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[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 7USC3333]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
                   SUBCHAPTER XII--RANGELAND RESEARCH
 
Sec. 3333. Rangeland research grants


(a) In general

    The Secretary may make grants to--
        (1) 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; and
        (2) the Joe Skeen Institute for Rangeland Restoration for the 
    purposes of facilitating and expanding ongoing State-Federal range 
    management, animal husbandry, and agricultural research, education, 
    and extension programs to meet the targeted, emerging, and future 
    needs of western United States rangelands and associated natural 
    resources.

(b) Matching requirements

                           (1) In general

        Except as provided in paragraph (2), this grant program shall be 
    based on a matching formula of 50 percent Federal and 50 percent 
    non-Federal funding.

                            (2) Exception

        Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a grant to a Federal laboratory 
    or a grant under subsection (a)(2) of this section.

(Pub. L. 95-113, title XIV, Sec. 1480, as added Pub. L. 97-98, title 
XIV, Sec. 1440(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1319; amended Pub. L. 107-
171, title VII, Sec. 7209(d), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 445.)


                               Amendments

    2002--Pub. L. 107-171 inserted section catchline and amended text 
generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: ``The Secretary may 
make grants to land-grant colleges and universities, State agricultural 
experiment stations, and to colleges, universities, and Federal 
laboratories having a demonstrable capacity in rangeland research, as 
determined by the Secretary, to carry out rangeland research. Except in 
the case of Federal laboratories, this grant program shall be based on a 
matching formula of 50 per centum Federal and 50 per centum non-Federal 
funding.''