Cooperative State Research Service

Cooperative State Research Service payments and expenses For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for grants for cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and for other expenses, including $54,965,000, 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. 361a–361i), including administration by the United States Department of Agriculture; $3,485,000 for grants for cooperative forestry research under the Act approved October 10, 1962 (16 U.S.C. 582a—582a–7); $2,000,000 in addition to funds otherwise available for contracts and grants for scientific research under the Act of August 4, 1965 (7 U.S.C. 450b) of which $1,000,000 shall be for the special cotton research program and $400,000 for soybean research; $2,000,000 for grants for facilities under the Act approved July 22, 1963 (7 U.S.C. 390–390k); $310,000 for penalty mail costs of agricultural experiment stations under section 6 of the Hatch Act of 1887, as amended; and $353,000, for necessary expenses of the Cooperative State Research 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 (58 Stat. 742), and not to exceed $50,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; in all, $63,113,000.