[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: 7CFR3401.2]

[Page 310]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XXXIV--COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION 
                   SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3401_RANGELAND RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 3401.2  Definitions.

    As used in this part:
    (a) Administrator means the Administrator of CSREES and any other 
officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture to whom the 
authority involved may be delegated.
    (b) Department means the Department of Agriculture.
    (c) Principal investigator means a single individual designated by 
the grantee in the application for funding and approved by the 
Administrator who is responsible for the scientific and technical 
direction of the project.
    (d) Grantee means the entity designated in the grant award document 
as the responsible legal entity to whom a grant is awarded under this 
part.
    (e) Research project grant means the award by the Administrator of 
funds to a grantee to assist in meeting the costs of conducting, for the 
benefit of the public, an identified project which is intended and 
designed to establish, discover, elucidate, or confirm information or 
the underlying mechanisms relating to a research program area identified 
in the annual solicitation of applications.
    (f) Project means the particular activity within the scope of one or 
more of the research program areas identified in the annual solicitation 
of applications, which is supported by a grant award under this part.
    (g) Project period means the total length of time that is approved 
by the Administrator for conducting the research project as outlined in 
an approved application for funding.
    (h) Budget period means the interval of time (usually 12 months) 
into which the project period is divided for budgetary and reporting 
purposes.
    (i) Awarding official means the Administrator and any other officer 
or employee of the Department to whom the authority to issue or modify 
research project grant instruments has been delegated.
    (j) Peer review group means an assembled group of experts or 
consultants qualified by training or experience in particular scientific 
or technical fields to give expert advice, in accordance with the 
provisions of this part, on the scientific and technical merit of 
applications for funding in those fields.
    (k) Ad hoc reviewers means experts or consultants qualified by 
training or experience in particular scientific or technical fields to 
render special expert advice, whose written evaluations of applications 
for funding are designed to complement the expertise of the peer review 
group, in accordance with the provisions of this part, on the scientific 
or technical merit of applications for Funding in those fields.
    (l) Research means any systematic study directed toward new or 
fuller knowledge and understanding of the subject studied.
    (m) Methodology means the project approach to be followed and the 
resources needed to carry out the project.