[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 27, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H3714-H3715]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                               H.R. 2311

                       Offered By: Mr. Traficant

       Amendment No. 5: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title) add the following section:
       Sec.   . No funds in this Act may be used to drill for oil 
     and gas, through, in or under, the Mosquito Creek Reservoir, 
     Trumbull County, Ohio.

                               H.R. 2330

                         Offered By: Mr. Allen

       Amendment No. 4: At the end of title VII, insert after the 
     last section (preceding any short title) the following 
     section:
       Sec. 7____. None of the amounts made available in this Act 
     for the Food and Drug Administration may be expended to 
     approve any application for a new drug submitted by an entity 
     that does not, before completion of the approval process, 
     provide to the Secretary of Health and Human Services a 
     written statement specifying the total cost of research and 
     development with respect to such drug, by stage of drug 
     development, including a separate statement specifying the 
     portion paid with Federal funds and the portion paid with 
     State funds.

                               H.R. 2330

                        Offered By: Mrs. Clayton

       Amendment No. 5: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:
       Sec. 738. The amounts otherwise provided by this Act are 
     revised by reducing the amount made available for 
     ``AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS--Agriculture Buildings and Facilities 
     and Rental Payments'', by reducing the amount made available 
     for ``AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS--Cooperative State Research, 
     Education, and Extension Service--research and education 
     activities'' (and the amount specified under such heading for 
     competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), by reducing 
     the amount made available for ``AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS--Farm 
     Service Agency--salaries and expenses'', and by increasing 
     the amount made available for ``AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS--
     Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
     Service--research and education activities'' (and the amount 
     specified under such heading for a program of capacity 
     building grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(4)) to colleges eligible to 
     receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890 (7 U.S.C. 321-
     326 and 328), including Tuskegee University), by increasing 
     the amount made available for ``AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS--
     Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
     Service--research and education activities'' (and the amount 
     specified under such heading for payments to the 1890 land-
     grant colleges, including Tuskegee University (7 U.S.C. 
     3222)), and by increasing the amount made available for 
     ``AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS--Outreach for Socially Disadvantaged 
     Farmers'', by $5,521,000, $10,000,000, and $7,007,000, 
     respectively.

                               H.R. 2330

                        Offered By: Mrs. Clayton

       Amendment No. 6: In title III, in the item relating to 
     ``Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account'' add at the 
     end the following:
       Of the amounts made available under this heading in chapter 
     1 of title II of Public Law 106-246 (114 Stat. 540) for gross 
     obligations for principal amount of direct loans authorized 
     by title V of the Housing Act of 1949 for section 515 rental 
     housing, the Secretary of Agriculture may use $12,000,000 for 
     rental assistance agreements described in the item relating 
     to ``Rental Assistance Program'' in such chapter.
       In making available for occupancy dwelling units in housing 
     that is provided with funds made available under the heading 
     referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture may give preference to prospective tenants who 
     are residing in temporary housing provided by the Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency as a result of an emergency.

                               H.R. 2330

                        Offered By: Mr. DeFazio

       Amendment No. 7: In title I, under the heading ``common 
     computing environment'', insert after the first dollar amount 
     the following: ``(reduced by $1,990,000)''.
       In title I, under the heading ``Animal and Plant Health 
     Inspection Service''--``salaries and expenses'', insert after 
     the first dollar amount the following: ``(increased by 
     $1,990,000)''.

                               H.R. 2330

                        Offered By: Mr. Hinchey

       Amendment No. 8: Insert before the short title the 
     following new section:
       Sec. ____. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act shall be used to eliminate employment 
     positions (or alter the tasks assigned to the persons filling 
     such employment positions) related to the operation of the 
     American Heritage Rivers Initiative.

                               H.R. 2330

                       Offered By: Mr. Kanjorski

       Amendment No. 9: In title II, under the heading 
     ``conservation operations'', insert before the period at the 
     end the following: ``: Provided further, That $200,000 shall 
     be available to continue the cooperative agreement between 
     the GIS Consortium and the Natural Resources Conservation 
     Service''.

                               H.R. 2330

                         Offered By: Ms. Kaptur

       Amendment No. 10: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following new 
     section:
       Sec. ____. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall continue 
     in fiscal year 2002 the Global Food for Education Initiative 
     program implemented in fiscal year 2001, at the level 
     implemented in fiscal year 2001.
       (b) For all purposes under the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974 and the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985, the Congressional Budget Office and the Office 
     of Management and Budget shall treat the budget authority and 
     outlays associated with continuing the Global Food for 
     Education Initiative at the level implemented in fiscal year 
     2001 as part of the baseline costs of the Commodity Credit 
     Corporation in fiscal year 2002 and shall not attribute any 
     additional new budget authority or outlays to this Act 
     because of the directive contained in subsection (a).

                               H.R. 2330

                         Offered By: Ms. Kaptur

       Amendment No. 11: Add before the short title at the end the 
     following new section:
       Sec. ____. In addition to amounts otherwise appropriated or 
     made available by this Act, $500,000,000 is appropriated to 
     the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out and support 
     (utilizing existing authorities of the Secretary and subject 
     to the terms and conditions applicable to those authorities) 
     research, technical assistance, loan, and grant programs 
     regarding the development of biofuels (including ethanol, 
     biodiesel, and other forms of biomass-derived fuels), the 
     production of such biofuels, the establishment of farmer-held 
     reserves of fuel stocks, and demonstration projects regarding 
     such biofuels, as part of a Biofuels and Biomass Energy 
     Independence effort and to augment the President's National 
     Energy Policy: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request for 
     $500,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                               H.R. 2330

                         Offered By: Ms. Kaptur

       Amendment No. 12: Add before the short title at the end the 
     following new section:

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       Sec. ____. Of the amount provided in title I under the 
     heading ``extension activities'', $500,000 shall be available 
     to support the National 4-H Program Centennial Initiative, as 
     authorized by the Act entitled ``An Act to authorize funding 
     for the National 4-H Program Centennial Initiative''.

                               H.R. 2330

                        Offered By: Mr. Kucinich

       Amendment No. 13: At the end of title VII, insert after the 
     last section (preceding any short title) the following 
     section:
       Sec. 7____. None of the funds made available in this Act 
     for the Food and Drug Administration may be used for the 
     approval or process of approval, under section 512 of the 
     Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, of an application for 
     an animal drug for creating transgenic salmon or any other 
     transgenic fish.

                               H.R. 2330

                          Offered By: Ms. Lee

       Amendment No. 14: In the item relating to ``Agricultural 
     Research Service- salaries and expenses'', after the second 
     dollar amount, insert the following: ``(decreased by 
     $1,000,000)''.
       In the item relating to ``Food and Nutrition Service--child 
     nutrition programs'', after the first dollar amount, insert 
     the following: ``(increased by $1,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2330

                          Offered By: Ms. Lee

       Amendment No. 15: In the item relating to ``Agricultural 
     Research Service--salaries and expenses'', after the second 
     dollar amount, insert the following: ``(decreased by 
     $2,000,000)''.

       In the item relating to ``Food and Nutrition Service-child 
     nutrition programs'', after the first dollar amount, insert 
     the following: ``(increased by $2,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2330

                   Offered By: Mr. Lucas of Oklahoma

       Amendment No. 16: Insert before the short title the 
     following new section:
       Sec. ____. The amounts otherwise provided by this Act are 
     revised by increasing the total amount provided in title II 
     under the heading ``watershed and flood prevention 
     operations'' (to be used to carry out section 14 of the 
     Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 
     1012), as added by section 313 of Public Law 106-472 (114 
     Stat. 2077)), and none of the funds made available in this 
     Act may be used to pay the salaries of personnel of the 
     Department of Agriculture who carry out the programs 
     authorized by section 524(a) of the Federal Crop Insurance 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1524) in excess of a total of $3,600,000 for 
     all such programs for fiscal year 2002, by $5,400,000.

                               H.R. 2330

                    Offered By: Mrs. Mink of Hawaii

       Amendment No. 17: Insert before the short title at the end 
     the following new section:
       Sec. ____. Of the amount for the Department of Agriculture 
     provided under the heading ``Agricultural Research Service''-
     ``salaries and expenses'' in title I, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall provide $950,000, the same amount as was 
     provided for fiscal year 2001, for the Hawaii Agriculture 
     Research Center to maintain competitiveness and support the 
     expansion of new crops and products.

                               H.R. 2330

                    Offered By: Mrs. Mink of Hawaii

       Amendment No. 18: Insert before the short title at the end 
     the following new section:
       Sec. ____. Of the amount for the Department of Agriculture 
     provided under the heading ``Agricultural Research Service''-
     ``salaries and expenses'' in title I, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall provide $1,603,000, the same amount as was 
     provided for fiscal year 2001, for tropical aquaculture 
     research for the Oceanic Institute of Hawaii for continuation 
     of the comprehensive research program focused on feeds, 
     nutrition, and global competitiveness of the United States 
     aquaculture industry.

                               H.R. 2330

                         Offered By: Mr. Royce

       Amendment No. 19: Insert before the short title the 
     following new section:
       Sec. ____. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to award any new 
     allocations under the market access program or to pay the 
     salaries of personnel to award such allocations.

                               H.R. 2330

                        Offered By: Mr. Sanders

       Amendment No. 20: At the end of title VII, insert after the 
     last section (preceding any short title) the following 
     section:
       Sec. 7____. None of the amounts made available in this Act 
     for the Food and Drug Administration may be used for 
     enforcing section 801(d)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
     Cosmetic Act.

                               H.R. 2330

                   Offered By: Mr. Smith of Michigan

       Amendment No. 21: Add before the short title at the end the 
     following new section:
       Sec. ____ Section 135(a)(2) of the Agricultural Market 
     Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7235(a)(2)) is amended by striking 
     ``2000 crop year'' and inserting ``2000 and 2001 crop 
     years''.

                               H.R. 2330

                   Offered By: Mr. Smith of Michigan

       Amendment No. 22: In title I under the heading 
     ``Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
     Service''--``research and education activities'' insert after 
     the dollar amount relating to ``competitive research grants 
     (7 U.S.C. 450i(b))'' the following: ``, including grants for 
     authorized competitive research programs regarding 
     enhancement of the nitrogen-fixing ability and efficiency of 
     plants''.

                               H.R. 2330

                   Offered By: Mr. Smith of Michigan

       Amendment No. 23: Add before the short title at the end the 
     following new section:
       Sec. ____. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available in this Act may be used to pay the salaries of 
     personnel of the Department of Agriculture who permit the 
     payment limitation specified in section 1001(2) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308(2)) to be exceeded 
     pursuant to any provision of law, except in the case of loan 
     deficiency payments and marketing loan gains received by a 
     husband and wife who participate in the same farming 
     operation.

                               H.R. 2330

                        Offered By: Mr. Tierney

       Amendment No. 24: In title I, under the heading 
     ``AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE--salaries and expenses'', 
     insert at the end the following:

     SEC. ____. REPORT REGARDING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after funds are 
     made available to carry out this section, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture, acting through the National Academy of Sciences, 
     shall complete and transmit to Congress a report that 
     includes recommendations for the following:
       (1) Data and tests.--The type of data and tests that are 
     needed to sufficiently assess and evaluate human health risks 
     from the consumption of genetically engineered foods.
       (2) Monitoring system.--The type of Federal monitoring 
     system that should be created to assess any future human 
     health consequences from long-term consumption of genetically 
     engineered foods.
       (3) Regulations.--A Federal regulatory structure to approve 
     genetically engineered foods that are safe for human 
     consumption.
       (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture $500,000 
     to carry out this section.

                               H.R. 2330

                         Offered By: Mr. Weiner

       Amendment No. 25: Insert before the short title the 
     following new section:
       Sec. ____. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and 
     expenses of personnel of the Department of Agriculture to 
     make any payment to producers of wool or producers of mohair 
     for the 2000 or 2001 marketing years under section 814 of the 
     Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted by 
     Public Law 106-387; 114 Stat. 1549A-55).