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title: "7 U.S.C. § 3902"
description: "Research program on cancer in animals and birds"
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title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
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chapter_name: "ANIMAL CANCER RESEARCH"
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# 7 U.S.C. § 3902 - Research program on cancer in animals and birds

## Text

The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct a program of basic research on cancer in animals and birds at appropriate facilities within the Department of Agriculture or by grants to other qualified research facilities.

(Pub. L. 96–469, § 3, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2235.)