---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3310a"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3310a"
heading: "Research equipment grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3310a"
units:
  - "Chapter 64 — Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching"
  - "Subchapter X — Funding and Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §3310a. Research equipment grants

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/3103.md?p=15) may make competitive grants for the acquisition of special purpose scientific research equipment for use in the [food and agricultural sciences](/usc/7/3103.md?p=9) programs of eligible institutions.
- (b) **Maximum amount—** The amount of a grant made to an eligible institution under this section may not exceed $500,000.
- (c) **Prohibition on charge or equipment as indirect costs—** The cost of acquisition or depreciation of equipment purchased with a grant under this section shall not be—
  - (1) charged as an indirect cost against another Federal grant; or
  - (2) included as part of the indirect cost pool for purposes of calculating the indirect cost rate of an eligible institution.
- (d) **Eligible institutions defined—** In this section, the term “eligible institution” means—
  - (1) a [college](/usc/7/3103.md?p=4-A) or [university](/usc/7/3103.md?p=4-A); or
  - (2) a [State](/usc/7/3103.md?p=16) cooperative institution.
- (e) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–113, title XIV, § 1462A, as added Pub. L. 115–334, title VII, § 7126, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4794.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3310a, Pub. L. 95–113, title XIV, § 1462A, as added Pub. L. 107–171, title VII, § 7402, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 456; amended Pub. L. 110–234, title VII, § 7133, May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1228; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title VII, § 7133, June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 1989, related to research equipment grants, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 113–79, title VII, § 7118, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 875.