7 CFR §3401.17

1. (a)Federally funded research supported under these provisions shall be designed to, among other things, accomplish one or more of the following purposes:
   1. (1)Improve management of rangelands as an integrated system and/or watershed;
   2. (2)Remedy unstable or unsatisfactory rangeland conditions;
   3. (3)Increase revegetation and/or rehabilitation of rangelands;
   4. (4)Examine the health of rangelands; and
   5. (5)Define economic parameters associated with rangelands.
2. (b)In carrying out its review under § 3401.16, the peer review panel will use the following form upon which the evaluation criteria to be used are enumerated, unless, pursuant to § 3401.7(a), different evaluation criteria are specified in the annual solicitation of proposals for a particular program:
3. (c)Proposals satisfactorily meeting the guidelines will be evaluated and scored by the peer review panel for each criterion utilizing a scale of 1 through 10. A score of one (1) will be considered low and a score of ten (10) will be considered high for each selection criterion. A weighted factor is used for each criterion.