[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. 1859 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

                                                       Calendar No. 282
110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1859

                          [Report No. 110-134]

Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
   Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 24, 2007

Mr. Kohl, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following 
     original bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar

Rule___________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
   Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2008, 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, 2008, and for other 
purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                         AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

                  Production, Processing and Marketing

                        Office of the Secretary

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, $5,309,000: Provided, That not to exceed $11,000 of this 
amount shall be available for official reception and representation 
expenses, not otherwise provided for, as determined by the Secretary.

                          Executive Operations

                     office of the chief economist

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Economist, 
$10,847,000.

                       national appeals division

    For necessary expenses of the National Appeals Division, 
$15,056,000.

                 office of budget and program analysis

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Program 
Analysis, $9,035,000.

                        homeland security staff

    For necessary expenses of the Homeland Security Staff, $2,252,000.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, $16,723,000.

                 Office of the Chief Financial Officer

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Financial 
Officer, $6,076,000: Provided, That no funds made available by this 
appropriation may be obligated for FAIR Act or Circular A-76 activities 
until the Secretary has submitted to the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress a report on the Department's contracting out 
policies, including agency budgets for contracting out.

           Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Civil Rights, $861,000.

                         Office of Civil Rights

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, $20,706,000.

          Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Administration, $709,000.

        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 alterations and 
other actions needed for the Department and its agencies to consolidate 
unneeded space into configurations suitable for release to the 
Administrator of General Services, and for the operation, maintenance, 
improvement, and repair of Agriculture buildings and facilities, and 
for related costs, $199,016,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $156,590,000 shall be available for payments to the General 
Services Administration for rent and the Department of Homeland 
Security for building security: Provided, That amounts which are made 
available for space rental and related costs for the Department of 
Agriculture in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations 
to cover the costs of additional, new, or replacement space 15 days 
after notice thereof is transmitted to the Appropriations Committees of 
both Houses of Congress.

                     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. 6901 et seq.), $5,200,000, 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, $23,913,000, to provide for 
necessary expenses for management support services to offices of the 
Department and for general administration, security, repairs and 
alterations, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not 
otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient 
work of the Department: 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.

     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Congressional Relations, $3,936,000: Provided, That these funds may be 
transferred to agencies of the Department of Agriculture funded by this 
Act to maintain personnel at the agency level: Provided further, That 
no funds made available by this appropriation may be obligated after 30 
days from the date of enactment of this Act, unless the Secretary has 
notified the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress on 
the allocation of these funds by USDA agency: Provided further, That no 
other funds appropriated to the Department by this Act shall be 
available to the Department for support of activities of congressional 
relations.

                        Office of Communications

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Communications, $9,720,000.

                      Office of Inspector General

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
including employment pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
$81,627,000, 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, 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, 
$40,764,000.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for 
Research, Education and Economics, $626,000.

                       Economic Research Service

    For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service, 
$76,532,000.

                National Agricultural Statistics Service

    For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Statistics 
Service, $167,699,000, of which up to $54,325,000 shall be available 
until expended for the Census of Agriculture.

                     Agricultural Research Service

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Research Service; 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, 
$1,154,174,000: Provided, 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: 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 
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: Provided further, That 
hereafter none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
available to carry out research related to the production, processing, 
or marketing of tobacco or tobacco products.

                        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, $40,100,000, 
to remain available until expended.

      Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

                   research and education activities

    For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for cooperative 
forestry and other research, for facilities, and for other expenses, 
$700,849,000, as follows: to carry out 7 U.S.C. 361a-i, $214,924,000; 
for grants under 16 U.S.C. 582a through a-7, $30,008,000; for payments 
to eligible institutions (7 U.S.C. 3222), $40,680,000, of which 
$1,507,496 shall be made available only for the purpose of ensuring 
that each institution shall receive no less than $1,000,000; for grants 
under 7 U.S.C. 450i(c), $67,734,000; for special grants for 
agricultural research on improved pest control under 7 U.S.C. 450i(c), 
$14,869,000; for grants under 7 U.S.C. 450i(b), $244,000,000; for 
programs under 7 U.S.C. 3195, $5,006,000; to carry out 7 U.S.C. 3319d, 
$825,000; for grants under 7 U.S.C. 178 et seq., $1,091,000, to remain 
available until expended; for the grants program pursuant to section 
536 of Public Law 103-382 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), $1,544,000, to remain 
available until expended; for grants under 7 U.S.C. 3333, $990,000; for 
grants under 7 U.S.C. 3155, $2,780,000; for higher education graduate 
fellowship grants under 7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(6), $3,701,000, to remain 
available until expended; for a program pursuant to section 1415A of 
the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act 
of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3151a), $750,000, to remain available until expended; 
for higher education challenge grants under 7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(1), 
$5,423,000; for a higher education multicultural scholars program under 
7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(5), $988,000, to remain available until expended; for 
a grants program under 7 U.S.C. 3241, $5,940,000; for grants for the 
purpose of carrying out all provisions of 7 U.S.C. 3242, with funds 
awarded equally to the participating States, $3,218,000; for a program 
under 7 U.S.C. 3152(j), $990,000; for grants under 7 U.S.C. 3322, 
$3,928,000; for research and education under 7 U.S.C. 5811, 
$15,000,000; for a program of capacity building grants under 7 U.S.C. 
3152(b)(4) to institutions eligible to receive funds under 7 U.S.C. 
3221 and 3222, $12,375,000, to remain available until expended; for 
payments pursuant to section 534(a)(1) of Public Law 103-382, 
$3,342,000; and for necessary expenses of Research and Education 
Activities, $20,843,000, of which $2,723,000 for the Research, 
Education, and Economics Information System and $2,151,000 for the 
Electronic Grants Information System, are to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That hereafter none of the funds appropriated under 
this heading shall be available to carry out research related to the 
production, processing, or marketing of tobacco or tobacco products: 
Provided further, That hereafter this paragraph shall not apply to 
research on the medical, biotechnological, food, and industrial uses of 
tobacco.

              native american institutions endowment fund

    For the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund authorized by 
Public Law 103-382 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), $11,880,000, to remain 
available until expended.

                          extension activities

    For payments to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 
Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, and American 
Samoa, $458,537,000, as follows: 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, 
$285,762,000; payments under 7 U.S.C. 343(b)(3), $3,321,000; payments 
for the nutrition and family education program for low-income areas 
under section 3(d) of the Act, $63,538,000; payments for the pest 
management program under section 3(d) of the Act, $9,860,000; payments 
for the farm safety program under section 3(d) of the Act, $4,517,000; 
payments for New Technologies for Ag Extension under Section 3(d) of 
the Act, $1,485,000; payments to upgrade research, extension, and 
teaching facilities at institutions eligible to receive funds under 7 
U.S.C. 3221 and 3222, $16,777,000, to remain available until expended; 
payments for youth-at-risk programs under section 3(d) of the Smith-
Lever Act, $7,651,000; for youth farm safety education and 
certification extension grants, to be awarded competitively under 
section 3(d) of the Act, $440,000; for carrying out 16 U.S.C. 1671 et 
seq., $4,019,000; payments for federally-recognized Tribes Extension 
Program under section 3(d) of the Smith-Lever Act, $3,000,000; payments 
for sustainable agriculture programs under section 3(d) of the Act, 
$5,000,000; payments as authorized by section 502(i) of Public Law 92-
419 (7 U.S.C. 2662(i)), $1,946,000; payments for cooperative extension 
work by eligible institutions (7 U.S.C. 3221), $35,205,000, of which 
$1,724,884 shall be made available only for the purpose of ensuring 
that each institution shall receive no less than $1,000,000; and for 
necessary expenses of Extension Activities, $15,916,000.

                         integrated activities

    For the integrated research, education, and extension grants 
programs, including necessary administrative expenses, $12,948,000, as 
follows: for a competitive international science and education grants 
program authorized under section 1459A of the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3292b), 
to remain available until expended, $990,000; for grants programs 
authorized under section 2(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 89-106, as amended, 
$737,000, to remain available until September 30, 2009 for the critical 
issues program; and $1,321,000 for the regional rural development 
centers program; and $9,900,000 for the Food and Agriculture Defense 
Initiative authorized under section 1484 of the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Act of 1977, to remain available 
until September 30, 2009.

              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), 
$5,940,000, to remain available until expended.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for 
Marketing and Regulatory Programs, $759,000.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service, including not to exceed $40,000 for representation allowances 
and for expenses pursuant to the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 
4085), $911,742,000; of which $4,149,000 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; of which $43,807,000 shall be used for the cotton 
pests program for cost share purposes or for debt retirement for active 
eradication zones; of which $19,827,000 shall be available for a 
National Animal Identification program; of which $47,514,000 shall be 
used to conduct a surveillance and preparedness program for highly 
pathogenic avian influenza: 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 the APHIS 
Wildlife Services program may use such sums as are necessary to pay a 
fixed rate reimbursement, on a reimbursement schedule set by program 
directors for their area of responsibility, to employees for the use of 
personally owned animals and equipment, including but not limited to 
horses, dogs, ATVs, snowmobiles, computer connectivity, and cellular 
telephones: 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 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 fiscal year 2008, 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.

                        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, $4,946,000, to 
remain available until expended.

                     Agricultural Marketing Service

                           marketing services

    For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Marketing Service, 
$80,145,000: Provided, That of the amount provided under this heading, 
$7,000,000, to remain available until expended, is for specialty crop 
block grants authorized under section 101 of the Specialty Crops 
Competitiveness Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-465; 7 U.S.C. 1621 note), 
of which not to exceed five percent may be available for administrative 
expenses: 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.
    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

    Not to exceed $61,233,000 (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 Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress.

    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, including not 
less than $10,000,000 for replacement of a system to support commodity 
purchases, 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 
$16,798,000 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)), 
$3,834,000, of which not less than $2,500,000 shall be used to make a 
grant under this heading.

        Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Grain Inspection, Packers and 
Stockyards Administration, $39,115,000: 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 $42,463,000 (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 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.

             Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for 
Food Safety, $632,000.

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

    For necessary expenses of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, 
including not to exceed $50,000 for representation allowances and for 
expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 
U.S.C. 1766), $930,620,000; 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 1327 of the Food, Agriculture, 
Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 138f): Provided, That no 
fewer than 83 full time equivalent positions above the fiscal year 2002 
level shall be employed during fiscal year 2008 for purposes dedicated 
solely to inspections and enforcement related to the Humane Methods of 
Slaughter Act: Provided further, That of the amount available under 
this heading, $3,000,000 shall be obligated to maintain the Humane 
Animal Tracking System as part of the Public Health Data Communication 
Infrastructure System: 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.

    Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
                                Services

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for 
Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, $666,000.

                          Farm Service Agency

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Farm Service Agency, $1,160,662,000: 
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.

                         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), $4,750,000.

               grassroots source water protection program

    For necessary expenses to carry out wellhead or groundwater 
protection activities under section 1240O of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb-2), $3,713,000, to remain available until 
expended.

                        dairy indemnity program

    For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity payments to 
dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy products under a dairy 
indemnity program, $100,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That such program is carried out by the Secretary in the same 
manner as the dairy indemnity program described in the Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-387, 114 Stat. 1549A-12).

           agricultural credit insurance fund program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct and 
guaranteed farm ownership (7 U.S.C. 1922 et seq.) and operating (7 
U.S.C. 1941 et seq.) loans, Indian tribe land acquisition loans (25 
U.S.C. 488), and boll weevil loans (7 U.S.C. 1989), to be available 
from funds in the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, as follows: farm 
ownership loans, $1,471,257,000, of which $1,247,400,000 shall be for 
unsubsidized guaranteed loans and $223,857,000 shall be for direct 
loans; operating loans, $1,875,686,000, of which $1,024,650,000 shall 
be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans, $271,886,000 shall be for 
subsidized guaranteed loans and $579,150,000 shall be for direct loans; 
Indian tribe land acquisition loans, $3,960,000; and for boll weevil 
eradication program loans, $100,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall deem the pink bollworm to be a boll weevil for the purpose of 
boll weevil eradication program loans.
    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, $14,952,000, of which 
$4,990,000 shall be for guaranteed loans, and $9,962,000 shall be for 
direct loans; operating loans, $134,561,000, of which $24,797,000 shall 
be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans, $36,270,000 shall be for 
subsidized guaranteed loans, and $73,494,000 shall be for direct loans; 
and Indian tribe land acquisition loans, $125,000.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
direct and guaranteed loan programs, $318,150,000, of which 
$310,230,000 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: Provided, 
That the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are 
notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer: Provided further, 
That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to 
collect from the lender an annual fee on unsubsidized guaranteed 
operating loans, a guarantee fee of more than one percent of the 
principal obligation of guaranteed unsubsidized operating or ownership 
loans, or a guarantee fee on subsidized guaranteed operating loans 
administered by the Farm Service Agency.

                         Risk Management Agency

    For necessary expenses of the Risk Management Agency, $78,833,000: 
Provided, That not more than $11,166,000 of the funds made available 
under section 522(e) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
1522(e)) may be used for program compliance and integrity purposes, 
including the data mining projects, and for the Common Information 
Management System: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000 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 (7 U.S.C. 1516), such sums as may be necessary, to remain 
available until expended.

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund

                 reimbursement for net realized losses

    For the current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary to 
reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for net realized losses 
sustained, but not previously reimbursed, pursuant to section 2 of the 
Act of August 17, 1961 (15 U.S.C. 713a-11): Provided, That of the funds 
available to the Commodity Credit Corporation under section 11 of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C 714i) for the 
conduct of its business with the Foreign Agricultural Service, up to 
$5,000,000 may be transferred to and used by the Foreign Agricultural 
Service for information resource management activities of the Foreign 
Agricultural Service that are not related to Commodity Credit 
Corporation business.

                       hazardous waste management

                        (limitation on expenses)

    For the current fiscal year, 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 (42 U.S.C. 9607(g)), and 
section 6001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 
6961).

              farm storage facility loans program account

    For administrative expenses necessary to carry out the Farm Storage 
and Sugar Storage Facility Loan Programs, $4,660,000, to be transferred 
to and merged with the appropriation for Farm Service Agency, Salaries 
and Expenses.

                                TITLE II

                         CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

  Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for 
Natural Resources and Environment, $781,000.

                 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, 
$862,996,000, to remain available until September 30, 2009, of which 
not less than $10,950,000 is for snow survey and water forecasting, and 
not less than $12,365,000 is for operation and establishment of the 
plant materials centers, and of which not less than $27,799,000 shall 
be for the grazing lands conservation initiative: 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 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 qualified local engineers may 
be temporarily employed at per diem rates to perform the technical 
planning work of the Service.

               watershed and flood prevention operations

    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 (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, $33,450,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, 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.

                    watershed rehabilitation program

    For necessary expenses to carry out rehabilitation of structural 
measures, in accordance with section 14 of the Watershed Protection and 
Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1012), and in accordance with the 
provisions of laws relating to the activities of the Department, 
$20,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                 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 sections 31 and 32 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 subtitle H of title XV of the Agriculture 
and Food Act of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3451-3461), $53,150,000, to remain 
available until expended.

                    healthy forests reserve program

    For necessary expenses to carry out the Healthy Forests Reserve 
Program authorized under title V of Public Law 108-148 (16 U.S.C. 6571-
6578), $2,476,000, to remain available until expended.

                               TITLE III

                       RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

          Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for 
Rural Development, $666,000.

                Rural Development Salaries and Expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses for carrying out the administration and 
implementation of programs in the Rural Development mission area, 
including activities with institutions concerning the development and 
operation of agricultural cooperatives; and for cooperative agreements; 
$175,302,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds appropriated under this section may be used for advertising 
and promotional activities that support the Rural Development mission 
area: 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 from prior years for the Rural 
Utilities Service, Rural Housing Service, and the Rural Business-
Cooperative Service salaries and expenses accounts shall be transferred 
to and merged with this appropriation.

                         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: $4,690,502,000 for loans to section 502 borrowers, of which 
$1,129,391,000 shall be for direct loans, and of which $3,561,111,000 
shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans; $34,652,000 for section 504 
housing repair loans; $70,000,000 for section 515 rental housing; 
$150,000,000 for section 538 guaranteed multi-family housing loans; 
$5,045,000 for section 524 site loans; $11,485,000 for credit sales of 
acquired property, of which up to $1,485,000 may be for multi-family 
credit sales; and $5,000,000 for section 523 self-help housing land 
development loans.
    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, $148,319,000, of which 
$105,824,000 shall be for direct loans, and of which $42,495,000, to 
remain available until expended, shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed 
loans; section 504 housing repair loans, $9,796,000; repair, 
rehabilitation, and new construction of section 515 rental housing, 
$29,827,000; section 538 multi-family housing guaranteed loans, 
$14,100,000; credit sales of acquired property, $552,000; and section 
523 self-help housing and development loans, $142,000: Provided, That 
of the total amount appropriated in this paragraph, $2,500,000 shall be 
available through June 30, 2008, for authorized empowerment zones and 
enterprise communities and communities designated by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones: Provided further, 
That any funds under this paragraph initially allocated by the 
Secretary for housing projects in the State of Alaska that are not 
obligated by September 30, 2008, shall be carried over until September 
30, 2009, and made available for such housing projects only in the 
State of Alaska: Provided further, That any unobligated balances for a 
demonstration program for the preservation and revitalization of the 
section 515 multi-family rental housing properties as authorized by 
Public Law 109-97 shall be transferred to and merged with the Rural 
Housing Service, Multifamily Housing Revitalization Program Account.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
direct and guaranteed loan programs, $462,521,000, which shall be 
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for Rural Development, 
Salaries and Expenses.

                       farm labor program account

    For the cost of direct loans, grants, and contracts, as authorized 
by 42 U.S.C. 1484 and 1486, $22,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, for direct farm labor housing loans and domestic farm labor 
housing grants and contracts.

           multifamily housing revitalization program account

    For the rural housing voucher program as authorized under section 
542 of the Housing Act of 1949, but notwithstanding subsection (b) of 
such section, for the cost to conduct a housing demonstration program 
to provide revolving loans for the preservation of low-income multi-
family housing projects, and for additional costs to conduct a 
demonstration program for the preservation and revitalization of the 
section 515 multi-family rental housing properties, $33,423,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That of the funds made 
available under this heading, $15,500,000 shall be available for rural 
housing vouchers to any low-income household (including those not 
receiving rental assistance) residing in a property financed with a 
section 515 loan which has been prepaid after September 30, 2005: 
Provided further, That the amount of such voucher shall be the 
difference between comparable market rent for the section 515 unit and 
the tenant paid rent for such unit: Provided further, That funds made 
available for such vouchers shall be subject to the availability of 
annual appropriations: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, to 
the maximum extent practicable, administer such vouchers with current 
regulations and administrative guidance applicable to section 8 housing 
vouchers administered by the Secretary of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development (including the ability to pay administrative costs 
related to delivery of the voucher funds): Provided further, That if 
the Secretary determines that the amount made available for vouchers in 
this or any other Act is not needed for vouchers, the Secretary may use 
such funds for the demonstration programs for the preservation and 
revitalization of the section 515 multifamily rental housing properties 
described in this paragraph: Provided further, That of the funds made 
available under this heading, $2,923,000 shall be available for the 
cost of loans to private non-profit organizations, or such non-profit 
organizations' affiliate loan funds and State and local housing finance 
agencies, to carry out a housing demonstration program to provide 
revolving loans for the preservation of low-income multi-family housing 
projects: Provided further, That loans under such demonstration program 
shall have an interest rate of not more than 1 percent direct loan to 
the recipient: Provided further, That the Secretary may defer the 
interest and principal payment to the Rural Housing Service for up to 3 
years and the term of such loans shall not exceed 30 years: Provided 
further, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$15,000,000 shall be available for a demonstration program for the 
preservation and revitalization of the section 515 multi-family rental 
housing properties to restructure existing section 515 loans, as the 
Secretary deems appropriate, expressly for the purposes of ensuring the 
project has sufficient resources to preserve the project for the 
purpose of providing safe and affordable housing for low-income 
residents including reducing or eliminating interest; deferring loan 
payments, subordinating, reducing or reamortizing loan debt; and other 
financial assistance including advances and incentives required by the 
Secretary: Provided further, That if the Secretary determines that 
additional funds for vouchers described in this paragraph are needed, 
funds for the preservation and revitalization demonstration program may 
be used for such vouchers: Provided further, That if Congress enacts 
legislation to permanently authorize a section 515 multi-family rental 
housing loan restructuring program similar to the demonstration program 
described herein, the Secretary may use funds made available for the 
demonstration program under this heading to carry out such legislation 
with the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress.

                       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, 
$496,950,000, to remain available through September 30, 2009; 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, up to $6,000,000 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 
$50,000 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 one-year period: Provided 
further, That any unexpended balances remaining at the end of such one-
year agreements may be transferred and used for the purposes of any 
debt reduction; maintenance, repair, or rehabilitation of any existing 
projects; preservation; and rental assistance activities authorized 
under title V of the Act: Provided further, That up to $3,000,000 may 
be used for the purpose of reimbursing funds used for rental assistance 
agreements entered into or renewed pursuant to the authority under 
section 521(a)(2) of the Act for emergency needs related to Hurricanes 
Katrina and Rita: Provided further, That rental assistance provided 
under agreements entered into prior to fiscal year 2008 for a farm 
labor multifamily housing project financed under section 514 or 516 of 
the Act may not be recaptured for use in another project until such 
assistance has remained unused for a period of 12 consecutive months, 
if such project has a waiting list of tenants seeking such assistance 
or the project has rental assistance eligible tenants who are not 
receiving such assistance: Provided further, That such recaptured 
rental assistance shall, to the extent practicable, be applied to 
another farm labor multifamily housing project financed under section 
514 or 516 of the Act.

                  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), $38,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That of the total amount appropriated, 
$1,000,000 shall be available through June 30, 2008, 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, 
$40,590,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the 
total amount appropriated, $1,200,000 shall be available through June 
30, 2008, for authorized empowerment zones and enterprise communities 
and communities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural 
Economic Area Partnership Zones: Provided further, That any balances to 
carry out a housing demonstration program to provide revolving loans 
for the preservation of low-income multifamily housing projects as 
authorized in Public Law 108-447 and Public Law 109-97 shall be 
transferred to and merged with the Rural Housing Service, Multifamily 
Housing Revitalization Program Account.

               rural community facilities program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, and grants for rural 
community facilities programs as authorized by section 306 and 
described in section 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act, $67,422,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That $6,287,000 of the amount appropriated under this heading 
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, low-income rural communities, and 
Federally Recognized Native American Tribes 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, nonprofit and public 
intermediary organizations proposing to carry out a program of 
financial and technical assistance: Provided further, That such 
intermediary organizations shall provide matching funds from other 
sources, including Federal funds for related activities, in an amount 
not less than funds provided: Provided further, That $16,000,000 of the 
amount appropriated under this heading shall be to provide grants for 
facilities in rural communities with extreme unemployment and severe 
economic depression (Public Law 106-387), with up to 5 percent for 
administration and capacity building in the State rural development 
offices: Provided further, That $4,000,000 of the amount appropriated 
under this heading shall be available for community facilities grants 
to tribal colleges, as authorized by section 306(a)(19) of such Act: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $1,067,000 of the amount 
appropriated under this heading shall be available through June 30, 
2008, for authorized empowerment zones and enterprise communities and 
communities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural 
Economic Area Partnership Zones for the rural community programs 
described in section 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act: Provided further, That section 381E-H and 381N of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act are not applicable to the 
funds made available under this heading: Provided further, That any 
prior balances in the Rural Development, Rural Community Advancement 
Program account for programs authorized by section 306 and described in 
section 381E(d)(1) of such Act be transferred and merged with this 
account and any other prior balances from the Rural Development, Rural 
Community Advancement Program account that the Secretary determines is 
appropriate to transfer.

                  Rural Business--Cooperative Service

                     rural business program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, and grants, for the 
rural business development programs authorized by sections 306 and 310B 
and described in section 310B(f) and 381E(d)(3) of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act, $86,200,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the amount appropriated under this heading, 
not to exceed $495,000 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 and 
$3,000,000 shall be for grants to the Delta Regional Authority (7 
U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) for any Rural Community Advancement Program 
purpose as described in section 381E(d) of the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act: Provided further, That $3,996,000 of the amount 
appropriated under this heading shall be for business grants to benefit 
Federally Recognized Native American Tribes, including $248,000 for a 
grant to a qualified national organization to provide technical 
assistance for rural transportation in order to promote economic 
development: Provided further, That not to exceed $8,300,000 of the 
amount appropriated under this heading shall be available through June 
30, 2008, for authorized empowerment zones and enterprise communities 
and communities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural 
Economic Area Partnership Zones for the rural business and cooperative 
development programs described in section 381E(d)(3) of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further, That 
section 381E-H and 381N of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
Act are not applicable to funds made available under this heading: 
Provided further, That any prior balances in the Rural Development, 
Rural Community Advancement Program account for programs authorized by 
sections 306 and 310B and described in section 310B(f) and 381E(d)(3) 
of such Act be transferred and merged with this account and any other 
prior balances from the Rural Development, Rural Community Advancement 
Program account that the Secretary determines is appropriate to 
transfer.

              rural development loan fund program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized by the 
Rural Development Loan Fund (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)), $33,870,000.
    For the cost of direct loans, $14,527,000, as authorized by the 
Rural Development Loan Fund (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)), of which $1,724,000 
shall be available through June 30, 2008, for Federally Recognized 
Native American Tribes and of which $3,449,000 shall be available 
through June 30, 2008, for Mississippi Delta Region counties (as 
determined in accordance with Public Law 100-460): 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 of the total amount appropriated, $887,000 shall be 
available through June 30, 2008, 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, $4,861,000 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, 
$33,077,000.
    Of the funds derived from interest on the cushion of credit 
payments in the current fiscal year, as authorized by section 313 of 
the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, $34,000,000 shall not be 
obligated and $34,000,000 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), $26,403,000, of which $3,000,000 shall be for cooperative 
agreements for the appropriate technology transfer for rural areas 
program: Provided, That not to exceed $1,473,000 shall be for 
cooperatives or associations of cooperatives whose primary focus is to 
provide assistance to small, minority producers and whose governing 
board and/or membership is comprised of at least 75 percent minority; 
and of which $17,475,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
for value-added agricultural product market development grants, as 
authorized by section 6401 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note).

        rural empowerment zones and enterprise community grants

    For grants in connection with empowerment zones and enterprise 
communities, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
designated rural empowerment zones and rural enterprise communities, as 
authorized by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and the Omnibus 
Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 
(Public Law 105-277): Provided, That the funds provided under this 
paragraph shall be made available to empowerment zones and enterprise 
communities in a manner and with the same priorities such funds were 
made available during the 2007 fiscal year.

                        renewable energy program

    For the cost of a program of direct loans, loan guarantees, and 
grants, under the same terms and conditions as authorized by section 
9006 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 
8106), $28,489,000: Provided, That the cost of direct loans and loan 
guarantees, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as 
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

                        Rural Utilities Service

             rural water and waste disposal program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, and grants for the 
rural water, waste water, waste disposal, and solid waste management 
programs authorized by sections 306, 306A, 306C, 306D, and 310B and 
described in sections 306C(a)(2), 306D, and 381E(d)(2) of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, $550,469,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That $65,835,000 of the amount 
appropriated under this heading shall be for water and waste disposal 
systems grants authorized by 306C(a)(2)(B) and 306D of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act and Native Americans authorized by 
306C(a)(1): Provided further, That the Secretary shall allocate the 
funds described in the previous proviso in a manner consistent with the 
allocation for such populations in fiscal year 2007 under these 
authorities: Provided further, That not to exceed $18,810,000 of the 
amount appropriated under this heading shall be for technical 
assistance grants for rural water and waste systems pursuant to section 
306(a)(14) of such Act, unless the Secretary makes a determination of 
extreme need, of which $5,600,000 shall be made available for a grant 
to a qualified non-profit multi-state regional technical assistance 
organization, with experience in working with small communities on 
water and waste water problems, the principal purpose of such grant 
shall be to assist rural communities with populations of 3,300 or less, 
in improving the planning, financing, development, operation, and 
management of water and waste water systems, and of which not less than 
$841,500 shall be for a qualified national Native American organization 
to provide technical assistance for rural water systems for tribal 
communities: Provided further, That not to exceed $13,612,500 of the 
amount appropriated under this heading shall be for contracting with 
qualified national organizations for a circuit rider program to provide 
technical assistance for rural water systems: Provided further, That 
not to exceed $12,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this heading 
shall be available through June 30, 2008, for authorized empowerment 
zones and enterprise communities and communities designated by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones for 
the rural utilities programs described in section 381E(d)(2) of such 
Act: Provided further, That $22,000,000 of the amount appropriated 
under this heading shall be transferred to, and merged with, the Rural 
Utilities Service, High Energy Cost Grants Account to provide grants 
authorized under section 19 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 
U.S.C. 918a): Provided further, That any prior year balances for high 
cost energy grants authorized by section 19 of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 901(19)) shall be transferred to 
and merged with the Rural Utilities Service, High Energy Costs Grants 
Account: Provided further, That section 381E-H and 381N of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act are not applicable to the 
funds made available under this heading: Provided further, That any 
prior balances in the Rural Development, Rural Community Advancement 
Program account programs authorized by sections 306, 306A, 306C, 306D, 
and 310B and described in sections 306C(a)(2), 306D, and 381E(d)(2) of 
such Act be transferred and merged with this account and any other 
prior balances from the Rural Development, Rural Community Advancement 
Program account that the Secretary determines is appropriate to 
transfer.

   rural electrification and telecommunications loans program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    The principal amount of direct and guaranteed loans as authorized 
by section 305 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935) 
shall be made as follows: 5 percent rural electrification loans, 
$100,000,000; loans made pursuant to section 306 of that Act, rural 
electric, $6,500,000,000; guaranteed underwriting loans pursuant to 
section 313A, $1,000,000,000; 5 percent rural telecommunications loans, 
$145,000,000; cost of money rural telecommunications loans, 
$250,000,000; and for loans made pursuant to section 306 of that Act, 
rural telecommunications loans, $295,000,000.
    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 sections 305 and 306 of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935 and 936), as follows: cost of 
rural electric loans, $120,000, and the cost of telecommunications 
loans, $3,620,000: Provided, That notwithstanding section 305(d)(2) of 
the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, borrower interest rates may 
exceed 7 percent per year.
    For baseload generation loans made pursuant to the authority of 
section 305 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935), 
the Secretary shall charge an upfront fee at least equal to the costs 
of such loan guarantees as calculated in accordance with section 502 of 
the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990: Provided, That funds from the 
borrower to pay for the fees described in this section shall come from 
non-Federal sources: Provided further, That the source of the fees 
received from a borrower shall not be a loan or other debt obligation 
that is made or guaranteed by the Federal Government: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall establish a separate fee for each project: 
Provided further, That to be eligible for a baseload generation 
electric loan made or guaranteed by the Rural Utilities Service, the 
borrower must provide a rating of the project, exclusive of the Federal 
guarantee, by an organization identified by the Securities and Exchange 
Commission as a nationally recognized statistical rating organization, 
that determines that the project has at least a AA rating, or 
equivalent rating, as determined by the Secretary.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
direct and guaranteed loan programs, $39,405,000 which shall be 
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for Rural Development, 
Salaries and Expenses.

         distance learning, telemedicine, and broadband program

    For the principal amount of the broadband telecommunication loans, 
$495,000,000.
    For grants for telemedicine and distance learning services in rural 
areas, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa et seq., $34,750,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That $10,000,000 shall be made 
available to convert analog to digital operation those noncommercial 
educational television broadcast stations that serve rural areas and 
are qualified for Community Service Grants by the Corporation for 
Public Broadcasting under section 396(k) of the Communications Act of 
1934, including associated translators and repeaters, regardless of the 
location of their main transmitter, studio-to-transmitter links, and 
equipment to allow local control over digital content and programming 
through the use of high-definition broadcast, multi-casting and 
datacasting technologies.
    For the cost of broadband loans, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 901 et 
seq., $10,643,000, to remain available until September 30, 2009: 
Provided, That the interest rate for such loans shall be the cost of 
borrowing to the Department of the Treasury for obligations of 
comparable maturity: Provided further, That the cost of direct loans 
shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974.
    In addition, $8,910,000, to remain available until expended, for a 
grant program to finance broadband transmission in rural areas eligible 
for Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program benefits authorized by 7 
U.S.C. 950aaa.

                                TITLE IV

                         DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS

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

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for 
Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, $628,000.

                       Food and Nutrition Service

                        child nutrition programs

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out the Richard B. Russell 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; $13,897,272,000, to remain available through September 30, 
2009, of which $7,662,215,000 is hereby appropriated and $6,235,057,000 
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 up to 
$5,505,000 shall be available for independent verification of school 
food service claims: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, for fiscal year 2008, each State described in section 
779 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public 
Law 109-97; 119 Stat. 2162), may continue to receive funding, not to 
exceed $500,000 per State, for the fresh fruit and vegetable pilot 
program under section 18(g) of the Richard B. Russell National School 
Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769(g)) from amounts made available to carry out 
that program that remain unexpended as of the date of enactment of this 
Act.

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

    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), $5,720,000,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2009, of which such sums as are necessary to 
restore the contingency reserve to $116,000,000 shall be placed in 
reserve, to remain available until expended, to be allocated as the 
Secretary deems necessary, notwithstanding section 17(i) of such Act, 
to support participation should cost or participation exceed budget 
estimates: Provided, That of the current balances remaining in the 
contingency reserve on the date of enactment of this Act, amounts in 
excess of $116,000,000 shall be made available to support base program 
grants for food and nutrition services and administration: Provided 
further, That of the total amount available, the Secretary shall 
obligate not less than $15,000,000 for a breastfeeding support 
initiative in addition to the activities specified in section 
17(h)(3)(A): Provided further, That only the provisions of section 
17(h)(10)(B)(i) and section 17(h)(10)(B)(ii) shall be effective in 
2008; including $14,000,000 for the purposes specified in section 
17(h)(10)(B)(i) and $30,000,000 for the purposes specified in section 
17(h)(10)(B)(ii): Provided further, That of the funds made available 
for the purposes specified in section 17(h)(10)(B)(ii), $15,000,000 
shall be made available from WIC contingency funds on October 1, 2007 
or the date of enactment of this Act, whichever is later, if a 
determination is made by the Secretary that $80,000,000 in contingency 
funds are projected to remain unobligated at the end of fiscal year 
2008, and an additional $15,000,000 shall be made available from WIC 
contingency funds if the same determination is made on July 1, 2008: 
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.), $39,779,223,000, of which $3,000,000,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2009, 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 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 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: Provided further, That funds 
made available under this heading may be used to enter into contracts 
and employ staff to conduct studies, evaluations, or to conduct 
activities related to food stamp program integrity provided that such 
activities are authorized by the Food Stamp Act.

                      commodity assistance program

    For necessary expenses to carry out disaster assistance and 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); the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983; special assistance 
for the nuclear affected islands, as authorized by section 
103(f)(2)(A)(ii) of the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 
2003 (Public Law 108-188); and the Farmers' Market Nutrition Program, 
as authorized by section 17(m) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 
$199,070,000, to remain available through September 30, 2009: 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 any other provision of law, effective 
with funds made available in fiscal year 2008 to support the Seniors 
Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), as authorized by section 
4402 of Public Law 107-171, such funds shall remain available through 
September 30, 2009: Provided further, That hereafter no funds available 
for SFMNP shall be used to pay State or local sales taxes on food 
purchased with SFMNP coupons or checks: Provided further, That 
hereafter the value of assistance provided by the SFMNP shall not be 
considered income or resources for any purposes under any Federal, 
State or local laws related to taxation, welfare and public assistance 
programs: Provided further, That of the funds made available under 
section 27(a) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2027(a)), the 
Secretary may use up to $10,000,000 for costs associated with the 
distribution of commodities.

                   nutrition programs administration

    For necessary administrative expenses of the Food and Nutrition 
Service, $147,426,000, of which $2,500,000 is for the purpose of 
providing Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships, through 
the Congressional Hunger Center.

                                TITLE V

                FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

                      Foreign Agricultural Service

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural Service, 
including not to exceed $158,000 for representation allowances and for 
expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 
U.S.C. 1766), $167,391,000: 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: Provided further, That funds made available for the cost 
of agreements under title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and 
Assistance Act of 1954 and for title I ocean freight differential may 
be used interchangeably between the two accounts with prior notice to 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.

  public law 480 title i direct credit and food for progress program 
                                account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For administrative expenses to carry out the credit program of 
title I, Public Law 83-480 and the Food for Progress Act of 1985, 
$2,749,000, to be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
Farm Service Agency, Salaries and Expenses.

                     public law 480 title ii 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, for commodities supplied in connection with dispositions abroad 
under title II of said Act, $1,219,400,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized 
to provide the services, facilities, and authorities for the purpose of 
implementing such section, subject to reimbursement from amounts 
provided herein.

       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, 
$5,334,000; 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 $4,985,000 may be 
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for Foreign 
Agricultural Service, Salaries and Expenses, and of which $349,000 may 
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for Farm Service 
Agency, Salaries and Expenses.

  mcgovern-dole international food for education and child nutrition 
                             program grants

    For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 3107 
of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o-
1), $100,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
the Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized to provide the services, 
facilities, and authorities for the purpose of implementing such 
section, subject to reimbursement from amounts provided herein.

                                TITLE VI

           RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                      Food and Drug Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    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; 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; and notwithstanding section 521 of 
Public Law 107-188; $2,276,262,000: Provided, That of the amount 
provided under this heading, $459,000,000 shall be derived from 
prescription drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379h, shall be 
credited to this account and remain available until expended, and shall 
not include any fees pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 379h(a)(2) and (a)(3) 
assessed for fiscal year 2009 but collected in fiscal year 2008; 
$48,431,000 shall be derived from medical device user fees authorized 
by 21 U.S.C. 379j, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended; and $13,696,000 shall be derived from animal 
drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j, and shall be credited to 
this account and remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That fees derived from prescription drug, medical device, and animal 
drug assessments received during fiscal year 2008, including any such 
fees assessed prior to the current fiscal year but credited during the 
current year, shall be subject to the fiscal year 2008 limitation: 
Provided further, That none of these funds shall be used to develop, 
establish, or operate any program of user fees authorized by 31 U.S.C. 
9701: Provided further, That of the total amount appropriated: (1) 
$522,453,000 shall be for the Center for Food Safety and Applied 
Nutrition and related field activities in the Office of Regulatory 
Affairs; (2) $680,608,000 shall be for the Center for Drug Evaluation 
and Research and related field activities in the Office of Regulatory 
Affairs, of which no less than $42,461,000 shall be available for the 
Office of Generic Drugs; (3) $240,141,000 shall be for the Center for 
Biologics Evaluation and Research and for related field activities in 
the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (4) $110,036,000 shall be for the 
Center for Veterinary Medicine and for related field activities in the 
Office of Regulatory Affairs; (5) $270,869,000 shall be for the Center 
for Devices and Radiological Health and for related field activities in 
the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (6) $46,104,000 shall be for the 
National Center for Toxicological Research; (7) not to exceed 
$108,657,000 shall be for Rent and Related activities, of which 
$38,808,000 is for White Oak Consolidation, other than the amounts paid 
to the General Services Administration for rent; (8) not to exceed 
$160,544,000 shall be for payments to the General Services 
Administration for rent; and (9) $136,850,000 shall be for other 
activities, including the Office of the Commissioner; the Office of 
Management; the Office of External Relations; the Office of Policy and 
Planning; and central services for these offices: Provided further, 
That funds may be transferred from one specified activity to another 
with the prior notification of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress.
    In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 42 U.S.C. 263b may 
be credited to this account, to remain available until expended.
    In addition, export certification user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
381 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, 
$4,950,000, to remain available until expended.

                           INDEPENDENT AGENCY

                       Farm Credit Administration

                 Limitation on Administrative Expenses

    Not to exceed $46,000,000 (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

             (including rescissions and transfers of funds)

    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 292 passenger motor vehicles, of which 290 shall 
be for replacement only, and for the hire of such vehicles.
    Sec. 702. 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, information technology infrastructure, 
emerging plant pests, cotton pests program, grasshopper program, low 
pathogenic avian influenza program, highly pathogenic avian influenza 
program, up to $19,827,000 in animal health monitoring and surveillance 
for the animal identification system, up to $1,500,000 in the scrapie 
program for indemnities, up to $8,141,000 in the emergency management 
systems program for the vaccine bank, up to $1,000,000 for wildlife 
services methods development, up to $1,000,000 of the wildlife services 
operations program for aviation safety, and up to 25 percent of the 
screwworm program; Food Safety and Inspection Service, Public Health 
Data Communication Infrastructure System; 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. 703. The Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobligated 
balances of discretionary funds appropriated by this Act or other 
available unobligated discretionary 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 of primary benefit 
to the agencies of the Department of Agriculture, including the 
modernization of those services and capital and plant equipment, 
investment, and modernization at the National Finance Center: 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: Provided further, That none of 
the funds transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to this 
section shall be available for obligation without the prior 
notification of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress.
    Sec. 704. 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. 705. 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. 706. 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 20 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. 707. 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 disburse 
obligations made in the current fiscal year for the following accounts: 
the Rural Development Loan Fund program account, the Rural 
Electrification and Telecommunication Loans program account, and the 
Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account.
    Sec. 708. Of the funds made available by this Act, not more than 
$1,800,000 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. 709. 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. 710. 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. 711. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of Agriculture or the Food and Drug 
Administration shall be used to transmit or otherwise make available to 
any non-Department of Agriculture or non-Department of Health and Human 
Services employee questions or responses to questions that are a result 
of information requested for the appropriations hearing process.
    Sec. 712. 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 unless prior notification has been 
transmitted to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress: Provided further, That none of the funds available to the 
Department of Agriculture for information technology shall be obligated 
for projects over $25,000 prior to receipt of written approval by the 
Chief Information Officer.
    Sec. 713. (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.
    (c) The Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress before implementing a program or activity not 
carried out during the previous fiscal year unless the program or 
activity is funded by this Act or specifically funded by any other Act.
    Sec. 714. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Natural 
Resources Conservation Service shall provide financial and technical 
assistance--
            (1) from funds available for the Watershed and Flood 
        Prevention Operations program--
                    (A) for the Lost River Watershed Project in the 
                State of West Virginia, in an amount not to exceed 
                $5,000,000;
                    (B) for the Lower Hamakua Ditch Watershed Project 
                in the State of Hawaii, in an amount not to exceed 
                $250,000;
                    (C) for the Upcountry Maui Watershed Project in the 
                State of Hawaii, in an amount not to exceed $250,000;
                    (D) for the Pocasset River Floodplain Management 
                Project in the State of Rhode Island, in an amount not 
                to exceed $450,000; and
                    (E) for authorized watershed projects in the State 
                of Missouri, in an amount not to exceed $2,500,000;
            (2) through the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations 
        program to carry out the East Locust Creek Watershed Plan 
        Revision in Missouri, including up to 100 percent of the 
        engineering assistance and 75 percent cost share for 
        construction cost of site RW1;
            (3) through the Watershed Flood Prevention Operations 
        program to carry out the Little Otter Creek Watershed project. 
        The sponsoring local organization may obtain land rights by 
        perpetual easements; and
            (4) through the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations 
        program to the McDowell Grove Dam Flood Plain/Wetlands 
        Restoration Project in DuPage County, Illinois.
    Sec. 715. None of the funds made available to the Food and Drug 
Administration by this Act shall be used to close or relocate, or to 
plan to close or relocate, the Food and Drug Administration Division of 
Pharmaceutical Analysis in St. Louis, Missouri, outside the city or 
county limits of St. Louis, Missouri.
    Sec. 716. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the funds 
made available in this Act for competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 
450i(b)), the Secretary may use up to 30 percent of the amount provided 
to carry out a competitive grants program under the same terms and 
conditions as those provided in section 401 of the Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7621).
    Sec. 717. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries 
and expenses of personnel to 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 $1,000,000,000.
    Sec. 718. None of the funds appropriated or made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
personnel to carry out section 14(h)(1) of the Watershed Protection and 
Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1012(h)(1)): Provided, That the 
$65,000,000 otherwise made available under this program for fiscal year 
2008 are hereby rescinded.
    Sec. 719. None of the funds made available in fiscal year 2008 or 
preceding fiscal years for programs authorized under the Agricultural 
Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) in 
excess of $20,000,000 shall be used to reimburse the Commodity Credit 
Corporation for the release of eligible commodities under section 
302(f)(2)(A) of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act (7 U.S.C. 
1736f-1): Provided, That any such funds made available to reimburse the 
Commodity Credit Corporation shall only be used pursuant to section 
302(b)(2)(B)(i) of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act.
    Sec. 720. Notwithstanding subsections (c) and (e)(2) of section 
313A of the Rural Electrification Act (7 U.S.C. 940c(c) and (e)(2)) in 
implementing section 313A of that Act, the Secretary shall, with the 
consent of the lender, structure the schedule for payment of the annual 
fee, not to exceed an average of 30 basis points per year for the term 
of the loan, to ensure that sufficient funds are available to pay the 
subsidy costs for note guarantees under that section.
    Sec. 721. There is hereby appropriated $437,000, to remain 
available until expended, for the Denali Commission to address 
deficiencies in solid waste disposal sites which threaten to 
contaminate rural drinking water supplies.
    Sec. 722. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to issue a final rule in furtherance of, or otherwise implement, the 
proposed rule on cost-sharing for animal and plant health emergency 
programs of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service published on 
July 8, 2003 (Docket No. 02-062-1; 68 Fed. Reg. 40541).
    Sec. 723. Funds made available under section 1240I and section 
1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 in the current fiscal year 
shall remain available until expended to disburse obligations made in 
the current fiscal year, and are not available for new obligations. 
Funds made available under section 524(b) of the Federal Crop Insurance 
Act, 7 U.S.C. 1524(b), in fiscal years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 
shall remain available until expended to disburse obligations made in 
fiscal years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, respectively, and are 
not available for new obligations.
    Sec. 724. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any former 
RUS borrower that has repaid or prepaid an insured, direct or 
guaranteed loan under the Rural Electrification Act, or any not-for-
profit utility that is eligible to receive an insured or direct loan 
under such Act, shall be eligible for assistance under Section 
313(b)(2)(B) of such Act in the same manner as a borrower under such 
Act.
    Sec. 725. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make funding and other 
assistance available through the emergency watershed protection program 
under section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 
2203) to repair and prevent damage to non-Federal land in watersheds 
that have been impaired by fires initiated by the Federal Government 
and shall waive cost sharing requirements for the funding and 
assistance.
    Sec. 726. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used for 
salaries and expenses to draft or implement any regulation or rule 
insofar as it would require recertification of rural status for each 
electric and telecommunications borrower for the Rural Electrification 
and Telecommunication Loans program.
    Sec. 727. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to study, complete a study of, or enter into a contract with a private 
party to carry out, without specific authorization in a subsequent Act 
of Congress, a competitive sourcing activity of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, including support personnel of the Department of 
Agriculture, relating to rural development or farm loan programs.
    Sec. 728. Of the amount available for Estimated Future Needs under 
section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, $184,000,000 are hereby 
rescinded: Provided, That in addition, of the unobligated balances 
under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, $147,000,000 are hereby 
rescinded.
    Sec. 729. None of the funds made available under this Act shall be 
available to pay the administrative expenses of a State agency that, 
after the date of enactment of this Act and prior to receiving 
certification in accordance with the provisions set forth in section 
17(h)(11)(E) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, authorizes any new 
for-profit vendor(s) to transact food instruments under the Special 
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) 
if it is expected that more than 50 percent of the annual revenue of 
the vendor from the sale of food items will be derived from the sale of 
supplemental foods that are obtained with WIC food instruments, except 
that the Secretary may approve the authorization of such a vendor if 
the approval is necessary to assure participant access to program 
benefits.
    Sec. 730. Of the appropriations available for payments for the 
nutrition and family education program for low-income areas under 
section 3(d) of the Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343(d)), if the payment 
allocation pursuant to section 1425(c) of the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3175(c)) 
would be less than $100,000 for any institution eligible under section 
3(d)(2) of the Smith-Lever Act, the Secretary shall adjust payment 
allocations under section 1425(c) of the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to ensure that 
each institution receives a payment of not less than $100,000.
    Sec. 731. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, for a grant to the National Center for 
Natural Products Research for construction or renovation to carry out 
the research objectives of the natural products research grant issued 
by the Food and Drug Administration.
    Sec. 732. There is hereby appropriated $200,000, to remain 
available until expended, for the planning and design of construction 
of an agriculture pest facility in the State of Hawaii.
    Sec. 733. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act 
shall be used to transfer funds or assess charges or fees in excess of 
5 percent from any program, project, or activity funded under the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
    Sec. 734. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and until 
receipt of the decennial Census for the year 2010, the service areas 
being acquired by Mid-Kansas Electric Cooperative shall be considered 
eligible for financing under the provisions of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936, as amended.
    Sec. 735. Section 9012 of Public Law 110-28 is hereby repealed.
    Sec. 736. The Secretary of Agriculture shall continue the Water and 
Waste Systems direct loan program under the authority and conditions 
(including the fees, borrower interest rate, and President's economic 
assumptions for the 2008 fiscal year, as of June 1, 2007) provided by 
the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007.
    Sec. 737. Section 704 of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act 
of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2258) is amended by striking the first proviso.
    Sec. 738. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and until 
receipt of the decennial Census for the year 2010, the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall consider--
            (1) the City of Parsons, Kansas; the Town of Boone, North 
        Carolina; the City of Henderson, North Carolina; and the City 
        of Lenoir, North Carolina to be rural areas for the purposes of 
        eligibility for Rural Utilities Service water and waste loans 
        and grants.
            (2) the City of Lansing, Kansas a rural area for purposes 
        of eligibility for Rural Housing Service programs, and the City 
        of Leavenworth, Kansas and the City of Lansing, Kansas as 
        separate geographic entities for purposes of Rural Development 
        grants and loans.
    Sec. 739. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 to the Farm 
Service Agency to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate the use of 
new technologies that increase the rate of growth of re-forested 
hardwood trees on private non-industrial forests lands, enrolling lands 
on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico that were damaged by Hurricane 
Katrina in 2005.
    Sec. 740. (a) Section 9002(a) of the U.S. Troop Readiness, 
Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability 
Appropriations Act, 2007 (Public law 110-28; 121 Stat. 211) is amended 
by striking ``February 28, 2007'' each place it occurs and inserting 
``December 31, 2007''.
    (b) There is hereby appropriated $10,000,000 to carry out the 
Emergency Conservation Program.
    Sec. 741. Travel Relating to Commercial Sales of Agricultural and 
Medical Goods. Section 910(a) of the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export 
Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7209(a)) is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(a) Authorization of Travel Relating to Commercial Sales of 
Agricultural and Medical Goods.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
promulgate regulations under which the travel-related transactions 
listed in paragraph (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal 
Regulations, are authorized by general license for travel to, from, or 
within Cuba for the marketing and sale of agricultural and medical 
goods pursuant to the provisions of this title.''.
    Sec. 742. The Secretary of Agriculture shall--
            (1) not later than January 18, 2008, promulgates such 
        proposed regulations as are necessary to implement subtitle D 
        of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1638 et 
        seq.);
            (2) not later than July 19, 2008, promulgate such final 
        regulations as are necessary to implement that subtitle;
            (3) not later than July 27, 2008, submit the reports for 
        the final rules to implement that subtitle that are required 
        under section 801 of title 5, United States Code; and
            (4) not later than 7 days after each of the dates specified 
        in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), submit to the Committee on 
        Appropriations, and the Committee on Agriculture, of the House 
        of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations, and the 
        Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, of the 
        Senate a report that--
                    (A) describes whether the action required under 
                that paragraph was taken by the applicable date;
                    (B) if the action was not taken by the applicable 
                date, a description of the reason why the action was 
                not taken; and
                    (C) a plan for making that subtitle applicable in 
                accordance with section 285 of the Agricultural 
                Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1638d).
    This Act may be cited as the ``Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2008''.
                                                       Calendar No. 282

110th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 1859

                          [Report No. 110-134]

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                                 A BILL

Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
   Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.

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                             July 24, 2007

                 Read twice and placed on the calendar