---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 5315"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "5315"
heading: "Scientific research and development in support of coordinated program and comprehensive plan"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/5315"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research"
  - "Subchapter I — Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research"
---

# §5315. Scientific research and development in support of coordinated program and comprehensive plan


The [Secretaries](/usc/7/5302.md?p=9) shall coordinate the conduct of, and may [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) with the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National [Institute](/usc/7/4531.md?p=6) of Standards and Technology, and other suitable Federal agencies for, such scientific research and development as may be necessary or appropriate in support of the [coordinated program](/usc/7/5302.md?p=2) and the [comprehensive plan](/usc/7/5302.md?p=1) and in furtherance of the purposes and objectives of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–445, title I, § 105, Oct. 22, 1990, 104 Stat. 1040.)