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‘‘(6) 
CONSTRUCTION
PROHIBITED.—Funds 
made available for grants under this subsection shall 
not be used for the construction of a new building 
or facility or the acquisition, expansion, remodeling, 
or alteration of an existing building or facility (in-
cluding site grading and improvement and architect 
fees). 
‘‘(7) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the pro-
grams established under paragraph (8) shall reflect 
the purposes and additional purposes of agricultural 
research, extension, and education reflected in sec-
tions 1402 and 1403 of the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
1977 (7 U.S.C. 3101 and 3102). 
‘‘(8) BASIC
AND
APPLIED
RESEARCH
PRO-
GRAMS.—The Secretary shall establish 2 distinct 
programs of agricultural research, one to fund fun-
damental, basic research pursuant to paragraph (9) 
to be known as the National Research Initiative and 
one to fund applied, integrated research, education, 
and extension pursuant to paragraph (10) to be 
known as the Initiative for Future Agricultural and 
Food Systems. 
‘‘(9) NATIONAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE.— 
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‘‘(A) 
ALLOCATION.—The 
allocation 
of 
funds to the National Research Initiative shall 
be as follows: 
‘‘(i) Not less than 30 percent shall be 
available to make grants for research to be 
conducted by multidisciplinary teams. 
‘‘(ii) Not less than 20 percent shall be 
available to make grants for research to be 
conducted by persons conducting mission- 
linked systems research. 
‘‘(iii) Not less than 10 percent shall 
be available to make grants under subpara-
graphs (D), (F), and (G) of paragraph 
(13) for research and education strength-
ening and research opportunity. 
‘‘(iv) Not more than 2 percent may be 
used for equipment grants under para-
graph (13)(D). 
‘‘(B) MATCHING FUNDS.—Except as pro-
vided in this subparagraph, the Secretary may 
not take the offer or availability of matching 
funds into consideration in making a grant 
under this subsection. In the case of grants 
under paragraph (13)(D), the amount provided 
under this subsection may not exceed 50 per-
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cent of the cost of the special research equip-
ment or other equipment acquired. The Sec-
retary may waive all or part of the matching re-
quirement under this subparagraph in the case 
of a college, university, or research foundation 
maintained by a college or university that ranks 
in the lowest one-third of such colleges, univer-
sities, and research foundations on the basis of 
Federal research funds received if the equip-
ment to be acquired costs not more than 
$25,000 and has multiple uses within a single 
research project or is usable in more than 1 re-
search project. 
‘‘(10) INITIATIVE FOR FUTURE AGRICULTURAL 
AND FOOD SYSTEMS MATCHING FUNDS.—As a con-
dition of making a grant under this paragraph, the 
Secretary shall require the funding of the grant be 
matched with equal matching funds from a non-Fed-
eral source if the grant is— 
‘‘(A) for applied research that is com-
modity-specific; and 
‘‘(B) not of national scope. 
‘‘(11) RESEARCH
PRIORITIES.—The research 
priorities for the programs established in paragraph 
(8) shall be consistent with the priorities in effect 
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for the National Research Initiative (7 U.S.C. 
450i(b)) and Initiative for Future Agricultural and 
Food Systems (7 U.S.C. 7621) on the day before the 
date of enactment of this subsection. Priorities 
under the Initiative for Future Agricultural and 
Food Systems shall include classical plant and ani-
mal breeding. 
‘‘(12) PROGRAM
ADMINISTRATION.—To the 
greatest extent possible, the Under Secretary for Re-
search, Education, and Economics, in conjunction 
with the Directors of the National Agricultural Re-
search Program Offices established in section 7104 
of the Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act of 2007, 
shall allocate these grants to high priority research 
taking into consideration, when available, the deter-
minations made by the National Agricultural Re-
search, Extension, Education, and Economics Advi-
sory Board (as established under section 1408 of the 
National Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3123). 
‘‘(13) SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS.—In addition 
to making research grants under paragraph (9), the 
Secretary may conduct a program to improve re-
search capabilities in the agricultural, food, and en-
vironmental sciences and award the following cat-
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egories of competitive grants. Grants may be award-
ed— 
‘‘(A) to a single investigator or coinvestiga-
tors within the same discipline; 
‘‘(B) to teams of researchers from dif-
ferent areas of agricultural research and sci-
entific disciplines; 
‘‘(C) to multidisciplinary teams that are 
proposing research on long-term applied re-
search problems, with technology transfer a 
major component of all such grant proposals; 
‘‘(D) to an institution to allow for the im-
provement of the research, development, tech-
nology transfer, and education capacity of the 
institution through the acquisition of special re-
search equipment and the improvement of agri-
cultural education and teaching; however the 
Secretary shall use not less than 25 percent of 
the funds made available for grants under this 
subparagraph to provide fellowships to out-
standing pre- and post-doctoral students for re-
search in the agricultural sciences; 
‘‘(E) to a single investigator or coinvestiga-
tors who are beginning their research careers 
and do not have an extensive research publica-
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