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§ 5926. Centers of excellence
(a) Funding priorities
(b) Composition
(c) Criteria for centers of excellence
(1) Required efforts
The criteria for recognition as a center of excellence shall include efforts—
(A) to ensure coordination and cost effectiveness by reducing unnecessarily duplicative efforts regarding research, teaching, and extension;
(B) to leverage available resources by using public-private partnerships among agricultural industry groups, institutions of higher education, and the Federal Government;
(C) to implement teaching initiatives to increase awareness and effectively disseminate solutions to target audiences through extension activities; and
(D) to increase the economic returns to rural communities by identifying, attracting, and directing funds to high-priority agricultural issues.
(2) Additional efforts
(d) Centers of excellence at 1890s Institutions
(1) Recognition
(2) Areas of focus
(A) Student success and workforce development
(B) Nutrition, health, wellness, and quality of life
(C) Farming systems, rural prosperity, and economic sustainability
(D) Global food security and defense
(E) Natural resources, energy, and environment
(F) Emerging technologies
(3) Authorization of appropriations
(4) Report
Not later than 1 year after December 20, 2018, and every year thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report describing—
(A) the resources invested in the centers of excellence established under paragraph (1); and
(B) the work being done by those centers of excellence.
(Pub. L. 101–624, title XVI, § 1673, as added Pub. L. 113–79, title VII, § 7214(a), Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 886; amended Pub. L. 115–334, title VII, § 7213, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4813.)