---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3319a"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3319a"
heading: "Cost-reimbursable agreements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3319a"
units:
  - "Chapter 64 — Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching"
  - "Subchapter X — Funding and Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §3319a. Cost-reimbursable agreements


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [Secretary](/usc/7/3103.md?p=15) of Agriculture may enter into cost-reimbursable agreements with [State cooperative institutions](/usc/7/3103.md?p=18) or other [colleges](/usc/7/3103.md?p=4-A) and [universities](/usc/7/3103.md?p=4-A) without regard to any requirement for competition, for the acquisition of goods or services, including personal services, to carry out [agricultural research](/usc/7/3103.md?p=2), [extension](/usc/7/3103.md?p=8), or [teaching](/usc/7/3103.md?p=20) activities of mutual interest. Reimbursable costs under such agreements shall include the actual direct costs of performance, as mutually agreed on by the parties, and the indirect costs of performance, not exceeding 10 percent of the direct cost.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–113, title XIV, § 1473A, as added Pub. L. 99–198, title XIV, § 1426, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1553; amended Pub. L. 105–185, title II, § 231, June 23, 1998, 112 Stat. 547.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1998—Pub. L. 105–185 inserted “or other colleges and universities” after “institutions” in first sentence.