§3401.17. Review criteria.
7 C.F.R. § 3401.17
Federally funded research supported under these provisions shall be designed to, among other things, accomplish one or more of the following purposes:
Improve management of rangelands as an integrated system and/or watershed;
Remedy unstable or unsatisfactory rangeland conditions;
Increase revegetation and/or rehabilitation of rangelands;
Examine the health of rangelands; and
Define economic parameters associated with rangelands.
In carrying out its review under § 3401.16, the peer review panel will use the following form upon which the evaluation criteria to be used are enumerated, unless, pursuant to § 3401.7(a), different evaluation criteria are specified in the annual solicitation of proposals for a particular program:
Proposals satisfactorily meeting the guidelines will be evaluated and scored by the peer review panel for each criterion utilizing a scale of 1 through 10. A score of one (1) will be considered low and a score of ten (10) will be considered high for each selection criterion. A weighted factor is used for each criterion.
Notes, amendments, and revision history
Authority
Authority: Section 1470 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3316).
Source
Source: 61 FR 27753, May 31, 1996, unless otherwise noted.