7 U.S.C. § 3352 — Agriculture research facility expansion and security upgrades

(a) To enhance the security of agriculture in the United States against threats posed by bioterrorism, the Secretary may award expansion or security-upgrade grants competitively to colleges and universities as defined in section 3103(4) of this title. (b) A grant recipient may receive no more than $10 million in any fiscal year. (c) The Secretary may award a grant only if the applicant gives satisfactory assurances that—(1) enough money is available to pay the non-Federal share of the proposed expansion or security upgrade; and (2) the project meets the Secretary’s reasonable biosafety and biosecurity requirements needed to protect facility staff, the public, and the food supply. (d) The Secretary may award a grant for a facility’s expansion, renovation, remodeling, or alteration (called “expansion” in this section) only if the applicant gives assurances the Secretary finds satisfactory that—(1) for at least 20 years after the grant is awarded, the facility will be used for the research described in the application; (2) when the expansion is finished, enough money will be available for effective use of the facility for that research; and (3) the expansion will either (A) increase the applicant’s ability to conduct that research, or (B) be necessary to improve the quality of the applicant’s research. (e) The Secretary determines the grant amount. (f) The Federal Government may pay no more than 50 percent of the cost of an expansion or security upgrade carried out with grant funds. (g) Congress authorizes the appropriation of whatever amounts are necessary for each fiscal year to carry out this section.