---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1645"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1645"
heading: "General provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1645"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning"
  - "Subchapter II — Research"
---

# §1645. General provisions

- (a) **Availability of funds to cooperators and grantees—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may make funds available to cooperators and grantees under this subchapter without regard to the provisions of [section 3324(a)](/usc/16/3324.md) and (b) of [title 31](/usc/31.md), which prohibits advances of public money.
- (b) **Coordination of cooperative aid and grants with other aid and grant authorities—** To avoid duplication, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall coordinate cooperative aid and grants under this subchapter with cooperative aid and grants the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) makes under any other authority.
- (c) **Dissemination of knowledge and technology developed from research activities; cooperation with specified entities—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall use the authorities and means available to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) to disseminate the knowledge and technology developed from research activities conducted under or supported by this subchapter. In meeting this responsibility, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall cooperate, as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) deems appropriate, with the entities identified in [subsection (d)(3)](#d-3) of this section and with others.
- (d) **Additional implementative authorities—** In implementing this subchapter, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) deems appropriate and practical, shall—
  - (1) use, and encourage cooperators and grantees to use, the best available scientific skills from a variety of disciplines within and outside the fields of agriculture and forestry;
  - (2) seek, and encourage cooperators and grantees to seek, a proper mixture of short-term and long-term research and a proper mixture of basic and applied research;
  - (3) avoid unnecessary duplication and coordinate activities under this section among agencies of the Department of Agriculture and with other affected Federal departments and agencies, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) agricultural experiment stations, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) extension services, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) foresters or equivalent [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) officials, forestry schools, and private research organizations; and
  - (4) encourage the development, employment, retention, and exchange of qualified scientists and other specialists through postgraduate, postdoctoral, and other training, national and international exchange of scientists, and other incentives and programs to improve the quality of forest and rangeland renewable resources research.
- (e) **Construction of statutory provisions—** This subchapter shall be construed as supplementing all other laws relating to the Department of Agriculture and shall not be construed as limiting or repealing any existing law or authority of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) except as specifically cited in this subchapter.
- (f) **Definitions—** For the purposes of this subchapter, the terms “United States” and “[State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a)” shall include each of the several [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the [Trust](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=4) Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the territories and possessions of the United States.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–307, § 6, June 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 355.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In subsec. (a), “section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31” substituted for “section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529)” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

### Executive Documents

### Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.