f)Research Protocols ####
(1)Development The Secretary of Agriculture shall develop protocols to be used to evaluate the success of multistate, multi-institutional, and multidisciplinary research activities and joint research and extension activities in addressing critical agricultural issues identified in the plans of work submitted under subsection (d). ####
(2)Consultation The Secretary of Agriculture shall develop the protocols in consultation with the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board established under section 1408 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3123) and land-grant colleges and universities. ###
(g)Treatment of Plans of Work for Other Purposes To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall consider a plan of work submitted under subsection
(d)to satisfy other appropriate Federal reporting requirements.
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