Extension Service

Extension Service Payments to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, and American Samoa: For payments for cooperative agricultural extension work under the Smith-Lever Act, as amended, to be distributed under sections 3(b) and 3(c) of said Act, and under section 208(c) of Public Law 93–471, for retirement and employees’ compensation costs for extension agents and for costs of penalty mail for cooperative extension agents and State extension directors, $272,582,000; payments for the nutrition and family education program for low-income areas under section 3(d) of the Act, $61,431,000; payments for the pest management program under section 3(d) of the Act, $10,947,000, of which up to $125,000 may be transferred to the Cooperative State Research Service; payments for the farm safety and rural health programs under section 3(d) of the Act, $2,988,000; payments for the pesticide impact assessment program under section108 STAT. 2442 3(d) of the Act, $3,363,000; payments to upgrade 1890 land-grant college research and extension facilities as authorized by section 1447 of Public Law 95–113, as amended (7 U.S.C. 3222b), $7,901,000, to remain available until expended; payments for the rural development centers under section 3(d) of the Act, $950,000; payments for a groundwater quality program under section 3(d) of the Act, $11,234,000; payments for the Agricultural Telecommunications Program, as authorized by Public Law 101–624 (7 U.S.C. 5926), $1,221,000; payments for youth-at-risk programs under section 3(d) of the Act, $10,000,000; payments for a Nutrition Education Initiative under section 3(d) of the Act, $4,265,000; payments for a food safety program under section 3(d) of the Act, $2,475,000; payments for carrying out the provisions of the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978, $3,341,000; payments for Indian reservation agents under section 3(d) of the Act, $1,750,000; payments for sustainable agriculture programs under section 3(d) of the Act, $3,463,000; payments for rural health and safety education as authorized by section 2390 of Public Law 101–624 (7 U.S.C. 2661 note, 2662), $2,750,000; payments for extension work by the colleges receiving the benefits of the second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 321–326, 328) and Tuskegee University, $25,472,000; and for Federal administration and coordination including administration of the Smith-Lever Act, as amended, and the Act of September 29, 1977 (7 U.S.C. 341–349), as amended, and section 1361(c) of the Act of October 3, 1980 (7 U.S.C. 301n.), and to coordinate and provide program leadership for the extension work of the Department and the several States and insular possessions, $12,611,000; in all, $438,744,000: Provided, That funds hereby appropriated pursuant to section 3(c) of the Act of June 26, 1953, and section 506 of the Act of June 23, 1972, as amended, shall not be paid to any State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, and American Samoa prior to availability of an equal sum from non-Federal sources for expenditure during the current fiscal year.