[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 139 (Monday, July 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38970-38971]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19023]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
Programs Excluded From Executive Order No. 12372
AGENCY: Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice excludes certain programs administered by the
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)
from coverage under Executive Order No. 12372, ``Intergovernmental
Review of Federal Programs.''
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sally J. Rockey, Deputy Administrator,
Competitive Research Grants and Awards Management, CSREES, USDA, STOP
2240, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-2240, (202)
401-1766. E-mail: [email protected]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A full understanding of the requirements of
Executive Order No. 12372, 47 FR 30959, July 14, 1982, as amended by
Executive Order No. 12416, 48 FR 15587, April 8, 1983, may be gained by
referring to the Department of Agriculture final rules on the
requirements for intergovernmental review of agency programs and
activities published in 7 CFR part 3015, subpart V.
CSREES conducts competitive and special agricultural research
grants programs and other project programs to support agricultural
research, education, and extension.
The CSREES programs listed herein are excluded from coverage under
Executive Order No. 12372 because they do not directly affect State and
local governments. These programs are listed by Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers.
10.223 Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program
This program provides grants to support the activities of Hispanic-
Serving Institutions (HSI) to enhance educational equity for
underrepresented students; to strengthen institutional educational
capacities including libraries, curriculum, faculty, scientific
instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student recruitment
and retention, in order to respond to identified State, regional,
national, or international educational needs in the food and
agricultural sciences; to attract and support undergraduate and
graduate students from underrepresented groups in order to prepare them
for careers related to the food, agricultural, and natural resource
systems of the United States, beginning with the mentoring of students
at the high school level and continuing with the provision of financial
support for students through their attainment of a doctoral degree; and
to facilitate cooperative initiatives between two or more Hispanic-
Serving Institutions, or between Hispanic-Serving Institutions and
units of State government or the private sector to maximize the
development and use of resources, such as faculty, facilities, and
equipment to improve food and agricultural sciences teaching programs.
10.224 Fund for Rural America Program
This program provides grants awarded on the basis of merit,
quality, and relevance to advancing the purposes of federally supported
agricultural research, extension, and education provided in Section
1402 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching
Policy Act of 1977, as amended (7 U.S.C. 3101).
10.225 Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program
This program provides a one-time infusion of Federal dollars to
support the development of community food projects designed to meet the
food needs of low-income people; increase the self-reliance of
communities in providing for their own food needs; and promote
comprehensive responses to local food, farm, and nutrition issues. The
purpose of the program is to make such projects self-sustaining.
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Done at Washington, DC, this 14th day of July, 1997.
B.H. Robinson,
Administrator, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension
Service.
[FR Doc. 97-19023 Filed 7-18-97; 8:45 am]
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