The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, shall make grants to the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, the Boy Scouts of America, the National 4-H Council, and the National FFA Organization to establish pilot projects to expand the programs carried out by the organizations in rural areas and small towns (including, with respect to the National 4-H Council, activities provided for in Public Law 107-19 (115 Stat. 153)).
The Secretary shall provide maximum flexibility in content delivery to each organization receiving funds under this section so as to ensure that the unique goals of each organization, as well as the local community needs, are fully met.
Recipients of funds under this section may redistribute all or part of the funds received to individual councils or local chapters within the councils without further need of approval from the Secretary.
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section-
7 U.S.C. § 7630
EDITORIAL NOTES
REFERENCES IN TEXT Pub. L. 107-19 referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 107-19, 115 Stat. 153, which is not classified to the Code.
CODIFICATION Pub. L. 110-234 and Pub. L. 110-246 made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by Pub. L. 110-234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110-246.
AMENDMENTS2018-Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 115-334 substituted "2023" for "2018". 2014-Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 113-79 substituted "section-" for "section such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012." and added pars. (1) and (2).2008-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110-246, §7511(c)(32), substituted "Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture" for "Administrator of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service".Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 110-246, §7309, added subsecs. (b) to (d) and struck out former subsecs. (b) and (c) which related to availability of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation for fiscal year 2002 and authorization of appropriations for fiscal years 2003 through 2007.
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2008 AMENDMENT Amendment 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 except as otherwise provided, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110-246 set out as an Effective Date note under section 8701 of this title. Amendment by section 7511(c)(32) of Pub. L. 110-246 effective Oct. 1, 2009, see section 7511(c) of Pub. L. 110-246 set out as a note under section 1522 of this title.
DEFINITIONSSecretary means the Secretary of Agriculture, see section 7401(1) of Pub. L. 107-171 set out as a note under section 3319b of this title.