[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1062 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1062

 To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
Policy Act of 1977 to improve the dissemination of information produced 
     by the Agricultural Research Service, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                May 28 (legislative day, April 19), 1993

  Mr. Wofford introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
Policy Act of 1977 to improve the dissemination of information produced 
     by the Agricultural Research Service, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Agricultural Research Dissemination 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. DISSEMINATION OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE INFORMATION.

    Section 1405 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3121) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' after ``1405.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b)(1) The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the 
Agricultural Research Service, shall provide the Secretary of Commerce 
with periodic updates on the availability of information produced by 
the Service that is or may become available to the public.
    ``(2) The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Director of the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology (established under 
section 2 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 
U.S.C. 272)), shall disseminate the information provided under 
paragraph (1), using all appropriate written, electronic, and other 
methods, to--
            ``(A) Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing 
        Technology established under section 25(a) of such Act (15 
        U.S.C. 278k(a));
            ``(B) manufacturing outreach centers;
            ``(C) the National Technical Information Service of the 
        Department of Commerce; and
            ``(D) other appropriate information sources that the 
        Secretary determines to be appropriate.''.

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