Cooperative State Experiment Station Service

Cooperative State Experiment Station Service payments and expenses For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for grants for cooperative forestry research, and for other expenses, including $39,363,000 to carry into effect the provisions of the Hatch Act, approved March 2, 1887, as amended by the Act approved August 11, 1955 (7 U.S.C. 36la–361i), including administration by the United States Department of Agriculture: $500,000 for payments authorized under section 204(b) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623); $1,000,000 for grants for cooperative forestry research under the Act approved October 10, 1962 (76 Stat. 806–807); $310,000 for penalty mail costs of agricultural experiment stations under section 6 of the Hatch Act of 1887, as amended; and $460,000 for necessary expenses of the Cooperative State Experiment Station Service, including administration of payments to State agricultural experiment stations, funds for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574), and not to exceed $25,000 for employment under section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a): in all, $41,633,000.