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

# §3319i. Capacity building grants for NLGCA Institutions

- (a) **Grant program—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/3103.md?p=15) shall make competitive grants to [NLGCA Institutions](/usc/7/3103.md?p=14-A-i) to assist the [NLGCA Institutions](/usc/7/3103.md?p=14-A-i) in maintaining and expanding the capacity of the [NLGCA Institutions](/usc/7/3103.md?p=14-A-i) to conduct [education](/usc/7/3103.md?p=20), research, and outreach activities relating to—
    - (A) agriculture;
    - (B) renewable resources; and
    - (C) other similar disciplines.
  - (2) **Use of funds—** An [NLGCA Institution](/usc/7/3103.md?p=14-A-i) that receives a grant under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) may use the funds made available through the grant to maintain and expand the capacity of the [NLGCA Institution](/usc/7/3103.md?p=14-A-i)—
    - (A) to successfully compete for funds from Federal grants and other sources to carry out educational, research, and outreach activities that address priority concerns of national, regional, [State](/usc/7/3103.md?p=16), and local interest;
    - (B) to disseminate information relating to priority concerns to—
      - (i) interested members of the agriculture, renewable resources, and other relevant communities;
      - (ii) the public; and
      - (iii) any other interested entity;
    - (C) to encourage members of the agriculture, renewable resources, and other relevant communities to participate in priority [education](/usc/7/3103.md?p=20), research, and outreach activities by providing matching funding to leverage grant funds; and
    - (D) through—
      - (i) the purchase or other acquisition of equipment and other infrastructure (not including alteration, repair, renovation, or construction of buildings);
      - (ii) the professional growth and development of the faculty of the [NLGCA Institution](/usc/7/3103.md?p=14-A-i); and
      - (iii) the development of graduate assistantships.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2023.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–113, title XIV, § 1473F, as added Pub. L. 110–234, title VII, § 7138, May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1230, and Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title VII, § 7138, June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 1991; amended Pub. L. 113–79, title VII, § 7123, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 876; Pub. L. 115–334, title VII, § 7131, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4796.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

### Amendments

2018—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “2023” for “2018”.

2014—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–79 substituted “2018” for “2012”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Enactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of this title.