Contents
- (a) Authorization
- (b) Allotments to States; authorization of appropriations for Virgin Islands and Guam; limitation2 changes
- (c) Allotment of additional sums6 changes
- (d) Matching funds8 changes
- (e) “Administration” defined1 change
- (f) Adjustment of payments
- (g) Reductions and reapportionments1 change
- (h) Peer review2 changes
- (i) Integration of research and extension2 changes
(d)
(1)Except as provided in paragraph (4), no allotment shall be made to a State under subsection (b) or (c), and no payments from the allotment shall be made to a State, in excess of the amount that the State makes available out of non-Federal funds for agricultural research and for the establishment and maintenance of facilities for the performance of the research.
(2)If a State fails to comply with the requirement to provide matching funds for a fiscal year under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Agriculture shall withhold from payment to the State for that fiscal year an amount equal to the difference between—
(A)the amount that would be allotted and paid to the State under subsections (b) and (c) (if the full amount of matching funds were provided by the State); and
(B)the amount of matching funds actually provided by the State.
(3)
(A)The Secretary of Agriculture shall reapportion amounts withheld under paragraph (2) for a fiscal year among the States satisfying the matching requirement for that fiscal year.
(B)Any reapportionment of funds under this paragraph shall be subject to the matching requirement specified in paragraph (1).
(4)
(A)Effective beginning for fiscal year 2003, in lieu of the matching funds requirement of paragraph (1), the insular areas of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States and the District of Columbia shall provide matching funds from non-Federal sources in an amount equal to not less than 50 percent of the formula funds distributed by the Secretary to each of the insular areas, respectively, and the District of Columbia under this section.
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