PUBLIC LAW 106-78—OCT. 22, 1999 113 STAT. 1173 (1) GRANT AUTHORITY.— The Secretary of Agriculture may make competitive grants (or grants without regard to any requirement for competition) to Native Hawaiian serving institutions for the purpose of promoting and strengthening the ability of Native Hawaiian serving institutions to carry out education, applied research, and related community development programs. (2) USE OF GRANT FUNDS.— Grants made under this section shall be used— (A) to support the activities of consortia of Native Hawaiian serving institutions to enhance educational equity for under represented students; (B) 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 agriculture sciences; (C) to attract and support undergraduate and graduate students from under represented 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 (D) to facilitate cooperative initiatives between two or more Native Hawaiian serving institutions, or between Native Hawaiian 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. (3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. —There are authorized to be appropriated to make grants under this subsection $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2006. SEC. 760. Effective October 1, 1999, section 8c(ll) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c(ll)), reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is amended by adding at the end the following: "The price of milk paid by a handler at a plant operating in Clark County, Nevada shall not be subject to any order issued under this section.". SEC. 761. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the City of Olean, New York, shall be eligible for grants and loans administered by the Rural Utilities Service. SEC. 762. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico shall be eligible for grants and loans administered by the Rural Utilities Service. SEC. 763. Section 1232(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3832(a)) is amended— (1) in paragraph (9), by adding "and" after the semicolon at the end; (2) in paragraph (10), by striking "; and" and inserting a period; and (3) by striking paragraph (11). SEC. 764. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act shall be used to implement Notice CRP-338, issued by the Farm Service Agency on March 10, 1999, nor shall funds be Effective date. New York. Puerto Rico.
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