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‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) 
LAND-GRANT
COLLEGES
AND
UNIVER-
SITIES.—The term ‘land-grant colleges and univer-
sities’ means—
‘‘(A) 1862 Institutions (as defined in sec-
tion 2 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, 
and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 
7601)); 
‘‘(B) 1890 Institutions (as defined in sec-
tion 2 of that Act) and West Virginia State Col-
lege; and 
‘‘(C) 1994 Institutions (as defined in sec-
tion 2 of that Act). 
‘‘(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means 
the Secretary of Agriculture. 
‘‘(c) ESTABLISHMENT.—To carry out the purposes de-
scribed in subsection (a), the Secretary shall establish pro-
grams under which—
‘‘(1) the Secretary shall provide grants to sun 
grant centers specified in subsection (d); and 
‘‘(2) the sun grant centers shall use the grants in 
accordance with this section. 
‘‘(d) GRANTS TO CENTERS.—The Secretary shall use 
amounts made available for a fiscal year under subsection
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(j) to provide a grants in equal amounts to each of the fol-
lowing sun grant centers: 
‘‘(1) NORTH-CENTRAL CENTER.—A north-central 
sun grant center at South Dakota State University 
for the region composed of the States of Illinois, Indi-
ana, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 
‘‘(2) SOUTHEASTERN
CENTER.—A southeastern 
sun grant center at the University of Tennessee at 
Knoxville for the region composed of—
‘‘(A) the States of Alabama, Florida, Geor-
gia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia; 
‘‘(B) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; 
and 
‘‘(C) the United States Virgin Islands. 
‘‘(3) SOUTH-CENTRAL CENTER.—A south-central 
sun grant center at Oklahoma State University for 
the region composed of the States of Arkansas, Colo-
rado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, 
Oklahoma, and Texas. 
‘‘(4) WESTERN CENTER.—A western sun grant 
center at Oregon State University for the region com-
posed of—
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‘‘(A) the States of Alaska, Arizona, Cali-
fornia, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, 
and Washington; and 
‘‘(B) territories and possessions of the 
United States (other than the territories referred 
to in subparagraphs (B) and (C) of paragraph 
(2)). 
‘‘(5) NORTHEASTERN CENTER.—A northeastern 
sun grant center at Cornell University for the region 
composed of the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Mas-
sachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, New Hamp-
shire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 
Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia. 
‘‘(e) USE OF FUNDS.—
‘‘(1) CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.—Of the amount 
of funds that are made available for a fiscal year to 
a sun grant center under subsection (d), the center 
shall use not more than 25 percent of the amount for 
administration to support excellence in science, engi-
neering, and economics at the center to promote the 
purposes described in subsection (a) through the State 
agricultural experiment station, cooperative extension 
services, and relevant educational programs of the 
university.
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‘‘(2) GRANTS
TO
LAND-GRANT
COLLEGES
AND 
UNIVERSITIES.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The sun grant center 
established for a region shall use the funds that 
remain available for a fiscal year after expendi-
tures made under paragraph (1) to provide com-
petitive grants to land-grant colleges and univer-
sities in the region of the sun grant center to 
conduct, consistent with the purposes described 
in 
subsection 
(a), 
multiinstitutional 
and 
multistate—
‘‘(i) research, extension, and edu-
cational programs on technology develop-
ment; and 
‘‘(ii) integrated research, extension, 
and educational programs on technology 
implementation. 
‘‘(B) PROGRAMS.—Of the amount of funds 
that are used to provide grants for a fiscal year 
under subparagraph (A), the center shall use—
‘‘(i) not less than 30 percent of the 
funds to carry out programs described in 
subparagraph (A)(i); and
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‘‘(ii) not less than 30 percent of the 
funds to carry out programs described in 
subparagraph (A)(ii). 
‘‘(3) INDIRECT COSTS.—A sun grant center may 
not recover the indirect costs of making grants under 
paragraph (2) to other land-grant colleges and uni-
versities. 
‘‘(f) PLAN.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of 
funds under subsection (j), in cooperation with other 
land-grant colleges and universities and private in-
dustry in accordance with paragraph (2), the sun 
grant centers shall jointly develop and submit to the 
Secretary, for approval, a plan for addressing at the 
State and regional levels the bioenergy, biomass, and 
gasification research priorities of the Department of 
Agriculture and the Department of Energy for the 
making of grants under paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
subsection (e). 
‘‘(2) GASIFICATION COORDINATION.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In developing the plan 
under paragraph (1) with respect to gasification 
research, the sun grant centers identified in 
paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (d) shall 
coordinate with land grant colleges and univer-
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sities in their respective regions that have ongo-
ing research activities with respect to the re-
search. 
‘‘(B) FUNDING.—Funds made available 
under subsection (d) to the sun grant center 
identified in subsection (e)(2) shall be available 
to carry out planning coordination under para-
graph (1) of this subsection. 
‘‘(g) GRANTS TO OTHER LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND 
UNIVERSITIES.—
‘‘(1) PRIORITY FOR GRANTS.—In making grants 
under subsection (e)(2), a sun grant center shall give 
a higher priority to programs that are consistent with 
the plan approved by the Secretary under subsection 
(f). 
‘‘(2) TERM OF GRANTS.—The term of a grant 
provided by a sun grant center under subsection 
(e)(2) shall not exceed 5 years. 
‘‘(h) GRANT INFORMATION ANALYSIS CENTER.—The 
sun grant centers shall maintain a Sun Grant Information 
Analysis Center at the sun grant center specified in sub-
section (d)(1) to provide sun grant centers analysis and 
data management support. 
‘‘(i) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than 90 days after 
the end of a year for which a sun grant center receives a