7 U.S.C. § 9203 — Evaluation and research plan
submitted 6 years ago by Pub. L. 116-260 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 293 words · no verdicts yet
At least every two years, Agriculture and other agencies must evaluate the Facility, publish and submit a risk-based research plan, and may attach classified information.
(a) At least every two years, the Secretary of Agriculture, coordinating with Homeland Security and other appropriate agencies, must (1) evaluate the Facility’s work; (2) develop, update, and publish a strategic research plan based on priority risk and threat assessments, including strategies to (A) develop veterinary countermeasures for emerging foreign animal* and transboundary diseases, (B) provide advanced testing, diagnosis, and evaluation for threat detection, vulnerability assessments, and countermeasures, (C) assist with and assess vulnerabilities in agriculture and food sectors, (D) fill gaps in Federal animal and zoonotic-disease research without duplication, and (E) serve other purposes Agriculture determines appropriate after consultation; and (3) submit that plan to the listed Senate and House agriculture, homeland-security, and governmental-affairs committees. (b) The plan must be publicly available and submitted in unclassified form. The submission may include a classified annex for sensitive or classified information.
Not less frequently than biennially, the Secretary of Agriculture, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, shall—
evaluate the work of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility;
develop, biennially update, and publish a strategic plan for research at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility based on priority risk and threat assessments, including strategies to—
develop veterinary countermeasures for emerging foreign animal* diseases and animal transboundary diseases;
provide advanced testing, diagnostic, and evaluation capabilities for threat detection, vulnerability assessments of animal and zoonotic diseases, and veterinary countermeasures for animal and zoonotic diseases;
assist, as appropriate, with the development, and address vulnerability assessments, of the agriculture and food sectors;
address gaps in the ongoing animal and zoonotic disease research efforts across the Federal Government, ensuring not to duplicate those ongoing efforts; and
be used for such other purposes as the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, determines to be appropriate; and
submit to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, the strategic plan for research described in paragraph (2).
The strategic plan for research required under subsection (a)(2)—
shall be published in an unclassified format that is publicly available;
shall be submitted under subsection (a)(3) in unclassified form; and
may include in the submission under subsection (a)(3) a classified annex for any sensitive or classified information, as necessary.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 116–260, div. P, § 4, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2160.)
- 2020Enacted · Pub. L. 116-260 · 134 Stat. 2160
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