---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3294"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3294"
heading: "Center For North American Studies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3294"
units:
  - "Chapter 64 — Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching"
  - "Subchapter VIII — International Research, Extension, and Teaching"
---

# §3294. Center For North American Studies

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/3103.md?p=15) of Agriculture shall establish a center, to be known as the Center For North American Studies, whose primary purpose shall be to promote better agricultural relationships among Canada, Mexico, and the United States through cooperative study, training, and research.
- (b) **Location—** The Institute shall be located at an institution of higher [education](/usc/7/3103.md?p=20) or at a consortium of such institutions.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 and such sums as may necessary[^1] for each of fiscal years 1995 and 1996.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “may be necessary”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–532, § 4, Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3512.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative Act of 1992, and not as part of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.