[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: 7CFR3411.1]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XXXIV--COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION 
                   SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3411_NATIONAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE COMPETITIVE GRANTS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 3411.1  Applicability of regulations.


    (a) The regulations of this part apply to competitive research 
grants awarded under the authority of section 2(b) of the Act of August 
4, 1965, as amended by section 1615 of the Food, Agriculture, 
Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (FACT Act), (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), for 
the support of research to further the programs of the Department of 
Agriculture and to improve research capabilities in the agricultural, 
food, and environmental sciences in the following categories: Single 
investigators or coinvestigators in the same disciplines; teams of 
researchers from different disciplines; multidisciplinary teams for 
long-term applied research problems; multidisciplinary teams whose 
research has the eventual goal of technology transfer and education 
capacity through the acquisition of special research equipment and 
improvement of teaching and education, including fellowships; single 
investigators or coinvestigators who are beginning their research 
careers; and, faculty of small and mid-sized institutions not previously 
successful in obtaining competitive grants under this subsection. In 
accordance with Public Law 104-127, within the Department of 
Agriculture, the Secretary established the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board (NAREEEAB) 
to provide overall guidance to the Research, Education and Economics 
mission area on policies and priorities related to programs, including 
NRICGP. In addition to the stakeholder listening sessions NAREEEAB 
sponsors, CSREES receives stakeholder input on policies and priorities 
related to NRICGP from multiple sources including scientific societies; 
the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences; 
producers, processors, industry; the land-grant university system; non-
governmental organizations; and other federal agencies; and through 
international coordination. The Administrator of CSREES shall determine 
and announce, through publication of a notice on the CSREES Web site 
(http://www.csrees.usda.gov), the government-wide funding opportunities 
Web site (http://www.grants.gov), or 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, 
high-priority research areas and categories for which proposals will be 
solicited and the extent that funds are made available therefore.
    (b) The regulations of this part do not apply to grants awarded by 
the Department of Agriculture under any other authority.

[56 FR 57952, Nov. 14, 1991. Redesignated and amended at 60 FR 63368, 
63369, Dec. 8, 1995; 71 FR 54896, Sept. 20, 2006]

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