To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a lease involving the South Central Agricultural Laboratory in Clay County, Nebraska, to facilitate the improvement of the laboratory to support cooperative State and Federal agricultural research.

Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to lease the South Central Agricultural Laboratory in Clay County, Nebraska, to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to allow the Board to undertake capital improvements in order to conduct a cooperative state and federal agricultural research program.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4264 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4264

    To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a lease 
  involving the South Central Agricultural Laboratory in Clay County, 
 Nebraska, to facilitate the improvement of the laboratory to support 
          cooperative State and Federal agricultural research.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2014

 Mr. Fortenberry introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                      the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a lease 
  involving the South Central Agricultural Laboratory in Clay County, 
 Nebraska, to facilitate the improvement of the laboratory to support 
          cooperative State and Federal agricultural research.

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

SECTION 1. LEASE AUTHORITY, SOUTH CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL LABORATORY, CLAY 
              COUNTY, NEBRASKA.

    Subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary of 
Agriculture considers appropriate to protect the interests of the 
United States, the Secretary may lease the South Central Agricultural 
Laboratory, consisting of approximately 640 acres in Clay County, 
Nebraska, to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, which 
currently operates the laboratory pursuant to a revocable permit, in 
order to allow the Board of Regents to undertake capital improvements 
as necessary to maintain and conduct a cooperative State and Federal 
agricultural research program. The term of the lease may not exceed 20 
years, but the Secretary may renew the lease for one or more additional 
20-year periods.
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