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52. Rural Development and Small Farm Research and Education 



7 US.C. 2661-2668 



§2661. Statement of purposes. 



The purpose of this subchapter is to encourage 

 and foster a balanced national development that 

 provides opportunities for increased numbers of 

 Americans to work and enjoy a high quality of life 

 dispersed throughout our Nation by providing the 

 essential knowledge necessary for successful pro- 

 grams of rural development. It is further the piUT>ose 

 of this subchapter — 



(a) to provide multistate regional agencies, 

 States, counties, cities, multicounty planning and 

 development of districts, businesses, industries, 

 organizations, Indian tribes on Federal and State 

 reservations or other federally recognized Indian 

 tribal groups, and others involved with public 

 services and investments in rural areas or that 

 provide or may provide employment in these areas 

 the best available scientific, technical, economic, 

 organizational, environmental, and management 

 information and knowledge useful to them, and 

 to assist and encourage them in the interpre- 

 tation and application of this information to prac- 

 tical problems and needs in niral development; 



(b) to provide research and Investigaticsis In 

 all fields that have as their purpose the develop- 

 ment of useful knowledge and information to assist 

 those planning, carrying out, managing, or invest- 

 ing in facilities, services, businesses, or other enter- 

 prises, public and private, that may contribute to 

 rural development; 



(c) to enhance the capabilities of colleges and 

 universities to perform the vital public service 

 roles of research, transfer, and practical applica- 

 tion of knowledge in support of rural development; 



(d) to expand research on innovative ap- 

 proaches to small farm management and tech- 

 nology and extend training and technical assist- 

 ance to small farmers so that they may fully 

 utilize the best avtillable knowledge on sound eco- 

 nomic approaches to small farm operations. 



(Pub. L. 92-419, title V, § 501, Aug. 30. 1972. 86 Stat. 

 671.) 



§2662. Programs authorization; cooperation and co- 

 ordination with colleges and universities. 



The Secretary of Agriculture (hereafter referred 

 to as the "Secretary") is directed and authorized to 

 conduct in cooperation and in coordination with col- 

 leges and universities the following programs to carry 

 out the purposes of this subchapter. 



(a) Rural development extension programs. 



Rural development extension programs shall con- 

 sist of the collection, interpretation, and dissemina- 

 tion of useful information and knowledge from 

 research and other sources to units of multistate 

 regional agencies. State, coimty, municipal, and other 

 imits of government, multicounty planning and de- 

 velopment districts, organizations of citizens con- 

 tributing to rural development, business, Indian 

 tribes on Federal or State reservations or other fed- 

 erally recognized Indian tribal groups, or industries 



that employ or may employ people in nu-al areas. 

 These programs also shall include technical services 

 and educational activity, including instruction for 

 persons not enrolled as students in colleges or uni- 

 versities, to facilitate and encourage the use and 

 practical application of this information. These pro- 

 grams also may include feasibility studies and plan- 

 ning assistance. 



(b) Rural development research. 



Rural development research shall consist of re- 

 search, investigations, and basic feasibility studies 

 in any field or discipline which may develop prin- 

 ciples, facts, scientific and technical knowledge, new 

 technology, and other information that may be use- 

 ful to agencies of Federal, State, and local govern- 

 ment, industries in rural areas, Indian tribes on 

 Federal and State reservations or other federally 

 recognized Indian tribal groups, and other organiza- 

 tions involved in rural development programs and 

 activities in planning and carrying out such pro- 

 grams and activities or otherwise be practical and 

 useful in achieving Increased rural development. 



(c) Small farm extension, research, and development 

 programs. 



Small farm extension and research and develop- 

 ment programs shall consist of extension and re- 

 search programs with respect to new approaches for 

 small farms in management, agricultural production 

 techniques, farm machinery technology, new prod- 

 ucts, cooperative agricultural marketing, and dis- 

 tribution suitable to the economic development of 

 family size farm operations. (Pub. L. 92-419, title V. 

 § 502, Aug. 30. 1972, 86 Stat. 671.) 



§ 2663. Program moneys. 



(a) Authorization of appropriations. 



There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to 



carry out the purposes of this subchapter not to 

 exceed $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1974, not to exceed $15,000,000 for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30. 1975. not to exceed $20,000,000 

 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, not to 

 exceed $5,000,000 for the period July 1, 1976, 

 through September 30, 1976, and not to exceed 

 $20,000,000 for each of the three fiscal years during 

 the period beginning October 1, 1976, and ending 

 September 30, 1979. 



(b) Allocation of funds. 



Such sums as the Congress shall appropriate to 

 carry out the purposes of this subchapter pursuant 

 to subsection (a) of this section shall be distributed 

 by the Secretary as follows: 



(1) 4 per centum to be used by the Secretary 

 for Federal administration, national coordination, 

 and program assistance to the States ; 



(2) 10 per centum to be allocated by the Secre- 

 tary to States to finance work serving two or more 

 States in which universities in two or more States 

 cooperate or which is conducted by one university 

 to serve two or more States; 



