STUTTGART NATIONAL AQUACULTURE RESEARCH CENTER.

SEC. 889. STUTTGART NATIONAL AQUACULTURE RESEARCH CENTER. (a) Transfer of Functions to Secretary of Agriculture.— (1) Purpose.— The first section of Public Law 85–342 (16 U.S.C. 778) is amended— (A) by striking “Secretary of the Interior” and all that follows through “directed to” and inserting “Secretary of Agriculture shall”; (B) by striking “an experiment station or stations” and inserting “1 or more centers”; and (C) in paragraph (5), by striking “Department of Agriculture” and inserting “Secretary of the Interior”. (2) Authority.— Section 2 of Public Law 85–342 (16 U.S.C. 778a) is amended by striking “, the Secretary” and all that follows through “authorized” and inserting “, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized”. (3) Assistance.— Section 3 of Public Law 85–342 (16 U.S.C. 778b) is amended— 110 STAT. 1181 (A) by striking “Secretary of the Interior” and inserting “Secretary of Agriculture”; and (B) by striking “Department of Agriculture” and inserting “Secretary of the Interior”. (b) Transfer of Fish Farming Experimental Laboratory to Department of Agriculture.— (1) Designation of Stuttgart national aquaculture research center.— (A) In general.— The Fish Farming Experimental Laboratory in Stuttgart, Arkansas (including the facilities in Kelso, Arkansas), shall be known and designated as the “Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center”. (B) References.— Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the laboratory referred to in subparagraph (A) shall be deemed to be a reference to the “Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center”. (2) Transfer of laboratory to department of agriculture.— Subject to section 1531 of title 31, United States Code, not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, there are transferred to the Department of Agriculture— (A) the personnel employed in connection with the laboratory referred to in paragraph (1)(A); (B) the assets, liabilities, contracts, and real and personal property of the laboratory; (C) the records of the laboratory; and (D) the unexpended balance of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed in connection with, held in connection with, arising from, available to, or to be made available in connection with the laboratory. (3) Nonduplication of facilities.— The research center referred to in paragraph (1)(A) shall be complementary to, and not duplicative of, facilities of colleges, universities, and nonprofit institutions, and facilities of the Agricultural Research Service, within the State and region, as determined by the Administrator of the Service.