[House Report 106-948]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     106-948

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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG 
  ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES PROGRAMS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 
  ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2001 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

                                _______
                                

                October 6, 2000.--Ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

  Mr. Skeen, from the committee of conference, submitted the following

                           CONFERENCE REPORT

                        [To accompany H.R. 4461]

    The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 
two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
4461) ``making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for 
other purposes'', having met, after full and free conference, 
have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective 
Houses as follows:
    That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an 
amendment, as follows:
    In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said 
amendment, insert:
      Section 1. (a) The provisions of H.R. 5426 of the 106th 
Congress, as introduced on October 6, 2000, are hereby enacted 
into law.
      (b) In publishing this Act in slip form and in the United 
States Statutes at Large pursuant to section 112, of title 1, 
United States Code, the Archivist of the United States shall 
include after the date of approval at the end an appendix 
setting forth the text of the bill referred to in subsection 
(a) of this section.
      And the Senate agree to the same.

                                   Joe Skeen,
                                   James T. Walsh,
                                   Jay Dickey,
                                   Jack Kingston,
                                   George R. Nethercutt, Jr.,
                                   Henry Bonilla,
                                   Tom Latham,
                                   Jo Ann Emerson,
                                   C.W. Bill Young,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Thad Cochran,
                                   Arlen Specter,
                                   Christopher S. Bond,
                                   Slade Gorton,
                                   Mitch McConnell,
                                   Conrad Burns,
                                   Ted Stevens,
                                   Herb Kohl,
                                   Tom Harkin
                                           (except for Cuba and drug 
                                               reimportation),
                                   Byron L. Dorgan,
                                   Dianne Feinstein,
                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.

       JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

      The managers on the part of the House and Senate at the 
conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 
amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 4461) making 
appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes, 
submit the following joint statement to the House and Senate in 
explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the 
managers and recommended in the accompanying conference report.
      The conference agreement would enact the provisions of 
H.R. 5426 as introduced on October 6, 2000. The text of that 
bill follows:

 A BILL Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
   and Drug Administration, and Related Programs for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes

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

                                TITLE I

                         AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

                 Production, Processing, and Marketing

                        Office of the Secretary


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, and not to exceed $75,000 for employment under 5 
U.S.C. 3109, $2,914,000: 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: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may 
be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel of the 
Department of Agriculture to carry out section 793(c)(1)(C) of 
Public Law 104-127: Provided further, That none of the funds 
made available by this Act may be used to enforce section 
793(d) of Public Law 104-127.

                          Executive Operations


                            chief economist


    For necessary expenses of the Chief Economist, including 
economic analysis, risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, 
energy and new uses, and the functions of the World 
Agricultural Outlook Board, as authorized by the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), and including 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of 
the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed 
$5,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $7,462,000.


                       national appeals division


    For necessary expenses of the National Appeals Division, 
including employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not 
to exceed $25,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$12,421,000.


                 office of budget and program analysis


    For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Program 
Analysis, including employment pursuant to the second sentence 
of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), 
of which not to exceed $5,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $6,765,000.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

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


                      common computing environment


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

                 Office of the Chief Financial Officer

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Financial 
Officer, including employment pursuant to the second sentence 
of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), 
of which not to exceed $10,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $5,171,000: Provided, That the Chief Financial Officer 
shall actively market cross-servicing activities of the 
National Finance Center.

          Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Administration to carry out the 
programs funded by this Act, $629,000.

        Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For payment of space rental and related costs pursuant to 
Public Law 92-313, including authorities pursuant to the 1984 
delegation of authority from the Administrator of General 
Services to the Department of Agriculture under 40 U.S.C. 486, 
for programs and activities of the Department which are 
included in this Act, and for the operation, maintenance, 
improvement, and repair of Agriculture buildings, $182,747,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That in the event 
an agency within the Department should require modification of 
space needs, the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer a share 
of that agency's appropriation made available by this Act to 
this appropriation, or may transfer a share of this 
appropriation to that agency's appropriation, but such 
transfers shall not exceed 5 percent of the funds made 
available for space rental and related costs to or from this 
account.

                     Hazardous Materials Management


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For necessary expenses of the Department of Agriculture, to 
comply with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., and 
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et 
seq., $15,700,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That appropriations and funds available herein to the 
Department for Hazardous Materials Management may be 
transferred to any agency of the Department for its use in 
meeting all requirements pursuant to the above Acts on Federal 
and non-Federal lands.

                      Departmental Administration


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For Departmental Administration, $36,010,000, to provide 
for necessary expenses for management support services to 
offices of the Department and for general administration and 
disaster management of the Department, repairs and alterations, 
and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise 
provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work 
of the Department, including employment pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2225), of which not to exceed $10,000 is for employment under 5 
U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
reimbursed from applicable appropriations in this Act for 
travel expenses incident to the holding of hearings as required 
by 5 U.S.C. 551-558.


              outreach for socially disadvantaged farmers


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

     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations to carry out 
the programs funded by this Act, including programs involving 
intergovernmental affairs and liaison within the executive 
branch, $3,568,000: Provided, That 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 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 to carry out services relating to 
the coordination of programs involving public affairs, for the 
dissemination of agricultural information, and the coordination 
of information, work, and programs authorized by Congress in 
the Department, $8,623,000, including employment pursuant to 
the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 
1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $10,000 shall be 
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed 
$2,000,000 may be used for farmers' bulletins.

                    Office of the Inspector General

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
General, including employment pursuant to the second sentence 
of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), 
and the Inspector General Act of 1978, $68,867,000, including 
such sums as may be necessary for contracting and other 
arrangements with public agencies and private persons pursuant 
to section 6(a)(9) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
including not to exceed $50,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109; and including not to exceed $125,000 for certain 
confidential operational expenses, including the payment of 
informants, to be expended under the direction of the Inspector 
General pursuant to Public Law 95-452 and section 1337 of 
Public Law 97-98.

                     Office of the General Counsel

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the General 
Counsel, $31,080,000.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics to 
administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Economic 
Research Service, the National Agricultural Statistics Service, 
the Agricultural Research Service, and the Cooperative State 
Research, Education, and Extension Service, $556,000.

                       Economic Research Service


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in 
conducting economic research and analysis, as authorized by the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621-1627) and 
other laws, $67,038,000: Provided, That $1,000,000 shall be 
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for ``Food and 
Nutrition Service, Food Program Administration'' for studies 
and evaluations: Provided further, That this appropriation 
shall be available for employment pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2225).

                National Agricultural Statistics Service

    For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural 
Statistics Service in conducting statistical reporting and 
service work, including crop and livestock estimates, 
statistical coordination and improvements, marketing surveys, 
and the Census of Agriculture, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1621-
1627, Public Law 105-113, and other laws, $100,772,000, of 
which up to $15,000,000 shall be available until expended for 
the Census of Agriculture: Provided, That this appropriation 
shall be available for employment pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2225), and not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for 
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.

                     Agricultural Research Service


                         salaries and expenses


    For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Research 
Service to perform agricultural research and demonstration 
relating to production, utilization, marketing, and 
distribution (not otherwise provided for); home economics or 
nutrition and consumer use including the acquisition, 
preservation, and dissemination of agricultural information; 
and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase 
at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, and for land exchanges 
where the lands exchanged shall be of equal value or shall be 
equalized by a payment of money to the grantor which shall not 
exceed 25 percent of the total value of the land or interests 
transferred out of Federal ownership, $898,812,000: Provided, 
That appropriations hereunder shall be available for temporary 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of 
the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed 
$115,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: 
Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be 
available for the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the 
purchase of not to exceed one for replacement only: Provided 
further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available 
pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, alteration, and 
repair of buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise 
provided, the cost of constructing any one building shall not 
exceed $375,000, except for headhouses or greenhouses which 
shall each be limited to $1,200,000, and except for 10 
buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed 
$750,000 each, and the cost of altering any one building during 
the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current 
replacement value of the building or $375,000, whichever is 
greater: Provided further, That the limitations on alterations 
contained in this Act shall not apply to modernization or 
replacement of existing facilities at Beltsville, Maryland: 
Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be 
available for granting easements at the Beltsville Agricultural 
Research Center, including an easement to the University of 
Maryland to construct the Transgenic Animal Facility which upon 
completion shall be accepted by the Secretary as a gift: 
Provided further, That the foregoing limitations shall not 
apply to replacement of buildings needed to carry out the Act 
of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That 
funds may be received from any State, other political 
subdivision, organization, or individual for the purpose of 
establishing or operating any research facility or research 
project of the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized by 
law.
    None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be 
available to carry out research related to the production, 
processing or marketing of tobacco or tobacco products.
    In fiscal year 2001, the agency is authorized to charge 
fees, commensurate with the fair market value, for any permit, 
easement, lease, or other special use authorization for the 
occupancy or use of land and facilities (including land and 
facilities at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center) 
issued by the agency, as authorized by law, and such fees shall 
be credited to this account, and shall remain available until 
expended for authorized purposes.


                        buildings and facilities


    For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improvement, 
extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or 
facilities as necessary to carry out the agricultural research 
programs of the Department of Agriculture, where not otherwise 
provided, $74,200,000, to remain available until expended (7 
U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, That funds may be received from any 
State, other political subdivision, organization, or individual 
for the purpose of establishing any research facility of the 
Agricultural Research Service, as authorized by law.

      Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service


                   research and education activities


    For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for 
cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and 
for other expenses, $506,193,000, as follows: to carry out the 
provisions of the Hatch Act (7 U.S.C. 361a-i), $180,545,000; 
for grants for cooperative forestry research (16 U.S.C. 582a-
a7), $21,932,000; for payments to the 1890 land-grant colleges, 
including Tuskegee University (7 U.S.C. 3222), $32,676,000, of 
which $1,000,000 shall be made available to West Virginia State 
College in Institute, West Virginia; for special grants for 
agricultural research (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $85,669,000; for 
special grants for agricultural research on improved pest 
control (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $13,721,000; for competitive 
research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), $106,000,000; for the 
support of animal health and disease programs (7 U.S.C. 3195), 
$5,109,000; for supplemental and alternative crops and products 
(7 U.S.C. 3319d), $800,000; for grants for research pursuant to 
the Critical Agricultural Materials Act of 1984 (7 U.S.C. 178) 
and section 1472 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3318), $640,000, to remain available until expended; for 
the 1994 research program (7 U.S.C. 301 note), $1,000,000, to 
remain available until expended; for higher education graduate 
fellowship grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(6)), $3,000,000, to remain 
available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for higher education 
challenge grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(1)), $4,350,000; for a 
higher education multicultural scholars program (7 U.S.C. 
3152(b)(5)), $1,000,000, to remain available until expended (7 
U.S.C. 2209b); for an education grants program for Hispanic-
serving Institutions (7 U.S.C. 3241), $3,500,000; for a program 
of noncompetitive grants, to be awarded on an equal basis, to 
Alaska Native-serving and Native Hawaiian-serving Institutions 
to carry out higher education programs (7 U.S.C. 3242), 
$3,000,000; for a secondary agriculture education program and 
2-year post-secondary education (7 U.S.C. 3152(h)), $800,000; 
for aquaculture grants (7 U.S.C. 3322), $4,000,000; for 
sustainable agriculture research and education (7 U.S.C. 5811), 
$9,250,000; for a program of capacity building grants (7 U.S.C. 
3152(b)(4)) to colleges eligible to receive funds under the Act 
of August 30, 1890 (7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328), including 
Tuskegee University, $9,500,000, to remain available until 
expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for payments to the 1994 
Institutions pursuant to section 534(a)(1) of Public Law 103-
382, $1,552,000; and for necessary expenses of Research and 
Education Activities, of which not to exceed $100,000 shall be 
for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $18,149,000.
    None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be 
available to carry out research related to the production, 
processing or marketing of tobacco or tobacco products: 
Provided, That 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), 
$7,100,000: Provided, That hereafter, any distribution of the 
adjusted income from the Native American Institutions Endowment 
Fund is authorized to be used for facility renovation, repair, 
construction, and maintenance, in addition to other authorized 
purposes.


                          extension activities


    For payments to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto 
Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, 
and American Samoa, $433,429,000, 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 and for 
costs of penalty mail for cooperative extension agents and 
State extension directors, $276,548,000; payments for extension 
work at the 1994 Institutions under the Smith-Lever Act (7 
U.S.C. 343(b)(3)), $3,280,000; payments for the nutrition and 
family education program for low-income areas under section 
3(d) of the Act, $58,695,000; payments for the pest management 
program under section 3(d) of the Act, $10,783,000; payments 
for the farm safety program under section 3(d) of the Act, 
$4,000,000; payments to upgrade research, extension, and 
teaching facilities at the 1890 land-grant colleges, including 
Tuskegee University, as authorized by section 1447 of Public 
Law 95-113 (7 U.S.C. 3222b), $12,200,000, to remain available 
until expended; payments for the rural development centers 
under section 3(d) of the Act, $908,000; payments for youth-at-
risk programs under section 3(d) of the Act, $8,500,000; for 
youth farm safety education and certification extension grants, 
to be awarded competitively under section 3(d) of the Act, 
$500,000; payments for carrying out the provisions of the 
Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978, $3,192,000; payments 
for Indian reservation agents under section 3(d) of the Act, 
$2,000,000; payments for sustainable agriculture programs under 
section 3(d) of the Act, $3,800,000; payments for rural health 
and safety education as authorized by section 2390 of Public 
Law 101-624 (7 U.S.C. 2661 note, 2662), $2,628,000; payments 
for cooperative extension work by the colleges receiving the 
benefits of the second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328) 
and Tuskegee University, $28,243,000, of which $1,000,000 shall 
be made available to West Virginia State College in Institute, 
West Virginia; and for Federal administration and coordination 
including administration of the Smith-Lever Act, and the Act of 
September 29, 1977 (7 U.S.C. 341-349), and section 1361(c) of 
the Act of October 3, 1980 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), and to 
coordinate and provide program leadership for the extension 
work of the Department and the several States and insular 
possessions, $18,152,000: Provided, That funds hereby 
appropriated pursuant to section 3(c) of the Act of June 26, 
1953, and section 506 of the Act of June 23, 1972, shall not be 
paid to any State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, 
or the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, and 
American Samoa prior to availability of an equal sum from non-
Federal sources for expenditure during the current fiscal year.


                         integrated activities


    For the integrated research, education, and extension 
competitive grants programs, including necessary administrative 
expenses, as authorized under section 406 of the Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 
7626), $41,941,000, as follows: payments for the water quality 
program, $13,000,000; payments for the food safety program, 
$15,000,000; payments for the national agriculture pesticide 
impact assessment program, $4,541,000; payments for the Food 
Quality Protection Act risk mitigation program for major food 
crop systems, $4,900,000; payments for the crops affected by 
Food Quality Protection Act implementation, $1,500,000; 
payments for the methyl bromide transition program, $2,500,000; 
and payments for the organic transition program, $500,000.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs to 
administer programs under the laws enacted by the Congress for 
the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; the 
Agricultural Marketing Service; and the Grain Inspection, 
Packers and Stockyards Administration; $635,000.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service


                         salaries and expenses


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For expenses, not otherwise provided for, including those 
pursuant to the Act of February 28, 1947 (21 U.S.C. 114b-c), 
necessary to prevent, control, and eradicate pests and plant 
and animal diseases; to carry out inspection, quarantine, and 
regulatory activities; to discharge the authorities of the 
Secretary of Agriculture under the Acts of March 2, 1931 (46 
Stat. 1468) and December 22, 1987 (101 Stat. 1329-1331) (7 
U.S.C. 426-426c); and to protect the environment, as authorized 
by law, $530,564,000, of which $4,105,000 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 
$59,400,000 shall be used for the boll weevil eradication 
program for cost share purposes or for debt retirement for 
active eradication zones: Provided, That no funds shall be used 
to formulate or administer a brucellosis eradication program 
for the current fiscal year that does not require minimum 
matching by the States of at least 40 percent: Provided 
further, That this appropriation shall be available for field 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of 
the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed 
$40,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: 
Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available 
for the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase 
of not to exceed four, of which two shall be for replacement 
only: Provided further, That, in addition, in emergencies which 
threaten any segment of the agricultural production industry of 
this country, the Secretary may transfer from other 
appropriations or funds available to the agencies or 
corporations of the Department such sums as may be deemed 
necessary, to be available only in such emergencies for the 
arrest and eradication of contagious or infectious disease or 
pests of animals, poultry, or plants, and for expenses in 
accordance with the Act of February 28, 1947, and section 102 
of the Act of September 21, 1944, and any unexpended balances 
of funds transferred for such emergency purposes in the 
preceding fiscal year shall be merged with such transferred 
amounts: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall 
be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the repair and 
alteration of leased buildings and improvements, but unless 
otherwise provided the cost of altering any one building during 
the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current 
replacement value of the building: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $1,000,000 of the funds available under this heading 
for wildlife services methods development may be used by the 
Secretary of Agriculture to conduct pilot projects in up to 
four States representative of wildlife predation of livestock 
in connection with farming operations for direct assistance in 
the application of non-lethal predation control methods: 
Provided further, That the General Accounting Office shall 
report to the Committees on Appropriations by November 30, 
2001, on the Department's compliance with this provision and on 
the effectiveness of the non-lethal measures.
    In fiscal year 2001, the agency is authorized to collect 
fees to cover the total costs of providing technical 
assistance, goods, or services requested by States, other 
political subdivisions, domestic and international 
organizations, foreign governments, or individuals, provided 
that such fees are structured such that any entity's liability 
for such fees is reasonably based on the technical assistance, 
goods, or services provided to the entity by the agency, and 
such fees shall be credited to this account, to remain 
available until expended, without further appropriation, for 
providing such assistance, goods, or services.
    Of the total amount available under this heading in fiscal 
year 2001, $85,000,000 shall be derived from user fees 
deposited in the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection User Fee 
Account.


                        buildings and facilities


    For plans, construction, repair, preventive maintenance, 
environmental support, improvement, extension, alteration, and 
purchase of fixed equipment or facilities, as authorized by 7 
U.S.C. 2250, and acquisition of land as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
428a, $9,870,000, to remain available until expended.

                     Agricultural Marketing Service


                           marketing services


    For necessary expenses to carry out services related to 
consumer protection, agricultural marketing and distribution, 
transportation, and regulatory programs, as authorized by law, 
and for administration and coordination of payments to States, 
including field employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225) and 
not to exceed $90,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$65,335,000, including funds for the wholesale market 
development program for the design and development of wholesale 
and farmer market facilities for the major metropolitan areas 
of the country: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration 
and repair of buildings and improvements, but the cost of 
altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not 
exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value of the 
building: Provided further, That, only after promulgation of a 
final rule on a National Organic Standards Program, $639,000 of 
this amount shall be available for the Expenses and Refunds, 
Inspection and Grading of Farm Products fund account for the 
cost of the National Organic Standards Program and such funds 
shall remain available until expended.
    Fees may be collected for the cost of standardization 
activities, as established by regulation pursuant to law (31 
U.S.C. 9701).


                 limitation on administrative expenses


    Not to exceed $60,730,000 (from fees collected) shall be 
obligated during the current fiscal year for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That if crop size is understated and/or 
other uncontrollable events occur, the agency may exceed this 
limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the 
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, except for: (1) transfers to the Department of 
Commerce as authorized by the Fish and Wildlife Act of August 
8, 1956; (2) transfers otherwise provided in this Act; and (3) 
not more than $13,438,000 for formulation and administration of 
marketing agreements and orders pursuant to the Agricultural 
Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 and the Agricultural Act of 
1961.


                   payments to states and possessions


    For payments to departments of agriculture, bureaus and 
departments of markets, and similar agencies for marketing 
activities under section 204(b) of the Agricultural Marketing 
Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623(b)), $1,350,000.

        Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


                         salaries and expenses


    For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
United States Grain Standards Act, for the administration of 
the Packers and Stockyards Act, for certifying procedures used 
to protect purchasers of farm products, and the standardization 
activities related to grain under the Agricultural Marketing 
Act of 1946, including field employment pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2225), and not to exceed $25,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $31,420,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration 
and repair of buildings and improvements, but the cost of 
altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not 
exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value of the 
building.


        limitation on inspection and weighing services expenses


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

             Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Under Secretary for Food Safety to administer the laws enacted 
by the Congress for the Food Safety and Inspection Service, 
$460,000.

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

    For necessary expenses to carry out services authorized by 
the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products 
Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, 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), $696,704,000, of which no less than 
$591,258,000 shall be available for Federal food inspection; 
and in addition, $1,000,000 may be credited to this account 
from fees collected for the cost of laboratory accreditation as 
authorized by section 1017 of Public Law 102-237: Provided, 
That not more than $2,500,000 of this appropriation may be used 
to implement section 752 of title VII of this Act: Provided 
further, That this appropriation shall be available for field 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of 
the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed 
$75,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: 
Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available 
pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair 
of buildings and improvements, but the cost of altering any one 
building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of 
the current replacement value of the building: Provided 
further, That from amounts appropriated under this heading not 
needed for federal food inspection, up to $6,000,000 may be 
used to liquidate obligations incurred in previous years, to 
the extent approved by the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget based on documentation provided by the Secretary of 
Agriculture.

    Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
                                Services

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services to 
administer the laws enacted by Congress for the Farm Service 
Agency, the Foreign Agricultural Service, the Risk Management 
Agency, and the Commodity Credit Corporation, $589,000.

                          Farm Service Agency


                         salaries and expenses


                     (including transfers of funds)


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


                         state mediation grants


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


                        dairy indemnity program


                     (including transfer of funds)


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


           agricultural credit insurance fund program account


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct 
and guaranteed loans as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1928-1929, to be 
available from funds in the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, 
as follows: farm ownership loans, $998,000,000, of which 
$870,000,000 shall be for guaranteed loans; operating loans, 
$1,972,741,000, of which $1,077,839,000 shall be for 
unsubsidized guaranteed loans and $369,902,000 shall be for 
subsidized guaranteed loans; Indian tribe land acquisition 
loans as authorized by 25 U.S.C. 488, $2,006,000; for emergency 
insured loans, $25,000,000 to meet the needs resulting from 
natural disasters; and for boll weevil eradication program 
loans as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1989, $100,000,000.
    For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including the 
cost of modifying loans as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: farm ownership 
loans, $18,223,000, of which $4,437,000 shall be for guaranteed 
loans; operating loans, $92,310,000, of which $14,770,000 shall 
be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans and $30,185,000 shall be 
for subsidized guaranteed loans; Indian tribe land acquisition 
loans as authorized by 25 U.S.C. 488, $323,000; and for 
emergency insured loans, $6,133,000 to meet the needs resulting 
from natural disasters.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $269,454,000, of 
which $265,315,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriation for ``Farm Service Agency, Salaries and 
Expenses''.
    Funds appropriated by this Act to the Agricultural Credit 
Insurance Program Account for farm ownership and operating 
direct loans and guaranteed loans may be transferred among 
these programs with the prior approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.

                         Risk Management Agency

    For administrative and operating expenses, as authorized by 
the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 
U.S.C. 6933), $65,597,000: Provided, That not to exceed $700 
shall be available for official reception and representation 
expenses, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1506(i).

                              CORPORATIONS

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

                Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund

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

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund


                 reimbursement for net realized losses


    For fiscal year 2001, such sums as may be necessary to 
reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for net realized 
losses sustained, but not previously reimbursed, pursuant to 
section 2 of the Act of August 17, 1961 (15 U.S.C. 713a-11).


       operations and maintenance for hazardous waste management


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

                                TITLE II

                         CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

  Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment to 
administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Forest 
Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, 
$711,000: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated or 
otherwise made available by this Act or any other Act shall be 
available to the Office of the Under Secretary for Natural 
Resources and Environment for the supervision, management or 
direction of the Forest Service or the Natural Resources 
Conservation Service until January 20, 2001: Provided further, 
That the Chiefs of the Forest Service and the Natural Resources 
Conservation Service shall report directly to the Secretary of 
Agriculture until January 20, 2001.

                 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, 
$714,116,000, to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 
2209b), of which not less than $5,990,000 is for snow survey 
and water forecasting and not less than $9,125,000 is for 
operation and establishment of the plant materials centers: 
Provided, That appropriations hereunder shall be available 
pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for construction and improvement of 
buildings and public improvements at plant materials centers, 
except that the cost of alterations and improvements to other 
buildings and other public improvements shall not exceed 
$250,000: Provided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 of 
this amount shall be available for the Urban Resources 
Partnership program, of which $1,000,000 shall be available 
only after promulgation of a final rule on this program: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $204,000 of this amount 
shall be available for American Heritage Rivers: Provided 
further, That when buildings or other structures are erected on 
non-Federal land, that the right to use such land is obtained 
as provided in 7 U.S.C. 2250a: Provided further, That this 
appropriation shall be available for technical assistance and 
related expenses to carry out programs authorized by section 
202(c) of title II of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control 
Act of 1974 (43 U.S.C. 1592(c)): Provided further, That this 
appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the 
second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $25,000 shall be available for 
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That 
qualified local engineers may be temporarily employed at per 
diem rates to perform the technical planning work of the 
Service (16 U.S.C. 590e-2).


                     watershed surveys and planning


    For necessary expenses to conduct research, investigation, 
and surveys of watersheds of rivers and other waterways, and 
for small watershed investigations and planning, in accordance 
with the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act approved 
August 4, 1954 (16 U.S.C. 1001-1009), $10,868,000: Provided, 
That not to exceed $136,000 shall be available for American 
Heritage Rivers: Provided further, That this appropriation 
shall be available for employment pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2225), and not to exceed $110,000 shall be available for 
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.


               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 approved August 4, 1954 (16 U.S.C. 1001-1005 and 1007-
1009), the provisions of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 
590a-f), and in accordance with the provisions of laws relating 
to the activities of the Department, $99,443,000, to remain 
available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b) (of which up to 
$15,000,000 may be available for the watersheds authorized 
under the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 1936 (33 U.S.C. 
701 and 16 U.S.C. 1006a)): Provided, That not to exceed 
$44,423,000 of this appropriation shall be available for 
technical assistance: Provided further, That this appropriation 
shall be available for employment pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2225), and not to exceed $200,000 shall be available for 
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That not to 
exceed $1,000,000 of this appropriation is available to carry 
out the purposes of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Public 
Law 93-205), including cooperative efforts as contemplated by 
that Act to relocate endangered or threatened species to other 
suitable habitats as may be necessary to expedite project 
construction: Provided further, That of the funds available for 
Emergency Watershed Protection activities, $8,000,000 shall be 
available for Ohio, New Mexico, Mississippi and Wisconsin for 
financial and technical assistance for pilot rehabilitation 
projects of small, upstream dams built under the Watershed and 
Flood Prevention Act of 1954, Public Law 83-566 (16 U.S.C. 1001 
et seq.); Section 13 of the Flood Control Act of 1944, Public 
Law 78-534 (33 U.S.C. 701 b-1); the pilot watershed program 
authorized under the heading ``FLOOD PREVENTION'' of the 
Department of Agriculture Appropriations Act, 1954, Public Law 
83-156 (67 Stat. 214); and Subtitle H of title XV of the 
Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3451 et seq.): 
Provided further, That the amount of Federal funds that may be 
made available to an eligible local organization for 
construction of a particular rehabilitation project shall be 
equal to 65 percent of the total rehabilitation costs, but not 
to exceed 100 percent of actual construction costs incurred in 
the rehabilitation: Provided further, That consistent with 
existing statute, rehabilitation assistance provided may not be 
used to perform operation and maintenance activities specified 
in the agreement for the covered water resource projects 
entered into between the Secretary and the eligible local 
organization responsible for the works of improvement.


                 resource conservation and development


    For necessary expenses in planning and carrying out 
projects for resource conservation and development and for 
sound land use pursuant to the provisions of section 32(e) of 
title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1010-
1011; 76 Stat. 607); the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-
f); and the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3451-
3461), $42,015,000, to remain available until expended (7 
U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and 
not to exceed $50,000 shall be available for employment under 5 
U.S.C. 3109.


                      forestry incentives program


    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to 
carry out the program of forestry incentives, as authorized by 
the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 
2101), including technical assistance and related expenses, 
$6,325,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized 
by that Act.

                               TITLE III

                       RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

          Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Under Secretary for Rural Development to administer programs 
under the laws enacted by the Congress for the Rural Housing 
Service, the Rural Business-Cooperative Service, and the Rural 
Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture, $605,000.


                  rural community advancement program


    For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, and grants, 
as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1926, 1926a, 1926c, 1926d, and 1932, 
except for sections 381E-H, 381N, and 381O of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act, $762,542,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which $53,225,000 shall be for 
rural community programs described in section 381E(d)(1) of 
such Act; of which $644,360,000 shall be for the rural 
utilities programs described in sections 381E(d)(2), 
306C(a)(2), and 306D of such Act; and of which $64,957,000 
shall be for the rural business and cooperative development 
programs described in section 381E(d)(3) of such Act: Provided, 
That of the total amount appropriated in this account, 
$24,000,000 shall be for loans and grants to benefit Federally 
Recognized Native American Tribes, including grants for 
drinking and waste disposal systems pursuant to section 306C of 
such Act, of which $250,000 shall be available for a grant to a 
qualified national organization to provide technical assistance 
for rural transportation in order to promote economic 
development: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated 
for rural community programs, $6,000,000 shall be available for 
a Rural Community Development Initiative: Provided further, 
That such funds shall be used solely to develop the capacity 
and ability of private, nonprofit community-based housing and 
community development organizations serving low-income rural 
communities, including Federally Recognized Indian 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 intermediary organizations 
(including tribal) proposing to carry out a program of 
financial and technical assistance to other public entities 
with a record of achievement in providing technical and 
financial assistance to housing and community development 
organizations in rural areas: 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 of the amount appropriated for rural community programs, 
not to exceed $5,000,000 shall be for hazardous weather early 
warning systems: Provided further, That of the amount 
appropriated for the rural business and cooperative development 
programs, not to exceed $500,000 shall be made available for a 
grant to a qualified national organization to provide technical 
assistance for rural transportation in order to promote 
economic development; $5,000,000 shall be for rural partnership 
technical assistance grants; and $2,000,000 shall be for grants 
to Mississippi Delta Region counties: Provided further, That of 
the amount appropriated for rural utilities programs, not to 
exceed $20,000,000 shall be for water and waste disposal 
systems to benefit the Colonias along the United States/Mexico 
borders, including grants pursuant to section 306C of such Act; 
not to exceed $20,000,000 shall be for water and waste disposal 
systems for rural and native villages in Alaska pursuant to 
section 306D of such Act, with up to one percent available to 
administer the program and up to one percent available to 
improve interagency coordination; not to exceed $16,215,000 
shall be for technical assistance grants for rural waste 
systems pursuant to section 306(a)(14) of such Act; and not to 
exceed $9,500,000 shall be for contracting with qualified 
national organizations for a circuit rider program to provide 
technical assistance for rural water systems: Provided further, 
That of the total amount appropriated, not to exceed 
$42,574,650 shall be available through June 30, 2001, for 
authorized empowerment zones and enterprise communities and 
communities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural 
Economic Area Partnership Zones; of which $34,704,000 shall be 
for the rural utilities programs described in section 
381E(d)(2) of such Act; and of which $8,435,000 shall be for 
the rural business and cooperative development programs 
described in section 381E(d)(3) of such Act.


                rural development salaries and expenses


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For necessary expenses of administering Rural Development 
programs as authorized by the Rural Electrification Act of 
1936; the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act; title V 
of the Housing Act of 1949; section 1323 of the Food Security 
Act of 1985; the Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926 for 
activities related to marketing aspects of cooperatives, 
including economic research findings, authorized by the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946; for activities with 
institutions concerning the development and operation of 
agricultural cooperatives; and for cooperative agreements; 
$130,371,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and 
not to exceed $1,000,000 may be used for employment under 5 
U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That not more than $10,000 may 
be expended to provide modest nonmonetary awards to non-USDA 
employees: Provided further, That any balances available 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 account.

                         Rural Housing Service


              rural housing insurance fund program account


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct 
and guaranteed loans as authorized by title V of the Housing 
Act of 1949, to be available from funds in the rural housing 
insurance fund, as follows: $4,800,000,000 for loans to section 
502 borrowers, as determined by the Secretary, of which 
$3,700,000,000 shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans; 
$32,396,000 for section 504 housing repair loans; $100,000,000 
for section 538 guaranteed multi-family housing loans; 
$114,321,000 for section 515 rental housing; $5,152,000 for 
section 524 site loans; $11,780,000 for credit sales of 
acquired property, of which up to $1,780,000 may be for multi-
family credit sales; and $5,000,000 for section 523 self-help 
housing land development loans: Provided, That of the total 
amount made available for loans to section 502 borrowers, up to 
$5,400,000 shall be available until expended for use under a 
demonstration program to be carried out by the Secretary of 
Agriculture in North Carolina to determine the timeliness, 
quality, suitability, efficiency, and cost of utilizing modular 
housing to house low-income and very low-income elderly 
families who: (1) have lost their housing because of a major 
disaster (as so declared by the President pursuant to the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
Act); and (2)(A) do not have homeowner's insurance; or (B) can 
not repay a direct loan that is provided under section 502 of 
the Housing Act of 1949 with the maximum subsidy allowed for 
such loans: Provided further, That of the amounts made 
available for such demonstration program, $5,000,000 shall be 
for grants and $400,000 shall be for the cost (as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) of loans, 
for such families to acquire modular housing.
    For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including the 
cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: section 502 
loans, $184,160,000 of which $7,400,000 shall be for 
unsubsidized guaranteed loans; section 504 housing repair 
loans, $11,481,000; section 538 multi-family housing guaranteed 
loans, $1,520,000; section 515 rental housing, $56,326,000; 
multi-family credit sales of acquired property, $874,000; and 
section 523 self-help housing land development loans, $279,000: 
Provided, That of the total amount appropriated in this 
paragraph, $13,832,000 shall be available through June 30, 
2001, for authorized empowerment zones and enterprise 
communities and communities designated by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $409,233,000, 
which shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation 
for ``Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses''.


                       rental assistance program


    For rental assistance agreements entered into or renewed 
pursuant to the authority under section 521(a)(2) or agreements 
entered into in lieu of debt forgiveness or payments for 
eligible households as authorized by section 502(c)(5)(D) of 
the Housing Act of 1949, $680,000,000; and, in addition, such 
sums as may be necessary, as authorized by section 521(c) of 
the Act, to liquidate debt incurred prior to fiscal year 1992 
to carry out the rental assistance program under section 
521(a)(2) of the Act: Provided, That of this amount, not more 
than $5,900,000 shall be available for debt forgiveness or 
payments for eligible households as authorized by section 
502(c)(5)(D) of the Act, and not to exceed $10,000 per project 
for advances to nonprofit organizations or public agencies to 
cover direct costs (other than purchase price) incurred in 
purchasing projects pursuant to section 502(c)(5)(C) of the 
Act: Provided further, That agreements entered into or renewed 
during fiscal year 2001 shall be funded for a 5-year period, 
although the life of any such agreement may be extended to 
fully utilize amounts obligated.


                  mutual and self-help housing grants


    For grants and contracts pursuant to section 523(b)(1)(A) 
of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490c), $34,000,000, to 
remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, 
That of the total amount appropriated, $1,000,000 shall be 
available through June 30, 2001, for authorized empowerment 
zones and enterprise communities and communities designated by 
the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic Area Partnership 
Zones.


                    rural housing assistance grants


    For grants and contracts for very low-income housing 
repair, supervisory and technical assistance, compensation for 
construction defects, and rural housing preservation made by 
the Rural Housing Service, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1474, 
1479(c), 1490e, and 1490m, $44,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That of the total amount 
appropriated, $5,000,000 shall be for a housing demonstration 
program for agriculture, aquaculture, and seafood processor 
workers: Provided further, That of the total amount 
appropriated, $1,200,000 shall be available through June 30, 
2001, for authorized empowerment zones and enterprise 
communities and communities designated by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones.


                       farm labor program account


    For the cost of direct loans, grants, and contracts, as 
authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1484 and 1486, $30,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, for direct farm labor housing loans 
and domestic farm labor housing grants and contracts.

                   Rural Business-Cooperative Service


              rural development loan fund program account


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For the cost of direct loans, $19,476,000, as authorized by 
the Rural Development Loan Fund (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)), of which 
$2,036,000 shall be for Federally Recognized Native American 
Tribes and of which $4,072,000 shall be for Mississippi Delta 
Region counties (as defined by 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 these funds are available 
to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of 
direct loans of $38,256,000: Provided further, That of the 
total amount appropriated, $3,216,000 shall be available 
through June 30, 2001, for the cost of direct loans for 
authorized empowerment zones and enterprise communities and 
communities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural 
Economic Area Partnership Zones.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
direct loan programs, $3,640,000 shall be transferred to and 
merged with the appropriation for ``Rural Development, Salaries 
and Expenses''.


            rural economic development loans program account


                    (including rescission of funds)


    For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized 
under section 313 of the Rural Electrification Act, for the 
purpose of promoting rural economic development and job 
creation projects, $15,000,000.
    For the cost of direct loans, including the cost of 
modifying loans as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, $3,911,000, which shall be administered in 
accordance with the regulations utilized in fiscal year 2000.
    Of the funds derived from interest on the cushion of credit 
payments in fiscal year 2001, as authorized by section 313 of 
the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, $3,911,000 shall not be 
obligated and $3,911,000 are rescinded.


                  rural cooperative development grants


    For rural cooperative development grants authorized under 
section 310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
Act (7 U.S.C. 1932), $6,500,000, of which $2,000,000 shall be 
available for cooperative agreements for the appropriate 
technology transfer for rural areas program: Provided, That not 
to exceed $1,500,000 of the total amount appropriated shall be 
made available to 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.

                        Rural Utilities Service


   rural electrification and telecommunications loans program account


                     (including transfer of funds)


    Insured loans pursuant to the authority of section 305 of 
the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935) shall be 
made as follows: 5 percent rural electrification loans, 
$121,500,000; 5 percent rural telecommunications loans, 
$75,000,000; cost of money rural telecommunications loans, 
$300,000,000; municipal rate rural electric loans, 
$295,000,000; and loans made pursuant to section 306 of that 
Act, rural electric, $1,700,000,000 and rural 
telecommunications, $120,000,000; and $500,000,000 for Treasury 
rate direct electric loans.
    For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, including the cost of 
modifying loans, of direct and guaranteed loans authorized by 
the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935 and 936), 
as follows: cost of direct loans, $19,871,000; and cost of 
municipal rate loans, $20,503,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 305(d)(2) of the Rural Electrification 
Act of 1936, borrower interest rates may exceed 7 percent per 
year.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $34,716,000, which 
shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
``Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses''.


                  rural telephone bank program account


                     (including transfer of funds)


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


               distance learning and telemedicine program


    For the cost of direct loans and grants, as authorized by 7 
U.S.C. 950aaa et seq., $27,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, to be available for loans and grants for telemedicine 
and distance learning services in rural areas, and of which 
$2,000,000 may be available for a pilot program to finance 
broadband transmission and local dial-up Internet service in 
areas that meet the definition of ``rural area'' used for the 
Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program authorized by 7 
U.S.C. 950aaa: Provided, That the cost of direct loans shall be 
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974.

                                TITLE IV

                         DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS

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

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services to 
administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Food and 
Nutrition Service, $570,000.

                       Food and Nutrition Service


                        child nutrition programs


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For necessary expenses to carry out the National School 
Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), except section 21, and the 
Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.), except 
sections 17 and 21; $9,541,539,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2002, of which $4,413,960,000 is hereby 
appropriated and $5,127,579,000 shall be derived by transfer 
from funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 
1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c): Provided, That except as specifically 
provided under this heading, none of the funds made available 
under this heading shall be used for studies and evaluations: 
Provided further, That of the funds made available under this 
heading, up to $6,000,000 shall be for school breakfast pilot 
projects, including the evaluation required under section 18(e) 
of the National School Lunch Act: Provided further, That of the 
funds made available under this heading, $500,000 shall be for 
a School Breakfast Program startup grant pilot program for the 
State of Wisconsin: Provided further, That school food 
authorities in Ohio participating in a domestic food assistance 
program administered by the Secretary and preparing meals for 
use by other schools and institutions also participating in a 
domestic food assistance program, shall, with regard to such 
meals, not be subject to additional requirements under section 
301(c) of the Federal Meat Inspection Act or section 5(c) of 
the Poultry Products Inspection Act: Provided further, That up 
to $4,511,000 shall be available for independent verification 
of school food service claims.


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


    For necessary expenses to carry out the special 
supplemental nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of 
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), 
$4,052,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2002: 
Provided, That none of the funds made available under this 
heading shall be used for studies and evaluations: Provided 
further, That of the total amount available, the Secretary 
shall obligate $10,000,000 for the farmers' market nutrition 
program within 45 days of the enactment of this Act, and an 
additional $10,000,000 for the farmers' market nutrition 
program from any funds not needed to maintain current caseload 
levels: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
17(h)(10)(A) of such Act, up to $14,000,000 shall be available 
for the purposes specified in section 17(h)(10)(B), no less 
than $6,000,000 of which shall be used for the development of 
electronic benefit transfer systems: Provided further, That 
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: Provided 
further, That funds made available under this heading shall be 
made available for sites participating in the special 
supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children 
to determine whether a child eligible to participate in the 
program has received a blood lead screening test, using a test 
that is appropriate for age and risk factors, upon the 
enrollment of the child in the program.


                           food stamp program


    For necessary expenses to carry out the Food Stamp Act (7 
U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), $20,114,293,000, of which $100,000,000 
shall be placed in reserve for use only in such amounts and at 
such times as may become necessary to carry out program 
operations: Provided, That of the funds made available under 
this heading and not already appropriated to the Food 
Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) established 
under section 4(b) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
2013(b)), not to exceed $3,000,000 shall be used to purchase 
bison for the FDPIR: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
purchase such bison from Native American producers and 
cooperative organizations without competition: Provided 
further, That none of the funds made available under this 
heading shall be used for studies and evaluations: Provided 
further, That funds provided herein shall be expended in 
accordance with section 16 of the Food Stamp Act: Provided 
further, That this appropriation shall be subject to any work 
registration or workfare requirements as may be required by 
law: Provided further, That not more than $194,000,000 may be 
reserved by the Secretary, notwithstanding section 
16(h)(1)(A)(vi) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
2025(h)(1)(A)(vi)), for allocation to State agencies under 
section 16(h)(1) of such Act to carry out Employment and 
Training programs: Provided further, That funds made available 
for Employment and Training under this heading shall remain 
available until expended, as authorized by section 16(h)(1) of 
the Food Stamp Act.


                      commodity assistance program


    For necessary expenses to carry out the commodity 
supplemental food program as authorized by section 4(a) of the 
Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c 
note) and the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983, 
$140,300,000, to remain available through September 30, 2002: 
Provided, That none of these funds shall be available to 
reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities 
donated to the program: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
section 5(a)(2) of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act 
of 1973 (Public Law 93-86; 7 U.S.C. 612c note), $20,781,000 of 
this amount shall be available for administrative expenses of 
the commodity supplemental food program.


                        food donations programs


    For necessary expenses to carry out section 4(a) of the 
Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973; special 
assistance for the nuclear affected islands as authorized by 
section 103(h)(2) of the Compacts of Free Association Act of 
1985, as amended; and section 311 of the Older Americans Act of 
1965, $151,081,000, to remain available through September 30, 
2002.


                      food program administration


    For necessary administrative expenses of the domestic food 
programs funded under this Act, $116,807,000, of which 
$5,000,000 shall be available only for simplifying procedures, 
reducing overhead costs, tightening regulations, improving food 
stamp benefit delivery, and assisting in the prevention, 
identification, and prosecution of fraud and other violations 
of law and of which not less than $4,500,000 shall be available 
to improve integrity in the Food Stamp and Child Nutrition 
programs: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available 
for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to 
exceed $150,000 shall be available for employment under 5 
U.S.C. 3109.

                                TITLE V

                FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

                      Foreign Agricultural Service


                         salaries and expenses


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural Service, 
including carrying out title VI of the Agricultural Act of 1954 
(7 U.S.C. 1761-1768), market development activities abroad, and 
for enabling the Secretary to coordinate and integrate 
activities of the Department in connection with foreign 
agricultural work, including not to exceed $158,000 for 
representation allowances and for expenses pursuant to section 
8 of the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), 
$115,424,000: Provided, That the Service may utilize advances 
of funds, or reimburse this appropriation for expenditures made 
on behalf of Federal agencies, public and private organizations 
and institutions under agreements executed pursuant to the 
agricultural food production assistance programs (7 U.S.C. 
1737) and the foreign assistance programs of the United States 
Agency for International Development.
    None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be 
available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco 
products.


                 public law 480 title i program account


                     (including transfers of funds)


    For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of agreements under the 
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, and 
the Food for Progress Act of 1985, including the cost of 
modifying credit arrangements under said Acts, $114,186,000, to 
remain available until expended.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
credit program of title I, Public Law 83-480, and the Food for 
Progress Act of 1985, to the extent funds appropriated for 
Public Law 83-480 are utilized, $1,850,000, of which $1,035,000 
may be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
``Foreign Agricultural Service, Salaries and Expenses'', and of 
which $815,000 may be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriation for ``Farm Service Agency, Salaries and 
Expenses''.


        public law 480 title i ocean freight differential grants


                     (including transfers of funds)


    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, $20,322,000, to remain available until 
expended, for ocean freight differential costs for the shipment 
of agricultural commodities under title I of said Act: 
Provided, That funds made available for the cost of title I 
agreements and for title I ocean freight differential may be 
used interchangeably between the two accounts with prior notice 
to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.


                     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, $837,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, for commodities supplied in connection with 
dispositions abroad under title II of said Act.


       commodity credit corporation export loans program account


                     (including transfers of funds)


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

                                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; 
and for miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement 
activities, authorized and approved by the Secretary and to be 
accounted for solely on the Secretary's certificate, not to 
exceed $25,000; $1,217,797,000, of which not to exceed 
$149,273,000 in prescription drug user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 379(h) may be credited to this appropriation and remain 
available until expended: Provided, That fees derived from 
applications received during fiscal year 2001 shall be subject 
to the fiscal year 2001 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) 
$285,269,000 shall be for the Center for Food Safety and 
Applied Nutrition and related field activities in the Office of 
Regulatory Affairs; (2) $317,547,000 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 
$12,534,000 shall be available for grants and contracts awarded 
under section 5 of the Orphan Drug Act (21 U.S.C. 360ee); (3) 
$140,489,000 shall be for the Center for Biologics Evaluation 
and Research and for related field activities in the Office of 
Regulatory Affairs; (4) $64,069,000 shall be for the Center for 
Veterinary Medicine and for related field activities in the 
Office of Regulatory Affairs; (5) $165,207,000 shall be for the 
Center for Devices and Radiological Health and for related 
field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (6) 
$35,568,000 shall be for the National Center for Toxicological 
Research; (7) $25,855,000 shall be for Rent and Related 
activities, other than the amounts paid to the General Services 
Administration; (8) $104,954,000 shall be for payments to the 
General Services Administration for rent and related costs; and 
(9) $78,839,000 shall be for other activities, including the 
Office of the Commissioner; the Office of Management and 
Systems; the Office of the Senior Associate Commissioner; the 
Office of International and Constituent Relations; the Office 
of Policy, Legislation, and Planning; and central services for 
these offices: Provided further, That funds may be transferred 
from one specified activity to another with the prior approval 
of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
    In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 42 U.S.C. 
263(b) may be credited to this account, to remain available 
until expended.
    In addition, export certification user fees authorized by 
21 U.S.C. 381 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, $31,350,000, to remain available until expended (7 
U.S.C. 2209b).

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

    For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), including the 
purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; the rental of 
space (to include multiple year leases) in the District of 
Columbia and elsewhere; and not to exceed $25,000 for 
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $68,000,000, including not to 
exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses.

                       Farm Credit Administration


                 limitation on administrative expenses


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

                     TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, 
appropriations and authorizations made for the Department of 
Agriculture for fiscal year 2001 under this Act shall be 
available for the purchase, in addition to those specifically 
provided for, of not to exceed 389 passenger motor vehicles, of 
which 385 shall be for replacement only, and for the hire of 
such vehicles.
    Sec. 702. Funds in this Act available to the Department of 
Agriculture shall be available for uniforms or allowances 
therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902).
    Sec. 703. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropriations of 
the Department of Agriculture in this Act for research and 
service work authorized by sections 1 and 10 of the Act of June 
29, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 427, 427i; commonly known as the Bankhead-
Jones Act), subtitle A of title II and section 302 of the Act 
of August 14, 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621 et seq.), and chapter 63 of 
title 31, United States Code, shall be available for 
contracting in accordance with such Acts and chapter.
    Sec. 704. The Secretary of Agriculture may transfer 
unobligated balances of funds appropriated by this Act or other 
available unobligated balances of the Department of Agriculture 
to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition of plant and 
capital equipment necessary for the delivery of financial, 
administrative, and information technology services of primary 
benefit to the agencies of the Department of Agriculture: 
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 approval of the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
    Sec. 705. New obligational authority provided for the 
following appropriation items in this Act shall remain 
available until expended: Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service, the contingency fund to meet emergency conditions, 
fruit fly program, integrated systems acquisition project, boll 
weevil program, up to 25 percent of the screwworm program, and 
up to $2,000,000 for costs associated with colocating regional 
offices; Food Safety and Inspection Service, field automation 
and information management project; funds appropriated for 
rental payments; Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
Extension Service, funds for competitive research grants (7 
U.S.C. 450i(b)), funds for the Research, Education and 
Economics Information System (REEIS), and funds for the Native 
American Institutions Endowment Fund; Farm Service Agency, 
salaries and expenses funds made available to county 
committees; Foreign Agricultural Service, middle-income country 
training program and up to $2,000,000 of the Foreign 
Agricultural Service appropriation solely for the purpose of 
offsetting fluctuations in international currency exchange 
rates, subject to documentation by the Foreign Agricultural 
Service.
    Sec. 706. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
    Sec. 707. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriations 
available to the Department of Agriculture in this Act shall be 
available to provide appropriate orientation and language 
training pursuant to section 606C of the Act of August 28, 1954 
(7 U.S.C. 1766b; commonly known as the Agricultural Act of 
1954).
    Sec. 708. No funds appropriated by this Act may be used to 
pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative agreements or 
similar arrangements between the United States Department of 
Agriculture and nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 percent 
of the total direct cost of the agreement when the purpose of 
such cooperative arrangements is to carry out programs of 
mutual interest between the two parties. This does not preclude 
appropriate payment of indirect costs on grants and contracts 
with such institutions when such indirect costs are computed on 
a similar basis for all agencies for which appropriations are 
provided in this Act.
    Sec. 709. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
to lease space for its own use or to lease space on behalf of 
other agencies of the Department of Agriculture when such space 
will be jointly occupied.
    Sec. 710. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
to pay indirect costs charged against competitive agricultural 
research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the 
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service 
that exceed 19 percent of total Federal funds provided under 
each award: Provided, That notwithstanding section 1462 of the 
National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy 
Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3310), funds provided by this Act for 
grants awarded competitively by the Cooperative State Research, 
Education, and Extension Service shall be available to pay full 
allowable indirect costs for each grant awarded under section 9 
of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638).
    Sec. 711. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
all loan levels provided in this Act shall be considered 
estimates, not limitations.
    Sec. 712. Appropriations to the Department of Agriculture 
for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made available in 
fiscal year 2001 shall remain available until expended to cover 
obligations made in fiscal year 2001 for the following 
accounts: the rural development loan fund program account; the 
Rural Telephone Bank program account; the rural electrification 
and telecommunications loans program account; the Rural Housing 
Insurance Fund Program Account; and the rural economic 
development loans program account.
    Sec. 713. Notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, United 
States Code, marketing services of the Agricultural Marketing 
Service; the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 
Administration; the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; 
and the food safety activities of the Food Safety and 
Inspection Service may use cooperative agreements to reflect a 
relationship between the Agricultural Marketing Service; the 
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; or the Food Safety 
and Inspection Service and a state or cooperator to carry out 
agricultural marketing programs, to carry out programs to 
protect the nation's animal and plant resources, or to carry 
out educational programs or special studies to improve the 
safety of the nation's food supply.
    Sec. 714. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
(including provisions of law requiring competition), the 
Secretary of Agriculture may hereafter enter into cooperative 
agreements (which may provide for the acquisition of goods or 
services, including personal services) with a State, political 
subdivision, or agency thereof, a public or private agency, 
organization, or any other person, if the Secretary determines 
that the objectives of the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual 
interest of the parties to the agreement in carrying out the 
programs administered by the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service; and (2) all parties will contribute resources to the 
accomplishment of these objectives: Provided, That Commodity 
Credit Corporation funds obligated for such purposes shall not 
exceed the level obligated by the Commodity Credit Corporation 
for such purposes in fiscal year 1998.
    Sec. 715. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
retire more than 5 percent of the Class A stock of the Rural 
Telephone Bank or to maintain any account or subaccount within 
the accounting records of the Rural Telephone Bank the creation 
of which has not specifically been authorized by statute: 
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this 
Act may be used to transfer to the Treasury or to the Federal 
Financing Bank any unobligated balance of the Rural Telephone 
Bank telephone liquidating account which is in excess of 
current requirements and such balance shall receive interest as 
set forth for financial accounts in section 505(c) of the 
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990.
    Sec. 716. 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. 717. 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. 718. 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. 719. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of Agriculture shall be used to 
transmit or otherwise make available to any non-Department of 
Agriculture employee questions or responses to questions that 
are a result of information requested for the appropriations 
hearing process.
    Sec. 720. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire 
new information technology systems or significant upgrades, as 
determined by the Office of the Chief Information Officer, 
without the approval of the Chief Information Officer and the 
concurrence of the Executive Information Technology Investment 
Review Board: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be transferred to the Office of 
the Chief Information Officer without the prior approval of the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
    Sec. 721. (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 fiscal year 2001, 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 fiscal 
year 2001, 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 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. 722. (a) Of the funds made available to the Secretary 
of Agriculture pursuant to section 793(b)(1) of Public Law 104-
127 (7 U.S.C. 2204f) for the 2000 fiscal year--
            (1) $30,000,000 shall be available to be obligated 
        for any purpose authorized under section 793 of that 
        Act during the 2001 fiscal year; and
            (2) $30,000,000 shall be available to be obligated 
        for any purpose authorized under section 793 of that 
        Act during the 2002 fiscal year.
    (b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act or any other Act may be used to pay the 
salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out the transfer or 
obligation of fiscal year 2001 funds under section 793 of 
Public Law 104-127 (7 U.S.C. 2204f).
    Sec. 723. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and 
expenses of personnel who carry out an environmental quality 
incentives program authorized by chapter 4 of subtitle D of 
title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et 
seq.) in excess of $174,000,000.
    Sec. 724. 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 the transfer or 
obligation of fiscal year 2001 funds under the provisions of 
section 401 of Public Law 105-185, the Initiative for Future 
Agriculture and Food Systems (7 U.S.C. 7621): Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 401(d) of Public Law 105-185, any 
appropriation or funds available to the Secretary of 
Agriculture to make grants under section 401 of Public Law 105-
185 shall be used only to make grants to Hispanic-serving 
institutions (as defined in 20 U.S.C. 1101a(5)); West Virginia 
State College in Institute; and the 1862 institutions, 1890 
institutions, and 1994 institutions, as defined in section 2 of 
Public Law 105-185 (7 U.S.C. 7601), or research foundations 
maintained by such institutions.
    Sec. 725. Hereafter, none of the funds made available to 
the Department of Agriculture shall be used to carry out any 
commodity purchase program that would prohibit eligibility or 
participation by farmer-owned cooperatives.
    Sec. 726. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and 
expenses of personnel to carry out a conservation farm option 
program, as authorized by section 1240M of the Food Security 
Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb).
    Sec. 727. 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 Drug Analysis (recently renamed the 
Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis) in St. Louis, Missouri, 
except that funds could be used to plan a possible relocation 
of this Division within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri.
    Sec. 728. None of the funds made available to the Food and 
Drug Administration by this Act shall be used to reduce the 
Detroit, Michigan, Food and Drug Administration District Office 
below the operating and full-time equivalent staffing level of 
July 31, 1999; or to change the Detroit District Office to a 
station, residence post or similarly modified office; or to 
reassign residence posts assigned to the Detroit District 
Office: Provided, That this section shall not apply to Food and 
Drug Administration field laboratory facilities or operations 
currently located in Detroit, Michigan, except that field 
laboratory personnel shall be assigned to locations in the 
general vicinity of Detroit, Michigan, pursuant to cooperative 
agreements between the Food and Drug Administration and other 
laboratory facilities associated with the State of Michigan.
    Sec. 729. Hereafter, none of the funds appropriated by this 
Act or any other Act may be used to:
            (1) carry out the proviso under 7 U.S.C. 1622(f); 
        or
            (2) carry out 7 U.S.C. 1622(h) unless the Secretary 
        of Agriculture inspects and certifies agricultural 
        processing equipment, and imposes a fee for the 
        inspection and certification, in a manner that is 
        similar to the inspection and certification of 
        agricultural products under that section, as determined 
        by the Secretary: Provided, That this provision shall 
        not affect the authority of the Secretary to carry out 
        the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et 
        seq.), the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 
        451 et seq.), or the Egg Products Inspection Act (21 
        U.S.C. 1031 et seq.).
    Sec. 730. None of the funds appropriated by this Act or any 
other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
personnel who prepare or submit appropriations language as part 
of the President's Budget submission to the Congress of the 
United States for programs under the jurisdiction of the 
Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural Development, 
and Related Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects a 
reduction from the previous year due to user fees proposals 
that have not been enacted into law prior to the submission of 
the Budget unless such Budget submission identifies which 
additional spending reductions should occur in the event the 
user fees proposals are not enacted prior to the date of the 
convening of a committee of conference for the fiscal year 2002 
appropriations Act.
    Sec. 731. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to establish an Office of 
Community Food Security or any similar office within the United 
States Department of Agriculture without the prior approval of 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
    Sec. 732. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to carry out 
provision of section 612 of Public Law 105-185.
    Sec. 733. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or 
orders for the purpose of implementation, or in preparation for 
implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol which was adopted on 
December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan.
    Sec. 734. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used to declare excess or surplus 
all or part of the lands and facilities owned by the Federal 
Government and administered by the Secretary of Agriculture at 
Fort Reno, Oklahoma, or to transfer or convey such lands or 
facilities prior to July 1, 2001, without the specific 
authorization of Congress.
    Sec. 735. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act or any other Act shall be used for the 
implementation of a Support Services Bureau or similar 
organization.
    Sec. 736. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
any fiscal year, in the case of a high cost, isolated rural 
area of the State of Alaska that is not connected to a road 
system--
            (1) in the case of assistance provided by the Rural 
        Housing Service for single family housing under title V 
        of the Housing Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1471 et seq.), the 
        maximum income level for the assistance shall be 150 
        percent of the average income level in metropolitan 
        areas of the State;
            (2) in the case of community facility loans and 
        grants provided under paragraphs (1) and (19), 
        respectively, of section 306(a) of the Consolidated 
        Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)) and 
        assistance provided under programs carried out by the 
        Rural Utilities Service, the maximum income level for 
        the loans, grants, and assistance shall be 150 percent 
        of the average income level in nonmetropolitan areas of 
        the State;
            (3) in the case of a business and industry 
        guaranteed loan made under section 310B(a)(1) of the 
        Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
        1932(a)(1)), to the extent permitted under that Act, 
        the Secretary of Agriculture shall--
                    (A) guarantee the repayment of 90 percent 
                of the principal and interest due on the loan; 
                and
                    (B) charge a loan origination and servicing 
                fee in an amount not to exceed 1 percent of the 
                amount of the loan; and
            (4) in the case of assistance provided under the 
        Rural Community Development Initiative for fiscal year 
        2001 carried out under the rural community advancement 
        program established under subtitle E of the 
        Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
        2009 et seq.), the median household income level, and 
        the not employed rate, with respect to applicants for 
        assistance under the Initiative shall be scored on a 
        community-by-community basis.
    Sec. 737. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Town of Lloyd, New York, and the Town of Thompson, New York, 
shall be eligible for loans and grants provided through the 
Rural Community Advancement Program.
    Sec. 738. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no housing or residence in a foreign country purchased by 
an agent or instrumentality of the United States, for the 
purpose of housing the agricultural attache, shall be sold or 
disposed of without the approval of the Foreign Agricultural 
Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
including property purchased using foreign currencies generated 
under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
1954 (Public Law 480) and used or occupied by agricultural 
attaches of the Foreign Agricultural Service: Provided, That 
the Department of State/Office of Foreign Buildings may sell 
such properties with the concurrence of the Foreign 
Agricultural Service if the proceeds are used to acquire 
suitable properties of appropriate size for Foreign 
Agricultural Service agricultural attaches: Provided further, 
That the Foreign Agricultural Service shall have the right to 
occupy such residences in perpetuity with costs limited to 
appropriate maintenance expenses.
    Sec. 739. Hereafter, notwithstanding section 502(h)(7) of 
the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472(h)(7)), the fee 
collected by the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to a 
guaranteed loan under such section 502(h) at the time of the 
issuance of such guarantee may be in an amount equal to not 
more than 2 percent of the principal obligation of the loan.
    Sec. 740. Hereafter, funds appropriated to the Department 
of Agriculture may be used to employ individuals by contract 
for services outside the United States as determined by the 
agencies to be necessary or appropriate for carrying out 
programs and activities abroad; and such contracts are 
authorized to be negotiated, the terms of the contract to be 
prescribed, and the work to be performed, where necessary, 
without regard to such statutory provisions as relate to the 
negotiation, making and performance of contracts and 
performance of work in the United States. Individuals employed 
by contract to perform such services outside the United States 
shall not by virtue of such employment be considered to be 
employees of the United States Government for purposes of any 
law administered by the Office of Personnel Management. Such 
individuals may be considered employees within the meaning of 
the Federal Employee Compensation Act, 5 U.S.C. 8101 et seq. 
Further, that Government service credit shall be accrued for 
the time employed under a Personal Service Agreement (PSA) 
should the individual later be hired into a permanent United 
States Government position within FAS or another United States 
Government agency if the authorities of the hiring agency so 
permit.
    Sec. 741. None of the funds made available by this Act or 
any other Act may be used to close or relocate a state Rural 
Development office unless or until cost effectiveness and 
enhancement of program delivery have been determined.
    Sec. 742. (a) In General.--Section 141 of the Agricultural 
Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7251) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(4), by striking ``and 2000''; 
        and inserting ``through 2001''; and
            (2) in subsection (h), by striking ``2000'' each 
        place it appears and inserting ``2001''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 142(e) of the 
Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7252(e)) is 
amended by striking ``2001'' and inserting ``2002''.
    Sec. 743. Of any shipments of commodities made pursuant to 
section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 
1431(b)), the Secretary of Agriculture shall, to the extent 
practicable, direct that tonnage equal in value to not more 
than $25,000,000 shall be made available to foreign countries 
to assist in mitigating the effects of the Human 
Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 
on communities, including the provision of--
            (1) agricultural commodities to--
                    (A) individuals with Human Immunodeficiency 
                Virus or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in 
                the communities, and
                    (B) households in the communities, 
                particularly individuals caring for orphaned 
                children; and
            (2) agricultural commodities monetized to provide 
        other assistance (including assistance under 
        microcredit and microenterprise programs) to create or 
        restore sustainable livelihoods among individuals in 
        the communities, particularly individuals caring for 
        orphaned children.
    Sec. 744. In addition to amounts otherwise appropriated or 
made available by this Act, $2,000,000 is appropriated for the 
purpose of providing Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger 
Fellowships through the Congressional Hunger Center.
    Sec. 745. (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as 
the ``Medicine Equity and Drug Safety Act of 2000''.
    (b) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The cost of prescription drugs for Americans 
        continues to rise at an alarming rate.
            (2) Millions of Americans, including medicare 
        beneficiaries on fixed incomes, face a daily choice 
        between purchasing life-sustaining prescription drugs, 
        or paying for other necessities, such as food and 
        housing.
            (3) Many life-saving prescription drugs are 
        available in countries other than the United States at 
        substantially lower prices, even though such drugs were 
        developed and are approved for use by patients in the 
        United States.
            (4) Many Americans travel to other countries to 
        purchase prescription drugs because the medicines that 
        they need are unaffordable in the United States.
            (5) Americans should be able to purchase medicines 
        at prices that are comparable to prices for such 
        medicines in other countries, but efforts to enable 
        such purchases should not endanger the gold standard 
        for safety and effectiveness that has been established 
        and maintained in the United States.
    (c) Amendment.--Chapter VIII of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 381 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 801(d)(1), by inserting ``and 
        section 804'' after ``paragraph (2)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:


                   ``importation of covered products


    ``Sec. 804. (a) Regulations.--The Secretary, after 
consultation with the United States Trade Representative and 
the Commissioner of Customs, shall promulgate regulations 
permitting pharmacists and wholesalers to import into the 
United States covered products.
    ``(b) Limitation.--Regulations under subsection (a) shall--
            ``(1) require that safeguards be in place to ensure 
        that each covered product imported pursuant to such 
        subsection complies with section 505 (including with 
        respect to being safe and effective for its intended 
        use), with sections 501 and 502, and with other 
        applicable requirements of this Act;
            ``(2) require that an importer of a covered product 
        pursuant to subsection (a) comply with the applicable 
        provisions of this section, including subsection (d); 
        and
            ``(3) contain any additional provisions determined 
        by the Secretary to be appropriate as a safeguard to 
        protect the public health or as a means to facilitate 
        the importation of such products.
    ``(c) Records.--Regulations under subsection (a) shall 
require that records regarding the importation of covered 
products pursuant to such subsection be provided to and 
maintained by the Secretary for a period of time determined to 
be necessary by the Secretary.
    ``(d) Importation.--Regulations under subsection (a) shall 
require an importer of a covered product pursuant to such 
subsection to provide to the Secretary the following 
information and records:
            ``(1) The name and amount of the active ingredient 
        of such product and description of the dosage form.
            ``(2) The date that the product is shipped and the 
        quantity of the product that is shipped, points of 
        origin and destination for the product, the price paid 
        for the product by the importer, and (once the product 
        is distributed) the price for which such product is 
        sold by the importer.
            ``(3) Documentation from the foreign seller 
        specifying the original source of the product and the 
        amount of each lot of the product originally received.
            ``(4) The manufacturer's lot or control number of 
        the product imported.
            ``(5) The name, address, and telephone number of 
        the importer, including the professional license number 
        of the importer, if any.
            ``(6) For a product that is coming directly from 
        the first foreign recipient of the product from the 
        manufacturer:
                    ``(A) Documentation demonstrating that such 
                product came from such recipient and was 
                received by the recipient from such 
                manufacturer.
                    ``(B) Documentation of the amount of each 
                lot of the product received by such recipient 
                to demonstrate that the amount being imported 
                into the United States is not more than the 
                amount that was received by the recipient.
                    ``(C) In the case of the initial imported 
                shipment, documentation demonstrating that each 
                batch of such shipment was statistically 
                sampled and tested for authenticity and 
                degradation.
                    ``(D) In the case of all subsequent 
                shipments from such recipient, documentation 
                demonstrating that a statistically valid sample 
                of such shipments was tested for authenticity 
                and degradation.
                    ``(E) Certification from the importer or 
                manufacturer of such product that the product 
                is approved for marketing in the United States 
                and meets all labeling requirements under this 
                Act.
            ``(7) For a product that is not coming directly 
        from the first foreign recipient of the product from 
        the manufacturer:
                    ``(A) Documentation demonstrating that each 
                batch in all shipments offered for importation 
                into the United States was statistically 
                sampled and tested for authenticity and 
                degradation.
                    ``(B) Certification from the importer or 
                manufacturer of such product that the product 
                is approved for marketing in the United States 
                and meets all labeling requirements under this 
                Act.
            ``(8) Laboratory records, including complete data 
        derived from all tests necessary to assure that the 
        product is in compliance with established 
        specifications and standards.
            ``(9) Documentation demonstrating that the testing 
        required by paragraphs (6) through (8) was performed at 
        a qualifying laboratory (as defined in subsection (k)).
            ``(10) Any other information that the Secretary 
        determines is necessary to ensure the protection of the 
        public health.
    ``(e) Testing.--Regulations under subsection (a)--
            ``(1) shall require that testing referred to in 
        paragraphs (6) through (8) of subsection (d) be 
        conducted by the importer of the covered product 
        pursuant to subsection (a), or the manufacturer of the 
        product;
            ``(2) shall require that if such tests are 
        conducted by the importer, information needed to 
        authenticate the product being tested, and to confirm 
        that the labeling of such product complies with 
        labeling requirements under this Act, be supplied by 
        the manufacturer of such product to the pharmacist or 
        wholesaler, and shall require that such information be 
        kept in strict confidence and used only for purposes of 
        testing under this Act; and
            ``(3) may include such additional provisions as the 
        Secretary determines to be appropriate to provide for 
        the protection of trade secrets and commercial or 
        financial information that is privileged or 
        confidential.
    ``(f) Country Limitation.--Regulations under subsection (a) 
shall provide that covered products may be imported pursuant to 
such subsection only from a country, union, or economic area 
that is listed in subparagraph (A) of section 802(b)(1) or 
designated by the Secretary, subject to such limitations as the 
Secretary determines to be appropriate to protect the public 
health.
    ``(g) Suspension of Importations.--The Secretary shall 
require that importations of specific covered products or 
importations by specific importers pursuant to subsection (a) 
be immediately suspended upon discovery of a pattern of 
importation of such products or by such importers that is 
counterfeit or in violation of any requirement pursuant to this 
section, until an investigation is completed and the Secretary 
determines that the public is adequately protected from 
counterfeit and violative covered products being imported 
pursuant to subsection (a).
    ``(h) Prohibited Agreements.--No manufacturer of a covered 
product may enter into a contract or agreement that includes a 
provision to prevent the sale or distribution of covered 
products imported pursuant to subsection (a).
    ``(i) Studies; Reports.--
            ``(1) Study by secretary.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall 
                conduct, or contract with an entity to conduct, 
                a study on the imports permitted pursuant to 
                subsection (a), including consideration of the 
                information received under subsection (d). In 
                conducting such study, the Secretary or entity 
                shall--
                            ``(i) evaluate the compliance of 
                        importers with regulations under 
                        subsection (a), and the number of 
                        shipments pursuant to such subsection, 
                        if any, that have been determined to be 
                        counterfeit, misbranded, or 
                        adulterated, and determine how such 
                        compliance contrasts with the number of 
                        shipments of prescription drugs 
                        transported within the United States 
                        that have been determined to be 
                        counterfeit, misbranded, or 
                        adulterated; and
                            ``(ii) consult with the United 
                        States Trade Representative and the 
                        Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks 
                        to evaluate the effect of importations 
                        pursuant to subsection (a) on trade and 
                        patent rights under Federal law.
                    ``(B) Report.--Not later than two years 
                after the effective date of final regulations 
                under subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
                prepare and submit to the Congress a report 
                describing the findings of the study under 
                subparagraph (A).
            ``(2) Study by general accounting office.--The 
        Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct 
        a study to determine the effect of this section on the 
        price of covered products sold to consumers at retail. 
        Not later than 18 months after the effective date of 
        final regulations under subsection (a), the Comptroller 
        General shall prepare and submit to the Congress a 
        report describing the findings of such study.
    ``(j) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to limit the statutory, regulatory, or enforcement 
authority of the Secretary relating to the importation of 
covered products, other than with respect to section 801(d)(1) 
as provided in this section.
    ``(k) Definitions.--
            ``(1) Covered product.--
                    ``(A) In general.--For purposes of this 
                section, the term `covered product' means a 
                prescription drug, except that such term does 
                not include a controlled substance in schedule 
                I, II, or III under section 202(c) of the 
                Controlled Substances Act or a biological 
                product as defined in section 351 of the Public 
                Health Service Act.
                    ``(B) Charitable contributions; parenteral 
                drugs.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
                this section, section 801(d)(1)--
                            ``(i) continues to apply to a 
                        covered product donated or otherwise 
                        supplied for free by the manufacturer 
                        of the drug to a charitable or 
                        humanitarian organization, including 
                        the United Nations and affiliates, or 
                        to a government of a foreign country; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) continues to apply to a 
                        covered product that is a parenteral 
                        drug the importation of which pursuant 
                        to subsection (a) is determined by the 
                        Secretary to pose a threat to the 
                        public health.
            ``(2) Other terms.--For purposes of this section:
                    ``(A) The term `importer' means a 
                pharmacist or wholesaler.
                    ``(B) The term `pharmacist' means a person 
                licensed by a State to practice pharmacy, 
                including the dispensing and selling of 
                prescription drugs.
                    ``(C) The term `prescription drug' means a 
                drug subject to section 503(b).
                    ``(D) The term `qualifying laboratory' 
                means a laboratory in the United States that 
                has been approved by the Secretary for purposes 
                of this section.
                    ``(E) The term `wholesaler' means a person 
                licensed as a wholesaler or distributor of 
                prescription drugs in the United States 
                pursuant to section 503(e)(2)(A). Such term 
                does not include a person authorized to import 
                drugs under section 801(d)(1).
    ``(l) Conditions.--This section shall become effective only 
if the Secretary demonstrates to the Congress that the 
implementation of this section will--
            ``(1) pose no additional risk to the public's 
        health and safety; and
            ``(2) result in a significant reduction in the cost 
        of covered products to the American consumer.
    ``(m) Sunset.--Effective upon the expiration of the five-
year period beginning on the effective date of final 
regulations under subsection (a), this section ceases to have 
any legal effect.''.
    (d) Prohibited Act.--
            (1) In general.--Section 301 of the Federal Food, 
        Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 331) is amended by 
        adding at the end the following:
    ``(aa) The importation of a covered product in violation of 
section 804, the falsification of any record required to be 
maintained or provided to the Secretary under such section, or 
any other violation of regulations under such section.''.
            (2) Enhanced penalties.--Section 303(b) of the 
        Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 333(b)) 
        is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(6) Notwithstanding subsection (a), any person who is a 
manufacturer or importer of a covered product pursuant to 
section 804(a) and knowingly fails to comply with a requirement 
of section 804(e) that is applicable to such manufacturer or 
importer, respectively, shall be imprisoned for not more than 
10 years or fined not more than $250,000, or both.''.
    (e) For an additional amount for ``Salaries and expenses'', 
Food and Drug Administration, $23,000,000, solely to carry out 
the ``Medicine Equity and Drug Safety Act of 2000'', to be 
available only upon submission of an official budget request 
and justification for such amount by the President to the 
Congress.
    Sec. 746. (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as 
the ``Prescription Drug Import Fairness Act of 2000''.
    (b) Findings.--The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) Patients and their families sometimes have 
        reason to import into the United States drugs that have 
        been approved by the Food and Drug Administration 
        (``FDA'').
            (2) There have been circumstances in which--
                    (A) an individual seeking to import such a 
                drug has received a notice from FDA that 
                importing the drug violates or may violate the 
                Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; and
                    (B) the notice failed to inform the 
                individual of the reasons underlying the 
                decision to send the notice.
            (3) FDA should not send a warning notice regarding 
        the importation of a drug without providing to the 
        individual involved a statement of the underlying 
        reasons for the notice.
    (c) Clarification of Certain Responsibilities of Food and 
Drug Administration With Respect to Importation of Prescription 
Drugs Into United States.--Section 801 of the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 381) is amended by adding at 
the end the following subsection:
    ``(g)(1) With respect to a prescription drug being imported 
or offered for import into the United States, the Secretary, in 
the case of an individual who is not in the business of such 
importations, may not send a warning notice to the individual 
unless the following conditions are met:
            ``(A) The notice specifies, as applicable to the 
        importation of the drug, that the Secretary has made a 
        determination that--
                    ``(i) importation is in violation of 
                section 801(a) because the drug is or appears 
                to be adulterated, misbranded, or in violation 
                of section 505;
                    ``(ii) importation is in violation of 
                section 801(a) because the drug is or appears 
                to be forbidden or restricted in sale in the 
                country in which it was produced or from which 
                it was exported;
                    ``(iii) importation is or appears to be in 
                violation of section 801(d)(1); or
                    ``(iv) importation otherwise is or appears 
                to be in violation of Federal law.
            ``(B) The notice does not specify any provision 
        described in subparagraph (A) that is not applicable to 
        the importation of the drug.
            ``(C) The notice states the reasons underlying such 
        determination by the Secretary, including a brief 
        application to the principal facts involved of the 
        provision of law described in subparagraph (A) that is 
        the basis of the determination by the Secretary.
    ``(2) For purposes of this section, the term `warning 
notice', with respect to the importation of a drug, means a 
communication from the Secretary (written or otherwise) 
notifying a person, or clearly suggesting to the person, that 
importing the drug for personal use is, or appears to be, a 
violation of this Act.''.
    Sec. 747. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Agriculture may not deny a loan application made 
pursuant to the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 
U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) in Arkansas solely on the basis that--
            (a) the proceeds of the loan will be used to 
        conduct activities in a flood plain; or
            (b) the loan is secured by land that is in a flood 
        plain.
    Sec. 748. Section 2111(a)(3) of the Organic Foods 
Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 651(a)(3)) is amended by 
adding after ``sulfites,'' ``except in the production of 
wine,''.
    Sec. 749. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or 
regulation, hereafter, Friends of the National Arboretum, an 
organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under section 
501(a) of such Code incorporated in the District of Columbia, 
shall not be considered a prohibited source with respect to 
gifts to the United States National Arboretum so long as 
Friends of the National Arboretum remains an organization 
described under section 501(c)(3) of such Code and continues to 
conduct its operations exclusively for the benefit of the 
United States National Arboretum. The Secretary of Agriculture 
shall, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, provide the 
Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress with 
either a copy of a Memorandum of Understanding detailing the 
nature of its partnership with the Friends of the National 
Arboretum, or with a written explanation of why such a 
Memorandum of Understanding could not be achieved.
    Sec. 750. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to require an office of the Farm Service Agency that is 
using FINPACK on May 17, 1999, for financial planning and 
credit analysis, to discontinue use of FINPACK for six months 
from the date of enactment of this Act.
    Sec. 751. Hereafter, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
consider any borrower whose income does not exceed 115 percent 
of the median family income of the United States as meeting the 
eligibility requirements for a borrower contained in section 
502(h)(2) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472(h)(2)).
    Sec. 752. Effective 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act and continuing for the remainder of 
fiscal year 2001 and each subsequent fiscal year, 
establishments in the United States that slaughter or process 
birds of the order Ratitae, such as ostriches, emus and rheas, 
and squab, for distribution in commerce as human food shall be 
subject to the ante mortem and post mortem inspection, 
reinspection, and sanitation requirements of the Poultry 
Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) rather than the 
voluntary poultry inspection program of the Department of 
Agriculture under section 203 of the Agricultural Marketing Act 
of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622).
    Sec. 753. In developing a rule concerning on-farm standards 
for prevention of Salmonella Enteritidis in shell eggs pursuant 
to any plan to eliminate Salmonella Enteritidis illnesses due 
to eggs, the Food and Drug Administration shall--
            (a) consider one environmental test per laying 
        cycle for each layer house for verification of the 
        producer's Salmonella Enteritidis reduction plan;
            (b) consider when it is appropriate to require 
        diversion of shell eggs to treatment, such as 
        pasteurization, and base any requirement for testing 
        that would necessitate diversion, which may include the 
        receipt of a positive egg test result, on sound 
        science;
            (c) conduct or support research to develop cost-
        effective and improved tests for determination of 
        Salmonella Enteritidis; and
            (d) solicit comments on appropriate options for 
        implementing a Salmonella Enteritidis reduction plan in 
        shell eggs, including comments on conducting and 
        funding testing, through state and federal programs.
    Sec. 754. Public Law 105-277, division A, title XI, section 
1121 (112 Stat. 2681-44, 2681-45) is amended by--
            (1) striking ``not later than January 1, 2000'' and 
        inserting ``not later than January 1, 2001''; and
            (2) adding the following new subsection at the end 
        thereof--
    ``(d) Additional Disbursement.--
            ``(1) Cotton stored in georgia.--The State of 
        Georgia may use funds remaining in the indemnity fund 
        established in accordance with this section to 
        compensate cotton producers in other States who stored 
        cotton in the State of Georgia and incurred losses in 
        1998 or 1999 as the result of the events described in 
        subsection (a).
            ``(2) Ginners and others.--The State of Georgia may 
        also use funds remaining in the indemnity fund 
        established in accordance with this section to 
        compensate cotton ginners and others in the business of 
        producing, ginning, warehousing, buying, or selling 
        cotton for losses they incurred in 1998 or 1999 as the 
        result of the events described in subsection (a), if--
                    ``(A) as of March 1, 2000, the indemnity 
                fund has not been exhausted,
                    ``(B) the State of Georgia provides cotton 
                producers an additional time period prior to 
                May 1, 2000, in which to establish eligibility 
                for compensation under this section;
                    ``(C) the State of Georgia determines 
                during calendar year 2000 that all cotton 
                producers in that State and cotton producers in 
                other States as described in paragraph (d)(1) 
                have been appropriately compensated for losses 
                incurred in 1998 or 1999 as described in 
                subsection (a); and
                    ``(D) such additional compensation is not 
                made available until May 1, 2000.''.
    Sec. 755. The Food Security Act of 1985 is amended by 
inserting after section 1230 (16 U.S.C. 3830) the following:

``SEC. 1230A. GOOD FAITH RELIANCE.

    ``(a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (d) and 
notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the 
Secretary shall provide equitable relief to an owner or 
operator that has entered into a contract under this chapter, 
and that is subsequently determined to be in violation of the 
contract, if the owner or operator in attempting to comply with 
the terms of the contract and enrollment requirements took 
actions in good faith reliance on the action or advice of an 
authorized representative of the Secretary.
    ``(b) Types of Relief.--The Secretary shall--
            ``(1) to the extent the Secretary determines that 
        an owner or operator has been injured by good faith 
        reliance described in subsection (a), allow the owner 
        or operator to do any one or more of the following--
                    ``(A) to retain payments received under the 
                contract;
                    ``(B) to continue to receive payments under 
                the contract;
                    ``(C) to keep all or part of the land 
                covered by the contract enrolled in the 
                applicable program under this chapter;
                    ``(D) to reenroll all or part of the land 
                covered by the contract in the applicable 
                program under this chapter; or
                    ``(E) or any other equitable relief the 
                Secretary deems appropriate; and
            ``(2) require the owner or operator to take such 
        actions as are necessary to remedy any failure to 
        comply with the contract.
    ``(c) Relation to Other Law.--The authority to provide 
relief under this section shall be in addition to any other 
authority provided in this or any other Act.
    ``(d) Exception.--This section shall not apply to a pattern 
of conduct in which an authorized representative of the 
Secretary takes actions or provides advice with respect to an 
owner or operator that the representative and the owner or 
operator know are inconsistent with applicable law (including 
regulations).
    ``(e) Applicability of Relief.--Relief under this section 
shall be available for contracts in effect on January 1, 2000 
and for all subsequent contracts.''.
    Sec. 756. Section 375(e)(6)(B) of the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008j(e)(6)(B)) is amended by 
striking ``$20,000,000'' and inserting ``$25,000,000''.
    Sec. 757. Refunds or rebates received on an on-going basis 
from a credit card services provider under the Department of 
Agriculture's charge card programs may be deposited to and 
retained without fiscal year limitation in the Departmental 
Working Capital Fund established under 7 U.S.C. 2235 and used 
to fund management initiatives of general benefit to the 
Department of Agriculture bureaus and offices as determined by 
the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary's designee.
    Sec. 758. The Act of August 19, 1958 (7 U.S.C. 1431 note) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``clause (3) or (4) of'' the first 
        place it appears and inserting ``the Food for Progress 
        Act of 1985,'';
            (2) by striking ``clause (3) or (4) of such'' and 
        inserting ``the Food for Progress Act of 1985, such''; 
        and
            (3) by striking ``to the President''.
    Sec. 759. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Sea Island Health Clinic located on Johns Island, South 
Carolina, shall remain eligible for assistance and funding from 
the Rural Development community facilities programs 
administered by the Department of Agriculture until such time 
new population data is available from the 2000 Census.
    Sec. 760. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
area bounded by West 197th Avenue, North S.W. 232nd Street, 
East U.S. Highway 1 and S.W. 360th Street in Dade County, 
Florida, shall continue to be eligible to receive business and 
industry guaranteed loans under section 310B of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932) 
until such time that population data is available from the 2000 
decennial Census.
    Sec. 761. Hereafter, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
consider the City of Kewanee and the City of Jacksonville, 
Illinois, as meeting the requirements of a rural area contained 
in section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490).
    Sec. 762. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service shall 
provide funds, within discretionary amounts available, to pay 
the balance of the amount due pursuant to the settlement of 
claims associated with the Chuquatonchee Watershed Project in 
Mississippi to close out this project.
    Sec. 763. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Konocti Water District, California, shall be eligible for 
grants and loans administered by the Rural Utilities Service.
    Sec. 764. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
Jefferson County, Kentucky, shall be considered to be a rural 
area for the purposes of the business and industry direct and 
guaranteed loan program authorized by the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.).
    Sec. 765. The Secretary of Agriculture may convey, under 
such terms and conditions as the Secretary considers 
appropriate, all right, title, and interest of the United 
States in and to a parcel of real property consisting of 
approximately one acre located within the Sunnyside Subdivision 
in Prince George's County, Maryland, for the purpose of 
resolving land title claims and encroachments at the Beltsville 
Agricultural Research Center and for promoting public access on 
Sunnyside Avenue. Any funds received by the Secretary as a 
result of the conveyance shall be credited to and merged with 
the appropriations available to operate the Beltsville 
Agricultural Research Center and shall be available, without 
further appropriation, for the same purposes and for the same 
time period as such appropriations.
    Sec. 766. Of the funds provided to carry out section 211(a) 
of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 2820 
note; Public Law 106-224), up to $500,000 shall be used solely 
for the State of California.
    Sec. 767. The first section of the Act of March 2, 1931 (7 
U.S.C. 426) is amended to read as follows:

``SECTION 1. PREDATORY AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS.

    ``The Secretary of Agriculture may conduct a program of 
wildlife services with respect to injurious animal species and 
take any action the Secretary considers necessary in conducting 
the program. The Secretary shall administer the program in a 
manner consistent with all of the wildlife services authorities 
in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the 
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001.''.
    Sec. 768. Section 412(d) of the Agricultural Trade 
Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1736f(d)) is 
amended by striking ``title I of the Agricultural Act of 1949 
(7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.)'' and inserting ``dairy price support 
operations''.
    Sec. 769. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
City of Coachella, California, shall be eligible for grants and 
loans administered by the rural development mission areas of 
the Department of Agriculture.
    Sec. 770. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall consider the City of Vicksburg, 
Mississippi, as meeting the requirements of a rural area in 
section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490).
    Sec. 771. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service shall use the 
authorities provided in the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 
to finance the acquisition of existing generation, transmission 
and distribution systems and facilities serving high cost, 
predominantly rural areas by entities capable of and dedicated 
to providing or improving service in such areas in an efficient 
and cost effective manner.
    Sec. 772. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to issue a notice of 
proposed rulemaking, to promulgate a proposed rule, or to 
otherwise change or modify the definition of ``animal'' in 
existing regulations pursuant to the Animal Welfare Act.
    Sec. 773. Section 306(a)(19)(A) of the Consolidated Farmers 
Home Administration Act of 1961 is amended by inserting after 
``nonprofit corporations'' the following new phrase: ``, Indian 
tribes (as such term is defined under section 4(e) of Public 
Law 93-638, as amended),''.
    Sec. 774. Section 2101 of the Emergency Supplemental Act, 
2000 (Public Law 106-246; 114 Stat. 541) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``or prior'' after ``such 
        outstanding''; and
            (2) by inserting ``and subsequently repaid'' after 
        ``placed under loan''.
    Sec. 775. For purposes of administering Title IX of this 
Act, the term ``agricultural commodity'' shall also include 
fertilizer and organic fertilizer, except to the extent 
provided pursuant to Section 904 of that title.

SEC. 776. HAMILTON GRANGE, NEW YORK.

      (a) Sense of the Congress.--Congress finds that--
            (1) Alexander Hamilton, assisted by James Madison 
        and George Washington, was the principal drafter of the 
        Constitution of the United States;
            (2) Hamilton was General Washington's aide-de-camp 
        during the Revolutionary War, and, given command by 
        Washington of the New York and Connecticut light 
        infantry battalion, led the successful assault on 
        British redoubt number 10 at Yorktown;
            (3) after serving as Secretary of the Treasury, 
        Hamilton founded the Bank of New York and the New York 
        Post;
            (4) the only home Hamilton ever owned, commonly 
        known as ``the Grange'', is a fine example of Federal 
        period architecture designed by New York architect John 
        McComb, Jr., and was built in upper Manhattan in 1803;
            (5) the New York State Assembly enacted a law in 
        1908 authorizing New York City to acquire the Grange 
        and move it to nearby St. Nicholas Park, part of the 
        original Hamilton estate, but no action was taken;
            (6) in 1962, the National Park Service took over 
        management of the Grange, by then wedged on Convent 
        Avenue within inches between an apartment house on the 
        north side and a church on the south side;
            (7) the 1962 designation of the Grange as a 
        national memorial was contingent on the acquisition by 
        the National Park Service of a site to which the 
        building could be relocated;
            (8) the New York State legislature enacted a law in 
        1998 that granted approval for New York City to 
        transfer land in St. Nicholas Park to the National Park 
        Service, causing renovations to the Grange to be 
        postponed; and
            (9) no obelisk, monument, or classical temple along 
        the national mall has been constructed to honor the man 
        who more than any other designed the Government of the 
        United States, Hamilton should at least be remembered 
        by restoring his home in a sylvan setting.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) Alexander Hamilton made an immense contribution 
        to the United States by serving as a principal drafter 
        of the Constitution; and
            (2) the National Park Service should 
        expeditiously--
                    (A) proceed to relocate the Grange to St. 
                Nicholas Park; and
                    (B) restore the Grange to a state befitting 
                the memory of Alexander Hamilton.

SECTION 777. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR LAND ACQUISITION FOR FALLEN 
                    TIMBERS BATTLEFIELD AND FORT MIAMIS NATIONAL 
                    HISTORIC SITE.

      (a) In General.--Section 4 of the Fallen Timbers 
Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site Act of 1999 
(Public Law 106-164; 16 U.S.C. 461 note) is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
      ``(d) Land Acquisition Assistance.--
          ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may provide 
        financial assistance to the management entity for 
        acquiring lands or interests in lands within the 
        boundaries of the historic site under subsection (b).
          ``(2) Cost sharing.--Financial assistance under this 
        subsection may not be used to pay more than 50 percent 
        of the cost of any acquisition made with the 
        assistance.
          ``(3) Condition.--The Secretary shall require, as a 
        condition of any assistance under this subsection, that 
        any interest in land acquired with assistance under 
        this subsection shall be included in and managed as 
        part of the historic site.''.
      (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 6 of such 
Act is amended by inserting ``(a) In General.--'' before 
``There is authorized'', and by adding at the end the 
following:
      ``(b) Land Acquisition Assistance.--There is authorized 
to be appropriated $2,500,000 to carry out section 4(d).''

                               TITLE VIII

     NATURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE AND OTHER EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                Office of the Chief Information Officer


                      common computing environment


    For an additional amount for ``Common Computing 
Environment,'' $19,500,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the 
extent that an official budget request for $19,500,000, 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.

                      Departmental Administration


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For an additional amount for Departmental Administration, 
$200,000: Provided, That this amount shall be transferred to 
the Small Business Administration to support two advocacy 
staffers to review rules and regulations relating to disasters 
to determine the impact of their implementation on small 
business entities: Provided further, That the entire amount 
shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
request for $200,000, 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.

                          Farm Service Agency


                         salaries and expenses


    For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'', 
$50,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for $50,000,000, 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.


                     emergency conservation program


    For an additional amount for ``Emergency Conservation 
Program,'' for expenses resulting from natural disasters, 
$80,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an 
official budget request for $80,000,000, 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.

                Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund

    For an additional amount for the Federal Crop Insurance 
Corporation Fund, up to $13,000,000, to provide premium 
discounts to purchasers of crop insurance reinsured by the 
Corporation (except for catastrophic risk protection coverage), 
as authorized under section 1102(g)(2) of the Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-277): 
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
as amended.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service

               watershed and flood prevention operations

    For an additional amount for ``Watershed and Flood 
Prevention Operations'', to repair damages to the waterways and 
watersheds, including the purchase of floodplain easements, 
resulting from natural disasters, $110,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the amount made 
available in this section, the Secretary may use up to 
$2,000,000 to replace, repair and improve snow telemetry 
equipment impacted by fire, winds, and fire fighting efforts in 
order to protect watersheds: Provided further, That the entire 
amount shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
request for $110,000,000, 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.

                  Rural Community Advancement Program

    For an additional amount for the Rural Community 
Advancement Program, $200,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the additional amount appropriated, 
$50,000,000 shall be to provide grants for facilities in rural 
communities with extreme unemployment and severe economic 
depression: Provided further, That of the additional amount 
appropriated, $30,000,000 shall be to provide grants in rural 
communities with extremely high energy costs: Provided further, 
That of the additional amount appropriated, $50,000,000 shall 
be for rural community programs described in section 381E(d)(1) 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
2009d), of which $25,000,000 shall be to provide assistance to 
areas in the State of North Carolina subject to a declaration 
of a major disaster as a result of Hurricane Floyd, Hurricane 
Dennis, or Hurricane Irene: Provided further, That of the 
additional amount appropriated, $70,000,000 shall be for the 
cost of direct loans and grants of the rural utilities programs 
described in section 381E(d)(2) of the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2009d) for distribution through 
the national reserve, of which $30,000,000 may be used in 
counties which have received an emergency designation by the 
President or the Secretary after January 1, 2001, for 
applications responding to water shortages resulting from the 
designated emergency: Provided further, That the entire amount 
necessary to carry out this section shall be available only to 
the extent that an official budget request for $200,000,000, 
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.

                     GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS TITLE

    Sec. 801. Notwithstanding section 11 of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714i), an additional 
$35,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
provided through the Commodity Credit Corporation for technical 
assistance activities performed by any agency of the Department 
of Agriculture in carrying out the Conservation Reserve Program 
and the Wetlands Reserve Program funded by the Commodity Credit 
Corporation: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent an official budget request for 
$35,000,000, 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.
    Sec. 802. The paragraph under the heading ``Livestock 
Assistance'' in chapter 1, title I of H.R. 3425 of the 106th 
Congress, enacted by section 1000(a)(5) of Public Law 106-113 
(113 Stat. 1536) is amended by striking ``during 1999'' and 
inserting ``from January 1, 1999, through February 7, 2000'': 
Provided, That the entire amount necessary to carry out this 
section shall be available only to the extent that an official 
budget request for the entire amount, that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 803. Hereafter, for the purposes of the Livestock 
Indemnity Program authorized in Public Law 105-18, the term 
``livestock'' shall have the same meaning as the term 
``livestock'' under section 104 of Public Law 106-31.
    Sec. 804. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Agriculture may use the funds, facilities and 
authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to administer 
and make payments for losses not otherwise compensated to: (a) 
compensate growers whose crops could not be sold due to Mexican 
fruit fly quarantines in San Diego and San Bernardino/Riverside 
counties in California since their imposition on November 16, 
1999, and September 10, 1999, respectively; (b) compensate 
growers in relation to the Secretary's ``Declaration of 
Extraordinary Emergency'' on March 2, 2000, regarding the plum 
pox virus; (c) compensate growers for losses due to Pierce's 
disease; (d) compensate growers for losses due to watermelon 
sudden wilt disease; and (e) compensate growers for losses 
incurred due to infestations of grasshoppers and Mormon 
crickets: Provided, That the entire amount necessary to carry 
out this section shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for the entire amount, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 805. The Secretary shall use the funds, facilities and 
authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make and 
administer supplemental payments to dairy producers who 
received a payment under section 805 of Public Law 106-78 and 
to new dairy producers. Such payment, per unit of production 
used in such prior payments, shall be in an amount equal to 35 
percent of the reduction in market value per unit of milk 
production in 2000, as determined by the Secretary, based, to 
the extent practicable, on price estimates as of the date of 
enactment of this Act, from the previous 5-year average and on 
the base production of the producer used to make a payment 
under section 805 of Public Law 106-78: Provided, That these 
funds shall be available until September 30, 2001: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall make payments to producers 
under this section in a manner consistent with and subject to 
the same limitations on payments and eligible production which 
were applicable to the payments that were made to dairy 
producers under section 805 of Public Law 106-78, except that a 
producer may be paid for production up to 39,000 cwt: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall also make payments to new 
dairy producers at the same per unit rate: Provided further, 
That for any dairy producers, including new dairy producers, 
whose base production was less than twelve months for purposes 
of section 805 of Public Law 106-78, the producer's base 
production for the purposes of payments under this section may 
be, at the producer's option, the production of that producer 
in the twelve months preceding the enactment of this section or 
the producer's base production under the program carried out 
under section 805 of Public Law 106-78 subject to such 
limitations which are applicable to other producers: Provided 
further, That the entire amount necessary to carry out this 
section shall be available only to the extent that an official 
budget request for the entire amount, that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 806. The Secretary shall use the funds, facilities and 
authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation in an amount 
equal to $490,000,000 to make and administer payments for 
livestock losses using the criteria established to carry out 
the 1999 Livestock Assistance Program (except for application 
of the national percentage reduction factor) to producers for 
2000 losses in a county which has received an emergency 
designation by the President or the Secretary after January 1, 
2000, and shall be available until September 30, 2001: 
Provided, That the Secretary shall give consideration to the 
effect of recurring droughts in establishing the level of 
payments to producers under this section: Provided further, 
That of the funds made available by this section, up to 
$40,000,000 may be used to carry out the Pasture Recovery 
Program: Provided further, That the payments to a producer made 
available through the Pasture Recovery Program shall be no less 
than 65 percent of the average cost of reseeding: Provided 
further, That of the funds made available, the Secretary shall 
use not more than $12,000,000 to carry out the American Indian 
Livestock Feed Program: Provided further, That the entire 
amount necessary to carry out this section shall be available 
only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$490,000,000, 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.
    Sec. 807. In using amounts made available under section 
801(a) of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 
(7 U.S.C. 1421 note; Public Law 106-78), or under the matter 
under the heading ``crop loss assistance'' under the heading 
``Commodity Credit Corporation Fund'' of H.R. 3425 of the 106th 
Congress, as enacted by section 1001(a)(5) of Public Law 106-
113 (113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-289), to provide emergency financial 
assistance to producers on a farm that have incurred losses in 
a 1999 crop due to a disaster, the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall consider nursery stock losses caused by Hurricane Irene 
on October 16 and 17, 1999, to be losses to the 1999 crop of 
nursery stock: Provided, That such sums shall also be available 
to provide additional compensation to eligible agriculture 
producers of 1999 crop year citrus fruit for losses incurred 
due to the December 1998 freeze in California: Provided 
further, That such additional compensation, together with 
compensation previously provided by the Secretary of 
Agriculture for such losses does not exceed the level of 
compensation such producers would have received if such losses 
had occurred during the 1998 crop year: Provided further, That 
the entire amount necessary to carry out this section shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request 
for the entire amount, that includes designation of the entire 
amount of the request as an emergency requirement under 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 necessary to carry out 
this section is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 808. Notwithstanding section 1237(b)(1) of the Food 
Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3837(b)(1)), the Secretary of 
Agriculture may permit the enrollment of not to exceed 
1,075,000 acres in the Wetlands Reserve Program: Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714i), such sums as may be necessary, to 
remain available until expended, shall be provided through the 
Commodity Credit Corporation for technical assistance 
activities performed by any agency of the Department of 
Agriculture in carrying out this section: Provided further, 
That the entire amount necessary to carry out this section 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for the entire amount, that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 809. In addition to other compensation paid by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary shall compensate, for 
economic losses not otherwise compensated, or otherwise seek to 
make whole, from funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, not 
to exceed $2,400,000, the owners of all sheep destroyed from 
flocks within the period ending 20 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act under the Secretary's declarations of 
July 14, 2000, for lost income, or other business interruption 
losses, due to actions of the Secretary with respect to such 
sheep: Provided, That the entire amount necessary to carry out 
this section shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for the entire amount, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 810. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall pay 
Florida commercial citrus and lime growers $26 for each 
commercial citrus or lime tree removed to control citrus canker 
in order to allow for tree replacement and associated business 
costs. Payments under this subsection shall be capped in 
accordance with the following trees per acre limitations:
            (1) in the case of grapefruit, 104 trees per acre;
            (2) in the case of valencias, 123 trees per acre;
            (3) in the case of navels, 118 trees per acre;
            (4) in the case of tangelos, 114 trees per acre;
            (5) in the case of limes, 154 trees per acre; and
            (6) in the case of other or mixed citrus, 104 trees 
        per acre.
    (b) The Secretary of Agriculture shall compensate Florida 
commercial citrus and lime growers for lost production, as 
determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to 
trees removed to control citrus canker.
    (c) To receive assistance under this section, a tree 
referred to in subsection (a) or (b) must have been removed 
after January 1, 1986, and before September 30, 2001.
    (d) In the case of a removed tree that was covered by a 
crop insurance tree policy, compensation for lost production 
under subsection (b) with respect to such a tree shall be 
reduced by the indemnity received with respect to such a tree. 
In the case of a removed tree that was not covered by a crop 
insurance tree policy, although such insurance was available 
for the tree, compensation for lost production under subsection 
(b) with respect to such a tree shall be reduced by 5 percent.
    (e) The Secretary of Agriculture shall use $58,000,000 of 
the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out this 
section, to remain available until expended.
    (f) The entire amount necessary to carry out this section 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for the entire amount, that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement under 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
such Act.
    Sec. 811. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall use $100,000,000 of Commodity 
Credit Corporation funds, to remain available until expended, 
to make payments to apple producers to provide relief for the 
loss of markets: Provided, That the amount of payment to each 
producer shall be made on a per pound basis equal to each 
qualifying producer's 1998 and 1999 production of apples: 
Provided further, That the grower shall establish eligibility 
for the amount of market loss payment upon either of the two 
crop years or an average of the two years: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall not make payments for that amount of a 
particular farm's apple production that is in excess of 1.6 
million pounds: Provided further, That in addition to the 
assistance provided under this section, the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall use $38,000,000 of Commodity Credit 
Corporation funds, to remain available until expended, to make 
payments to apple and potato producers to compensate them for 
quality losses to either or both their 1999 and 2000 crops due 
to fireblight or weather-related disaster, including but not 
limited to a hurricane or hail: Provided further, That these 
payments shall be made regardless of whether a crop was 
harvested and without limit: Provided further, That the 
producer shall be ineligible for payments under this section 
with respect to a market loss for apples or a quality loss for 
apples or potatoes to the extent of that amount that the 
producer received as compensation or assistance for the loss 
under any other Federal program, other than the Federal Crop 
Insurance Program established under the Federal Crop Insurance 
Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.): Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall not establish any terms or conditions for 
grower eligibility, such as limits based upon gross income, 
other than those in this section: Provided further, That the 
assistance made available under this section for an eligible 
producer shall be made as soon as practicable after the 
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the entire amount 
necessary to carry out this section shall be available only to 
the extent that an official budget request for the entire 
amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, 
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
such Act.
    Sec. 812. (a) Nonrecourse Marketing Assistance Loans.--
            (1) The Secretary shall use funds of the Commodity 
        Credit Corporation to make nonrecourse marketing 
        assistance loans available to producers of the 2000 
        crop of honey.
            (2) The loan rate for a marketing assistance loan 
        under paragraph (1) for honey shall be 65 cents per 
        pound.
            (3) The Secretary shall permit producers to repay a 
        marketing assistance nonrecourse loan under paragraph 
        (1) at a rate that is the lesser of--
                    (A) the loan rate for honey, plus interest 
                (as determined by the Secretary); or
                    (B) the prevailing domestic market price 
                for honey, as determined by the Secretary.
    (b) Loan Deficiency Payments.--
            (1) The Secretary may make loan deficiency payments 
        available to any producer of honey that, although 
        eligible to obtain a marketing assistance loan under 
        subsection (a), agrees to forgo obtaining the loan in 
        return for a payment under this subsection.
            (2) A loan deficiency payment under this subsection 
        shall be determined by multiplying--
                    (A) the loan payment rate determined under 
                paragraph (3); by
                    (B) the quantity of honey that the producer 
                is eligible to place under loan, but for which 
                the producer forgoes obtaining the loan in 
                return for a payment under this subsection.
            (3) For the purposes of this subsection, the loan 
        payment rate shall be the amount by which--
                    (A) the loan rate established under 
                subsection (a)(2); exceeds
                    (B) the rate at which a loan may be repaid 
                under subsection (a)(3).
    (c) In order to provide an orderly transition to the loans 
and payments provided under this section, the Secretary shall 
convert recourse loans for the 2000 crop of honey outstanding 
on the date of enactment of this Act to nonrecourse marketing 
assistance loans under subsection (a).
    (d) Limitations.--
            (1) The marketing assistance loan gains and loan 
        deficiency payments that a person may receive for the 
        2000 crop of honey under this section shall be subject 
        to the same limitations that apply to marketing 
        assistance loans and loan deficiency payments received 
        by producers of the same crop of other agricultural 
        commodities.
            (2) The Secretary shall carry out this section in 
        such a manner as to minimize forfeitures of honey 
        marketing assistance loans.
    (e) The Secretary shall make loans and loan deficiency 
payments under this section available to producers beginning 
not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
    (f) In the case of a producer that marketed or redeemed, 
before, on, or within 30 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, a quantity of an eligible 2000 crop for which the 
producer has not received a loan deficiency payment or 
marketing loan gain under this section, the producer shall be 
eligible to receive a payment from the Secretary of Agriculture 
under this section in an amount equal to the payment or gain 
that the producer would have received for that quantity of 
eligible production as of the date on which the producer lost 
beneficial interest in the quantity or redeemed the quantity, 
as determined by the Secretary.
    (g) The entire amount necessary to carry out this section 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for the entire amount, that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 813. The Secretary shall use up to $10,000,000 of the 
funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make livestock 
indemnity payment to producers on a farm that have incurred 
livestock losses during calendar year 2000 due to a disaster, 
as determined by the Secretary, including losses due to fires 
and anthrax: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request 
for the entire amount, that includes designation of the entire 
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 814. The Secretary shall use the funds, facilities and 
authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation, not to exceed 
$20,000,000, to make payments directly to producers of wool, 
and producers of mohair, for the 2000 marketing year: Provided, 
That the payment rate for producers of wool and mohair shall be 
equal to $0.40 per pound: Provided further, That the entire 
amount necessary to carry out this section shall be available 
only to the extent that an official budget request for the 
entire amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 815. (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture 
(referred to in this section as the ``Secretary'') shall use 
such sums as are necessary of funds of the Commodity Credit 
Corporation to make emergency financial assistance authorized 
under this section available to producers on a farm that have 
incurred qualifying losses described in subsection (c).
    (b) Administration.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph 
        (2), the Secretary shall make assistance available 
        under this section in the same manner as provided under 
        section 1102 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, 
        Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
        Appropriations Act, 1999 (7 U.S.C. 1421 note; Public 
        Law 105-277), including using the same loss thresholds 
        for quantity and economic losses as were used in 
        administering that section.
            (2) Loss thresholds for quality losses.--In the 
        case of a payment for quality loss for a crop under 
        subsection (c)(2), the loss thresholds for quality loss 
        for the crop shall be determined under subsection (d).
    (c) Qualifying Losses.--Assistance under this section may 
be made available for losses due to damaging weather or related 
condition (including losses due to crop diseases and insects) 
associated with crops that are, as determined by the 
Secretary--
            (1) quantity losses for the 2000 crop;
            (2) quality losses for the 2000 crop; or
            (3) severe economic losses for the 2000 crop.
    (d) Quality Losses.--
            (1) Amount of quality loss.--The amount of a 
        quality loss for a crop of producers on a farm under 
        subsection (c)(2) shall be equal to the difference 
        between--
                    (A) the per unit market value of the units 
                of the crop affected by the quality loss would 
                have had if the crop had not suffered a quality 
                loss; and
                    (B) the per unit market value of the units 
                of the crop affected by the quality loss.
            (2) Amount of quality loss payment.--Subject to 
        paragraph (3), the amount of a payment made to 
        producers on a farm for a quality loss for a crop under 
        subsection (c)(2) shall be equal to the amount obtained 
        by multiplying--
                    (A) 65 percent of the quantity of the crop 
                affected by the quality loss that was produced 
                on the farm; by
                    (B) 65 percent of the per unit quality loss 
                for the crop determined under paragraph (1).
            (3) Eligibility.--For producers on a farm to be 
        eligible to obtain a payment for a quality loss for a 
        crop under subsection (c)(2), the amount obtained by 
        multiplying the per unit loss determined under 
        paragraph (1) by the number of units affected by the 
        quality loss shall be at least 20 percent of the value 
        that all production of the crop would have had if the 
        crop had not suffered a quality loss.
    (e) Crops Covered.--Assistance under this section shall be 
applicable to losses for all crops, as determined by the 
Secretary, due to disasters, including--
            (1) irrigated crops that, due to lack of water or 
        contamination by saltwater intrusion of an irrigation 
        supply resulting from drought conditions, were planted 
        and suffered a loss or were prevented from being 
        planted;
            (2) pecans; and
            (3) nursery losses in the State of Florida that 
        occur, because of disaster, during the period beginning 
        on October 1, 2000, and ending on December 31, 2000. 
        Calculations of the amount of such losses shall be made 
        independently of other losses of the producer, and such 
        losses shall be subject to a separate limit on payment 
        amounts as may otherwise apply. Any payment under this 
        section for such losses shall for all purposes, present 
        and future, be considered to be a 2000 crop payment, 
        and such compensated losses shall be ineligible for any 
        assistance that may become available for 2001 crop 
        losses.
    (f) Crop Insurance.--In carrying out this section, the 
Secretary shall not discriminate against or penalize producers 
on a farm that have purchased crop insurance under the Federal 
Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.).
    (g) Limitation on Payments for Multiple Losses on Same 
Acreage.--Notwithstanding subsection (d), a producer may not 
receive assistance under this section for losses to more than 
2000 crop on the same acreage unless there is an established 
practice of planting two or more crops for harvest on such 
acreage in the same crop year, as determined by the Secretary. 
The Secretary shall give a producer that is not covered by the 
exception in the previous sentence an opportunity to designate 
the 2000 crop for which the producer requests assistance under 
this section.
    (h) The entire amount necessary to carry out this section 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for the entire amount, that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 816. Of the amounts made available to the Secretary 
for the purchase of specialty crops under sections 203(d) and 
261(a)(2) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 
U.S.C. 1421 note; Public Law 106-224), the Secretary shall use 
not less than $30,000,000 to purchase cranberry juice 
concentrate and frozen cranberry fruit: Provided, That section 
203(d)(1) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 
U.S.C. 1421 note; Public Law 106-224) is amended by inserting 
``or cranberry products (including cranberry juice concentrate 
and frozen cranberry fruit)'' after ``cranberries'': Provided 
further, That in this section, the term ``farm unit'' means a 
separate and distinct farming operation that reports 
independent production information to the Cranberry Marketing 
Committee: Provided further, That to provide assistance for 
loss of markets for cranberries, the Secretary shall use 
$20,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
make payments to cranberry producers: Provided further, That 
subject to this section and such other terms and conditions as 
are determined by the Secretary, a payment under this section 
shall be made on the basis of the quantity of the 1999 crop of 
cranberries that was produced on each farm unit: Provided 
further, That the maximum quantity of the 1999 crop of 
cranberries for which producers are eligible for a payment for 
a farm unit under this section shall be 1,600,000 pounds: 
Provided further, That subject to this section, the Secretary 
shall take such actions as are necessary to ensure that 
payments made under this section do not duplicate payments 
provided under other Federal programs for the same loss: 
Provided further, That this shall not apply to an indemnity 
provided under a policy or plan of insurance offered under the 
Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.): Provided 
further, That the entire amount necessary to carry out this 
section shall be available only to the extent that an official 
budget request for the entire amount, that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 817. Section 1232(a)(4) of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3832(a)(4)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``except that such'' and inserting 
        ``except that--
                    ``(A) such'';
            (2) by inserting ``and'' after the semicolon at the 
        end; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) the Secretary shall not terminate the 
                contract for failure to establish approved 
                vegetative or water cover on the land if--
                            ``(i) the failure to plant such 
                        cover was due to excessive rainfall or 
                        flooding;
                            ``(ii) the land subject to the 
                        contract that could practicably be 
                        planted to such cover is planted to 
                        such cover; and
                            ``(iii) the land on which the owner 
                        or operator was unable to plant such 
                        cover is planted to such cover after 
                        the wet conditions that prevented the 
                        planting subsides;''.
    Sec. 818. (a) Section 353(e) of the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2001(e)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
            ``(7) Financing of recapture payment.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary may 
                amortize a recapture payment owed to the 
                Secretary under this subsection.
                    ``(B) Term.--The term of an amortization 
                under this paragraph may not exceed 25 years.
                    ``(C) Interest rate.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The interest 
                        rate applicable to an amortization 
                        under this paragraph may not exceed the 
                        rate applicable to a loan to reacquire 
                        homestead property less 100 basis 
                        points.
                            ``(ii) Existing amortizations and 
                        loans.--The interest rate applicable to 
                        an amortization or loan made by the 
                        Secretary before the date of enactment 
                        of this paragraph to finance a 
                        recapture payment owed to the Secretary 
                        under this subsection may not exceed 
                        the rate applicable to a loan to 
                        reacquire homestead property less 100 
                        basis points.''.
    (b) The entire amount necessary to carry out this section 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for the entire amount, that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 819. The Secretary of Agriculture shall use up to 
$2,500,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
provide financial assistance to the State of South Carolina to 
capitalize the South Carolina Grain Dealers Guaranty Fund: 
Provided, That these funds shall only be available if the State 
of South Carolina provides an equal amount in the form of a 
grant to the South Carolina Grain Dealers Guaranty Fund: 
Provided further, That the entire amount necessary to carry out 
this section shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for the entire amount, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 820. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture may use funds 
made available under sections 211(a) and 211(b), and 133(b) of 
the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to provide 
technical assistance to farmers and ranchers for the purposes 
described in sections 211(a) and 211(b), and 133(b) of that 
Act; and
    (b) The Secretary of Agriculture may use funds made 
available under section 211(b) of the Agricultural Risk 
Protection Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 3830 note; Public Law 106-
224) to provide additional funding for the Wildlife Habitat 
Incentive Program established under section 387 of the Federal 
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 in such sums as 
the Secretary considers necessary to carry out that program.
    (c) The entire amount necessary to carry out this section 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for the entire amount, that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 821. Section 19(a)(1)(A) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 
(7 U.S.C. 2028(a)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``Puerto Rico'' 
and all that follows through ``2002, to finance'' and inserting 
``Puerto Rico--
            ``(i) for fiscal year 2000, $1,268,000,000;
            ``(ii) for fiscal year 2001, the amount required to 
        be paid under clause (i) for fiscal year 2000, as 
        adjusted by the change in the Food at Home series of 
        the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, 
        published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the 
        Department of Labor, for the most recent 12-month 
        period ending in June; and
            ``(iii) for fiscal year 2002, the amount required 
        to be paid under clause (ii) for fiscal year 2001, as 
        adjusted by the percentage by which the thrifty food 
        plan is adjusted for fiscal year 2002 under section 
        3(o)(4);
to finance''.
    Sec. 822. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall make a payment in the amount 
$7,200,000 to the State of Hawaii from the Commodity Credit 
Corporation for assistance to an agricultural transportation 
cooperative in Hawaii, the members of which are eligible to 
participate in the Farm Service Agency administered Commodity 
Loan Program and have suffered extraordinary market losses due 
to unprecedented low prices: Provided, That the entire amount 
shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
request for $7,200,000, 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.
    Sec. 823. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide financial 
and technical assistance to the Long Park Dam in Utah from 
funds available for the Emergency Watershed Program, not to 
exceed $4,500,000.
    Sec. 824. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide financial 
and technical assistance to the Kuhn Bayou (Point Remove) 
Project in Arkansas from funds available for the Emergency 
Watershed Program, not to exceed $3,300,000.
    Sec. 825. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide financial 
and technical assistance to the Snake River Watershed project 
in Minnesota from funds available for the Emergency Watershed 
Program, not to exceed $4,000,000.
    Sec. 826. Of the funds made available for the Emergency 
Watershed Protection Program activities in the State of North 
Carolina, $1,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary of 
Agriculture, acting through the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service, to provide technical and financial assistance for 
implementation of the project known as the ``Flood Water 
Mitigation and Stream Restoration Project'', Princeville, North 
Carolina.
    Sec. 827. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
paid to oyster producers in the State of Connecticut under 
section 1102 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1999, as contained in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency 
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-277) 
shall be retained by such producers.
    Sec. 828. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide financial 
and technical assistance to DuPage County, Illinois, from funds 
available for the Emergency Watershed Program, not to exceed 
$1,100,000.
    Sec. 829. Subtitle G, Section 262 of Public Law 106-224 is 
amended as follows: After ``obligate'', strike ``and expend''.
    Sec. 830. Any funds appropriated by Cerro Grande Fire 
Supplemental as contained in Public Law 106-246 for the 
Emergency Conservation Program not required to meet the 
purposes of rehabilitating farmland damaged from fires which 
resulted from prescribed burnings conducted by the Federal 
Government may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture for 
activities mandated under the Emergency Conservation Program 
authorized under section 401 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 
1978 (16 U.S.C. 2201) consistent with the cost-share 
requirements of that program: Provided, That the entire amount 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for the entire amount, that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 831. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
technical and financial assistance up to $120,000 shall be made 
available from the Emergency Watershed Program for the Camp 
Lejeune Project on the Camp Lejeune Marine Base, North 
Carolina.
    Sec. 832. Funds appropriated by this Act and Public Law 
106-113 to the Agricultural Credit Insurance Program Account 
for farm ownership and operating direct loans and guaranteed 
loans and emergency loans may be transferred among these 
programs with the prior approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: Provided, That the 
entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for the entire amount, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 833. Section 321(b) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961(b)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
            ``(3) Loans to poultry farmers.--
                    ``(A) Inability to obtain insurance.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Notwithstanding 
                        any other provision of this subtitle, 
                        the Secretary may make a loan to a 
                        poultry farmer under this subtitle to 
                        cover the loss of a chicken house for 
                        which the farmer did not have hazard 
                        insurance at the time of the loss, if 
                        the farmer--
                                    ``(I) applied for, but was 
                                unable, to obtain hazard 
                                insurance for the chicken 
                                house;
                                    ``(II) uses the loan to 
                                rebuild the chicken house in 
                                accordance with industry 
                                standards in effect on the date 
                                the farmer submits an 
                                application for the loan 
                                (referred to in this paragraph 
                                as `current industry 
                                standards');
                                    ``(III) obtains, for the 
                                term of the loan, hazard 
                                insurance for the full market 
                                value of the chicken house; and
                                    ``(IV) meets the other 
                                requirements for the loan under 
                                this subtitle.
                            ``(ii) Amount.--Subject to the 
                        limitation contained in section 
                        324(a)(2), the amount of a loan made to 
                        a poultry farmer under clause (i) shall 
                        be an amount that will allow the farmer 
                        to rebuild the chicken house in 
                        accordance with current industry 
                        standards.
                    ``(B) Loans to comply with current industry 
                standards.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Notwithstanding 
                        any other provision of this subtitle, 
                        the Secretary may make a loan to a 
                        poultry farmer under this subtitle to 
                        cover the loss of a chicken house for 
                        which the farmer had hazard insurance 
                        at the time of the loss, if--
                                    ``(I) the amount of the 
                                hazard insurance is less than 
                                the cost of rebuilding the 
                                chicken house in accordance 
                                with current industry 
                                standards;
                                    ``(II) the farmer uses the 
                                loan to rebuild the chicken 
                                house in accordance with 
                                current industry standards;
                                    ``(III) the farmer obtains, 
                                for the term of the loan, 
                                hazard insurance for the full 
                                market value of the chicken 
                                house; and
                                    ``(IV) the farmer meets the 
                                other requirements for the loan 
                                under this subtitle.
                            ``(ii) Amount.--Subject to the 
                        limitation contained in section 
                        324(a)(2), the amount of a loan made to 
                        a poultry farmer under clause (i) shall 
                        be the difference between--
                                    ``(I) the amount of the 
                                hazard insurance obtained by 
                                the farmer; and
                                    ``(II) the cost of 
                                rebuilding the chicken house in 
                                accordance with current 
                                industry standards.''.
    Sec. 834. For an additional amount for grants under 
sections 231(a) and 261(a)(2) of the Agricultural Risk 
Protection Act of 2000, $10,000,000: Provided, That the entire 
amount shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
request for $10,000,000, 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.
    Sec. 835. For an additional amount for the cost (as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) of 
guaranteed loans under section 310B(a)(1) of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act, $10,000,000: Provided, That the 
entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official 
budget request for $10,000,000, 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.
    Sec. 836. Section 156(e) of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272(e)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking ``recourse'' each place 
                that it appears and inserting ``nonrecourse''; 
                and
                    (B) by striking ``Subject to paragraph (2), 
                the'' and inserting ``The'';
            (2) by striking paragraph (2);
            (3) by re-designating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
        (2); and
            (4) in paragraph (2) as so re-designated, by 
        striking ``If'' through ``shall'' in the first sentence 
        and inserting ``The Secretary shall''.
    Sec. 837. Notwithstanding section 1001(2) of the Food 
Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308 (1)), the total amount of 
the payments specified in section 1001(3) of that Act or 
section 812 of this Act that a person shall be entitled to 
receive under the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 
7201 et seq.) for one or more contract commodities, oilseeds 
and for honey under section 812 of this Act produced during the 
2000 crop year may not exceed $150,000: Provided, That in 
carrying out this section, the Secretary shall allow a producer 
that has marketed or redeemed a quantity of an eligible 2000 
crop for which the producer has not received a loan deficiency 
payment or marketing loan gain under section 134 or 135 of the 
Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7234, 7235) or 
section 812 of this Act to receive such payment or gain as of 
the date on which the quantity was marketed or redeemed, as 
determined by the Secretary.
    Sec. 838. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary shall extend until the date that is 60 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act the final eligibility date for 
marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments under 
subtitle C of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 
7231 et seq.) for rice of special grade designations, as 
determined by the Secretary, that was made eligible for the 
loans by the Secretary during December 1999; and for which 
producers were not notified of the eligibility period for the 
loans: Provided, That producers on a farm that lost a 
beneficial interest in rice after the date on which the rice 
was made ineligible for loans and loan deficiency payments by 
the Secretary shall be eligible to obtain loan deficiency 
payments based on the payment rate that was in effect on the 
last date of eligibility for the loans before the date of 
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the entire amount 
necessary to carry out this section shall be available only to 
the extent that an official budget request for the entire 
amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, 
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
such Act.
    Sec. 839. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Agriculture may enter into contracts with 
livestock producers for the purpose of controlling the buildup 
of grasses, forbs and other natural fuels that contribute to 
the threat of wildfire on rangelands administered by the 
Secretary: Provided, That such contracts are provided from 
within discretionary funds.
    Sec. 840. As soon as practicable after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary and the Commodity Credit 
Corporation, as appropriate, shall issue such regulations as 
are necessary to implement sections 804, 805, 806, 809, 810, 
811, 812, 814, 815, 816, 836, 837, 838, 839, 841, 843, 844, and 
845 of this title: Provided, That the issuance of the 
regulations shall be made without regard to: (1) the notice and 
comment provisions of section 553 of title 5, United States 
Code; (2) the Statement of Policy of the Secretary of 
Agriculture effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg. 13804), 
relating to notices of proposed rulemaking and public 
participation in rulemaking; and (3) chapter 35 of title 44, 
United States Code (commonly known as the ``Paperwork Reduction 
Act''): Provided further, That in carrying out this section, 
the Secretary shall use the authority provided under section 
808 of title 5, United States Code.
    Sec. 841. The Secretary of Agriculture shall use funds of 
the Commodity Credit Corporation to make a payment to each 
eligible person described in section 204(b)(1)(A) of the 
Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 1421 note; 
Public Law 106-224) without regard to section 204(b)(1)(A)(ii) 
of that Act: Provided, That the Secretary shall make a payment 
to an eligible person described in this section in the same 
amount as is payable to an eligible person under section 204 of 
that Act: Provided further, That the entire amount necessary to 
carry out this section shall be available only to the extent an 
official budget request 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.
    Sec. 842. Payments made from amounts appropriated pursuant 
to this title shall not be subject to administrative offset, 
including administrative offset under chapter 37 of title 31, 
United States Code.
    Sec. 843. The Secretary of Agriculture shall use not more 
than $20,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
to make payments to producers of tomatoes, pears, peaches, and 
apricots that were unable to market the crops of the producers 
because of the insolvency of an agriculture cooperative in the 
State of California: Provided, That the amount of a payment 
made to a producer under this subsection shall not exceed 50 
percent of the contract value of the unmarketed crop referred 
to in this section: Provided further, That the entire amount 
necessary to carry out this section shall be available only to 
the extent an official budget request 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.

SEC. 844. LOAN FORFEITURES OF BURLEY TOBACCO.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding sections 106 through 106B 
of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1445 through 1445-
2)--
            (1) a producer-owned cooperative marketing 
        association may fully settle a loan made for the 1999 
        crop of Burley tobacco by forfeiting to the Commodity 
        Credit Corporation the Burley tobacco covered by the 
        loan regardless of the condition of the tobacco;
            (2) any losses to the Commodity Credit Corporation 
        as a result of paragraph (1)--
                    (A) shall not be charged to the No Net Cost 
                Tobacco Account; and
                    (B) shall not affect the amount of any 
                assessment imposed against Burley or any other 
                kind of tobacco under sections 106 through 106B 
                of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1445 
                through 1445-2); and
            (3) any tobacco forfeited pursuant to this section 
        shall not be--
                    (A) counted for the purpose of determining 
                the Burley tobacco quota for any year pursuant 
                to section 319 of the Agricultural Adjustment 
                Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1314e); or
                    (B) sold for use in the United States.
    (b) Emergency Requirement.--
            (1) The entire amount necessary to carry out this 
        section shall be available only to the extent that an 
        official budget request for the entire amount, that 
        includes designation of the entire amount of the 
        request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
        Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
        1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to 
        the Congress.
            (2) The entire amount is designated by Congress as 
        an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
        251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

SEC. 845. COMMODITY ELIGIBILITY ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--Section 3720B(a) of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended in the first sentence by inserting ``or 
a marketing assistance loan or loan deficiency payment under 
subtitle C of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 
7231 et seq.)'' after ``disaster loan''.
    (b) Payments.--Any payment made by the Commodity Credit 
Corporation to a producer as a result of the amendment made by 
section (a) shall be credited toward any delinquent debt owed 
by the producer to the Farm Service Agency.
    (c) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--The amendment made by subsection 
        (a) takes effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
            (2) Transition loan deficiency payments.--If the 
        producers on a farm lost beneficial interest in a crop 
        during the period beginning March 21, 2000, and ending 
        on the day before the date of enactment of this Act and 
        were ineligible for a marketing assistance loan under 
        subtitle C of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 
        U.S.C. 7231 et seq.) because of section 3720B(a) of 
        title 31, United States Code, as in effect before the 
        amendment made by subsection (a), the producers shall 
        be eligible for any loan deficiency payment under 
        subtitle C of that Act that was available on the date 
        on which the producers lost beneficial interest in the 
        crop.
    (d)(1) The entire amount necessary to carry out this 
section shall be available only to the extent an official 
budget request for the entire amount, that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amedned, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress.
    (2) The entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such 
Act.

SEC. 846. MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF EXCESS SHELTER EXPENSE DEDUCTION.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 5(e)(7)(B) of the Food Stamp Act of 
1977 (7 U.S.C. 2014(e)(7)(B)) is amended by striking clauses 
(iii) and (iv) and inserting the following:
                            ``(iii) for fiscal year 1999, $275, 
                        $478, $393, $334, and $203 per month, 
                        respectively;
                            ``(iv) for fiscal year 2000, $280, 
                        $483, $398, $339, and $208 per month, 
                        respectively;
                            ``(v) for fiscal year 2001, $340, 
                        $543, $458, $399, and $268 per month, 
                        respectively; and
                            ``(vi) for fiscal year 2002 and 
                        each subsequent fiscal year, the 
                        applicable amount during the preceding 
                        fiscal year, as adjusted to reflect 
                        changes for the 12-month period ending 
                        the preceding November 30 in the 
                        Consumer Price Index for All Urban 
                        Consumers published by the Bureau of 
                        Labor Statistics of the Department of 
                        Labor.''.
    (b) Effective Date; Application of Amendment.--(1) Except 
as provided in paragraph (2), the amendment made by this 
section shall take effect on March 1, 2001.
    (2) The amendment made by this section shall not apply with 
respect to certification periods beginning before March 1, 
2001.
    (c)(1) The entire amount necessary to carry out this 
section shall be available only to the extent an official 
budget request for the entire amount, that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress.
    (2) The entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such 
Act.

SEC. 847. VEHICLE ALLOWANCE.

    (a) In General.--Section 5(g)(2) of the Food Stamp Act of 
1977 (7 U.S.C. 2014(g)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B)(iv)--
                    (A) by striking ``subparagraph (C)'' and 
                inserting ``subparagraphs (C) and (D)''; and
                    (B) by striking ``to the extent that'' and 
                all that follows through the end of the clause 
                and inserting ``to the extent that the fair 
                market value of the vehicle exceeds $4,650; 
                and''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Alternative vehicle allowance.--If 
                the vehicle allowance standards that a State 
                agency uses to determine eligibility for 
                assistance under the State program funded under 
                part A of title IV of the Social Security Act 
                (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) would result in a lower 
                attribution of resources to certain households 
                than under subparagraph (B)(iv), in lieu of 
                applying subparagraph (B)(iv), the State agency 
                may elect to apply the State vehicle allowance 
                standards to all households that would incur a 
                lower attribution of resources under the State 
                vehicle allowance standards.''.
    (b) Effective Date; Application of Amendments.--(1) Except 
as provided in paragraph (2), the amendments made by this 
section shall take effect on July 1, 2001.
    (2) The amendments made by this section shall not apply 
with respect to certification periods beginning before July 1, 
2001.
    (c)(1) The entire amount necessary to carry out this 
section shall be available only to the extent an official 
budget request for the entire amount, that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress.
    (2) The entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such 
Act.

        TITLE IX--TRADE SANCTIONS REFORM AND EXPORT ENHANCEMENT

SEC. 901. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Trade Sanctions Reform and 
Export Enhancement Act of 2000''.

SEC. 902. DEFINITIONS.

    In this title:
            (1) Agricultural commodity.--The term 
        ``agricultural commodity'' has the meaning given the 
        term in section 102 of the Agricultural Trade Act of 
        1978 (7 U.S.C. 5602).
            (2) Agricultural program.--The term ``agricultural 
        program'' means--
                    (A) any program administered under the 
                Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance 
                Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.);
                    (B) any program administered under section 
                416 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 
                1431);
                    (C) any program administered under the 
                Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5601 
                et seq.);
                    (D) the dairy export incentive program 
                administered under section 153 of the Food 
                Security Act of 1985 (15 U.S.C. 713a-14);
                    (E) any commercial export sale of 
                agricultural commodities; or
                    (F) any export financing (including credits 
                or credit guarantees) provided by the United 
                States Government for agricultural commodities.
            (3) Joint resolution.--The term ``joint 
        resolution'' means--
                    (A) in the case of section 903(a)(1), only 
                a joint resolution introduced within 10 session 
                days of Congress after the date on which the 
                report of the President under section 903(a)(1) 
                is received by Congress, the matter after the 
                resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That 
                Congress approves the report of the President 
                pursuant to section 903(a)(1) of the Trade 
                Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 
                2000, transmitted on ______________.'', with 
                the blank completed with the appropriate date; 
                and
                    (B) in the case of section 906(1), only a 
                joint resolution introduced within 10 session 
                days of Congress after the date on which the 
                report of the President under section 906(2) is 
                received by Congress, the matter after the 
                resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That 
                Congress approves the report of the President 
                pursuant to section 906(1) of the Trade 
                Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 
                2000, transmitted on ______________.'', with 
                the blank completed with the appropriate date.
            (4) Medical device.--The term ``medical device'' 
        has the meaning given the term ``device'' in section 
        201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 
        U.S.C. 321).
            (5) Medicine.--The term ``medicine'' has the 
        meaning given the term ``drug'' in section 201 of the 
        Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321).
            (6) Unilateral agricultural sanction.--The term 
        ``unilateral agricultural sanction'' means any 
        prohibition, restriction, or condition on carrying out 
        an agricultural program with respect to a foreign 
        country or foreign entity that is imposed by the United 
        States for reasons of foreign policy or national 
        security, except in a case in which the United States 
        imposes the measure pursuant to--
                    (A) a multilateral regime and the other 
                member countries of that regime have agreed to 
                impose substantially equivalent measures; or
                    (B) a mandatory decision of the United 
                Nations Security Council.
            (7) Unilateral medical sanction.--The term 
        ``unilateral medical sanction'' means any prohibition, 
        restriction, or condition on exports of, or the 
        provision of assistance consisting of, medicine or a 
        medical device with respect to a foreign country or 
        foreign entity that is imposed by the United States for 
        reasons of foreign policy or national security, except 
        in a case in which the United States imposes the 
        measure pursuant to--
                    (A) a multilateral regime and the other 
                member countries of that regime have agreed to 
                impose substantially equivalent measures; or
                    (B) a mandatory decision of the United 
                Nations Security Council.

SEC. 903. RESTRICTION.

    (a) New Sanctions.--Except as provided in sections 904 and 
905 and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
President may not impose a unilateral agricultural sanction or 
unilateral medical sanction against a foreign country or 
foreign entity, unless--
            (1) not later than 60 days before the sanction is 
        proposed to be imposed, the President submits a report 
        to Congress that--
                    (A) describes the activity proposed to be 
                prohibited, restricted, or conditioned; and
                    (B) describes the actions by the foreign 
                country or foreign entity that justify the 
                sanction; and
            (2) there is enacted into law a joint resolution 
        stating the approval of Congress for the report 
        submitted under paragraph (1).
    (b) Existing Sanctions.--The President shall terminate any 
unilateral agricultural sanction or unilateral medical sanction 
that is in effect as of the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 904. EXCEPTIONS.

    Section 903 shall not affect any authority or requirement 
to impose (or continue to impose) a sanction referred to in 
section 903--
            (1) against a foreign country or foreign entity--
                    (A) pursuant to a declaration of war 
                against the country or entity;
                    (B) pursuant to specific statutory 
                authorization for the use of the Armed Forces 
                of the United States against the country or 
                entity;
                    (C) against which the Armed Forces of the 
                United States are involved in hostilities; or
                    (D) where imminent involvement by the Armed 
                Forces of the United States in hostilities 
                against the country or entity is clearly 
                indicated by the circumstances; or
            (2) to the extent that the sanction would prohibit, 
        restrict, or condition the provision or use of any 
        agricultural commodity, medicine, or medical device 
        that is--
                    (A) controlled on the United States 
                Munitions List established under section 38 of 
                the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778);
                    (B) controlled on any control list 
                established under the Export Administration Act 
                of 1979 or any successor statute (50 U.S.C. 
                App. 2401 et seq.); or
                    (C) used to facilitate the development or 
                production of a chemical or biological weapon 
                or weapon of mass destruction.

SEC. 905. TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS.

    Any unilateral agricultural sanction or unilateral medical 
sanction that is imposed pursuant to the procedures described 
in section 903(a) shall terminate not later than 2 years after 
the date on which the sanction became effective unless--
            (1) not later than 60 days before the date of 
        termination of the sanction, the President submits to 
        Congress a report containing--
                    (A) the recommendation of the President for 
                the continuation of the sanction for an 
                additional period of not to exceed 2 years; and
                    (B) the request of the President for 
                approval by Congress of the recommendation; and
            (2) there is enacted into law a joint resolution 
        stating the approval of Congress for the report 
        submitted under paragraph (1).

SEC. 906. STATE SPONSORS OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.

    (a) Requirement.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of this title (other than section 904), the 
        export of agricultural commodities, medicine, or 
        medical devices to Cuba or to the government of a 
        country that has been determined by the Secretary of 
        State to have repeatedly provided support for acts of 
        international terrorism under section 620A of the 
        Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2371), 
        section 6(j)(1) of the Export Administration Act of 
        1979 (50 U.S.C. app. 2405(j)(1)), or section 40(d) of 
        the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2780(d)), or to 
        any other entity in such a country, shall only be made 
        pursuant to one-year licenses issued by the United 
        States Government for contracts entered into during the 
        one-year period of the license and shipped within the 
        12-month period beginning on the date of the signing of 
        the contract, except that the requirements of such one-
        year licenses shall be no more restrictive than license 
        exceptions administered by the Department of Commerce 
        or general licenses administered by the Department of 
        the Treasury, except that procedures shall be in place 
        to deny licenses for exports to any entity within such 
        country promoting international terrorism.
            (2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply with 
        respect to the export of agricultural commodities, 
        medicine, or medical devices to the Government of Syria 
        or to the Government of North Korea.
    (b) Quarterly Reports.--The applicable department or agency 
of the Federal Government shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees on a quarterly basis a report on any 
activities undertaken under subsection (a)(1) during the 
preceding calendar quarter.
    (c) Biennial Reports.--Not later than two years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, and every two years thereafter, 
the applicable department or agency of the Federal Government 
shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional 
committees on the operation of the licensing system under this 
section for the preceding two-year period, including--
            (1) the number and types of licenses applied for;
            (2) the number and types of licenses approved;
            (3) the average amount of time elapsed from the 
        date of filing of a license application until the date 
        of its approval;
            (4) the extent to which the licensing procedures 
        were effectively implemented; and
            (5) a description of comments received from 
        interested parties about the extent to which the 
        licensing procedures were effective, after the 
        applicable department or agency holds a public 30-day 
        comment period.

SEC. 907. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEDURES.

    (a) Referral of Report.--A report described in section 
903(a)(1) or 905(1) shall be referred to the appropriate 
committee or committees of the House of Representatives and to 
the appropriate committee or committees of the Senate.
    (b) Referral of Joint Resolution.--
            (1) In general.--A joint resolution introduced in 
        the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on 
        Foreign Relations, and a joint resolution introduced in 
        the House of Representatives shall be referred to the 
        Committee on International Relations.
            (2) Reporting date.--A joint resolution referred to 
        in paragraph (1) may not be reported before the eighth 
        session day of Congress after the introduction of the 
        joint resolution.

SEC. 908. PROHIBITION ON UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE AND FINANCING.

    (a) Prohibition on United States Assistance.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of law, no United States Government 
        assistance, including United States foreign assistance, 
        United States export assistance, and any United States 
        credit or guarantees shall be available for exports to 
        Cuba or for commercial exports to Iran, Libya, North 
        Korea, or Sudan.
            (2) Rule of construction.--Nothing in paragraph (1) 
        shall be construed to alter, modify, or otherwise 
        affect the provisions of section 109 of the Cuban 
        Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 
        1996 (22 U.S.C. 6039) or any other provision of law 
        relating to Cuba in effect on the day before the date 
        of the enactment of this Act.
            (3) Waiver.--The President may waive the 
        application of paragraph (1) with respect to Iran, 
        Libya, North Korea, and Sudan to the degree the 
        President determines that it is in the national 
        security interest of the United States to do so, or for 
        humanitarian reasons.
    (b) Prohibition on Financing of Agricultural Sales to 
Cuba.--
            (1) In general.--No United States person may 
        provide payment or financing terms for sales of 
        agricultural commodities or products to Cuba or any 
        person in Cuba, except in accordance with the following 
        terms (notwithstanding part 515 of title 31, Code of 
        Federal Regulations, or any other provision of law):
                    (A) Payment of cash in advance.
                    (B) Financing by third country financial 
                institutions (excluding United States persons 
                or Government of Cuba entities), except that 
                such financing may be confirmed or advised by a 
                United States financial institution.
        Nothing in this paragraph authorizes payment terms or 
        trade financing involving a debit or credit to an 
        account of a person located in Cuba or of the 
        Government of Cuba maintained on the books of a United 
        States depository institution.
            (2) Penalties.--Any private person or entity that 
        violates paragraph (1) shall be subject to the 
        penalties provided in the Trading With the Enemy Act 
        for violations under that Act.
            (3) Administration and enforcement.--The President 
        shall issue such regulations as are necessary to carry 
        out this section, except that the President, in lieu of 
        issuing new regulations, may apply any regulations in 
        effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
        pursuant to the Trading With the Enemy Act, with 
        respect to the conduct prohibited in paragraph (1).
            (4) Definitions.--In this subsection--
                    (A) the term ``financing'' includes any 
                loan or extension of credit;
                    (B) the term ``United States depository 
                institution'' means any entity (including its 
                foreign branches or subsidiaries) organized 
                under the laws of any jurisdiction within the 
                United States, or any agency, office or branch 
                located in the United States of a foreign 
                entity, that is engaged primarily in the 
                business of banking (including a bank, savings 
                bank, savings association, credit union, trust 
                company, or United States bank holding 
                company); and
                    (C) the term ``United States person'' means 
                the Federal Government, any State or local 
                government, or any private person or entity of 
                the United States.

SEC. 909. PROHIBITION ON ADDITIONAL IMPORTS FROM CUBA.

    Nothing in this title shall be construed to alter, modify, 
or otherwise affect the provisions of section 515.204 of title 
31, Code of Federal Regulations, relating to the prohibition on 
the entry into the United States of merchandise that (1) is of 
Cuban origin, (2) is or has been located in or transported from 
or through Cuba, or (3) is made or derived in whole or in part 
of any article which is the growth, produce, or manufacture of 
Cuba.

SEC. 910. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO CERTAIN TRAVEL-RELATED TRANSACTIONS 
                    WITH CUBA.

    (a) Authorization of Travel Relating to Commercial Sale of 
Agricultural Commodities.--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, may be authorized on a 
case-by-case basis by a specific license for travel to, from, 
or within Cuba for the commercial export sale of agricultural 
commodities pursuant to the provisions of this title.
    (b) Prohibition on Travel Relating to Tourist Activities.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of law or regulation, the Secretary of the 
        Treasury, or any other Federal official, may not 
        authorize the travel-related transactions listed in 
        paragraph (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of 
        Federal Regulations, either by a general license or on 
        a case-by-case basis by a specific license for travel 
        to, from, or within Cuba for tourist activities.
            (2) Definition.--In this subsection, the term 
        ``tourist activities'' means any activity with respect 
        to travel to, from, or within Cuba that is not 
        expressly authorized in subsection (a) of this section, 
        in any of paragraphs (1) through (12) of section 
        515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, or in 
        any section referred to in any of such paragraphs (1) 
        through (12) (as such sections were in effect on June 
        1, 2000).

SEC. 911. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this 
title shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act, 
and shall apply thereafter in any fiscal year.
    (b) Existing Sanctions.--In the case of any unilateral 
agricultural sanction or unilateral medical sanction that is in 
effect as of the date of enactment of this Act, this title 
shall take effect 120 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, and shall apply thereafter in any fiscal year.

             TITLE X--CONTINUED DUMPING AND SUBSIDY OFFSET

SEC. 1001. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Continued Dumping and 
Subsidy Offset Act of 2000''.

SEC. 1002. FINDINGS OF CONGRESS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Consistent with the rights of the United States 
        under the World Trade Organization, injurious dumping 
        is to be condemned and actionable subsidies which cause 
        injury to domestic industries must be effectively 
        neutralized.
            (2) United States unfair trade laws have as their 
        purpose the restoration of conditions of fair trade so 
        that jobs and investment that should be in the United 
        States are not lost through the false market signals.
            (3) The continued dumping or subsidization of 
        imported products after the issuance of antidumping 
        orders or findings or countervailing duty orders can 
        frustrate the remedial purpose of the laws by 
        preventing market prices from returning to fair levels.
            (4) Where dumping or subsidization continues, 
        domestic producers will be reluctant to reinvest or 
        rehire and may be unable to maintain pension and health 
        care benefits that conditions of fair trade would 
        permit. Similarly, small businesses and American 
        farmers and ranchers may be unable to pay down 
        accumulated debt, to obtain working capital, or to 
        otherwise remain viable.
            (5) United States trade laws should be strengthened 
        to see that the remedial purpose of those laws is 
        achieved.

SEC. 1003. AMENDMENTS TO THE TARIFF ACT OF 1930.

    (a) In General.--Title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 
U.S.C. 1671 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 753 
following new section:

``SEC. 754. CONTINUED DUMPING AND SUBSIDY OFFSET.

    ``(a) In General.--Duties assessed pursuant to a 
countervailing duty order, an antidumping duty order, or a 
finding under the Antidumping Act of 1921 shall be distributed 
on an annual basis under this section to the affected domestic 
producers for qualifying expenditures. Such distribution shall 
be known as the `continued dumping and subsidy offset'.
    ``(b) Definitions.--As used in this section:
            ``(1) Affected domestic producer.--The term 
        `affected domestic producer' means any manufacturer, 
        producer, farmer, rancher, or worker representative 
        (including associations of such persons) that--
                    ``(A) was a petitioner or interested party 
                in support of the petition with respect to 
                which an antidumping duty order, a finding 
                under the Antidumping Act of 1921, or a 
                countervailing duty order has been entered, and
                    ``(B) remains in operation.
        Companies, businesses, or persons that have ceased the 
        production of the product covered by the order or 
        finding or who have been acquired by a company or 
        business that is related to a company that opposed the 
        investigation shall not be an affected domestic 
        producer.
            ``(2) Commissioner.--The term `Commissioner' means 
        the Commissioner of Customs.
            ``(3) Commission.--The term `Commission' means the 
        United States International Trade Commission.
            ``(4) Qualifying expenditure.--The term `qualifying 
        expenditure' means an expenditure incurred after the 
        issuance of the antidumping duty finding or order or 
        countervailing duty order in any of the following 
        categories:
                    ``(A) Manufacturing facilities.
                    ``(B) Equipment.
                    ``(C) Research and development.
                    ``(D) Personnel training.
                    ``(E) Acquisition of technology.
                    ``(F) Health care benefits to employees 
                paid for by the employer.
                    ``(G) Pension benefits to employees paid 
                for by the employer.
                    ``(H) Environmental equipment, training, or 
                technology.
                    ``(I) Acquisition of raw materials and 
                other inputs.
                    ``(J) Working capital or other funds needed 
                to maintain production.
            ``(5) Related to.--A company, business, or person 
        shall be considered to be `related to' another company, 
        business, or person if--
                    ``(A) the company, business, or person 
                directly or indirectly controls or is 
                controlled by the other company, business, or 
                person,
                    ``(B) a third party directly or indirectly 
                controls both companies, businesses, or 
                persons,
                    ``(C) both companies, businesses, or 
                persons directly or indirectly control a third 
                party and there is reason to believe that the 
                relationship causes the first company, 
                business, or persons to act differently than a 
                nonrelated party.
        For purposes of this paragraph, a party shall be 
        considered to directly or indirectly control another 
        party if the party is legally or operationally in a 
        position to exercise restraint or direction over the 
        other party.
    ``(c) Distribution Procedures.--The Commissioner shall 
prescribe procedures for distribution of the continued dumping 
or subsidies offset required by this section. Such distribution 
shall be made not later than 60 days after the first day of a 
fiscal year from duties assessed during the preceding fiscal 
year.
    ``(d) Parties Eligible for Distribution of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duties Assessed.--
            ``(1) List of affected domestic producers.--The 
        Commission shall forward to the Commissioner within 60 
        days after the effective date of this section in the 
        case of orders or findings in effect on January 1, 
        1999, or thereafter, or in any other case, within 60 
        days after the date an antidumping or countervailing 
        duty order or finding is issued, a list of petitioners 
        and persons with respect to each order and finding and 
        a list of persons that indicate support of the petition 
        by letter or through questionnaire response. In those 
        cases in which a determination of injury was not 
        required or the Commission's records do not permit an 
        identification of those in support of a petition, the 
        Commission shall consult with the administering 
        authority to determine the identity of the petitioner 
        and those domestic parties who have entered appearances 
        during administrative reviews conducted by the 
        administering authority under section 751.
            ``(2) Publication of list; certification.--The 
        Commissioner shall publish in the Federal Register at 
        least 30 days before the distribution of a continued 
        dumping and subsidy offset, a notice of intention to 
        distribute the offset and the list of affected domestic 
        producers potentially eligible for the distribution 
        based on the list obtained from the Commission under 
        paragraph (1). The Commissioner shall request a 
        certification from each potentially eligible affected 
        domestic producer--
                    ``(A) that the producer desires to receive 
                a distribution;
                    ``(B) that the producer is eligible to 
                receive the distribution as an affected 
                domestic producer; and
                    ``(C) the qualifying expenditures incurred 
                by the producer since the issuance of the order 
                or finding for which distribution under this 
                section has not previously been made.
            ``(3) Distribution of funds.--The Commissioner 
        shall distribute all funds (including all interest 
        earned on the funds) from assessed duties received in 
        the preceding fiscal year to affected domestic 
        producers based on the certifications described in 
        paragraph (2). The distributions shall be made on a pro 
        rata basis based on new and remaining qualifying 
        expenditures.
    ``(e) Special Accounts.--
            ``(1) Establishments.--Within 14 days after the 
        effective date of this section, with respect to 
        antidumping duty orders and findings and countervailing 
        duty orders notified under subsection (d)(1), and 
        within 14 days after the date an antidumping duty order 
        or finding or countervailing duty order issued after 
        the effective date takes effect, the Commissioner shall 
        establish in the Treasury of the United States a 
        special account with respect to each such order or 
        finding.
            ``(2) Deposits into accounts.--The Commissioner 
        shall deposit into the special accounts, all 
        antidumping or countervailing duties (including 
        interest earned on such duties) that are assessed after 
        the effective date of this section under the 
        antidumping order or finding or the countervailing duty 
        order with respect to which the account was 
        established.
            ``(3) Time and manner of distributions.--Consistent 
        with the requirements of subsections (c) and (d), the 
        Commissioner shall by regulation prescribe the time and 
        manner in which distribution of the funds in a special 
        account shall be made.
            ``(4) Termination.--A special account shall 
        terminate after--
                    ``(A) the order or finding with respect to 
                which the account was established has 
                terminated;
                    ``(B) all entries relating to the order or 
                finding are liquidated and duties assessed 
                collected;
                    ``(C) the Commissioner has provided notice 
                and a final opportunity to obtain distribution 
                pursuant to subsection (c); and
                    ``(D) 90 days has elapsed from the date of 
                the notice described in subparagraph (C).
        Amounts not claimed within 90 days of the date of the 
        notice described in subparagraph (C), shall be 
        deposited into the general fund of the Treasury.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents for title 
VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 is amended by inserting the 
following new item after the item relating to section 753:

``Sec. 754. Continued dumping and subsidy offset.''.

    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
shall apply with respect to all antidumping and countervailing 
duty assessments made on or after October 1, 2000.

               TITLE XI--CONSERVATION OF FARMABLE WETLAND

SECTION 1101. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Conservation of Farmable 
Wetland Act of 2000''.

SEC. 1102. PILOT PROGRAM FOR ENROLLMENT OF WETLAND AND BUFFER ACREAGE 
                    IN CONSERVATION RESERVE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1231 of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(h) Pilot Program for Enrollment of Wetland and Buffer 
Acreage in Conservation Reserve.--
            ``(1) In general.--During the 2001 and 2002 
        calendar years, the Secretary shall carry out a pilot 
        program in the States of Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, 
        Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota under which 
        the Secretary shall include eligible acreage described 
        in paragraph (3) in the program established under this 
        subchapter.
            ``(2) Participation among states.--The Secretary 
        shall ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that 
        owners and operators in each of the States referred to 
        in paragraph (1) have an equitable opportunity to 
        participate in the pilot program established under this 
        subsection.
            ``(3) Eligible acreage.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraphs 
                (B) through (D), an owner or operator may 
                enroll in the conservation reserve under this 
                subsection--
                            ``(i) a wetland (including a 
                        converted wetland described in section 
                        1222(b)(1)(A)) that was cropped during 
                        at least 3 of the immediately preceding 
                        10 crop years; and
                            ``(ii) buffer acreage that--
                                    ``(I) is contiguous to the 
                                wetland described in clause 
                                (i);
                                    ``(II) is used to protect 
                                the wetland; and
                                    ``(III) is of such width as 
                                the Secretary determines is 
                                necessary to protect the 
                                wetland, taking into 
                                consideration and accommodating 
                                the farming practices 
                                (including the straightening of 
                                boundaries to accommodate 
                                machinery) used with respect to 
                                the cropland that surrounds the 
                                wetland.
                    ``(B) Exclusions.--An owner or operator may 
                not enroll in the conservation reserve under 
                this subsection--
                            ``(i) any wetland, or land on a 
                        floodplain, that is, or is adjacent to, 
                        a perennial riverine system wetland 
                        identified on the final national 
                        wetland inventory map of the Secretary 
                        of the Interior; or
                            ``(ii) in the case of an area that 
                        is not covered by the final national 
                        inventory map, any wetland, or land on 
                        a floodplain, that is adjacent to a 
                        perennial stream identified on a 1-
                        24,000 scale map of the United States 
                        Geological Survey.
                    ``(C) Program limitations.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The Secretary 
                        may enroll in the conservation reserve 
                        under this subsection--
                                    ``(I) not more than 500,000 
                                acres in all States referred to 
                                in paragraph (1); and
                                    ``(II) not more than 
                                150,000 acres in any 1 State 
                                referred to in paragraph (1).
                            ``(ii) Relationship to program 
                        maximum.--Subject to clause (iii), for 
                        the purposes of subsection (d), any 
                        acreage enrolled in the conservation 
                        reserve under this subsection shall be 
                        considered acres maintained in the 
                        conservation reserve.
                            ``(iii) Relationship to other 
                        enrolled acreage.--Acreage enrolled 
                        under this subsection shall not affect 
                        for any fiscal year the quantity of--
                                    ``(I) acreage enrolled to 
                                establish conservation buffers 
                                as part of the program 
                                announced on March 24, 1998 (63 
                                Fed. Reg. 14109); or
                                    ``(II) acreage enrolled 
                                into the conservation reserve 
                                enhancement program announced 
                                on May 27, 1998 (63 Fed. Reg. 
                                28965).
                    ``(D) Owner or operator limitations.--
                            ``(i) Wetland.--The maximum size of 
                        any wetland described in subparagraph 
                        (A)(i) of an owner or operator enrolled 
                        in the conservation reserve under this 
                        subsection shall be 5 contiguous acres.
                            ``(ii) Buffer acreage.--The maximum 
                        size of any buffer acreage described in 
                        subparagraph (A)(ii) of an owner or 
                        operator enrolled in the conservation 
                        reserve under this subsection shall be 
                        the greater of--
                                    ``(I) 3 times the size of 
                                any wetland described in 
                                subparagraph (A)(i) to which 
                                the buffer acreage is 
                                contiguous; or
                                    ``(II) 150 feet on either 
                                side of the wetland.
                            ``(iii) Tracts.--The maximum size 
                        of any eligible acreage described in 
                        subparagraph (A) in a tract (as 
                        determined by the Secretary) of an 
                        owner or operator enrolled in the 
                        conservation reserve under this 
                        subsection shall be 40 acres.
            ``(4) Duties of owners and operators.--Under a 
        contract entered into under this subsection, during the 
        term of the contract, an owner or operator of a farm or 
        ranch must agree--
                    ``(A) to restore the hydrology of the 
                wetland within the eligible acreage to the 
                maximum extent practicable, as determined by 
                the Secretary;
                    ``(B) to establish vegetative cover on the 
                eligible acreage, as determined by the 
                Secretary; and
                    ``(C) to carry out other duties described 
                in section 1232.
            ``(5) Duties of the secretary.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in 
                subparagraphs (B) and (C), in return for a 
                contract entered into by an owner or operator 
                under this subsection, the Secretary shall make 
                payments and provide assistance to the owner or 
                operator in accordance with sections 1233 and 
                1234.
                    ``(B) Continuous signup.--The Secretary 
                shall use continuous signup under section 
                1234(c)(2)(B) to determine the acceptability of 
                contract offers and the amount of rental 
                payments under this subsection.
                    ``(C) Incentives.--The amounts payable to 
                owners and operators in the form of rental 
                payments under contracts entered into under 
                this subsection shall reflect incentives that 
                are provided to owners and operators to enroll 
                filterstrips in the conservation reserve under 
                section 1234.''.

SEC. 1103. INCIDENTAL GRAZING.

    Section 1232(a)(7)(A) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
U.S.C. 3832(a)(7)(A)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``occurs during'' and
        inserting ``occurs--
                                    ``(I) in the case of land 
                                other than eligible acreage 
                                enrolled under section 1231(h), 
                                during''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(II) in the case of 
                                eligible acreage enrolled under 
                                section 1231(h), at any time 
                                other than during the period 
                                beginning May 1 and ending 
                                August 1 of each year for a 
                                reduction in rental payment 
                                commensurate with the limited 
                                economic value of such 
                                incidental grazing; and''.

SEC. 1104. STUDY OF IMPACT OF PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct 
a study of the impact of the pilot program established under 
section 1231(h) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3831(h)) (as added by section 1102(a)) on--
            (1) enrollment of owners and operators in--
                    (A) the conservation reserve program 
                established under subchapter B of chapter 1 of 
                subtitle D of title XII of that Act (16 U.S.C. 
                3831 et seq.);
                    (B) the wetlands reserve program 
                established under subchapter C of chapter 1 of 
                subtitle D of title XII of that Act (16 U.S.C. 
                3837 et seq.); and
                    (C) other Federal and State conservation 
                programs;
            (2) types of environmentally sensitive acreage that 
        have not been enrolled in the wetlands reserve program; 
        and
            (3) conservation of soil, water, and related 
        natural resources, including grazing land, wetland, and 
        wildlife habitat.
    (b) Reports.--Not later than March 1, 2003, the Secretary 
shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
and Forestry of the Senate a report on the results of the 
study.

SEC. 1105. REGULATIONS.

    (a) In General.--As soon as practicable after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
promulgate such regulations as are necessary to implement the 
amendments made by this Act.
    (b) Procedure.--The promulgation of the regulations and 
administration of the amendments made by this Act shall be made 
without regard to--
            (1) the notice and comment provisions of section 
        553 of title 5, United States Code;
            (2) the Statement of Policy of the Secretary of 
        Agriculture effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg. 
        13804), relating to notices of proposed rulemaking and 
        public participation in rulemaking; and
            (3) chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code 
        (commonly known as the ``Paperwork Reduction Act'').
    (c) Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking.--In carrying 
out this section, the Secretary shall use the authority 
provided under section 808 of title 5, United States Code.

      TITLE XII--HASS AVOCADO PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION

SEC. 1201. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Hass Avocado Promotion, 
Research, and Information Act of 2000''.

SEC. 1202. FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) Hass avocados are an integral food source in 
        the United States that are a valuable and healthy part 
        of the human diet and are enjoyed by millions of 
        persons every year for a multitude of everyday and 
        special occasions.
            (2) Hass avocados are a significant tree fruit crop 
        grown by many individual producers, but virtually all 
        domestically produced Hass avocados for the commercial 
        market are grown in the State of California.
            (3) Hass avocados move in interstate and foreign 
        commerce, and Hass avocados that do not move in 
        interstate or foreign channels of commerce but only in 
        intrastate commerce directly affect interstate commerce 
        in Hass avocados.
            (4) In recent years, large quantities of Hass 
        avocados have been imported into the United States from 
        other countries.
            (5) The maintenance and expansion of markets in 
        existence on the date of enactment of this title, and 
        the development of new or improved markets or uses for 
        Hass avocados are needed to preserve and strengthen the 
        economic viability of the domestic Hass avocado 
        industry for the benefit of producers and other persons 
        associated with the producing, marketing, processing, 
        and consuming of Hass avocados.
            (6) An effective and coordinated program of 
        promotion, research, industry information, and consumer 
        information regarding Hass avocados is necessary for 
        the maintenance, expansion, and development of domestic 
        markets for Hass avocados.
    (b) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this title to authorize 
the establishment, through the exercise of the powers provided 
in this title, of an orderly procedure for the development and 
financing (through an adequate assessment on Hass avocados sold 
by producers and importers in the United States) of an 
effective and coordinated program of promotion, research, 
industry information, and consumer information, including funds 
for marketing and market research activities, that is designed 
to--
            (1) strengthen the position of the Hass avocado 
        industry in the domestic marketplace; and
            (2) maintain, develop, and expand markets and uses 
        for Hass avocados in the domestic marketplace.
    (c) Limitation.--Nothing in this title may be construed to 
provide for the control of production or otherwise limit the 
right of any person to produce, handle, or import Hass 
avocados.

SEC. 1203. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this title:
            (1) Board.--The terms ``Avocado Board'' and 
        ``Board'' mean the Hass Avocado Board established under 
        section 1205.
            (2) Conflict of interest.--The term ``conflict of 
        interest'' means a situation in which a member or 
        employee of the Board has a direct or indirect 
        financial interest in a person that performs a service 
        for, or enters into a contract with, the Board for 
        anything of economic value.
            (3) Consumer information.--The term ``consumer 
        information'' means any action or program that provides 
        information to consumers and other persons on the use, 
        nutritional attributes, and other information that will 
        assist consumers and other persons in making 
        evaluations and decisions regarding the purchase, 
        preparation, and use of Hass avocados.
            (4) Customs.--The term ``Customs'' means the United 
        States Customs Service.
            (5) Department.--The term ``Department'' means the 
        United States Department of Agriculture.
            (6) Hass avocado.--
                    (A) In general.--The term ``Hass avocado'' 
                includes--
                            (i) the fruit of any Hass variety 
                        avocado tree; and
                            (ii) any other type of avocado 
                        fruit that the Board, with the approval 
                        of the Secretary, determines is so 
                        similar to the Hass variety avocado as 
                        to be indistinguishable to consumers in 
                        fresh form.
                    (B) Form of fruit.--Except as provided in 
                subparagraph (C), the term includes avocado 
                fruit described in subparagraph (A) whether in 
                fresh, frozen, or any other processed form.
                    (C) Exceptions.--In any case in which a 
                handler further processes avocados described in 
                subparagraph (A), or products of such avocados, 
                for sale to a retailer, the Board, with the 
                approval of the Secretary, may determine that 
                such further processed products do not 
                constitute a substantial value of the product 
                and that, based on its determination, the 
                product shall not be treated as a product of 
                Hass avocados subject to assessment under the 
                order. In addition, the Board, with the 
                approval of the Secretary, may exempt certain 
                frozen avocado products from assessment under 
                the order.
            (7) Handler.--
                    (A) First handler.--The term ``first 
                handler'' means a person operating in the Hass 
                avocados marketing system that sells domestic 
                or imported Hass avocados for United States 
                domestic consumption, and who is responsible 
                for remitting assessments to the Board. The 
                term includes an importer or producer who sells 
                directly to consumers Hass avocados that the 
                importer or producer has imported into the 
                United States or produced, respectively.
                    (B) Exempt handler.--The term ``exempt 
                handler'' means a person who would otherwise be 
                considered a first handler, except that all 
                avocados purchased by the person have already 
                been subject to the assessment under section 
                1205(h).
            (8) Importer.--The term ``importer'' means any 
        person who imports Hass avocados into the United 
        States.
            (9) Industry information.--The term ``industry 
        information'' means information and programs that are 
        designed to increase efficiency in processing, enhance 
        the development of new markets and marketing 
        strategies, increase marketing efficiency, and 
        activities to enhance the image of Hass avocados and 
        the Hass avocado industry domestically.
            (10) Order.--The term ``order'' means the Hass 
        avocado promotion, research, and information order 
        issued under this title.
            (11) Person.--The term ``person'' means any 
        individual, group of individuals, firm, partnership, 
        corporation, joint stock company, association, 
        cooperative, or other legal entity.
            (12) Producer.--The term ``producer'' means any 
        person who--
                    (A) is engaged in the domestic production 
                of Hass avocados for commercial use; and
                    (B) owns, or shares the ownership and risk 
                of loss, of such Hass avocados.
            (13) Promotion.--The term ``promotion'' means any 
        action to advance the image, desirability, or 
        marketability of Hass avocados, including paid 
        advertising, sales promotion, and publicity, in order 
        to improve the competitive position and stimulate sales 
        of Hass avocados in the domestic marketplace.
            (14) Research.--The term ``research'' means any 
        type of test, study, or analysis relating to market 
        research, market development, and marketing efforts, or 
        relating to the use, quality, or nutritional value of 
        Hass avocados, other related food science research, or 
        research designed to advance the image, desirability, 
        and marketability of Hass avocados.
            (15) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the 
        Secretary of Agriculture.
            (16) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the 
        several States of the United States, the District of 
        Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
        United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the 
        Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated 
        States of Micronesia.
            (17) United states.--The term ``United States'' 
        means the United States collectively.

SEC. 1204. ISSUANCE OF ORDERS.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Issuance.--To effectuate the policy of this 
        title specified in section 1202(b), the Secretary, 
        subject to the procedures provided in subsection (b), 
        shall issue orders under this title applicable to 
        producers, importers, and first handlers of Hass 
        avocados.
            (2) Scope.--Any order shall be national in scope.
            (3) One order.--Not more than one order shall be in 
        effect at any one time.
    (b) Procedures.--
            (1) Proposal for an order.--An existing 
        organization of avocado producers established pursuant 
        to a State statute, or any other person who will be 
        affected by this title, may request the issuance of, 
        and submit a proposal for an order.
            (2) Publication of proposal.--The Secretary shall 
        publish a proposed order and give notice and 
        opportunity for public comment on the proposed order 
        not later than 60 days after receipt by the Secretary 
        of a proposal for an order from an existing 
        organization of avocado producers established pursuant 
        to a State statute, as provided in paragraph (1).
            (3) Issuance of order.--
                    (A) In general.--After notice and 
                opportunity for public comment are provided in 
                accordance with paragraph (2), the Secretary 
                shall issue the order, taking into 
                consideration the comments received and 
                including in the order such provisions as are 
                necessary to ensure that the order is in 
                conformity with this title.
                    (B) Effective date.--The order shall be 
                issued and become effective only after an 
                affirmative vote in a referendum as provided in 
                section 1206, but not later than 180 days after 
                publication of the proposed order.
    (c) Amendments.--The Secretary, from time to time, may 
amend an order. The provisions of this title applicable to an 
order shall be applicable to any amendment to an order.

SEC. 1205. REQUIRED TERMS IN ORDERS.

    (a) In General.--An order shall contain the terms and 
provisions specified in this section.
    (b) Hass Avocado Board.--
            (1) Establishment and membership.--
                    (A) Establishment.--The order shall provide 
                for the establishment of a Hass Avocado Board, 
                consisting of 12 members, to administer the 
                order.
                    (B) Membership.--
                            (i) Appointment.--The order shall 
                        provide that members of the Board shall 
                        be appointed by the Secretary from 
                        nominations submitted as provided in 
                        this subsection.
                            (ii) Composition.--The Board shall 
                        consist of participating domestic 
                        producers and importers.
                    (C) Special definition of importer.--In 
                this subsection, the term ``importer'' means a 
                person who is involved in, as a substantial 
                activity, the importation, sale, and marketing 
                of Hass avocados in the United States (either 
                directly or as an agent, broker, or consignee 
                of any person or nation that produces or 
                handles Hass avocados outside the United States 
                for sale in the United States), and who is 
                subject to assessments under the order.
            (2) Distribution of appointments.--
                    (A) In general.--The order shall provide 
                that the membership of the Board shall consist 
                of the following:
                            (i) Seven members who are domestic 
                        producers of Hass avocados and are 
                        subject to assessments under the order.
                            (ii) Two members who represent 
                        importers of Hass avocados and are 
                        subject to assessments under the order.
                            (iii) Three members who are 
                        domestic producers of Hass avocados and 
                        are subject to assessments under the 
                        order, or are importers of Hass 
                        avocados and are subject to assessments 
                        under the order, to reflect the 
                        proportion of domestic production and 
                        imports supplying the United States 
                        market, which shall be based on the 
                        Secretary's determination of the 
                        average volume of domestic production 
                        of Hass avocados proportionate to the 
                        average volume of imports of Hass 
                        avocados in the United States over the 
                        previous three years.
                    (B) Adjustment in board representation.--
                Three years after the assessment of Hass 
                avocados commences pursuant to an order, and at 
                the end of each three-year period thereafter, 
                the Avocado Board shall adjust the proportion 
                of producer representatives to importer 
                representatives on the Board under subparagraph 
                (A)(iii) on the basis of the amount of 
                assessments collected from producers and 
                importers over the immediately preceding three-
                year period. Any adjustment under this 
                subparagraph shall be subject to the review and 
                approval of the Secretary.
            (3) Nomination process.--The order shall provide 
        that--
                    (A) 2 nominees shall be submitted for each 
                appointment to the Board;
                    (B) nominations for each appointment of a 
                producer or an importer shall be made by 
                domestic producers or importers, respectively--
                            (i) in the case of producers, 
                        through an election process which 
                        utilizes existing organizations of 
                        avocado producers established pursuant 
                        to a State statute, with approval by 
                        the Secretary; and
                            (ii) in the case of importers, 
                        nominations are submitted by importers 
                        under such procedures as the Secretary 
                        determines appropriate; and
                    (C) in any case in which producers or 
                importers fail to nominate individuals for an 
                appointment to the Board, the Secretary may 
                appoint an individual to fill the vacancy on a 
                basis provided in the order or other 
                regulations of the Secretary.
            (4) Alternates.--The order shall provide for the 
        selection of alternate members of the Board by the 
        Secretary in accordance with procedures specified in 
        the order.
            (5) Terms.--The order shall provide that--
                    (A) each term of appointment to the Board 
                shall be for 3 years, except that, of the 
                initial appointments, 4 of the appointments 
                shall be for 2-year terms, 4 of the 
                appointments shall be for 3-year terms, and 4 
                of the appointments shall be for 4-year terms; 
                and
                    (B) no member of the Board may serve more 
                than 2 consecutive terms of three years, except 
                that any member serving an initial term of 4 
                years may serve an additional term of 3 years.
            (6) Replacement.--
                    (A) Disqualification from board service.--
                The order shall provide that if a member or 
                alternate of the Board who was appointed as a 
                domestic producer or importer ceases to belong 
                to the group for which such member was 
                appointed, such member or alternate shall be 
                disqualified from serving on the Board.
                    (B) Manner of filling vacancy.--A vacancy 
                arising as a result of disqualification or any 
                other reason before the expiration of the term 
                of office of an incumbent member or alternate 
                of the Board shall be filled in a manner 
                provided in the order.
            (7) Compensation.--The order shall provide that 
        members and alternates of the Board shall serve without 
        compensation, but shall be reimbursed for the 
        reasonable expenses incurred in performing duties as 
        members or alternates of the Board.
    (c) General Responsibilities of the Avocado Board.--The 
order shall define the general responsibilities of the Avocado 
Board, which shall include the responsibility to--
            (1) administer the order in accordance with the 
        terms and provisions of the order;
            (2) meet, organize, and select from among the 
        members of the Board a chairperson, other officers, and 
        committees and subcommittees, as the Board determines 
        to be appropriate;
            (3) recommend to the Secretary rules and 
        regulations to effectuate the terms and provisions of 
        the order;
            (4) employ such persons as the Board determines are 
        necessary, and set the compensation and define the 
        duties of the persons;
            (5)(A) develop budgets for the implementation of 
        the order and submit the budgets to the Secretary for 
        approval under subsection (d); and
            (B) propose and develop (or receive and evaluate), 
        approve, and submit to the Secretary for approval under 
        subsection (d) plans or projects for Hass avocado 
        promotion, industry information, consumer information, 
        or related research;
            (6)(A) implement plans and projects for Hass 
        avocado promotion, industry information, consumer 
        information, or related research, as provided in 
        subsection (d); or
            (B) contract or enter into agreements with 
        appropriate persons to implement the plans and 
        projects, as provided in subsection (e), and pay the 
        costs of the implementation, or contracts and 
        agreement, with funds received under the order;
            (7) evaluate on-going and completed plans and 
        projects for Hass avocado promotion, industry 
        information, consumer information, or related research 
        and comply with the independent evaluation provisions 
        of the Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information 
        Act of 1996 (subtitle B of title V of Public Law 104-
        127; 7 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.);
            (8) receive, investigate, and report to the 
        Secretary complaints of violations of the order;
            (9) recommend to the Secretary amendments to the 
        order;
            (10) invest, pending disbursement under a plan or 
        project, funds collected through assessments authorized 
        under this title only in--
                    (A) obligations of the United States or any 
                agency of the United States;
                    (B) general obligations of any State or any 
                political subdivision of a State;
                    (C) any interest-bearing account or 
                certificate of deposit of a bank that is a 
                member of the Federal Reserve System; or
                    (D) obligations fully guaranteed as to 
                principal and interest by the United States, 
                except that income from any such invested funds 
                may be used only for a purpose for which the 
                invested funds may be used;
            (11) borrow funds necessary for the startup 
        expenses of the order; and
            (12) provide the Secretary such information as the 
        Secretary may require.
    (d) Budgets; Plans and Projects.--
            (1) Submission of budgets.--The order shall require 
        the Board to submit to the Secretary for approval 
        budgets, on a fiscal year basis, of the anticipated 
        expenses and disbursements of the Board in the 
        implementation of the order, including the projected 
        costs of Hass avocado promotion, industry information, 
        consumer information, and related research plans and 
        projects.
            (2) Plans and projects.--
                    (A) Promotion and consumer information.--
                The order shall provide--
                            (i) for the establishment, 
                        implementation, administration, and 
                        evaluation of appropriate plans and 
                        projects for advertising, sales 
                        promotion, other promotion, and 
                        consumer information with respect to 
                        Hass avocados, and for the disbursement 
                        of necessary funds for the purposes 
                        described in this clause; and
                            (ii) that any plan or project 
                        referred to in clause (i) shall be 
                        directed toward increasing the general 
                        demand for Hass avocados in the 
                        domestic marketplace.
                    (B) Industry information.--The order shall 
                provide for the establishment, implementation, 
                administration, and evaluation of appropriate 
                plans and projects that will lead to the 
                development of new markets, maintain and expand 
                existing markets, lead to the development of 
                new marketing strategies, or increase the 
                efficiency of the Hass avocado industry, and 
                activities to enhance the image of the Hass 
                avocado industry, and for the disbursement of 
                necessary funds for the purposes described in 
                this subparagraph.
                    (C) Research.--The order shall provide 
                for--
                            (i) the establishment, 
                        implementation, administration, and 
                        evaluation of plans and projects for 
                        market development research, research 
                        with respect to the sale, distribution, 
                        marketing, use, quality, or nutritional 
                        value of Hass avocados, and other 
                        research with respect to Hass avocado 
                        marketing, promotion, industry 
                        information or consumer information;
                            (ii) the dissemination of the 
                        information acquired through the plans 
                        and projects; and
                            (iii) the disbursement of such 
                        funds as are necessary to carry out 
                        this subparagraph.
                    (D) Submission to secretary.--The order 
                shall provide that the Board shall submit to 
                the Secretary for approval a proposed plan or 
                project for Hass avocados promotion, industry 
                information, consumer information, or related 
                research, as described in subparagraphs (A), 
                (B), and (C).
            (3) Approval by secretary.--A budget, plan, or 
        project for Hass avocados promotion, industry 
        information, consumer information, or related research 
        may not be implemented prior to approval of the budget, 
        plan, or project by the Secretary. Not later than 45 
        days after receipt of such a budget, plan, or project, 
        the Secretary shall notify the Board whether the 
        Secretary approves or disapproves the budget, plan, or 
        project. If the Secretary fails to provide such notice 
        before the end of the 45-day period, the budget, plan, 
        or project shall be deemed to be approved and may be 
        implemented by the Board.
    (e) Contracts and Agreements.--
            (1) Promotion, consumer information, industry 
        information and related research plans and projects.--
                    (A) In general.--To ensure the efficient 
                use of funds, the order shall provide that the 
                Board, with the approval of the Secretary, 
                shall enter into a contract or an agreement 
                with an avocado organization established by 
                State statute in a State with the majority of 
                Hass avocado production in the United States, 
                for the implementation of a plan or project for 
                promotion, industry information, consumer 
                information, or related research with respect 
                to Hass avocados, and for the payment of the 
                cost of the contract or agreement with funds 
                received by the Board under the order.
                    (B) Requirements.--The order shall provide 
                that any contract or agreement entered into 
                under this paragraph shall provide that--
                            (i) the contracting or agreeing 
                        party shall develop and submit to the 
                        Board a plan or project, together with 
                        a budget that includes the estimated 
                        costs to be incurred for the plan or 
                        project;
                            (ii) the plan or project shall 
                        become effective on the approval of the 
                        Secretary; and
                            (iii) the contracting party or 
                        agreeing party shall--
                                    (I) keep accurate records 
                                of all transactions of the 
                                party;
                                    (II) account for funds 
                                received and expended;
                                    (III) make periodic reports 
                                to the Board of activities 
                                conducted; and
                                    (IV) make such other 
                                reports as the Board or the 
                                Secretary shall require.
            (2) Other contracts and agreements.--The order 
        shall provide that the Board, with the approval of the 
        Secretary, may enter into a contract or agreement for 
        administrative services. Any contract or agreement 
        entered into under this paragraph shall include 
        provisions comparable to the provisions described in 
        paragraph (1)(B).
    (f) Books and Records of Board.--
            (1) In general.--The order shall require the Board 
        to--
                    (A) maintain such books and records (which 
                shall be available to the Secretary for 
                inspection and audit) as the Secretary may 
                require;
                    (B) prepare and submit to the Secretary, 
                from time to time, such reports as the 
                Secretary may require; and
                    (C) account for the receipt and 
                disbursement of all the funds entrusted to the 
                Board, including all assessment funds disbursed 
                by the Board to a State organization of avocado 
                producers established pursuant to State law.
            (2) Audits.--The Board shall cause the books and 
        records of the Board to be audited by an independent 
        auditor at the end of each fiscal year. A report of 
        each audit shall be submitted to the Secretary.
    (g) Control of Administrative Costs.--
            (1) System of cost controls.--The order shall 
        provide that the Board shall, as soon as practicable 
        after the order becomes effective and after 
        consultation with the Secretary and other appropriate 
        persons, implement a system of cost controls based on 
        normally accepted business practices that--
                    (A) will ensure that the costs incurred by 
                the Board in administering the order in any 
                fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the 
                projected level of assessments to be collected 
                by the Board for that fiscal year; and
                    (B) cover the minimum administrative 
                activities and personnel needed to properly 
                administer and enforce the order, and conduct, 
                supervise, and evaluate plans and projects 
                under the order.
            (2) Use of existing personnel and facilities.--The 
        Board shall use, to the extent possible, the resources, 
        staffs, and facilities of existing organizations, as 
        provided in subsection (e)(1)(A).
    (h) Assessments.--
            (1) Authority.--
                    (A) In general.--The order shall provide 
                that each first handler shall remit to the 
                Board, in the manner provided in the order, an 
                assessment collected from the producer, except 
                to the extent that the sale is excluded from 
                assessments under paragraph (6). In the case of 
                imports, the assessment shall be levied upon 
                imports and remitted to the Board by Customs.
                    (B) Published lists.--To facilitate the 
                payment of assessments under this paragraph, 
                the Board shall publish lists of first handlers 
                required to remit assessments under the order 
                and exempt handlers.
                    (C) Making determinations.--
                            (i) First handler status.--The 
                        order shall contain provisions 
                        regarding the determination of the 
                        status of a person as a first handler 
                        or exempt handler.
                            (ii) Producer-handlers.--For 
                        purposes of paragraph (3), a producer-
                        handler shall be considered the first 
                        handler of those Hass avocados that are 
                        produced by that producer-handler and 
                        packed by that producer-handler for 
                        sale at wholesale or retail.
                            (iii) Importers.--The assessment on 
                        imported Hass avocados shall be paid by 
                        the importer to Customs at the time of 
                        entry into the United States and shall 
                        be remitted by Customs to the Board. 
                        Importation occurs when Hass avocados 
                        originating outside the United States 
                        are released from custody of Customs 
                        and introduced into the stream of 
                        commerce within the United States. 
                        Importers include persons who hold 
                        title to foreign-produced Hass avocados 
                        immediately upon release by Customs, as 
                        well as any persons who act on behalf 
                        of others, as agents, brokers, or 
                        consignees, to secure the release of 
                        Hass avocados from Customs and the 
                        introduction of the released Hass 
                        avocados into the current of commerce.
            (2) Assessment rates.--With respect to assessment 
        rates, the order shall contain the following terms:
                    (A) Initial rate.--The rate of assessment 
                on Hass avocados shall be $.025 per pound on 
                fresh avocados or the equivalent rate for 
                processed avocados on which an assessment has 
                not been paid.
                    (B) Changes in the rate.--
                            (i) In general.--Once the order is 
                        in effect, the uniform assessment rate 
                        may be increased or decreased not more 
                        than once annually, but in no event 
                        shall the rate of assessment be in 
                        excess of $.05 per pound.
                            (ii) Requirements.--Any change in 
                        the rate of assessment under this 
                        subparagraph--
                                    (I) may be made only if 
                                adopted by the Board by an 
                                affirmative vote of at least 
                                seven members of the Board and 
                                approved by the Secretary as 
                                necessary to achieve the 
                                objectives of this title (after 
                                public notice and opportunity 
                                for comment in accordance with 
                                section 553 of title 5, United 
                                States Code, and without regard 
                                to sections 556 and 557 of such 
                                title);
                                    (II) shall be announced by 
                                the Board not less than 30 days 
                                prior to going into effect; and
                                    (III) shall not be subject 
                                to a vote in a referendum 
                                conducted under section 1206.
            (3) Collection by first handlers.--Except as 
        provided in paragraph (1)(C)(iii), the first handler of 
        Hass avocados shall be responsible for the collection 
        of assessments from the producer under this subsection. 
        As part of the collection of assessments, the first 
        handler shall maintain a separate record of the Hass 
        avocados of each producer whose Hass avocados are so 
        handled, including the Hass avocados produced by the 
        first handler.
            (4) Timing of submitting assessments.--The order 
        shall provide that each person required to remit 
        assessments under this subsection shall remit to the 
        Board the assessment due from each sale of Hass 
        avocados that is subject to an assessment within such 
        time period after the sale (not to exceed 60 days after 
        the end of the month in which the sale took place) as 
        is specified in the order.
            (5) Claiming an exemption from collecting 
        assessments.--To claim an exemption under section 
        1203(6) as an exempt handler for a particular fiscal 
        year, a person shall submit an application to the 
        Board--
                    (A) stating the basis for such exemption; 
                and
                    (B) certifying such person will not 
                purchase Hass avocados in the United States on 
                which an assessment has not been paid for the 
                current fiscal year.
            (6) Exclusion.--An order shall exclude from 
        assessments under the order any sale of Hass avocados 
        for export from the United States.
            (7) Use of assessment funds.--The order shall 
        provide that assessment funds shall be used for payment 
        of costs incurred in implementing and administering the 
        order, with provision for a reasonable reserve, and to 
        cover the administrative costs incurred by the 
        Secretary in implementing and administering this title, 
        including any expenses incurred by the Secretary in 
        conducting referenda under this title, subject to 
        subsection (i).
            (8) Assessment funds for state association.--The 
        order shall provide that a State organization of 
        avocado producers established pursuant to State law 
        shall receive an amount equal to the product obtained 
        by multiplying the aggregate amount of assessments 
        attributable to the pounds of Hass avocados produced in 
        such State by 85 percent. The State organization shall 
        use such funds and any proceeds from the investment of 
        such funds for financing domestic promotion, research, 
        consumer information, and industry information plans 
        and projects, except that no such funds shall be used 
        for the administrative expenses of such State 
        organization.
            (9) Assessment funds for importers associations.--
                    (A) In general.--The order shall provide 
                that any importers association shall receive a 
                credit described in subparagraph (B) if such 
                association is--
                            (i) established pursuant to State 
                        law that requires detailed State 
                        regulation comparable to that 
                        applicable to the State organization of 
                        United States avocado producers, as 
                        determined by the Secretary; or
                            (ii) certified by the Secretary as 
                        meeting the requirements applicable to 
                        the Board as to budgets, plans, 
                        projects, audits, conflicts of 
                        interest, and reimbursements for 
                        administrative costs incurred by the 
                        Secretary.
                    (B) Credit.--An importers association 
                described in subparagraph (A) shall receive 85 
                percent of the assessments paid on Hass 
                avocados imported by the members of such 
                association.
                    (C) Use of funds.--
                            (i) In general.--Importers 
                        associations described in subparagraph 
                        (A) shall use the funds described in 
                        subparagraph (B) and proceeds from the 
                        investment of such funds for financing 
                        promotion, research, consumer 
                        information, and industry information 
                        plans and projects in the United 
                        States.
                            (ii) Administrative expenses.--No 
                        funds described in subparagraph (C) 
                        shall be used for the administrative 
                        expenses of such importers association.
    (i) Reimbursement of Secretary Expenses.--The order shall 
provide for reimbursing the Secretary--
            (1) for expenses not to exceed $25,000 incurred by 
        the Secretary in connection with any referendum 
        conducted under section 1206;
            (2) for administrative costs incurred by the 
        Secretary for supervisory work of up to 2 employee 
        years annually after an order or amendment to any order 
        has been issued and made effective; and
            (3) for costs incurred by the Secretary in 
        implementation of the order issued under section 1204, 
        for enforcement of the title and the order, for 
        subsequent referenda conducted under section 1206, and 
        in defending the Board in litigation arising out of 
        action taken by the Board.
    (j) Prohibition on Brand Advertising and Certain Claims.--
            (1) Prohibitions.--Except as provided in paragraph 
        (2), a program or project conducted under this title 
        shall not--
                    (A) make any reference to private brand 
                names;
                    (B) make false, misleading, or disparaging 
                claims on behalf of Hass avocados; or
                    (C) make false, misleading, or disparaging 
                statements with respect to the attributes or 
                use of any competing products.
            (2) Exceptions.--Paragraph (1) does not preclude 
        the Board from offering its programs and projects for 
        use by commercial parties, under such terms and 
        conditions as the Board may prescribe as approved by 
        the Secretary. For the purposes of this subsection, a 
        reference to State of origin does not constitute a 
        reference to a private brand name with regard to any 
        funds credited to, or disbursed by the Board to, a 
        State organization of avocado producers established 
        pursuant to State law. Furthermore, for the purposes of 
        this section, a reference to either State of origin or 
        country of origin does not constitute a reference to a 
        private brand name with regard to any funds credited 
        to, or disbursed by the Board to, any importers 
        association established or certified in accordance with 
        subsection (h)(9)(A).
    (k) Prohibition on Use of Funds To Influence Governmental 
Action.--
            (1) In general.--Except as otherwise provided in 
        paragraph (2), the order shall prohibit any funds 
        collected by the Board under the order from being used 
        in any manner for the purpose of influencing 
        legislation or government action or policy.
            (2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to 
        the development or recommendation of amendments to the 
        order.
    (l) Prohibition of Conflict of Interest.--The Board may not 
engage in, and shall prohibit the employees and agents of the 
Board from engaging in, any action that would be a conflict of 
interest.
    (m) Books and Records; Reports.--
            (1) In general.--The order shall provide that each 
        first handler, producer, and importer subject to the 
        order shall maintain, and make available for 
        inspection, such books and records as are required by 
        the order and file reports at the time, in the manner, 
        and having the content required by the order, to the 
        end that such information is made available to the 
        Secretary and the Board as is appropriate for the 
        administration or enforcement of this title, the order, 
        or any regulation issued under this title.
            (2) Confidentiality requirement.--
                    (A) In general.--Information obtained from 
                books, records, or reports under paragraph (1) 
                shall be kept confidential by all officers and 
                employees of the Department of Agriculture and 
                by the staff and agents of the Board.
                    (B) Suits and hearings.--Information 
                described in subparagraph (A) may be disclosed 
                to the public only--
                            (i) in a suit or administrative 
                        hearing brought at the request of the 
                        Secretary, or to which the Secretary or 
                        any officer of the United States is a 
                        party, involving the order; and
                            (ii) to the extent the Secretary 
                        considers the information relevant to 
                        the suit or hearing.
                    (C) General statements and publications.--
                Nothing in this paragraph may be construed to 
                prohibit--
                            (i) the issuance of general 
                        statements, based on the reports, of 
                        the number of persons subject to the 
                        order or statistical data collected 
                        from the reports, if the statements do 
                        not identify the information furnished 
                        by any person; or
                            (ii) the publication, by direction 
                        of the Secretary, of the name of any 
                        person who violates the order, together 
                        with a statement of the particular 
                        provisions of the order violated by the 
                        person.
            (3) Lists of importers.--
                    (A) Review.--The order shall provide that 
                the staff of the Board shall periodically 
                review lists of importers of Hass avocados to 
                determine whether persons on the lists are 
                subject to the order.
                    (B) Customs service.--On the request of the 
                Secretary or the Board, the Commissioner of the 
                United States Customs Service shall provide to 
                the Secretary or the Board lists of importers 
                of Hass avocados.
    (n) Consultations With Industry Experts.--
            (1) In general.--The order shall provide that the 
        Board may seek advice from and consult with experts 
        from the production, import, wholesale, and retail 
        segments of the Hass avocado industry to assist in the 
        development of promotion, industry information, 
        consumer information, and related research plans and 
        projects.
            (2) Special committees.--
                    (A) In general.--For the purposes described 
                in paragraph (1), the order shall authorize the 
                appointment of special committees composed of 
                persons other than Board members.
                    (B) Consultation.--A committee appointed 
                under subparagraph (A) shall consult directly 
                with the Board.
    (o) Other Terms of the Order.--The order shall contain such 
other terms and provisions, consistent with this title, as are 
necessary to carry out this title (including provision for the 
assessment of interest and a charge for each late payment of 
assessments under subsection (h)).

SEC. 1206. REFERENDA.

    (a) Requirements for Initial Referendum.--
            (1) Referendum required.--During the 60-day period 
        immediately preceding the proposed effective date of an 
        order issued under section 1204(b)(3), the Secretary 
        shall conduct a referendum among producers and 
        importers required to pay assessments under the order, 
        as provided in section 1205(h)(1).
            (2) Approval of order needed.--The order shall 
        become effective only if the Secretary determines that 
        the order has been approved by a simple majority of all 
        votes cast in the referendum.
    (b) Votes Permitted.--
            (1) In general.--Each producer and importer 
        eligible to vote in a referendum conducted under this 
        section shall be entitled to cast 1 vote if they 
        satisfy the eligibility requirements as defined in 
        paragraph (2).
            (2) Eligibility.--For purposes of paragraph (1), 
        producers and importers, as these terms are defined in 
        section 1203, shall be considered to be eligible to 
        vote if they have been producers or importers with 
        sales of Hass avocados during a period of at least 1 
        year prior to the referendum.
    (c) Manner of Conducting Referenda.--
            (1) In general.--Referenda conducted pursuant to 
        this title shall be conducted in a manner determined by 
        the Secretary.
            (2) Advance registration.--A producer or importer 
        of Hass avocados who chooses to vote in any referendum 
        conducted under this title shall register with the 
        Secretary prior to the voting period, after receiving 
        notice from the Secretary concerning the referendum 
        under paragraph (4).
            (3) Voting.--A producer or importer of Hass 
        avocados who chooses to vote in any referendum 
        conducted under this title shall vote in accordance 
        with procedures established by the Secretary. The 
        ballots and other information or reports that reveal or 
        tend to reveal the identity or vote of voters shall be 
        strictly confidential.
            (4) Notice.--The Secretary shall notify all 
        producers and importers at least 30 days prior to the 
        referendum conducted under this title. The notice shall 
        explain the procedure established under this 
        subsection.
    (d) Subsequent Referenda.--If an order is approved in a 
referendum conducted under subsection (a), effective beginning 
on the date that is 3 years after the date of the approval, the 
Secretary--
            (1) at the discretion of the Secretary, may conduct 
        at any time a referendum of producers and importers 
        required to pay assessments under the order, as 
        provided in section 1205(h)(1), subject to the voting 
        requirements of subsections (b) and (c), to ascertain 
        whether eligible producers and importers favor 
        suspension, termination, or continuance of the order; 
        or
            (2) shall conduct a referendum of eligible 
        producers and importers if requested by the Board or by 
        a representative group comprising 30 percent or more of 
        all producers and importers required to pay assessments 
        under the order, as provided in section 1205(h)(1), 
        subject to the voting requirements of subsections (b) 
        and (c), to ascertain whether producers and importers 
        favor suspension, termination, or continuance of the 
        order.
    (e) Suspension or Termination.--If, as a result of a 
referendum conducted under subsection (d), the Secretary 
determines that suspension or termination of the order is 
favored by a simple majority of all votes cast in the 
referendum, the Secretary shall--
            (1) not later than 180 days after the referendum, 
        suspend or terminate, as appropriate, collection of 
        assessments under the order; and
            (2) suspend or terminate, as appropriate, 
        activities under the order as soon as practicable and 
        in an orderly manner.

SEC. 1207. PETITION AND REVIEW.

    (a) Petition and Hearing.--
            (1) Petition.--A person subject to an order may 
        file with the Secretary a petition--
                    (A) stating that the order, any provision 
                of the order, or any obligation imposed in 
                connection with the order is not in accordance 
                with law; and
                    (B) requesting a modification of the order 
                or an exemption from the order.
            (2) Hearing.--The petitioner shall be given the 
        opportunity for a hearing on a petition filed under 
        paragraph (1), in accordance with regulations issued by 
        the Secretary. Any such hearing shall be conducted in 
        accordance with section 1209(b)(2) and be held within 
        the United States judicial district in which the 
        residence or principal place of business of the person 
        is located.
            (3) Ruling.--After a hearing under paragraph (2), 
        the Secretary shall make a ruling on the petition, 
        which shall be final if in accordance with law.
            (4) Limitation.--Any petition filed under this 
        subsection challenging an order, any provision of the 
        order, or any obligation imposed in connection with the 
        order, shall be filed within 2 years after the 
        effective date of the order, provision, or obligation 
        subject to challenge in the petition.
    (b) Review.--
            (1) Commencement of action.--The district courts of 
        the United States in any district in which a person who 
        is a petitioner under subsection (a) resides or 
        conducts business shall have jurisdiction to review the 
        ruling of the Secretary on the petition of the person, 
        if a complaint requesting the review is filed no later 
        than 20 days after the date of the entry of the ruling 
        by the Secretary.
            (2) Process.--Service of process in proceedings 
        under this subsection shall be conducted in accordance 
        with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
            (3) Remand.--If the court in a proceeding under 
        this subsection determines that the ruling of the 
        Secretary on the petition of the person is not in 
        accordance with law, the court shall remand the matter 
        to the Secretary with directions--
                    (A) to make such ruling as the court shall 
                determine to be in accordance with law; or
                    (B) to take such further action as, in the 
                opinion of the court, the law requires.
    (c) Enforcement.--The pendency of proceedings instituted 
under this section shall not impede, hinder, or delay the 
Attorney General or the Secretary from obtaining relief under 
section 1208.

SEC. 1208. ENFORCEMENT.

    (a) Jurisdiction.--A district court of the United States 
shall have jurisdiction to enforce, and to prevent and restrain 
any person from violating, this title or an order or regulation 
issued by the Secretary under this title.
    (b) Referral to Attorney General.--A civil action brought 
under subsection (a) shall be referred to the Attorney General 
for appropriate action, except that the Secretary is not 
required to refer to the Attorney General a violation of this 
title, or an order or regulation issued under this title, if 
the Secretary believes that the administration and enforcement 
of this title would be adequately served by administrative 
action under subsection (c) or suitable written notice or 
warning to the person who committed or is committing the 
violation.
    (c) Civil Penalties and Orders.--
            (1) Civil penalties.--
                    (A) In general.--A person who violates a 
                provision of this title, or an order or 
                regulation issued by the Secretary under this 
                title, or who fails or refuses to pay, collect, 
                or remit any assessment or fee required of the 
                person under an order or regulation issued 
                under this title, may be assessed by the 
                Secretary--
                            (i) a civil penalty of not less 
                        than $1,000 nor more than $10,000 for 
                        each violation; and
                            (ii) in the case of a willful 
                        failure to remit an assessment as 
                        required by an order or regulation, an 
                        additional penalty equal to the amount 
                        of the assessment.
                    (B) Separate offenses.--Each violation 
                shall be a separate offense.
            (2) Cease and desist orders.--In addition to or in 
        lieu of a civil penalty under paragraph (1), the 
        Secretary may issue an order requiring a person to 
        cease and desist from continuing a violation of this 
        title, or an order or regulation issued under this 
        title.
            (3) Notice and hearing.--No penalty shall be 
        assessed, or cease and desist order issued, by the 
        Secretary under this subsection unless the Secretary 
        gives the person against whom the penalty is assessed 
        or the order is issued notice and opportunity for a 
        hearing before the Secretary with respect to the 
        violation. Any such hearing shall be conducted in 
        accordance with section 1209(b)(2) and shall be held 
        within the United States judicial district in which the 
        residence or principal place of business of the person 
        is located.
            (4) Finality.--The penalty assessed or cease and 
        desist order issued under this subsection shall be 
        final and conclusive unless the person against whom the 
        penalty is assessed or the order is issued files an 
        appeal with the appropriate district court of the 
        United States in accordance with subsection (d).
    (d) Review by District Court.--
            (1) Commencement of action.--
                    (A) In general.--Any person against whom a 
                violation is found and a civil penalty is 
                assessed or a cease and desist order is issued 
                under subsection (c) may obtain review of the 
                penalty or order by, within the 30-day period 
                beginning on the date the penalty is assessed 
                or the order is issued--
                            (i) filing a notice of appeal in 
                        the district court of the United States 
                        for the district in which the person 
                        resides or conducts business, or in the 
                        United States District Court for the 
                        District of Columbia; and
                            (ii) sending a copy of the notice 
                        by certified mail to the Secretary.
                    (B) Copy of record.--The Secretary shall 
                promptly file in the court a certified copy of 
                the record on which the Secretary found that 
                the person had committed a violation.
            (2) Standard of review.--A finding of the Secretary 
        shall be set aside under this subsection only if the 
        finding is found to be unsupported by substantial 
        evidence.
    (e) Failure To Obey an Order.--
            (1) In general.--A person who fails to obey a cease 
        and desist order issued under subsection (c) after the 
        order has become final and unappealable, or after the 
        appropriate United States district court had entered a 
        final judgment in favor of the Secretary of not more 
        than $10,000 for each offense, after opportunity for a 
        hearing and for judicial review under the procedures 
        specified in subsections (c) and (d).
            (2) Separate violations.--Each day during which the 
        person fails to obey an order described in paragraph 
        (1) shall be considered as a separate violation of the 
        order.
    (f) Failure To Pay a Penalty.--
            (1) In general.--If a person fails to pay a civil 
        penalty assessed under subsection (c) or (e) after the 
        penalty has become final and unappealable, or after the 
        appropriate United States district court has entered 
        final judgment in favor of the Secretary, the Secretary 
        shall refer the matter to the Attorney General for 
        recovery of the amount assessed in any United States 
        district court in which the person resides or conducts 
        business.
            (2) Scope of review.--In an action by the Attorney 
        General under paragraph (1), the validity and 
        appropriateness of a civil penalty shall not be subject 
        to review.
    (g) Additional Remedies.--The remedies provided in this 
title shall be in addition to, and not exclusive of, other 
remedies that may be available.

SEC. 1209. INVESTIGATIONS AND POWER TO SUBPOENA.

    (a) Investigations.--The Secretary may conduct such 
investigations as the Secretary considers necessary for the 
effective administration of this title, or to determine whether 
any person has engaged or is engaging in any act that 
constitutes a violation of this title or any order or 
regulation issued under this title.
    (b) Subpoenas, Oaths, and Affirmations.--
            (1) Investigations.--For the purpose of conducting 
        an investigation under subsection (a), the Secretary 
        may administer oaths and affirmations, subpoena 
        witnesses, compel the attendance of witnesses, take 
        evidence, and require the production of any records 
        that are relevant to the inquiry. The production of the 
        records may be required from any place in the United 
        States.
            (2) Administrative hearings.--For the purpose of an 
        administrative hearing held under section 1207(a)(2) or 
        1208(c)(3), the presiding officer may administer oaths 
        and affirmations, subpoena witnesses, compel the 
        attendance of witnesses, take evidence, and require the 
        production of any records that are relevant to the 
        inquiry. The attendance of witnesses and the production 
        of the records may be required from any place in the 
        United States.
    (c) Aid of Courts.--
            (1) In general.--In the case of contumacy by, or 
        refusal to obey a subpoena issued under subsection (b) 
        to, any person, the Secretary may invoke the aid of any 
        court of the United States within the jurisdiction of 
        which the investigation or proceeding is conducted, or 
        where the person resides or conducts business, in order 
        to enforce a subpoena issued under subsection (b).
            (2) Order.--The court may issue an order requiring 
        the person referred to in paragraph (1) to comply with 
        a subpoena referred to in paragraph (1).
            (3) Failure to obey.--Any failure to obey the order 
        of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt 
        of court.
            (4) Process.--Process in any proceeding under this 
        subsection may be served in the United States judicial 
        district in which the person being proceeded against 
        resides or conducts business, or wherever the person 
        may be found.

SEC. 1210. CONFIDENTIALITY.

    (a) Prohibition.--No information regarding names of voters 
or how a person voted in a referendum conducted under this 
title shall be made public.
    (b) Penalty.--Any person who knowingly violates subsection 
(a) or the confidentiality terms of an order, as described in 
section 1205(m)(2), shall be subject to a fine of not less that 
$1,000 nor more than $10,000 or to imprisonment for not more 
than 1 year, or both. If the person is an officer or employee 
of the Department of Agriculture or the Board, the person shall 
be removed from office.
    (c) Additional Prohibition.--No information obtained under 
this title may be made available to any agency or officer of 
the Federal Government for any purpose other than the 
implementation of this title or an investigatory or enforcement 
action necessary for the implementation of this title.
    (d) Withholding Information From Congress Prohibited.--
Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize the 
withholding of information from Congress.

SEC. 1211. AUTHORITY FOR SECRETARY TO SUSPEND OR TERMINATE ORDER.

    (a) Grounds for Suspension or Termination.--If the 
Secretary finds that an order, or any provision of the order, 
obstructs or does not tend to effectuate the policy of this 
title specified in section 1202(b), the Secretary shall 
terminate or suspend the operation of the order or provision 
under such terms as the Secretary determines are appropriate.
    (b) Effect of Lack of Approval of Order.--If, as a result 
of a referendum, the Secretary determines that the order is not 
approved, the Secretary shall, within 180 days after making the 
determination, suspend, or terminate, as appropriate, 
collection of assessments under the order, and suspend or 
terminate, as appropriate, activities under the order in an 
orderly manner as soon as possible.

SEC. 1212. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.

    (a) Termination or Suspension Not an Order.--The 
termination or suspension of an order, or a provision of an 
order, shall not be considered an order under the meaning of 
this title.
    (b) Rights.--This title--
            (1) may not be construed to provide for control of 
        production or otherwise limit the right of individual 
        Hass avocado growers, handlers and importers to 
        produce, handle, or import Hass avocados; and
            (2) shall be construed to treat all persons 
        producing, handling, and importing Hass avocados fairly 
        and to implement any order in an equitable manner.
    (c) Other Programs.--Nothing in this title may be construed 
to preempt or supersede any other program relating to Hass 
avocado promotion, research, industry information, and consumer 
information organized and operated under the laws of the United 
States or of a State.

SEC. 1213. REGULATIONS.

    The Secretary may issue such regulations as are necessary 
to carry out this title and the powers vested in the Secretary 
by this title, including regulations relating to the assessment 
of late payment charges and interest.

SEC. 1214. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
for each fiscal year such sums as are necessary to carry out 
this title.
    (b) Administrative Expenses.--Funds appropriated under 
subsection (a) may not be used for the payment of the expenses 
or expenditures of the Board in administering a provision of an 
order.

                       TITLE XIII--DEBT REDUCTION

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                       Bureau of the Public Debt

      gifts to the united states for reduction of the public debt

    For deposit of an additional amount for fiscal year 2001 
into the account established under section 3113(d) of title 31, 
United States Code, to reduce the public debt, $5,000,000,000.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2001''.
      Following is explanatory language on H.R. 5426, as 
introduced on October 6, 2000.
      The conferees on H.R. 4461 agree with the matter included 
in H.R. 5426 and enacted in this conference report by reference 
and the following description of it. This bill was developed 
through negotiations by the conferees on the differences in 
H.R. 4461. References in the following description to the 
``conference agreement'' mean the matter included in the 
introduced bill enacted by this conference report.

                        Congressional Directives

      The statement of the managers remains silent on 
provisions that were in both the House and Senate bills that 
remain unchanged by this conference agreement, except as noted 
in this statement of the managers.
      The conferees agree that executive branch wishes cannot 
substitute for Congress' own statements as to the best evidence 
of congressional intentions--that is, the official reports of 
the Congress. The conferees further point out that funds in 
this Act must be used for the purposes for which appropriated, 
as required by section 1301 of title 31 of the United States 
Code, which provides: ``Appropriations shall be applied only to 
the objects for which the appropriations were made except as 
otherwise provided by law.''
      The House and Senate report language that is not changed 
by the conference is approved by the committee of conference. 
The statement of the managers, while repeating some report 
language for emphasis, does not intend to negate the language 
referred to above unless expressly provided herein.
      In cases in which the House or the Senate have directed 
the submission of a report, such report is to be submitted to 
both the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.

                     TITLE I--AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

                 Production, Processing, and Marketing

                        Office of the Secretary

      The conference agreement provides $2,914,000 for the 
Office of the Secretary instead of $2,836,000 as proposed by 
the House and $27,914,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conferees note that $40,000,000 for the development 
and implementation of a common computing environment is 
provided under the heading ``Common Computing Environment'' 
instead of $25,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement does not adopt bill language as 
proposed by the Senate providing that funds for the development 
and implementation of a common computing environment shall be 
available only upon prior notice to the Committees on 
Appropriations.
      The conference agreement does not include House language 
permitting unobligated balances of representation funds in the 
Foreign Agricultural Service to be used for official reception 
and representation purposes.
      The conferees direct the Secretary to provide to the 
Committees on Appropriations a detailed report of all USDA 
activities related to Hurricane Mitch recovery efforts in 
Central America. The report should specifically include, but 
not be limited to, a list of all agencies that participated in 
the efforts, the specific activities by each agency, the cost 
incurred by each agency, and the source of funding for these 
costs.
      The Secretary of Agriculture is urged to use ethanol, 
biodiesel, and other alternative fuels to the maximum extent 
practicable in meeting the fuel needs of the Department of 
Agriculture.
      As the Administration proceeds with implementing the 1998 
Congressional amendments to the Clean Air Act, the conferees 
urge that it closely follow the legislative language defining 
the quarantine and preshipment exemption. The conferees also 
urge the Administration to work with stakeholders regarding 
methyl bromide availability for critical post-harvest uses.

                          Executive Operations

                     Office of the Chief Economist

      The conference agreement provides $7,462,000 for the 
Office of the Chief Economist as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $6,408,000 as proposed by the House.

                       National Appeals Division

      The conference agreement provides $12,421,000 for the 
National Appeals Division (NAD) as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $11,718,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conferees direct that the Director of NAD track and 
make available information about Director Review Determinations 
that are made in favor of the Department and those that are 
made in favor of the producer, and that NAD make this 
information available to the public, and submit a report to the 
Committees on Appropriations no later than February 1, 2001, as 
proposed by the House.

                 Office of Budget and Program Analysis

      The conference agreement provides $6,765,000 for the 
Office of Budget and Program Analysis as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $6,581,000 as proposed by the House.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

      The conference agreement provides $10,051,000 for the 
Office of the Chief Information Officer as proposed by the 
House instead of $10,046,000 as proposed by the Senate. This 
includes the following increases from the fiscal year 2000 
level: $1,392,000 for a central cyber security program; 
$1,280,000 to strengthen the information risk management 
program; $1,116,000 for an information and telecommunications 
security architecture; and $217,000 for pay costs.
      The conferees direct the Chief Information Officer to 
keep the Committees updated on a quarterly basis as the 
information security programs are implemented.

                      Common Computing Environment

      The conference agreement provides $40,000,000 in a 
separate account for the Common Computing Environment instead 
of $25,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conferees note that incorporating geographic 
information systems technology and the use of geospatial 
information are important components of the Common Computing 
Environment.

                 Office of the Chief Financial Officer

      The conference agreement provides $5,171,000 for the 
Office of the Chief Financial Officer as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $4,783,000 as proposed by the House.

          Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration

      The conference agreement provides $629,000 for the Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Administration as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $613,000 as proposed by the House.

        Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments

      The conference agreement provides $182,747,000 for 
Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $150,343,000 as proposed by 
the House.
      The conferees expect that the five percent transfer 
authority will be proposed when a move into General Services 
Administration (GSA) space is vacated in favor of commercial 
space. The report further notes that this flexibility is 
provided to allow for incremental changes in the amount of GSA 
space, and is not intended to finance changes in GSA billing.

                      Departmental Administration

      The conference agreement provides $36,010,000 for 
Departmental Administration instead of $34,708,000 as proposed 
by the House and $36,840,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement reflects the transfer of 
$177,000 in FY 2000 for accounting support services from 
Departmental Administration to the Office of the Chief 
Financial Officer, and increases of $979,000 for pay costs and 
$500,000 for alternative dispute resolution.

     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations

      The conference agreement provides $3,568,000 for the 
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations 
as proposed by the House and the Senate. The conference 
agreement allows funds to be transferred to the agencies, but 
does not prescribe the amount of funds to be transferred. The 
conferees direct the Department, within 30 days of enactment, 
to notify the Committees on the allocation of these funds, 
including an explanation for any agency-by-agency distribution 
of these funds.

                        Office of Communications

      The conference agreement provides $8,623,000 for the 
Office of Communications instead of $8,138,000 as proposed by 
the House and $8,873,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes the increase requested 
for pay costs and $250,000 for electronic access to 
information.

                    Office of the Inspector General

      The conference agreement provides $68,867,000 for the 
Office of the Inspector General instead of $66,867,000 as 
proposed by the Senate and $65,097,000 as proposed by the 
House.
      The conference agreement includes $2,000,000 for 
oversight and audit activities involving the more than $16 
billion provided in emergency agricultural assistance in fiscal 
years 1999 and 2000. The conferees want to ensure the Inspector 
General's office has resources to carry out its oversight 
activities with respect to these funds.
      The conferees do not agree to language proposed by the 
Senate directing the Inspector General to investigate whether 
National Appeals Division decisions overwhelmingly favor the 
Department. The conference agreement addresses this issue under 
the National Appeals Division account.

                     Office of the General Counsel

      The conference agreement provides $31,080,000 for the 
Office of the General Counsel as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $29,194,000 as proposed by the House.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

      The conference agreement provides $556,000 for the Office 
of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $540,000 as proposed by the 
House.

                       Economic Research Service

      The conference agreement provides $67,038,000 for the 
Economic Research Service as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$66,419,000 as proposed by the House. Included in this amount 
is $12,195,000 for USDA food assistance program studies and 
evaluations, of which $1,000,000 is transferred to the Food 
Program Administration account of the Food and Nutrition 
Service as proposed by the Senate.
      Of the $1,000,000 to be transferred to the Food and 
Nutrition Service for studies and evaluations, $500,000 is to 
be made available for a study on the decline in participation 
in the food stamp program. The FNS study on this issue is to be 
completed by the Food and Nutrition Service within 180 days of 
enactment of this Act.
      The conferees note that the USDA released a study in 
June, 2000, on this same issue. In addition, the USDA has 
contracted out for a broader, more in-depth study of food stamp 
program access and declining food stamp participation. The 
conferees are concerned that the studies to date neither 
accounted for a large segment of the participation decline, nor 
did they fully account for the corresponding rise in demand 
among community food banks. The Department is encouraged to 
develop the ongoing study in a manner to answer these 
questions.
      The conferees direct the Economic Research Service to 
provide an interim report, by April 15, 2001, on the number of 
suppliers of infant formula in each state or major marketing 
area, and to compare the cost of formula that is included in 
the WIC rebate program versus the cost of formula that is not 
in the WIC rebate program. The conferees expect a final report 
by August 31, 2001.

                National Agricultural Statistics Service

      The conference agreement provides $100,772,000 for the 
National Agricultural Statistics Service instead of 
$100,851,000 as proposed by the House and $100,615,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. This amount includes $159,000 to 
develop and implement a bi-weekly cream/milkfat price survey to 
benefit all segments of the dairy industry.

                     Agricultural Research Service

                         Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement provides $898,812,000 for the 
Agricultural Research Service instead of $843,584,000 as 
proposed by the House and $871,593,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The conference agreement approves all directives and 
provides funding for all research and related costs, as 
specified in the House and Senate reports accompanying the 
fiscal year 2001 appropriations bill. Where increased funding 
is provided by both the House and Senate for the same research 
activity, the conference agreement provides funding at the 
higher level.
      The conferees are aware that USDA is considering the 
relocation of ARS scientists from the Shafter Cotton Research 
Station, CA. The conferees are concerned that this relocation 
will reduce the level of resources for cotton research 
conducted at the station. The conference agreement provides 
continued funding at the fiscal year 2000 level for this 
research and directs that no action be taken to shift funds or 
staffing resources from Shafter without the prior approval of 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
      The conferees recognize that ARS, Stoneville, MS, should 
be properly credited with the development of a catfish line 
(USDA 103) with improved growth characteristics. The Stoneville 
Unit has also developed the first channel catfish detailed 
genetic linkage map.
      Increased funding provided by the conference agreement 
for endophyte research, as recommended by the House, is to be 
divided equally among the participating institutions 
(University of Arkansas, University of Missouri, and Oregon 
State University).
      Increased funding provided by the conference agreement 
for chicken genome mapping, as recommended by the House, is to 
be carried out at the Avian Disease Oncology Laboratory, 
currently located in East Lansing, Michigan.
      The conferees encourage the Department to carry out 
glassy-winged sharpshooter and Pierce's disease research at 
Parlier, CA.
      The conferees expect the Department to ensure that funds 
provided to the Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory 
intended for potato research are fully utilized for potato 
research.
      The conferees concur with House report language regarding 
increased funding, as recommended by both the House and Senate, 
for potato research at Prosser, WA.
      Increased funding provided by the conference agreement 
for mosquito trapping research and West Nile virus, as 
recommended by the House, is to be utilized for cooperative 
research with the State of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment 
Station for research that focuses on the West Nile virus 
crisis. These resources will allow the experiment station to 
enhance its on-going efforts to control and eradicate this 
infectious disease.
      Within the increased funding provided by the conference 
agreement for soil tilth research, as recommended by the House, 
$350,000 is to be utilized for carbon cycle research focusing 
on the corn-soybean rotation.

                        Buildings and Facilities

      The conference agreement provides $74,200,000 for 
Agricultural Research Service, Building and Facilities instead 
of $39,300,000 as proposed by the House and $56,330,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      The following table reflects the conference agreement:

Arizona: Water Conservation and Western Cotton 
    Laboratory, Maricopa................................      $5,000,000
California: Western Regional Research Center, Albany....       4,900,000
District of Columbia: U.S. National Arboretum...........       3,330,000
Hawaii: U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, 
    Hilo................................................       5,000,000
Illinois: USDA Greenhouse Complex, Urbana...............       3,600,000
Iowa: National Animal Disease Center, Ames..............       9,000,000
Kansas: U.S. Grain Marketing Research Laboratory, 
    Manhattan...........................................       3,500,000
Maine: Northeast Marine Cold Water Aquaculture Research 
    Center, Orono.......................................       2,500,000
Maryland:
    Human Nutrition Research Center, Beltsville.........      13,300,000
    National Agricultural Li- brary, Beltsville.........       1,770,000
Mississippi: Insect Rearing Facility, Stoneville........       5,000,000
Montana: Fort Keogh Laboratory, Miles City..............       5,300,000
New York: Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Greenport..       7,000,000
Utah: Poisonous Plant Laboratory, Logan.................       5,000,090
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
    Total...............................................      74,200,000

      The conferees are aware that the Agriculture Research 
Station and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service are 
developing a Master Plan to construct new and expanded 
facilities at Ames, Iowa. The conferees direct the Secretary of 
Agriculture to assess the scope of and need for this project 
based on the research and regulatory requirements of the 
Department, and the relationship between this project and 
existing capabilities available to the Department. The Office 
of the Secretary of Agriculture is directed to submit a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations by March 1, 2001 that will 
include this assessment as well as current estimates of full 
costs and the proposed construction schedule for this project. 
Of the funds appropriated no more than $2,000,000 will be 
expended prior to March 30, 2001. The Department will not 
commit additional funds on any of the components of this 
project after that date unless the report finds that the 
construction of the component is found to be appropriate.

      Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

                   Research and Education Activities

      The conference agreement provides $506,193,000 for 
research and education activities instead of $481,551,000 as 
proposed by the House and $494,044,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The following table reflects the conference agreement:

Research and education activities

                        [In thousands of dollars]

                                                              Conference
                                                               agreement
Payments under the Hatch Act..................................  $180,545
Cooperative Forestry Research (McIntire-Stennis)..............    21,932
Payments to 1890 Colleges and Tuskegee University.............    32,676
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
  Special Research Grants (Public Law 89-106):
    Advanced genetic technologies (KY)........................       475
    Advanced spatial technologies (MS)........................     1,000
    Aegilops cylindricum (WA).................................       360
    Aflatoxin (IL)............................................       131
    Agricultural diversification (HI).........................       131
    Agricultural diversity/Red River Trade Corridor (MN, ND)..       375
    Agricultural telecommunications (NY)......................       425
    Agriculture-based industrial lubricants (IA)..............       350
    Agriculture water usage (GA)..............................       300
    Agroecology (MD)..........................................       285
    Alliance of food protection (GA, NE)......................       300
    Alternative crops (ND)....................................       625
    Alternative corps for arid lands (TX).....................       100
    Alternative nutrient management (VT)......................       190
    Alternative salmon products (AK)..........................       645
    Animal science food safety consortium (AR, IA, KS)........     1,635
    Apple fire blight (MI, NY)................................       500
    Aquaculture (AR)..........................................       238
    Aquaculture (FL)..........................................       446
    Aquaculture (LA)..........................................       330
    Aquaculture (MS)..........................................       592
    Aquaculture (NC)..........................................       300
    Aquaculture (VA)..........................................       100
    Aquaculture (WA)..........................................       285
    Aquaculture Product and Marketing Development (WV)........       750
    Asparagus technology and production (WA)..................       225
    Babcock Institute (WI)....................................       600
    Beef technology transfer (MO).............................       285
    Biobased technology (MI)..................................       285
    Bioinformatics (VA).......................................       475
    Biomass-based energy research (OK, MS)....................       902
    Biotechnology (NC)........................................       285
    Blocking anhydrous methamphetamine production (IA)........       248
    Bovine Tuberculosis (MI)..................................       325
    Brucellosis vaccine (MT)..................................       496
    Center for animal health & productivity (PA)..............       113
    Center for Rural Studies (VT).............................       200
    Chesapeake Bay agroecology (MD)...........................       175
    Chesapeake Bay aquaculture................................       392
    Citrus canker (FL)........................................     4,750
    Citrus tristeza...........................................       742
    Competitiveness of agriculture products (WA)..............       680
    Cool season legume research (ID, WA)......................       329
    Cranberry/blueberry (MA)..................................       175
    Cranberry/blueberry disease and breeding (NJ).............       220
    Dairy and meat goat research (TX).........................        63
    Dairy farm profitability (PA).............................       285
    Delta rural revitalization (MS)...........................       205
    Designing foods for health (TX)...........................       563
    Diaprepes/root weevil (FL)................................       395
    Drought mitigation (NE)...................................       200
    Ecosystems (AL)...........................................       500
    Efficient irrigation (NM, TX).............................     1,188
    Environmental biotechnology (RI)..........................       190
    Environmental horticulture (FL)...........................       285
    Environmental research (NY)...............................       400
    Environmental risk factors/cancer (NY)....................       227
    Environmentally-safe products (VT)........................       246
    Exotic pest diseases (CA).................................     1,250
    Expanded wheat pasture (OK)...............................       293
    Farm injuries and illnesses (NC)..........................       285
    Feed barley for rangeland cattle (MT).....................       694
    Fish and shellfish technologies (VA)......................       475
    Floriculture (HI).........................................       250
    Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute (IA, MO)...       950
    Food irradiation (IA).....................................       225
    Food Marketing Policy Center (CT).........................       495
    Food processing center (NE)...............................        42
    Food quality (AK).........................................       350
    Food safety (AL)..........................................       521
    Food safety research consortium (NY)......................       285
    Food Systems Research Group (WI)..........................       500
    Forages for advancing livestock production (KY)...........       375
    Forestry (AR).............................................       523
    Fruit and vegetable market analysis (AZ, MO)..............       348
    Generic commodity promotions, research and evaluation (NY)       198
    Global change/ultraviolet radiation.......................     1,434
    Grain sorghum (KS)........................................       106
    Grass seed cropping systems for sustainable agriculture 
      (ID, OR, WA)............................................       423
    Human nutrition (IA)......................................       473
    Human nutrition (LA)......................................       752
    Human nutrition (NY)......................................       622
    Hydroponic tomato production (OH).........................       100
    Illinois-Missouri Alliance for Biotechnology..............     1,242
    Improved dairy management practices (PA)..................       398
    Improved early detection of crop disease (NC).............       198
    Improved fruit practices (MI).............................       445
    Infectious disease research (CO)..........................       300
    Institute for Food Science & Engineering (AR).............     1,250
    Integrated production systems (OK)........................       180
    Intelligent quality sensor for food safety (ND)...........       142
    International arid lands consortium.......................       495
    Iowa Biotechnology Consortium.............................     1,564
    Livestock and dairy policy (NY, TX).......................       570
    Lowbush blueberry research (ME)...........................       260
    Maple research (VT).......................................       119
    Meadowfoam (OR)...........................................       300
    Michigan biotechnology consortium.........................       725
    Midwest Advanced Food Manufacturing Alliance..............       462
    Midwest agricultural products (IA)........................       646
    Milk safety (PA)..........................................       375
    Minor use animal drugs....................................       550
    Molluscan shellfish (OR)..................................       400
    Multi-commodity research (OR).............................       364
    Multi-cropping strategies for aquaculture (HI)............       127
    National beef cattle genetic evaluation consortium (NY)...       285
    National biological impact assessment.....................       254
    Nematode resistance genetic engineering (NM)..............       127
    Nevada arid rangelands initiative (NV)....................       300
    New crop opportunities (AK)...............................       496
    New crop opportunities (KY)...............................       725
    Non-food uses of agricultural products (NE)...............        64
    Nursery, greenhouse, and turf specialities (AL)...........       285
    Oil resources from desert plants (NM).....................       175
    Organic waste utilization (NM)............................       100
    Pasture and forage research (UT)..........................       250
    Peach tree short life (SC)................................       179
    Peanut allergy reduction (AL).............................       500
    Pest control alternatives (SC)............................       117
    Phytophthora root rot (NM)................................       138
    Pierce's disease (CA).....................................     1,900
    Plant, drought, and disease resistance gene cataloging 
      (NM)....................................................       250
    Potato research...........................................     1,450
    Precision agriculture (KY)................................       750
    Preharvest food safety (KS)...............................       212
    Preservation and processing research (OK).................       226
    Produce pricing (AZ)......................................        76
    Protein utilization (IA)..................................       190
    Rangeland ecosystems (NM).................................       300
    Red snapper research (AL).................................       725
    Regional barley gene mapping project......................       588
    Regionalized implications of farm programs (MO, TX).......       294
    Rice Modeling (AR)........................................       296
    Rural Development Centers (PA, IA, ND, MS, OR, LA)........       523
    Rural Policies Research Institute (NE, IA, MO)............       822
    Russian wheat aphid (CO)..................................       250
    Safe vegetable production (GA)............................       285
    Satsuma orange research (AL)..............................       475
    Sclerotina disease research (MN)..........................       238
    Seafood and acquaculture harvesting, processing, and 
      marketing (MS)..........................................       305
    Seafood harvesting, processing, and marketing (AK)........     1,168
    Seafood safety (MA).......................................       278
    Small fruit research (OR, WA, ID).........................       325
    Southwest consortium for plant genetics and water 
      resources...............................................       369
    Soybean cyst nematode (MO)................................       600
    STEEP-water quality in the Pacific Northwest..............       500
    Sustainable agriculture (CA)..............................       393
    Sustainable agriculture (MI)..............................       445
    Sustainable agriculture and natural resources (PA)........       100
    Sustainable agriculture systems (NE)......................        59
    Sustainable beef supply (MT)..............................       744
    Sustainable pest management for dryland wheat (MT)........       462
    Swine waste management (NC)...............................       500
    Technological development of renewable resources (MO).....       285
    Tillage silviculture, waste management (LA)...............       212
    Tomato wilt virus (GA)....................................       250
    Tropical aquaculture (FL).................................       198
    Tropical and subtropical research/T STAR..................     3,862
    Turkey carna virus (IN)...................................       200
    Value-added product development from agricultural 
      resources (MT)..........................................       332
    Value-added products (IL).................................        95
    Vidalia onions (GA).......................................       250
    Viticulture consortium (NY, CA, PA).......................     1,500
    Water conservation (KS)...................................        79
    Weed control (ND).........................................       436
    Wetland plants (LA).......................................       600
    Wheat genetic research (KS)...............................       261
    Wheat sawfly research (MT)................................       332
    Wood utilization (AK, ID, ME, MI, MN, MS, NC, OR, TN).....     5,786
    Wool research (TX, MT, WY)................................       300
                    --------------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________

            Subtotal, Special Grants..........................    85,669
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
  Improved pest control:
    Emerging pests/critical issues............................       200
    Expert IPM decision support system........................       177
    Integrated pest management................................     2,731
    IR-4 minor crop pest management...........................     8,990
    Pest management alternatives..............................     1,623
                    --------------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________

            Subtotal, Improved pest control...................    13,721
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
National Research Initiative (NRI) Competitive Grants.........   106,000
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Animal health and disease (sec. 1433).........................     5,109
Alternative crops.............................................       800
Critical Agricultural Materials Act...........................       640
1994 Institutions research program............................     1,000
Institution challenge grants..................................     4,350
Graduate fellowships grants...................................     3,000
Multicultural scholars program................................     1,000
Hispanic education partnership grants.........................     3,500
Capacity building grants (1890 Institutions)..................     9,500
Payments to the 1994 Institutions.............................     1,552
Alaska Native serving and Native Hawaiian-serving Institutions 
    education grants..........................................     3,000
Secondary agriculture education...............................       800
Sustainable agriculture research and education/SARE...........     9,250
Aquaculture centers (sec. 1475)...............................     4,000
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
  Federal Administration:
    Agriculture development in the American Pacific...........       564
    Agriculture waste utilization (WV)........................       496
    Agriculture water policy (GA).............................       366
    Alternative fuels characterization laboratory (ND)........       259
    Animal waste management (OK)..............................       275
    Biotechnology (MS)........................................       591
    Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (IA)........       428
    Center for innovative food technology (OH)................       761
    Center for North American Studies (TX)....................        87
    Climate change research (FL)..............................       170
    Cotton research (TX)......................................       500
    Data Information system...................................     2,125
    Geographic information system.............................     1,025
    Germplasm development in forage grasses (OH)..............       100
    Livestock marketing information center (CO)...............       185
    Mariculture (NC)..........................................       325
    Mississippi Valley State University.......................       647
    National Center for Peanut Competitiveness (GA)...........       400
    Office of Extramural Programs.............................       449
    Pay costs and FERS........................................     1,100
    Peer panels...............................................       350
    PM-10 air quality study (WA)..............................       436
    Precision agriculture/Geospatial Training and Application 
      Center (AL).............................................       587
    Precision agriculture/Tennessee Valley Research and 
      Extension Center (AL)...................................       147
    Shrimp aquaculture (AZ, HI, MA, MS, SC, TX)...............     4,177
    Sustainable agriculture development (OH)..................       475
    Urban silviculture (NY)...................................       238
    Water quality (IL)........................................       349
    Water quality (ND)........................................       395
    Wetland plants (WV).......................................       142
                    --------------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________

            Subtotal, Federal Administration..................    18,149
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
            Total, Research and Education Activities..........  $506,193


      The conference agreement includes $800,000 for 
alternative crops, of which $600,000 is for canola and $200,000 
is for hesperaloe and other natural products from desert 
plants.
      The conference agreement for Binational Agricultural 
Research and Development (BARD) is included under the 
``Agricultural Research Service, Salaries and Expenses'' 
account, which provides $400,000 as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $400,000 under CSREES Research and Education 
Activities as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement provides $106,000,000 for the 
National Research Initiative (NRI), without specifying the 
breakdown of funds to support the ``high priority research'' 
areas authorized by 7 U.S.C. 450i(b). However, the conferees 
direct that $20,788,000 of this amount, the full request level, 
be made available to support the President's Food Safety 
Initiative. The conferees also encourage a fair distribution of 
resources between research on animal systems and plants.
      The conferees are aware that CSREES intends to fill the 
position of National Program Leader, Agricultural Engineering, 
vacated by retirement. The conferees intend that the primary 
responsibilities of the position should continue to support 
ginning education and technology transfer and be based at a 
USDA ginning laboratory facility to maintain efficiency and 
ensure close communications with stakeholders and researchers.

              Native American Institutions Endowment Fund

      The conference agreement provides $7,100,000 for the 
Native American Institutions Endowment Fund as proposed by both 
the House and the Senate, with technical corrections as 
proposed by the Senate.

                          Extension Activities

      The conference agreement provides $433,429,000 for 
extension activities instead of $431,540,000 as proposed by the 
House and $427,380,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The following table reflects the conference agreement:

Extension Activities

                        [In thousands of dollars]

                                                              Conference
                                                               agreement
Smith-Lever sections 3(b) and (c).......................        $276,548
Smith-Lever section 3(d):
    Farm safety.........................................           4,000
    Food and nutrition education........................          58,695
    Indian reservation agents...........................           2,000
    Pesticide applicator training.......................               0
    Pest management.....................................          10,783
    Rural development centers...........................             908
    Sustainable agriculture.............................           3,800
    Youth at risk.......................................           8,500
    Youth farm safety education and certification.......             500
Renewable Resources Extension Act.......................           3,192
1890 Colleges & Tuskegee University.....................          28,243
1890 facilities grants..................................          12,200
Rural health and safety education.......................           2,628
Extension services at the 1994 institutions.............           3,280
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Subtotal..........................................         415,277
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Federal administration:
    After-school program (CA)...........................             399
    Ag in the Classroom.................................             452
    Beef producers improvement (AR).....................             197
    Botanical garden initiative (IL)....................             238
    Conservation technology transfer (WI)...............             475
    Dairy education (IA)................................             238
    Delta Teachers Academy..............................           3,500
    Diabetes detection, prevention (WA).................             926
    Efficient irrigation (NM/TX)........................           1,900
    Extension specialist (MS)...........................             100
    Family farm beef industry network (OH)..............           1,320
    Food animal residue avoidance database/FARAD........             285
    Food Electronically and Effectively Distributed 
      (FEED) demonstration project (OR).................             167
    Income enhancement demonstration (OH)...............             246
    Integrated cow/calf management (IA).................             285
    National Center for Agriculture Safety (IA).........             195
    Pilot technology transfer (WI)......................             163
    Pilot technology transfer (OK, MS)..................             326
    Potato pest management (WI).........................             190
    Range improvement (NM)..............................             197
    Rural development (AK)..............................             618
    Rural development (NM)..............................             280
    Rural rehabilitation (GA)...........................             246
    Vocational agriculture (OK).........................             276
    Wood biomass as an alternative farm product (NY)....             197
    General administration and pay......................           4,736
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Federal Administration.....................          18,152
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Extension Activities.......................         433,429

      The conference agreement includes $4,000,000 for farm 
safety, of which $2,800,000 is for the AgrAbility project.

                         Integrated Activities

      The conference agreement provides $41,941,000 for 
integrated activities instead of $39,541,000 as proposed by the 
House and $43,365,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The following table reflects the conference agreement:

Integrated Activities Account

                        [In thousands of dollars]

                                                              Conference
                                                               agreement
Integrated Research, Education and Extension Competitive 
    Grants Program:
    Water Quality.......................................         $13,000
    Food Safety.........................................          15,000
    Pesticide Impact Assessment.........................           4,541
    Crops at Risk From FQPA Implementation..............           1,500
    FQPA Risk Mitigation Program for Major Food Crop 
      Systems...........................................           4,900
    Methyl Bromide Transition Program...................           2,500
    Organic Transition Program..........................             500
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Integrated Activities......................          41,941

      The conferees direct the Department to continue funding 
for the Farm*A*Syst program at no less than the fiscal year 
1999 level, and encourage the Department to give consideration 
to $4,000,000 for this program within the funds provided for 
water quality.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

      The conference agreement provides $635,000 for the Office 
of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $618,000 as proposed by the 
House.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

                         Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement provides $530,564,000 for the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) instead of 
$469,985,000 as proposed by the House and $458,149,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement does not include the House bill 
language ``reduced by $15,510.''
      The conference agreement includes language permitting up 
to $1,000,000 for wildlife services methods development pilot 
projects for wildlife predation of livestock.
      The conference agreement includes an additional 
$59,400,000 for boll weevil eradication program as proposed by 
the Senate in Division B.
      The conferees direct the agency not to deduct 
administrative and overhead expenses from the additional 
funding provided for boll weevil eradication. The conferees 
support the producer-governed Boll Weevil Action Committee's 
unanimously approved plan for allocation of the emergency and 
regular funding for eradication zones active as of December 1, 
2000. The conferees understand the plan provides for 
distribution of funds on a pro-rata basis with exceptions to 
address special funding requirements arising from extraordinary 
circumstances in Oklahoma, Mississippi and possibly Tennessee.
      The conferees are concerned about the need for more 
control of rabies. The conferees direct the Secretary of 
Agriculture to issue a declaration of emergency with regard to 
rabies in West Virginia, Ohio, Vermont, New Hampshire, New 
York, Pennsylvania, and Texas, and to provide an additional 
$4,100,000 above the fiscal year 2000 level for control efforts 
by the Animal and Plant Health Service (APHIS), Wildlife 
Services. Of this amount, not less than $1,300,000 is to be 
directed toward cooperative rabies control in West Virginia.
      The following table reflects the conference agreement:

                        [In thousands of dollars]

                                                              Conference
                                                               agreement
Pest and Disease Exclusion:
    Agricultural quarantine inspection..................         $38,970
    User fees...........................................          85,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Subtotal, Agricultural Quarantine Inspection......         123,970
    Cattle ticks........................................           5,276
    Foot-and-mouth disease..............................           3,803
    Import/export.......................................           7,025
    Sanitary/phytosanitary management...................           8,205
    Fruit fly exclusion and detection...................          32,610
    Screwworm...........................................          30,375
    Tropical bont tick..................................             407
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Pest and Disease Exclusion.................         211,671
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Plant and Animal Health Monitoring:
    Animal health monitoring and surveillance...........          68,653
    Animal and plant health regulatory enforcement......           6,263
    Emergency Management System.........................           2,997
    Pest detection......................................           6,729
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Plant and Animal Health Monitoring.........          84,642
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Pest and Disease Management Programs:
    Aquaculture.........................................             920
    Biocontrol..........................................           8,318
    Boll weevil.........................................          79,157
    Brucellosis eradication.............................           9,943
    Emerging plant pests................................           3,533
    Golden nematode.....................................             580
    Gypsy moth..........................................           4,417
    Imported fire ant...................................           2,100
    Noxious weeds.......................................           1,124
    Pink bollworm.......................................           1,548
    Pseudorabies........................................           4,039
    Scrapie eradication.................................           3,024
    Tuberculosis........................................           5,474
    Wildlife services operations........................          36,781
    Witchweed...........................................           1,506
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Pest and Disease Management................         162,464
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Animal Care:
    Animal welfare......................................          12,167
    Horse protection....................................             398
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Animal Care................................          12,565
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Scientific and Technical Services:
    Biotechnology/environmental protection..............          10,021
    Integrated systems acquisition project..............           1,000
    Plant methods development laboratories..............           4,806
    Veterinary biologics................................          10,751
    Veterinary diagnostics..............................          17,514
    Wildlife Services methods development...............          11,025
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Scientific and Technical Services..........          55,117
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Contingency fund........................................           4,105
Invasive species........................................               0
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Contingency Fund and Invasive Species......           4,105
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Salaries and Expenses......................         530,564

      The conference agreement provides $625,000 for a 
cooperative agreement with Georgia Wildlife Services and the 
University of Georgia to conduct research on and control of 
game bird predation in Georgia.
      The conference agreement provides an increase of 
$1,000,000 above the fiscal year 2000 level for predator 
control programs for livestock operators in Montana, Idaho and 
Wyoming.
      The conference agreement provides $50,000 to begin 
studies in order to better understand the effect of American 
white pelicans and their associated ecology on the aquaculture 
industry in the Mid-south.
      The conferees are aware that the General Accounting 
Office has been asked to provide an analysis of the likely 
impact of an extension of the Andean Trade Preferences Act on 
imports of Peruvian asparagus within six months of the date of 
enactment of this Act. The conferees support this request and 
note the importance of completion of the study by the date 
requested.
      The conferees urge the use of the VAC-TRAC Verification 
System (VTVS) through Artificial Intelligence networking in the 
establishment of the permanent animal identification system in 
the United States. The VTVS will possibly help enforce APHIS' 
port of entry agricultural quarantine program and assure the 
safety and efficacy of veterinary biological and agricultural 
biotechnology products overseen by APHIS.
      The conference agreement includes an increase of 
$1,000,000 above the fiscal year 2000 level for aviation 
operations and safety.
      The conference agreement includes an increase of 
$2,000,000 above the fiscal year 2000 level for the shared 
responsibility with the states to conduct surveys, compliance 
monitoring, and enforcement responsibilities affiliated with 
the fire ant quarantine of nursery and greenhouse plants 
including control, management and eradication of the imported 
fire ant in New Mexico.
      The conference agreement provides $500,000 for research 
and evaluation of nicarbazin as a means of controlling goose 
and other avian populations and to increase airport safety.
      The conference agreement does not adopt House report 
language regarding apportionment of funds by the Office of 
Management and Budget. The conferees direct the Department to 
notify the Committees on Appropriations when funds are released 
from the Commodity Credit Corporation for APHIS programs.
      The conference agreement provides $920,000 for 
aquaculture including an increase of $191,000 above the fiscal 
year 2000 level to continue the telemetry studies on 
depredating species of wildlife in the Southeast and to pay for 
cost increases. The conference agreement also includes $100,000 
to support a wildlife biologist at the Northwest Florida 
Aquaculture Farm in Blountstown, FL.
      The conference agreement provides an increase of $124,000 
for the National Poultry Improvement Program.
      The conferees emphasize that they expect the Secretary to 
continue to conduct a wildlife services program consistent with 
the program in place on the date of enactment of this Act. The 
Secretary is expected to take all actions deemed necessary and 
proper to protect agricultural resources, natural resources, 
property, and public health and safety on all lands with 
respect to injurious animals such as predators, rodents, birds, 
reptiles, and amphibians. The conferees also emphasize the 
importance to develop and implement methods that best promote 
and further utilize non-lethal means of control in order to 
sustain diversity of and reduce harm to native species, and 
realize savings and efficiencies among public agencies and 
those seeking agency assistance. The conferees expect the 
Secretary to continue cooperating with all parties interested 
in agency activities and to conduct such investigations, 
experiments, and tests as he may deem necessary and proper to 
determine, demonstrate, and promulgate the best methods of 
eliminating the threats posed by injurious animals in the most 
efficient and humane manner practicable. The conferees further 
expect the General Accounting Office to provide a report to the 
Appropriations Committees of the House and the Senate by 
November 30, 2001 on actions taken or planned by Wildlife 
Services to reduce the threats posed by injurious animals; the 
nature, severity, and harm resulting from such threats; 
specific costs and benefits of agency operations; and 
opportunities for developing effective non-lethal methods of 
control as evidenced by evaluations of actual agency activities 
on farms and ranches representative of client appeals for 
assistance and results.
      The conference agreement provides an increase of $50,000 
above the fiscal year 2000 level for a cooperative agreement 
with Murray State University, Breathitt Veterinary Center, 
Hopkinsville, KY to determine the impact on animal health from 
common agricultural chemical usage.
      The conference agreement provides an increase of 
$2,370,000 above the fiscal year 2000 level for the emergency 
management systems program so the agency can respond to crises 
that threaten the economic health of the animal industry.
      The conferees direct the agency to evaluate its authority 
and its resources for sufficiency to promote the safety of 
companion animals transported on commercial airlines. This 
study should include recommendations regarding any authority 
needed by the agency to improve animal safety on all commercial 
airlines.

                        Buildings and Facilities

      The conference agreement provides $9,870,000 for Animal 
and Plant Health Inspection Service Buildings and Facilities as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $5,200,000 as proposed by the 
House.

                     Agricultural Marketing Service

                           Marketing Services

      The conference agreement provides $65,335,000 for the 
Agricultural Marketing Service instead of $56,326,000 as 
proposed by the House and $64,696,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The conference agreement provides that $639,000 shall 
be transferred for the National Organic Standards program only 
after promulgation of a final rule as proposed by the House. 
The total amount recommended includes: $5,900,000 for the 
Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 1999 as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $3,000,000 as proposed by the House; 
$6,235,000 for the Microbiological Data program as proposed by 
the Senate; an increase of $1,106,000 for the Pesticide Data 
program as proposed by the House instead of $1,137,000 as 
proposed by the Senate; and an increase of $31,000 for the 
Federal-State Marketing Improvement program as proposed by the 
House.
      The conferees expect that, prior to implementation of the 
recommendations of the USDA Research and Promotion Task Force, 
the Agricultural Marketing Service will conduct a cost and 
benefit analysis of the recommendations of the USDA Research 
and Promotion Task Force, and report to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
on the cost implications to the affected commodity promotion 
boards.
      The conferees place the highest emphasis on ensuring the 
safety of meals delivered through USDA's various feeding 
programs. The conferees direct that USDA will not preclude the 
use of any USDA-approved food safety technology in the 
preparation of food for its meal or nutrition programs.

                   Payments to States and Possessions

      The conference agreement provides $1,350,000 for the 
Payments to States and Possessions program instead of 
$1,500,000 as proposed by the House and $1,200,000 as proposed 
by the Senate.

        Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

                         Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement provides $31,420,000 for the 
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration instead 
of $27,801,000 as proposed by the House and $27,269,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes $600,000 for the 
completion of a biotechnology facility.
      The conferees direct the Secretary of Agriculture to 
conduct a comprehensive study on the issue of captive supply, 
and deliver a report by September 30, 2001. In particular, the 
Secretary is instructed to examine and report on whether or not 
the cattle that are procured pursuant to a captive supply 
arrangement by a packer's non-reporting subsidiary, affiliate 
and owners, officers and employees are being included in the 
percentages as captive supply. The report shall also include 
the reasons why GIPSA's annual ``Packers and Stockyard 
Statistical Report'' frequently reports a captive supply 
percentage much lower than the percentages reported by other 
entities.

             Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety

      The conference agreement provides $460,000 for the Office 
of the Under Secretary for Food Safety as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $446,000 as proposed by the House.

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

      The conference agreement provides $696,704,000 for the 
Food Safety and Inspection Service instead of $673,790,000 as 
proposed by the House and $678,011,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The conference agreement includes $591,258,000 for 
federal food inspection.
      The conference agreement includes $6,000,000 to be used 
to the extent approved by the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget to liquidate obligations incurred in 
previous years that violated the Antideficiency Act. The 
conferees expect the agency to take appropriate action to avoid 
violations of the Antideficiency Act from occurring again.
      The conference agreement does not adopt Senate bill 
language providing that the appropriation shall not be 
available for shell egg surveillance under the Egg Products 
Inspection Act.
      The conferees direct the agency to provide $500,000 to 
the National Research Council for an evaluation, at the 
earliest date practicable, by the National Research Council of 
the role of scientifically determined criteria, including 
microbiological criteria, in the production and regulation of 
meat and poultry products and a report, including 
recommendations to the Secretary, to be prepared by the 
National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for 
Foods, no later that March 1, 2001, regarding microbiological 
performance standards, including the role of such standards as 
a means of assuring meat and poultry product safety, as well as 
such other considerations as the Committee deems appropriate. 
These activities should in no way delay the implementation of 
the HACCP inspection system or other food safety activities.
      The conferees direct the agency to continue to provide 
the Quarterly Report on Budget Execution and Staffing to the 
Committees on Appropriations.
      The conference agreement does not include language under 
this heading which permits FSIS to expend funds appropriated 
for FY 2001 to liquidate overobligations and overexpenditures 
incurred in previous fiscal years as proposed by the House.
      The conferees note that the conference agreement provides 
for all mandatory pay cost increases and the full amount 
requested for the FSIS portion of the Food Safety Initiative.
      The conference agreement includes full funding for 
inspection costs and activities and $2,039,000 for activities 
related to the Codex Alimentarius. The conferees note increased 
responsibilities for the agency regarding participation in the 
Codex Alimentarius. The conference agreement provides for not 
to exceed $50,000 for representational expenses associated with 
Codex activities.
      The conferees direct a report by March 1, 2001 on meat 
and poultry inspection regulations in place prior to 
publication of the Pathogen Reduction HACCP Rule.
      Furthermore, the conferees, in supporting food safety 
regulations based upon the best available science, recognize 
the importance of the National Advisory Committee for 
Microbiological Criteria for Foods' (NACMF) chartered mission 
of providing impartial, scientific advice to Federal agencies 
on food safety matters. The conferees, therefore, direct that 
as part of Department of Health and Human Services and 
Department of Agriculture's ongoing rechartering of the NACMF, 
the Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall: (1) appoint a number of members consistent with 
scientific advisory committees utilized by agencies such as the 
Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency; (2) adhere strictly to applicable Federal 
conflict-of-interest requirements for Federal advisory 
committee membership; (3) report to the Committee on 
Appropriations and Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
Forestry of the U.S. Senate, the Committee on Appropriations 
and Committee on Agriculture in the U.S. House of 
Representatives, and the Secretaries of Agriculture and Health 
and Human Services on any conflicts of interest of NACMF 
members involved in making recommendations to federal agencies, 
whether waived under applicable Federal law or not, and what 
those conflicts are.

    Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
                                Services

      The conference agreement provides $589,000 for the Office 
of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
Services as proposed by the Senate instead of $572,000 as 
proposed by the House.

                          Farm Service Agency

                         Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement provides $828,385,000 for the 
salaries and expenses of the Farm Service Agency (FSA), the 
same as proposed by the House, Senate and President's budget 
request. The conferees are concerned, however, that the budget 
request did not include a funding request sufficient to 
maintain FSA county office employees at the fiscal year 2000 
level. Rural communities and agricultural producers rely 
heavily on the programs administered by the FSA county office 
employees during periods of economic decline. Since the 
economic crisis and FSA workload are not expected to decline in 
the near future, the conferees expect that future funding 
requests will fully support the workload needs of county office 
employees.

                         State Mediation Grants

      The conferees are aware of outstanding issues regarding 
confidentiality of client information and auditing requirements 
necessary to maintain program integrity in the State Mediation 
Program. The conferees strongly encourage the relevant agencies 
to work cooperatively to balance those program interests and 
propose further reauthorization requirements as appropriate.

           Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program Account

      The following table reflects the conference agreement:

Farm Ownership Loans:
    Guaranteed..........................................  ($870,000,000)
    Subsidy.............................................       4,437,000
Farm Operating Loans:
    Direct..............................................   (525,000,000)
    Subsidy.............................................      47,355,000
    Unsubsidized Guaranteed............................. (1,077,839,000)
    Subsidy.............................................      14,770,000
    Subsidized Guaranteed...............................   (369,902,000)
    Subsidy.............................................      30,185,000
Emergency Loans.........................................    (25,000,000)
    Subsidy.............................................       6,133,000
Indian Tribe Land Acquisition Loans.....................     (2,006,000)
    Subsidy.............................................         323,000

      The conferees considered the estimated large carry over 
balances in the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program 
account in determining the fiscal year 2001 funding amounts. 
The estimated carry over balances and the conference agreement 
reflect at a minimum the President's budget request. In the 
case of emergency loans, the total amount available is 
$292,802,000 with a subsidy of $71,825,000, reflecting an 
increase of $142,738,000 and $35,014,000, respectively, over 
the President's request.

                         Risk Management Agency

      The conference agreement provides $65,597,000 for the 
Risk Management Agency (RMA) as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $67,700,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conferees recognize the importance of improved risk 
management tools for dairy farmers and expect the RMA to allow 
the participation of producers in the Dairy Options Pilot 
Program (DOPP) for more than one year. The complexities 
inherent in DOPP require a full understanding of all facets of 
the program rather than a mere introduction to any benefits or 
problems. Accordingly, the Administrator of RMA is directed to 
report to the Appropriations Committees of the House and the 
Senate by January 2001 on agency compliance with this 
directive.

                              CORPORATIONS

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund

                 Reimbursement for Net Realized Losses

      The conference agreement provides such sums as may be 
necessary to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for net 
realized losses as proposed by the Senate instead of a 
limitation of $27,771,007,000 as proposed by the House.

                    TITLE II--CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

  Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment

      The conference agreement provides $711,000 for the Office 
of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment as 
proposed by the Senate instead of no appropriation as proposed 
by the House.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service

                        Conservation Operations

      The conference agreement provides $714,116,000 for 
Conservation Operations as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$676,812,000 as proposed by the House. Included in this amount 
is not less than $9,125,000 for operation and establishment of 
plant materials centers as proposed by the House instead of not 
less than $9,975,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement provides $2,000,000 for the 
Urban Resources Partnership program, the same amount as the 
budget request, of which $1,000,000 is available only after 
promulgation of a final rule for the program.
      The conference agreement includes language that makes 
$204,000 available for the American Heritage Rivers program, 
the same amount as the budget request.
      The conferees recognize the long-term nature of the 
technical assistance work associated with EQIP contracts and 
recommend that the technical assistance component be 
reimbursed, from the Commodity Credit Corporation, for all 
costs associated with new and existing contracts.
      In addition to the items in the House and Senate reports 
that are not changed by the conference agreement, funding is 
included for the following items: fiscal year 2000 funding 
level for the National Water Management Center in Arkansas; 
$290,000 to expand cooperative efforts with Delaware State 
University as proposed by the House instead of $500,000 as 
proposed by the Senate; $5,000,000 for pilot projects for 
technology systems resulting in nutrient reduction in Florida 
and North Carolina instead of $1,600,000 as proposed by the 
House; $525,000 for a cooperative agreement with the Georgia 
Soil and Water Conservation Commission; $750,000 for Hungry 
Canyon/Loess Hills erosion control instead of $900,000 as 
proposed by the Senate; $500,000 above the fiscal year 2000 
funding level for Chesapeake Bay activities instead of 
$1,000,000 as proposed by the Senate; $250,000 for the Squirrel 
Branch drainage project in Mississippi instead of $500,000 as 
proposed by the Senate; $100,000 for a cooperative agreement 
for soil erosion and water quality analysis with Alcorn State 
University; $150,000 for Tallahagga grade stabilization; no 
funds to implement Phase II for watershed work in Walton, New 
York instead of $525,000 as proposed by the House; $300,000 for 
a study to characterize land use change in cooperation with 
Clemson University instead of $350,000 as proposed by the 
Senate; $300,000 for Oregon Garden in Silverton instead of 
$400,000 as proposed by the Senate; $225,000 to test emerging 
alternative technology to reduce phosphorus loading into Lake 
Champlain instead of $300,000 as proposed by the Senate; 
$18,000,000 for the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative as 
proposed by the House instead of $17,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate; $725,000 for the Great Lakes Basin Program instead of 
$700,000 as proposed by the House and $750,000 as proposed by 
the Senate; $1,000,000 above the fiscal year 2000 level for the 
Wildlife Management Institute for developing and transferring 
fish and wildife technology to States and field offices; and an 
increase of $14,060,000 above the fiscal year 2000 funding 
level for AFO/CAFO instead of $8,660,000 above fiscal year 2000 
as proposed by the House.

                     Watershed Surveys and Planning

      The conference agreement provides $10,868,000 for 
Watershed Surveys and Planning as proposed by the House instead 
of $10,705,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference 
agreement includes language providing $136,000 for American 
Heritage Rivers, the same amount as requested in the budget.

               Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations

      The conference agreement provides $99,443,000 as proposed 
by the Senate instead of $83,423,000 as proposed by the House. 
The conference agreement includes $15,000,000 for watersheds 
authorized under the Flood Control Act of 1936 as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $12,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference report includes a provision that earmarks 
$8,000,000 of the funds available for Emergency Watershed 
Protection activities for Mississippi, Wisconsin, New Mexico, 
and Ohio for financial and technical assistance for pilot 
rehabilitation projects.
      The conference agreement includes funds for a study in 
cooperation with the town of Johnston, Rhode Island, on 
floodplain management for the Pocasset River.
      In addition to the items in the House and Senate reports 
that are not changed by the conference agreement, the following 
item is included: funds for financial assistance to implement 
Phase II of a multi-year agreement between the NRCS and the 
Watershed Agricultural Council in Walton, New York including 
funds to monitor perpetual stewardship easements.

                 Resource Conservation and Development

      The conference agreement provides $42,015,000 for 
Resource Conservation and Development instead of $41,708,000 as 
proposed by the House and $36,265,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.

                      Forestry Incentives Program

      The conference agreement provides $6,325,000 for the 
Forestry Incentives Program as proposed by the Senate. The 
House bill provided no funds for this account.

      TITLE III--RURAL ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

          Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development

      The conference agreement provides $605,000 for the Office 
of the Under Secretary for Rural Development as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $588,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conferees expect the Department to give consideration 
to the following requests for assistance from rural development 
programs: rural business enterprise grants to the Lower 
Mississippi Delta Development Center in Memphis, TN, the 
Central Kentucky Growers in Georgetown, KY, the Warren County 
Port Commission in Vicksburg, MS, and the York (PA) Farmers' 
Market; assistance from community facilities grant and loan 
programs for construction of a Filipino community center in 
Waipahu in Honolulu County, HI; assistance from the distance 
learning program to the Memphis Mid-south Telemedicine Network 
Initiative in Tennessee and an outreach program for e-commerce 
and a high school mentoring program at New Mexico State 
University; financial assistance to the Town of Newton, MA for 
upgrades to the sewer system to comply with Clean Water Act 
standards; funding for the Rockland County (NY) Cornell 
Cooperative Extension facility; financial assistance, including 
use of other federal funds to offset USDA loans, for new 
wastewater treatment facilities in Beach City, OH, and 
assistance to deal with the environmental health risk due to 
the quality of water in Browning and East Glacier, MT located 
on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and assistance for a 
sanitary sewers project in Jerusalem Township, Lucas County, 
OH.
      The conferees expect the Department to apply established 
review procedures when considering applications.
      The conferees direct the Department to fund the 
completion of a study by the National Ground Water Association 
that would identify and develop strategies to address economic, 
legal, technological, or public health issues that must be 
addressed prior to developing a publicly financed program to 
assist individual low and moderate income households to secure 
financing for the installation or refurbishing of individually 
owned household water well systems.
      The conferees recognize the urgent need to provide 
adequate medical care for the members of the Mississippi Band 
of Choctaw Indians (the Tribe) and other eligible individuals 
residing in east central Mississippi including Attala, Winston, 
Noxubee, Leake, Neshoba, Kemper, Scott, Newton, Jasper, and 
Jones counties. The Tribe, under the provisions of a Self-
Governance Compact with the Indian Health Service/U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services is the major provider 
of comprehensive health care services to this large community. 
Given the rapid population growth in this community, especially 
young children, the conferees understand there is a critical 
need to update, expand and modernize the Tribe's existing 
medical facilities especially the Choctaw Health Center, the 
Choctaw Residential Center, and the Tribe's ambulatory medical 
and dental care facilities in the outlying rural clinics in Red 
Water, Bogue Chitto, and Conehatta.

                  Rural Community Advancement Program

      The conference agreement provides $762,542,000 for the 
Rural Community Advancement Program (RCAP) instead of 
$775,837,000 as proposed by the House and $759,284,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement does not include Senate language 
that specifies program levels within the total made available 
under the RCAP for assistance to Native Americans. The 
conferees are aware of housing, utility, business opportunity, 
and educational infrastructure needs and direct the Department 
to allocate program benefits in a manner that best serves the 
requirements of this population, but expect that up to 
$4,000,000 shall be available for community facility grants for 
tribal college improvements.
      The conference agreement adopts House language setting 
aside funds provided for Federally Recognized Native American 
Tribes for technical assistance for rural transportation.
      The conference agreement does not adopt House language 
setting aside $2,000,000 for an agritourism program. The 
conferees direct the Department to consider requests for 
agritourism funding and use funds provided under the RCAP to 
assist meritorious projects.
      The conference agreement adopts House language setting 
aside $5,000,000 for hazardous weather early warning systems.
      The conference agreement adopts House language setting 
aside $5,000,000 for rural partnership technical assistance 
grants.
      The conference agreement does not adopt House language 
setting aside $2,000,000 for loans to firms that market and 
process biobased products.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
for up to one percent of funds provided for water and waste 
disposal systems in Alaska for program administration and up to 
one percent to improve interagency coordination.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
$16,125,000 for technical assistance grants.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language setting 
aside $34,704,000 for Rural Utility Services programs under the 
Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones.
      The conferees direct that of the funds provided for 
technical assistance for rural waste systems, $7,300,000 be 
designated for the Rural Community Assistance Program.
      The conference agreement includes language provided in 
title VII to define the use of funds awarded under the Rural 
Community Development Initiative.
      The conferees direct the Department to give priority 
consideration to applications that will assist producers' 
transition from tobacco to alternative crops, and to 
applications that will add value to alternative crops within 
those states most dependent on tobacco production.
      The conferees direct the Department to use RBOG funds for 
the regional development activities of multi-jurisdictional 
planning and development organizations serving general purpose 
units of local government.
      The conferees are aware of and encourage the Department 
to consider applications from the City of Valdez to repair 
avalanche damage to its water and sewer system through the 
Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grants program.
      The following table indicates the distribution of funding 
for the RCAP:

Water/Sewer.............................................    $644,360,000
Community Facilities....................................      53,225,000
Business-Cooperative Development........................      64,957,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................     762,542,000
Earmarks:
    Tech. Assist. (water/sewer).........................      16,215,000
    Circuit Rider.......................................       9,500,000
    Native Americans....................................      24,000,000
    Rural Community Development Initiative..............       6,000,000

                           Rural Development

                         Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement provides $130,371,000 for Rural 
Development Salaries and Expenses as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $120,270,000 as proposed by the House.

                         Rural Housing Service

              Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account

      The conference agreement provides a total subsidy of 
$254,640,000 for activities under the Rural Housing Insurance 
Fund Program Account as proposed by the House instead of 
$285,279,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference 
agreement provides for an estimated loan program level of 
$5,068,649,000 instead of $5,073,497,000 as proposed by the 
House and $4,564,372,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement adopts House language providing 
up to $5,400,000 for a demonstration program in North Carolina 
on the use of modular housing.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
$13,832,000 for empowerment zones and enterprise communities 
designated as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
for a transfer of $409,233,000 to salaries and expenses.
      The following table indicates loan and subsidy levels 
provided in the conference agreement:

Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account:
    Loan authorizations:
        Single family (sec. 502)........................($1,100,000,000)
            Unsubsidized guaranteed..................... (3,700,000,000)
        Housing repair (sec. 504).......................    (32,396,000)
        Rental housing (sec. 515).......................   (114,321,000)
        Multi-family housing guarantees (sec. 538)......   (100,000,000)
        Site loans (sec. 524)...........................     (5,152,000)
        Credit sales of acquired property...............    (11,780,000)
        Self-help housing land development fund.........     (5,000,000)
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
          Total, Loan authorizations.................... (5,068,649,000)
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
    Loan subsidies:
        Single family (sec. 502)........................     176,760,000
            Unsubsidized guaranteed.....................       7,400,000
        Housing repair (sec. 504).......................      11,481,000
        Multi-family housing guarantees (sec. 538)......       1,520,000
        Rental housing (sec. 515).......................      56,326,000
        Site loans (sec. 524)...........................          ------
        Credit sales of acquired property...............         874,000
        Self-help housing land development fund.........         279,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
          Total, Loan subsidies.........................     254,640,000
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
RHIF administration expenses (transfer to RHS)..........     409,233,000
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, Rural Housing Insurance Fund...............   1,343,873,000
        (Loan authorization)............................ (5,068,649,000)

                       Rental Assistance Program

      The conference agreement provides $680,000,000 for the 
Rental Assistance Program as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$655,900,000 as proposed by the House.

                  Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants

      The conference agreement provides $34,000,000 for Mutual 
and Self-Help Housing Grants as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $28,000,000 as proposed by the House.

                    Rural Housing Assistance Grants

      The conference agreement provides $44,000,000 for Rural 
Housing Assistance Grants as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$39,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language setting 
aside $5,000,000 for a housing demonstration program for 
workers in the agriculture, aquaculture and seafood processing 
industries.

                       farm labor program account

      The conference agreement provides $30,000,000 for the 
Farm Labor Program Account as proposed by the House instead of 
$28,750,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement 
provides $15,000,000 for loan subsidies and $15,000,000 for 
grants.
      The conference agreement does not adopt House language 
providing $3,000,000 for grants to migrant and seasonal farm 
workers.

                   Rural Business-Cooperative Service

              Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account

      The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
for a transfer of $3,640,000 to salaries and expenses.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language setting 
aside $2,036,000 for Federally Recognized Native American 
Tribes and $4,072,000 for Mississippi Delta Region counties.
      The conferees direct the Department to give priority 
consideration to applications that will assist producers' 
transition from tobacco to alternative crops and to 
applications that will add value to alternative crops within 
those states most dependent on tobacco production.

                  Rural Cooperative Development Grants

      The conference agreement provides $6,500,000 for Rural 
Cooperative Development Grants as proposed by the House instead 
of $6,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement adopts House language providing 
$2,000,000 for the appropriate technology transfer for rural 
areas program.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
not to exceed $1,500,000 for cooperatives or associations of 
cooperatives, whose primary focus is to provide assistance to 
small, minority producers.
      The conference agreement does not provide for the 
requested transfer of $2,000,000 from salaries and expenses to 
fund cooperative research agreements.

       National Sheep Industry Improvement Center Revolving Fund

      The conference agreement does not provide $5,000,000 for 
the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center Revolving Fund 
as proposed by the House. The Senate bill provided no funds for 
this program. This matter is addressed in title VII.

                        Rural Utilities Service

   Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans Program Account

      The conference agreement provides a total subsidy of 
$40,374,000 for activities under the Rural Electrification and 
Telecommunications Loans Program Account as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $33,270,000 as proposed by the House. The 
conference agreement provides for an estimated loan program 
level of $3,111,500,000 as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$2,040,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
for a transfer of $34,716,000 to salaries and expenses.
      The following table indicates loan and subsidy levels 
provided in the conference agreement:

Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans 
    Program Account:
    Loan authorizations:
        Electric:
            Direct, 5 percent...........................  ($121,500,000)
            Direct, Muni................................   (295,000,000)
            Direct, FFB................................. (1,700,000,000)
            Direct, Treasury rate.......................   (500,000,000)
            Guaranteed..................................
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
              Subtotal.................................. (2,616,500,000)
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
        Telecommunications:
            Direct, (5 percent).........................    (75,000,000)
            Direct, Treasury rate.......................   (300,000,000)
            Direct, FFB.................................   (120,000,000)
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
              Subtotal..................................   (495,000,000)
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
              Total, loan authorizations................ (3,111,500,000)
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
  Loan subsidies:
        Electric:
            Direct, 5 percent...........................      12,101,000
            Direct, Muni................................      20,503,000
            Direct, FFB.................................  (1)
            Direct, Treasury rate.......................  (1)
            Guaranteed..................................
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
              Subtotal..................................      32,604,000
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
        Telecommunications:
            Direct, 5 percent...........................       7,770,000
            Direct, Treasury rate.......................
            Direct, FFB.................................             (1)
                                                                     (1)
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
              Subtotal..................................       7,770,000
                    ========================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
            Total, loan subsidies.......................      40,374,000
RETLP administrative expenses (transfer to RUS).........      34,716,000
Total, Rural Electrification and Telecommunications 
    Loans Program Account...............................      75,090,000
(Loan authorization).................................... (3,111,500,000)

\1\ Negative subsidy rates for fiscal year 2001 are calculated for these 
programs.
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                  Rural Telephone Bank Program Account

      The conference agreement adopts House language including 
audits under ``administrative expenses.''

               Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program

      The conference agreement provides $27,000,000 for the 
Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $19,500,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language setting 
aside $2,000,000 for a pilot program to finance broadband 
transmission and local dial-up service in rural areas as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $1,400,000 as proposed by the 
House.
      The conferees direct the Department to maintain the 
current level of funding for grants to rural entities to 
promote employment of rural residents through teleworking.

                    TITLE IV--DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS

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

      The conference agreement provides $570,000 for the Office 
of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer 
Services as proposed by the Senate instead of $554,000 as 
proposed by the House.
      The conferees want to ensure that farmers participating 
in the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) and the Food 
Stamp Program (FSP) are able to participate through electronic 
benefit transfer (EBT) systems. The conferees note that USDA 
has established the technical feasibility of wireless and other 
innovative EBT systems for farmers markets, rural route 
vendors, and other ``non-traditional'' vendors operating 
without access to standard telephone and electricity service.
      The conferees urge the Department to use funds designated 
for the development of WIC EBT systems to support state 
initiatives to implement wireless and other innovative EBT 
solutions for farmers and farmers markets participating in the 
WIC FMNP and the FSP to enable them to continue participating 
in these programs.
      Nutrition monitoring activities are vital to shaping 
policies for food safety, child nutrition, food assistance, and 
dietary guidance. Integration of these activities must ensure 
that: (1) the quality of the dietary data collected is not 
diminished; (2) survey methods capture statistically valid 
intakes of various population groups, especially at-risk 
groups, and are continually updated to account for changes in 
dietary patterns and new food technologies; (3) the needs of 
the many users of these important data are met; and (4) data 
are made available in a timely manner. The conferees direct the 
USDA, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human 
Services, to prepare and submit a report to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations, by December 31, 2000, that 
describes the process for integrating the National Health and 
Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the Continuing Survey 
of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII). The report should: (1) 
include a timeline and steps to accomplish the goals set forth 
in the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act 
of 1990; (2) be prepared in consultation with representatives 
of user groups (i.e., anti-hunger groups, consumer advocates, 
commodity organizations, food producers, nutrition 
professionals, and public and voluntary health organizations); 
(3) address the strengths and potential weaknesses of merging 
the two surveys and identify how problems will be addressed and 
by whom; (4) identify funding needs and sources; and (5) 
include recommendations for inclusion in reauthorization of the 
National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act.

                       Food and Nutrition Service

                        Child Nutrition Programs

      The conference agreement provides a total of 
$9,541,539,000 for Child Nutrition Programs as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $9,535,039,000 as proposed by the House. 
Included in this amount is an appropriated amount of 
$4,413,960,000, a transfer from section 32 of $5,127,579,000, 
$6,000,000 for the school breakfast demonstration project as 
proposed by the Senate, and $500,000 for a school breakfast 
pilot project.
      The conference agreement provides the following for Child 
Nutrition programs:

Total Obligational Authority

Child Nutrition Programs:
    School lunch program................................  $5,387,523,000
    School breakfast program............................   1,495,684,000
    Child and adult care food program...................   1,807,435,000
    Summer food service program.........................     323,499,000
    Special milk program................................      16,843,000
    State administrative expenses.......................     127,321,000
    Commodity procurement and support...................     360,223,000
    School meals initiative/Team nutrition..............      10,000,000
    School breakfast demonstration project..............       6,000,000
    Coordinated review effort...........................       4,511,000
    Food safety education...............................       2,000,000
    School breakfast pilot project......................         500,000
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      Total.............................................   9,541,539,000

      The conference agreement includes $500,000 for school 
breakfast startup grants in Wisconsin. The conferees are aware 
of an effort initiated and funded by the State of Wisconsin to 
enhance participation in the school breakfast program and the 
Department is directed to make available grants to currently 
non-participating schools in a manner consistent with that 
program.
      The conferees are aware that the Department has recently 
issued a final rule regarding the use of alternate protein 
products in the Child Nutrition Programs. The conferees urge 
the Department to work with interested organizations to ensure 
that fortification, name and labeling requirements are 
sufficient to protect the health, growth, and nutritional well-
being of America's school children. The conferees believe that 
any new requirements for fortification of these protein 
products should be based on the USDA guidelines that set levels 
for nutrient fortification of soy-containing foods used in the 
child nutrition programs. In addition, the conferees encourage 
that any recommended labeling requirements be consistent with 
similar guidelines of other Departmental agencies and the Food 
and Drug Administration.
      The conferees recognize the longstanding, high level of 
expertise in the Food and Nutrition Service in the 
administration of school lunch programs, and encourage the 
Secretary to take advantage of this expertise by utilizing Food 
and Nutrition Service staff in any efforts to help other 
nations establish such programs.

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children 
                                 (WIC)

      The conference agreement provides $4,052,000,000 for the 
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and 
Children (WIC) as proposed by the Senate, instead of 
$4,067,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conference 
agreement provides sufficient funding to support an average of 
at least 7.4 million monthly participants in the WIC program, 
an increase from the projected fiscal year 2000 average monthly 
participation level of 7.2 million.
      The conference agreement provides that the Secretary 
shall obligate $10,000,000 for the farmers' market nutrition 
program within 45 days of enactment of this Act, and that the 
Secretary shall obligate an additional $10,000,000 for this 
program from funds not needed to meet program participation 
requirements.
      The conference agreement does not include a provision 
that allows fiscal year 2000 WIC carryover funds to be 
transferred to other nutrition programs as proposed by the 
House.
      The conference agreement includes a provision that WIC 
funds shall be made available for sites participating in the 
WIC program to determine whether a child eligible to 
participate has received an appropriate blood lead screening 
test upon the enrollment of the child in the WIC program as 
proposed by the Senate.
      It is not the intent of this conference agreement to 
detrimentally affect religious beliefs or practices. Nothing in 
this agreement is intended to preclude a child's participation 
in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, 
Infants, and Children if a parent objects to his or her child 
receiving a lead poisoning screening test because such a test 
would be inconsistent with his or her religious beliefs and 
practices. Accommodation of religious beliefs and practices 
shall have no impact whatsoever on the level of funds made 
available for each site participating in the WIC program.
      The conference agreement directs the USDA to release a 
final rule on WIC delivery systems no later than 90 days after 
enactment of this Act.
      The conferees are aware that the Department is 
considering changes in the food package to the WIC program. One 
of those proposals involves the potential exceptions to the 
current sugar cap for the WIC food package. The sugar cap is an 
issue that has been studied many times, always with the same 
conclusion. The consensus from the studies, nutritionists, 
State WIC directors, sugar commodity associations, and dentists 
is that no exceptions to the sugar cap should be made. 
Accordingly, the conferees direct that the Department make no 
exceptions to the sugar cap. The conferees further direct that 
no USDA funds be used to investigate this issue further.

                           Food Stamp Program

      The conference agreement provides $20,114,293,000 for the 
food stamp program instead of $21,221,293,000 as proposed by 
the Senate and $21,231,993,000 as proposed by the House. 
Included in this amount is $18,613,293,000 for expenses instead 
of $19,720,293,000 as proposed by the Senate and 
$19,730,993,000 as proposed by the House. The recommendation 
makes a downward adjustment of $1,107,000,000, as reflected in 
OMB's Mid-Session Review.
      The conference agreement does not include Senate language 
providing for an additional amount, not to exceed $7,300,000, 
for bison purchases for the Food Distribution Program on Indian 
Reservations (FDPIR). The conferees encourage the Department to 
continue and increase, to the extent practicable, purchases of 
bison for FDPIR and to use every opportunity to acquire 
purchases from Native American producer and cooperative 
organizations. The Department should also review program 
infrastructure needs, including refrigeration, and use program 
funds, as necessary, to meet existing requirements.
      The conferees recognize the severe health problems facing 
Native Americans, including diabetes and heart disease. The 
conferees expect the Secretary to purchase bison meat for the 
FDPIR to promote health benefits in the Native American 
population.

                      Commodity Assistance Program

      The conference agreement provides $140,300,000 for the 
Commodity Assistance Program as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $138,300,000 as proposed by the House. Included in the 
amount is $45,000,000 for administration of TEFAP, and 
$98,300,000 for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program.
      The conference agreement includes language that provides 
$20,781,000 of this appropriation shall be available for 
administrative expenses of the Commodity Supplemental Food 
Program.
      The conferees are aware of the interest in restoring the 
income eligibility guideline for senior citizens under the 
Commodity Supplemental Food Program to 185% of poverty, the 
same as that used for mothers, infants, and children. The 
Secretary is encouraged to give positive consideration to this 
proposal.

                         Food Donations Program

      The conference agreement provides $151,081,000 for the 
Food Donations Program instead of $161,081,000 as proposed by 
the House and $141,081,000 as proposed by the Senate. Included 
in this amount is $150,000,000 for the Elderly Feeding Program.

                      Food Program Administration

      The conference agreement provides $116,807,000 for Food 
Program Administration as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$116,392,000 as proposed by the House. Included in this amount 
is not less than $4,500,000 to improve integrity in the Food 
Stamp Program and Child Nutrition Program as proposed by the 
Senate instead of not less than $3,000,000 as proposed by the 
House.
      The conference agreement does not include funds for the 
Colonias program. The conferees note that over $300,000,000 is 
estimated to be spent on nutrition education, promotion, and 
information through USDA's feeding programs. The conferees urge 
the Department to target funding from these nutrition 
education, promotion and information programs to the Colonias 
in the southwestern United States.

            TITLE V--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

                      Foreign Agricultural Service

      The conference agreement provides $115,424,000 for the 
Foreign Agricultural Service instead of $113,424,000 as 
proposed by the Senate and $109,186,000 as proposed by the 
House. The conference agreement includes $3,120,000 for 
mandatory pay cost increases and $618,000 for the Foreign 
Agricultural Service attache office in the American Institute 
in Taiwan.
      The conference agreement provides $4,000,000 for the 
Cochran Fellowship Program and encourages the Secretary to 
continue to provide additional support for the program through 
the CCC Emerging Markets Program at the fiscal year 1999 level.
      The conference agreement includes $2,000,000 for the 
Foreign Agricultural Service to administer and oversee 
emergency and other international food assistance. The Service 
is expected to undertake activities in support of monetization 
where there is the highest potential for promoting and 
enhancing economic growth and development in recipient 
countries. Further, the Service is directed to specifically 
expand its presence in Ukraine where there is a strong 
potential for expansion, and Bulgaria, where there is a need 
for more adequate administration and monitoring of USDA 
programs due to the sharp increase in USDA food aid programs in 
the Balkans. The conferees believe these funds will help build 
strong U.S. partnerships with emerging economies and enhance 
exports to develop long-term markets for U.S. agricultural 
inputs and products.
      The conferees direct the Department to provide a 
quarterly report to the Subcommittees on Agriculture of the 
House and Senate Appropriations Committees detailing the volume 
of agricultural imports from and exports to China by commodity.
      The conferees understand that there may be the 
opportunity to resume food assistance to Ukraine in the coming 
year. The Secretary is encouraged to pursue responsible 
opportunities for restoring appropriate levels of assistance 
for this nation, including opportunities for collaborative 
programs involving research, extension, micro-credit, and 
business development opportunities. The Secretary is directed 
to require that any agreement be transparent, subject to 
monitoring, and to report to the Committees all steps taken to 
achieve these requirements before finalizing any agreement.

               Public Law 480 Program and Grant Accounts

                 Public Law 480 Title I Program Account

      The conferees encourage the Department of Agriculture to 
provide concessional financing through the P.L. 480 title I 
program to private entities as authorized in P.L. 104-27, the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996.

        Public Law 480 Title I Ocean Freight Differential Grants

      The conference agreement adopts Senate bill language 
requiring prior notice to the Committees on Appropriations for 
transfers of funds between title I agreements and title I ocean 
freight differential.

                    Public Law 480--Title II Grants

      The conference agreement provides $837,000,000 for Public 
Law 480 title II as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$770,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement does not adopt House bill 
language providing for transfer of up to 15 percent of title II 
funds to title III. The conferees note that this provision 
exists in current law.
      The conference agreement does not adopt House bill 
language providing $1,850,000 for use by the United States 
Agency for International Development for administrative 
expenses to carry out title II.
      The conferees are aware that loss of commodities under 
the Public Law 480 food program often occurs as a result of 
package breakage. The conferees urge the Secretary to evaluate 
this problem, explore using alternative containers, and to meet 
regularly with members of private voluntary organizations, the 
industry, shippers, and millers, to continue to improve the 
quality of food aid, in terms of its packaging, nutritional 
content, and other quality aspects.
      The following table reflects the conference agreement for 
Public Law 480 program accounts:

Public Law 480 Program and Grant Accounts:
        Title I--Credit Sales:
            Program level...............................  ($180,000,000)
            Direct loans................................     159,678,000
            Ocean freight differential..................      20,322,000
        Title II--Commodities for disposition abroad:
            Program level...............................   (837,000,000)
            Appropriation...............................     837,000,000
        Loan subsidies..................................     114,186,000
        Salaries and expenses:
            General Sales Manager (transfer to FAS).....       1,035,000
            Farm Service Agency (transfer to FSA).......         815,000
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              Subtotal..................................       1,850,000
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        Total, Public Law 480:
            Program level............................... (1,017,000,000)
            Appropriation...............................     973,358,000

      TITLE VI--RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                      Food and Drug Administration

                         Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement provides total appropriations, 
including Prescription Drug User Fee Act collections, of 
$1,217,797,000 for the salaries and expenses of the Food and 
Drug Administration, instead of $1,240,178,000 as proposed by 
the House and $1,216,796,000 as proposed by the Senate, and 
provides specific amounts by FDA activity as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The conference agreement does not include a rescission of 
$27,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conference agreement 
does not include the subheading ``(Including Rescission)'' as 
proposed by the House.
      The conferees adopt the title VI subheading as proposed 
by the Senate. The House version differed technically.
      The conference agreement does not include a proviso that 
$3,000,000 may be for activities carried out with regard to new 
animal drugs, as proposed by the House. However, the conference 
agreement provides an increase of $3,000,000 for work done 
within the Center for Veterinary Medicine on antimicrobial 
resistance. The Senate had no similar provision.
      The conference agreement does not include a proviso that, 
in addition to amounts provided, $6,000,000 shall be made 
available for food safety activities, as proposed by the 
Senate. The conference agreement provides the full increase 
requested for the Food Safety Initiative, $30,000,000, as 
proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement provides that fees derived from 
applications received during fiscal year 2001 shall be subject 
to the fiscal year 2001 limitation as proposed by the Senate. 
The House had no similar provision.
      The conference agreement provides the full funding 
increases from the fiscal year 2000 levels requested in the 
President's fiscal year 2001 budget for the following 
activities: $30,000,000 for food safety initiatives; 
$22,879,000 for premarket review; and $4,783,000 for payments 
to the General Services Administration for rent and related 
activities. For other increases requested in the President's 
fiscal year 2001 budget, the conferees provide the following: 
$9,000,000 for inspections; $5,000,000 for enforcement of 
Internet drug sales; $5,000,000 for counter-bioterrorism 
activities; and $6,800,000 for improvements to FDA's current 
system of post-approval surveillance to identify adverse events 
associated with products on the market, subject to existing 
information confidentiality restrictions.
      In addition, the conference agreement provides increases 
from the fiscal year 2000 levels of $1,000,000 for dietary 
supplements and $1,000,000 for orphan product grants, as 
recommended by the Senate; and $1,200,000 for the Office of 
Generic Drugs to reduce generic drug application review and 
approval times.
      Fiscal year 2000 funds appropriated, but no longer 
required, for FDA tobacco activities have been made available 
to cover the $5,000,000 included in the fiscal year 2001 budget 
request for costs associated with the relocation of the Center 
for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition to College Park, MD; 
$21,800,000 included in the fiscal year 2001 budget request for 
one-time contracts and equipment purchases; and $1,500,000, as 
recommended by the House, for information technology upgrades 
for the Office of Generic Drugs. Funding for these one-time 
cost requirements is not included in the fiscal year 2001 level 
provided.
      The conferees direct that FDA provide $1,500,000 from 
sums provided for food safety for a contract with New Mexico 
State University's Physical Science Laboratory to establish an 
agricultural products testing laboratory in Dona Ana County, 
New Mexico. The laboratory will conduct rapid screening 
analyses of fresh fruits and vegetables (imported and domestic) 
for microbiological contamination of products in the Texas, New 
Mexico, Arizona area. The laboratory will augment FDA's 
capabilities and facilitate rapid testing of these perishable 
products. The conference language replaces similar language in 
the House report. The Senate had no similar language.
      The conferees expect FDA to make final the regulations 
regarding labeling of irradiated foods by March 1, 2002, and 
report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on 
the status by November 15, 2000. This agreement changes the 
dates proposed for final regulations by the House of September 
30, 2001, and by the Senate of October 30, 2001.
      The conference agreement does not include House language 
on treatment of biologic drugs versus that of chemically-based 
drugs, as related to orphan drug alternatives. Recognizing that 
the House authorizing committee has recently resumed 
consideration of this issue, the conferees defer to that action 
in lieu of that recommended by the House. The Senate had no 
similar language.
      It has been brought to the conferees' attention that 
makers of electronic facial toning appliances have been 
informed by the FDA that their products may be ``medical 
devices'' under the law. The conferees encourage the FDA to 
consider the companies' claims that products are purely 
cosmetic and not ``intended to affect the structure or any 
function of the body.'' Nothing in this conference report 
language should be taken to diminish or attempt to diminish the 
responsibility under law for the FDA to continue to protect 
American consumers. FDA will report to the Appropriations 
Committees of the House and Senate on their findings.

                        Buildings and Facilities

      The conference agreement provides $31,350,000 for Food 
and Drug Administration Buildings and Facilities as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $11,350,000 as proposed by the House.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

      The conference agreement provides $68,000,000 for the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission instead of $69,000,000 as 
proposed by the House and $67,100,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
not to exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses instead of not to exceed $2,000 as proposed by the 
House.
      The conference agreement does not adopt a House provision 
providing authority to charge reasonable fees to cover the 
costs of Commission-sponsored events and activities. The 
conferees note that this authority exists in permanent law.

                     TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

      House and Senate Section 701.--The conference agreement 
(Section 701) makes funds available for the purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles in fiscal year 2001 as proposed by the 
Senate instead of in the ``current fiscal year'' as proposed by 
the House.
      House and Senate Section 704.--The conference agreement 
includes language (Section 704) that provides that the 
Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobligated balances of 
the USDA to the Working Capital fund for the acquisition of 
plant and capital equipment of primary benefit to USDA with 
prior approval from the agency administrator and the Committees 
on Appropriations.
      House and Senate Section 705.--The conference agreement 
includes language (Section 705) allowing certain funds to 
remain available until expended.
      House Section 709.--The conference agreement does not 
include a provision as proposed by the House making commodities 
available to individuals in cases of hardship. The Secretary of 
Agriculture has this authority.
      House Section 713 and Senate Section 712.--The conference 
agreement includes language (Section 712) that makes funds 
available for the cost of loans for fiscal year 2001 as 
proposed by the Senate instead of ``in the current fiscal 
year'' as proposed by the House.
      House Section 714.--The conference agreement does not 
include a provision that sums as may be necessary for current 
fiscal year pay raises shall be absorbed within levels 
appropriated by this Act as proposed by the House.
      House Section 716 and Senate Section 714.--The conference 
agreement includes permanent language (Section 714) allowing 
the use of cooperative agreements.
      House Section 718 and Senate Section 716.--The conference 
agreement includes language (Section 716) that provides 
$1,800,000 for expenses for advisory committees as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $1,500,000 as proposed by the House.
      House Section 723 and Senate Section 721.--The conference 
agreement includes language (Section 721) that provides for 
reprogramming procedures in fiscal year 2001.
      House Section 724 and Senate Section 722.--The conference 
agreement includes language (Section 722) regarding limitations 
on the Fund for Rural America.
      House Section 726.--The conference agreement does not 
contain a limitation on AMTA contract payments for wild rice as 
proposed by the House. Public Law 106-78 made this provision 
permanent.
      House Section 727 and Senate Section 724.--The conference 
agreement includes language (Section 724) regarding limitations 
on the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems.
      House Section 728 and Senate Section 725.--The conference 
agreement makes permanent a provision (Section 725) regarding 
participation by farmer-owned cooperatives in commodity 
purchase programs.
      Senate Section 727.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 727) that prohibits the use of funds to close 
or relocate certain FDA offices in St. Louis, Missouri.
      Senate Section 728.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 728) prohibiting the use of funds to reduce 
staff levels at certain FDA offices in Detroit, Michigan.
      House Section 730 and Senate Section 729.--The conference 
agreement includes language (Section 729) to permanently (1) 
allow the Agricultural Marketing Service to utilize advertising 
in conducting consumer education activities, and (2) prohibit 
the use of funds to carry out certain activities unless the 
Secretary of Agriculture inspects and certifies agricultural 
processing equipment and imposes a fee for those activities.
      House Section 731 and Senate Section 730.--The conference 
agreement includes language (Section 730) regarding budget 
submission requirements related to user fees proposals prior to 
the date of conference for the fiscal year 2002 appropriations 
Act.
      House Section 732 and Senate Section 731.--The conference 
agreement includes language (Section 731) that none of the 
funds appropriated by this Act shall be used to establish an 
Office of Community Food Security or any similar office within 
the USDA without prior approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House and the Senate.
      House Section 734.--The conference agreement (Section 
733) prohibits the use of funds for certain activities 
implementing the Kyoto Protocol.
      Senate Section 733.--The conference agreement (Section 
734) prohibits the use of funds to transfer or convey federal 
lands and facilities at Fort Reno, OK, without the specific 
authorization of Congress.
      Senate Section 734.--The conference agreement (Section 
735) prohibits the use of funds for the implementation of a 
Support Services Bureau or similar organization.
      House Section 735.--The conference agreement does not 
include language regarding karnal bunt.
      Senate Section 735.--The conference agreement (Section 
736) contains a provision that raises income eligibility levels 
for rural development programs.
      House Section 736.--The conference agreement (Section 
737) makes Lloyd, New York, and Thompson, New York, eligible 
for certain loans and grants.
      Senate Section 736.--The conference agreement (Section 
738) contains a permanent provision that disallows the sale or 
disposal of housing purchased in a foreign country for the 
agricultural attache, without the approval of the FAS.
      House Section 737.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 739) making permanent a provision that the 
fee collected by the Secretary of Agriculture for a guaranteed 
loan may be in an amount equal to not more than 2 percent of 
the principal obligation of the loan.
      House Section 738 and Senate Section 737.--The conference 
agreement includes language (Section 740) that allows the 
Secretary to use funds to employ individuals to perform 
services outside the U.S. as determined to be necessary to 
carry out programs and activities abroad through the use of 
Personal Service Agreements.
      Senate Section 738.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 741) that prohibits the use of funds to close 
or relocate a state rural development office until/unless cost 
effectiveness and enhanced program delivery has been 
determined.
      House Section 739.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 742) that extends the dairy price support 
program and delays the dairy recourse loan program.
      Senate Section 739.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 743) that directs that not more than 
$25,000,000 worth of commodities made available under the 
section 416(b) program shall be made available to foreign 
countries to assist in mitigating the effects of HIV/AIDS.
      House Section 740.--The conference agreement (Section 
744) provides $2,000,000 for hunger fellowships.
      Senate Section 740.--The conference agreement (Section 
745) includes the ``Medicine Equity and Drug Safety Act of 
2000'' and the ``Prescription Drug Import Fairness Act of 
2000'' (Section 746).
      House Section 741.--The conference agreement provides 
language (Section 747) regarding loans in Arkansas.
      Senate Section 741.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 748) that amends the Organic Act of 1990 to 
allow sulfites in the production of wine.
      House Section 742.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 749) regarding the Friends of the National 
Arboretum.
      Senate Section 742.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 750) that prohibits the use of funds to 
discontinue use of FINPACK in the Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
offices for six months from the date of enactment. The 
conferees expect the FSA to provide for a smooth and orderly 
transition to a common computing environment in USDA field 
service centers. The transition should provide the capability 
of FSA computer programs to interface with any commercial off-
the-shelf software, including FINPACK, that may be used by 
clients or lending institutions.
      House Section 743.--The conference agreement does not 
include language regarding compensation for the value of lost 
production due to citrus canker.
      Senate Section 743.--The conference agreement (Section 
751) makes permanent a provision that any borrower whose income 
does not exceed 115 percent of the median family income of the 
U.S. shall be eligible for section 502 housing.
      House Section 744.--The conference agreement does not 
include language regarding alternative protein products.
      Senate Section 744.--The conference agreement does not 
include Sense of the Senate language regarding victims of 
domestic violence. However, the conferees do agree that to the 
extent practicable, USDA's Rural Housing Service should work 
with other public agencies and organizations to provide 
transitional housing for individuals and families who are 
homeless as a result of domestic violence.
      House Section 745.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 752) that makes ratites and squab slaughtered 
for human consumption subject to the Poultry Products 
Inspection Act.
      Senate Section 745.--The conference agreement does not 
include language that prohibits the use of funds to change 
natural cheese standards. The conferees are aware of 
technological changes relating to cheese processing and the 
potential economic and structural changes that might result 
within the dairy industry. The conferees are also aware of a 
request recently submitted to the General Accounting Office for 
a report on this subject and concur that such a request is 
consistent with that part of Senate Section 745 which requires 
a study on this subject.
      House Section 746.--The conference agreement does not 
include language regarding previously appropriated funds to 
compensate nursery stock producers for losses caused by 
Hurricane Irene.
      Senate Section 746.--The conference agreement does not 
include language regarding the import of Argentine citrus.
      House Section 747.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 753) providing guidance for developing the 
prevention standards for Salmonella Enteritidis.
      The conferees share the commitment to egg safety 
evidenced by the Action Plan to Eliminate Salmonella 
Enteritidis Illnesses Due to Eggs published on December 10, 
1999. The conferees support FDA's current thinking paper on 
national standards for egg safety dated July 31, 2000. In 
preparing the regulations to implement the plan, the conferees 
expect the government agencies to: (1) coordinate federal and 
state programs to efficiently and effectively implement the 
standards; (2) consider egg labeling which is consistent with 
the existing safe handling instructions associated with meat 
and poultry; (3) consider effective administrative and 
management practices to ensure consistent nationwide 
enforcement and implementation of the standards, including (a) 
cleaning and disinfection, (b) rodent and pest elimination, (c) 
proper egg washing, (d) biosecurity, (e) refrigeration, (f) 
testing and verification, and (g) vaccination; (4) consider the 
appropriate utilization of existing federal, state, or local 
government agencies currently charged with poultry or egg 
safety responsibilities (including such aspects of grading as 
are related to egg safety), in implementing the regulations; 
(5) conduct traceback procedures in a consistent manner and 
make such procedures accessible to the public, and employ 
appropriate inspectional and testing protocols to determine the 
source of contamination; and (6) consider, as appropriate, the 
provisions of existing national and state quality assurance 
programs in establishing regulations that are practical, 
achievable and cost-effective in accordance with the risk posed 
to U.S. consumers.
      Senate Section 747.--The conference agreement does not 
include language regarding the Dairy Export Incentive Program. 
The conferees are concerned that awards for U.S. dairy products 
under the Dairy Export Incentive Program have not been shipped 
and the Department has been reluctant to reallocate these 
amounts for other awards. The conferees direct the Secretary to 
provide information to the Committees no later than November 1, 
2000, relating to a justification for this reluctance, 
including supporting documentation.
      House Section 748.--The conference agreement does not 
include language regarding loans to poultry farmers.
      Senate Section 748.--The conference agreement does not 
include language that reauthorizes State agricultural mediation 
programs through 2005. The conference agreement provides annual 
funding for the program in the appropriate section of the bill.
      House Section 749.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 754) extending the time to compensate cotton 
producers/ginners/others in Georgia.
      Senate Section 749.--The conference agreement includes 
language (Section 755) that adds a section to the Food Security 
Act of 1985 to make provisions for Good Faith Reliance when the 
owner/operator is attempting to comply with terms of the 
contract and enrollment requirements.
      House Section 750.--The conference agreement does not 
include language providing emergency funds for market/quality 
loss payments for apples and potatoes.
      Senate Section 750.--The conference agreement does not 
include language regarding data collected on imported herbs. 
The conferees do expect the Secretary of Agriculture to 
cooperate with the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a 
framework within which the publication of data regarding herb 
imports (including through electronic media) may be made 
available to the public on a monthly basis.
      House Section 751.--The conference agreement does not 
include language exempting oyster fishermen from repaying 
emergency payments issued erroneously in the State of 
Connecticut.
      House Section 752.--The conference agreement does not 
include language urging the Secretary of Agriculture to use 
alternative fuels in meeting the fuel needs of the USDA. This 
matter is addressed under the Office of the Secretary.
      House Section 753.--The conference agreement does not 
include language regarding reimportation of prescription drugs. 
This matter is addressed under Sections 745 and 746.
      House Section 754.--The conference agreement does not 
include language regarding reimportation of prescription drugs. 
This matter is addressed under Sections 745 and 746.
      Section 756.--The conference agreement includes language 
that amends Section 375(e)(6)(B) of the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act.
      Section 757.--The conference agreement includes language 
that allows the USDA to retain refunds and rebates from credit 
card services.
      Section 758.--The conference agreement includes a 
technical correction to the Act of August 19, 1958, to permit 
section 416(b) food aid programs to operate more efficiently.
      Section 759.--The conference agreement includes language 
that allows Sea Island Health Clinic on Johns Island, South 
Carolina, to remain eligible for Rural Development community 
facilities programs.
      Section 760.--The conference agreement includes language 
making certain areas of Dade County, Florida, eligible for 
business and industry loans.
      Section 761.--The conference agreement includes language 
designating the City of Kewanee and the City of Jacksonville, 
Illinois, as meeting the requirements of a rural area contained 
in section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 permanently.
      Section 762.--The conference agreement includes language 
directing the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service to settle claims associated with the Chuquatonchee 
Watershed Project in Mississippi from existing funds.
      Section 763.--The conference agreement includes language 
making the Konocti Water District, California, eligible for 
grants and loans administered by the Rural Utilities Service 
during fiscal year 2001.
      Section 764.--The conference agreement includes language 
designating Jefferson County, Kentucky, as a rural area for 
purposes of the business and industry direct and guaranteed 
loan program during fiscal year 2001.
      Section 765.--The conference agreement includes language 
authorizing the conveyance of a small parcel of land associated 
with the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center within the 
Sunnyside Subdivision of Prince George's County, Maryland.
      Section 766.--The conference agreement designates up to 
$500,000 of the funds provided to carry out section 211(a) of 
the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to be used solely 
for the State of California.
      Section 767.--The conference agreement provides for a 
wildlife services program for injurious animal species.
      Section 768.--The conference agreement amends section 412 
(d) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
1954 for dairy value products.
      Section 769.--The conference agreement makes the City of 
Coachella, California, eligible for grants and loans 
administered by the Rural Development mission areas of USDA for 
fiscal year 2001.
      Section 770.--The conference agreement designates the 
City of Vicksburg, Mississippi, as meeting the requirements of 
a rural area in section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949.
      Section 771.--The conference agreement provides language 
instructing the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service to 
use the authorities of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to 
finance the acquisition of electricity in predominantly rural 
areas.
      Section 772.--The conference agreement includes language 
(Section 772) prohibiting the use of funds to promulgate a 
final rule to change the definition of ``animal'' pursuant to 
the Animal Welfare Act.
      Section 773.--The conference agreement includes language 
(Section 773) adding ``Indian tribes'' to the Consolidated 
Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961.
      Section 774.--The conference agreement includes language 
(Section 774) making technical corrections to P.L. 106-246.
      Section 775.--The conference agreement includes language 
(Section 775) modifying the term ``agricultural commodity'' for 
the purposes of administering Title IX of this Act.
      Section 776.--The conference agreement includes language 
(Section 776) regarding Hamilton Grange.
      Section 777.--The conference agreement includes language 
(Section 777) regarding ``Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort 
Miamis National Historic Site.''

                               TITLE VIII

    Natural Disaster Assistance and Other Emergency Appropriations, 
                       Department of Agriculture

      The conference agreement includes a new title to provide 
emergency assistance for agricultural losses of crop production 
and quality related to natural disasters, conservation needs, 
market-related problems, relief to rural communities across 
America and certain USDA administrative requirements. Emergency 
agricultural assistance was previously included in H.R. 3908, 
as passed by the House of Representatives on March 30, 2000; 
H.R. 4461, as passed by the Senate on July 20, 2000; and Public 
Law 106-246, enacted on July 13, 2000. Items included in H.R. 
3908 and H.R. 4461, not previously resolved in P.L. 106-246, 
were given consideration for inclusion in this conference 
report.
      A number of accounts are included in this conference 
report which respond to the severe wildfires that have occurred 
in many states such as Montana and Idaho. The Emergency 
Conservation Program, Emergency Watershed Program, Livestock 
Assistance Program (including the American Indian Emergency 
Feed Assistance Program), Livestock Indemnity Program, and 
programs within the USDA rural development mission area receive 
funding in the conference report which will assist in the 
response and recovery of these affected lands, farming and 
ranching operations, and rural communities.

                 Office of the Secretary of Agriculture

      Bovine tuberculosis--The conferees expect the Secretary 
to use all existing authority for the implementation of a 
program that will prevent and eradicate bovine tuberculosis in 
Texas, Michigan, and other affected States, to reduce the 
monetary loss associated with bovine tuberculosis affecting 
cattle producers. The conferees recognize the importance of 
this program, and of the complete eradication of bovine 
tuberculosis. The conferees believe the program should include 
payments to producers who suffer livestock losses. The 
conferees direct the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation 
with the affected States, to ensure the program shall be 
administered in such a manner that will reduce the Federal 
financial burden resulting from the payments made to the 
producers.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

                      Common Computing Environment

      The conference agreement provides $19,500,000, to remain 
available until expended, for information technology tools 
needed to develop and implement a common computing environment 
in USDA field office service centers.

                      Departmental Administration

      The conference agreement provides $200,000 for activities 
related to rural business entities.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

      The conference agreement does not include $7,140,000 to 
contain and control Pierce's disease as proposed by the House 
in H.R. 3908. The conferees note that USDA has received 
emergency funds from the Commodity Credit Corporation for 
applied research, eradication, and control of Pierce's Disease.
      The conference agreement addresses funding for boll 
weevil eradication in title I of this Act.

                          Farm Service Agency

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

      The conference agreement includes $50,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, for administrative expenses 
associated with administering provisions of this title.

                     Emergency Conservation Program

      The conference agreement provides $80,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, for natural disasters. The conferees 
intend this funding to address damages incurred on crop lands 
as a result of the summer fires and drought conditions in 
certain regions of the country as well as other natural 
disasters. The conferees further intend for the funding to 
address the replacement of fences destroyed by the fires.
      The conference agreement does not include language to 
allow the Secretary of Agriculture to use unobligated balances 
available in the ECP to repair farm buildings and equipment, as 
proposed by the House in H.R. 3908.

                Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund

      The conference agreement provides an additional 
$13,000,000 to provide premium discounts to purchasers of crop 
insurance reinsured by the Corporation as proposed by the House 
in H.R. 3908 and the Senate.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service

               Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations

      The conference agreement provides an additional 
$110,000,000, to remain available until expended, for watershed 
and flood prevention operations to reduce hazards to life and 
property in watersheds damaged by natural disasters. The 
Natural Resource Conservation Service will provide financial 
and technical assistance to help repair damage to rivers, 
streams, reservoirs, and other waterways including: $3,300,000 
for the Kuhn Bayou Project in Arkansas; $10,000,000 for the 
Chino Dairy Preserve in California; $4,000,000 for the Snake 
River Project in Minnesota; $1,100,000 for DuPage County, 
Illinois; $8,000,000 for emergency dam rehabilitation projects 
in Mississippi, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New Mexico; $4,500,000 for 
Long Park Dam, Utah; $500,000 for floods in Wisconsin; 
$2,000,000 for the Lower James River in South Dakota; and 
$2,000,000 to replace, repair, and improve snow telemetry 
equipment impacted by fire, winds, and fire fighting efforts.

                           Rural Development

      The conferees are aware of the efforts of the Coeur 
d'Alene tribe and private sector investors to operate a 
strawboard plant in Plummer, Idaho, that provides economic 
benefits to the community and achieves an environmentally safe 
method of disposing of blue grass straw. The conferees direct 
the Department to meet with the plant owners and operators to 
determine what assistance can be made available to keep the 
plant in operation.
      The conferees urge the Department to consider forgiveness 
or restructuring for Rural Development loans issued to the 
Green County, Kentucky, Sanitation District No. 1.

                  Rural Community Advancement Program

      The conference agreement includes an additional 
$200,000,000 for the Rural Community Advancement Program, 
instead of $180,000,000 as proposed by the Senate, and 
$43,000,000 as proposed by the House in H.R. 3908.
      The conference agreement includes a provision regarding 
the availability of grants for rural community facilities for 
areas with extreme unemployment and severe economic depression 
as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes a provision regarding 
the availability of funds to provide grants in rural 
communities with extremely high energy costs as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The conference agreement includes a provision regarding 
assistance to areas in the state of North Carolina subject to a 
declaration of a major disaster as a result of Hurricanes 
Floyd, Dennis or Irene.
      The conference agreement provides that of the amount 
appropriated for rural utilities loans and grants, $30,000,000 
may be used only in counties which have received an emergency 
declaration by the President or Secretary of Agriculture after 
January 1, 2000, for applications responding to water shortages 
resulting from a designated emergency, including in the states 
of Texas, Georgia, Montana and Idaho.
      The conference agreement includes an additional 
$50,000,000 for communities facilities loans and grants with a 
requirement that $25,000,000 of the total be directed to assist 
recovery efforts in North Carolina from natural disasters.
      The conferees are aware of an ongoing wastewater 
treatment project in Huey, Illinois. The conferees encourage 
USDA Rural Development to provide adequate funding and 
technical assistance to complete the project.

                        Rural Utilities Service

   Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans Program Account

      The conference agreement does not include any additional 
funding for this account as proposed by the Senate.

                     General Provisions--This Title

      Senate Section 1101 and House Section 3101.--The 
conference agreement includes language (Section 801) that 
provides an additional $35,000,000 for conservation technical 
assistance, to remain available until expended.
      Senate Section 1102.--The conference agreement includes 
language (section 802) that extends the period of eligibility 
for the Livestock Assistance Program.
      Senate Section 1103.--The conference agreement includes 
language (section 803) that conforms the definition of 
``livestock'' for the purposes of administering the Livestock 
Indemnity and Livestock Assistance Programs.
      Senate Section 1104.--This matter is addressed in Section 
805.
      Senate Section 1105.--The conference agreement includes 
language (section 804) that allows the Secretary of Agriculture 
to utilize Commodity Credit Corporation funds to provide 
compensation to growers for losses due to Mexican fruit fly 
quarantines, plum pox virus, Pierce's disease, grasshopper/
Mormon cricket infestations, and watermelon sudden wilt. The 
conferees note that this funding is in addition to the funding 
provided in section 203 of P.L. 106-224.
      Senate Section 1106.--The conference agreement includes 
language (section 805) that provides supplemental payments to 
dairy producers.
      Senate Section 1107.--The conference agreement includes 
language (section 806) that provides $490,000,000 to make and 
administer payments for livestock losses using criteria 
established to carry out the 1999 Livestock Assistance Program.
      The conferees expect that up to $5,000,000 be provided 
under this section to the State of Alabama and that those funds 
shall be used in conjunction with the program administered by 
the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries.
      The conferees expect the Department to provide up to 
$2,000,000 to individuals who raise poultry owned by other 
individuals for income losses sustained before April 30, 2001, 
to the extent that the Secretary finds that such losses are the 
result of Poult Enteritis Mortality Syndrome control programs.
      The amount provided includes up to $300,000 for the 
Montana Department of Agriculture for transportation needs 
associated with emergency hay and feeding.
      The conferees are aware of the extraordinarily bad 
weather during the past year. As a result of cold temperatures 
and record rainfall during the early growing season in New York 
and other parts of the Northeast, the hay crop is substandard 
in both quantity and quality. The conferees expect that the 
Secretary of Agriculture will use a portion of the funds 
available under this section to compensate dairy and livestock 
producers who suffered losses in their hay crop for purchases 
of supplemental feed.
      Senate Section 1108.--The conference agreement includes 
language (section 807) that clarifies nursery crop loss 
eligibility.
      Senate Section 1109.--The conference agreement includes 
language (section 808) that provides authority and technical 
assistance funding to enroll additional acres into the Wetlands 
Reserve Program.
      Senate Section 1110.--The conference agreement includes 
language (section 809) that provides up to $2,400,000 in 
compensation for owners of sheep destroyed pursuant to the 
Secretary of Agriculture's declarations of July 14, 2000, 
instead of $4,000,000 as provided by the Senate.
      Senate Section 1111 and House general provision 3103.--
The conference agreement includes language (section 810) that 
directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use not more than 
$58,000,000 for replacement of citrus trees and for 
compensation for losses as a result of citrus canker, instead 
of $40,000,000 provided by the Senate and House in H.R. 3908.
      Senate Section 1117 and House section 750.--The 
conference agreement includes language (section 811) regarding 
quality and market loss assistance for apples and potatoes.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 812) 
that directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make non-recourse 
marketing assistance loans available to producers of honey.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 813) 
that provides up to $10,000,000 from Commodity Credit 
Corporation funds for livestock indemnity payments to producers 
during calendar year 2000 due to disasters, including fires and 
anthrax.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 814) 
that provides $20,000,000 from Commodity Credit Corporation 
funds for wool and mohair payments to producers for the 2000 
marketing year.
      Senate Sections 1114 and 1115.--The conference agreement 
includes language (section 815) which provides such sums as may 
be necessary to provide assistance to farmers for losses in 
production and quality sustained in 2000 due to natural 
disasters. The conferees expect the Department to administer 
this program within the general guidelines provided for similar 
programs enacted in recent years, with the exception of 
guidelines needed for adverse commodity quality losses.
      In the case of grain and oilseed quality losses, the 
Department is expected to take into consideration market value 
reductions experienced by farmers who may be unable to market 
their production for the end use intended. The conferees are 
aware that farmers of some commodities adversely impacted by 
quality factors have not received compensation commensurate 
with actual value of reduction in the marketplace as a result 
of past Departmental quality loss procedures. Guidelines are 
established in this section that direct the Department to 
calculate the production value reduction of a commodity in an 
area from the value assigned for such commodities as production 
loss under this section. The Department is further instructed 
by the conferees to take every precaution to avoid payment 
levels reached by artificial or manipulated price fluctuations 
and to ensure that payments to producers are not at levels in 
excess of reasonable expectations.
      The conferees have provided a mechanism of determining 
payments that will reduce time of application processing from 
those periods experienced in recent years. Due to ongoing 
problems related to depressed prices and the fact that the 
rural economy has not kept pace with other sectors of the 
national economy, it is expected that payments made available 
under this section will be provided in the most efficient and 
timely manner possible. The conferees note that the separation 
of production loss calculations from an independent calculation 
for quality might result in an eligible threshold of loss not 
being met by separate calculations for the same crop, and that 
the Secretary may wish to consider an adjustment to the 
threshold of loss, in equity, to account for economic losses 
sustained by a combination of both quality and quantity.
      Because cotton is stored identity-preserved and its 
overall quality cannot be improved through blending in 
warehouses, the Secretary, in carrying out the provisions of 
this act providing assistance to cotton producers for losses in 
production (or quantity), quality and other economic losses, 
should ensure that (1) loss thresholds for quantity losses are 
determined in a manner that is similar to that used by the 
Secretary for the 1998 and 1999 crops of cotton; (2) that 
quality losses are compensated in a manner that is appropriate 
for cotton; and (3) that market losses, increased expenses 
(including expenses related to fuel purchases), and other 
factors that detrimentally affect a cotton producer's net 
income are included in determining severe economic losses that 
are to be compensated under subsection (c)(3) of this Act. If 
there is a category of severe economic loss for which the 
Secretary did not establish a threshold for the 1998 and 1999 
crops, no additional threshold should be established and any 
loss that qualifies as a severe economic loss under subsection 
(c)(3) should be compensated.
      With respect to the determination of quality losses for 
the 2000 crop of upland cotton, the Secretary should: (1) 
determine the value of quality losses in a manner that is 
similar to that used in implementing weather related disaster 
losses for the 1998 and 1999 crops and reflected in 7 C.F.R. 
1478.17(g); (2) consider that any bale produced in a county 
that is of a quality that is less than the 5-year county 
average historical quality premium or discount has suffered a 
quality loss; and (3) in determining the value of the crop 
affected by the quality loss that would have applied if the 
crop had suffered a quantity loss, as provided in subsection 
(c)(2) for cotton, compare the value of the cotton affected by 
the quality loss with the value of the cotton if it had not had 
a reduction in quality.
      Finally, in determining whether a cotton producer is 
eligible to receive a payment for a quality loss under this 
section, the Secretary should compare the amount of a quality 
loss payment that the producer would qualify for under 
subsection (c)(2) (notwithstanding the eligibility requirement 
in subsection (d)(3)) to the value of those bales of cotton 
that are affected by quality losses.
      Due to the fact that onion growers have experienced 
weather related disasters three out of the last four years, the 
Secretary of Agriculture is directed to develop a suitable 
onion crop loss disaster program for weather related crop and 
weather related market losses incurred by producers during the 
2000 crop year. Further, the conferees expect the Secretary to 
take into consideration each qualifying producer's pre-1996 
production of onions, based on the 5-year average market price 
for yellow onions when calculating payments under this program.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 816) 
regarding market loss assistance for growers of cranberries. 
The conferees continue to be concerned about the economic 
losses sustained by cranberry growers around the country. 
Prices for fruit paid to growers have declined to historically 
depressed levels due to enormous surpluses caused by record 
harvests. Steps taken thus far by the Secretary towards 
stabilizing prices, including the purchase of agricultural 
products containing cranberry ingredients, have only marginally 
reduced existing surpluses and hold out little hope of 
stabilizing prices. The industry has sought, and the Secretary 
has approved, a marketing order to help reduce the surplus but 
the short-term impact on growers will be negative, unless and 
until prices for the fruit are restored.
      Accordingly, the conferees have included $20,000,000 for 
a market loss assistance payment to cranberry growers. The 
payment is to be calculated on a per pound basis on each 
qualifying producer's 1999 production of cranberries subject to 
a limitation of 1.6 million pounds per separate farm unit as 
reported to the Cranberry Marketing Committee and would be 
subject to such other terms and conditions as may be 
established by the Secretary.
      The conferees also have included language to direct the 
Secretary to use not less than $30,000,000 of additional funds 
available to the Secretary for commodity purchases, including 
amounts permanently appropriated under the Section 32 program 
and additional amounts appropriated for specialty crops 
pursuant to section 261(a)(2) of the Agricultural Risk 
Protection Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-224; 114 Stat. 427), for 
the purchase of cranberry juice concentrate and frozen 
cranberry fruit or their equivalent in removing fruit from 
current surplus.
      In selecting fruit or fruit products for purchase, the 
Secretary shall consult with industry representatives and 
representatives of the recipients of Federal food purchase 
programs to select products which utilize the greatest quantity 
of fruit at the least cost while providing the maximum 
nutritional benefit for food purchase recipients.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 817) 
prohibiting the Secretary of Agriculture from terminating 
contracts established under section 1232(a)(4) of the Food 
Security Act of 1985 for failure to establish vegetative or 
water cover under certain conditions.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 818) 
regarding shared appreciation for loans established under 
section 353(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
Act.
      Senate Section 1112.--The conference agreement includes 
language (section 819), which allows the Secretary to 
contribute Commodity Credit Corporation funds for the 
establishment of a grain dealers' indemnity fund in South 
Carolina, to be available only if such funding is matched by a 
grant from the State.
      Senate Section 1113.--The conference agreement provides 
language (section 820) that amends section 211 of the 
Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to provide technical 
assistance to farmers and ranchers and funding for the Wildlife 
Habitat Incentives Program from funds provided.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 821) 
that reauthorizes the Puerto Rico Food Stamp Block Grant 
through 2002.
      Senate Section 1116.--The conference agreement includes 
language (section 822) regarding payments to the State of 
Hawaii from the Commodity Credit Corporation for transportation 
assistance.
      Senate Section 2101.--The conferees have addressed the 
issue of business and industry loan guarantee eligibility 
elsewhere in the Act.
      Senate Sections 2102, 2103, and 2104.--The conference 
agreement provides (sections 823, 824, 825, 826, 828, 831) that 
Emergency Watershed Program funds shall be available for 
conservation technical and financial assistance for the Long 
Park Dam, UT; Kuhn Bayou, AR; Snake River Watershed Project, 
MN; DuPage County, IL; Camp Lejeune project in NC; and 
Princeville, NC.
      Senate Section 2105 and House section 751.--The 
conference agreement includes language (section 827) that 
allows oyster farmers to keep payments made to them by USDA.
      Senate Section 2107.--The conferees have addressed the 
issue of Sea Island Health Clinic in Johns Island, South 
Carolina eligibility for assistance and funding from the Rural 
Development Community facilities elsewhere in the Act.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 829) 
regarding technical changes to subtitle G, section 262 of P.L. 
106-224, The Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000. The 
technical changes require obligations by a date certain rather 
than ``expended by'' the same date.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 830) 
regarding the use of emergency conservation funds provided 
previously for the Cerro Grande fires.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 832) 
regarding funding transfers for the Agricultural Credit 
Insurance Fund.
      Senate Section 2106 and House section 748.--The 
conference agreement includes language (section 833) regarding 
emergency loans to poultry producers to rebuild chicken houses.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 834) 
providing $10,000,000 for value-added agricultural product 
development grants.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 835) 
providing an additional $10,000,000 for the cost of business 
and industry guaranteed loans.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 836) 
regarding sugar nonrecourse loans.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 837) 
regarding Loan Deficiency Payment limitations for crop year 
2000.
      The conferees note the importance of the role of loan 
deficiency payments in helping offset reductions in net farm 
income. The conferees direct the Secretary of Agriculture to 
take into account county production and prices of feed barley 
and malting barley in establishing county loan rates and loan 
repayment rates.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 838) 
regarding date extension for marketing assistance loans and 
loan deficiency payments for rice.
      The conference agreement includes a provision (section 
839) that allows the Secretary to enter into agreements for the 
purpose of controlling the buildup of natural fuels that 
contribute to the threat of wildfires.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 840) 
regarding publication of regulations for this title.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 841) 
regarding tobacco.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 842) 
regarding administrative offsets. The conferees note that the 
Secretary of Agriculture has in prior years used existing 
authorities to exempt farm payments from administrative offset, 
both within the Department of Agriculture and externally. In 
view of the significant economic hardships faced by farmers and 
ranchers this year, the third straight year of such hardships, 
the conferees urge the Secretary of Agriculture to exempt loan 
deficiency payments and marketing loan gains for year 2000 
crops from internal and external administrative offset.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 843) 
providing $20,000,000 to make payments to producers of 
tomatoes, pears, peaches, and apricots that were unable to 
market their crops because of agriculture cooperative losses in 
the state of California.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 844) 
regarding burley tobacco.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 845) 
regarding marketing assistance loans and deficiency loan 
payment eligibility.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 846) 
regarding food stamp program excess shelter expenses.
      The conference agreement includes language (section 847) 
regarding food stamp program vehicle allowances.

                          Offsets/Rescissions

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

      The conference agreement does not provide language that 
cancels funds in the Office of the Chief Information Officer 
account that were made available for Year 2000 conversion 
purposes.

        TITLE IX--TRADE SANCTIONS REFORM AND EXPORT ENHANCEMENT

      The conference agreement includes the ``Trade Sanctions 
Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000''.

             TITLE X--CONTINUED DUMPING AND SUBSIDY OFFSET

      The conference agreement includes the ``Continued Dumping 
and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000''.

               TITLE XI--CONSERVATION OF FARMABLE WETLAND

      The conference agreement includes language regarding a 
Conservation Reserve Program pilot in the prairie pothole 
region of the United States.

      TITLE XII--HASS AVOCADO PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION

      The conference agreement includes language regarding 
avocado research and promotion program.

                       TITLE XIII--DEBT REDUCTION

      The conference agreement includes language that reduces 
the public debt of the United States.

                   CONFERENCE TOTAL--WITH COMPARISONS

      The total new budget (obligational) authority for the 
fiscal year 2001 recommended by the Committee of Conference, 
with comparisons to the fiscal year 2000 amount, the 2001 
budget estimates, and the House and Senate bills for 2001 
follow:

[In thousands of dollars]

New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2000...     $84,312,546
Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal 
    year 2001...........................................      76,785,597
House bill, fiscal year 2001............................      75,264,494
Senate bill, fiscal year 2001...........................      75,356,809
Conference agreement, fiscal year 2001..................      78,139,809
Conference agreement compared with:
        New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 
          2000..........................................      -6,172,737
        Budget estimates of new (obligational) 
          authority, fiscal year 2001...................      +1,354,212
        House bill, fiscal year 2001....................      +2,875,315
        Senate bill, fiscal year 2001...................      +2,783,000

                                   Joe Skeen,
                                   James T. Walsh,
                                   Jay Dickey,
                                   Jack Kingston,
                                   George R. Nethercutt, Jr.,
                                   Henry Bonilla,
                                   Tom Latham,
                                   Jo Ann Emerson,
                                   C.W. Bill Young,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Thad Cochran,
                                   Arlen Specter,
                                   Christopher S. Bond,
                                   Slade Gorton,
                                   Mitch McConnell,
                                   Conrad Burns,
                                   Ted Stevens,
                                   Herb Kohl,
                                   Tom Harkin,
                                           (except for Cuba and drug 
                                               reimportation),
                                   Byron L. Dorgan,
                                   Dianne Feinstein,
                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.

                                  
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