NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING POLICY ACT OF 1977.

SEC. 7209. NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING POLICY ACT OF 1977. (a) National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economic Advisory Board.—Section 1408 of the 116 STAT. 445 National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3123) is amended— (1) in subsection (b)(1), by striking “30 members” and inserting “31 members”; (2) in subsection (b)(3)— (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (R) through (DD) as subparagraphs (S) through (EE), respectively; and (B) by inserting after subparagraph (Q) the following new subparagraph: “(R) 1 member representing a non-land grant college or university with a historic commitment to research in the food and agricultural sciences.”; (3) in subsection (c)(1), by striking “and land-grant colleges and universities” and inserting “, land-grant colleges and universities, and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate, the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate”; and (4) in subsection (d)(1), inserting “consult with any appropriate agencies of the Department of Agriculture and” after “the Advisory Board shall”. (b) Grants for Research on Production and Marketing of Alcohols and Industrial Hydrocarbons from Agricultural Commodities and Forest Products.—Section 1419 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3154) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(2), by inserting “and animal fats and oils” after “industrial oilseed crops”; and (2) in subsection (a)(4), by inserting “or triglycerides” after “other industrial hydrocarbons”. (c) FAS Overseas Intern Program.—Section 1458(a) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3291(a)) is amended— (1) by striking “and” at the end of paragraph (8); (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (9) and inserting “; and”; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(10) establish a program, to be coordinated by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service and the Foreign Agricultural Service, to place interns from United States colleges and universities at Foreign Agricultural Service field offices overseas.”. (d) Rangeland Research Grants.—Section 1480 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3333) is amended to read as follows: “SEC. 1480. RANGELAND RESEARCH GRANTS. “(a) In General.—The Secretary may make grants to— “(1) land-grant colleges and universities, State agricultural experiment stations, and colleges, universities, and Federal laboratories having a demonstrable capacity in rangeland research, as determined by the Secretary, to carry out rangeland research; and116 STAT. 446 “(2) the Joe Skeen Institute for Rangeland Restoration for the purposes of facilitating and expanding ongoing State-Federal range management, animal husbandry, and agricultural research, education, and extension programs to meet the targeted, emerging, and future needs of western United States rangelands and associated natural resources. “(b) Matching Requirements.— “(1) In general.—Except as provided in paragraph (2), this grant program shall be based on a matching formula of 50 percent Federal and 50 percent non-Federal funding. “(2) Exception.—Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a grant to a Federal laboratory or a grant under subsection (A)(2).”.