---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3292a"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3292a"
heading: "United States-Mexico joint agricultural research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3292a"
units:
  - "Chapter 64 — Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching"
  - "Subchapter VIII — International Research, Extension, and Teaching"
---

# §3292a. United States-Mexico joint agricultural research

- (a) **Research and development program—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/3103.md?p=15) may provide for an [agricultural research](/usc/7/3103.md?p=2) and development program with the George E. Brown United States/Mexico Foundation for Science. The program shall focus on binational problems facing agricultural producers and consumers in the 2 countries, in particular pressing problems in the areas of food safety, plant and animal pest control, and the natural resources base on which agriculture depends.
- (b) **Administration—** Grants under the research and development program shall be awarded competitively through the Foundation.
- (c) **Matching requirements—** The provision of funds to the Foundation by the United States Government shall be subject to the condition that the Government of Mexico match, on at least a dollar-for-dollar basis, any funds provided by the United States Government.
- (d) **Limitation on use of funds—** Funds provided under this section may not be used for the planning, repair, rehabilitation, acquisition, or construction of a building or facility.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–113, title XIV, § 1459, as added Pub. L. 105–185, title II, § 228, June 23, 1998, 112 Stat. 545; amended Pub. L. 106–74, title IV, § 423, Oct. 20, 1999, 113 Stat. 1095.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1459 of Pub. L. 95–113 was classified to section 3301 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–198.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“George E. Brown United States/Mexico Foundation for Science” substituted in subsec. (a) for “United States/Mexico Foundation for Science” pursuant to section 423 of Pub. L. 106–74, set out below.

Pub. L. 106–74, title IV, § 423, Oct. 20, 1999, 113 Stat. 1095, provided in part: “That the United States/Mexico Foundation for Science is renamed the ‘George E. Brown United States/Mexico Foundation for Science’.”