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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988

102 STAT. 620

PUBLIC LAW 100-339—JUNE 17, 1988

Public Law 100-339 100th Congress An Act June 17, 1988 [S. 1652]

To authorize the establishment by the Secretary of Agriculture of a plant stress and water conservation research laboratory and program at Lubbock, Texas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF PLANT STRESS AND WATER CONSERVATION RESEARCH LABORATORY AND PROGRAM. (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Notwithstanding section

1431(a) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 (Public Law 99-198; 99 Stat. 1556), there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the planning, construction, and acquisition by the Secretary of Agriculture acting through the Agricultural Research Service, of buildings and equipment to establish at Lubbock, Texas, a laboratory and program for plant stress and water conservation research. (b) AvAiLABiliTY OF FuNDS.—Funds appropriated under subsection (a) shall remain available for expenditure without fiscal year limitation. SEC. 2. COLLEGE-AID ANNUAL APPROPRIATION.

Section 5 of the Act of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 417, chapter 841; 7 U.S.C. 326a) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5. There is appropriated annually, out of funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for payment to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands or its successor governments the amount they would be entitled to receive