---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 3401.17"
title: "7"
number: "3401.17"
heading: "Review criteria."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/3401.17"
---

# §3401.17. Review criteria.

- (a) Federally funded research supported under these provisions shall be designed to, among other things, accomplish one or more of the following purposes:
  - (1) Improve management of rangelands as an integrated system and/or watershed;
  - (2) Remedy unstable or unsatisfactory rangeland conditions;
  - (3) Increase revegetation and/or rehabilitation of rangelands;
  - (4) Examine the health of rangelands; and
  - (5) **Define economic parameters associated with rangelands.**
- (b) In carrying out its review under [§ 3401.16](/cfr/7/3401.16.md), 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)](/cfr/7/3401.7.md?p=a), different evaluation criteria are specified in the annual solicitation of proposals for a particular program:
- (c) 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

### 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.