[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: 7CFR3419.1]

[Page 429-430]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XXXIV--COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION 
                   SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
 PART 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--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 3419.1  Definitions.




Sec.
3419.1 Definitions.
3419.2 Matching funds.
3419.3 Determination of non-Federal sources of funds.
3419.4 Limited waiver authority.
3419.5 Certification of matching funds.
3419.6 Use of matching funds.
3419.7 Redistribution of funds.

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 7 U.S.C. 3222d; Sec. 753, Pub. L. No. 105-
277, 112 Stat. 2681-33.

    Source: 65 FR 21631, Apr. 21, 2000, unless otherwise noted.


    As used in this part:
    Eligible institution means a college or university eligible to 
receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890 (7 U.S.C. 321 et seq.) 
(commonly known as the Second Morrill Act), including Tuskegee 
University, or a college or university designated under the Act of July 
2, 1862 (7 U.S.C. 301, et seq.) (commonly known as the First Morrill 
Act) and located in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the insular 
areas of American Samoa, Guam, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, and the 
Virgin Islands.

[[Page 430]]

    Formula funds means agricultural research funds provided to the 
eligible institutions under section 1445 of the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (NARETPA), as 
amended, or under section 3 of the Hatch Act of 1887, 7 U.S.C. 361c, and 
agricultural extension funds provided to the eligible institutions under 
section 1444 of NARETPA or under sections 3(b) and (c) of the Smith-
Lever Act, 7 U.S.C. 343(b) and (c).
    Matching funds means funds from non-Federal sources made available 
by the State to the eligible institutions:
    (a) For programs or activities that fall within the purposes of 
agricultural research and cooperative extension under sections 1444 and 
1445 of NARETPA, the Hatch Act of 1887, and the Smith-Lever Act; or
    (b) For qualifying educational activities. Matching funds means cash 
contributions and excludes in-kind matching contributions.
    Non-Federal sources means funds made available by the State to the 
eligible institution either through direct appropriation or under any 
authority (other than authority to charge tuition and fees paid by 
students) provided by a State to an eligible institution to raise 
revenue, such as gift acceptance authority or user fees.
    Qualifying educational activities means programs that address food 
and agricultural sciences components of an eligible institution.
    Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture and any other officer 
or employee of the Department of Agriculture to whom the authority 
involved may be delegated.
    State means the government of any one of the fifty States, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of 
Northern Marianas, the Virgin Islands of the United States, the Republic 
of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States 
of Micronesia.