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104 STAT. 3722 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 Scholarships and fellowships. Education. "(c) UsE OF GRANT FUNDS. — Grants made under subsection db) shall be used to— "(1) 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 agricultural sciences; "(2) attract and support undergraduate and graduate students in order to educate them in identified areas of national need in the food and agricultural sciences; "(3) facilitate cooperative initiatives between two or more eligible institutions or between eligible institutions and units of State government, or organizations in 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; and "(4) conduct undergraduate scholarship programs to assist in meeting national needs for training food and agricultural scientists. "(d) GRANT REQUIREMENTS. —(1) The Secretary shall ensure that each eligible institution, prior to receiving grant funds under subsection (b), shall have a significant demonstrable commitment to higher education programs in the food and agricultural sciences and to each specific subject area for which grant funds under this subsection are to be used. "(2) The Secretary may require that any grant awarded under this section contain provisions that require funds to be targeted to meet the needs identified in section 1402. "(e) MINORITY SET-ASIDE. —The Secretary may set aside a portion of the funds appropriated for grants under this section and make such amounts available only for grants to eligible institutions that the Secretary determines have unique capabilities for achieving the objective or full representation of minority groups that are underrepresented in the Nation's food and agricultural sciences work force. "(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to be appropriated $11,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 through 1995 to carry out this section.", (b) AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SCIENCES FACILITIES.— Such Act is further amended by inserting after section 1446 (as added by subsection (a)) the following new section: 7 USC 3222b. "SEC. 1447. GRANTS TO UPGRADE AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SCIENCES FACILITIES AT 1890 LAND-GRANT COLLEGES, INCLUDING TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY. "(a) PURPOSE. —It is hereby declared to be the intent of Congress to assist the institutions eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890, including Tuskegee University (hereafter referred to in this section as 'eligible institutions') in the acquisition and improvement of agricultural and food sciences facilities and equipment, including libraries, so that the eligible institutions may participate fully in the production of human capital. "(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this section $8,000,000 for each of the