[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: 7CFR3403.1]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XXXIV--COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION 
                   SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3403_SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Information
 
Sec. 3403.1  Applicability of regulations.


    (a) The regulations of this part apply to small business innovation 
research grants awarded under the general authority of section 630 of 
the Act making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and 
Related Agencies' programs for fiscal year ending 1987, and for other 
purposes as made applicable by section 101(a) of Pub. L. 99-591, 100 
Stat. 3341, and the provisions of the Small Business Innovation 
Development Act of 1982, as amended (15 U.S.C. 638), and the Small 
Business Innovation Research Program Reauthorization Act of 2000, Pub. 
L. 106-554, which extends the SBIR Program

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through September 30, 2008. The Small Business Innovation Development 
Act of 1982, as amended, mandates that each Federal agency with an 
annual extramural budget for research or research and development in 
excess of $100 million participate in a Small Business Innovation 
Research (SBIR) program by reserving a statutory percentage of its 
annual extramural budget for award to small business concerns for 
research or research and development in order to stimulate technological 
innovation, use small business to meet Federal research and development 
needs, increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived 
from Federal research and development, and foster and encourage the 
participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business 
concerns and women-owned small business concerns in technological 
innovation. The Department will participate in this program through the 
issuance of competitive research grants which will be administered by 
the Office of Extramural Programs, CSREES.
    (b) The regulations of this part do not apply to research grants 
awarded by the Department under any other authority.