[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4461 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

                                                       Calendar No. 674
106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4461


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 12, 2000

            Received; read twice and placed on the calendar

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                                 AN ACT


 
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
   Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other 
purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                         AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

                 Production, Processing, and Marketing

                        Office of the Secretary

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, and not to exceed $75,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $2,836,000: Provided, That not to exceed $11,000 of this amount, 
along with any unobligated balances of representation funds in the 
Foreign Agricultural Service, shall be available for official reception 
and representation expenses, not otherwise provided for, as determined 
by the Secretary: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries 
and expenses of personnel of the Department of Agriculture to carry out 
section 793(c)(1)(C) of Public Law 104-127: Provided further, That none 
of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enforce section 
793(d) of Public Law 104-127.

                          Executive Operations

                            chief economist

    For necessary expenses of the Chief Economist, including economic 
analysis, risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, energy and new uses, 
and the functions of the World Agricultural Outlook Board, as 
authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), 
and including employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to 
exceed $5,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $6,408,000.

                       national appeals division

    For necessary expenses of the National Appeals Division, including 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $25,000 is 
for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $11,718,000.

                 office of budget and program analysis

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Program 
Analysis, including employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not 
to exceed $5,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $6,581,000.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, including employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not 
to exceed $10,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $10,051,000.

                 Office of the Chief Financial Officer

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Financial 
Officer, including employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not 
to exceed $10,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $4,783,000: 
Provided, That the Chief Financial Officer shall actively market cross-
servicing activities of the National Finance Center.

                      Common Computing Environment

    For necessary expenses to acquire a Common Computing Environment 
for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Farm and Foreign 
Agricultural Service and Rural Development mission areas, $25,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, for the capital asset acquisition 
of shared information technology systems, including services as 
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 6915-16 and 40 U.S.C. 1421-28: Provided, That 
obligation of these funds shall be consistent with the Department of 
Agriculture Service Center Modernization Plan of the county-based 
Agencies, and shall be with the concurrence of the Department's Chief 
Information Officer.

          Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Administration to carry out the programs funded by this 
Act, $613,000.

        Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For payment of space rental and related costs pursuant to Public 
Law 92-313, including authorities pursuant to the 1984 delegation of 
authority from the Administrator of General Services to the Department 
of Agriculture under 40 U.S.C. 486, for programs and activities of the 
Department which are included in this Act, and for the operation, 
maintenance, improvement, and repair of Agriculture buildings, 
$150,343,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That in the 
event an agency within the Department should require modification of 
space needs, the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer a share of that 
agency's appropriation made available by this Act to this 
appropriation, or may transfer a share of this appropriation to that 
agency's appropriation, but such transfers shall not exceed 5 percent 
of the funds made available for space rental and related costs to or 
from this account.

                     Hazardous Materials Management

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Department of Agriculture, to comply 
with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., and the Resource Conservation 
and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., $15,700,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That appropriations and funds 
available herein to the Department for Hazardous Materials Management 
may be transferred to any agency of the Department for its use in 
meeting all requirements pursuant to the above Acts on Federal and non-
Federal lands.

                      Departmental Administration

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For Departmental Administration, $34,708,000, to provide for 
necessary expenses for management support services to offices of the 
Department and for general administration and disaster management of 
the Department, repairs and alterations, and other miscellaneous 
supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the 
practical and efficient work of the Department, including employment 
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 
1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $10,000 is for employment 
under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
reimbursed from applicable appropriations in this Act for travel 
expenses incident to the holding of hearings as required by 5 U.S.C. 
551-558.

              outreach for socially disadvantaged farmers

    For grants and contracts pursuant to section 2501 of the Food, 
Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279), 
$3,000,000, to remain available until expended.

     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Congressional Relations to carry out the programs funded 
by this Act, including programs involving intergovernmental affairs and 
liaison within the executive branch, $3,568,000: Provided, That no 
other funds appropriated to the Department by this Act shall be 
available to the Department for support of activities of congressional 
relations: Provided further, That not less than $2,241,000 shall be 
transferred to agencies funded by this Act to maintain personnel at the 
agency level.

                        Office of Communications

    For necessary expenses to carry on services relating to the 
coordination of programs involving public affairs, for the 
dissemination of agricultural information, and the coordination of 
information, work, and programs authorized by Congress in the 
Department, $8,138,000, including employment pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), 
of which not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for employment under 
5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $2,000,000 may be used for farmers' 
bulletins.

                    Office of the Inspector General

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General, 
including employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) 
of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, $65,097,000, including such sums as may be necessary for 
contracting and other arrangements with public agencies and private 
persons pursuant to section 6(a)(9) of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, including not to exceed $50,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109; and including not to exceed $125,000 for certain confidential 
operational expenses, including the payment of informants, to be 
expended under the direction of the Inspector General pursuant to 
Public Law 95-452 and section 1337 of Public Law 97-98.

                     Office of the General Counsel

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the General Counsel, 
$29,194,000.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Research, Education and Economics to administer the laws 
enacted by the Congress for the Economic Research Service, the National 
Agricultural Statistics Service, the Agricultural Research Service, and 
the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, 
$540,000.

                       Economic Research Service

    For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in 
conducting economic research and analysis, as authorized by the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621-1627) and other laws, 
$66,419,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225).

                National Agricultural Statistics Service

    For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Statistics 
Service in conducting statistical reporting and service work, including 
crop and livestock estimates, statistical coordination and 
improvements, marketing surveys, and the Census of Agriculture, as 
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1621-1627, Public Law 105-113, and other laws, 
$100,851,000, of which up to $15,000,000 shall be available until 
expended for the Census of Agriculture: Provided, That this 
appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), 
and not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for employment under 5 
U.S.C. 3109.

                     Agricultural Research Service

    For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Research Service 
to perform agricultural research and demonstration relating to 
production, utilization, marketing, and distribution (not otherwise 
provided for); home economics or nutrition and consumer use including 
the acquisition, preservation, and dissemination of agricultural 
information; and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or 
purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, and for land exchanges 
where the lands exchanged shall be of equal value or shall be equalized 
by a payment of money to the grantor which shall not exceed 25 percent 
of the total value of the land or interests transferred out of Federal 
ownership, $850,384,000 (reduced by $6,800,000): Provided, That 
appropriations hereunder shall be available for temporary employment 
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 
1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $115,000 shall be available for 
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That appropriations 
hereunder shall be available for the operation and maintenance of 
aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed one for replacement only: 
Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available 
pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, alteration, and repair 
of buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided, the cost 
of constructing any one building shall not exceed $375,000, except for 
headhouses or greenhouses which shall each be limited to $1,200,000, 
and except for 10 buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not 
to exceed $750,000 each, and the cost of altering any one building 
during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current 
replacement value of the building or $375,000, whichever is greater: 
Provided further, That the limitations on alterations contained in this 
Act shall not apply to modernization or replacement of existing 
facilities at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, That 
appropriations hereunder shall be available for granting easements at 
the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, including an easement to 
the University of Maryland to construct the Transgenic Animal Facility 
which upon completion shall be accepted by the Secretary as a gift: 
Provided further, That the foregoing limitations shall not apply to 
replacement of buildings needed to carry out the Act of April 24, 1948 
(21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That the foregoing limitations on 
purchase of land shall not apply to the purchase of land at Corvallis, 
Oregon; Parlier, California; and Florence, South Carolina: Provided 
further, That funds may be received from any State, other political 
subdivision, organization, or individual for the purpose of 
establishing or operating any research facility or research project of 
the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized by law.
    None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be available to 
carry out research related to the production, processing or marketing 
of tobacco or tobacco products.
    In the current fiscal year, the agency is authorized to charge 
fees, commensurate with the fair market value, for any permit, 
easement, lease, or other special use authorization for the occupancy 
or use of land and facilities (including land and facilities at the 
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center) issued by the agency, as 
authorized by law, and such fees shall be credited to this account and 
shall remain available until expended for authorized purposes.

                        buildings and facilities

    For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improvement, 
extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities as 
necessary to carry out the agricultural research programs of the 
Department of Agriculture, where not otherwise provided, $39,300,000, 
to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, That 
funds may be received from any State, other political subdivision, 
organization, or individual for the purpose of establishing any 
research facility of the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized 
by law.

      Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

                   research and education activities

    For necessary payments to agricultural experiment stations, for 
cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and for other 
expenses, $477,551,000 (increased by $4,000,000), of which the 
following amounts shall be available: to carry into effect the 
provisions of the Hatch Act (7 U.S.C. 361a-i), $180,545,000; for grants 
for cooperative forestry research (16 U.S.C. 582a-a7), $21,932,000; for 
payments to the 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University 
(7 U.S.C. 3222), $30,676,000 (increased by $4,000,000); for special 
grants for agricultural research (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $74,354,000; for 
special grants for agricultural research on improved pest control (7 
U.S.C. 450i(c)), $13,721,000; for competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 
450i(b)), $96,934,000; for the support of animal health and disease 
programs (7 U.S.C. 3195), $5,109,000; for supplemental and alternative 
crops and products (7 U.S.C. 3319d), $750,000; for the 1994 research 
program (7 U.S.C. 301 note), $1,000,000, to remain available until 
expended; for higher education graduate fellowship grants (7 U.S.C. 
3152(b)(6)), $3,000,000, to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 
2209b); for higher education challenge grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(1)), 
$4,350,000; for a higher education multicultural scholars program (7 
U.S.C. 3152(b)(5)), $1,000,000, to remain available until expended (7 
U.S.C. 2209b); for an education grants program for Hispanic-serving 
Institutions (7 U.S.C. 3241), $3,500,000; for a secondary agriculture 
education program and 2-year post-secondary education (7 U.S.C. 
3152(h)), $600,000; for aquaculture grants (7 U.S.C. 3322), $4,000,000; 
for sustainable agriculture research and education (7 U.S.C. 5811), 
$9,000,000; for a program of capacity building grants (7 U.S.C. 
3152(b)(4)) to colleges eligible to receive funds under the Act of 
August 30, 1890 (7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328), including Tuskegee 
University, $9,500,000, to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 
2209b); for payments to the 1994 Institutions pursuant to section 
534(a)(1) of Public Law 103-382, $1,552,000; and for necessary expenses 
of Research and Education Activities, $16,028,000, of which not to 
exceed $100,000 shall be for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.
    None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be available to 
carry out research related to the production, processing or marketing 
of tobacco or tobacco products.

              native american institutions endowment fund

    For establishment of a Native American institutions endowment fund, 
as authorized by Public Law 103-382 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), $7,100,000: 
Provided, That hereafter, any distribution of the adjusted income from 
the Native American institutions endowment fund is authorized to be 
used for facility renovation, repair, construction, and maintenance, in 
addition to other authorized purposes.

                          extension activities

    For necessary payments to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto 
Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, and 
American Samoa, $428,740,000 (increased by $2,800,000), of which the 
following amounts shall be available: payments for cooperative 
extension work under the Smith-Lever Act, to be distributed under 
sections 3(b) and 3(c) of said Act, and under section 208(c) of Public 
Law 93-471, for retirement and employees' compensation costs for 
extension agents and for costs of penalty mail for cooperative 
extension agents and State extension directors, $276,548,000; payments 
for extension work at the 1994 Institutions under the Smith-Lever Act 
(7 U.S.C. 343(b)(3)), $3,060,000; payments for the nutrition and family 
education program for low-income areas under section 3(d) of the Act, 
$58,695,000; payments for the pest management program under section 
3(d) of the Act, $10,783,000; payments for the farm safety program 
under section 3(d) of the Act, $4,000,000; payments for pesticide 
applicator training under section 3(d) of the Act, $1,500,000; payments 
to upgrade research, extension, and teaching facilities at the 1890 
land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University, as authorized by 
section 1447 of Public Law 95-113 (7 U.S.C. 3222b), $12,000,000, to 
remain available until expended; payments for the rural development 
centers under section 3(d) of the Act, $908,000; payments for youth-at-
risk programs under section 3(d) of the Act, $9,000,000; for youth farm 
safety education and certification extension grants, to be awarded 
competitively under section 3(d) of the Act, $1,000,000; payments for 
carrying out the provisions of the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 
1978, $3,192,000; payments for Indian reservation agents under section 
3(d) of the Act, $1,714,000; payments for sustainable agriculture 
programs under section 3(d) of the Act, $3,309,000; payments for 
cooperative extension work by the colleges receiving the benefits of 
the second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328) and Tuskegee 
University, $26,843,000 (increased by $2,800,000); and for Federal 
administration and coordination including administration of the Smith-
Lever Act, and the Act of September 29, 1977 (7 U.S.C. 341-349), and 
section 1361(c) of the Act of October 3, 1980 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), and 
to coordinate and provide program leadership for the extension work of 
the Department and the several States and insular possessions, 
$16,188,000: Provided, That funds hereby appropriated pursuant to 
section 3(c) of the Act of June 26, 1953, and section 506 of the Act of 
June 23, 1972, shall not be paid to any State, the District of 
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, 
Northern Marianas, and American Samoa prior to availability of an equal 
sum from non-Federal sources for expenditure during the current fiscal 
year.

                         integrated activities

    For the integrated research, education, and extension competitive 
grants programs, including necessary administrative expenses, 
$39,541,000, as follows: payments for the water quality program, 
$12,000,000; payments for the food safety program, $15,000,000; 
payments for the national agriculture pesticide impact assessment 
program, $4,541,000; payments for the Food Quality Protection Act risk 
mitigation program for major food crop systems, $4,000,000; payments 
for the crops affected by Food Quality Protection Act implementation, 
$1,000,000; payments for the methyl bromide transition program, 
$2,000,000; and payments for the organic transition program $1,000,000, 
as authorized under section 406 of the Agricultural Research, 
Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7626).

  Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs to administer programs 
under the laws enacted by the Congress for the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service, the Agricultural Marketing Service, and the Grain 
Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, $618,000.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For expenses, not otherwise provided for, including those pursuant 
to the Act of February 28, 1947 (21 U.S.C. 114b-c), necessary to 
prevent, control, and eradicate pests and plant and animal diseases; to 
carry out inspection, quarantine, and regulatory activities; to 
discharge the authorities of the Secretary of Agriculture under the Act 
of March 2, 1931 (46 Stat. 1468; 7 U.S.C. 426-426b); and to protect the 
environment, as authorized by law, $470,000,000 (reduced by $15,510), 
of which $8,065,000 shall be available for the control of outbreaks of 
insects, plant diseases, animal diseases and for control of pest 
animals and birds to the extent necessary to meet emergency conditions: 
Provided, That no funds shall be used to formulate or administer a 
brucellosis eradication program for the current fiscal year that does 
not require minimum matching by the States of at least 40 percent: 
Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for field 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $40,000 shall be 
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That 
this appropriation shall be available for the operation and maintenance 
of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed four, of which two shall 
be for replacement only: Provided further, That, in addition, in 
emergencies which threaten any segment of the agricultural production 
industry of this country, the Secretary may transfer from other 
appropriations or funds available to the agencies or corporations of 
the Department such sums as may be deemed necessary, to be available 
only in such emergencies for the arrest and eradication of contagious 
or infectious disease or pests of animals, poultry, or plants, and for 
expenses in accordance with the Act of February 28, 1947, and section 
102 of the Act of September 21, 1944, and any unexpended balances of 
funds transferred for such emergency purposes in the preceding fiscal 
year shall be merged with such transferred amounts: Provided further, 
That appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant to law (7 
U.S.C. 2250) for the repair and alteration of leased buildings and 
improvements, but unless otherwise provided the cost of altering any 
one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the 
current replacement value of the building.
    In the current fiscal year, the agency is authorized to collect 
fees to cover the total costs of providing technical assistance, goods, 
or services requested by States, other political subdivisions, domestic 
and international organizations, foreign governments, or individuals, 
provided that such fees are structured such that any entity's liability 
for such fees is reasonably based on the technical assistance, goods, 
or services provided to the entity by the agency, and such fees shall 
be credited to this account, to remain available until expended, 
without further appropriation, for providing such assistance, goods, or 
services.
    Of the total amount available under this heading in the current 
fiscal year, $87,000,000 shall be derived from user fees deposited in 
the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection User Fee Account.

                        buildings and facilities

    For plans, construction, repair, preventive maintenance, 
environmental support, improvement, extension, alteration, and purchase 
of fixed equipment or facilities, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2250, and 
acquisition of land as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 428a, $5,200,000, to 
remain available until expended.

                     Agricultural Marketing Service

                           marketing services

    For necessary expenses to carry on services related to consumer 
protection, agricultural marketing and distribution, transportation, 
and regulatory programs, as authorized by law, and for administration 
and coordination of payments to States, including field employment 
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 
1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225) and not to exceed $90,000 for employment under 5 
U.S.C. 3109, $56,326,000, including funds for the wholesale market 
development program for the design and development of wholesale and 
farmer market facilities for the major metropolitan areas of the 
country: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available pursuant 
to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair of buildings and 
improvements, but the cost of altering any one building during the 
fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement 
value of the building: Provided further, That, only after promulgation 
of a final rule on a National Organic Standards Program, $639,000 of 
this amount shall be available for the Expenses and Refunds, Inspection 
and Grading of Farm Products fund account for the cost of the National 
Organic Standards Program and such funds shall remain available until 
expended.
    Fees may be collected for the cost of standardization activities, 
as established by regulation pursuant to law (31 U.S.C. 9701).

              limitation on administrative expenses level

    Not to exceed $60,730,000 (from fees collected) shall be obligated 
during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses: Provided, 
That if crop size is understated and/or other uncontrollable events 
occur, the agency may exceed this limitation by up to 10 percent with 
notification to the Appropriations Committees.

    funds for strengthening markets, income, and supply (section 32)

                     (including transfers of funds)

    Funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 
U.S.C. 612c) shall be used only for commodity program expenses as 
authorized therein, and other related operating expenses, except for: 
(1) transfers to the Department of Commerce as authorized by the Fish 
and Wildlife Act of August 8, 1956; (2) transfers otherwise provided in 
this Act; and (3) not more than $13,438,000 for formulation and 
administration of marketing agreements and orders pursuant to the 
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 and the Agricultural Act 
of 1961.

                   payments to states and possessions

    For payments to departments of agriculture, bureaus and departments 
of markets, and similar agencies for marketing activities under section 
204(b) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623(b)), 
$1,500,000.

        Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the United 
States Grain Standards Act, for the administration of the Packers and 
Stockyards Act, for certifying procedures used to protect purchasers of 
farm products, and the standardization activities related to grain 
under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, including field 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $25,000 for 
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $27,801,000: Provided, That this 
appropriation shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for 
the alteration and repair of buildings and improvements, but the cost 
of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 
percent of the current replacement value of the building.

        limitation on inspection and weighing services expenses

    Not to exceed $42,557,000 (from fees collected) shall be obligated 
during the current fiscal year for inspection and weighing services: 
Provided, That if grain export activities require additional 
supervision and oversight, or other uncontrollable factors occur, this 
limitation may be exceeded by up to 10 percent with notification to the 
Appropriations Committees.

             Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Food Safety to administer the laws enacted by the 
Congress for the Food Safety and Inspection Service, $446,000.

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

    For necessary expenses to carry out services authorized by the 
Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and 
the Egg Products Inspection Act, $673,790,000, of which no less than 
$585,258,000 shall be available for Federal food inspection, and in 
addition, $1,000,000 may be credited to this account from fees 
collected for the cost of laboratory accreditation as authorized by 
section 1017 of Public Law 102-237: Provided, That this appropriation 
shall be available for field employment pursuant to the second sentence 
of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not 
to exceed $75,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available 
pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair of 
buildings and improvements, but the cost of altering any one building 
during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current 
replacement value of the building: Provided further, That the Food 
Safety and Inspection Service may expend funds appropriated for, or 
otherwise made available during fiscal year 2001 to liquidate 
overobligations and overexpenditures incurred in fiscal years 1997 and 
1998.

    Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
                                Services

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services to administer the 
laws enacted by Congress for the Farm Service Agency, the Foreign 
Agricultural Service, the Risk Management Agency, and the Commodity 
Credit Corporation, $572,000.

                          Farm Service Agency

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses for carrying out the administration and 
implementation of programs administered by the Farm Service Agency, 
$828,385,000: Provided, That the Secretary is authorized to use the 
services, facilities, and authorities (but not the funds) of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation to make program payments for all programs 
administered by the Agency: Provided further, That other funds made 
available to the Agency for authorized activities may be advanced to 
and merged with this account: Provided further, That these funds shall 
be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed 
$1,000,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.

                         state mediation grants

    For grants pursuant to section 502(b) of the Agricultural Credit 
Act of 1987, as amended (7 U.S.C. 5101-5106), $3,000,000.

                        dairy indemnity program

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity payments to 
dairy farmers for milk or cows producing such milk and manufacturers of 
dairy products who have been directed to remove their milk or dairy 
products from commercial markets because it contained residues of 
chemicals registered and approved for use by the Federal Government, 
and in making indemnity payments for milk, or cows producing such milk, 
at a fair market value to any dairy farmer who is directed to remove 
his milk from commercial markets because of: (1) the presence of 
products of nuclear radiation or fallout if such contamination is not 
due to the fault of the farmer; or (2) residues of chemicals or toxic 
substances not included under the first sentence of the Act of August 
13, 1968 (7 U.S.C. 450j), if such chemicals or toxic substances were 
not used in a manner contrary to applicable regulations or labeling 
instructions provided at the time of use and the contamination is not 
due to the fault of the farmer, $450,000, to remain available until 
expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, That none of the funds contained 
in this Act shall be used to make indemnity payments to any farmer 
whose milk was removed from commercial markets as a result of the 
farmer's willful failure to follow procedures prescribed by the Federal 
Government: Provided further, That this amount shall be transferred to 
the Commodity Credit Corporation: Provided further, That the Secretary 
is authorized to utilize the services, facilities, and authorities of 
the Commodity Credit Corporation for the purpose of making dairy 
indemnity disbursements.

           agricultural credit insurance fund program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct and 
guaranteed loans as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1928-1929, to be available 
from funds in the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, as follows: farm 
ownership loans, $1,128,000,000, of which $1,000,000,000 shall be for 
guaranteed loans; operating loans, $3,177,868,000, of which 
$2,000,000,000 shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans and 
$477,868,000 shall be for subsidized guaranteed loans; Indian tribe 
land acquisition loans as authorized by 25 U.S.C. 488, $2,006,000; for 
emergency insured loans, $150,064,000 to meet the needs resulting from 
natural disasters; and for boll weevil eradication program loans as 
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1989, $100,000,000.
    For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including the cost of 
modifying loans as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, as follows: farm ownership loans, $18,886,000, of which 
$5,100,000, shall be for guaranteed loans; operating loans, 
$129,534,000, of which $27,400,000 shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed 
loans and $38,994,000 shall be for subsidized guaranteed loans; Indian 
tribe land acquisition loans as authorized by 25 U.S.C. 488, $323,000; 
and for emergency insured loans, $36,811,000 to meet the needs 
resulting from natural disasters.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
direct and guaranteed loan programs, $269,454,000, of which 
$265,315,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation 
for ``Farm Service Agency, Salaries and Expenses''.
    Funds appropriated by this Act to the Agricultural Credit Insurance 
Program Account for farm ownership and operating direct loans and 
guaranteed loans may be transferred among these programs with the prior 
approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.

                         Risk Management Agency

    For administrative and operating expenses, as authorized by the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 6933), 
$67,700,000: Provided, That not to exceed $700 shall be available for 
official reception and representation expenses, as authorized by 7 
U.S.C. 1506(i).

                              Corporations

    The following corporations and agencies are hereby authorized to 
make expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to each such corporation or agency and in accord with law, 
and to make contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year 
limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation 
Control Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth 
in the budget for the current fiscal year for such corporation or 
agency, except as hereinafter provided.

                Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund

    For payments as authorized by section 516 of the Federal Crop 
Insurance Act, such sums as may be necessary, to remain available until 
expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b).

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund

                 reimbursement for net realized losses

    For fiscal year 2001, such sums as may be necessary to reimburse 
the Commodity Credit Corporation for net realized losses sustained, but 
not previously reimbursed (estimated to be $27,771,007,000 in the 
President's fiscal year 2001 Budget Request (H. Doc. 106-162)), but not 
to exceed $27,771,007,000, pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 
17, 1961 (15 U.S.C. 713a-11).

       operations and maintenance for hazardous waste management

    For fiscal year 2001, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall not 
expend more than $5,000,000 for site investigation and cleanup 
expenses, and operations and maintenance expenses to comply with the 
requirement of section 107(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 
9607(g), and section 6001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery 
Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6961.

                        Administrative Provision

    Any limitation established in this title on funds to carry out 
research related to the production, processing, or marketing of tobacco 
or tobacco products shall not apply to research on the medical, 
biotechnological, food, and industrial uses of tobacco.

                                TITLE II

                         CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

  Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment to administer the laws 
enacted by the Congress for the Forest Service and the Natural 
Resources Conservation Service, $0.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service

                        conservation operations

    For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of the Act 
of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-f), including preparation of 
conservation plans and establishment of measures to conserve soil and 
water (including farm irrigation and land drainage and such special 
measures for soil and water management as may be necessary to prevent 
floods and the siltation of reservoirs and to control agricultural 
related pollutants); operation of conservation plant materials centers; 
classification and mapping of soil; dissemination of information; 
acquisition of lands, water, and interests therein for use in the plant 
materials program by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost 
not to exceed $100 pursuant to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 
428a); purchase and erection or alteration or improvement of permanent 
and temporary buildings; and operation and maintenance of aircraft, 
$676,812,000, to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b), of 
which not less than $5,990,000 is for snow survey and water forecasting 
and not less than $9,125,000 is for operation and establishment of the 
plant materials centers: Provided, That appropriations hereunder shall 
be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for construction and improvement 
of buildings and public improvements at plant materials centers, except 
that the cost of alterations and improvements to other buildings and 
other public improvements shall not exceed $250,000: Provided further, 
That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
Act shall be used to carry out any activity related to urban resources 
partnership: Provided further, That when buildings or other structures 
are erected on non-Federal land, that the right to use such land is 
obtained as provided in 7 U.S.C. 2250a: Provided further, That this 
appropriation shall be available for technical assistance and related 
expenses to carry out programs authorized by section 202(c) of title II 
of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act of 1974 (43 U.S.C. 
1592(c)): Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available 
for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $25,000 shall be 
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That 
qualified local engineers may be temporarily employed at per diem rates 
to perform the technical planning work of the Service (16 U.S.C. 590e-
2).

                     watershed surveys and planning

    For necessary expenses to conduct research, investigation, and 
surveys of watersheds of rivers and other waterways, and for small 
watershed investigations and planning, in accordance with the Watershed 
Protection and Flood Prevention Act approved August 4, 1954 (16 U.S.C. 
1001-1009), $10,868,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed 
$110,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.

               watershed and flood prevention operations

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out preventive measures, including 
but not limited to research, engineering operations, methods of 
cultivation, the growing of vegetation, rehabilitation of existing 
works and changes in use of land, in accordance with the Watershed 
Protection and Flood Prevention Act approved August 4, 1954 (16 U.S.C. 
1001-1005 and 1007-1009), the provisions of the Act of April 27, 1935 
(16 U.S.C. 590a-f), and in accordance with the provisions of laws 
relating to the activities of the Department, $83,423,000, to remain 
available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b) (of which up to $12,000,000 
may be available for the watersheds authorized under the Flood Control 
Act approved June 22, 1936 (33 U.S.C. 701 and 16 U.S.C. 1006a)): 
Provided, That not to exceed $44,423,000 of this appropriation shall be 
available for technical assistance: Provided further, That this 
appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), 
and not to exceed $200,000 shall be available for employment under 5 
U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 of this 
appropriation is available to carry out the purposes of the Endangered 
Species Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-205), including cooperative efforts 
as contemplated by that Act to relocate endangered or threatened 
species to other suitable habitats as may be necessary to expedite 
project construction: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, of the funds available for Emergency Watershed 
Protection activities, $1,045,000 shall be available for DuPage County, 
Illinois for financial and technical assistance: Provided further, That 
up to $4,170,000 is for the costs of loans, as authorized by the 
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1006a), for 
rehabilitation of small, upstream dams built under the Watershed 
Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. et seq.), section 13 of 
the Act of December 22, 1944 (Public Law 78-534; 58 Stat. 905), and the 
pilot watershed program authorized under the heading ``Flood 
Prevention'' of the Department of Agriculture Appropriations Act, 1954 
(Public Law 83-156; 67 Stat. 214): Provided further, That such costs, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, 
That none of the costs for such rehabilitation activities (including 
any technical assistance costs such as planning, design, and 
engineering costs) shall be borne by the Department of Agriculture: 
Provided further, That the Department may provide technical assistance 
for such rehabilitation projects to the extent that the costs of such 
assistance shall be reimbursed by the borrower, and such reimbursements 
shall be deposited into the accounts that incurred such costs and shall 
be available until expended without further appropriation. In addition, 
for expenses necessary to administer the loans, such sums as may be 
necessary shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
``Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses''.

                 resource conservation and development

    For necessary expenses in planning and carrying out projects for 
resource conservation and development and for sound land use pursuant 
to the provisions of section 32(e) of title III of the Bankhead-Jones 
Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1010-1011; 76 Stat. 607), the Act of April 
27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-f), and the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 
(16 U.S.C. 3451-3461), $41,708,000, to remain available until expended 
(7 U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, That this appropriation shall be available 
for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $50,000 shall be 
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.

                               TITLE III

                       RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

          Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Rural Development to administer programs under the laws 
enacted by the Congress for the Rural Housing Service, the Rural 
Business-Cooperative Service, and the Rural Utilities Service of the 
Department of Agriculture, $588,000.

                  rural community advancement program

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, and grants, as 
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1926, 1926a, 1926c, 1926d, and 1932, except for 
sections 381E-H, 381N, and 381O of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2009f), $775,837,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $33,150,000, shall be for rural community 
programs described in section 381E(d)(1) of such Act; of which 
$668,988,000, shall be for the rural utilities programs described in 
sections 381E(d)(2), 306C(a)(2), and 306D of such Act; and of which 
$73,699,000, shall be for the rural business and cooperative 
development programs described in sections 381E(d)(3) and 310B(f) of 
such Act: Provided, That of the total amount appropriated in this 
account, $12,000,000 shall be for loans and grants to benefit federally 
Recognized Native American Tribes: Provided further, That of the total 
amount appropriated for federally Recognized Native American Tribes, 
$250,000 shall be set aside and made available for a grant to a 
qualified national organization to provide technical assistance for 
rural transportation in order to promote economic development for 
federally recognized tribes: Provided further, That of the total amount 
appropriated in the Rural Community Advancement Program account, 
$2,000,000 shall be for an agri-tourism program: Provided further, That 
of the amount appropriated for rural community programs, $6,000,000 
shall be available for a Rural Community Development Initiative: 
Provided further, That such funds shall be used solely to develop the 
capacity and ability of private, nonprofit community-based housing and 
community development organizations, and low-income rural communities 
to undertake projects to improve housing, community facilities, 
community and economic development projects in rural areas: Provided 
further, That such funds shall be made available to qualified private 
and public (including tribal) intermediary organizations proposing to 
carry out a program of technical assistance: Provided further, That 
such intermediary organizations shall provide matching funds from other 
sources in an amount not less than funds provided: Provided further, 
That of the amount appropriated for rural community programs not to 
exceed $5,000,000 shall be for hazardous weather early warning systems: 
Provided further, That of the amount appropriated for the rural 
business and cooperative development programs, not to exceed $500,000 
shall be made available for a grant to a qualified national 
organization to provide technical assistance for rural transportation 
in order to promote economic development; $5,000,000 shall be for rural 
partnership technical assistance grants; $2,000,000 shall be for grants 
to Mississippi Delta Region counties; and not to exceed $2,000,000 may 
be for loans to firms that market and process biobased products: 
Provided further, That of the amount appropriated for rural utilities 
programs, not to exceed $20,000,000 shall be for water and waste 
disposal systems to benefit the Colonias along the United States/Mexico 
borders, including grants pursuant to section 306C of such Act; not to 
exceed $20,000,000 shall be for water and waste disposal systems for 
rural and native villages in Alaska pursuant to section 306D of such 
Act, of which 1 percent may be transferred to and merged with ``Rural 
Development, Salaries and Expenses'' to administer the program; not to 
exceed $18,515,000 shall be for technical assistance grants for rural 
waste systems pursuant to section 306(a)(14) of such Act; and not to 
exceed $9,500,000 shall be for contracting with qualified national 
organizations for a circuit rider program to provide technical 
assistance for rural water systems: Provided further, That of the total 
amount appropriated, not to exceed $42,574,650 shall be available 
through June 30, 2001, for authorized empowerment zones and enterprise 
communities and communities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture 
as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones; of which $30,000,000 shall be 
for the rural utilities programs described in section 381E(d)(2) of 
such Act; and of which $8,435,000 shall be for the rural business and 
cooperative development programs described in section 381E(d)(3) of 
such Act.

                         Rural Housing Service

              rural housing insurance fund program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct and 
guaranteed loans as authorized by title V of the Housing Act of 1949, 
to be available from funds in the rural housing insurance fund, as 
follows: $4,800,000,000 for loans to section 502 borrowers, as 
determined by the Secretary, of which $3,700,000,000 shall be for 
unsubsidized guaranteed loans; $32,396,000 for section 504 housing 
repair loans; $100,000,000 for section 538 guaranteed multi-family 
housing loans; $114,321,000 for section 515 rental housing; $5,000,000 
for section 524 site loans; $16,780,000 for credit sales of acquired 
property, of which up to $1,780,000 may be for multi-family credit 
sales; and $5,000,000 for section 523 self-help housing land 
development loans: Provided, That of the total amount made available 
for loans to section 502 borrowers, up to $5,400,000 shall be available 
for use under a demonstration program to be carried out by the 
Secretary of Agriculture in North Carolina to determine the timeliness, 
quality, suitability, efficiency, and cost of utilizing modular housing 
to re-house low- and very low-income elderly families who: (1) have 
lost their housing because of a major disaster (as so declared by the 
President pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act); and (2)(A) do not have homeowner's 
insurance; or (B) can not repay a direct loan that is provided under 
section 502 of the Housing Act of 1949 with the maximum subsidy allowed 
for such loans: Provided further, That, of the amounts made available 
for such demonstration program, $5,000,000 shall be for grants and 
$400,000 shall be for the cost (as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974) of loans, for such families to 
acquire modular housing.
    For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including the cost of 
modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, as follows: section 502 loans, $184,160,000 of which 
$7,400,000 shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans; section 504 
housing repair loans, $11,481,000; section 538 multi-family housing 
guaranteed loans, $1,520,000; section 515 rental housing, $56,326,000; 
multi-family credit sales of acquired property, $874,000; and section 
523 self-help housing land development loans, $279,000: Provided, That 
of the total amount appropriated in this paragraph, $11,180,000 shall 
be available through June 30, 2001, for authorized empowerment zones 
and enterprise communities and communities designated by the Secretary 
of Agriculture as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
direct and guaranteed loan programs, $375,879,000, which shall be 
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for ``Rural 
Development, Salaries and Expenses''.

                       rental assistance program

    For rental assistance agreements entered into or renewed pursuant 
to the authority under section 521(a)(2) or agreements entered into in 
lieu of debt forgiveness or payments for eligible households as 
authorized by section 502(c)(5)(D) of the Housing Act of 1949, 
$655,900,000; and, in addition, such sums as may be necessary, as 
authorized by section 521(c) of the Act, to liquidate debt incurred 
prior to fiscal year 1992 to carry out the rental assistance program 
under section 521(a)(2) of the Act: Provided, That of this amount, not 
more than $5,900,000 shall be available for debt forgiveness or 
payments for eligible households as authorized by section 502(c)(5)(D) 
of the Act, and not to exceed $10,000 per project for advances to 
nonprofit organizations or public agencies to cover direct costs (other 
than purchase price) incurred in purchasing projects pursuant to 
section 502(c)(5)(C) of the Act: Provided further, That agreements 
entered into or renewed during the current fiscal year shall be funded 
for a 5-year period, although the life of any such agreement may be 
extended to fully utilize amounts obligated.

                  mutual and self-help housing grants

    For grants and contracts pursuant to section 523(b)(1)(A) of the 
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490c), $28,000,000, to remain available 
until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b) of which $1,000,000 shall be available 
through June 30, 2001, for authorized empowerment zones and enterprise 
communities and communities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture 
as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones.

                    rural housing assistance grants

    For grants and contracts for very low-income housing repair, 
supervisory and technical assistance, compensation for construction 
defects, and rural housing preservation made by the Rural Housing 
Service, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1474, 1479(c), 1490e, and 1490m, 
$39,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the 
total amount appropriated, $1,200,000 shall be available through June 
30, 2001, for authorized empowerment zones and enterprise communities 
and communities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural 
Economic Area Partnership Zones.

                       farm labor program account

    For the cost of direct loans, grants, and contracts, as authorized 
by 42 U.S.C. 1484 and 1486, $27,000,000, to remain available until 
expended for direct farm labor housing loans and domestic farm labor 
housing grants and contracts. In addition, for grants to assist low-
income migrant and seasonal farmworkers, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 
5177a, $3,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                           RURAL DEVELOPMENT

                         Salaries and Expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of administering Rural Development programs 
authorized by the Rural Electrification Act of 1936; the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act; title V of the Housing Act of 1949; 
section 1323 of the Food Security Act of 1985; the Cooperative 
Marketing Act of 1926; for activities related to marketing aspects of 
cooperatives, including economic research findings, authorized by the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946; for activities with institutions 
concerning the development and operation of agricultural cooperatives: 
$120,270,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $1,000,000 may 
be used for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That not 
more than $10,000 may be expended to provide modest nonmonetary awards 
to non-USDA employees: Provided further, That any balances available 
for the Rural Utilities Service, the Rural Housing Service, and the 
Rural Business-Cooperative Service salaries and expenses accounts shall 
be transferred to and merged with this account.

                   Rural Business-Cooperative Service

              Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For the cost of direct loans, $19,476,000, as authorized by the 
Rural Development Loan Fund (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)): Provided, That such 
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided 
further, That these funds are available to subsidize gross obligations 
for the principal amount of direct loans of $38,256,000: Provided 
further, That of the total amount appropriated, $3,216,000 shall be 
available through June 30, 2001, for the cost of direct loans for 
authorized empowerment zones and enterprise communities and communities 
designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic Area 
Partnership Zones.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
loan programs, $3,337,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriation for ``Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses''.

            rural economic development loans program account

                    (including rescission of funds)

    For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized under 
section 313 of the Rural Electrification Act, for the purpose of 
promoting rural economic development and job creation projects, 
$15,000,000.
    For the cost of direct loans, including the cost of modifying loans 
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
$3,911,000.
    Of the funds derived from interest on the cushion of credit 
payments in fiscal year 2001, as authorized by section 313 of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936, $3,911,000 shall not be obligated and 
$3,911,000 are rescinded.

                  rural cooperative development grants

    For rural cooperative development grants authorized under section 
310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
1932), $6,500,000, of which $2,000,000 shall be available for 
cooperative agreements for the appropriate technology transfer for 
rural areas program.

       national sheep industry improvement center revolving fund

    For the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center Revolving Fund 
authorized under section 375 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 2008j), $5,000,000, to remain 
available until expended.

                        Rural Utilities Service

   rural electrification and telecommunications loans program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    Insured loans pursuant to the authority of section 305 of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935) shall be made as follows: 5 
percent rural electrification loans, $50,000,000; 5 percent rural 
telecommunications loans, $75,000,000; cost of money rural 
telecommunications loans, $300,000,000; municipal rate rural electric 
loans, $295,000,000; and loans made pursuant to section 306 of that 
Act, rural electric, $1,200,000,000 and rural telecommunications, 
$120,000,000.
    For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, including the cost of modifying loans, of direct and 
guaranteed loans authorized by the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 
U.S.C. 935 and 936), as follows: cost of rural electric loans, 
$25,500,000, and the cost of telecommunication loans, $7,770,000: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 305(d)(2) of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936, borrower interest rates may exceed 7 
percent per year.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
direct and guaranteed loan programs, $31,046,000, which shall be 
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for ``Rural 
Development, Salaries and Expenses''.

                  rural telephone bank program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    The Rural Telephone Bank is hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds available to such corporation 
in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without 
regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the 
Government Corporation Control Act, as may be necessary in carrying out 
its authorized programs. During fiscal year 2001 and within the 
resources and authority available, gross obligations for the principal 
amount of direct loans shall be $175,000,000.
    For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, including the cost of modifying loans, of direct loans 
authorized by the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935), 
$2,590,000.
    In addition, for administrative expenses, including audits, 
necessary to carry out the loan programs, $3,000,000, which shall be 
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for ``Rural 
Development, Salaries and Expenses''.

               distance learning and telemedicine program

    For the cost of direct loans and grants, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
950aaa et seq., $18,100,000, to remain available until expended, to be 
available for loans and grants for telemedicine and distance learning 
services in rural areas; in addition, for the cost of direct loans and 
grants, for a pilot program to finance broadband transmission and local 
dial-up Internet service $1,400,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the definition of ``rural area'' contained in 
section 203(b) of the Rural Electrification Act (7 U.S.C. 924(b)) shall 
be applicable in carrying out this pilot program: Provided further, 
That the cost of direct loans shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

                                TITLE IV

                         DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS

Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services to administer the 
laws enacted by the Congress for the Food and Nutrition Service, 
$554,000.

                       Food and Nutrition Service

                        child nutrition programs

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out the National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), except section 21, and the Child Nutrition 
Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.), except sections 17 and 21; 
$9,535,039,000, to remain available through September 30, 2002, of 
which $4,407,460,000 is hereby appropriated and $5,127,579,000 shall be 
derived by transfer from funds available under section 32 of the Act of 
August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c): Provided, That, except as specifically 
provided under this heading, none of the funds made available under 
this heading shall be used for studies and evaluations: Provided 
further, That of any funds made available under this heading by 
transfer from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, 
Infants, and Children (WIC), up to $6,000,000 shall be for school 
breakfast pilot projects, including the evaluation required under 
section 18(e) of the National School Lunch Act: Provided further, That 
up to $4,511,000 shall be available for independent verification of 
school food service claims.

special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children 
                                 (wic)

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out the special supplemental 
nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of the Child Nutrition 
Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), $4,067,000,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2001: Provided, That none of the funds made 
available under this heading shall be used for studies and evaluations: 
Provided further, That of the total amount available, the Secretary 
shall obligate $10,000,000 for the farmers' market nutrition program 
within 45 days of the enactment of this Act, and an additional 
$5,000,000 for the farmers' market nutrition program from any funds not 
needed to maintain current caseload levels: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 17(h)(10)(A) of such Act, up to $14,000,000 
shall be available for the purposes specified in section 17(h)(10)(B), 
no less than $6,000,000 of which shall be used for the development of 
electronic benefit transfer systems: Provided further, That once the 
amount for fiscal year 2000 carryover funds has been determined by the 
Secretary, any funds in excess of $100,000,000 may be transferred and 
made available as follows: $6,000,000 to programs under the heading 
``Child nutrition programs'', $5,000,000 to programs under the heading 
``Commodity assistance program'', and $10,000,000 to programs under the 
heading ``Food donations program'': Provided further, That none of the 
funds in this Act shall be available to pay administrative expenses of 
WIC clinics except those that have an announced policy of prohibiting 
smoking within the space used to carry out the program: Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided in this account shall be 
available for the purchase of infant formula except in accordance with 
the cost containment and competitive bidding requirements specified in 
section 17 of such Act: Provided further, That none of the funds 
provided shall be available for activities that are not fully 
reimbursed by other Federal Government departments or agencies unless 
authorized by section 17 of such Act.

                           food stamp program

    For necessary expenses to carry out the Food Stamp Act (7 U.S.C. 
2011 et seq.), $21,231,993,000, of which $100,000,000 shall be placed 
in reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times as may become 
necessary to carry out program operations: Provided, That none of the 
funds made available under this heading shall be used for studies and 
evaluations: Provided further, That funds provided herein shall be 
expended in accordance with section 16 of the Food Stamp Act: Provided 
further, That this appropriation shall be subject to any work 
registration or workfare requirements as may be required by law: 
Provided further, That not more than $194,000,000 may be reserved by 
the Secretary, notwithstanding section 16(h)(1)(A)(vi) of the Food 
Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2025(h)(1)(A)(vi)), for allocation to State 
agencies under section 16(h)(1) of such Act to carry out Employment and 
Training programs: Provided further, That funds made available for 
Employment and Training under this heading shall remain available until 
expended, as authorized by section 16(h)(1) of the Food Stamp Act.

                      commodity assistance program

    For necessary expenses to carry out the commodity supplemental food 
program as authorized by section 4(a) of the Agriculture and Consumer 
Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c note) and the Emergency Food 
Assistance Act of 1983, $138,300,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2002: Provided, That none of these funds shall be 
available to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities 
donated to the program: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
5(a)(2) of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (Public 
Law 93-86; 7 U.S.C. 612c note), $20,781,000 of this amount shall be 
available for administrative expenses of the commodity supplemental 
food program.

                        food donations programs

    For necessary expenses to carry out section 4(a) of the Agriculture 
and Consumer Protection Act of 1973; special assistance for the nuclear 
affected islands as authorized by section 103(h)(2) of the Compacts of 
Free Association Act of 1985, as amended; and section 311 of the Older 
Americans Act of 1965, $141,081,000 (increased by $20,000,000), to 
remain available through September 30, 2002.

                      food program administration

    For necessary administrative expenses of the domestic food programs 
funded under this Act, $116,392,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be 
available only for simplifying procedures, reducing overhead costs, 
tightening regulations, improving food stamp benefit delivery, and 
assisting in the prevention, identification, and prosecution of fraud 
and other violations of law and of which not less than $3,000,000 shall 
be available to improve integrity in the Food Stamp and Child Nutrition 
programs: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $150,000 shall 
be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.

                                TITLE V

                FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

                      Foreign Agricultural Service

    For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural Service, 
including carrying out title VI of the Agricultural Act of 1954 (7 
U.S.C. 1761-1768), market development activities abroad, and for 
enabling the Secretary to coordinate and integrate activities of the 
Department in connection with foreign agricultural work, including not 
to exceed $150,000 for representation allowances and for expenses 
pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 
1766), $109,186,000: Provided, That the Service may utilize advances of 
funds, or reimburse this appropriation for expenditures made on behalf 
of Federal agencies, public and private organizations and institutions 
under agreements executed pursuant to the agricultural food production 
assistance programs (7 U.S.C. 1737) and the foreign assistance programs 
of the United States Agency for International Development.
    None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be available to 
promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products.

                     public law 480 program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For the cost as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, of agreements under the Agricultural Trade Development and 
Assistance Act of 1954, as amended, and the Food for Progress Act of 
1985, as amended, including the cost of modifying credit arrangements 
under said Acts, $114,186,000, to remain available until expended.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the credit 
program of title I, Public Law 83-480, and the Food for Progress Act of 
1985, as amended, to the extent funds appropriated for Public Law 83-
480 are utilized, $1,850,000, of which not to exceed $1,035,000 may be 
transferred to and merged with ``Salaries and Expenses'', Foreign 
Agricultural Service, and of which not to exceed $815,000 may be 
transferred to and merged with ``Salaries and Expenses'', Farm Service 
Agency.

        public law 480 title i ocean freight differential grants

    For expenses during the current fiscal year, not otherwise 
recoverable, and unrecovered prior years' costs, including interest 
thereon, under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
1954, as amended, $20,322,000, to remain available until expended, for 
ocean freight differential costs for the shipment of agricultural 
commodities under title I of said Act: Provided, That funds made 
available for the cost of title I agreements and for title I ocean 
freight differential may be used interchangeably between the two 
accounts.

                public law 480 grants--titles ii and iii

    For expenses during the current fiscal year, not otherwise 
recoverable, and unrecovered prior years' costs, including interest 
thereon, under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
1954, as amended, $800,000,000 (reduced by $30,000,000), to remain 
available until expended, for commodities supplied in connection with 
dispositions abroad under title II of said Act, of which up to 15 
percent may be used for commodities supplied in connection with 
dispositions abroad under title III of said Act, and of which 
$1,850,000 may be used for administrative expenses of the United States 
Agency for International Development, including expenses incurred to 
employ personal services contractors, to carry out title II of such Act 
(and this amount is in addition to amounts otherwise available for such 
purposes).

       commodity credit corporation export loans program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For administrative expenses to carry out the Commodity Credit 
Corporation's export guarantee program, GSM 102 and GSM 103, 
$3,820,000; to cover common overhead expenses as permitted by section 
11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act and in conformity 
with the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, of which $3,231,000 may be 
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for ``Foreign 
Agricultural Service'' and $589,000 may be transferred to and merged 
with the appropriation for ``Farm Service Agency, Salaries and 
Expenses''.

                                TITLE VI

           FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION AND RELATED AGENCIES

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                      Food and Drug Administration

                         salaries and expenses

                         (including rescission)

    For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Administration, 
including hire and purchase of passenger motor vehicles; for payment of 
space rental and related costs pursuant to Public Law 92-313 for 
programs and activities of the Food and Drug Administration which are 
included in this Act; for rental of special purpose space in the 
District of Columbia or elsewhere; and for miscellaneous and emergency 
expenses of enforcement activities, authorized and approved by the 
Secretary and to be accounted for solely on the Secretary's 
certificate, not to exceed $25,000; $1,267,178,000, of which not to 
exceed $149,273,000 in prescription drug user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 379(h) may be credited to this appropriation and remain 
available until expended: Provided, That no more than $104,954,000 
shall be for payments to the General Services Administration for rent 
and related costs: Provided further, That $3,000,000 may be for 
activities carried out pursuant to section 512 of the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to new animal drugs, in addition to 
the amounts otherwise available under this heading for such activities: 
Provided further, That of the funds appropriated for ``Food and Drug 
Administration Salaries and Expenses'' under Public Law 106-78, 
$27,000,000 is hereby rescinded upon enactment of this Act.
    In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 42 U.S.C. 263(b) 
may be credited to this account, to remain available until expended.
    In addition, export certification user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
381, as amended, may be credited to this account, to remain available 
until expended.

                        buildings and facilities

    For plans, construction, repair, improvement, extension, 
alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of or used by 
the Food and Drug Administration, where not otherwise provided, 
$11,350,000, to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b).

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

    For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Commodity 
Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), including the purchase and hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; the rental of space (to include multiple year 
leases) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and not to exceed 
$25,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $69,000,000, including not 
to exceed $2,000 for official reception and representation expenses: 
Provided, That for fiscal year 2001 and thereafter, the Commission is 
authorized to charge reasonable fees to attendees of Commission 
sponsored educational events and symposia to cover the Commission's 
costs of providing those events and symposia, and notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 3302, said fees shall be credited to this account, to be 
available without further appropriation.

                       Farm Credit Administration

                 limitation on administrative expenses

    Not to exceed $36,800,000 (from assessments collected from farm 
credit institutions and from the Federal Agricultural Mortgage 
Corporation) shall be obligated during the current fiscal year for 
administrative expenses as authorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, 
That this limitation shall not apply to expenses associated with 
receiverships.

                     TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, 
appropriations and authorizations made for the Department of 
Agriculture for the current fiscal year under this Act shall be 
available for the purchase, in addition to those specifically provided 
for, of not to exceed 389 passenger motor vehicles, of which 385 shall 
be for replacement only, and for the hire of such vehicles.
    Sec. 702. Funds in this Act available to the Department of 
Agriculture shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor as 
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902).
    Sec. 703. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropriations of the 
Department of Agriculture in this Act for research and service work 
authorized by sections 1 and 10 of the Act of June 29, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 
427, 427i; commonly known as the Bankhead-Jones Act), subtitle A of 
title II and section 302 of the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621 
et seq.), and chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code, shall be 
available for contracting in accordance with such Acts and chapter.
    Sec. 704. The Secretary may transfer funds provided under this Act 
and other available unobligated balances of the Department of 
Agriculture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition of plant 
and capital equipment necessary for the delivery of financial, 
administrative, and information technology services: Provided, That 
none of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act shall be 
transferred to the Working Capital Fund without the prior approval of 
the agency administrator.
    Sec. 705. New obligational authority provided for the following 
appropriation items in this Act shall remain available until expended: 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the contingency fund to 
meet emergency conditions, fruit fly program, integrated systems 
acquisition project, boll weevil program, up to 10 percent of the 
screwworm program, and up to $2,000,000 for costs associated with 
colocating regional offices; Food Safety and Inspection Service, field 
automation and information management project; funds appropriated for 
rental payments; Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
Service, funds for competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)) and 
funds for the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund; Farm Service 
Agency, salaries and expenses funds made available to county 
committees; Foreign Agricultural Service, middle-income country 
training program and up to $2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricultural 
Service appropriation solely for the purpose of offsetting fluctuations 
in international currency exchange rates, subject to documentation by 
the Foreign Agricultural Service.
    Sec. 706. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein.
    Sec. 707. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriations available to 
the Department of Agriculture in this Act shall be available to provide 
appropriate orientation and language training pursuant to section 606C 
of the Act of August 28, 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1766b; commonly known as the 
Agricultural Act of 1954).
    Sec. 708. No funds appropriated by this Act may be used to pay 
negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative agreements or similar 
arrangements between the United States Department of Agriculture and 
nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost 
of the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative arrangements is 
to carry out programs of mutual interest between the two parties. This 
does not preclude appropriate payment of indirect costs on grants and 
contracts with such institutions when such indirect costs are computed 
on a similar basis for all agencies for which appropriations are 
provided in this Act.
    Sec. 709. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
commodities acquired by the Department in connection with the Commodity 
Credit Corporation and section 32 price support operations may be used, 
as authorized by law (15 U.S.C. 714c and 7 U.S.C. 612c), to provide 
commodities to individuals in cases of hardship as determined by the 
Secretary of Agriculture.
    Sec. 710. None of the funds in this Act shall be available to 
restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to lease 
space for its own use or to lease space on behalf of other agencies of 
the Department of Agriculture when such space will be jointly occupied.
    Sec. 711. None of the funds in this Act shall be available to pay 
indirect costs charged against competitive agricultural research, 
education, or extension grant awards issued by the Cooperative State 
Research, Education, and Extension Service that exceed 19 percent of 
total Federal funds provided under each award: Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 1462 of the National Agricultural Research, 
Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3310), funds 
provided by this Act for grants awarded competitively by the 
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service shall be 
available to pay full allowable indirect costs for each grant awarded 
under section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638).
    Sec. 712. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, all loan 
levels provided in this Act shall be considered estimates, not 
limitations.
    Sec. 713. Appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for the 
cost of direct and guaranteed loans made available in the current 
fiscal year shall remain available until expended to cover obligations 
made in the current fiscal year for the following accounts: the rural 
development loan fund program account; the rural telephone bank program 
account; the rural electrification and telecommunications loans program 
account; the rural housing insurance fund program account; and the 
rural economic development loans program account.
    Sec. 714. Such sums as may be necessary for the current fiscal year 
pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within the 
levels appropriated by this Act.
    Sec. 715. Notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, United States 
Code, marketing services of the Agricultural Marketing Service; the 
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; the Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service; and the food safety activities of the 
Food Safety and Inspection Service may use cooperative agreements to 
reflect a relationship between the Agricultural Marketing Service; the 
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; the Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service; or the Food Safety and Inspection 
Service and a State or Cooperator to carry out agricultural marketing 
programs, to carry out programs to protect the Nation's animal and 
plant resources, or to carry out educational programs or special 
studies to improve the safety of the Nation's food supply.
    Sec. 716. Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including 
provisions of law requiring competition), the Secretary of Agriculture 
may hereafter enter into cooperative agreements (which may provide for 
the acquisition of goods or services, including personal services) with 
a State, political subdivision, or agency thereof, a public or private 
agency, organization, or any other person, if the Secretary determines 
that the objectives of the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual interest 
of the parties to the agreement in carrying out the programs 
administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service; and (2) all 
parties will contribute resources to the accomplishment of these 
objectives: Provided, That Commodity Credit Corporation funds obligated 
for such purposes shall not exceed the level obligated by the Commodity 
Credit Corporation for such purposes in fiscal year 1998.
    Sec. 717. None of the funds in this Act may be used to retire more 
than 5 percent of the Class A stock of the Rural Telephone Bank or to 
maintain any account or subaccount within the accounting records of the 
Rural Telephone Bank the creation of which has not specifically been 
authorized by statute: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this Act may be used to transfer to the Treasury or to the 
Federal Financing Bank any unobligated balance of the Rural Telephone 
Bank telephone liquidating account which is in excess of current 
requirements and such balance shall receive interest as set forth for 
financial accounts in section 505(c) of the Federal Credit Reform Act 
of 1990.
    Sec. 718. Of the funds made available by this Act, not more than 
$1,500,000 shall be used to cover necessary expenses of activities 
related to all advisory committees, panels, commissions, and task 
forces of the Department of Agriculture, except for panels used to 
comply with negotiated rule makings and panels used to evaluate 
competitively awarded grants.
    Sec. 719. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to 
carry out section 410 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 
679a) or section 30 of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 
471).
    Sec. 720. No employee of the Department of Agriculture may be 
detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by this Act to any 
other agency or office of the Department for more than 30 days unless 
the individual's employing agency or office is fully reimbursed by the 
receiving agency or office for the salary and expenses of the employee 
for the period of assignment.
    Sec. 721. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of Agriculture shall be used to transmit or 
otherwise make available to any non-Department of Agriculture employee 
questions or responses to questions that are a result of information 
requested for the appropriations hearing process.
    Sec. 722. None of the funds made available to the Department of 
Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire new information 
technology systems or significant upgrades, as determined by the Office 
of the Chief Information Officer, without the approval of the Chief 
Information Officer and the concurrence of the Executive Information 
Technology Investment Review Board: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be transferred to the Office of the 
Chief Information Officer without the prior approval of the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
    Sec. 723. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 
by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that 
remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current fiscal 
year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United 
States derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies 
funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new programs; (2) 
eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or 
personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have 
been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) 
reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out or 
privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by Federal 
employees; unless the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such reprogramming of 
funds.
    (b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by previous 
Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that remain 
available for obligation or expenditure in the current fiscal year, or 
provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, 
shall be available for obligation or expenditure for activities, 
programs, or projects through a reprogramming of funds in excess of 
$500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that: (1) augments existing 
programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding 
for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel 
by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general 
savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in 
existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are 
notified 15 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds.
    Sec. 724. With the exception of funds needed to administer and 
conduct oversight of grants awarded and obligations incurred prior to 
enactment of this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries and 
expenses of personnel to carry out section 793 of Public Law 104-127, 
the Fund for Rural America (7 U.S.C. 2204f).
    Sec. 725. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
personnel who carry out an environmental quality incentives program 
authorized by chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security 
Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) in excess of $174,000,000.
    Sec. 726. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise available to 
the Department of Agriculture in the current fiscal year or thereafter 
may be used to administer the provision of contract payments to a 
producer under the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7201 et 
seq.) for contract acreage on which wild rice is planted unless the 
contract payment is reduced by an acre for each contract acre planted 
to wild rice.
    Sec. 727. With the exception of funds needed to administer and 
conduct oversight of grants awarded and obligations incurred prior to 
enactment of this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries and 
expenses of personnel to carry out the provisions of section 401 of 
Public Law 105-185, the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food 
Systems (7 U.S.C. 7621).
    Sec. 728. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to carry out any commodity purchase 
program that would prohibit eligibility or participation by farmer-
owned cooperatives.
    Sec. 729. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
personnel to carry out a conservation farm option program, as 
authorized by section 1240M of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3839bb).
    Sec. 730. None of the funds made available by this Act or any other 
Act for any fiscal year may be used to carry out section 203(h) of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622(h)) unless the 
Secretary of Agriculture inspects and certifies agricultural processing 
equipment, and imposes a fee for the inspection and certification, in a 
manner that is similar to the inspection and certification of 
agricultural products under that section, as determined by the 
Secretary: Provided, That this provision shall not affect the authority 
of the Secretary to carry out the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 
U.S.C. 601 et seq.), the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 
et seq.), or the Egg Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 1031 et seq.).
    Sec. 731. None of the funds appropriated by this Act or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel who 
prepare or submit appropriations language as part of the President's 
Budget submission to the Congress of the United States for programs 
under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on 
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies that assumes 
revenues or reflects a reduction from the previous year due to user 
fees proposals that have not been enacted into law prior to the 
submission of the Budget unless such Budget submission identifies which 
additional spending reductions should occur in the event the user fees 
proposals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening of a 
committee of conference for the fiscal year 2002 appropriations Act.
    Sec. 732. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to carry out a Community Food 
Security program or any similar activity within the United States 
Department of Agriculture without the prior approval of the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
    Sec. 733. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to carry out provision 
of section 612 of Public Law 105-185.
    Sec. 734. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used 
to propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or orders for the 
purpose of implementation, or in preparation for implementation, of the 
Kyoto Protocol which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, 
at the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework 
Convention on Climate Change, which has not been submitted to the 
Senate for advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article II, 
section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and which has 
not entered into force pursuant to article 25 of the Protocol: 
Provided, That the limitation established in this section shall not 
apply to any activity otherwise authorized by law.
    Sec. 735. After taking any action involving the seizure, 
quarantine, treatment, destruction, or disposal of wheat infested with 
karnal bunt, the Secretary of Agriculture shall compensate the 
producers and handlers for economic losses incurred as the result of 
the action not later than 45 days after receipt of a claim that 
includes all appropriate paperwork.
    Sec. 736. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Town of 
Lloyd, New York and the Town of Thompson, New York shall be eligible 
for loans and grants provided through the Rural Community Advancement 
Program.
    Sec. 737. Hereafter, notwithstanding section 502(h)(7) of the 
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472(h)(7)), the fee collected by the 
Secretary of Agriculture with respect to a guaranteed loan under such 
section 502(h) at the time of the issuance of such guarantee may be in 
an amount equal to not more than 2 percent of the principal obligation 
of the loan.
    Sec. 738. The Secretary of Agriculture may use funds available 
under this and subsequent appropriation Acts to employ individuals to 
perform services outside the United States as determined by the 
agencies to be necessary or appropriate for carrying out programs and 
activities abroad; and such employment actions, hereafter referred to 
as Personal Service Agreements (PSA), are authorized to be negotiated, 
the terms of the PSA to be prescribed and work to be performed, where 
necessary, without regard to such statutory provisions as related to 
the negotiation, making and performance of contracts and performance of 
work in the United States. Individuals employed under a PSA to perform 
such services outside the United States shall not by virtue of such 
employment be considered employees of the United States Government for 
purposes of any law administered by the Office of Personnel Management. 
Such individuals may be considered employees within the meaning of the 
Federal Employee Compensation Act, 5 U.S.C. 8101 et seq. Further, that 
Government service credit shall be accrued for the time employed under 
a PSA should the individual later be hired into a permanent United 
States Government position within FAS or another United States 
Government agency if their authorities so permit.
    Sec. 739. (a) In General.--Section 141 of the Agricultural Market 
Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7251) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(4), by striking ``and 2000''; and 
        inserting ``through 2001''; and
            (2) in subsection (h), by striking ``2000'' each place it 
        appears and inserting ``2001''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 142(e) of the Agricultural 
Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7252(e)) is amended by striking 
``2001'' and inserting ``2002''.
    Sec. 740. In addition to amounts otherwise appropriated or made 
available by this Act, $4,000,000 is appropriated for the purpose of 
providing Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships through the 
Congressional Hunger Center.
    Sec. 741. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used to include a flood plain 
determination in any environmental impact study conducted by or at the 
request of the Farm Service Agency for financial obligations or 
guarantees to aquaculture facilities pending the completion by the 
Secretary of Agriculture and submission to Congress of a study 
regarding the environmental impact of aquaculture activities in flood 
plains in Arkansas.
    Sec. 742. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, 
hereafter Friends of the National Arboretum, an organization described 
in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt 
from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code incorporated in the 
District of Columbia, shall not be considered a prohibited source with 
respect to the United States National Arboretum and its employees for 
any reason, including for the purposes relating to gifts, compensation, 
or any other donations of any size or kind, so long as Friends of the 
National Arboretum remains an organization described under section 
501(c)(3) of such Code and continues to conduct its operations 
exclusively for the benefit of the United States National Arboretum.
    Sec. 743. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
shall include the value of lost production when determining the amount 
of compensation to be paid to owners, as provided in Public Law 106-
113, appendix E, title II, section 204, for the cost of tree 
replacement for commercial trees destroyed as part of the Citrus Canker 
Eradication Program in Florida.
    Sec. 744. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall issue regulations 
requiring, for each child nutrition program, that--
            (1) alternate protein products which are used to resemble 
        and substitute, in part, for meat, poultry, or seafood shall 
        meet the nutritional specifications for vegetable protein 
        products set forth in section 2(e)(3) of the matter relating to 
        vegetable protein products in appendix A to part 210 of title 
        7, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on April 9, 2000; 
        and
            (2) if alternate protein products comprise 30 percent or 
        more of a meat, poultry, or seafood product, that fact shall be 
        disclosed at the point of service.
    (b) The Secretary shall require that the regulations issued 
pursuant to subsection (a) shall be implemented by each program 
participant not later than January 1, 2001, and thereafter.
    Sec. 745. Effective 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act and continuing for the remainder of fiscal year 2001 and each 
subsequent fiscal year, establishments in the United States that 
slaughter or process birds of the order Ratitae, such as ostriches, 
emus and rheas, and squab, for distribution in commerce as human food 
shall be subject to the ante mortem and post mortem inspection, 
reinspection, and sanitation requirements of the Poultry Products 
Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) rather than the voluntary 
poultry inspection program of the Department of Agriculture under 
section 203 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622).
    Sec. 746. In using funds made available under section 801(a) of the 
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-78; 113 Stat. 
1175), or under the heading ``Crop loss assistance'' under ``Commodity 
Credit Corporation Fund'' of H.R. 3425 of the 106th Congress (as 
contained in appendix E of Public Law 106-113 (113 Stat. 1501A-289)), 
to compensate nursery stock producers for nursery stock losses caused 
by Hurricane Irene on October 16 and 17, 1999, the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall treat the losses as losses to the 1999 nursery stock 
crop.
    Sec. 747. Any regulation issued pursuant to any plan to eliminate 
Salmonella Enteritidis illnesses due to eggs (including the Action Plan 
to Eliminate Salmonella Enteritidis Illnesses Due to Eggs, published on 
December 10, 1999) which establishes requirements for producers or 
packers of shell eggs to conduct tests for Salmonella Enteritidis shall 
contain provisions to defray or reimburse the costs of such tests to 
producers or packers. Any requirements pursuant to any such plan to 
divert eggs into pasteurization shall be imposed only as a consequence 
of positive test results from end product testing. The number of 
environmental tests required pursuant to any such plan shall, to the 
extent practicable, not exceed the number of such tests required 
pursuant to existing national quality assurance programs for shell 
eggs.
    Sec. 748. Section 321(b) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961(b)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(3) Loans to poultry farmers.--
                    ``(A) Inability to obtain insurance.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Notwithstanding any 
                        other provision of this subtitle, the Secretary 
                        may make a loan to a poultry farmer under this 
                        subtitle to cover the loss of a chicken house 
                        for which the farmer did not have hazard 
                        insurance at the time of the loss, if the 
                        farmer--
                                    ``(I) applied for, but was unable, 
                                to obtain hazard insurance for the 
                                chicken house;
                                    ``(II) uses the loan to rebuild the 
                                chicken house in accordance with 
                                industry standards in effect on the 
                                date the farmer submits an application 
                                for the loan (referred to in this 
                                paragraph as `current industry 
                                standards');
                                    ``(III) obtains, for the term of 
                                the loan, hazard insurance for the full 
                                market value of the chicken house; and
                                    ``(IV) meets the other requirements 
                                for the loan under this subtitle, other 
                                than (if the Secretary finds that the 
                                applicant's farming operations have 
                                been substantially affected by a major 
                                disaster or emergency designated by the 
                                President under the Robert T. Stafford 
                                Disaster Relief and Emergency 
                                Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et 
                                seq.)) the requirement that an 
                                applicant not be able to obtain 
                                sufficient credit elsewhere.
                            ``(ii) Amount.--The amount of a loan made 
                        to a poultry farmer under clause (i) shall be 
                        an amount that will allow the farmer to rebuild 
                        the chicken house in accordance with current 
                        industry standards.
                    ``(B) Loans to comply with current industry 
                standards.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Notwithstanding any 
                        other provision of this subtitle, the Secretary 
                        may make a loan to a poultry farmer under this 
                        subtitle to cover the loss of a chicken house 
                        for which the farmer had hazard insurance at 
                        the time of the loss, if--
                                    ``(I) the amount of the hazard 
                                insurance is less than the cost of 
                                rebuilding the chicken house in 
                                accordance with current industry 
                                standards;
                                    ``(II) the farmer uses the loan to 
                                rebuild the chicken house in accordance 
                                with current industry standards;
                                    ``(III) the farmer obtains, for the 
                                term of the loan, hazard insurance for 
                                the full market value of the chicken 
                                house; and
                                    ``(IV) the farmer meets the other 
                                requirements for the loan under this 
                                subtitle, other than (if the Secretary 
                                finds that the applicant's farming 
                                operations have been substantially 
                                affected by a major disaster or 
                                emergency designated by the President 
                                under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
                                Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
                                U.S.C. 5121 et seq.)) the requirement 
                                that an applicant not be able to obtain 
                                sufficient credit elsewhere.
                            ``(ii) Amount.--The amount of a loan made 
                        to a poultry farmer under clause (i) shall be 
                        the difference between--
                                    ``(I) the amount of the hazard 
                                insurance obtained by the farmer; and
                                    ``(II) the cost of rebuilding the 
                                chicken house in accordance with 
                                current industry standards.''.
    Sec. 749. Public Law 105-277, division A, title XI, section 1121 
(112 Stat. 2681-44, 2681-45) is amended by--
            (1) striking ``not later than January 1, 2000'' and 
        inserting ``not later than January 1, 2001''; and
            (2) adding the following new subsection at the end 
        thereof--
    ``(d) Additional Disbursement.--
            ``(1) Cotton stored in georgia.--The State of Georgia shall 
        use funds remaining in the indemnity fund established in 
        accordance with this section to compensate cotton producers in 
        other States who stored cotton in the State of Georgia and 
        incurred losses in 1998 or 1999 as the result of the events 
        described in subsection (a).
            ``(2) Ginners and others.--The State of Georgia may also 
        use funds remaining in the indemnity fund established in 
        accordance with this section to compensate cotton ginners and 
        others in the business of producing, ginning, warehousing, 
        buying, or selling cotton for losses they incurred in 1998 or 
        1999 as the result of the events described in subsection (a), 
        if--
                    ``(A) as of March 1, 2000, the indemnity fund has 
                not been exhausted;
                    ``(B) the State of Georgia provides cotton 
                producers (including cotton producers described in 
                paragraph (1)) an additional time period prior to May 
                1, 2000, in which to establish eligibility for 
                compensation under this section;
                    ``(C) the State of Georgia determines during 
                calendar year 2000 that all cotton producers in that 
                State and cotton producers in other States as described 
                in paragraph (1) have been appropriately compensated 
                for losses incurred in 1998 or 1999 as described in 
                subsection (a); and
                    ``(D) such additional compensation is not made 
                available until May 1, 2000.''.

 apple market loss assistance and quality loss payments for apples and 
                                potatoes

    Sec. 750. (a) Apple Market Loss Assistance.--In order to provide 
relief for loss of markets for apples, the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall use $100,000,000 to make payments to apple producers. Payments 
shall be made on a per pound basis on each qualifying producer's 1999 
production of apples, subject to such terms and conditions on such 
payments as may be established by the Secretary. Payments under this 
subsection, however, shall not be made with respect to that part of a 
farm's 1999 apple production that is in excess of 1.6 million pounds.
    (b) Quality Loss Payments for Apples and Potatoes.--In addition, 
the Secretary shall use $15,000,000 to provide compensation to 
producers of potatoes and to producers of apples who suffered quality 
losses to their 1999 production of those crops due to, or related to, a 
1999 hurricane.
    (c) Non-Duplication of Payments.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of this section, the payments made under this section shall 
be designed to avoid, taken into account other Federal compensation 
programs as may apply, a duplication of payments for the same loss. 
Payments made under Federal crop insurance programs shall not, however, 
be considered to be duplicate payments.
    (d) Funding.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall use the funds, 
facilities, and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
carry out this section.
    (e) Emergency Designation.--The entire amount necessary to carry 
out this section shall be available only to the extent that an official 
budget request for the entire amount, that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided, 
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 751. None of the funds made available in this Act or in any 
other Act may be used to recover part or all of any payment erroneously 
made to any oyster fisherman in the State of Connecticut for oyster 
losses under the program established under section 1102(b) of the 
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in section 
101(a) of division A of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency 
Supplemental Approprations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-277)), and the 
regulations issued pursuant to such section 1102(b).
    Sec. 752. Within available funds, the Secretary of Agriculture is 
urged to use ethanol, biodiesel, and other alternative fuels to the 
maximum extent practicable in meeting the fuel needs of the Department 
of Agriculture.
    Sec. 753. None of the funds made available in this Act for the Food 
and Drug Administration may be expended to enforce or otherwise carry 
out section 801(d)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
    Sec. 754. None of the funds made available in this Act for the Food 
and Drug Administration may be expended to take any action 
(administrative or otherwise) to interfere with the importation into 
the United States of drugs that have been approved for use within the 
United States and were manufactured in an FDA-approved facility in the 
United States, Canada, or Mexico.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2001''.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 11, 2000.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.
                                                       Calendar No. 674

106th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 4461

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                                 AN ACT

Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
   Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes.

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                             July 12, 2000

            Received; read twice and placed on the calendar