[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 15]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR3400.1]

[Page 297-299]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XXXIV--COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION 
                   SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3400_SPECIAL RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 3400.1  Applicability of regulations.




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Part                                                                Page
3400            Special Research Grants Program.............         299
3401            Rangeland Research Grants Program...........         309
3402            Food and Agricultural Sciences National 
                    Needs Graduate and Postgraduate 
                    Fellowship Grants Program...............         319
3403            Small Business Innovation Research Grants 
                    Program.................................         328
3404            Public information..........................         338
3405            Higher Education Challenge Grants Program...         339
3406            1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants 
                    Program.................................         356
3407            Implementation of National Environmental 
                    Policy Act..............................         386
3411            National Research Initiative Competitive 
                    Grants Program..........................         391
3415            Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research 
                    Grants Program..........................         403
3418            Stakeholder input requirements for 
                    recipients of agricultural research, 
                    education, and extension formula funds..         414
3419            Matching funds requirement for agricultural 
                    research and extension formula funds at 
                    1890 land-grant institutions, including 
                    Tuskegee University, and at 1862 land-
                    grant institutions in insular areas.....         416

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                            Subpart A_General

Sec.
3400.1 Applicability of regulations.
3400.2 Definitions.
3400.3 Eligibility requirements.
3400.4 How to apply for a grant.
3400.5 Evaluation and disposition of applications.
3400.6 Grant awards.
3400.7 Use of funds; changes.
3400.8 Other Federal statutes and regulations that apply.
3400.9 Other conditions.

     Subpart B_Scientific Peer Review of Research Grant Applications

3400.10 Establishment and operation of peer review groups.
3400.11 Composition of peer review groups.
3400.12 Conflicts of interest.
3400.13 Availability of information.
3400.14 Proposal review.
3400.15 Review criteria.

          Subpart C_Peer and Merit Review Arranged by Grantees

3400.20 Grantee review prior to award.
3400.21 Scientific peer review for research activities.
3400.22 Merit review for education and extension activities.

                        Subpart D_Annual Reports

3400.23 Annual reports.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450i(c).

    Source: 56 FR 58147, Nov 15, 1991, unless otherwise noted.



    (a) The regulations of this part apply to special research grants 
awarded under the authority of subsection (c) of the Competitive, 
Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 450i 
(c)), to facilitate or expand promising breakthroughs in areas of the 
food and agricultural sciences of importance to the United States. 
Subparts A and B, excepting this section, apply only to special research 
grants awarded under subsection (c)(1)(A). Subpart C, Peer and Merit 
Review Arranged by Grantees, and Subpart D, Annual Reports, apply to all 
grants awarded under subsection (c).
    (b) Each year the Administrator of CSREES shall determine and 
announce through publication of a Notice in such publications as the 
Federal Register, professional trade journals, agency or program 
handbooks, the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, or any other 
appropriate means, research program areas for which proposals will be 
solicited competitively, to the extent that funds are available.
    (c) The regulations of this part do not apply to research, extension 
or education grants awarded by the Department of Agriculture under any 
other authority.

[64 FR 34103, June 24, 1999]