---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 3405.1"
title: "7"
number: "3405.1"
heading: "Applicability of regulations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/3405.1"
---

# §3405.1. Applicability of regulations.

- (a) The regulations of this part only apply to competitive Higher Education Challenge Grants awarded under the provisions of [section 1417(b)(1)](/cfr/7/1417.md?p=b-1) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended (NARETPA)([7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(1)](/usc/7/3152.md?p=b-1)), to strengthen institutional capacities, including curriculum, faculty, scientific instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student recruitment and retention. [Section 1405](/cfr/7/1405.md) of NARETPA ([7 U.S.C. 3121](/usc/7/3121.md)) designates the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the lead Federal agency for agricultural research, extension, and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences. [Section 1417](/cfr/7/1417.md) of NARETPA ([7 U.S.C. 3152](/usc/7/3152.md)) authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, who has delegated the authority to theDirector of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), to make competitive grants to land-grant colleges and universities, to colleges and universities having significant minority enrollments and a demonstrable capacity to carry out the teaching of food and agricultural sciences, and to other colleges and universities having a demonstrable capacity to carry out the teaching of food and agricultural sciences, for a period not to exceed 5 years, to administer and conduct programs to respond to identified State, regional, national, or international educational needs in the food and agricultural sciences.
- (b) To the extent that funds are available, each year NIFA will publish a Federal Register notice announcing the program and soliciting grant applications.
- (c)
  - (1) Based on the amount of funds appropriated in any fiscal year, NIFA will determine and cite in the program announcement:
    - (i) The targeted need area(s) to be supported or, if the entire scope of a particular targeted need area is not to be supported, the specific special interest(s) within that targeted need area to be supported;
    - (ii) The degree level(s) to be supported;
    - (iii) The maximum project period a proposal may request;
    - (iv) The maximum amount of funds that may be requested by an institution under a regular, complementary, or joint project proposal; and
    - (v) The maximum total funds that may be awarded to an institution under the program in a given fiscal year, including how funds awarded for complementary and for joint project proposals will be counted toward the institutional maximum.
  - (2) The program announcement will also specify the deadline date for proposal submission, the number of copies of each proposal that must be submitted, the address to which a proposal must be submitted, and whether or not Form NIFA-711, “Intent to Submit a Proposal,” is requested.
- (d)
  - (1) If it is deemed by NIFA that, for a given fiscal year, additional determinations are necessary, each, as relevant, will be stated in the program announcement. Such determinations may include:
    - (i) Limits on the subject matter/emphasis areas to be supported;
    - (ii) The maximum number of proposals that may be submitted on behalf of the same school, college, or equivalent administrative unit within an institution;
    - (iii) The maximum total number of proposals that may be submitted by an institution;
    - (iv) The minimum project period a proposal may request;
    - (v) The minimum amount of funds that may be requested by an institution under a regular, complementary, or joint project proposal;
    - (vi) The proportion of the appropriation reserved for, or available to, regular, complementary, and joint project proposals;
    - (vii) The proportion of the appropriation reserved for, or available to, projects in each announced targeted need area;
    - (viii) The proportion of the appropriation reserved for, or available to, each subject matter/emphasis area;
    - (ix) The maximum number of grants that may be awarded to an institution under the program in a given fiscal year; and
    - (x) **Limits on the use of grant funds for travel or to purchase equipment, if any.**
  - (2) The program announcement also will contain any other limitations deemed necessary by NIFA for proper conduct of the program in the applicable year.
- (e) The regulations of this part do not apply to grants awarded by the Department of Agriculture under any other authority.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 1470, National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended (7 U.S.C. 3316).

### Source

Source: 62 FR 39317, July 22, 1997, unless otherwise noted.