ANIMAL HEALTH AND DISEASE NATIONAL OR REGIONAL RESEARCH.

SEC. 812. ANIMAL HEALTH AND DISEASE NATIONAL OR REGIONAL RESEARCH. Section 1434 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3196) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by inserting “or national or regional problems relating to pre-harvest, on-farm food safety, or animal wellbeing,” after “problems,”; and (B) by striking “1995” and inserting “1997”; (2) in subsection (b), by striking “eligible institutions” and inserting “State agricultural experiment stations, colleges and universities, other research institutions and organizations, Federal agencies, private organizations or corporations, and individuals”; (3) in subsection (c)— (A) in the first sentence, by inserting “, food safety, and animal well-being” after “animal health and disease”; and (B) in the fourth sentence— (i) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as para graphs (4) and (5), respectively; and (ii) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following: “(2) any food safety problem that has a significant preharvest (on-farm) component and is recognized as posing a significant health hazard to the consuming public; “(3) issues of animal well-being related to production methods that will improve the housing and management of animals to improve the well-being of livestock production species;”; (4) in the first sentence of subsection (d), by striking “to eligible institutions”; and (5) by adding at the end the following: “(f) Applicability of Federal Advisory Committee Act.— The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) and title XVIII of this Act shall not apply to a panel or board created solely for the purpose of reviewing applications or proposals submitted under this subtitle.”.