The Secretary shall establish procedures that provide for scientific peer review of each agricultural research grant administered, on a competitive basis, by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the Department.
The Secretary shall establish procedures that provide for relevance and merit review of each agricultural research, extension, or education grant administered, on a competitive basis, by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
The Secretary shall consult with the Advisory Board in establishing the merit review procedures on a continuous basis.
Peer and merit review procedures established under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not take the offer or availability of matching funds into consideration.
On an annual basis, the Advisory Board shall review-
As soon as practicable after the review is conducted under subsection (b) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall consider the results of the review when formulating each request for proposals, and evaluating proposals, involving an agricultural research, extension, or education activity funded, on a competitive basis, by the Department.
In formulating a request for proposals described in paragraph (1) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall solicit and consider input from persons who conduct or use agricultural research, extension, or education regarding the prior year's request for proposals.
The Secretary shall establish procedures that ensure scientific peer review of all research activities conducted by the Department.
As part of the procedures established under paragraph (1), a review panel shall verify, at least once every 5 years, that each research activity of the Department and research conducted under each research program of the Department has scientific merit and relevance.
If the research activity or program to be reviewed is included in the research, educational, and economics mission area of the Department, the review panel shall consider-
A review panel shall be composed of individuals with scientific expertise, a majority of whom are not employees of the agency whose research is being reviewed.
To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall use scientists from colleges and universities to serve on the review panels.
The results of the panel reviews shall be submitted to the Advisory Board.
Effective October 1, 1999, to be eligible to obtain agricultural research or extension funds from the Secretary for an activity, each 1862 Institution and 1890 Institution shall-
Effective October 1, 1999, to be eligible to obtain agricultural extension funds from the Secretary for an activity, each 1994 Institution shall-
To be eligible to obtain agricultural extension funds from the Secretary for an activity, each Hispanic-serving agricultural college and university shall-
7 U.S.C. § 7613
EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATION Pub. L. 110-234 and Pub. L. 110-246 made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by Pub. L. 110-234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110-246. Section is comprised of section 103 of Pub. L. 105-185. Subsec. (f) of section 103 of Pub. L. 105-185 amended sections 361g, 3221, and 3222 of this title and repealed sections 346 and 3314 of this title.
AMENDMENTS2014-Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 113-79, §7301(1), substituted "Relevance and merit review of research, extension," for "Merit review of extension" in heading. Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 113-79, §7301(2), inserted "relevance and" before "merit" and substituted "research, extension, or education" for "extension or education".Subsec. (a)(2)(B). Pub. L. 113-79, §7301(3), inserted "on a continuous basis" after "procedures". 2008-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110-246, §7511(c)(30), substituted "National Institute of Food and Agriculture" for "Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service" in heading and "the National Institute of Food and Agriculture" for "the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service" in text of pars. (1) and (2)(A). Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 110-246, §7301, added par. (3). Subsec. (e)(3). Pub. L. 110-246, §7129(c)(3), added par. (3).
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2008 AMENDMENT Amendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110-234 by Pub. L. 110-246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110-234 except as otherwise provided, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110-246 set out as an Effective Date note under section 8701 of this title. Amendment by section 7511(c)(30) of Pub. L. 110-246 effective Oct. 1, 2009, see section 7511(c) of Pub. L. 110-246 set out as a note under section 1522 of this title.