[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 15]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR3401.1]

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                          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. 3401.1  Applicability of regulations of this part.




                            Subpart A_General

Sec.
3401.1 Applicability of regulations of this part.
3401.2 Definitions.
3401.3 Eligibility requirements.
3401.4 Matching funds requirement.
3401.5 Indirect costs and tuition remission costs.
3401.6 How to apply for a grant.
3401.7 Evaluation and disposition of applications.
3401.8 Grant awards.
3401.9 Use of funds; changes.
3401.10 Other Federal statutes and regulations that apply.
3401.11 Other conditions.

  Subpart B_Scientific Peer Review of Research Applications for Funding

3401.12 Establishment and operation of peer review groups.
3401.13 Composition of peer review groups.
3401.14 Conflicts of interest.
3401.15 Availability of information.
3401.16 Proposal review.
3401.17 Review criteria.

    Authority: Section 1470 of the National Agricultural Research, 
Extension and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3316).

    Source: 61 FR 27753, May 31, 1996, unless otherwise noted.



    (a) The regulations of this part apply to rangeland research grants 
awarded

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under the authority of section 1480 of the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended (7 
U.S.C. 3333) to land-grant colleges and universities, State agricultural 
experiment stations, and colleges, universities, and Federal 
laboratories having a demonstrable capacity in rangeland research, as 
determined by the Secretary, to carry out rangeland research. The 
Administrator of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
Extension Service (CSREES) shall determine and announce, through 
publication each year of a Notice in 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, to the extent that funds 
are available.
    (b) The regulations of this part do not apply to research grants 
awarded by the Department of Agriculture under any other authority.