S.Amdt. 2572

SA 2572. Ms. HIRONO (for herself and Ms. Klobuchar) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr.
Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr.
Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr.
Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for
Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of division G, add the following:

TITLE XII--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FACILITIES INFRASTRUCTURE

SEC. 71201. FUNDING FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FACILITIES AND
RESEARCH FACILITIES OF THE AGRICULTURAL
RESEARCH SERVICE.

(a) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Agricultural research facility.--The term
``agricultural research facility'' has the meaning given the
term in section 2 of the Research Facilities Act (7 U.S.C.
390).
(2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary
of Agriculture.
(b) Appropriation.--In addition to amounts otherwise
available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for the
period of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $12,500,000,000, to
remain available until expended, to carry out this section,
of which the Secretary shall use--
(1) $11,500,000,000 to carry out the competitive grant
program established under section 4 of the Research
Facilities Act (7 U.S.C. 390b) to provide to agricultural
research facilities the Federal share of the costs of the
construction, alteration, acquisition, modernization,
renovation, or remodeling of--
(A) the agricultural research facilities; or
(B) the equipment of the agricultural research facilities
necessary for conducting agricultural research; and
(2) $1,000,000,000 to provide direct payments to research
facilities of the Agricultural Research Service for the
purpose of addressing deferred maintenance, with priority
given to the most critical structures, in accordance with the
Agricultural Research Service Capital Investment Strategy
dated April 23, 2012.
(c) Secretarial Waiver.--Notwithstanding section 3(c)(2)(A)
of the Research Facilities Act (7 U.S.C. 390a(c)(2)(A), in
carrying out subsection (b)(1), the Secretary, on a case-by-
case basis, as the Secretary determines to be appropriate,
may provide that the Federal share of the costs described in
that subsection is up to 100 percent of those costs.
(d) Equitable Distribution.--
(1) In general.--In awarding grants under the program
described in paragraph (1) of subsection (b) using amounts
made available by that subsection, the Secretary, to the
maximum extent practicable, shall ensure--
(A) an equitable geographic distribution of funds;
(B) an equitable distribution of funds to diverse
institutions; and
(C) an equitable distribution of funds to agricultural
research facilities of various sizes.
(2) Requirement.--Of the amounts made available by
subsection (b) to carry out paragraph (1) of that subsection,
not more than 20 percent may be provided for projects in any
1 State each fiscal year.
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