[Senate Report 106-288]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



                                                       Calendar No. 540
106th Congress                                                   Report
                                 SENATE
 2d Session                                                     106-288

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   AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND 
               RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2001

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                  May 10, 2000.--Ordered to be printed

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          Mr. Cochran, from the Committee on Appropriations, 
                        submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                         [To accompany S. 2536]

    The Committee on Appropriations reports the bill (S. 2536) 
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, 
reports favorably thereon and recommends that the bill do pass.

                               DIVISION A



Total obligational authority, fiscal year 2001

Amount of bill as reported to the Senate................ $75,346,809,000
Amount of 2000 appropriations acts to date..............  75,642,006,000
Amount of estimates, 2001...............................  76,844,597,000
The bill as recommended to the Senate:
    Under the appropriations provided in 2000...........     295,197,000
    Under the estimates for 2001........................   1,497,788,000

\1\ Includes rescissions pursuant to Public Law 106-113 and excludes 
emergency appropriations.


                            C O N T E N T S

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                          Summary of the Bill
                               DIVISION A

                                                                   Page
Overview and summary of the bill.................................     7
Government Performance and Results Act...........................     8

                     TITLE I--AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
                 Production, Processing, and Marketing

Office of the Secretary..........................................    10
Executive operations.............................................    11
Office of the Chief Information Officer..........................    13
Common computing environment.....................................    14
Office of the Chief Financial Officer............................    14
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration.............    15
Agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments.........    15
Hazardous waste management.......................................    16
Departmental administration......................................    17
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations....    18
Office of Communications.........................................    18
Office of the Inspector General..................................    19
Office of the General Counsel....................................    19
Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and 
  Economics......................................................    20
Economic Research Service........................................    20
National Agricultural Statistics Service.........................    21
Agricultural Research Service....................................    22
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service.....    42
Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory 
  Programs.......................................................    53
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.......................    54
Agricultural Marketing Service...................................    62
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration..........    66
Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety....................    67
Food Safety and Inspection Service...............................    67
Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
  Services.......................................................    69
Farm Service Agency..............................................    69
Risk Management Agency...........................................    75

                              Corporations

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation fund..........................    76
Commodity Credit Corporation fund................................    77

                    TITLE II--CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and 
  Environment....................................................    82
Natural Resources Conservation Service...........................    82

      TITLE III--RURAL ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Economic and Community 
  Development....................................................    92
Rural Community Advancement Program..............................    93
Rural Housing Service............................................    98
Rural Business-Cooperative Service...............................   104
Rural Utilities Service..........................................   108

                    TITLE IV--DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS

Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer 
  Services.......................................................   113
Food and Nutrition Service.......................................   113

            TITLE V--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

Foreign Agricultural Service.....................................   127

      TITLE VI--RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

Food and Drug Administration.....................................   135

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

Commodity Futures Trading Commission.............................   142
Farm Credit Administration.......................................   143

                     TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

General provisions...............................................   145
Program, project, and activity...................................   145
Compliance with paragraph 7, rule XVI of the standing rules of 
  the Senate.....................................................   146

                               DIVISION B
                                TITLE I
                               CHAPTER 1

Department of Agriculture:
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service...................   164
    Farm Service Agency..........................................   164
    Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund......................   164
    Rural Community Advancement Program..........................   165
    Rural Housing Service........................................   165
    Rural Utilities Service......................................   165
General provisions--this chapter.................................   166

                               CHAPTER 2

Department of Defense--Civil: Department of the Army: Corps of 
  Engineers--Civil...............................................   167
Independent Agencies: Appalachian Regional Commission............   168

                               CHAPTER 3

Department of the Interior:
    Bureau of Land Management....................................   168
    United States Fish and Wildlife Service......................   169
    National Park Service........................................   170
    United States Geological Survey..............................   170
    Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.........   170
    Bureau of Indian Affairs.....................................   171
Department of Agriculture: Forest Service........................   172

                               CHAPTER 4

Department of Health and Human Services:
    Health Care Financing Administration.........................   172
    Administration for Children and Families.....................   173

                               CHAPTER 5
                           LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
                        CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS
                              JOINT ITEMS

Capitol Police Board.............................................   173
Architect of the Capitol:
    Capitol Buildings and Grounds................................   173
    Capitol Police...............................................   175
General provision--this chapter..................................   175

                               CHAPTER 6

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies: National 
  Transportation Safety Board....................................   176

                               CHAPTER 7

Department of the Treasury:
    Departmental Offices.........................................   176
    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms......................   177
Independent Agencies: General Services Administration............   177

                               CHAPTER 8

Department of Housing and Urban Development: Community Planning 
  and Development................................................   178
Independent Agencies: Federal Emergency Management Agency........   178

                               CHAPTER 9

General provisions--this title...................................   179

                                TITLE II
                SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND OFFSETS
                               CHAPTER 1

Department of Agriculture: Food Safety and Inspection Service       181
General provisions--this chapter.................................   181

                               CHAPTER 2

Department of Justice: Radiation Exposure Compensation...........   181
Department of Commerce:
    Economic Development Administration..........................   182
    Science and Technology:
        National Institute of Standards and Technology...........   182
        National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..........   182
Department of State:
    Administration of Foreign Affairs............................   183
    International Organizations and Conferences..................   183
Related Agency: Small Business Administration....................   184

                               CHAPTER 3

Department of Energy--Energy Programs: Uranium Enrichment 
  Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.......................   184

                               CHAPTER 4

Department of Labor:
    Employment and Training Administration.......................   185
    Mine Safety and Health Administration........................   185
Department of Health and Human Services:
    Administration for Children and Families.....................   185
    Administration on Aging......................................   186
    General Provisions--Department of Health and Human Services..   186
Department of Education..........................................   186
Related Agencies:
    Railroad Retirement Board....................................   187
    Social Security Administration...............................   187
General provisions--this chapter.................................   187

                               CHAPTER 5

Department of Transportation:
    Office of the Secretary......................................   188
    U.S. Coast Guard.............................................   188
    Federal Aviation Administration..............................   189
General provisions--this chapter.................................   190

                               CHAPTER 6

Department of Housing and Urban Development:
    Public and Indian Housing....................................   191
    Housing Programs.............................................   192
    Management and Administration................................   192
    National Aeronautic and Space Administration.................   192
    National Science Foundation..................................   193
General provisions--this chapter.................................   193

                               CHAPTER 7
                                OFFSETS

Department of Agriculture: Office of the Chief Information 
  Officer........................................................   194
Department of Justice:
    General Administration.......................................   194
    United States Parole Commission..............................   195
    Legal Activities.............................................   195
    Federal Bureau of Investigation..............................   195
    Immigration and Naturalization Service.......................   195
    Office of Justice Programs...................................   196
Department of Commerce:
    Science and Technology: National Institute of Standards and 
      Technol- 
      ogy........................................................   196
    Related agencies: Small Business Administration..............   196
Department of Health and Human Services: Departmental Management.   197
Executive Office of the President: Federal Drug Control Programs.   197
Department of Housing and Urban Development: Public and Indian 
  Hous- 
  ing............................................................   197

                               CHAPTER 8

General provisions--this title...................................   197

                               TITLE III

General provisions--this division................................   199

                                TITLE IV

Food and Medicine for the World Act..............................   201
Compliance with paragraph 12, Rule XXVI of the standing rules of 
  the Senate.....................................................   202
Budgetary impact of bill.........................................   225

                           BREAKDOWN BY TITLE

    The amounts of obligational authority for each of the six 
titles are shown in the following table. A detailed tabulation, 
showing comparisons, appears at the end of this report. 
Recommendations for individual appropriation items, projects 
and activities are carried in this report under the appropriate 
item headings.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                         2001 Committee
                                         2000 \1\        recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Title I: Agricultural programs....    $35,436,305,000    $34,506,850,000
Title II: Conservation programs...        804,158,000        867,565,000
Title III: Rural economic and           2,187,507,000      2,502,229,000
 community development programs...
Title IV: Domestic food programs..     35,044,106,000     35,213,590,000
Title V: Foreign assistance and         1,055,669,000      1,090,602,000
 related programs.................
Title VI: Related agencies........      1,112,011,000      1,165,973,000
Title VII: General provisions.....          2,250,000  .................
                                   -------------------------------------
      Total, new budget                75,642,006,000     75,346,809,000
       (obligational) authority...
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\1\ Includes rescissions pursuant to Public Law 106-113 and excludes
  emergency appropriations.


                    OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY OF THE BILL

    The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies appropriations bill 
provides funding for a wide array of Federal programs, mostly 
in the U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA]. These programs 
include agricultural research, education, and extension 
activities; natural resources conservation programs; farm 
income and support programs; marketing and inspection 
activities; domestic food programs; rural economic and 
community development activities and electrification 
assistance; and various export and international activities of 
the USDA.
    The bill also provides funding for the Food and Drug 
Administration [FDA] and the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission [CFTC], and allows the use of collected fees for 
administrative expenses of the Farm Credit Administration 
[FCA].
    Given the budgetary constraints that the Committee faces, 
the bill as reported provides the proper amount of emphasis on 
agricultural and rural development programs and on other 
programs and activities funded by the bill. It is within the 
subcommittee's 302(b) allocation.
    All accounts in the bill have been closely examined to 
ensure that an appropriate level of funding is provided to 
carry out the programs of USDA, FDA, CFTC, and FCA. Details on 
each of the accounts, the funding level, and the Committee's 
justifications behind the funding levels are included in the 
report.
    The Committee also has encouraged the consideration of 
grant and loan applications from various entities. The 
Committee expects the Department only to approve those 
applications judged meritorious when subjected to the 
established review process.

                              Food Safety

    For fiscal year 2001, the Committee recommends 
$377,228,000, an increase of $53,029,000 from the fiscal year 
2000 level, for United States Department of Agriculture and 
Food and Drug Administration activities included in the 
President's Food Safety Initiative. The Food Safety Initiative 
includes those activities identified in the May 1997 report to 
the President entitled: ``Food Safety from Farm-to-Table: A 
National Food Safety Initiative.'' It does not include other 
Federal food safety programs and activities, Federal meat and 
poultry inspection being a notable example. The increases 
recommended by the Committee for the President's Food Safety 
Initiative, by agency, are as follows:
  --$7,372,000 for the Agricultural Marketing Service;
  --$5,720,000 for the Agricultural Research Service;
  --$8,388,000 for the Cooperative State Research, Education, 
        and Extension Service;
  --$7,309,000 for the Food Safety and Inspection Service;
  --$240,000 for the Office of the Chief Economist; and
  --$24,000,000 for the Food and Drug Administration.
    The United States continues to have one of the safest food 
supplies in the world. These additional measures are intended 
to increase the protection of the American public through the 
implementation of science-based food inspection systems and 
other technologies to control and detect food safety hazards, 
additional research, education on food safety procedures and 
safe food handling, enhanced public health surveillance, and a 
faster, more efficient response to incidences of foodborne 
illness.
    Egg safety.--The Committee supports the commitment to egg 
safety evidenced by the Administration's Action Plan to 
Eliminate Salmonella enteritidis Illnesses Due to Eggs, 
published on December 10, 1999. The Committee expects that a 
thorough economic impact analysis of the action plan will be 
completed prior to the issuance of any proposed rule pursuant 
to the plan in order to prevent any undue adverse impact on 
producers.
    In preparing regulations to implement the plan, the 
Committee believes the Administration should consider and 
address the following: (1) combining rules on Salmonella 
enteritidis (SE) testing and Hazard Analysis and Critical 
Control Point-based prerequisite programs for shell egg 
producers in order to expedite the implementation of quality 
assurance programs; (2) providing that any requirements for 
producers or packers of shell eggs to conduct tests for SE will 
contain provisions to defray or reimburse the costs of such 
tests to producers or packers in order to maximize incentives 
for sound and thorough quality assurance; (3) focusing testing 
and diversion requirements on products intended for 
consumption, with diversion requirements contingent upon 
positive results from end product testing; (4) conforming the 
frequency and sequencing of tests to the provisions of existing 
national quality assurance programs for shell eggs; (5) 
including in the rulemaking a ban on the repackaging of eggs 
returned from retail establishments, as well as nationwide 
standards for ``sell-by'' or ``best-by'' dates; (6) modifying 
the egg warning label proposed by FDA on July 6, 1999, to 
ensure that the label is consistent with equivalent labels on 
meat and poultry products, and to take into account additional 
protective measures in the action plan; (7) proposing a program 
to indemnify producers who may be required to divert eggs into 
pasteurization, based on the difference in price received for 
diverted eggs and shell eggs sold in retail markets; and (8) 
providing procedures to assure that any functions assigned to 
State agencies under the action plan will be implemented in a 
consistent manner in all jurisdictions.

                 Government Performance and Results Act

    Public Law 103-62, the Government Performance and Results 
Act [GPRA] of 1993, requires Federal agencies to develop 
succinct and precise strategic plans and annual performance 
plans that focus on results of funding decisions made by the 
Congress. Rather than simply providing details of activity 
levels, agencies will set outcome goals based on program 
activities and establish performance measures for use in 
management and budgeting. In an era of restricted and declining 
resources, it is paramount that agencies focus on the 
difference they make in citizens' lives.
    The Committee supports the concepts of this law and intends 
to use the agencies' plans for funding purposes. The Committee 
considers GPRA to be a viable way to reduce Federal spending 
while achieving a more efficient and effective Government and 
will closely monitor compliance with this law. The Committee is 
fully committed to the success and outcome of GPRA requirements 
as envisioned by the Congress, the administration, and this 
Committee.

                     TITLE I--AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

                 Production, Processing, and Marketing

                        Office of the Secretary

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................     $15,435,000
Budget estimate, 2001 \2\...............................       2,914,000
Committee recommendation................................      27,914,000

\1\ Includes $1,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113, and ``no-
year'' appropriations of $12,600,000 for the Common Computing 
Environment.
\2\ Revised budget request, March 31, 2000 (H. Doc. 106-222).

    The Secretary of Agriculture, assisted by the Deputy 
Secretary, Under Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries, Chief 
Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and members of 
their immediate staffs, directs and coordinates the work of the 
Department. This includes developing policy, maintaining 
relationships with agricultural organizations and others in the 
development of farm programs, and maintaining liaison with the 
Executive Office of the President and Members of Congress on 
all matters pertaining to agricultural policy.
    The general authority of the Secretary to supervise and 
control the work of the Department is contained in the Organic 
Act (7 U.S.C. 2201-2202). The delegation of regulatory 
functions to Department employees and authorization of 
appropriations to carry out these functions is contained in 7 
U.S.C. 450c-450g.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Secretary, the Committee recommends 
an appropriation of $27,914,000. This amount is $12,479,000 
more than the 2000 appropriation and $25,000,000 more than the 
budget request.
    The Committee provides the increase requested in the budget 
for pay costs, along with $25,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, for continued funding of information technology 
investments in support of the Department's Service Center 
Modernization Initiative. The budget proposes to establish a 
new account to fund the Common Computing Environment/Service 
Center Modernization and requests $75,000,000.
    Environmentally preferable products.--The Secretary shall 
work with the General Services Administration, the Department 
of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other 
appropriate agencies to maximize the purchases of 
environmentally preferable products, as defined by Executive 
Order 13101 on Federal Acquisition, Recycling and Waste 
Prevention. Such products are not only useful in improving the 
environment, but they can, when the product contains a 
substantial amount of agri-based content, also open 
considerable markets for farmers.
    The Department should actively participate in joint task 
forces and other multiagency entities in this area. It should 
actively work to properly define standards for agri-based 
content of products and work towards the development of such 
environmentally preferable products.
    Section 416.--The Secretary shall work with representatives 
of the dairy industry and appropriate non-government 
organizations and others to increase the amount of fortified 
dry milk exported under humanitarian assistance programs.
    Food Aid for Orphans and Communities Affected by HIV/
AIDS.--The Committee notes that U.S. food aid could make a 
critical difference in helping African extended families care 
for AIDS orphans. By the end of this year, there will be 13 
million orphans, and in a few years, there will be 40 million 
orphans in Africa. Food aid can be used for direct nutritional 
support or monetized and used in microcredit or other 
development projects to help relatives earn enough money to 
take in their kin. The United States Agency for International 
Development, the World Food Program, and private voluntary 
organizations have seen the potential of food aid and 
microcredit to help with the AIDS pandemic and have begun to 
target programs to communities impacted by AIDS.
    The Committee includes language in the bill that requires 
the Secretary of Agriculture, to the extent practicable, to 
make available $25,000,000 in commodities under Section 416(b) 
of the Agricultural Act of 1949 to assist foreign countries in 
mitigating the effects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired 
Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) on communities in such 
countries. Such assistance includes the provision of 
agricultural commodities (1) to address the nutritional needs 
of individuals in such communities who have HIV/AIDS; (2) for 
households affected by HIV/AIDS; and (3) as part of other aid 
or assistance, including microcredit and microenterprise 
programs, designed to create or restore sustainable livelihood 
strategies in communities affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly 
those caring for orphaned children.
    Conservation reserve program.--The Committee encourages the 
Department to take all necessary administrative actions to 
ensure the availability of no less than 4 million acres for 
partial field conservation buffer enrollments within the 
existing Conservation Reserve Program. Also, the Committee 
encourages the Department to extend stewardship incentive 
payments to contour grass strips and cross wind trap strips, as 
well as any additional conservation practices that may be made 
eligible for the continuous sign-up or conservation reserve 
enhancement programs.

                          Executive Operations

    Executive operations were established as a result of the 
reorganization of the Department to provide a support team for 
USDA policy officials and selected Departmentwide services. 
Activities under the executive operations include the Office of 
the Chief Economist, the National Appeals Division, and the 
Office of Budget and Program Analysis.

                            Chief Economist

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................      $6,408,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................       8,612,000
Committee recommendation................................       7,462,000

\1\ Includes $3,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Office of the Chief Economist advises the Secretary of 
Agriculture on the economic implications of Department policies 
and programs. The Office serves as the single focal point for 
the Nation's economic intelligence and analysis, risk 
assessment, energy and new uses, and cost-benefit analysis 
related to domestic and international food and agriculture 
issues, and is responsible for coordination and review of all 
commodity and aggregate agricultural and food-related data used 
to develop outlook and situation material within the 
Department.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Chief Economist, the Committee 
recommends $7,462,000. This amount is $1,054,000 more than the 
2000 appropriation and $1,150,000 less than the budget request.
    The Committee's recommendation includes the increases 
requested in the budget for pay costs, to continue 
modernization of weather and economic data systems, and to 
enhance the Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit 
Analysis.

                       National Appeals Division

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................     $11,707,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      12,610,000
Committee recommendation................................      12,421,000

\1\ Includes $11,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The National Appeals Division conducts administrative 
hearings and reviews of adverse program decisions made by the 
rural development mission area, the Farm Service Agency, the 
Risk Management Agency, and the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the National Appeals Division, the Committee recommends 
$12,421,000. This amount is $714,000 more than the 2000 
appropriation and $189,000 less than the budget request.
    The Committee's recommendation includes the increase 
requested in the budget for pay costs and $400,000 of the 
increase requested for training.

                 Office of Budget and Program Analysis

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................      $6,581,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................       6,765,000
Committee recommendation................................       6,765,000

\1\ Includes $2,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Office of Budget and Program Analysis provides 
direction and administration of the Department's budgetary 
functions including development, presentation, and execution of 
the budget; reviews program and legislative proposals for 
program, budget, and related implications; analyzes program and 
resource issues and alternatives, and prepares summaries of 
pertinent data to aid the Secretary and departmental policy 
officials and agency program managers in the decisionmaking 
process; provides departmentwide coordination for and 
participation in the presentation of budget-related matters to 
the committees of the Congress, the media, and interested 
public. The Office also provides departmentwide coordination of 
the preparation and processing of regulations and legislative 
programs and reports.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of Budget and Program Analysis, the 
Committee recommends $6,765,000. This amount is $184,000 more 
than the 2000 appropriation and the same as the budget request.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................      $6,046,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      14,680,000
Committee recommendation................................      10,046,000

\1\ Includes $5,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Office of the Chief Information Officer was established 
in August 1996, pursuant to the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996, 
which required the establishment of a Chief Information Officer 
for major Federal agencies. This office provides policy 
guidance, leadership, coordination, and direction to the 
Department's information management and information technology 
investment activities in support of USDA program delivery. The 
Office provides long-range planning guidance, implements 
measures to ensure that technology investments are economical 
and effective, coordinates interagency information resources 
management projects, and implements standards to promote 
information exchange and technical interoperability. In 
addition, the Office of the Chief Information Officer is 
responsible for certain activities financed under the 
Department's working capital fund (7 U.S.C. 2235). The Office 
also provides telecommunication and automated data processing 
[ADP] services to USDA agencies through the National 
Information Technology Center with locations in Fort Collins, 
CO, and Kansas City, MO. Direct ADP operational services are 
also provided to the Office of the General Counsel, Office of 
Communications, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, and 
executive operations.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The Committee recommends $10,046,000 for the Office of the 
Chief Information Officer. This amount is $4,000,000 more than 
the 2000 appropriation and $4,634,000 less than the budget 
request.
    Included in the Committee's recommendation is an additional 
$217,000 for pay cost increases. The Committee is unable to 
provide the full increase proposed for a number of program 
activities, including expansion of USDA's Cyber Security 
Program, strengthening information risk management, 
implementation of an information and telecommunications 
security architecture, and implementation of E-Government and 
E-Commerce initiatives. The remaining increase provided by the 
Committee is to be applied to the highest priority needs for 
which additional funding is requested in the budget.

                      Common Computing Environment

Appropriations, 2000....................................         ( \1\ )
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     $75,000,000
Committee recommendation................................         ( \2\ )

\1\ A ``no-year'' appropriation of $12,600,000 was made available by 
Public Law 106-78 for the Common Computing Environment under the 
``Office of the Secretary'' account.
\2\ Funding included under the ``Office of the Secretary'' account.

    The Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 
requires the Secretary of Agriculture to procure and use 
computer systems in a manner that enhances efficiency, 
productivity, and client services, and that promotes computer 
information sharing among agencies of the Department. The 
Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 requires USDA to maximize the value 
of information technology acquisitions to improve the 
efficiency and effectiveness of USDA programs. Since its 
beginning in 1996, the USDA Service Center Modernization 
initiative has been working to restructure county field 
offices, modernize and integrate business approaches and 
replace the current, aging information systems with a modern 
Common Computing Environment that optimizes information 
sharing, customer service, and staff efficiencies.

                       committee recommendations

    The Committee does not concur with the recommendation in 
the budget to establish a separate account to fund information 
technology investments in support of the Department's Service 
Center Modernization Initiative. The Committee recommends 
funding for these investments under the ``Office of the 
Secretary'' account.

                 Office of the Chief Financial Officer

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................      $4,783,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................       6,465,000
Committee recommendation................................       5,171,000

\1\ Excludes the transfer of $177,000 from Departmental Administration.

    Under the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, the Chief 
Financial Officer is responsible for the continued direction 
and oversight of the Department's financial management 
operations and systems. The Office is also responsible for the 
management and operation of the National Finance Center. In 
addition, the Office provides budget, accounting, and fiscal 
services to the Office of the Secretary, departmental staff 
offices, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Office of 
Communications, and executive operations.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, the 
Committee recommends $5,171,000. This amount is $388,000 more 
than the 2000 appropriation and $1,294,000 less than the budget 
request.
    Included in the Committee's recommendation is an additional 
$177,000, reflecting the transfer in fiscal year 2000 of 
accounting support services to the Office of the Chief 
Financial Officer from Department Administration pursuant to 
the Secretary's reorganization authority, and an increase of 
$211,000 for pay costs.

          Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration

Appropriations, 2000....................................        $613,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................         629,000
Committee recommendation................................         629,000

    The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration 
directs and coordinates the work of the departmental staff in 
carrying out the laws enacted by the Congress relating to real 
and personal property management, personnel management, equal 
opportunity and civil rights programs, ethics, and other 
general administrative functions. In addition, the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Administration is responsible for 
certain activities financed under the Department's working 
capital fund (7 U.S.C. 2235).

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Administration, the Committee recommends $629,000. This amount 
is $16,000 more than the 2000 level and the same as the budget 
request.

        Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................    $140,343,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     182,747,000
Committee recommendation................................     182,747,000

\1\ Includes $21,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    Rental payments.--Annual appropriations are made to finance 
the appropriated portion of the payments to the General 
Services Administration [GSA] for rental of space and for 
related services to all USDA agencies, except the Forest 
Service, which is funded by another appropriations bill.
    The requirement that GSA charge commercial rent rates to 
agencies occupying GSA-controlled space was established by the 
Public Buildings Amendments of 1972. The methods used to 
establish commercial rent rates in GSA space follow commercial 
real estate appraisal practices. Appeal and rate review 
procedures are in place to assure that agencies have an 
opportunity to contest rates they feel are incorrect.
    Building operations and maintenance.--On October 1, 1984, 
the General Services Administration [GSA] delegated the 
operations and maintenance function for the buildings in the 
D.C. complex to the Department. This activity provides 
departmental staff and support services to operate, maintain, 
and repair the buildings in the D.C. complex. GSA expanded the 
delegation to include two additional buildings on October 1, 
1986. One building is the Government-owned warehouse for forms 
in Lanham, MD, and the other is a leased warehouse for the 
excess property operation located at 49 L Street SW, 
Washington, DC. GSA retains responsibility for major 
nonrecurring repairs. In fiscal year 1998, USDA began 
operations and maintenance of the Beltsville office facility.
    Strategic space plan.--The Department's headquarters staff 
is presently housed in a four-building Government-owned complex 
in downtown Washington, DC, and in leased buildings in the 
Metropolitan Washington area. In 1995, USDA initiated a plan to 
improve the delivery of USDA programs to the American people, 
including streamlining the USDA organization. A high-priority 
goal in the Secretary's plan is to improve the operation and 
effectiveness of the USDA headquarters in Washington. To 
implement this goal, a strategy for efficient reallocation of 
space to house the restructured headquarters agencies in modern 
and safe facilities has been proposed. This USDA strategic 
space plan will correct serious problems USDA has faced in its 
facility program, including the inefficiencies of operating out 
of scattered leased facilities and serious safety hazards which 
exist in the Agriculture South Building.
    During fiscal year 1998, the Beltsville Office Facility was 
completed. This facility was constructed with funds 
appropriated to the Department and is located on Government-
owned land in Beltsville, Maryland. Occupancy of the George 
Washington Carver Center in Beltsville was substantially 
completed by 1999. By summer 2000, the Center will be fully 
occupied, housing about 1,200 employees.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For U.S. Department of Agriculture buildings and facilities 
and payments for the rental of space and related services, the 
Committee recommends $182,747,000. This amount is $42,404,000 
more than the 2000 appropriation and the same as the budget 
request.
    The following table reflects the Committee's specific 
recommendations for this account as compared to the fiscal year 
2000 and budget request levels:

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                                                                                 2001 budget        Committee
                                                              2000 estimate        request       recommendation
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Rental Payments...........................................      $115,542,000      $125,542,000      $125,542,000
Building Operations.......................................        24,801,000        31,205,000        31,205,000
Strategic Space Plan......................................  ................        26,000,000        26,000,000
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
    Total.................................................   \1\ 140,343,000       182,747,000       182,747,000
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\1\ Includes $21,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

                     Hazardous Materials Management

Appropriations, 2000....................................     $15,700,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      30,073,000
Committee recommendation................................      15,700,000

    Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act and the Resource Conservation 
and Recovery Act, the Department has the responsibility to meet 
the same standards regarding the storage and disposition of 
hazardous materials as private businesses. The Department is 
required to contain, clean up, monitor, and inspect for 
hazardous materials in areas under the Department's 
jurisdiction.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The Committee recommends $15,700,000 for hazardous 
materials management. This amount is the same as the 2000 
appropriation and $14,373,000 less than the budget request.

                      Departmental Administration

Appropriations, 2000 \1\ \2\............................     $34,708,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      40,740,000
Committee recommendation................................      36,840,000

\1\ Includes $30,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.
\2\ Does not reflect the transfer of $177,000 to Office of the Chief 
Financial Officer.

    Departmental administration is comprised of activities that 
provide staff support to top policy officials and overall 
direction and coordination of administrative functions of the 
Department. These activities include departmentwide programs 
for human resource management, management improvement, 
occupational safety and health management, real and personal 
property management, procurement, contracting, motor vehicle 
and aircraft management, supply management, civil rights and 
equal opportunity, participation of small and disadvantaged 
businesses and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in 
the Department's program activities, emergency preparedness, 
small and disadvantaged business utilization, and the 
regulatory hearing and administrative proceedings conducted by 
the administrative law judges, judicial officer, and Board of 
Contract Appeals.
    Departmental administration is also responsible for 
representing USDA in the development of Governmentwide policies 
and initiatives; and analyzing the impact of Governmentwide 
trends and developing appropriate USDA principles, policies, 
and standards. In addition, departmental administration engages 
in strategic planning and evaluates programs to ensure USDA-
wide compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations 
pertaining to administrative matters for the Secretary and 
general officers of the Department.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For Departmental Administration, the Committee recommends 
an appropriation of $36,840,000. This amount is $2,132,000 more 
than the fiscal year 2000 appropriation and $3,900,000 less 
than the budget estimate.
    The Committee's recommendation includes a reduction of 
$177,000, reflecting the transfer in fiscal year 2000 of 
accounting support services from Departmental Administration to 
the Office of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to the 
Secretary's reorganization authority, and the increases 
requested in the budget for pay costs, acquisition of biobased 
products, and alternative dispute resolution.

              outreach for socially disadvantaged farmers

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................      $3,000,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      10,000,000
Committee recommendation................................       3,000,000

\1\ Does not include an additional $5,200,000 allocated from the fiscal 
year 1999 funds available for fiscal year 2000 for the Fund for Rural 
America.

    This program is authorized under section 2501 of title XXV 
of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990. 
Grants are made to eligible community-based organizations with 
demonstrated experience in providing education on other 
agriculturally-related services to socially disadvantaged 
farmers and ranchers in their area of influence. Also eligible 
are the 1890 land-grant colleges, Tuskegee University, Indian 
tribal community colleges, and Hispanic-serving postsecondary 
education facilities.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For grants for socially disadvantaged farmers, the 
Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,000,000. This 
amount is the same as the 2000 level and $7,000,000 less than 
the budget request.

     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations

Appropriations, 2000....................................      $3,568,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................       3,778,000
Committee recommendation................................       3,568,000

    The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional 
Relations maintains a liaison with the Congress and White House 
on legislative matters. It also provides for overall direction 
and coordination in the development and implementation of 
policies and procedures applicable to the Department's intra- 
and inter-governmental relations.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional 
Relations, the Committee recommends an appropriation of 
$3,568,000. This amount is the same as the 2000 level and 
$210,000 less than the budget estimate.
    The Committee provides that not less than $2,202,000 shall 
be transferred to agencies funded by this Act to support 
congressional relations' activities at the agency level. Within 
30 days from the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
notify the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on the 
allocation on these funds by USDA agency, along with an 
explanation for the agency-by-agency distribution of the funds.

                        Office of Communications

Appropriations, 2000....................................      $8,138,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................       9,031,000
Committee recommendation................................       8,873,000

    The Office of Communications provides direction, 
leadership, and coordination in the development and delivery of 
useful information through all media to the public on USDA 
programs. The Office serves as the liaison between the 
Department and the many associations and organizations 
representing America's food, fiber, and environmental 
interests.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of Communications, the Committee recommends 
an appropriation of $8,873,000. This amount is $735,000 more 
than the 2000 appropriation and $158,000 less than the budget 
request.
    The Committee provides the increase requested in the budget 
for pay costs, and $500,000 for electronic access to 
information.

                    Office of the Inspector General

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................     $65,097,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      70,214,000
Committee recommendation................................      66,867,000

\1\ Includes $31,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Office of the Inspector General was established October 
12, 1978, by the Inspector General Act of 1978. This act 
expanded and provided specific authorities for the activities 
of the Office of the Inspector General which had previously 
been carried out under the general authorities of the Secretary 
of Agriculture.
    The Office is administered by an inspector general who 
reports directly to the Secretary of Agriculture. Functions and 
responsibilities of this Office include direction and control 
of audit and investigative activities within the Department, 
formulation of audit and investigative policies and procedures 
regarding Department programs and operations, analysis and 
coordination of program-related audit and investigation 
activities performed by other Department agencies.
    The activities of this Office are designed to assure 
compliance with existing laws, policies, regulations, and 
programs of the Department's agencies, and to provide 
appropriate officials with the means for prompt corrective 
action where deviations have occurred. The scope of audit and 
investigative activities is large and includes administrative, 
program, and criminal matters. These activities are 
coordinated, when appropriate, with various audit and 
investigative agencies of the executive and legislative 
branches of the Government.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the 
Committee recommends an appropriation of $66,867,000. This is 
$1,770,000 more than the 2000 appropriation and $3,347,000 less 
than the budget request. The Committee provides the increased 
funding requested in the budget for pay costs.
    The Committee is concerned by reports that the decisions by 
the National Appeals Division (NAD) disproportionately favor 
the Department. Some reports suggest that as many as 86 percent 
of the decisions that favor farmers are reversed by NAD, while 
only 5 percent of the decisions favoring the Department are 
reversed. The Committee directs the OIG to investigate whether 
NAD decisions overwhelmingly favor the Department and whether 
there is systematic bias against farmer appeals within NAD.

                     Office of the General Counsel

Appropriations, 2000....................................     $29,194,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      32,881,000
Committee recommendation................................      31,080,000

    The Office of the General Counsel, originally known as the 
Office of the Solicitor, was established in 1910 as the law 
office of the Department of Agriculture and performs all of the 
legal work arising from the activities of the Department. The 
General Counsel represents the Department in administrative 
proceedings for the promulgation of rules and regulations 
having the force and effect of law and in quasi-judicial 
hearings held in connection with the administration of various 
programs and acts; and in proceedings before the Interstate 
Commerce Commission involving freight rates and practices 
relating to farm commodities, including appeals from and 
decisions of the Commission to the courts. The office also 
serves as general counsel for the Commodity Credit Corporation 
and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and reviews criminal 
cases arising under the programs of the Department for referral 
to the Department of Justice.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the General Counsel, the Committee 
recommends an appropriation of $31,080,000. This amount is 
$1,886,000 more than the 2000 appropriation and $1,801,000 less 
than the budget request. The Committee provides the increased 
funding requested in the budget for pay costs.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics

Appropriations, 2000....................................        $540,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................       1,356,000
Committee recommendation................................         556,000

    The Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, 
and Economics provides direction and coordination in carrying 
out the laws enacted by the Congress for food and agricultural 
research, education, extension, and economic and statistical 
information. The Office has oversight and management 
responsibilities for the Agricultural Research Service; 
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; 
Economic Research Service; and National Agricultural Statistics 
Service.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Under Secretary for Research, 
Education, and Economics, the Committee recommends an 
appropriation of $556,000. This amount is $16,000 more than the 
the 2000 level and $800,000 less than the budget request. The 
Committee provides the additional funding requested in the 
budget for pay cost increases.

                       Economic Research Service

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................     $65,363,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      55,424,000
Committee recommendation................................      67,038,000

\1\ Includes $1,000,000 transfer to ``Food and Nutrition Service, Food 
Program Administration'' for studies and evaluations pursuant to Public 
Law 106-78; and $56,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Economic Research Service [ERS] provides economic and 
other social science information and analysis for public and 
private decisions on agriculture, natural resources, food, and 
on rural America. The information ERS produces is for use by 
the general public and to help the executive and legislative 
branches develop, administer, and evaluate agricultural and 
rural policies and programs.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Economic Research Service, the Committee recommends 
an appropriation of $67,038,000. This amount is $1,675,000 more 
than the 2000 level and $11,614,000 more than the budget 
request.
    The Committee provides an additional $1,675,000 for 
mandatory pay cost increases. The Committee also continues 
funding at the fiscal year 2000 level of $12,195,000 for USDA 
food assistance program studies and evaluations. Of this 
amount, $1,000,000 is transferred to the Food and Nutrition 
Service to conduct program evaluations and analyses.

                National Agricultural Statistics Service

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................     $99,333,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     100,615,000
Committee recommendation................................     100,615,000

\1\ Includes $72,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The National Agricultural Statistics Service [NASS] 
administers the Department's program of collecting and 
publishing current national, State, and county agricultural 
statistics. These statistics provide accurate and timely 
projections of current agricultural production and measures of 
the economic and environmental welfare of the agricultural 
sector which are essential for making effective policy, 
production, and marketing decisions. NASS also furnishes 
statistical services to other USDA and Federal agencies in 
support of their missions, and provides consulting, technical 
assistance, and training to developing countries.
    The Service is also responsible for administration of the 
Census of Agriculture, which was transferred from the 
Department of Commerce to the Department of Agriculture in 
fiscal year 1997 to consolidate agricultural statistics 
programs. The census of agriculture is taken every 5 years and 
provides comprehensive data on the agricultural economy 
including: data on the number of farms, land use, production 
expenses, farm product values, value of land and buildings, 
farm size and characteristics of farm operators, market value 
of agricultural production sold, acreage of major crops, 
inventory of livestock and poultry, and farm irrigation 
practices. The 1997 Census of Agriculture was released on 
February 1, 1999. The next agricultural census will be 
conducted beginning in January 2003 for the calendar year 2002.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the 
Committee recommends an appropriation of $100,615,000. This 
amount is $1,282,000 more than the 2000 appropriation and the 
same as the budget estimate.
    The Committee's recommendation includes $15,000,000 for the 
Census of Agriculture, which is the same as the budget request 
and $1,490,000 less than the 2000 appropriation.
    The amount recommended also includes $1,972,000 to provide 
in part for pay cost increases and $800,000 for expansion of 
the pesticide use statistics program.

                     Agricultural Research Service


                         salaries and expenses

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................    $830,384,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     894,258,000
Committee recommendation................................     871,593,000

\1\ Includes $3,938,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Agricultural Research Service [ARS] is responsible for 
conducting basic, applied, and developmental research on: soil, 
water, and air sciences; plant and animal productivity; 
commodity conversion and delivery; human nutrition; and the 
integration of agricultural systems. The research applies to a 
wide range of goals; commodities; natural resources; fields of 
science; and geographic, climatic, and environmental 
conditions.
    ARS is also responsible for the National Agricultural 
Library which provides agricultural information and library 
services through traditional library functions and modern 
electronic dissemination to agencies of the USDA, public and 
private organizations, and individuals.
    As the U.S. Department of Agriculture's in-house 
agricultural research unit, ARS has major responsibilities for 
conducting and leading the national agricultural research 
effort. It provides initiative and leadership in five areas: 
research on broad regional and national problems, research to 
support Federal action and regulatory agencies, expertise to 
meet national emergencies, research support for international 
programs, and scientific resources to the executive branch and 
Congress.
    The mission of ARS research is to develop new knowledge and 
technology which will ensure an abundance of high-quality 
agricultural commodities and products at reasonable prices to 
meet the increasing needs of an expanding economy and to 
provide for the continued improvement in the standard of living 
of all Americans. This mission focuses on the development of 
technical information and technical products which bear 
directly on the need to: (1) manage and use the Nation's soil, 
water, air, and climate resources, and improve the Nation's 
environment; (2) provide an adequate supply of agricultural 
products by observing practices that will maintain a 
sustainable and effective agriculture sector; (3) improve the 
nutrition and well-being of the American people; (4) improve 
living in rural America; and (5) strengthen the Nation's 
balance of payments.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For salaries and expenses of the Agricultural Research 
Service, the Committee recommends $871,593,000. This is 
$41,209,000 more than the 2000 level and $22,665,000 less than 
the budget request.
    The Committee recommendation includes $3,782,134 of the 
savings from project terminations proposed in the budget. These 
savings are to be redirected to those research areas for which 
increased funding is provided by the Committee. The Committee 
does not provide funding for contingencies.
    For fiscal year 2001, the Committee recommends funding 
increases, as specified below, for new and ongoing research 
activities. The remaining increase in appropriations from the 
fiscal year 2000 level is to be applied to mandatory pay and 
related cost increases to prevent the further erosion of the 
agency's capacity to maintain a viable research program at all 
research locations.
    The Committee expects the agency to give attention to the 
prompt implementation and allocation of funds provided for the 
purposes identified by Congress.
    In complying with the Committee's directives, ARS is 
expected not to redirect support for programs from one State to 
another without prior notification to and approval by the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the 
reprogramming procedures specified in the Act. Unless otherwise 
directed, the Agricultural Research Service shall implement 
appropriations by programs, projects, commodities, and 
activities as specified by the Appropriations Committees. 
Unspecified reductions necessary to carry out the provisions of 
this Act are to be implemented in accordance with the 
definitions contained in the ``Program, project, and activity'' 
section of this report.
    The Committee's recommendations with respect to specific 
areas of research are as follows:
    Alternative crops and value-added products.--The Committee 
recognizes the importance of new and alternative crops research 
and value-added products. In this regard, funding for fiscal 
year 2001 is to be continued at the fiscal year 2000 level for 
the kenaf research cooperative agreement between ARS and 
Mississippi State University. However, the Committee directs 
these resources be applied to support a broader research 
mission, to include high-value industrial crops, medicinal 
plants, etc., and provides an increase of $200,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level for this purpose. This project will 
expand opportunities to enhance profitability through new areas 
of research.
    Appalachian Pasture-Based Beef Systems Project.--The 
Committee provides $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2001 to continue 
the research consortium supporting the Appalachian Pasture-
Based Beef Systems project. Through a cooperative agreement, 
consortium members, consisting of West Virginia University, 
Virginia Tech, and ARS, will be able to provide critical 
resources to Appalachian cattle farmers to ensure the future 
economic viability of these producers, to enhance development 
in Appalachia, and to protect the environment.
    Apple research.--The Committee expects ARS to increase 
funds available for research on alternatives to pesticides and 
improving postharvest technologies for apples.
    Aquaculture research.--The Committee acknowledges the 
importance of avoiding duplication in research administered by 
the U.S. Department of Agriculture at various locations 
throughout the country. In order to ensure that duplication 
does not occur in the field of warmwater aquaculture research, 
the Stuttgart research facility should not engage in channel 
catfish research related to production systems, nutrition, 
water quality, genetics, disease diagnosis, or food processing 
which is ongoing at the National Warmwater Aquaculture Research 
Center at Stoneville, MS.
    The Committee encourages all facilities to share research 
results to benefit and enhance the Nation's aquaculture 
industry.
    Arctic germplasm.--The Committee provides an additional 
$300,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level in support of the 
Arctic Germplasm Repository in Palmer, AK. This additional 
funding will provide for the continuation of ongoing potato 
germplasm research and allow for the expansion of this research 
to other vegetable, forage, and grain crops.
    Asian bird influenza.--The Committee remains concerned 
about the recent outbreak of a lethal strain of avian influenza 
in Southeast Asia. Under encouragement from the Committee, ARS 
scientists at Athens, GA, have begun to provide technical 
assistance and collaborate with other leading virologists and 
ornithologists to develop and assess baseline data on Eurasian 
birds as an influenza reservoir and their migration habits 
between Southeast Asia and North America and their breeding 
grounds in Alaska. Further collaborative efforts have been 
established with wildlife disease specialists at the 
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, University of 
Georgia, to survey East Coast and Midwest populations of birds, 
including Canada. Funding of $300,000 is provided to ARS for 
fiscal year 2001 to collaborate with the University of Alaska 
and the University of Georgia to develop further and assess 
these baseline data, specifically through increasing the number 
and diversity of wild bird samples obtained and analyzed.
    Asian Longhorned Beetle.--The Committee directs the ARS to 
provide high priority to research on eradication and control of 
the Asian Longhorned Beetle, focusing on control efforts to 
isolate the infestation in northern Illinois and to prevent 
further spread of infestation.
    Avian Pneumovirus.--The Committee notes the losses to 
turkey producers due to the spread of avian pneumovirus and 
includes increased funding of $250,000 from the fiscal year 
2000 level for research related to this disease.
    Barley research, Pullman, WA.--The Committee recognizes the 
important research conducted at the Pullman ARS unit on barley 
stripe rust. Barley stripe rust is a major threat to the 
Pacific Northwest barley production. The Committee provides the 
fiscal year 2000 funding level for research on barley stripe 
rust.
    Bee research.--The Committee recognizes the need for 
increased research on the control of parasitic mites (varroa 
mites) in honey bees utilized in the pollination of native 
plants, legumes and orchard crops, as well as the study of the 
biology and development of alternative crop pollination such as 
non-Apis bees. The Committee provides an increase of $500,000 
from the fiscal year 2000 level for increased research on 
alternative crop pollination at Logan, UT, and on the control 
of varroa mites at Weslaco, TX.
    Biological control research.--The Committee has been 
impressed by results of the various approaches which have been 
taken by the Mid South Regional Research Center in the area of 
biological controls of cotton insect pests. The economic and 
environmental benefits of this research could eventually reduce 
the vulnerability of crops to major insect pests and create 
alternatives to traditional crop protection methods. The 
Committee continues funding for this project at the fiscal year 
2000 and budget request levels.
    Biomedical materials in plants.--The Committee provides 
$1,000,000 in fiscal year 2001 funding for ARS cooperative 
research with the Biotechnology Foundation, Inc., to carry out 
studies on tobacco and other plants as a medium to produce 
vaccines and other biomedical products for the prevention of 
human and animal diseases.
    Biotechnology Research and Development Corporation.--The 
Committee directs the agency to continue its support of the 
Biotechnology Research and Development Corporation's research 
on both plants and animals at the same levels as fiscal year 
2000.
    Brucellosis research.--The Committee provides an increase 
of $1,000,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for research to 
develop vaccines for wildlife to control brucellosis. Domestic 
animals are exposed to disease from wildlife whose movement is 
difficult to control. The Committee is concerned and supports 
the ARS initiative to help solve this important problem.
    Catfish genome.--Research is conducted on genetic 
improvement of catfish at the ARS Fish Health Laboratory, 
Auburn, AL. Catfish lines with improved characteristics, such 
as faster growth, improved disease resistance, high 
reproductive performance and high meat yield, are being 
developed. Catfish released to producers will increase industry 
profitability and sustainability, and provide high quality 
aquaculture products for U.S. consumers. The Auburn 
laboratory's accomplishments include the development of a 
catfish line (USDA103 line) with improved growth 
characteristics and the first channel catfish genetic map in 
the unit's genomics laboratory. The Committee provides an 
increase of $600,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level of funding 
to expand catfish genome research and to work collaboratively 
with Auburn University.
    Center for Food Safety and Postharvest Technology.--The 
Committee is aware of the significance of the research 
currently underway relating to catfish and other food products 
at the Mississippi Center for Food Safety and Postharvest 
Technology and continues funding at the fiscal year 2000 level 
for research on shellfish safety and methods of decreasing 
risks to consumers.
    Club wheat breeding.--The Committee provides continued 
funding at the fiscal year 2000 level for the ARS Pacific 
Northwest Club Wheat Breeding Program. This program is 
essential as growers seek to gain additional overseas markets.
    Conservation research.--The Committee is aware of the 
important non-irrigated, dryland research underway at the ARS 
Soil Conservation Laboratory, Pendleton, OR. Research is 
directed toward developing better practices and techniques for 
crop production and natural resources conservation in the 
Columbia River Plateau and regional land resource areas. The 
Committee provides an increase of $200,000 from the fiscal year 
2000 funding level for this program
    Corn resistant to Aflatoxin for the Mid South.--As part of 
a cotton-corn rotation production system, corn is critical as 
an alternative cash crop to feed the booming Mid-south poultry 
and aquaculture industries. Cotton yields following corn crops 
are typically increased. However, contamination by aflatoxin, a 
toxin produced by the fungus Aspergillus, that often affects 
Mid-south corn, can render the corn unacceptable and the 
cotton-corn production system too risky and economically 
unfeasible. Aflatoxin is one of the most powerful carcinogens 
known. Growing corn hybrids with resistance to aflatoxin 
accumulation is thought to be the best way of eliminating 
aflatoxin contamination. Resistant corn germplasm lines have 
been developed and released by ARS scientists, but no corn 
hybrids possessing this resistance are available commercially. 
The Committee provides an additional $500,000 from the fiscal 
year 2000 level of funding to the Corn Host Plant Resistance 
Research Unit at Starkville which is the only ARS research unit 
in the Mid South conducting research on corn breeding and 
genetics.
    Cotton genetics.--The Committee recognizes the urgency to 
develop high-yielding cotton germplasm and continues support 
for the cotton genetics program at the Mid South Regional 
Research Center at the fiscal year 2000 level.
    Cotton ginning laboratories.--The Committee continues 
funding at the fiscal year 2000 levels for ginning research at 
the Stoneville, MS; Mesilla Park, NM; and Lubbock, TX, 
laboratories.
    Cotton resistant to Aflatoxin.--Aflatoxin, a by-product of 
several naturally-occurring fungi, is a recognized food safety 
hazard and has caused millions of dollars of crop losses to 
American agriculture each year. In addition, international 
food-safety organizations are pressing to lower aflatoxin 
levels in foods and feeds to near zero levels. Much has been 
learned from ARS research to eliminate aflatoxin from the food 
supply. The most promising method for managing aflatoxin in 
crops that has been evaluated is the use of the biocontrol 
agent AF-36. This year, the Multi-Crop Aflatoxin Working Group 
is planning to expand its project to produce enough agent to 
serve all cotton producers in Arizona. Cotton producers have 
invested nearly $1,000,000. The Committee provides an 
additional $500,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for the 
last year of Federal funding needed to complete the project.
    Cotton value-added/quality research.--U.S. agriculture's 
continued economic strength depends on efficient production and 
value-added technology. The Committee urges ARS to continue to 
place high priority on cotton textile processing research 
conducted at New Orleans, LA, to improve quality, reduce 
defects, and improve easy-care products. The Committee 
continues funding at the fiscal year 2000 level for this 
research.
    Diet and children's health.--The Committee is aware of the 
critical relationship of the human diet and children's health. 
Research is needed to investigate factors that affect 
children's ability to absorb and utilize minerals in the 
formation of bone. An increase of $750,000 from the fiscal year 
2000 funding level is provided to expand this research at the 
Houston, TX, nutrition center.
    Ecology of tamarix.--The ARS has developed programs to 
eradicate tamarix populations through biological controls, such 
as introducing insects which feed on the plants. To allow the 
ARS to continue to expand current research on the ecologically-
based management of tamarix and other non-indigenous species in 
the Western United States, the Committee provides an increase 
of $300,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for the ARS Exotic 
and Invasive Weeds Research Unit in Albany, CA, to hire a plant 
ecologist in Reno, NV, to oversee implementation of the tamarix 
control program in Nevada.
    Floriculture and nursery research.--The Committee provides 
the fiscal year 2000 level of funding for the ARS floriculture 
(environmental horticulture) and nursery research program. The 
Committee believes that this program should be conducted at the 
Northwest Nursery Crops Research Center (NWNRC) in Corvallis, 
Oregon. Nursery and greenhouse products rank number one in 
Oregon and the NWNRC is best suited to conduct floriculture and 
nursery research.
    Food safety.--The Committee recognizes the need for 
expanded research on food safety and provides an increase of 
$5,720,000 from the fiscal year 2000 funding level, as 
requested in the budget, to enhance ARS research in support of 
the Food Safety Initiative. The Committee notes the importance 
of the Department's research program to address food safety 
problems from farm to the consumer's table.
    Fruit fly.--The Committee provides continued funding at the 
fiscal year 2000 level of $278,200 for the University of Hawaii 
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources for 
collaborative work on developing efficacious and nontoxic 
methods to control tephritid fruit flies. The Committee also 
continues funding at the fiscal year 2000 level for the work on 
the impact of quarantine and control techniques on non-target 
organisms and the environment.
    In addition, the Committee supports continued funding by 
the ARS to provide $300,000 to the University of Hawaii College 
of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to monitor and 
refine control of the papaya ringspot virus and to expand the 
techniques and knowledge obtained from this program to other 
papaya diseases and pests and to other crops such as taro, 
ginger, and herbal plants. The Committee also continues funding 
of $300,000 to the Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii to 
coordinate a dedicated research program to induce nematode 
resistance, flowering control, and mealy bug wilt disease 
resistance in commercial pineapple cultivars and to seek funds 
from the private sector to complement Federal funds. The 
Committee views the nematode and ringspot virus activities as 
supportive of a national agricultural research agenda and that 
of Hawaii.
    Fruit research.--The Committee is aware of the important 
work carried out on fruit research at Wenatchee and Yakima in 
the State of Washington. The Committee expects the Department 
to continue to give increased attention to the work carried out 
at these two facilities.
    Genomics of pest resistance in wheat.--Wheat is one of the 
world's important crops, with more than 560 million tons 
produced annually. To meet the future demands for wheat, more 
efficient pest resistance strains of wheat must be developed. 
The Committee provides an increase of $600,000 from the fiscal 
year 2000 funding level for the Small Grains Research 
Laboratory in West Lafayette, IN, to apply the tools of 
functional genomics to identify critical steps in the 
development of resistance to important pests of wheat. This 
will be a collaborative undertaking with Purdue University and 
includes support for graduate students and postdoctoral 
research associates.
    Grain legume genetics research.--The Committee acknowledges 
the importance of a grain legume genetics research position at 
Washington State University in Pullman, WA, and continues 
funding at the fiscal year 2000 level of $251,800 to support 
this position. This research will focus on approaches to 
increase surface crop residues and on methods to overcome 
disease and insect problems in grain legumes.
    Grain research.--The Committee recognizes the need for 
additional resources for improved handling and storage systems 
for grain sorghum quality and provides an increase of $250,000 
from the fiscal year 2000 level to the U.S. Grain Marketing 
Laboratory in Manhattan, KS, for grain sorghum research. In 
addition, the Committee is aware of the importance of wheat 
research conducted at the U.S. Grain Marketing Laboratory to 
increasing the value and marketability of U.S. wheat. An 
additional $250,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level is provided 
for a wheat breeding position at the Manhattan, KS, research 
facility.
    Grape research.--The Committee acknowledges the importance 
of a horticulturist position specializing in grape production 
at the ARS station in Prosser, WA. The Committee recognizes 
that the research horticulturist is an important link to the 
research efforts conducted at the Northwest Center for Small 
Fruits Research at the ARS Corvallis, OR, station. Recognizing 
the importance of this position and the effect research has had 
on grape production in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, the 
Committee recommends continued funding at the fiscal year 2000 
level.
    Hawaii Agriculture Research Center.--The Committee provides 
$950,000, the same as the fiscal year 2000 level, for the 
Hawaii Agriculture Research Center to maintain the 
competitiveness of U.S. sugarcane producers and to continue to 
support the expansion of new crops and products, including 
those from agroforestry, to complement sugarcane production in 
Hawaii.
    Hog cholera research.--Vaccines, including genetic 
vaccines, immune deficiency strategies, and timely and 
effective control practices must be developed to prevent 
outbreaks and the spread of hog cholera, or swine fever, in the 
United States. The Committee provides an increase of $1,000,000 
from the fiscal year 2000 funding level to carry out this vital 
research.
    Hops.--The Committee recognizes the outstanding increase in 
the production of the U.S. hops industry, coupled with the 
difficulty the industry faces with new and emerging diseases. 
As a result, the Committee encourages continued support and 
research enhancement by ARS.
    Immune function and diet.--Recent ARS research establishes 
for the first time that the nutritional status of a host can 
affect the disease causing potential of a human pathogen virus. 
Such results may explain why some infections are benign in 
certain populations, but cause mortality in others. Research is 
needed on the effects of diet on the immune system to determine 
if other infectious agents can also alter their pathogenicity 
in response to the diet of the host. The Committee provides an 
increase of $250,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level of funding 
for expanded research on mechanisms by which diet alters the 
immune system at the ARS Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR.
    Integrated farming systems.--The Committee provides an 
increase of $300,000 to support an agroecologist position at 
the Dairy Forage Research Center (DFRC), Madison, WI. The 
Committee is concerned that the DFRC has not supported the 
Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Trial System (WICTS) as directed 
in previous reports. Of the amount provided to the DFRC for 
fiscal year 2001, no less than $100,000 shall be in direct 
support of WICTS activities.
    Integrated pest management (IPM).--The Committee recognizes 
the importance of agricultural research to support viable crop 
production in northern climates and particularly to enhance 
productivity and profitability of Alaska's farming industry. 
Insect pests, pathogens and weeds pose severe threats to 
Alaskan economic viability, not only in the production of food 
and fiber but in the management of private, State and Federal 
lands. The Committee supports an IPM initiative to foster 
agricultural productivity while preserving natural resources 
and provides an increase of $1,000,000 from the fiscal year 
2000 funding level for this program.
    Invasive weed research.--Invasive weeds cost the U.S. 
economy more than $122,000,000,000 annually. The Committee 
provides an increase of $300,000 from the fiscal year 2000 
level to strengthen the ARS current weed management program on 
crop lands and rangelands in Colorado and the Central Great 
Plains. This additional funding is to allow the hiring of an 
additional weed scientist at the Water Management Research Unit 
in Fort Collins, CO.
    IR-4 Minor Crop Pesticide Registration Program.--The 
Committee recognizes the importance of the IR-4 project, which 
produces research data for clearances for pest control products 
on minor food and ornamental crops. The Committee notes that 
this project is especially critical at this time in order to 
meet the new requirements of the Food Quality Protection Act, 
and to fully implement its reduced risk pest management 
strategy for minor crops.
    Methyl bromide.--The Committee provides the fiscal year 
2000 level of funding to continue research related to a 
replacement for methyl bromide. The Committee expects the ARS 
to hold administrative overhead costs to a minimum and to 
direct a significant portion of these funds to field testing 
and to direct technology transfer to land grant institutions 
involved in research projects under this program.
    Mineral nutrients research.--An understanding of what 
nutrients are required, their levels in the diet, and at what 
point in the development process they are critical is 
incomplete. Similarly, an understanding of the changing need 
for nutrients that occurs as individuals age is incomplete. The 
Committee provides an additional $250,000 from the fiscal year 
2000 funding level for research to determine the specific 
metabolic needs for mineral nutriture at each stage of the life 
cycle. This research is carried out at the ARS Nutrition 
Center, Grand Forks, ND.
    Minor crop pests.--The Committee provides continued funding 
at the fiscal year 2000 level of $285,000 for the University of 
Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to 
develop environmentally compatible methods to control pests and 
diseases in small-scale tropical and subtropical agricultural 
systems.
    National Center for Agricultural Law Research and 
Information.--The Committee provides continued funding at the 
fiscal year 2000 level for the National Center for Agricultural 
Law Research and Information at the Leflar School of Law in 
Fayetteville, AR.
    National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture.--The 
Committee increases funding for the National Center for Cool 
and Cold Water Aquaculture by $800,000 from the fiscal year 
2000 level to improve aquaculture production in the following 
major areas of aquaculture research: immunology, physiology and 
growth, genetic improvement, reproduction and early 
development. These funds will allow the National Center for 
Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture to make reasonable progress 
toward becoming fully operational and make a beneficial 
contribution to the success of aquaculture in America.
    The Committee also provides $250,000 in fiscal year 2001 
funding to the National Center for Cool and Cold Water 
Aquaculture for the Improvement in Aquaculture Systems 
Environmental Compatibility and Economic Efficiency project. 
The project will enhance the production efficiency and minimize 
the environmental impact of aquaculture production systems, and 
be conducted through the establishment of a consortium, 
consisting of the Center and the Conservation Fund's Freshwater 
Institute.
    National Sedimentation Laboratory.--The Committee continues 
funding at the fiscal year 2000 level for work now underway at 
the National Sedimentation Laboratory, and provides an increase 
of $150,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level to expand its 
studies on the use of acoustics to characterize soils, 
determine moisture content, and monitor crop growth. The 
Laboratory is expected to continue its close relationship with 
the National Center for Physical Acoustics in carrying out 
these research efforts.
    The Committee also provides an additional $500,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level to the National Sedimentation Laboratory 
to conduct research on sources and causes of water impairment 
in the Yazoo River Basin and to seek economically feasible 
``Best Management Practices'' for attaining new water quality 
goals, commonly referenced as Total Maximum Daily Loads 
(TMDL's), at field, farm, watershed, and basin levels.
    National Soil Dynamics Laboratory, Auburn, AL.--The 
research of the ARS National Soil Dynamics Laboratory was 
recently redirected to respond directly to customer requests 
for conservation tillage systems research. Research areas 
include: a systems approach with an understanding of 
interactions between soil management and integration of 
livestock and cropping practices; soil and water management to 
reduce risks from short-term droughts and other environmental 
impacts such as runoff and erosion control; and system 
economics profitability, especially with regard to reduced 
tillage systems. The Committee provides an increase of $500,000 
from the fiscal year 2000 level to support urgently needed 
conservation systems research. This research is to be conducted 
in cooperation with Auburn University.
    National Warmwater Aquaculture Center.--The Committee is 
aware of the importance of gains which are being made in 
catfish production through the improvements offered by the 
National Warmwater Aquaculture Center. The Committee continues 
its support at the fiscal year 2000 funding level for the 
aquaculture program at Stoneville, and provides an increase of 
$800,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for the Center, along 
with continued funding for fiscal year 2001 of $308,000 for the 
Center to conduct hill-area aquaculture research.
    National Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative.--Fusarium head 
blight or ``scab'' is a fungal disease that attacks all 
varieties of wheat and barley. It devastates crop yield and 
quality, reduces food production, and threatens food safety. 
The U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative, a coalition of land 
grant universities and members of the wheat and barley industry 
coordinated by the ARS, is making significant progress in 
research efforts to eradicate this disease but more needs to be 
done. Research needs to be broadened into such areas as 
developing new wheat and barley varieties, introducing new 
germplasm, utilizing biotechnology, employing better chemical 
and biological controls, and improving food safety. The 
Committee provides $6,100,000 for fiscal year 2001 to enhance 
research efforts against wheat and barley scab to more quickly 
and effectively eradicate this costly disease.
    Natural products.--The Committee provides an additional 
$750,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for the ARS to 
continue its cooperative agreement with the National Center for 
Natural Products Research in support of research on natural 
products.
    New England Plant, Soil, and Water Research Laboratory.--
The Committee provides an additional $300,000 from the fiscal 
year 2000 level for a soil pathologist position at the USDA-ARS 
New England Plant, Soil, and Water Research Laboratory in 
Orono, ME. The work of this laboratory is of significant 
benefit to potato producers in Maine, the New England region, 
and the industry nationwide.
    Northern crops research.--The Committee recognizes that the 
small grains and sunflower industries have faced a wide array 
of production problems over the past few years. Existing and 
emerging diseases are causing billions of dollars worth of 
damage at a time when commodity prices are at historic lows. To 
improve comprehensive basic research important to the economic 
viability of farmers, the Committee provides an additional 
$1,050,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for research at the 
Northern Crops ARS Laboratory, Fargo, ND. Of the increased 
funding provided, $300,000 is to fund a vacant wheat geneticist 
position; $150,000 is to augment research at the Cereal Crops 
Research Unit; $300,000 is to fund a new wheat/barley 
pathologist position; and $300,000 is to fund a sunflower 
geneticist position at the Laboratory.
    Northwest Nursery Crops Research Center.--Nursery and 
greenhouse products rank third in the Nation and number one in 
Oregon. As the public demands more and more plants and trees to 
help clean the air, prevent water runoff and soil erosion, and 
improve water quality and conservation, the nursery industry is 
playing an expanding and significant environmental research 
role. The Committee encourages ARS to expand its support for 
the Northwest Nursery Crops Research Center's research program 
(Corvallis, OR) in these environmental areas. The Committee 
provides the fiscal year 2000 level of funding for the ARS 
Corvallis station.
    Nutritionally-related diseases.--Nutritionally-related 
diseases typically develop over a period of many years. In 
order to fully evaluate the role of diet in maintaining health, 
meaningful measurements of biochemical and physiological 
function that are related to the nutritional status of an 
individual and which are indicative of true long-term risk for 
diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, need to be 
developed. The Committee provides an increase of $250,000 from 
the fiscal year 2000 level for this research at the ARS 
Nutrition Center, Davis, CA.
    Pasture systems and watershed management.--The Committee 
recognizes the importance of pasture systems and watershed 
research. This research will enhance production and 
profitability of Northeast pasture-based livestock production 
systems, and develop best management practices to assess and 
control water and environmental quality impacts. The Committee 
provides an increase of $500,000 for sustainable forage 
livestock systems research and research on nutrient management 
to protect water quality carried out at the ARS Pasture Systems 
and Watershed Management Research Station, University Park, PA.
    Pear thrips.--The Committee recognizes the value of 
collaboration between ARS and the University of Vermont to 
develop controls for pear thrips and provides funding at the 
fiscal year 2000 level to continue this important research 
program.
    Pierce's Disease/Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter.--Pierce's 
disease is a lethal disease of grapevine caused by the 
bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa. While the disease has been 
present in California, Texas and Florida, it has become more 
serious and widespread in California, coincident with the 
introduction of the Pierce's Disease vector, the glassy-winged 
sharpshooter (GWSS). Over 700,000 acres of wine, table, and 
raisin grapes are threatened, as is the annual economic impact 
of California's $9,000,000,000 wine industry. The Committee 
provides $700,000 in fiscal year 2001 funding for research to 
test promising chemicals for GWSS; develop technologies for 
biocontrol and mass rearing of natural enemies; and evaluate 
pathogens and cultured methods for GWSS control. Similarly, 
research should address longer term needs of grape varieties 
that enhance resistance to Pierce's Disease in grapevines, 
including host plant resistance, cultural practices, and 
disease detection and identification.
    Plant germplasm.--The National Plant Germplasm System, 
operated by the ARS, maintains germplasm collections that 
underpin crop-breeding efforts throughout the United States. 
The Committee recognizes the critical need to maintain a 
healthy, accessible genetic diversity within agricultural plant 
species to provide an abundant high quality supply of food and 
fiber. This includes the acquisition, maintenance, evaluation, 
and enhancement of plant germplasm to allow plant breeders and 
scientists access to diverse genetic resources. The Committee 
provides an additional $3,000,000 from the fiscal year 2000 
level to ensure an optimal pool of genetic diversity is 
available for U.S. agriculture.
    Plant pathologist position.--The Committee provides an 
increase of $250,000 from the fiscal year 2000 funding level 
for a plant pathologist at the USDA-ARS research laboratory at 
Washington State University in Pullman, WA. This position is 
required for research on grain legumes and foliar diseases of 
dry peas, lentils, and chickpeas.
    Plum Pox research.--The Committee recognizes that the 
discovery of plum pox in North America seriously threatens 
stone fruit industry. An increase of $700,000 from the fiscal 
year 2000 level is provided for plum pox research at the 
Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, WV, to 
build upon ongoing research at this research facility which has 
produced a plum tree that has proven resistant to the plum pox 
virus in field tests done in Poland, Romania, and Spain during 
the last three growing seasons.
    The Committee also provides an increase of $400,000 from 
the fiscal year 2000 level for ARS research to be conducted at 
Frederick, MD, to develop integrated disease control methods 
and to collaborate with Pennsylvania State University and 
Clemson University on plum pox virus.
    Postharvest quarantine research.--Technical barriers by 
other countries on the importance of U.S. commodities is one of 
the greatest obstacles to free trade of American crops. 
Recognizing the importance and relevance foreign countries 
place on ARS research related to treatment protocols and pest 
concerns, the Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for quarantine research to ensure that U.S. commodities 
have expanded access to overseas markets.
    Potato late blight research.--The Committee is aware that 
``late blight'' has become an ongoing problem in the Pacific 
Northwest. The Committee urges the Agricultural Research 
Service to continue its research at the Aberdeen, ID, ARS 
station to identify horticulturally acceptable clones with 
``late blight'' resistance in both early generation and 
advanced clonal material that have a high level of resistance 
for use as crossing parents. The Committee encourages the ARS 
to work with the National Potato Council on how funds can best 
be used for research priorities.
    Potato research enhancement.--The Committee acknowledges 
the importance of potato research conducted at the Irrigated 
Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, WA. 
Recognizing the need to enable growers to optimize potato yield 
and quality goals while improving environmental stewardship, 
the Committee provides increased funding of $250,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level for potato research at the Prosser, WA, 
station. This research will provide the integration of 
irrigation, nutrient management, pest control and crop rotation 
strategies into sustainable, holistic crop production systems 
that optimize total potato management practices. This research 
is supported by local and national potato growers.
    Poultry diseases.--The Committee provides an additional 
$500,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for expanded research 
on the prevention and control of infectious poultry diseases. 
The Committee notes the importance of zoonotic diseases and 
directs ARS to focus these additional resources on avian 
coccidiosis and avian leukosis J virus (ALV-J).
    Program continuations.--Including research programs 
specifically mentioned herein, the Committee directs the ARS to 
continue at the fiscal year 2000 level the following areas of 
research: ``Fish Diseases,'' Auburn, AL; ``Research/Evaluation 
for Registration of Chemicals and Approvals of New Animal Drugs 
for Aquaculture,'' ``Rice Research,'' Stuttgart, AR; 
``Aquaculture Research,'' Pine Bluff, AR; ``Biological Control 
of Yellow Starthistle and Other Non-indigenous Plant Pests in 
the Western USA,'' ``Conversion of Crops to Products with 
Higher Added Value Through Directed Molecular Evolution,'' 
``Defining the Molecular Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Chilation 
and Sequestration in Plants,'' ``Enhanced Production of High-
Value Carotenoids in Tomato,'' Albany, CA; ``Sustainable 
Vineyard Practices'' position, Davis, CA; ``Irrigation Water 
and Crop Management to Sustain Productivity and Protect Water 
Quality,'' Parlier, CA; ``Behavioral Ecology and Management of 
Crop Insect Pests/Semiochemicals,'' ``Risk Assessment and 
Integrated Termite Management,'' ``Strategies for Hawaii and 
the Pacific Basin,'' Gainsville, FL; ``Alternative Crops,'' 
Miami, FL; ``Asian Bird Influenza,'' Athens, GA; ``Develop, 
Evaluate and Transfer Technology to Improve Efficiency and 
Quality in Peanuts,'' ``Peanut Quality Research,'' Dawson, GA; 
``Tropical Aquaculture Feeds and Culture Technology: 
Development of Shrimp Feeds,'' ``U.S. Pacific Basin 
Agricultural Research Center,'' Hilo, Hawaii; ``Development of 
Genetically Enhanced Fish and Feeds for Aquaculture Utilizing 
Specialized Grains,'' Aberdeen, ID; ``Biotechnology R&D 
Corporation,'' ``Development of Value-Added Products from Seed 
Proteins: Rheological Properties Performance,'' ``New Crops for 
Industrial Products,'' ``Thermomechanical Processing of Natural 
Polymers,'' ``Animal Health Consortium,'' Peoria, IL; ``Soybean 
Diseases,'' Urbana, IL; ``Genetics of Host Resistance to 
Pathogens in Cereal Crops,'' Ames, IA; ``Developing Integrated 
Weed Management Systems for Efficient and Sustainable Sugarcane 
Production,'' ``Disease and Insect Control Mechanisms for the 
Enhancement of Sugarcane Germplasm Resistance,'' ``Formosan 
Subterranean Termite Control and Research Demonstration 
Program,'' ``Improving Sugarcane Productivity by Conventional 
and Molecular Approaches to Genetic Development,'' New Orleans, 
LA; ``New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Lab,'' Orono, 
ME; ``Comparative Textural Analysis of Fresh and Fresh-Cut 
Fruits and Vegetables,'' ``Ecologically-Based Technologies for 
Controlling Ixodes Scapularis and Reducing Lyme Disease 
(including Lyme Disease/Tick Management Project),'' 
``Enhancement of Strawberry, Blueberry, and Other Small Fruit 
Crops Through Molecular Approaches and Breeding,'' ``Improving 
Quality of Fresh and Fresh-Cut Produce by Preventing 
Deterioration in Cold Storage,'' ``National Turfgrass 
Evaluation Program,'' ``Alternative Crops,'' ``Lyme Disease, 
Yale University,'' ``Biomedical Materials in Plants,'' 
Beltsville, MD; ``Dietary Assessments of Rural Older Persons,'' 
Boston, MA; ``Germplasm Evaluation and Genetic Improvement of 
Oats and Wild Rice,'' ``Wild Rice Breeding and Germplasm 
Improvement,'' St. Paul, MN; ``Biochemistry and Molecular 
Biology of Natural Products for Pest Control and Alternative 
Crops,'' ``Development of Natural Products from Plants and 
Microbes for Replacement of Synthetic Pesticides,'' ``National 
Center for the Development of Natural Products,'' ``National 
Sedimentation Lab: Acoustics, and Yazoo River Basin, MS,'' 
Oxford, MS; ``Small Fruit Cultural and Genetic Research in the 
Mid-South,'' ``Small Fruits,'' Poplarville, MS; ``Agronomic and 
Economic Evaluation of Kenaf as a Field Crop in Mississippi,'' 
``Catfish Genetics and Breeding Research,'' ``Genetic-
Physiological Parameters that Enhance Fiber Quality,'' 
``Improve Production Efficiency in Aquaculture,'' ``National 
Warmwater Aquaculture Center,'' ``Southern Insect Management,'' 
``Red Imported Fire Ants,'' Stoneville, MS; ``Alternative 
Crops,'' MS; ``Plant Genetics Research,'' ``Sensing Technology 
for Site-Specific Management to Protect Environmental 
Resources,'' ``Improving Surface Water Quality with Alternative 
Cropping Systems at Field and Watershed Scales,'' ``Mid-West/
Mid-South Irrigation,'' ``Watershed Research,'' Columbia, MO; 
``Northern Plains Research Laboratory,'' Sidney, MT; ``Genetic 
Improvement of Sorghum for Feed Quality and Agronomic 
Fitness,'' Lincoln, NE; ``Exploration and Maintenance of Fungi 
and Plants for Biorational Control of Agricultural Pests,'' 
Ithaca, NY; ``Animal Vaccines,'' Greenport, NY; ``Control of 
Fungal Pathogens of Small Grains,'' ``Evaluation of Temperate 
Legumes and Warm-Season Grass Mixtures in Sustainable 
Production Systems,'' ``Improved Peanut Product Quality and 
Bioactive Nutrient Composition with Genetic Resources,'' 
``Peanut Quality Research,'' Raleigh, NC; ``Sunflower 
Research,'' Fargo, ND; ``Development of Soybean Germplasm and 
Production Systems for High Yield and Drought Prone 
Environments,'' Wooster, OH; ``Germplasm Resources Genetics and 
Physiology of Grass and Legume Seed for Sustainable Cropping 
Systems,'' ``Hops Genetics and Breeding for Improved Flavor, 
Agronomic Performance and Pest Resistance,'' ``Physiology, 
Biochemistry and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crop 
Productivity and Product Quality,'' ``Characterization, 
Detection and Control of Viruses Infecting Small Fruit Crops,'' 
``Biology and Management of Foliage and Fruit Diseases of 
Horticultural Crops,'' ``Biology and Control of Insect Pests of 
Horticultural Crops,'' ``Preservation of Clonal Genetic 
Resources of Temperate Fruit, Nut, and Speciality Crops,'' 
``Residue Management and Grass Seed Cropping Systems for 
Sustainable Agriculture,'' ``Small Fruit and Nursery 
Research,'' ``Viticulture Research,'' Corvallis, OR; 
``Harvesting and Ginning Technologies for Stripper Cotton,'' 
``U.S. Plant Stress and Water Conservation Lab,'' Lubbock, TX; 
``Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement of Cool Season Food 
Legumes,'' ``Arctic Plant Germplasm Introduction and 
Research,'' ``Root Diseases of Wheat/Barley,'' Pullman, WA; 
``Potato Research Enhancement,'' Prosser, WA; ``Temperate Fruit 
Flies,'' Yakima, WA; ``Appalachian Farming Systems Research 
Center,'' Beckley, WV; ``National Center for Cool and Coldwater 
Aquaculture'', ``Aquaculture Systems (Rainbow Trout),'' 
Leetown, WV; ``The Role of Life Strategies of Phytopathogenic 
Bacteria in the Epidemiology of Foliar Diseases,'' Madison, WI; 
``Alternative Crops,'' Mayaquez, Puerto Rico; ``Center for Food 
Safety and Post Harvest Technology,'' ``Binational Agricultural 
Research and Development (BARD),'' ``Floriculture and Nursery 
Crop Research,'' ARS Headquarters, Washington, DC.
    Red imported fire ants.--Infestations of red imported fire 
ants are increasing in 21 southern California cities, as well 
as in a number of states in the Southeast and the Southwest. 
Nationally, damages caused by imported fire ants to 
agriculture, human health, infrastructure, farm animals and 
wildlife are estimated at several billions of dollars each 
year. The Committee provides an increase of $900,000 above the 
fiscal year 2000 level for research on effective control of 
imported fire ants infestations. This research is to be carried 
out by the ARS Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center. At 
least $500,000 of the total is to be used to support the 
existing cooperative agreement with the National Center of 
Physical Acoustics (NCPA) to develop methods to monitor and 
control fire ant populations and for detailed studies of fire 
ant colonies at the University of Mississippi Biological Field 
Station.
    Root diseases of wheat and barley.--The Committee provides 
fiscal year 2001 funding of $500,000 to the ARS Root Disease 
and Biological Control Research Unit located at Washington 
State University in Pullman, WA, for research to control root 
diseases of wheat and barley. Of the total provided, $125,000 
is to be transferred to the Oregon State University Columbia 
Basin Agriculture Research Center, Pendleton, OR; $75,000 is to 
be transferred to the University of Idaho Research and 
Extension Center, Kimberly, ID; and $300,000 is to remain in 
the ARS program at Pullman, WA.
    Rural geriatric nutrition research.--The Committee 
continues the fiscal year 2000 level of funding for the further 
development of a comprehensive nutrition outreach, treatment, 
and research program to assist the rural elderly population. 
Geisinger Health System's Rural Geriatric Nutrition Center in 
Danville, PA, is the lead organization undertaking this 
initiative in collaboration with other universities.
    Silverleaf whitefly.--The silverleaf whitefly, also known 
as the sweetpotato whitefly, continues to cause millions of 
dollars in crop damage in several States, including Hawaii. The 
Committee recommends participation by all affected States in 
the collaborative effort to control this pest.
    Small farms.--The Committee expects the ARS to continue its 
support for the South Central Family Farm Research Center at 
Booneville, AR. The Committee expects no less than the 2000 
level for continuation of agroforestry research in conjunction 
with work at the University of Missouri. To expand the 
development of agroforestry systems, additional funding of 
$2,000,000 is provided for Missouri to develop flood plain 
applications.
    Small fruits research, Poplarville, MS.--The Committee 
recognizes the importance of the USDA Small Fruits Research 
Station in Poplarville, MS, and provides an increase of 
$750,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level to expand the research 
efforts of the station on ornamental and vegetable crops.
    Small grains research, Aberdeen, ID.--The Committee is 
aware that the ARS is considering the elimination of the small 
grains geneticist position at the USDA-ARS Aberdeen, ID, 
station. The Committee continues the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for this position.
    Research to improve both barley and oat genetic stocks 
provides direct benefits to the U.S. barley industry, including 
end users who rely on improved quality traits in malting 
barley. The Committee recognizes the important work carried out 
on small grains at the ARS Aberdeen, ID, research station and 
provides an increase of $320,000 from the fiscal year 2000 
level of funding for this research.
    Southern insect management.--The Committee provides the 
fiscal year 2000 level of funding to continue the cooperative 
agreement with the National Center for Physical Acoustics 
(NCPA) to develop methods to monitor pest populations using 
advanced acoustic techniques; at least $250,000 of the total 
funding is to be used to support the current program at the 
NCPA.
    Soybean cyst nematode.--Soybean yields in the Mid South 
have been flat in or in many fields actually decreasing. This 
is in spite of new improved varieties with and without 
transgenic genes. Recently farmers in the Mid South have become 
aware of serious increases in nematodes in their soybean 
fields. A new raceof the soybean cyst nematode is the cause of 
the damage. Few varieties are resistant to this new species, 
and they yield less than the best varieties in noninfested 
fields. There are no economical chemical means to control this 
pest. Rotations with corn will reduce populations, but the 
nematode rebounds the first year soybeans are grown following 
corn. The Committee provides an addition of $500,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level and directs the ARS to work 
cooperatively with the West Tennessee Experiment Station, 
Jackson, TN, to develop soybean germplasm resistant to the 
soybean cyst nematode.
    Soybean genetics, MO.--The Committee provides an increase 
of $600,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for research 
conducted by the ARS at Columbia, MO, for two additional 
soybean geneticists to focus research on genetic improvement of 
soybeans to increase productivity and value due to protein, 
oil, and nutrition composition. The positions are to be located 
at and collaborate with the Danforth Plant Science Center.
    Soybean research.--The Committee is aware of the important 
ARS-supported work being done in the soybean breeding and 
production project at Ohio State University in Wooster, OH, and 
through ongoing research at Ames, IA, and Stoneville, MS, aimed 
at increasing the productivity and profitability of soybean 
production and processing. The Committee strongly supports this 
research and expects ARS to continue these important soybean 
research programs at not less than the fiscal year 2000 funding 
levels.
    Soybean research in the South.--The major problems in Mid 
South soybean production are disease and finding genetic types 
that can withstand environmental stresses. Major diseases are 
stem canker, phytophthora, nematodes, and the emerging problem 
of the soybean mosaic virus. The Committee provides an increase 
of $600,000 from the fiscal year 2000 funding level to support 
a pathologist needed to research the environmental and 
management systems that encourage disease incidence and to 
develop screening methods so that breeders can develop improved 
varieties with disease resistance; and a geneticist to aid in 
the screening for disease resistance as well as research the 
interactions of genetics and environment on performance under 
stressful weather conditions. The current management system of 
using early maturing varieties planted early results in poor 
seed quality and other new problems. These new scientists will 
complete an interdisciplinary team approach to develop a 
combined research strategy and ultimately a better variety-
management system.
    Subterranean termite.--The Committee provides $143,200 for 
continuing termite research in Hawaii to devise and test 
control methods that do not endanger public health and 
environmental preservation goals.
    Sugarcane biotechnology research.--The Committee recognizes 
the importance of furthering the science of molecular 
techniques in sugarcane. By mapping useful genes, transferring 
exotic genes into sugarcane germplasm, and improving selection 
techniques for sugarcane cultivars, much progress can be made 
to increase the efficiency and global competitiveness of the 
U.S. sugar industry. To continue the strong public/private 
relationship between ARS and the American Sugar Cane League and 
expand biotechnology at the work site of the ARS Southern 
Regional Research Center in Houma, LA, the Committee provides 
the fiscal year 2000 level of funding. The Committee expects 
ARS to collaborate with the American Sugar Cane League in 
efforts to coordinate research with other commodity-based 
biotechnology research and continue funding for this vital 
research.
    Support for the National Arboretum.--The Committee is aware 
of the support that the non-profit organization ``Friends of 
the National Arboretum'' provides for the National Arboretum. 
That includes support for various gifts that add to the 
positive exposure, visitation, capital investment, research 
activities, and ongoing operations and maintenance. The 
Committee encourages that type of partnership and generous 
assistance to this critical national resource and directs the 
USDA to work with the Friends of the National Arboretum to 
encourage cooperative support and utilize voluntary services 
and financial support dedicated to increasing its utilization 
and improving the resource and its management.
    Temperate fruit flies.--The Committee recognizes the 
importance and significance of research related to the 
temperate fruit fly not only for the application to the pest's 
primary target, cherries, but for the potential application to 
other tree fruits. In addition, this research will prove 
invaluable as the horticulture industry combats artificial 
trade barriers established by foreign entities when exporting 
Pacific Northwest fruit.
    Tomato spotted wilt virus.--The Committee is aware of the 
widespread losses caused by the tomato spotted wilt virus 
(TSWV) in Hawaii and encourages the agency to provide funds to 
University of Hawaii scientists to transfer genetic resistance 
to TSWV into University of Hawaii breeding lines for impacted 
vegetables.
    Tropical aquaculture research.--The Committee provides 
$1,603,000 for the Oceanic Institute of Hawaii for continuation 
of the comprehensive research program focused on feeds, 
nutrition, and global competitiveness of the domestic 
aquaculture industry.
    Trout genome mapping.--The Committee supports animal 
genomics, the development of genetic and physical maps, along 
with research on gene structure and function. Declining natural 
fishery harvests and rapidly growing populations concerned with 
healthy eating mean that, worldwide, aquaculture production 
will need to increase some 300 percent by 2025 to meet 
projected seafood demand. Investing in trout genome mapping is 
a crucial investment strategy that will lead to the 
identification of genes affecting production traits, improve 
the accuracy of genetic enhancement of animal populations, and 
be useful for characterizing new, potentially valuable 
germplasm populations. Genome mapping will allow the American 
aquaculture industry to remain internationally competitive. The 
Committee continues funding at the fiscal year 2000 level to 
support Trout Genome Mapping at the National Center for Cool 
and Cold Water Aquaculture in cooperation with West Virginia 
University.
    Turfgrass research.--Increasing urbanization and 
environmental impacts are creating the need for more turfgrass 
usage. These same factors are causing a heightened awareness of 
the use of fertilizers, pesticides and water to properly 
establish and maintain turfgrass areas. Through a unique 
partnership, the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program links 
ARS, the turfgrass industry, and land grant universities in 
their common interest of turfgrass cultivar development, 
improvement and evaluation. To enhance the development of 
stress-tolerant and pest-resistant germplasm for the turfgrass 
industry, the Committee provides an increase of $250,000 from 
the fiscal year 2000 level for a new scientist position at the 
ARS facility in Beltsville, MD, dedicated to turfgrass 
research.
    U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center.--The 
Committee provides an increase of $500,000 to the U.S. Pacific 
Basin Agricultural Research Center. Of the increased funds 
provided, $250,000 is for the University of Hawaii at Hilo to 
continue to assist the agency in identifying industry needs, 
transferring technology developed at the Center, and designing 
a research agenda consistent with end-user market demands.
    Viticulture research.--With the emerging importance of the 
grape and wine industry in the Pacific Northwest, the Committee 
provides $450,000 for fiscal year 2001 for the viticulture 
research position at the University of Idaho Parma Research and 
Extension Center, for research at the Center, and for 
cooperative research agreements with University of Idaho 
researchers for viticulture research.
    Waste management research.--The Committee provides an 
increase of $600,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for a 
cooperative waste management research program with Western 
Kentucky University. Emphasis will be placed on the development 
and evaluation of environmentally-friendly management systems 
for waste from poultry farms and processing plants. Systems 
developed in other southern states will be tested for their 
relative effectiveness at preventing potentially polluting 
nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, from entering 
surface and groundwater. In addition, the application of 
poultry manure to fescue pastures will be researched to 
determine the interrelationships of waste management systems to 
the production of endophytic toxins on cattle growth in the 
Mid-South. Other parameters of crop production and waste 
management, such as microbial activity, favorable and 
unfavorable to environment and animal health, will be 
evaluated.
    Water quality.--The Committee acknowledges the progress 
which has been made toward water quality objectives in 
conjunction with the pesticide application technology research 
currently conducted at the Mid South Regional Research Center. 
The ARS should continue this joint research initiative and 
expand it through the integrated pest management objectives 
outlined in the agency's budget request.
    Watershed research, Columbia, MO.--The Committee includes 
$325,000 in fiscal year 2001 funding for ARS for laboratory 
analysis of water samples collected during implementation of, 
and in accordance with, the Missouri Watershed Research, 
Assessment, and Stewardship Project.
    Weed control in the South.--Production of field crops such 
as cotton, soybean, and corn, using genetically engineered 
(transgenic) plants with resistance to herbicides has 
profoundly changed weed control practices. Crop production 
systems using reduced or no tillage and the practice of narrow 
row spacing are being adopted by farmers to reduce production 
costs in traditional, as well as transgenic crops. There is 
limited information available on the integration of these new 
crop production practices. Furthermore, acceptance of 
transgenic crops is not universal, and questions about impacts 
on health, ecology, and economics require increased effort by 
ARS to address these public concerns. Long-term effects on weed 
population shifts and weed density resulting from continuous 
use of a single herbicide are not clear. The Committee provides 
an increase of $500,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for 
this research centered at Stoneville, MS.
    Western grazing lands.--Animal-based agriculture must 
devise new ways to maintain production while complying with 
various regulations designed to improve water quality and 
riparian health. The Committee provides an additional $250,000 
from the fiscal year 2000 level to the Rangeland Research 
Laboratory, Burns, OR, to develop methods for improving water 
quality while maintaining agricultural productivity in 
rangeland areas.
    Wind erosion research.--The Committee provides funding at 
the fiscal year 2000 level for the Wind Erosion Research Unit 
(WERU) in Manhattan, KS. The Committee directs the ARS to avoid 
reprogramming or routing any of the provided funds to or 
through other wind erosion facilities in the ARS system during 
fiscal year 2001.

                        buildings and facilities

Appropriations, 2000....................................     $52,500,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      39,300,000
Committee recommendation................................      56,330,000

    The ARS ``Buildings and Facilities'' account was 
established for the acquisition of land, construction, repair, 
improvement, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed 
equipment or facilities of, or used by, the Agricultural 
Research Service. Routine construction or replacement items 
continue to be funded under the limitations contained in the 
regular account.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For Agricultural Research Service, Buildings and 
Facilities, the Committee recommends an appropriation of 
$56,330,000. This is $3,830,000 more than the 2000 
appropriation and $17,030,000 more than the budget request. The 
Committee's specific recommendations are indicated in the 
following table:

                      ARS BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                      Fiscal year--
                               --------------------------    Committee
      State and facility            2000     2001 budget  recommendation
                                  enacted      estimate
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arizona: Water Conservation           1,400  ...........          5,000
 and Western Cotton
 Laboratory, Maricopa.........
California:
    Western Human Nutrition           9,000  ...........  ..............
     Research Center, Davis...
    Western Regional Research         2,600        4,900          4,900
     Center, Albany...........
District of Columbia: U.S.              500        3,330            530
 National Arboretum...........
Hawaii: U.S. Pacific Basin            4,500  ...........          5,000
 Agricultural Research Center.
Illinois:
    National Center for               1,800  ...........  ..............
     Agricultural Utilization
     Research, Peoria.........
    USDA greenhouse complex,            400  ...........          3,600
     Urbana...................
Iowa: National Animal Disease         3,000        9,000          5,000
 Center, Ames.................
Kansas: U.S. Grain Marketing            100  ...........          3,500
 Research Laboratory, Manhat-
 tan..........................
Louisiana: Southern Regional          5,500  ...........  ..............
 Research Center, New Orleans.
Maine: Northeast Marine Cold    ...........  ...........          2,500
 Water Aquaculture Research
 Center, Orono................
Maryland:
    Beltsville Human Nutrition       13,000       13,300          5,000
     Research Center,
     Beltsville...............
    National Agricultural       ...........        1,770          1,000
     Library, Beltsville......
Mississippi: Insect Rearing           2,000  ...........          5,000
 Facility, Stoneville.........
Montana: Fort Keogh                     530  ...........          5,300
 Laboratory, Miles City.......
New York: Plum Island Animal          3,500        7,000          5,000
 Disease Center, Greenport....
Pennsylvania: Eastern Regional        4,400  ...........  ..............
 Research Center, Philadelphia
Utah: Poisonous Plant                   270  ...........          5,000
 Laboratory, Logan............
                               -----------------------------------------
      Total...................       52,500       39,300         56,330
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The Committee provides funds for design of the U.S. 
National Arboretum, Northeast Marine Cold Water Aquaculture 
Research Center, and National Animal Disease Center 
biocontainment 2 (including necessary utility work) projects. 
Funds are provided to complete construction of the USDA 
greenhouse complex, Urbana, IL; Western Regional Research 
Center, Albany, CA; and Ft. Keogh Laboratory, Miles City, MT, 
projects. The amounts provided for other facilities are toward 
project construction cost requirements. Due to budgetary 
constraints, the Committee is unable to provide the full amount 
required to complete construction of each of these projects.
    Appalachian Farming Systems Research Center facilities 
repairs.--The Committee recognizes the need to improve facility 
deficiencies at the Appalachian Farming Systems Research Center 
in Beaver, West Virginia, and directs the Secretary to 
formulate a plan to provide funds to begin repairs, including 
repair of the conference room roof and structural and 
architectural repairs that would bring the Center in line with 
industry standards and into compliance with building and 
electrical codes.
    Cereal Crops Research Unit, Madison, WI.--The Committee is 
aware that existing office and laboratory space for the ARS 
Cereal Crops Research Unit in Madison, WI, is inadequate to 
accommodate existing staff and research. The existing 
laboratory building is now more than 50 years old and is badly 
in need of modernization, and replacement of the HVAC system is 
required. The ARS is to submit a feasibility study within 180 
days of enactment of this Act to the Committee for the repair 
and modernization of facilities required at this location.
    Southern Plains Range Research Station, Woodward, OK.--The 
Committee recognizes the important contribution of the 
agricultural research program conducted at the Southern Plains 
Range Research Station. Investigations to improve farm and 
range management, enhance profitability and preserve rangeland 
in the Southern Plains is an essential component of the 
Department's research program. The Station is in need of 
additional greenhouses, laboratory facilities, and related 
scientific equipment to effectively carry out its mission. In 
this regard, the agency is directed to furnish a feasibility 
study within 180 days of enactment of this Act detailing costs 
and plans to meet the requirements noted by this Committee for 
an efficient and effective research mission at the Woodward, 
OK, station.
    U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, SC.--The Committee 
has provided funding for the planning, design and construction 
of the new U.S. Vegetable Laboratory at Charleston, SC. The 
Committee considers this laboratory and the plant sciences 
research it houses as critical to the U.S. vegetable industry. 
The Committee understands that while construction financing is 
complete, there still exist several add-alternate items deleted 
from the project's construction. The Committee encourages the 
agency to fund those items, within its program account, as it 
has funded similar equipment, telecommunications, small 
buildings, etc., in past years under existing authorities.

      Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

    The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
Service was established by the Secretary of Agriculture on 
October 1, 1994, under the authority of the Department of 
Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6912). The 
Service was created by the merger of the Cooperative State 
Research Service and the Extension Service. The mission is to 
work with university partners to advance research, extension, 
and higher education in the food and agricultural sciences and 
related environmental and human sciences to benefit people, 
communities, and the Nation.

                   research and education activities

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................    $481,881,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     460,865,000
Committee recommendation................................     494,744,000

\1\ Includes $3,817,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The research and education programs administered by the 
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service 
[CSREES] are the U.S. Department of Agriculture's principal 
entree to the university system of the United States to support 
higher education in food and agricultural sciences and to 
conduct agricultural research as authorized by the Hatch Act of 
1887 (7 U.S.C. 361a-361i); the Cooperative Forestry Research 
Act of 1962 (16 U.S.C. 582a-7); Public Law 89-106, section (2) 
(7 U.S.C. 450i); and the National Agricultural Research, 
Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3101 et 
seq.). Through these authorities, the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture participates with State and other sources of 
funding to encourage and assist the State institutions to 
conduct agricultural research through the State agricultural 
experiment stations of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, 
and the territories; by approved schools of forestry; by the 
1890 land-grant institutions and Tuskegee University; by 
colleges of veterinary medicine; and by other eligible 
institutions.
    The research and education programs participate in a 
nationwide system of agricultural research program planning and 
coordination among the State institutions, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, and the agricultural industry of America.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For research and education activities of the Cooperative 
State Research, Education, and Extension Service, the Committee 
recommends $494,744,000. This amount is $12,863,000 more than 
the 2000 appropriation and $33,879,000 more than the budget 
request.
    The following table summarizes the Committee's 
recommendations for research and education activities of the 
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, 
as compared to the fiscal year 2000 and budget request levels:

 COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION SERVICE [CSREES]--
                    RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Committee
                                      2000      2001 budget   recommen-
                                 appropriation                  dation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Payments under Hatch Act.......       180,545      180,545      180,545
Cooperative forestry research          21,932       21,932       21,932
 (McIntire-Stennis)............
Payments to 1890 colleges and          30,676       30,676       30,676
 Tuskegee University...........
Special research grants (Public
 Law 89-106):
    Advanced genetic             .............  ...........         500
     technologies (Kentucky)...
    Advanced spatial                    1,000   ...........       1,000
     technologies (Mississippi)
    Aegilops cylindricum                  360   ...........         360
     (Washington)..............
    Aflatoxin (Illinois).......           113   ...........         150
    Agricultural                          131   ...........         131
     diversification (Hawaii)..
    Agricultural diversity--Red           250   ...........         250
     River Trade Corridor
     (Minnesota, North Dakota).
    Agricultural                          425   ...........  ...........
     telecommunications (New
     York).....................
    Agriculture-based                     250   ...........         300
     industrial lubricants
     (Iowa)....................
    Agriculture water usage               300   ...........  ...........
     (Georgia).................
    Alliance for food                     300   ...........         300
     protection (Georgia,
     Nebraska).................
    Alternative crops (North              550   ...........         700
     Dakota)...................
    Alternative crops for arid            100   ...........         100
     lands (Texas).............
    Alternative nutrient         .............  ...........         200
     management (Vermont)......
    Alternative salmon products           552   ...........         650
     (Alaska)..................
    Animal science food safety          1,521   ...........       1,521
     consortium (Arkansas,
     Iowa, Kansas).............
    Apple fireblight (Michigan,           500   ...........         500
     New York).................
    Aquaculture (Louisiana)....           330   ...........         330
    Aquaculture (Mississippi)..           592   ...........         592
    Aquaculture (North                    255   ...........         300
     Carolina).................
    Aquaculture (Virginia).....           100   ...........         100
    Aquaculture product and               750   ...........         750
     marketing development
     (West Virginia)...........
    Asparagus technology and     .............  ...........         250
     production (Washington)...
    Babcock Institute                     510   ...........         600
     (Wisconsin)...............
    Beef technology transfer     .............  ...........         300
     (Missouri)................
    Binational agricultural           ( \2\ )        2,000       ( \2\ )
     research and development
     fund......................
    Biodiesel research                    152   ...........  ...........
     (Missouri)................
    Blocking Anhydrous                    212   ...........         250
     methamphetamine production
     (Iowa)....................
    Bovine Tuberculosis                   170   ...........         350
     (Michigan)................
    Brucellosis vaccines                  425   ...........         500
     (Montana).................
    Center for Animal Health              113   ...........         113
     and Productivity
     (Pennsylvania)............
    Center for Rural Studies              200   ...........         200
     (Vermont).................
    Cheseapeake Bay agroecology           150   ...........         150
     (Maryland)................
    Chesapeake Bay aquaculture.           385   ...........         385
    Citrus tristeza............           595   ...........  ...........
    Coastal cultivars (Georgia)           170   ...........  ...........
    Competitiveness of                    680   ...........         680
     agricultural products
     (Washington)..............
    Cool season legume research           329   ...........         329
     (Idaho, Washington).......
    Cranberry/blueberry                   150   ...........         200
     (Massachusetts)...........
    Cranberry/blueberry disease           220   ...........         220
     and breeding (New Jersey).
    Dairy and meat goat                    63   ...........          63
     research (Texas)..........
    Dairy farm profitability     .............  ...........         300
     (Pennsylvania)............
    Delta rural revitalization            148   ...........         208
     (Mississippi).............
    Designing foods for health            319   ...........         750
     (Texas)...................
    Diaprepes/root weevil                 298   ...........  ...........
     (Florida).................
    Drought mitigation                    200   ...........         200
     (Nebraska)................
    Ecosystems (Alabama).......           500   ...........  ...........
    Environmental biotechnology  .............  ...........         200
     (Rhode Island)............
    Environmental research (New           400   ...........  ...........
     York).....................
    Environmental risk factors--          170   ...........  ...........
     cancer (New York).........
    Environmentally-safe                  170   ...........         250
     products (Vermont)........
    Exotic pest diseases         .............  ...........         500
     (California)..............
    Expanded wheat pasture                285   ...........         300
     (Oklahoma)................
    Farm and rural business                87   ...........  ...........
     finance (Arkansas,
     Illinois).................
    Feed barley for rangeland             638   ...........         750
     cattle (Montana)..........
    Floriculture (Hawaii)......           250   ...........         250
    Food and Agriculture Policy           800   ...........         900
     Research Institute (Iowa,
     Missouri).................
    Food irradiation (Iowa)....           200   ...........         200
    Food Marketing Policy                 400   ...........  ...........
     Center (Connecticut)......
    Food Processing Center                 42   ...........          42
     (Nebraska)................
    Food quality (Alaska)......           350   ...........         350
    Food safety (Alabama)......           446   ...........         525
    Food Systems Research Group           425   ...........         500
     (Wisconsin)...............
    Forages for advancing                 212   ...........         500
     livestock production
     (Kentucky)................
    Forestry (Arkansas)........           523   ...........  ...........
    Fruit and vegetable market            320   ...........  ...........
     analysis (Arizona,
     Missouri).................
    Generic commodity                     198   ...........  ...........
     promotions, research and
     evaluation (New York).....
    Global change..............         1,000        1,567        1,300
    Global market support                 127   ...........  ...........
     service (Arkansas)........
    Grain sorghum (Kansas).....           106   ...........         106
    Grass seed cropping for               423   ...........         423
     sustainable agriculture
     (Washington, Oregon,
     Idaho)....................
    Human nutrition (Iowa).....           473   ...........         473
    Human nutrition (Louisiana)           752   ...........         752
    Human nutrition (New York).           622   ...........  ...........
    Hydroponic tomato                     200   ...........  ...........
     production (Ohio).........
    Illinois-Missouri Alliance          1,184   ...........       1,300
     for Biotechnology.........
    Improved dairy management             296   ...........         296
     practices (Pennsylvania)..
    Improved early detection of           170   ...........         200
     crop diseases (North Caro-
      lina)....................
    Improved fruit practices              445   ...........         445
     (Michigan)................
    Infectious disease research           255   ...........         300
     (Colorado)................
    Institute for Food Science          1,250   ...........       1,250
     and Engineering (Arkansas)
    Integrated production                 180   ...........         180
     systems (Oklahoma)........
    Intelligent quality sensor   .............  ...........         150
     for food safety (North
     Dakota)...................
    International agricultural            250   ...........  ...........
     market structures and
     institutions (Kentucky)...
    International arid lands              400   ...........  ...........
     consortium................
    Iowa biotechnology                  1,564   ...........       1,564
     consortium................
    Livestock and dairy policy            475   ...........  ...........
     (New York, Texas).........
    Lowbush blueberry research            220   ...........         260
     (Maine)...................
    Maple research (Vermont)...           100   ...........         120
    Meadowfoam (Oregon)........           300   ...........         300
    Michigan biotechnology                675   ...........         675
     consortium................
    Midwest Advanced Food                 423   ...........         423
     Manufacturing Alliance....
    Midwest agricultural                  592   ...........         592
     products (Iowa)...........
    Milk safety (Pennsylvania).           298   ...........         400
    Minor use animal drugs.....           550          550          550
    Molluscan shellfish                   400   ...........         400
     (Oregon)..................
    Multicommodity research               364   ...........         364
     (Oregon)..................
    Multicropping strategies              127   ...........         127
     for aquaculture (Hawaii)..
    National biological impact            254          254          254
     assessment................
    Nematode resistance genetic           127   ...........         127
     engineering (New Mexico)..
    Nevada arid rangelands                255   ...........         300
     initiative (Nevada).......
    New crop opportunities                425   ...........         500
     (Alaska)..................
    New crop opportunities                595   ...........         750
     (Kentucky)................
    Nonfood uses of                        64   ...........          64
     agricultural products
     (Nebraska)................
    Oil resources from desert             175   ...........         175
     plants (New Mexico).......
    Organic waste utilization             100   ...........         100
     (New Mexico)..............
    Pasture and forage research           225   ...........         250
     (Utah)....................
    Peach tree short life                 162   ...........         180
     (South Carolina)..........
    Peanut allergy reduction              425   ...........         500
     (Alabama).................
    Pest control alternatives             106   ...........         118
     (South Carolina)..........
    Phytophthora root rot (New            127   ...........         127
     Mexico)...................
    Plant, drought, and disease           212   ...........         250
     resistance gene cataloging
     (New Mexico)..............
    Potato research............         1,300   ...........       1,500
    Precision agriculture                 850   ...........         750
     (Kentucky)................
    Preharvest food safety                212   ...........         212
     (Kansas)..................
    Preservation and processing           226   ...........         226
     research (Oklahoma).......
    Protein utilization (Iowa).  .............  ...........         200
    Rangeland ecosystems (New             200   ...........         200
     Mexico)...................
    Red Snapper research                  510   ...........         750
     (Alabama).................
    Regional barley gene                  425   ...........         750
     mapping project...........
    Regional Crop Information    .............       1,500   ...........
     and Policy Centers........
    Regionalized implications             294   ...........         294
     of farm programs
     (Missouri, Texas).........
    Rice modeling (Arkansas)...           296   ...........  ...........
    Rural Development Centers             523          523          523
     (Pennsylvania, Iowa, North
     Dakota, Mississippi,
     Oregon, Louisiana)........
    Rural Policies Institute              644   ...........         644
     (Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri)
    Russian wheat aphid                   200   ...........         300
     (Colorado)................
    Sclerotina disease research  .............  ...........         250
     (Minnesota)...............
    Seafood and aquaculture               305   ...........         305
     harvesting, processing,
     and marketing
     (Mississippi).............
    Seafood harvesting,                   552   ...........       1,200
     processing, and marketing
     (Alaska)..................
    Seafood Safety                        255   ...........         255
     (Massachusetts)...........
    Small fruit research                  300   ...........         350
     (Idaho, Oregon,
     Washington)...............
    Southwest consortium for              338   ...........         338
     plant genetics and water
     resources.................
    Soybean cyst nematode                 475   ...........         500
     (Missouri)................
    STEEP III--water quality in           500   ...........         500
     Northwest.................
    Sustainable agriculture               255   ...........  ...........
     (California)..............
    Sustainable agriculture               445   ...........         445
     (Michigan)................
    Sustainable agriculture and            95   ...........         100
     natural resources
     (Pennsylvania)............
    Sustainable agriculture                59   ...........          59
     systems (Nebraska)........
    Sustainable beef supply               638   ...........         850
     (Montana).................
    Sustainable pest management           425   ...........         500
     for dryland wheat (Mon-
     tana).....................
    Swine waste management                500   ...........         500
     (North Carolina)..........
    Tillage, silviculture,                212   ...........         212
     waste management
     (Louisiana)...............
    Tomato wilt virus (Georgia)           200   ...........         200
    Tropical aquaculture                  170   ...........  ...........
     (Florida).................
    Tropical and subtropical...         2,724   ...........       2,724
    Turkey carna virus                    200   ...........  ...........
     (Indiana).................
    Urban pests (Georgia)......            64   ...........  ...........
    Value-added product          .............  ...........         350
     development from
     agricultural resources
     (Montana).................
    Vidalia onions (Georgia)...           100   ...........         200
    Viticulture consortium              1,000   ...........       1,500
     (California, Pennsylvania,
     New York).................
    Water conservation (Kansas)            79   ...........          79
    Weed control (North Dakota)           423   ...........         450
    Wetland plants (Louisiana).           600   ...........         600
    Wheat genetic research                261   ...........         261
     (Kansas)..................
    Wheat sawfly research        .............  ...........         350
     (Montana).................
    Wood utilization (Alaska,           5,136   ...........       5,786
     Idaho, Oregon, Maine,
     Michigan, Minnesota,
     Mississippi, North
     Carolina, Tennessee)......
    Wool (Montana, Texas,                 300   ...........         300
     Wyoming)..................
                                ----------------------------------------
      Total, special research      \1\ 60,048        6,394       62,207
       grants..................
                                ========================================
Improved pest control:
    Emerging pest/critical                200          467          200
     issues....................
    Expert IPM decision support           177          260          177
     system....................
    Integrated pest management.         2,731        2,731        2,731
    IR-4 minor crop pest                8,990       10,711        8,990
     management................
    Pest management                     1,623        4,200        1,623
     alternatives..............
                                ----------------------------------------
      Total, improved pest             13,721       18,369       13,721
       control.................
                                ========================================
Competitive research grants:
    Animals....................        29,000       35,000       29,750
    Markets, trade, and                 4,600        7,000        4,600
     development...............
    Natural resources and the          20,500       25,000       20,500
     environment...............
    Nutrition, food safety, and        16,000       22,000       17,000
     health....................
    Plants.....................        41,000       48,000       41,250
    Processes and new products.         8,200       13,000        8,250
                                ----------------------------------------
      Total, competitive              119,300      150,000      121,350
       research grants.........
                                ========================================
Animal health and disease (sec.         5,109        5,109        5,109
 1433).........................
Critical Agricultural Materials           600   ...........         650
 Act...........................
Aquaculture centers (sec. 1475)         4,000        4,000        4,000
Alternative crops..............           750   ...........         750
Sustainable agriculture........         8,000       10,500        9,500
Capacity building grants (1890          9,200        9,500        9,500
 Institutions).................
Payments to the 1994                    1,552        1,552        1,552
 Institutions..................
Graduate fellowship grants.....         3,000        5,000        3,000
Institution challenge grants...         4,350        6,000        4,350
Multicultural scholars program.         1,000        2,000        1,000
Hispanic education partnership          2,850        3,500        3,500
 grants........................
Alaska Native serving and        .............  ...........       3,000
 Native Hawaiian-serving
 Institutions education grants.
Secondary agriculture education           500          500        1,000
1994 Institutions research                500        1,000        1,000
 program.......................
                                ========================================
Federal administration:
    Agriculture development in            564   ...........         564
     the American Pacific......
    Agriculture waste                     425   ...........         500
     utilization (West
     Virginia).................
    Alternative fuels                     218   ...........         300
     characterization
     laboratory (North Da-
     kota).....................
    Animal waste management               250   ...........         250
     (Oklahoma)................
    Biotechnology (Mississippi)           425   ...........         600
    Center for Agricultural and           355   ...........         355
     Rural Development (Iowa)..
    Center for innovative food            381   ...........  ...........
     technology (Ohio).........
    Center for North American              87   ...........          87
     Studies (Texas)...........
    Climate change research               170   ...........  ...........
     (Florida).................
    Cotton research (Texas)....           170   ...........         500
    Data information system....         2,000        2,250        2,250
    Geographic information                850   ...........       1,200
     system....................
    Livestock marketing                   170   ...........         200
     information center
     (Colorado)................
    Mariculture (North                    250   ...........         400
     Carolina).................
    Mississippi Valley State              583   ...........         650
     University................
    National Center for Peanut            300   ...........         500
     Competitiveness (Georgia).
    Office of Extramural                  310          588          310
     Programs..................
    Pay costs and FERS.........         1,100        1,100        1,100
    Peer panels................           350          350          350
    PM-10 study (Washington)...           873   ...........         436
    Precision Agriculture                 425   ...........  ...........
     (Alabama, Tennessee)......
    Shrimp aquaculture (Hawaii,         3,354   ...........       5,000
     Mississippi, Arizona,
     Massachusetts, South
     Carolina).................
    Water quality (Illinois)...           297   ...........         400
    Water quality (North                  340   ...........         450
     Dakota)...................
                                ----------------------------------------
        Total, Federal             \1\ 14,248        4,288       16,402
         administration........
                                ========================================
        Total, Cooperative            481,881      460,865      494,744
         State Research,
         Education, and
         Extension Service,
         research and education
         activi-  ties.........
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Totals may not add due to rounding.
\2\ Funding provided under the ``Agricultural Research Service, Salaries
  and Expenses'' account.

    Hatch Act.--The Committee acknowledges the beneficial 
impact Hatch Act funding has on land-grant universities. Hatch 
Act provides the base funds necessary for higher education and 
research involving agriculture. The Committee recommends 
maintaining Hatch Act funding at the fiscal year 2000 level.
    Special research grants under Public Law 89-106.--The 
Committee recommends a total of $62,207,000. Specifics of 
individual grant allowances are included in the table above. 
Special items are discussed below.
    Aquaculture (Stoneville).--Of the $592,000 provided for 
this grant, the Committee recommends at least $90,000 for 
continued studies of the use of acoustics in aquaculture 
research to be conducted by the National Center for Physical 
Acoustics in cooperation with the Mississippi Agriculture and 
Forestry Experiment Station [MAFES] and the Delta Research and 
Extension Center in Stoneville.
    Potato research.--The Committee expects the Department to 
ensure that funds provided to CSREES for potato research are 
utilized for varietal development testing. Further, these funds 
are to be awarded competitively after review by the potato 
industry working group.
    Wood utilization research.--The Committee provides 
$5,786,000 for wood utilization research. Included in this 
amount is $650,000 for the new center established in fiscal 
year 2000 in Alaska, and restoration of the fiscal year 1999 
level of funding for each of the other existing centers.
    Aquaculture centers.--The Committee provides $4,000,000, 
the same as the 2000 level, to support the regional aquaculture 
centers.
    Competitive research grants.--The Committee supports the 
National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program [NRI] 
and provides funding of $121,350,000 for the program, an 
increase of $2,250,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level.
    Within the total funding provided for the National Research 
Initiative competitive grants program, the Committee expects 
the Department to make available the increased funding 
requested in the fiscal year 2001 budget for research in 
support of the President's Food Safety Initiative. For fiscal 
year 2001, these levels, by NRI category, are as follows: 
``Animals,'' $3,800,000; ``Markets, trade, and development,'' 
$15,000; ``Nutrition, food safety, and health,'' $16,313,000; 
and ``Processes and new products,'' $660,000.
    The Committee remains determined to see that quality 
research and enhanced human resources development in the 
agricultural and related sciences be a nationwide commitment. 
Therefore, the Committee continues its direction that 10 
percent of the competitive research grant funds be used for a 
USDA experimental program to stimulate competitive research 
[USDA-EPSCoR].
    Alternative crops.--The Committee recommends $750,000 for 
alternative crop research to continue and strengthen research 
efforts on canola, an increase of $200,000 from the fiscal year 
2000 level.
    Sustainable agriculture.--The Committee recommends 
$9,500,000 for sustainable agriculture, an increase of 
$1,500,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level.
    Increased funds provided for sustainable agriculture 
research and education should include, but in no way be limited 
to, projects on organic agriculture. While organic production 
practices are included under the umbrella of sustainable 
agriculture, it is critical that funding increases be directed 
also to research on broader sustainable agriculture production 
systems and practices. The Committee also directs the 
Department allocate a portion of funding increases to on-farm 
demonstration and producer-research projects.
    Higher education.--The Committee recommends $14,850,000 for 
higher education. The Committee provides $3,000,000 for 
graduate fellowships; $4,350,000 for challenge grants; 
$1,000,000 for multicultural scholarships; $3,500,000 for 
grants for Hispanic education partnership grants; and 
$3,000,000 for Alaska native-serving and native Hawaiian-
serving institutions.
    The Committee notes that the Department's higher education 
multicultural scholars program enhances the mentoring of 
scholars from under-represented groups. The Committee directs 
the Department to ensure that Alaska Natives participate fully 
in this program.
    Federal administration.--The Committee provides $16,402,000 
for Federal administration. The Committee's specific 
recommendations are reflected in the table above.
    Geographic Information System Program.--The Committee 
recommends $1,200,000, an increase of $350,000 from the fiscal 
year 2000 level, for the Geographic Information System Program. 
The Committee recommends the amount provided shall be made 
available for program activities of entities in the same areas 
as in 2000 on a proportional basis. In addition, it is expected 
that program management costs will be kept at a minimum and any 
remaining funds will be distributed to the sites.

              NATIVE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS ENDOWMENT FUND

Appropriations, 2000....................................    ($4,600,000)
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     (7,100,000)
Committee recommendation................................     (7,100,000)

    The Native American Institutions Endowment Fund authorized 
by Public Law 103-382 provides an endowment for the 1994 land-
grant institutions (30 tribally controlled colleges). This 
program will enhance educational opportunity for Native 
Americans by building educational capacity at these 
institutions in the areas of student recruitment and retention, 
curricula development, faculty preparation, instruction 
delivery systems, and scientific instrumentation for teaching. 
Beginning with 2001, it is proposed that funds also be made 
available for facility renovation, repair, construction, and 
maintenance. On the termination of each fiscal year, the 
Secretary shall withdraw the income from the endowment fund for 
the fiscal year, and after making adjustments for the cost of 
administering the endowment fund, distribute the adjusted 
income as follows: 60 percent of the adjusted income from these 
funds shall be distributed among the 1994 land-grant 
institutions on a pro rata basis, the proportionate share being 
based on the Indian student count; and 40 percent of the 
adjusted income shall be distributed in equal shares to the 
1994 land-grant institutions.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund, the 
Committee recommends $7,100,000. This is $2,500,000 more than 
the 2000 level and the same as the budget request.
    The Committee includes language in the bill, as requested 
in the budget, to allow funds under the Native American 
Institutions Endowment Fund (7 U.S.C. 301 note) to be used to 
support facility renovation, repair, construction, and 
maintenance in addition to other authorized purposes.

                          extension activities

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................    $424,174,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     428,236,000
Committee recommendation................................     426,504,000

\1\ Includes $748,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    Cooperative extension work was established by the Smith-
Lever Act of May 8, 1914. The Department of Agriculture is 
authorized to provide, through the land-grant colleges, 
cooperative extension work that consists of the development of 
practical applications of research knowledge and the giving of 
instruction and practical demonstrations of existing or 
improved practices or technologies in agriculture, uses of 
solar energy with respect to agriculture, home economics, 
related subjects, and to encourage the application of such 
information by demonstrations, publications, through 4-H clubs, 
and other means to persons not in attendance or resident at the 
colleges.
    To fulfill the requirements of the Smith-Lever Act, State 
and county extension offices in each State, the District of 
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American 
Samoa, the Northern Marianas, and Micronesia conduct 
educational programs to improve American agriculture and 
strengthen the Nation's families and communities.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For extension activities of the Cooperative State Research, 
Education, and Extension Service, the Committee recommends an 
appropriation of $426,504,000. This amount is $2,330,000 more 
than the 2000 appropriation and $1,732,000 less than the budget 
request.
    The following table summarizes the Committee's 
recommendations for extension activities, as compared to the 
fiscal year 2000 and budget request levels:

 COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION SERVICE (CSREES)--
                          EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                Fiscal year
                                    2000     Fiscal year     Committee
                                  enacted    2001 budget  recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Smith-Lever sections 3(b) and       276,548      276,548        276,548
 3(c).........................
Smith-Lever section 3(d):
    Farm safety...............        3,400  ...........          3,400
    Food and nutrition               58,695       61,043         58,695
     education................
    Indian reservation agents.        1,714        5,000          2,500
    Pest management...........       10,783       12,269         10,783
    Pesticide applicator        ...........        1,500  ..............
     training.................
    Rural development centers.          908          908            908
    Sustainable agriculture...        3,309        4,500          4,000
    Youth at risk.............        9,000       10,000          9,000
    Youth farm safety           ...........        5,000  ..............
     education and
     certification............
Renewable Resources Extension         3,192        3,192          3,192
 Act..........................
1890 colleges and Tuskegee....       26,843       26,843         26,843
1890 facilities grants........       12,000       12,000         12,400
Rural health and safety               2,628  ...........          2,628
 education....................
Extension services at the 1994        3,060        3,500          3,500
 institutions.................
                               -----------------------------------------
      Subtotal................      412,080      422,303        414,397
                               =========================================
Federal administration and
 special grants:
    General administration....        4,736        5,457          4,736
    Ag in the Classroom.......          208          476            476
    Beef producers improvement          197  ...........            197
     (Arkansas)...............
    Botanical garden                    106  ...........            250
     initiative (Illinois)....
    Conservation technology             170  ...........            500
     transfer (Wisconsin).....
    Dairy education (Iowa)....  ...........  ...........            250
    Delta Teachers Academy....        3,500  ...........          3,500
    Diabetes detection,                 550  ...........  ..............
     prevention (Washington)..
    Extension specialist                100  ...........            104
     (Mississippi)............
    Income enhancement                  246  ...........  ..............
     demonstration (Ohio).....
    Integrated cow/calf                 250  ...........  ..............
     management (Iowa)........
    National Center for                 195  ...........            195
     Agriculture Safety (Iowa)
    Pilot technology project            163  ...........  ..............
     (Wisconsin)..............
    Pilot technology transfer           326  ...........            326
     (Oklahoma and
     Mississippi).............
    Potato Pest Management      ...........  ...........            200
     (Wisconsin)..............
    Range improvement (New              197  ...........            197
     Mexico)..................
    Rural development (Alaska)          276  ...........            650
    Rural development (New              280  ...........            280
     Mexico)..................
    Rural development                   150  ...........  ..............
     (Oklahoma)...............
    Rural rehabilitation                246  ...........            246
     (Georgia)................
    Wood biomass as an                  197  ...........  ..............
     alternative farm product
     (New York)...............
                               -----------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Federal        \1\ 12,094        5,933         12,107
         administration.......
                               -----------------------------------------
        Total, extension            424,174      428,236        426,504
         activities...........
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Totals may not add due to rounding.

    Farm safety.--Of the funds recommended for farm safety, the 
Committee recommends continued funding at the fiscal year 2000 
level of $2,597,078 for the AgrAbility project being carried 
out in cooperation with the National Easter Seal Society.
    Pest management.--Included in the amount provided by the 
Committee for pest management Smith-Lever 3(d) funds is 
continued funding at the fiscal year 2000 level for potato late 
blight control, including $400,000 for early disease 
identification, comprehensive composting for cull disposal, and 
late blight research activities in Maine.
    Rural health and safety.--The Committee recommends 
$2,628,000, the same as the fiscal year 2000 level, for rural 
health and safety education. Included in this amount is 
$2,150,000 for the ongoing rural health program in Mississippi 
to train health care professionals to serve in rural areas, and 
$478,000 for the ongoing rural health and outreach initiative 
in Louisiana.
    Youth at Risk.--The Committee recognizes the increased 
problem of methamphetamine and its negative impact on 
communities across the nation. The Committee encourages the 
Extension Service to work in rural communities to prevent the 
use of methamphetamine and increase efforts to educate youth on 
the dangers of this substance.

                         integrated activities

Appropriations, 2000....................................     $39,541,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      76,194,000
Committee recommendation................................      43,541,000

    Section 406 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
Education Reform Act of 1998 authorizes an integrated research, 
education, and extension competitive grants program. Water 
Quality, Food Safety, and Pesticide Impact Assessment Special 
Research Grants and Smith Lever 3(d) programs previously funded 
under Research and Education and/or Extension Activities are 
included under this account, as well as new integrated programs 
to address issues such as pest management.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For integrated activities of the Cooperative State 
Research, Education, and Extension Service, the Committee 
recommends $43,541,000. This amount is $4,000,000 more than the 
2000 level and $32,653,000 less than the budget request.
    The following table summarizes the Committee's 
recommendations for integrated activities:

 COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION SERVICE (CSREES)--
                          INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                Fiscal year  Fiscal year     Committee
                                    2000     2001 budget  recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Small Farm Initiative.........  ...........        4,000  ..............
Water Quality.................       13,000       16,204         13,000
Food Safety...................       15,000       15,000         15,000
Pesticide Impact Assessment...        4,541        4,640          4,541
International Science and       ...........        1,000  ..............
 Education Grants.............
Crops at Risk from FQPA               1,000        3,000          2,000
 Implementation...............
Biobased Products Program.....  ...........        9,600  ..............
Invasive Species..............  ...........        1,500  ..............
FQPA Risk Mitigation Program          4,000       10,000          6,000
 for Major Food Crop Systems..
Methyl Bromide Transition             2,000        5,000          3,000
 Program......................
Organic Transition Program....  ...........        1,000  ..............
Anti-Hunger and Food Security   ...........        5,250  ..............
 Program......................
                               -----------------------------------------
      Total, Integrated              39,541       76,194         43,541
       Activities.............
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Water quality.--The Committee expects a continuation of 
funding at current levels for the Agricultural Systems for 
Environmental Quality Program and the Management Systems 
Evaluation Area Program. The Committee continues funding for 
the Farm*A*Syst program at no less than the fiscal year 2000 
level.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

Appropriations, 2000....................................        $618,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................         635,000
Committee recommendation................................         635,000

    The Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and 
Regulatory Programs provides direction and coordination in 
carrying out laws enacted by the Congress with respect to the 
Department's marketing, grading, and standardization activities 
related to grain; competitive marketing practices of livestock, 
marketing orders, and various programs; veterinary services; 
and plant protection and quarantine. The Office has oversight 
and management responsibilities for the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service; Agricultural Marketing Service; and Grain 
Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and 
Regulatory Programs, the Committee recommends an appropriation 
of $635,000. This is $17,000 more than the 2000 level and the 
same as the budget request.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service


                         salaries and expenses

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                  Total, APHIS
                                                           Appropriations     User fees \1\      appropriations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000 \2\...............................       $350,842,000        $86,926,000       $437,768,000
Budget estimate, 2001 \3\..............................        425,444,000         87,000,000        512,444,000
Committee recommendation...............................        371,098,000         87,000,000        458,149,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Excludes additional resources from the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform [FAIR] Act of 1996 direct
  appropriation.
\2\ Includes $3,495,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.
\3\ Revised budget request, March 31, 2000 (H. Doc. 106-222).

    The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [APHIS] was 
established by the Secretary of Agriculture on April 2, 1972, 
under the authority of reorganization plan No. 2 of 1953, and 
other authorities. The major objectives of APHIS are to protect 
the animal and plant resources of the Nation from diseases and 
pests. These objectives are carried out under the major areas 
of activity, as follows:
    Pest and disease exclusion.--The Agency conducts inspection 
and quarantine activities at U.S. ports of entry to prevent the 
introduction of exotic animal and plant diseases and pests. The 
Agency also participates in inspection, survey, and control 
activities in foreign countries to reinforce its domestic 
activities.
    Agricultural quarantine inspection.--User fees are 
collected to cover the cost of inspection and quarantine 
activities at U.S. ports of entry to prevent the introduction 
of exotic animal and plant diseases and pests.
    Plant and animal health monitoring.--The Agency conducts 
programs to assess animal and plant health and to detect 
endemic and exotic diseases and pests.
    Pest and disease management programs.--The Agency carries 
out programs to control and eradicate pest infestations and 
animal diseases that threaten the United States; reduce 
agricultural losses caused by predatory animals, birds, and 
rodents; provide technical assistance to other cooperators such 
as States, counties, farmer or rancher groups, and foundations; 
and ensure compliance with interstate movement and other 
disease control regulations within the jurisdiction of the 
Agency.
    Animal care.--The Agency conducts regulatory activities 
which ensure the humane care and treatment of animals and 
horses as required by the Animal Welfare and Horse Protection 
Acts. These activities include inspection of certain 
establishments which handle animals intended for research, 
exhibition, and as pets, and monitoring of certain horse shows.
    Scientific and technical services.--The Agency performs 
other regulatory activities, including the development of 
standards for the licensing and testing of veterinary 
biologicals to ensure their safety and effectiveness; 
diagnostic activities in support of the control and eradication 
programs in other functional components; applied research aimed 
at reducing economic damage from vertebrate animals; 
development of new pest and animal damage control methods and 
tools; and regulatory oversight of genetically engineered 
products.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For salaries and expenses of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service, the Committee recommends total funding of 
$458,149,000. This is $20,381,000 more than the 2000 
appropriation and $54,295,000 less than the budget request.
    The following table reflects the Committee's specific 
recommendations for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service:

               ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                Fiscal year  Fiscal year
                                    2000     2001 budget     Committee
                                  enacted      request    recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pest and disease exclusion:
    Agricultural quarantine          34,546       38,450         38,970
     inspection...............
    User fees \1\.............       86,926       87,000         87,000
                               -----------------------------------------
      Subtotal, agricultural        121,472      125,450        125,970
       quarantine inspection..
                               -----------------------------------------
    Cattle ticks..............        4,996        5,276          5,156
    Foot-and-mouth disease....        3,803        3,803          3,803
    Fruit fly exclusion and          25,183       55,110         25,504
     detection................
    Import/export inspection..        6,809        7,237          7,025
    Sanitary/Phytosanitary            7,530        9,492          7,625
     Management...............
    Screwworm.................       30,276       30,400         30,375
    Tropical bont tick........          407          407            407
                               -----------------------------------------
      Subtotal, pest and            200,476      237,175        205,865
       disease exclusion......
                               =========================================
Plant and animal health
 monitoring:
    Animal health monitoring         65,943       69,501         68,529
     and surveillance.........
    Animal and plant health           5,850        6,263          6,263
     regulatory enforcement...
    National Animal Health              627        5,868          3,627
     Emergency Management
     System...................
    Pest detection............        6,680        6,729          6,729
                               -----------------------------------------
      Subtotal, plant and            79,100       88,361         85,148
       animal health
       monitoring.............
                               =========================================
Pest and disease management
 programs:
    Aquaculture...............          766          576            776
    Biological control........        8,153        8,318          8,318
    Boll weevil...............       15,094        2,856         17,946
    Brucellosis eradication...       10,876        8,227          9,943
    Emerging plant pests......        3,507       28,586          3,533
    Golden nematode...........          580          580            580
    Gypsy moth................        4,363        4,420          4,417
    Imported fire ant.........          100  ...........          2,100
    Noxious weeds.............          424        2,124            425
    Pink bollworm.............        1,316        1,074          1,316
    Pseudorabies..............        4,563        4,039          4,039
    Scrapie...................        2,989        8,026          3,024
    Tuberculosis..............        4,916        4,974          5,474
    Wildlife services                31,395       28,684         33,806
     operations...............
    Witchweed.................        1,506        1,506          1,506
                               -----------------------------------------
      Subtotal, pest and             90,548      103,990         97,203
       disease management.....
                               =========================================
Animal care:
    Animal welfare............       10,167       15,167         12,167
    Horse protection..........          361          388            369
                               -----------------------------------------
      Subtotal, animal care...       10,528       15,565         12,536
                               =========================================
Scientific and technical
 services:
    Biotechnology/                    8,523       10,283          9,696
     environmental protection.
    Integrated systems                3,497  ...........  ..............
     acquisition..............
    Plant methods development         4,688        4,806          4,806
     laboratories.............
    Veterinary biologics......       10,337       10,751         10,751
    Veterinary diagnostics....       15,609       17,678         17,514
    Wildlife services methods        10,357       10,525         10,525
     development..............
                               -----------------------------------------
      Subtotal, scientific and       53,011       54,043         53,292
       technical services.....
                               =========================================
Invasive species..............  ...........        8,805  ..............
Contingency fund..............        4,105        4,105          4,105
                               =========================================
      Total, salaries and           437,768      512,444        458,149
       expenses...............
                               =========================================
Recap:
    Appropriated..............      350,842      425,444        371,149
    Agricultural quarantine          86,926       87,000         87,000
     inspection user fees.....
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Excludes additional resources from the Federal Agricultural
  Improvement and Reform [FAIR] Act of 1996 direct appropriations.

    The Committee has provided an increase of $5,000,000 from 
the fiscal year 2000 level for pay cost increases in fiscal 
year 2001.
    The Committee is unable to provide increases requested in 
the President's budget for citrus canker, scrapie, the Asian 
longhorned beetle or the Mexican fruit fly. The Committee is 
also unable to provide funding for the grasshopper crisis or 
Pierce's disease. The Committee directs that the agency 
continue to use contingency funding from available Commodity 
Credit Corporation monies, as it has in past fiscal years, for 
citrus canker, scrapie, the Asian longhorned beetle, the 
Mexican fruit fly, grasshoppers, and Pierce's disease.
    Pest and Disease Exclusion.--The Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform [FAIR] Act (Public Law 104-127) makes 
amounts in excess of $100,000,000 in the agricultural 
quarantine inspection (AQI) user fee account directly available 
for program operations. Of amounts collected in the user fee 
account, up to $100,000,000 are subject to appropriation. For 
fiscal year 2001, the Committee provides an appropriation of 
$87,000,000 from the AQI user fee account. The Department 
estimates that an additional $114,822,796 will be collected and 
available as provided in the FAIR Act (Public Law 104-127). The 
Committee recommendation will support a total of 618 staff 
years at the U.S./Canadian border, the U.S./Mexican border, and 
Hawaii.
    In addition to the total staff years provided by the 
Committee for fiscal year 2001, an increase of $520,000 is also 
provided for seven additional inspectors at the U.S./Mexican 
border at the San Diego ports of entry, two technicians, and 
one clerical support staff. The agency also is directed to use 
the funds necessary from the AQI user fee account to provide at 
the San Diego ports of entry, four inspectors at the cargo 
maritime, one staff year at the canine unit, one technician, 
and one clerical support staff year.
    The Committee urges the Department to actively seek 
procedural and/or treatment methods that allow shipment of 
untreated fruit grown in Hawaii to cold-weather states during 
winter months without jeopardizing pest introductions to 
mainland agriculture.
    The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for the fruit fly exclusion and detection program. The 
agency should continue to use Commodity Credit Corporation 
funds for the fruit fly exclusion and detection program as it 
has in past years.
    The Committee continues its interest in more efficient and 
less disruptive inspection of passengers and cargo in Hawaiian 
airports and directs the agency to provide not less than the 
fiscal year 2000 level of funding for sufficient staff-year 
equivalents of agricultural quarantine inspectors, operating 
funds, and inspection equipment at Hawaii's direct departure 
and interline airports.
    The Committee also encourages the agency to aggressively 
identify and evaluate flexible hiring staff deployment 
arrangements to provide services cost effectively when needed 
by agricultural shippers.
    The Committee is further interested in APHIS's activities 
regarding the acquisition and deployment of commercially 
available, state-of-the-art inspection technology and equipment 
at key points of entry, such as Hawaii, for screening 
passengers' luggage for banned agricultural products and 
reducing the introduction of dangerous pests and diseases into 
the United States.
    Plant and animal health monitoring.--The Committee provides 
an increase of $413,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for the 
animal and plant health regulatory enforcement program, as 
proposed in the budget.
    The Committee provides an increase of $50,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level for a cooperative agreement with Murray 
State University, Breathitt Veterinary Center, Hopkinsville, 
Kentucky, to determine the impact on animal health from common 
agricultural chemical usage.
    The Committee provides an increase of $3,000,000 from 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 Committee provides an increase of $49,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level for the pest detection program.
    The Committee provides an increase of $2,586,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level for the animal health monitoring and 
surveillance (AHMS) program. This amount includes the transfer 
of $524,000 from the pseudorabies program, as proposed in the 
fiscal year 2001 budget request. Also included in this amount 
is an additional $1,000,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for 
Johnes Disease.
    The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for the National Farm Animal Identification and Records 
Project for dairy cattle to be coordinated with the Holstein 
Association.
    The Committee provides funding at the fiscal year 2000 
level for enforcement of the Commercial Transportation of 
Equine for Slaughter Act.
    The Committee continues the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for the national poultry improvement plan [NPIP].
    Pest and disease management.--The Committee continues its 
concern regarding the serious threat to pastures and watersheds 
resulting from the introduction of alien weed pests, such as 
gorse and miconia, into Hawaii. The Committee again directs the 
agency to work with the Hawaii Department of Agriculture and 
the Natural Resources and Conservation Service to develop an 
integrated approach, including environmentally-safe biological 
controls, for eradicating these pests.
    The Committee provides $776,000 for the aquaculture 
program, $191,000 more than the fiscal year 2000 appropriations 
level, to continue the telemetry studies on depredating species 
of wildlife in the Southeast, and for pay cost increases. This 
program is necessary to help catfish farmers manage populations 
of fish-eating birds which continue to migrate to the Mid-south 
area where they prey on farm-raised catfish.
    Boll weevil.--The Committee provides an increase of 
$2,852,000 from the fiscal year 2000 funding level for the boll 
weevil eradication program. The Committee cannot provide an 
increase to achieve the 30 percent Federal cost share under the 
current budget constraints. However, the Committee intends that 
the additional funds provided be used to increase the Federal 
cost share to the maximum extent possible.
    The Committee urges the agency to continue the development 
of the geographic information system so that the economic and 
entomological efficiency of the boll weevil eradication program 
can continue to improve.
    Brucellosis eradication.--The Committee assumes the 
decrease of $2,649,000, as proposed in the budget, for 
brucellosis eradication. However, the Committee provides the 
fiscal year 2000 level of $750,000 for the State of Montana to 
protect the State's brucellosis-free status and for the 
operation of the bison quarantine facility and the testing of 
bison which surround Yellowstone National Park.
    The Committee also provides $600,000, an increase of 
$200,000 from the 2000 fiscal year level, for the Greater 
Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee [GYIBC] and 
encourages the coordination of Federal, State and private 
actions aimed at eliminating brucellosis from wildlife in the 
Greater Yellowstone Area. Of this amount, $200,000 is allocated 
to the State chairing the GYIBC. The remainder shall be equally 
divided between the other two States. The Committee provides 
$250,000, an increase of $40,000 from the fiscal year 2000 
level, for the Idaho Wildlife Brucellosis Plan (IWBP).
    Emerging plant pests.--The Committee provides the fiscal 
year funding 2000 level for the Asian longhorned beetle program 
in New York and Illinois.
    Imported fire ant.--The Committee provides an increase of 
$2,000,000 from 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.
    Noxious weeds.--The Committee continues the demonstration 
project on kudzu at the fiscal year 2000 funding level.
    The Committee encourages the agency to continue working 
with the State of Texas regarding orobanche ramosa at the 
fiscal year 2000 funding level.
    The Committee does not provide the funding increases in 
support of the Presidential Executive Order on Invasive Alien 
Species proposed in the budget.
    Pink bollworm.--The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 
level of funding for the sterile fly release in order to 
continue the San Joaquin Valley containment program and to 
continue the program in Texas and New Mexico.
    Tuberculosis.--The Committee provides an increase of 
$558,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level to maintain current 
staffing levels and related survey and eradication activities. 
Within the additional funding provided, the Committee directs 
the agency to use $500,000 to address bovine tuberculosis in 
Michigan.
    Wildlife services operations.--The Committee provides 
funding at the fiscal year 2000 level to continue cattail 
management and blackbird control efforts in North Dakota, South 
Dakota, and Louisiana.
    The Committee provides an increase of $1,000,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level for predator control programs for 
livestock operators in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Due to the 
increase in federally listed endangered species, the States' 
operations account for Wildlife Services has suffered 
financially.
    The Committee provides an increase of $500,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 funding level to initiate a cooperative 
agreement with the University of Georgia, Auburn University, 
and the Wildlife Services Operations in the State of Georgia to 
address the fluctuations in game bird and predator species 
resulting from recent changes in land use throughout the 
southeastern United States.
    The Committee continues funding of $200,000 for the 
operation of the State Wildlife Services office in Hawaii to 
provide on-site coordination of prevention and control 
activities in Hawaii and the American Pacific. The Committee 
also continues funding of $500,000 for the Hawaii Department of 
Agriculture to coordinate and operate a comprehensive brown 
tree snake prevention and detection program for Hawaii. The 
total amount for these activities is the same as that provided 
for fiscal year 2000.
    The Committee provides an increase of $51,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level to maintain the Wildlife Services Office 
in Vermont, and maintains the fiscal year 2000 funding level 
for the Vermont oral rabies vaccination program.
    The Committee provides an increase of $60,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level to expand the coyote control program for 
sheep operators in West Virginia.
    The Committee continues funding at the fiscal year 2000 
level for the management of beavers. The Committee commends the 
agency's assistance in cooperative relationships with local and 
Federal partners to reduce the cropland and forest damages 
caused by the beaver population.
    The Committee does not agree with the recommendation in the 
President's budget that cooperating agencies and individuals 
should take on a larger share of the costs of ongoing projects.
    Animal Care.--The Committee directs the agency to evaluate 
its authority and its resources for sufficiency to ensure 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.
    The Committee provides an increase of $2,000,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level for the Animal Care Unit for enforcement 
of the Animal Welfare Act.
    The Committee does not assume collections from unauthorized 
animal welfare inspection user fees, as proposed in the 
President's budget.
    Scientific and technical services.--The Committee assumes 
the one-time decrease of $3,497,000 to defer the Integrated 
Systems Acquisition Project (ISAP) and does not assume 
collections from the biotechnology user fees, as proposed in 
the President's budget.
    The Committee provides an increase of $1,173,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level to meet the increasing demands for 
biotechnology permits/notifications, petitions for 
deregulation, and licensing of international activities. The 
Committee does not provide the $325,000 requested for 
environmental review and compliance needs. An increase of 
$414,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level is provided for the 
veterinary biologics program, as proposed in the budget. The 
Committee provides an increase of $1,633,000 from the fiscal 
year 2000 level for the veterinary diagnostics program so that 
current testing methods can be replaced by more modern 
technology.
    The Committee also provides an increase of $168,000 from 
the fiscal year 2000 funding level for wildlife services 
methods development as proposed in the budget.
    The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for the National Monitoring and Residue Analysis 
Laboratory (NMRAL) located in Gulfport, MS. The Committee 
encourages the agency to work with NMRAL to secure payments in 
a timely manner for contract work done for USDA agencies.
    The Committee provides funding at the fiscal year 2000 
level for the cooperative agreement with the Hawaii Agriculture 
Research Center for rodent control only in active agricultural 
areas.
    Projects identified in Senate Report 106-80 and Conference 
Report 106-354 that were directed to be funded by the Committee 
for fiscal year 2000 are not funded for fiscal year 2001 unless 
specifically mentioned herein.
    In complying with the Committee's directives, APHIS is 
expected not to redirect support for programs and activities 
without prior notification to and approval by the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the 
reprogramming procedures specified in the Act. Unless otherwise 
directed, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service shall 
implement appropriations by programs, projects, and activities 
as specified by the Appropriations Committees. Unspecified 
reductions necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act 
are to be implemented in accordance with the definitions 
contained in the ``Program, project, and activity'' section of 
this report.

                        buildings and facilities

Appropriations, 2000....................................      $5,200,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................       5,200,000
Committee recommendation................................       9,870,000

    The APHIS appropriation for ``Buildings and facilities'' 
funds major nonrecurring construction projects in support of 
specific program activities and recurring construction, 
alterations, preventive maintenance, and repairs of existing 
APHIS facilities.
    The following table represents the Committee's specific 
recommendation for this account as compared to the fiscal year 
2000 and budget request levels:

               ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                             Fiscal year
                               Fiscal year   2001 budget     Committee
                              2000 enacted     request    recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Basic buildings and                 4,000         2,000          2,000
 facilities repair,
 alterations, and
 preventative maintenance...
Plum Island, NY.............        1,200         3,200          3,200
Quarantine and seed           ............  ............         4,670
 facilities, AK.............
                             -------------------------------------------
      Total, Buildings and          5,200         5,200          9,870
       Facilities...........
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                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For buildings and facilities of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service, the Committee recommends an appropriation 
of $9,870,000. This amount is $4,670,000 more than the 2000 
level and the budget request.
    The Committee understands that the Alaska State Seed 
Laboratory is in need of improvement and upgrade. The seed 
laboratory provides inspection services for all seed involved 
in intra-state and international trade and species to the 
Alaska commercial seed industry and other private and 
governmental entities in Alaska. Seeds indigenous to Alaska are 
generally superior and the State is becoming a major seed 
supplier to other farmers in the lower United States since 
these seeds are disease free. The Committee provides $3,070,000 
to construct and equip a seed laboratory in Palmer, AK.
    Alaska is also in need of a Post Entry Plant Quarantine 
Facility. The Committee notes that the importation of 
prohibited plant species and those species with special 
restrictions can only lawfully enter the United States through 
the present APHIS facilities, all of which are located in 
temperate regions with seasonal warm weather. Plant material 
grown at the present APHIS facilities may prove to be hardy in 
Arctic climates, and of possible economic value for Alaska. The 
Committee provides $1,600,000 to construct a Post Entry Plant 
Quarantine Facility in cooperation with the Plant Materials 
Center in Palmer, AK.
    The Committee directs that non-Federal researchers be able 
to utilize both APHIS facilities.

                     Agricultural Marketing Service


                           marketing services

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................     $51,497,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      66,572,000
Committee recommendation................................      64,696,000

\1\ Includes $128,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Agricultural Marketing Service was established by the 
Secretary of Agriculture on April 2, 1972. AMS carries out 
programs authorized by some 31 different statutory authorities, 
the primary ones being the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 
(7 U.S.C. 1621-1627); the U.S. Cotton Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 
51-65); the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act (7 U.S.C. 471-
476); the Tobacco Inspection Act (7 U.S.C. 511-511q); the 
Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (7 U.S.C. 499a-499s); 
the Egg Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 1031-1056); and 
section 32 (15 U.S.C. 713c).
    Programs administered by this Agency include the market 
news services, payments to States for marketing activities, the 
Plant Variety Protection Act, the Federal administration of 
marketing agreements and orders, standardization, grading, 
classing, and shell egg surveillance services, transportation 
services, and market protection and promotion.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For marketing services of the Agricultural Marketing 
Service, the Committee recommends an appropriation of 
$64,696,000. This amount is $13,199,000 more than the 2000 
appropriation and $1,876,000 less than the budget request.
    The Committee provides $14,287,000, the full amount 
requested, for the Pesticide Data Program. This represents an 
increase of $1,137,000 from the fiscal year 2000 appropriation. 
The Committee recognizes the importance of the Pesticide Data 
Program (PDP) to collect reliable, scientific-based pesticide 
residue data that benefits consumers, food processors, crop 
protection, pesticide producers, and farmers. The PDP is of 
particular importance since the passage of the Food Quality 
Protection Act, which requires thorough re-evaluation of 
agricultural pesticides and tolerances for uses on individual 
crops. The PDP is an effective tool to maintain the 
availability of critical products which allow the production of 
safe and affordable foods.
    The Committee provides $5,902,000, the full amount 
requested, for costs associated with implementing the Livestock 
Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 1999.
    The State of Alaska has developed the Alaska Grown Program 
to promote the sale of Alaskan products in both military and 
civilian markets. The Committee fully supports this program and 
expects the Department to give full consideration to funding 
applications submitted for the Alaska Grown Program.
    The amount provided also includes $6,235,000 for the 
initiation of a microbiological data program so that baselines 
may be established for the incidence, number and types of food-
borne microorganisms. The Committee expects AMS to coordinate 
with other agencies of USDA, other public health agencies of 
the government, and industry to avoid duplication of effort and 
to ensure that the data collected can be used by all interested 
parties.
    The Committee is aware of the unique factors that affect 
dairy production in Alaska. Because of these factors, only 51 
percent of Alaska's dairy needs can be produced in-State. 
Further, because of the perishable nature of milk and the cost 
to ship it, alternatives to increase milk production at 
Alaska's existing State-owned facility, Matanuska Maid Dairy, 
must be sought. Therefore, the Committee expects AMS, working 
with other USDA agencies, to be of assistance to the State of 
Alaska in addressing this unique problem.
    The Committee continues to recognize the benefits and 
opportunities that organic farming creates for certain 
producers. The Committee expects the Secretary to construct a 
National Organic Program that takes into account the needs of 
small farmers. Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary 
to establish a progressive user fee program so that small 
farmers, handlers, and certification agents are not excessively 
burdened. Furthermore, the Committee directs that of the funds 
available for the National Organic Program, whatever funds are 
necessary should be used to offset the initial costs of 
accreditation services, a subsidy necessary due to lack of 
expertise in the Department of Agriculture in the areas of 
organic accreditation and insufficient data on the industry.
    The Committee is concerned that the recently proposed rule 
on the dairy forward contracting pilot program is unnecessarily 
restrictive and will reduce participation in the pilot. In 
order to address this, the Committee expects the Secretary to 
eliminate the 6-month time limitation placed on dairy forward 
contracts and the 3-day revocation provision for handlers.
    The Committee is aware of the recent bribery charges in 
which eight Agricultural Marketing Service inspectors plead 
guilty to accepting bribes to grade produce at levels lower 
than justified by their actual condition. The Committee is very 
concerned about the impact of fraudulent activities that have 
affected the present integrity of the inspection system and 
expects the Department to act expeditiously to take necessary 
steps to restore public and industry confidence in the 
inspection system.

                 limitation on administrative expenses

Limitation, 2000........................................   ($60,730,000)
Budget limitation, 2001.................................    (60,730,000)
Committee recommendation................................    (60,730,000)

    The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Public Law 
97-35) initiated a system of user fees for the cost of grading 
and classing tobacco, cotton, naval stores, and for warehouse 
examination. These activities, authorized under the U.S. Cotton 
Standards Act, the Tobacco Inspection Act, the Naval Stores 
Act, the U.S. Warehouse Act, and other provisions of law are 
designed to facilitate commerce and to protect participants in 
the industry.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The Committee recommends a limitation on administrative 
expenses of the Agricultural Marketing Service of $60,730,000. 
This amount is the same as the 2000 level and the budget 
request.

          funds for strengthening markets, income, and supply

                              (section 32)

                    marketing agreements and orders

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................     $12,428,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      13,438,000
Committee recommendation................................      13,438,000

\1\ Includes $15,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    Under section 32 of the act of August 24, 1935, (7 U.S.C. 
612c), an amount equal to 30 percent of customs receipts 
collected during each preceding calendar year and unused 
balances are available for encouraging the domestic consumption 
and exportation of agricultural commodities. An amount equal to 
30 percent of receipts collected on fishery products is 
transferred to the Department of Commerce. Additional transfers 
to the child nutrition programs of the Food and Nutrition 
Service have been provided in recent appropriations Acts.
    The following table reflects the status of this fund for 
fiscal years 1999-2001:

         SECTION 32 ESTIMATED TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE AND BALANCE CARRIED FORWARD--FISCAL YEARS 1999-2001
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                               Fiscal year--
                                                         -------------------------------------------------------
                                                                               2000 current        2001 budget
                                                             1999 actual         estimate           estimate
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriation (30 percent of Customs Re-  ceipts).......    $5,701,865,817      $5,735,557,955    $5,738,448,921
    Supplemental Appropriation..........................       145,000,000  ..................  ................
    Less Rescission.....................................        -7,958,000             -15,000  ................
Less Transfers:
    Food and Nutrition Service..........................    -5,048,150,000      -4,935,199,000    -5,127,579,102
    Commerce Department.................................       -66,426,288         -69,920,523       -72,827,819
                                                         -------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Transfers..................................    -5,114,576,288      -5,005,119,523    -5,200,406,921
                                                         =======================================================
Budget Authority........................................       724,331,529         730,423,432       538,042,000
Unobligated Balance Available, Start of Year............       131,966,602         112,630,114       300,000,000
Recoveries of Prior Year Obligations....................         3,527,838  ..................  ................
                                                         -------------------------------------------------------
Available for Obligation................................       859,825,969         843,053,546       838,042,000
                                                         =======================================================
Less Obligations:
    Commodity Procurement:
        Child Nutrition Purchases.......................       400,000,000         400,000,000       400,000,000
        Emergency Surplus Removal.......................       144,484,206          96,000,000  ................
        Diversion Payments..............................       178,264,816  ..................  ................
        Disaster Relief.................................         7,013,711  ..................  ................
Estimated Future Purchases..............................  ................          26,041,546       115,000,000
                                                         -------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Commodity Procurement......................       729,762,733         522,041,546       515,000,000
                                                         =======================================================
Administrative Funds:
        Commodity Purchase Service......................         6,580,001           8,584,000         9,604,000
        Marketing, Agreements, and  Orders..............        10,853,121          12,428,000        13,438,000
                                                         -------------------------------------------------------
            Total, Administrative Funds.................        17,433,122          21,012,000        23,042,000
                                                         =======================================================
            Total, Obligations..........................       747,195,855         543,053,546       538,042,000
                                                         =======================================================
Carryout................................................       112,630,114         300,000,000       300,000,000
                                                         -------------------------------------------------------
    Unobligated Balance Available, End of Year..........       112,630,114         300,000,000       300,000,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The Committee recommends a transfer from section 32 funds 
of $13,438,000 for the formulation and administration of 
marketing agreements and orders. This amount is $1,010,000 more 
than the 2000 level and the same as the budget estimate.
    In previous fiscal years, section 32 funds have been spent 
to purchase and distribute salmon for donation to schools, 
institutions, and other domestic feeding programs. The 
Committee expects the Agricultural Marketing Service [AMS] to 
continue to assess the existing inventories of pink salmon and 
salmon nuggets and determine whether or not there is a surplus 
and continued low prices in fiscal year 2001. If there is 
surplus salmon and continued low prices in fiscal year 2001, 
the Committee expects the Department to purchase surplus salmon 
for use in the aforementioned feeding programs or for 
humanitarian food aid.
    Unexpected increases in inventories of cranberries have led 
to declines in producer prices of up to 66 percent. The 
Committee expects the Agricultural Marketing Service to utilize 
necessary funds for commodity purchases of cranberries to 
address these problems.
    The Committee recognizes the significant losses to the 
apple industry due to multiple factors, including weather and 
the loss of export markets in Asia. These losses have 
particularly affected apple growers in New England, where 
losses are estimated to be as much as $22,000,000 compared to 
the 5-year average production. The Committee expects the 
Agricultural Marketing Service to devote adequate resources to 
addressing the needs of the apple industry, including those in 
New England.

                   payments to states and possessions

Appropriations, 2000....................................      $1,200,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................       1,500,000
Committee recommendation................................       1,200,000

    The Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program [FSMIP] is 
authorized by section 204(b) of the Agricultural Marketing Act 
of 1946 and is also funded from appropriations. Payments are 
made to State marketing agencies to: identify and test market 
alternative farm commodities; determine methods of providing 
more reliable market information, and develop better commodity 
grading standards. This program has made possible many types of 
projects, such as electronic marketing and agricultural product 
diversification. Current projects are focused on the 
improvement of marketing efficiency and effectiveness, and 
seeking new outlets for existing farm produced commodities. The 
legislation grants the U.S. Department of Agriculture authority 
to establish cooperative agreements with State departments of 
agriculture or similar State agencies to improve the efficiency 
of the agricultural marketing chain. The States perform the 
work or contract it to others, and must contribute at least 
one-half of the cost of the projects.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For payments to States and possessions for Federal-State 
marketing projects and activities, the Committee provides 
$1,200,000. This amount is the same as the 2000 appropriation 
and $300,000 less than the budget request.

        Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


                         salaries and expenses

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................     $26,433,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      33,549,000
Committee recommendation................................      27,269,000

\1\ Includes $15,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration 
[GIPSA] was established pursuant to the Secretary's 1994 
reorganization. Grain inspection and weighing programs are 
carried out under the U.S. Grain Standards Act and other 
programs under the authority of the Agricultural Marketing Act 
of 1946, including the inspection and grading of rice and 
grain-related products; conducting official weighing and grain 
inspection activities; and grading dry beans and peas, and 
processed grain products. Under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 
assurance of the financial integrity of the livestock, meat, 
and poultry markets is provided. The administration monitors 
competition in order to protect producers, consumers, and 
industry from deceptive and fraudulent practices which affect 
meat and poultry prices.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For salaries and expenses of the Grain Inspection, Packers 
and Stockyards Administration, the Committee recommends an 
appropriation of $27,269,000. This amount is $836,000 more than 
the 2000 appropriation and $6,280,000 less than the budget 
request.
    The amount provided includes $836,000, the full budget 
request, for mandatory pay cost increases. Due to budgetary 
constraints, no funds are provided for the initiation of new 
projects.
    The Committee does not assume the $19,376,000 in net 
savings from collections from new user fees proposed in the 
budget.

        limitation on inspection and weighing services expenses

Limitation, 2000........................................   ($42,557,000)
Budget limitation, 2001.................................    (42,557,000)
Committee recommendation................................    (42,557,000)

    The Agency provides an official grain inspection and 
weighing system under the U.S. Grain Standards Act [USGSA], and 
official inspection of rice and grain-related products under 
the Agricultural Marketing Act [AMA] of 1946. The USGSA was 
amended in 1981 to require the collection of user fees to fund 
the costs associated with the operation, supervision, and 
administration of Federal grain inspection and weighing 
activities.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The Committee recommends a $42,557,000 limitation on 
inspection and weighing services expenses. This amount is the 
same as the 2000 level and the budget estimate.

             Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety

Appropriations, 2000....................................        $446,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................         560,000
Committee recommendation................................         460,000

    The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety provides 
direction and coordination in carrying out the laws enacted by 
the Congress with respect to the Department's inspection of 
meat, poultry, and egg products. The Office has oversight and 
management responsibilities for the Food Safety and Inspection 
Service.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, the 
Committee recommends an appropriation of $460,000. This amount 
is $14,000 more than the 2000 level and $100,000 less than the 
budget request. Included in the Committee's recommendation is 
the increase requested in the budget for pay costs.

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................    $649,119,000
Budget estimate, 2001 \2\...............................     688,204,000
Committee recommendation................................     678,011,000

\1\ Includes $292,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.
\2\ Revised request, March 31, 2000 (H.Doc. 106-222).

    The major objectives of the Food Safety and Inspection 
Service are to assure that meat and poultry products are 
wholesome, unadulterated, and properly labeled and packaged, as 
required by the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry 
Products Inspection Act; and to provide continuous in-plant 
inspection to egg processing plants under the Egg Products 
Inspection Act.
    The Food Safety and Inspection Service was established on 
June 17, 1981, by Secretary's Memorandum No. 1000-1, issued 
pursuant to Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1953.
    The inspection program of the Food Safety and Inspection 
Service provides continuous in-plant inspection of all domestic 
plants preparing meat, poultry or egg products for sale or 
distribution; reviews foreign inspection systems and 
establishments that prepare meat or poultry products for export 
to the United States; and provides technical and financial 
assistance to States which maintain meat and poultry inspection 
programs.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Committee 
recommends an appropriation of $678,011,000. This amount is 
$28,892,000 more than the 2000 level and $10,193,000 less than 
the budget request.
    The Committee provides for mandatory pay cost increases 
associated with Federal Food Inspection Activities. The 
Committee also provides an additional $7,309,000, the full 
amount requested, for the FSIS portion of the food safety 
initiative.
    The amount provided assumes savings proposed in the budget 
of $4,000,000 upon implementation of daily, unscheduled 
processing inspection. This proposal will allow FSIS to better 
utilize available inspection personnel. The Committee expects 
the Agency to make full use of its authority to ensure that 
inspection resources are rationally dedicated to address 
relative food safety risks and to avoid the disruptive effect 
of continued inspector shortages. To further these objectives, 
the Agency should evaluate greater flexibility in requirements 
for frequency of unscheduled inspection and other possible 
means of enhancing the efficiency of inspection in processing 
establishments. FSIS should report its findings to the 
Committee by January 31, 2001.
    Although specifically not requested, funds are not provided 
for Consumer Safety Officers.
    The Committee remains concerned that FSIS has not finished 
removing or revising those meat and poultry inspection 
regulations inconsistent with the Hazard Analysis Critical 
Control Point (HACCP) based inspection system. The agency has 
missed self imposed deadlines for completing this project, and 
the Committee believes the accomplishments in this area are not 
as extensive as they should be. Accordingly, the Committee 
directs FSIS to prepare by November 1, 2000, a report listing 
every meat and poultry inspection regulation in place prior to 
publication of the Pathogen Reduction/HACCP rule, the agency's 
determination of whether each regulation should be revised or 
removed in the wake of HACCP implementation, and the agency's 
proposed date for completing that revision or removal.
    The Committee believes that agency managers should have an 
understanding of the establishments the agency regulates, which 
necessarily requires the occasional observation of operations 
in an inspected establishment. The Committee expects senior 
policy development personnel of the Field Operations and 
Policy, the Public Health and Science and the Program 
Development and Evaluation offices to become HACCP certified 
and to observe operations in the range of establishments 
inspected by the agency at least semi-annually. The agency is 
directed to provide the Committee a report, no later than March 
1, 2001, listing the senior personnel (GS-14 and above), the 
date on which they become HACCP certified, and the date and 
type of establishment in which they have observed operations.
    The following table represents the Committee's specific 
recommendations for the Food Safety and Inspection Service as 
compared to the fiscal year 2000 and budget request levels:

                            FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                                  2001 budget       Committee
                                                                2000 estimates    request \1\     recommendation
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Federal food inspection......................................          551,987          585,258          578,544
Import/export inspection.....................................           10,456           11,526           10,548
Laboratory services..........................................           32,060           34,393           32,971
Field automation.............................................            8,023            8,023            8,023
Grants to States.............................................           40,655           41,734           40,655
Special assistance for State programs........................            5,231            5,231            5,231
Codex Alimentarius...........................................              707            2,039            2,039
                                                              --------------------------------------------------
      Total..................................................          649,119          688,204          678,011
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\1\ Revised request (H.Doc. 106-222).

    Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
                                Services

Appropriations, 2000....................................        $572,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................         589,000
Committee recommendation................................         589,000

    The Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign 
Agricultural Services provides direction and coordination in 
carrying out the laws enacted by the Congress with respect to 
the Department's international affairs (except for foreign 
economics development) and commodity programs. The Office has 
oversight and management responsibilities for the Farm Service 
Agency, including the Commodity Credit Corporation, Risk 
Management Agency, and the Foreign Agricultural Service.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign 
Agricultural Services, the Committee recommends an 
appropriation of $589,000. This amount is $17,000 more than the 
2000 appropriation and the same as the budget request.

                          Farm Service Agency

    The Farm Service Agency [FSA] was established by the 
Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994, Public 
Law 103-354, enacted October 13, 1994. Originally called the 
Consolidated Farm Service Agency, the name was changed to the 
Farm Service Agency on November 8, 1995. The FSA administers 
the commodity price support and production adjustment programs 
financed by the Commodity Credit Corporation, the warehouse 
examination function, the Conservation Reserve Program [CRP], 
and several other cost-share programs; the Noninsured Crop 
Disaster Assistance Program [NAP]; and farm ownership and 
operating, and emergency disaster and other loan programs.
    Agricultural market transition program.--The Federal 
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, Public Law 104-
127 (1996 act), enacted April 4, 1996, mandates that the 
Secretary offer individuals with eligible cropland acreage the 
opportunity for a one-time signup in a 7-year, production 
flexibility contract. Depending on each contract participant's 
prior contract-crop acreage history and payment yield as well 
as total program participation, each contract participant 
shares a portion of a statutorily specified, annual dollar 
amount. In return, participants must comply with certain 
requirements regarding land conservation, wetland protection, 
planting flexibility, and agricultural use. Contract crops, for 
the purposes of determining eligible cropland and payments, 
include wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland 
cotton, and rice. This program does not include any production 
adjustment requirements or related provisions, except for 
restrictions on the planting of fruits and vegetables.
    Marketing assistance loan program, price support programs, 
and other loan and related programs.--The 1996 act provides for 
marketing assistance loans to producers of contract 
commodities, extra long staple [ELS] cotton, and oilseeds for 
the 1996 through 2002 crops. With the exception of ELS cotton, 
these nonrecourse loans are characterized by loan repayment 
rates that may be determined to be less than the principal plus 
accrued interest per unit of the commodity. However, with 
respect to cotton and rice, the Secretary must allow repayment 
of marketing loans at the adjusted world price. And, 
specifically with respect to the cotton marketing assistance 
loan, the program continues to provide for redemption at the 
lower of the loan principal plus accrued storage and interest, 
or the adjusted world price. The three-step competitiveness 
provisions are unchanged.
    The 1996 act also provides for a loan program for sugar for 
the 1996 through 2002 crops of sugar beets and sugarcane, where 
the loans may be either recourse or nonrecourse in nature 
depending on the level of the tariff rate quota for imports of 
sugar. The 1996 act provides for a milk price support program, 
whereby the price of milk is supported through December 31, 
1999, via purchases of butter, cheese, and nonfat dry milk. The 
rate of support is fixed each calendar year, starting at $10.35 
per hundredweight in 1996 and declining each year to $9.90 per 
hundredweight in 1999. The Fiscal Year 2000 Appropriations Act, 
Public Law 106-78, enacted October 22, 1999, extends the milk 
price support program through December 31, 2000. The 1996 act 
and the 1938 act provide for a peanut loan and poundage quota 
program for the 1996 through 2002 crops of peanuts. Finally, 
the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended (1949 act), and the 
1938 act provide for a price support, quota, and allotment 
program for tobacco.
    The interest rate on commodity loans secured on or after 
October 1, 1996, will be 1 percentage point higher than the 
formula which was used to calculate commodity loans secured 
prior to fiscal year 1997. The CCC monthly commodity loan 
interest rate will in effect be 1 percentage point higher than 
CCC's cost of money for that month.
    The 1996 act amended the payment limitation provisions in 
the Food Security Act of 1985, as amended (1985 act), by 
changing the annual $50,000 payment limit per person for 
deficiency and diversion payments to an annual $40,000 payment 
limit per person for contract payments. The annual $75,000 
payment limit per person applicable to combined marketing loan 
gains and loan deficiency payments for all commodities that was 
in effect for the 1991 through 1995 crop years continues 
through the 2002 crop year. Similarly, the three entity rule is 
continued.
    Commodity Credit Corporation program activities.--Various 
price support and related programs have been authorized in 
numerous legislative enactments since the early 1930's. 
Operations under these programs are financed through the 
Commodity Credit Corporation. Personnel and facilities of the 
Farm Service Agency are utilized in the administration of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation, and the Administrator of the 
Agency is also Executive Vice President of the Corporation.
    The 1996 act created new conservation programs to address 
high-priority environmental protection goals and authorizes CCC 
funding for many of the existing and new conservation programs. 
The Natural Resources Conservation Service administers many of 
the programs financed through CCC.
    Foreign assistance programs and other special activities.--
Various surplus disposal programs and other special activities 
are conducted pursuant to specific statutory authorizations and 
directives. These laws authorize the use of CCC funds and 
facilities to implement the programs. Appropriations for these 
programs are transferred or paid to the Corporation for its 
costs incurred in connection with these activities, such as 
Public Law 480.
    Farm credit programs.--FSA reviews applications, makes and 
collects loans, and provides technical assistance and guidance 
to borrowers. Under credit reform, administrative costs 
associated with agricultural credit insurance fund [ACIF] loans 
are appropriated to the ACIF program account and transferred to 
FSA salaries and expenses.
    Risk management.--FSA administers the noninsured Crop 
Disaster Assistance Program [NAP] which provides crop loss 
protection for growers of many crops for which crop insurance 
is not available.

                         salaries and expenses

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                  Total, FSA,
                                                            Appropriations    Transfers from      salaries and
                                                                             program accounts       expenses
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000.....................................  \1\ $794,394,000    ($211,265,000)  \2\ ($1,005,659,0
                                                                                                             00)
Budget estimate, 2001....................................       828,385,000     (266,719,000)    (1,095,104,000)
Committee recommendation.................................       828,385,000     (266,719,000)    (1,095,104,000)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Includes $445,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.
\2\ Excludes $56,000,000 in emergency and disaster assistance provided by Public Law 106-78.

    The account ``Salaries and expenses, Farm Service Agency,'' 
funds the administrative expenses of program administration and 
other functions assigned to FSA. The funds consist of 
appropriations and transfers from the CCC export credit 
guarantees, Public Law 480 loans, and agricultural credit 
insurance fund program accounts, and miscellaneous advances 
from other sources. All administrative funds used by FSA are 
consolidated into one account. The consolidation provides 
clarity and better management and control of funds, and 
facilitates accounting, fiscal, and budgetary work by 
eliminating the necessity for making individual allocations and 
allotments and maintaining and recording obligations and 
expenditures under numerous separate accounts.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For salaries and expenses of the Farm Service Agency [FSA], 
including funds transferred from other program accounts, the 
Committee recommends $1,095,104,000. This is $89,445,000 more 
than the 2000 level and the same as the budget request.
    The Committee is concerned that the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture's [USDA] square footage restrictions on leased 
space at USDA Service Centers fail to account for space 
requirements of temporary employees and records storage. The 
new restrictions on square footage for office space has unduly 
burdened counties and municipal governments that constructed 
new facilities to accommodate the Department's needs for the 
collocation of field offices. The Committee directs USDA to 
provide sufficient flexibility in office space restrictions to 
allow necessary space for temporary employees and record 
storage. The Department is also directed to avoid imposing new 
and burdensome costs on municipal landlords.

                         state mediation grants

Appropriations, 2000....................................      $3,000,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................       4,000,000
Committee recommendation................................       3,000,000

    This program is authorized under title V of the 
Agricultural Credit Act of 1987. Originally designed to address 
agricultural credit disputes, the program was expanded by the 
Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture 
Reorganization Act of 1994 to include other agricultural issues 
such as wetland determinations, conservation compliance, rural 
water loan programs, grazing on National Forest System lands, 
and pesticides. Grants are made to States whose mediation 
programs have been certified by the Farm Service Agency [FSA]. 
Grants will be solely for operation and administration of the 
State's agricultural mediation program.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The Committee recommends $3,000,000 for State mediation 
grants. This is the same as the amount provided in 2000 and 
$1,000,000 less than the budget request.

                        dairy indemnity program

Appropriations, 2000....................................        $450,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................         450,000
Committee recommendation................................         450,000

    Under the program, the Department makes indemnification 
payments to dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy products 
who, through no fault of their own, suffer losses because they 
are directed to remove their milk from commercial markets due 
to contamination of their products by registered pesticides. 
The program also authorizes indemnity payments to dairy farmers 
for losses resulting from the removal of cows or dairy products 
from the market due to nuclear radiation or fallout.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the dairy indemnity program, the Committee recommends 
$450,000. This is the same as the 2000 level and the budget 
request.

           Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program Account

    The Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program Account is 
used to insure or guarantee farm ownership, farm operating, and 
emergency loans to individuals, as well as the following types 
of loans to associations: irrigation and drainage, grazing, 
Indian tribe land acquisition and boll weevil eradication. The 
insurance endorsement on each insured loan may include an 
agreement by the Government to purchase the loan after a 
specified initial period.
    FSA is also authorized to provide financial assistance to 
borrowers by guaranteeing loans made by private lenders having 
a contract of guarantee from FSA as approved by the Secretary 
of Agriculture.
    The following programs are financed through this fund:
    Farm ownership loans.--Made to borrowers who cannot obtain 
credit elsewhere to restructure their debts, improve or 
purchase farms, refinance nonfarm enterprises which supplement 
but do not supplant farm income, or make additions to farms. 
Total indebtedness to FSA may not exceed $200,000 for direct 
loans and $700,000 for guaranteed loans. Loans are made for 40 
years or less.
    Farm operating loans.--Provide short-to-intermediate term 
production or chattel credit to farmers who cannot obtain 
credit elsewhere, to improve their farm and home operations, 
and to develop or maintain a reasonable standard of living. 
Total indebtedness to FSA may not exceed $200,000 for direct 
loans and $700,000 for guaranteed loans. The term of the loan 
varies from 1 to 7 years.
    Emergency disaster loans.--Made available in designated 
areas (counties) and in contiguous counties where property 
damage and/or severe production losses have occurred as a 
direct result of a natural disaster. Areas may be declared by 
the President or designated for emergency loan assistance by 
the Secretary of Agriculture. The loan may be up to $500,000.
    Credit sales of acquired property.--Property is sold out of 
inventory and is made to an eligible buyer by providing FSA 
loans.
    Indian tribe land acquisition loans.--Made to any Indian 
tribe recognized by the Secretary of the Interior or tribal 
corporation established pursuant to the Indian Reorganization 
Act which does not have adequate uncommitted funds to acquire 
lands or interest in lands within the tribe's reservation or 
Alaskan Indian community, as determined by the Secretary of the 
Interior, for use of the tribe or the corporation or the 
members thereof.
    Boll weevil eradication loans.--Made to assist foundations 
in financing the operations of the boll weevil eradication 
programs provided to farmers.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The Committee recommends a total level for farm loans of 
$3,083,243,000. This is $49,000 less than the 2000 level and 
$1,474,695,000 less than the budget estimate.
    The following table reflects the program levels for farm 
credit programs administered by the Farm Service Agency 
recommended by the Committee, as compared to the fiscal year 
2000 and the budget request levels:

                                    AGRICULTURAL CREDIT PROGRAMS--LOAN LEVELS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                                                     Committee
                                                                   2000 enacted     2001 budget   recommendation
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Farm ownership:
    Direct......................................................   \1\ (128,049)       (128,000)       (128,000)
    Guaranteed..................................................   \2\ (431,373)     (1,000,000)       (431,373)
Farm operating:
    Direct......................................................   \3\ (500,000)       (700,000)       (500,000)
    Guaranteed unsubsidized.....................................  \4\ (1,697,842     (2,000,000)     (1,697,842)
                                                                               )
    Guaranteed subsidized.......................................   \5\ (200,000)       (477,868)       (200,000)
Indian tribe land acquisition...................................         (1,028)         (2,005)         (1,028)
Emergency disaster..............................................    \6\ (25,000)       (150,065)        (25,000)
Boll weevil eradication loans...................................       (100,000)       (100,000)       (100,000)
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
      Total, farm loans.........................................     (3,083,292)     (4,557,938)     (3,083,243)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Excludes estimated $21,951,000 increase funded by emergency supplemental loan subsidy appropriation provided
  by Public Law 106-113.
\2\ Excludes estimated $568,627,000 increase funded by emergency supplemental loan subsidy appropriation
  provided by Public Law 106-113.
\3\ Excludes estimated $400,000,000 increase funded by emergency supplemental loan subsidy appropriation
  provided by Public Law 106-113.
\4\ Excludes estimated $302,158,000 increase funded by emergency supplemental loan subsidy appropriation
  provided by Public Law 106-113.
\5\ Excludes estimated $702,558,000 increase funded by emergency supplemental loan subsidy appropriation
  provided by Public Law 106-113.
\6\ Excludes estimated $547,000,000 increase funded by emergency supplemental loan subsidy appropriation
  provided by Public Law 106-113.

           loan subsidies and administrative expenses levels


                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                               Subsidies                         Administrative expenses
                                --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Insured     Guaranteed                               Transfer to
                                     loan         loan        Total     Appropriations      FSA       Total ACIF
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000...........   \1\ 38,030   \2\ 43,976       82,006          4,300       209,861      296,167
Budget estimate, 2001..........      114,060       71,494      185,554          4,139       265,315      455,008
Committee recommendation.......       65,185       41,780      106,965          4,139       265,315      376,419
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\1\ Excludes estimated $109,218,000 in emergency supplemental appropriation provided by Public Law 106-113.
\2\ Excludes estimated $69,339,000 in emergency supplemental appropriation provided by Public Law 106-113.

    The Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 established the 
program account. Appropriations to this account are used to 
cover the lifetime subsidy costs associated with the direct 
loans obligated and loan guarantees committed, as well as for 
administrative expenses.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The following table reflects the cost of loan programs 
under credit reform:

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                                                     Committee
                                                                   2000 enacted     2001 budget   recommendation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Loan subsidies:
    Farm ownership:
        Direct..................................................       \1\ 4,827          13,786          13,786
        Guaranteed..............................................       \2\ 2,416           5,100           2,200
    Farm operating:
        Direct..................................................      \3\ 29,300          63,140          45,100
        Guaranteed unsubsidized.................................      \4\ 23,940          27,400          23,260
        Guaranteed subsidized...................................      \5\ 17,620          38,994          16,320
    Indian tribe land acquisition...............................              21             323             166
    Emergency disaster..........................................       \6\ 3,882          36,811           6,133
    Boll weevil eradication loans...............................         ( \7\ )         ( \7\ )         ( \7\ )
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
        Total, loan subsidies...................................          82,006         185,554         106,965
ACIF expenses...................................................     \8\ 214,161         269,454         269,454
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Excludes enacted emergency supplemental appropriation of $828,000 (Public Law 106-113).
\2\ Excludes enacted emergency supplemental appropriation of $3,184,000 (Public Law 106-113).
\3\ Excludes enacted emergency supplemental appropriation of $23,441,000 (Public Law 106-113).
\4\ Excludes enacted emergency supplemental appropriation of $4,260,000 (Public Law 106-113).
\5\ Excludes enacted emergency supplemental appropriation of $61,895,000 (Public Law 106-113).
\6\ Excludes enacted emergency supplemental appropriation of $84,949,000 (Public Law 106-113).
\7\ No cost since subsidy rate is negative.
\8\ Excludes enacted emergency supplemental appropriation of $178,557,000 (Public Law 106-113).

                         Risk Management Agency

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................     $63,983,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      67,700,000
Committee recommendation................................      65,597,000

\1\ Includes $17,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    Under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform [FAIR] 
Act of 1996, risk management activities previously performed by 
the Farm Service Agency will be performed by the new Risk 
Management Agency.
    Risk management includes program activities in support of 
the Federal Crop Insurance Program as authorized by the Federal 
Crop Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture 
Reorganization Act of 1994 and the FAIR Act. Functional areas 
of risk management are: research and development; insurance 
services; and compliance, whose functions include policy 
formulation and procedures and regulations development. Reviews 
and evaluations are conducted for overall performance to ensure 
the actuarial soundness of the insurance program.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For administrative and operating expenses for the Risk 
Management Agency, the Committee recommends an appropriation of 
$65,597,000. This is $1,614,000 more than the 2000 level and 
$2,103,000 less than the budget request.
    The amount provided includes $1,614,000, the full amount 
requested, for mandatory pay cost increases.
    The Committee recognizes the importance of improved risk 
management tools for dairy farmers and has been concerned by 
the Risk Management Agency's (RMA) administration of the Dairy 
Options Pilot Program (DOPP). The Committee directs the 
Secretary to ensure that the DOPP is offered under appropriate 
market conditions to ensure the maximum participation possible. 
Further, the Committee directs the Secretary to offer DOPP to 
the same county for more than 1 year and to allow producers in 
such counties to participate for more than 1 year, as 
explicitly contemplated in the authorizing statute.

                              CORPORATIONS


                Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund

    The Federal Crop Insurance Reform Act of 1994 was designed 
to replace the combination of crop insurance and ad hoc 
disaster payment programs with a strengthened crop insurance 
program.
    Producers of insurable crops are eligible to receive a 
basic level of protection against catastrophic losses, which 
cover 50 percent of the normal yield at 55 percent of the 
expected price. The only cost to the producer is an 
administrative fee of $60 per crop per policy, or $200 for all 
crops grown by the producer in a county, with a cap of $600 
regardless of the number of crops and counties involved. At 
least catastrophic [CAT] coverage was required for producers 
who participate in the commodity support, farm credit, and 
certain other farm programs. Under the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform [FAIR] Act of 1996, producers are 
offered the option of waiving their eligibility for emergency 
crop loss assistance instead of obtaining CAT coverage to meet 
program requirements. Emergency loss assistance does not 
include emergency loans or payment under the Noninsured 
Assistance Program [NAP]. Beginning with the 1997 crop, the 
Secretary began phasing out delivery of CAT coverage through 
the FSA offices, and in 1998 designated the private insurance 
providers as the sole source provider of CAT coverage.
    The Reform Act of 1994 also provides increased subsidies 
for additional buy-up coverage levels which producers may 
obtain from private insurance companies. The amount of subsidy 
is equivalent to the amount of premium established for 
catastrophic risk protection coverage for coverage up to 65 
percent level at 100 percent price. For coverage equal to or 
greater than 65 percent at 100 percent of the price, the amount 
is equivalent to an amount equal to the premium established for 
50 percent yield indemnified at 75 percent of the expected 
market price.
    The reform legislation included the NAP program for 
producers of crops for which there is currently no insurance 
available. NAP was established to ensure that most producers of 
crops not yet insurable will have protection against crop 
catastrophes comparable to protection previously provided by ad 
hoc disaster assistance programs. While the NAP program was 
implemented under the Deputy Administrator for Risk Management, 
under the FAIR Act of 1996, the NAP program will remain with 
the Farm Service Agency and be incorporated into the Commodity 
Credit Corporation program activities.

                federal crop insurance corporation fund

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................    $710,857,000
Budget estimate, 2001 \2\...............................   1,727,671,000
Committee recommendation \3\............................   1,727,671,000

\1\ Such sums as are necessary is provided for 2000.
\2\ The 2001 budget also requests such sums as may be necessary to 
remain available until expended.
\3\ The Committee recommends such sums as may be necessary, currently 
estimated to be $1,727,671,000.

    The Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended by the Federal 
Crop Insurance Reform Act of 1994, authorizes the payment of 
expenses which may include indemnity payments, loss adjustment, 
delivery expenses, program-related research and development, 
startup costs for implementing this legislation such as 
studies, pilot projects, data processing improvements, public 
outreach, and related tasks and functions.
    All program costs for 2001, except for Federal salaries and 
expenses, are mandatory expenditures subject to appropriation.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation fund, the 
Committee recommends an appropriation of such sums as may be 
necessary, estimated to be $1,727,671,000. This is 
$1,016,814,000 more than the amount provided in 2000.

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund

    The Commodity Credit Corporation [CCC] is a wholly owned 
Government corporation created in 1933 to stabilize, support, 
and protect farm income and prices; to help maintain balanced 
and adequate supplies of agricultural commodities, including 
products, foods, feeds, and fibers; and to help in the orderly 
distribution of these commodities. CCC was originally 
incorporated under a Delaware charter and was reincorporated 
June 30, 1948, as a Federal corporation within the Department 
of Agriculture by the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, 
approved June 29, 1948 (15 U.S.C. 714).
    The Commodity Credit Corporation engages in buying, 
selling, lending, and other activities with respect to 
agricultural commodities, their products, food, feed, and 
fibers. Its purposes include stabilizing, supporting, and 
protecting farm income and prices; maintaining the balance and 
adequate supplies of selected commodities; and facilitating the 
orderly distribution of such commodities. In addition, the 
Corporation makes available materials and facilities required 
in connection with the storage and distribution of such 
commodities. The Corporation also disburses funds for sharing 
of costs with producers for the establishment of approved 
conservation practices on environmentally sensitive land and 
subsequent rental payments for such land for the duration of 
Conservation Reserve Program contracts.
    Activities of the Corporation are primarily governed by the 
following statutes: the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter 
Act; the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
1996, Public Law 104-127 (1996 act), enacted April 4, 1996; the 
Agricultural Act of 1949 (1949 act); the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act of 1938 (1938 act); and the Food Security Act of 
1985 (1985 act).
    The 1996 act requires that the following programs be 
offered for the 1996 through 2002 crops: 7-year production 
flexibility contracts for contract commodities (wheat, feed 
grains, upland cotton, and rice); nonrecourse marketing 
assistance loans for contract commodities, extra long staple 
[ELS] cotton, and oilseeds; a nonrecourse loan program for 
peanuts; and a nonrecourse/recourse loan program for sugar. The 
1996 act also requires a milk price support program that begins 
after enactment of the act and continues through December 31, 
1999. Public Law 106-78 extended the milk price support program 
through December 31, 2000.
    The 7-year production flexibility contracts were offered to 
eligible landowners and producers on a one-time basis in 1996, 
with some contracts being available in subsequent years for 
eligible contract-commodity acreage in the CRP program that, 
prior to 2002, is either withdrawn early or for which the 
contract expires. Statutorily established fixed dollar amounts 
are to be distributed annually among contract participants 
according to statutory formulas. With the exception of 
limitations on fruits and vegetables, contract acreage may be 
planted (or not planted) to any crop, but the contract acreage 
must be devoted to an approved agricultural use and contract 
participants must comply with applicable land conservation and 
wetland protection requirements.
    Marketing assistance loans are available to producers of 
ELS cotton and oilseeds. Such loans are also available to 
producers of contract commodities, but only if the producers of 
such commodities are contract participants. Marketing loan 
provisions and loan deficiency payments are applicable to all 
such commodities except ELS cotton.
    The peanut loan program as provided by the 1996 act is 
accompanied by the poundage quota program authorized by the 
1938 act. The loan rate for quota peanuts is set at $610 per 
ton for each of the crop years, 1996 through 2002. The quota 
poundage floor (1.35 million tons in 1995) authorized by the 
1938 act for 1995 is eliminated for the 1996 through 2002 
crops. The 1996 act also amends the peanut provisions of the 
1938 act pertaining to undermarketings of farm quotas and 
transfers of quotas across county lines.
    The 1996 act created a recourse loan program for sugar that 
reverts to a nonrecourse loan program in a given fiscal year if 
the tariff rate quota for imports of sugar exceeds 1.5 million 
short tons (raw value) in any fiscal year, 1997-2002. The 1996 
act suspends marketing allotment provisions in the 1938 act and 
implements a 1-cent-per-pound penalty if cane sugar pledged as 
collateral for a Corporation loan is forfeited. A similar 
penalty applies to beet sugar.
    The tobacco loan program authorized by the 1949 act is 
supplemented by the quota and allotment programs authorized by 
the 1938 act. The tobacco program provisions in both acts were 
not affected by the 1996 act.
    Milk prices are supported each year through the end of 
calendar year 1999 at statutorily established levels through 
purchases of butter, cheese, and nonfat dry milk. The calendar 
year 1996 support level was $10.35 per hundredweight for milk 
containing 3.67 percent butterfat, and the rate declines 
annually to $9.90 per hundredweight for calendar year 1999. 
Public Law 106-78 extends the milk price support program 
through December 31, 2000.
    The interest rate on commodity loans secured on or after 
October 1, 1996, will be 1 percentage point higher than the 
formula which was used to calculate commodity loans secured 
prior to fiscal year 1997. The CCC monthly commodity loan 
interest rate will in effect be 1 percentage point higher than 
CCC's cost of money for that month. Moreover, the Corporation's 
use of funds for purchases of information technology equipment, 
including computers, is more restricted than it was prior to 
enactment of the 1996 act.
    The 1996 act amends the 1985 act to establish the 
Environmental Conservation Acreage Reserve Program [ECARP], 
which encompasses the Conservation Reserve Program [CRP], the 
Wetland Reserve Program [WRP], and the Environmental Quality 
Incentives Program [EQIP]. Each of these programs is funded 
through the Corporation.
    The CRP continues through fiscal year 2002, with up to 36.4 
million acres enrolled at any one time. Except for lands that 
are determined to be of high environmental value, the Secretary 
is to allow participants to terminate any CRP contract entered 
into prior to January 1, 1995, upon written notice, provided 
the contract has been in effect for at least 5 years. The 
Secretary maintains discretionary authority to conduct future 
early outs and future sign-ups of lands that meet enrollment 
eligibility criteria.
    WRP is reauthorized through the year 2002, not to exceed 
975,000 acres in total enrollment. Beginning October 1, 1996, 
one-third of the land enrolled is to be in permanent easements, 
one-third in 30-year easements or less, and one-third in 
wetland restoration agreements with cost sharing; 75,000 acres 
of land in less than permanent easements must be placed in the 
program before any additional permanent easements are placed.
    A new, cost-share assistance program, EQIP, is established 
to assist crop and livestock producers deal with environmental 
and conservation improvements on the farm. The 1996 act 
authorizes program funding of $200,000,000 annually for fiscal 
years 1997 through 2002. One-half of the available funds are 
for addressing conservation problems associated with livestock 
operations and one-half for other conservation concerns. Five- 
to ten-year contracts, based on a conservation plan will be 
used to implement the program.
    The 1996 act also authorizes other new Corporation-funded 
conservation programs, including the conservation farm option, 
flood risk reduction contracts, the Wildlife Habitat Incentives 
Program, and the Farmland Protection Program.
    Management of the Corporation is vested in a board of 
directors, subject to the general supervision and direction of 
the Secretary of Agriculture, who is an ex-officio director and 
chairman of the board. The board consists of seven members, in 
addition to the Secretary, who are appointed by the President 
of the United States with the advice and consent of the Senate. 
Officers of the Corporation are designated according to their 
positions in the Department of Agriculture.
    The activities of the Corporation are carried out mainly by 
the personnel and through the facilities of the Farm Service 
Agency [FSA] and the Farm Service Agency State and county 
committees. The Foreign Agricultural Service, the General Sales 
Manager, other agencies and offices of the Department, and 
commercial agents are also used to carry out certain aspects of 
the Corporation's activities.
    The Corporation's capital stock of $100,000,000 is held by 
the United States. Under present law, up to $30,000,000,000 may 
be borrowed from the U.S. Treasury, from private lending 
agencies, and from others at any one time. The Corporation 
reserves a sufficient amount of its borrowing authority to 
purchase at any time all notes and other obligations evidencing 
loans made by such agencies and others. All bonds, notes, 
debentures, and similar obligations issued by the Corporation 
are subject to approval by the Secretary of the Treasury.
    Under Public Law 87-155 (15 U.S.C. 713a-11, 713a-12), 
annual appropriations are authorized for each fiscal year, 
commencing with fiscal year 1961. These appropriations are to 
reimburse the Corporation for net realized losses.

                 reimbursement for net realized losses

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................ $30,037,136,000
Budget estimate, 2001 \2\...............................  27,771,007,000
Committee recommendation \3\............................  27,771,007,000

\1\ Such sums as are necessary is provided for 2000.
\2\ The fiscal year 2001 budget estimate is such sums as are necessary.
\3\ The Committee recommends such sums as may be necessary, currently 
estimated to be $27,771,007,000.
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                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the payment to reimburse the Commodity Credit 
Corporation (CCC) for net realized losses, the Committee 
recommends an appropriation of such sums as may be necessary, 
estimated in the budget to be $27,771,007,000. This is 
$2,266,129,000 less than the 2000 level.

Food Security Commodity Reserve

    The Committee urges USAID and USDA to manage the Food 
Security Commodity Reserve effectively to meet international 
food aid commitments of the United States, including 
supplementing Public Law 480 title II funds to meet emergency 
food needs.
    During the past 2 years, USDA has used its authority under 
the CCC Charter Act of 1948 to purchase wheat and other surplus 
commodities for distribution as international humanitarian 
assistance under Section 416(b). This has benefitted American 
farmers while also helping to alleviate world hunger. Since low 
commodity prices and global hunger will likely continue in the 
coming year, the Committee urges USDA to again use its existing 
authority to purchase no less than 4 million tons of surplus 
commodities in fiscal year 2001 for donation as international 
food aid.

       operations and maintenance for hazardous waste management

Limitation, 2000........................................      $5,000,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................       5,000,000
Committee recommendation................................       5,000,000

    The Commodity Credit Corporation's [CCC] hazardous waste 
management program is intended to ensure compliance with the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. 
Investigative and cleanup costs associated with the management 
of CCC hazardous waste are paid from USDA's hazardous waste 
management appropriation. The CCC funds operations and 
maintenance costs only.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For Commodity Credit Corporation operations and maintenance 
for hazardous waste management, the Committee provides a 
limitation of $5,000,000. This amount is the same as the 2000 
level and the budget request.

                    TITLE II--CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

  Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment

Appropriations, 2000....................................        $693,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................         711,000
Committee recommendation................................         711,000

    The Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and 
Environment provides direction and coordination in carrying out 
the laws enacted by the Congress with respect to natural 
resources and the environment. The Office has oversight and 
management responsibilities for the Natural Resources 
Conservation Service and the Forest Service.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources 
and Environment, the Committee recommends an appropriation of 
$711,000. This amount is $18,000 more than the 2000 
appropriation and the same as the budget request.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service

    The Natural Resources Conservation Service [NRCS] was 
established pursuant to Public Law 103-354, the Department of 
Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6962). NRCS 
combines the authorities of the former Soil Conservation 
Service as well as five natural resource conservation cost-
share programs previously administered by the Agricultural 
Stabilization and Conservation Service. Through the years, this 
Service, together with the agricultural conservation programs 
and over 2 million conservation district cooperatives, has been 
a major factor in reducing pollution. The Natural Resources 
Conservation Service works with conservation districts, 
watershed groups, and the Federal and State agencies having 
related responsibilities to bring about physical adjustments in 
land use that will conserve soil and water resources, provide 
for agricultural production on a sustained basis, and reduce 
damage by flood and sedimentation. The Service, with its dams, 
debris basins, and planned watersheds, provides technical 
advice to the agricultural conservation programs, where the 
Federal Government pays about one-third of the cost, and, 
through these programs, has done perhaps more to minimize 
pollution than any other activity. These programs and water 
sewage systems in rural areas tend to minimize pollution in the 
areas of greatest damage, the rivers and harbors near our 
cities.
    The conservation activities of the Natural Resources 
Conservation Service are guided by the priorities and 
objectives as set forth in the National Conservation Program 
[NCP] which was prepared in response to the provisions of the 
Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act of 1977 [RCA] (Public 
Law 95-192). The long-term objectives of the program are 
designed to maintain and improve the soil, water, and related 
resources of the Nation's nonpublic lands by: reducing 
excessive soil erosion, improving irrigation efficiencies, 
improving water management, reducing upstream flood damages, 
improving range condition, and improving water quality.

                        conservation operations

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................    $660,812,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     747,243,000
Committee recommendation................................     714,116,000

\1\ Includes $431,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    Conservation operations are authorized by Public Law 74-46 
(16 U.S.C. 590a-590f). Activities include:
    Conservation technical assistance.--Provides assistance to 
district cooperators and other land users in the planning and 
application of conservation treatments to control erosion and 
improve the quantity and quality of soil resources, improve and 
conserve water, enhance fish and wildlife habitat, conserve 
energy, improve woodland, pasture and range conditions, and 
reduce upstream flooding; all to protect and enhance the 
natural resource base.
    Inventory and monitoring provides soil, water, and related 
resource data for land conservation, use, and development; 
guidance of community development; identification of prime 
agricultural producing areas that should be protected; 
environmental quality protection; and for the issuance of 
periodic inventory reports of resource conditions.
    Resource appraisal and program development ensures that 
programs administered by the Secretary of Agriculture for the 
conservation of soil, water, and related resources shall 
respond to the Nation's long-term needs.
    Soil surveys.--Inventories the Nation's basic soil 
resources and determines land capabilities and conservation 
treatment needs. Soil survey publications include 
interpretations useful to cooperators, other Federal agencies, 
State, and local organizations.
    Snow survey and water forecasting.--Provides estimates of 
annual water availability from high mountain snow packs and 
relates to summer stream flow in the Western States and Alaska. 
Information is used by agriculture, industry, and cities in 
estimating future water supplies.
    Plant materials centers.--Assembles, tests, and encourages 
increased use of plant species which show promise for use in 
the treatment of conservation problem areas.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For conservation operations, the Committee recommends an 
appropriation of $714,116,000. This amount is $53,304,000 more 
than the 2000 level and $33,127,000 less than the budget 
estimate.
    For fiscal year 2001, the Committee recommends funding 
increases, as specified below, for new and ongoing conservation 
activities. The remaining increase in appropriations from the 
fiscal year 2000 level is to be applied to mandatory pay and 
related cost increases to prevent the further erosion of the 
agency's capacity to provide viable conservation technical 
assistance. It is the Committee's intent that the agency 
maintain the current staff level in the field for technical 
assistance.
    Projects identified in Senate Report 106-80 and Conference 
Report 106-354 that were directed to be funded by the Committee 
for fiscal year 2000 are not funded for fiscal year 2001, 
unless specifically mentioned herein.
    The Committee is aware of the severe water problems 
occurring in the State of Georgia, especially in the Flint 
River watershed in Southwest Georgia and the coastal watershed 
in Southeast Georgia. Surface and ground water are being 
severely depleted by drought and further exacerbated by salt 
water intrusion into coastal agriculture areas. The Committee 
provides $400,000 in fiscal year 2001 funding for the Georgia 
Agricultural Water Conservation Initiative.
    The Committee directs the agency to establish and maintain 
a national priority area pilot program under the guidelines of 
the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) in the 
Mississippi Delta. The program will require an additional 
$1,300,000 increase above the fiscal year 2000 baseline for 
this priority area.
    The Committee provides $400,000 for fiscal year 2001 for a 
study to characterize the on-site consequences, estimate off-
site impacts, and develop strategies to facilitate land use 
change while preserving critical natural resources. The agency 
is directed to work in cooperation with Clemson University in 
conducting this study.
    The Committee provides $500,000 for fiscal year 2001 to 
expand the cooperative efforts with the Claude E. Phillips 
Herbarium, DE.
    The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding to develop partnerships between USDA and the National 
Fish and Wildlife Foundation. This partnership enhances the 
Foundation's participation in conservation programs and 
strengthens their fish and wildlife conservation benefits.
    The Committee provides an increase of $150,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level, for a total of $750,000, to continue 
work on the Great Lakes Basin Program for soil and erosion 
sediment control.
    The Committee continues funding at the fiscal year 2000 
level for the grazing lands conservation assistance program.
    The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for the National Water Management Center in Arkansas.
    The Comittee provides an increase of $1,000,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level for the Chesapeake Bay Program.
    The Committee continues its concern for the serious threat 
to pastures and watersheds resulting from the introduction of 
alien weed pests, such as gorse and miconia, into Hawaii. The 
Committee directs the agency to work with the Hawaii Department 
of Agriculture and the Animal Plant and Health Inspection 
Service to develop an integrated approach, including 
environmentally-safe biological controls, for eradicating these 
pests.
    The Committee is aware that a national systematic and 
uniform trial program does not exist for cold region plants. 
The Committee provides $300,000 for fiscal year 2001 to obtain 
and evaluate materials and seeds of plants indigenous to 
regions north of 52 degrees North Latitude and equivalent 
vegetated regions in the Southern Hemisphere (south of 52 
degrees South Latitude). The Committee directs the agency to 
work in conjunction with the Alaska Division of Agriculture in 
this effort.
    The Committee provides an increase of $350,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level for the Oregon Garden, Silverton, OR.
    The Committee continues funding at the fiscal year 2000 
level for plant material centers and to continue the 
development of warm season grasses for use in the Conservation 
Reserve Program (CRP) and the Wildlife Habitat Initiatives 
Program (WHIP).
    The Committee encourages the agency to provide an increase 
of $150,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level to support the 
emerging alternative technology to reduce phosphorous loading 
into Lake Champlain.
    The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding to continue support of agricultural development and 
resource conservation on the Island of Molokai and the 
transition from small-scale conservation projects to those that 
benefit the community through sustainable economic impact.
    The Committee directs the agency to provide $450,000 for 
the Kenai streambank restoration water project in fiscal year 
2001.
    The Committee recognizes the need for a special outreach 
effort so that USDA can serve small-scale Appalachian farmers 
in sustaining agriculture production while protecting natural 
resources. The Committee includes an additional $200,000 from 
the fiscal year 2000 level, for a total of $860,000, for the 
Appalachian Small Farmer Outreach Program. Sound economic 
grazing systems, marketing strategies, and uniformity of 
production quality will ensure the competitiveness of livestock 
operations and help maintain small farm enterprises. This 
initiative will provide livestock producers access to the 
needed one-on-one assistance.
    The Committee provides an increase of $500,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level for technical assistance for Franklin 
County Lake, Mississippi.
    The Committee is aware of the lack of funding for the Soil 
and Water Conservation Districts in the State of Alaska. The 
Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of funding to 
support at least one staff position for each Soil and Water 
Conservation District Office, two positions with the 
Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, a public 
information program, and assistance to rural Alaska (off the 
road/rail network). The Committee provides an additional 
$500,000 from the fiscal year 2000 level for two additional 
offices in Bethel and Nome in order for NRCS to have a presence 
in western Alaska.
    The Committee provides $500,000 for fiscal year 2001 for 
the Squirrel Branch Drainage Project, Mississippi.
    The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for agroforestry efforts in conjunction with the 
National Agroforestry Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.
    The Committee encourages the agency to provide technical 
assistance as needed for the Choctaw Water Quality Watershed 
and the New Porter's Bayou watershed projects in Mississippi.
    The Committee recognizes the joint effort by Colorado State 
University, Texas A&M, Iowa State University, and Ohio State 
University to use and create agricultural techniques and 
technologies to develop carbon dioxide emissions trading credit 
models. The Committee encourages the agency to continue to 
interface with the Consortium for Agricultural Soil Mitigation 
of Greenhouse Gases on an as needed basis.
    The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding to implement the recommendations, along with the 
cooperation of the local sponsors, from the Delta Study for 
water conservation, alternative water supply evaluations, and 
environmental planning.
    The Committee directs the agency to proceed with Phase II 
of the Kuhn Bay Project (Point Remove), Arkansas, upon the 
completion of Phase I.
    The Committee directs the agency to continue the pilot 
project in Washington, Sharkey, and Yazoo Counties, 
Mississippi, in conjunction with soil scientists at land-grant 
universities in the region, to determine the proper 
classification and taxonomic characteristics of Sharkey soils.
    The Committee provides an additional $50,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level to increase the Hawaii Plant Materials 
Center's capability to propagate native plants to support the 
Federal cleanup of the Island of Kahoolawe and to facilitate 
the start-up of native plant nurseries.
    The Committee provides an increase of $200,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level to address the erosion in the Loess 
Hills area in western Iowa. The Committee is aware that the 
Eastern Red Cedar and other invasive species of woody plants 
are having a very negative effect on prairies in the Loess 
Hills, a unique soil important to many rare animals and plants. 
The Committee urges that the Department support efforts to 
reduce this problem.
    The Committee recognizes the State of Washington dairy 
industry's advances and effort to control dairy waste. In 
particular, the Committee identifies the comprehensive plan the 
industry has established to address the problem. As a result of 
the industry's commitment to solving this serious issue, and 
recognizing that Washington arguably has the one of the most 
comprehensive dairy waste control proposals in the nation, the 
Committee directs NRCS to identify agency programs and funding 
mechanisms that will assist this industry in its endeavor. In 
conjunction, the Committee recommends that flood control 
activities be reviewed in concert with these waste control 
measures.
    The Committee provides $160,000 for fiscal year 2001 to 
conduct nitrogen soil tests and plant-available nitrogen tests, 
and to demonstrate poultry litter and wood composting in an 
effort to improve farmers' economic returns and minimize 
potential water quality conditions resulting from excess 
application of nutrients from manure and fertilizers on West 
Virginia's cropland.
    The Committee provides $800,000 for fiscal year 2001 for 
the Delta Conservation Demonstration Center, Washington County, 
Mississippi. This project will establish and demonstrate the 
most technically advanced best management practices (BMPs) for 
rural and urban resource conservation at the grassroots level.
    The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for the Farmland Information Center at Northern 
Illinois University.
    The Committee provides $200,000 for fiscal year 2001 for 
the Idaho One-Plan, a test of the prototype Conservation 
Planning Module in the field with farmers and ranchers in 
Canyon County, Idaho.
    The Committee supports the process the Federal agencies, 
States, and tribes are making under the umbrella of the 
Southwest Strategy. This coordinated effort is helping to 
better address the natural resource, cultural resource, and 
economic issues facing the people of New Mexico and Arizona. 
The Committee expects the NRCS to continue to support the 
Southwest Strategy in fiscal year 2001.
    The Committee provides an increase of $100,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level, for a total of $300,000, to continue 
the expansion of the Potomac and Ohio River Basins Soil 
Nutrient Project to include Jefferson, Berkeley, and Greenbrier 
Counties. This funding will enable the NRCS, in cooperation 
with West Virginia University and the Appalachian Small Farming 
Research Center, to identify and characterize phosphorous 
movement in soils to determine appropriate transportation, the 
holding capacity, and the management of phosphorous. This 
information is critical in helping Appalachian farmers deal 
with nutrient loading issues and in protecting the Chesapeake 
Bay from eutrophication, and the Ohio River, Mississippi River, 
and Gulf of Mexico from depletion of life-sustaining oxygen.
    The Committee provides the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for evaluating and increasing native plant materials in 
Alaska.
    The Committee provides an additional $250,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 funding level for technical assistance for the 
Seward/Resurrection River watershed project, Alaska.
    The Committee provides an increase of $250,000 from the 
fiscal year 2000 level of funding for the continued development 
of a geographic information system (GIS)-based model in South 
Carolina to integrate commodity and conservation program data 
at the field level for watershed analysis purposes.

                     watershed surveys and planning

Appropriations, 2000....................................     $10,368,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      10,368,000
Committee recommendation................................      10,705,000

    The Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, Public 
Law 83-566, August 4, 1954, provided for the establishment of 
the Small Watershed Program (16 U.S.C. 1001-1008), and section 
6 of the act provided for the establishment of the River Basin 
Surveys and Investigation Program (16 U.S.C. 1006-1009). A 
separate appropriation funded the two programs until fiscal 
year 1996 when they were combined into a single appropriation, 
watershed surveys and planning.
    River basin activities provide for cooperation with other 
Federal, State, and local agencies in making investigations and 
surveys of the watersheds of rivers and other waterways as a 
basis for the development of coordinated programs. Reports of 
the investigations and surveys are prepared to serve as a guide 
for the development of agricultural, rural, and upstream 
watershed aspects of water and related land resources, and as a 
basis for coordination of this development with downstream and 
other phases of water development.
    Watershed planning activities provide for cooperation 
between the Federal Government and the States and their 
political subdivisions in a program of watershed planning. 
Watershed plans form the basis for installing works of 
improvement for floodwater retardation, erosion control, and 
reduction of sedimentation in the watersheds of rivers and 
streams and to further the conservation, development, 
utilization, and disposal of water. The work of the Department 
in watershed planning consists of assisting local organizations 
to develop their watershed work plan by making investigations 
and surveys in response to requests made by sponsoring local 
organizations. These plans describe the soil erosion, water 
management, and sedimentation problems in a watershed and works 
of improvement proposed to alleviate these problems. Plans also 
include estimated benefits and costs, cost-sharing and 
operating and maintenance arrangements, and other appropriate 
information necessary to justify Federal assistance for 
carrying out the plan.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For watershed surveys and planning, the Committee 
recommends an appropriation of $10,705,000. This amount is 
$337,000 more than the 2000 appropriation and the budget 
request. The Committee has provided $337,000 for fiscal year 
2001 pay cost increases.

               watershed and flood prevention operations

Appropriations, 2000 \1\ \2\............................     $91,643,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      83,423,000
Committee recommendation................................      99,443,000

\1\ Includes $7,800,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.
\2\ Excludes $80,000,000 in emergency supplemental appropriations 
provided by Public Law 106-113.

    The Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public 
Law 566, 83d Cong.) (16 U.S.C. 1001-1005, 1007-1009) provides 
for cooperation between the Federal Government and the States 
and their political subdivisions in a program to prevent 
erosion, floodwater, and sediment damages in the watersheds or 
rivers and streams and to further the conservation, 
development, utilization, and disposal of water.
    The Natural Resources Conservation Service has general 
responsibility for administration of activities which include 
cooperation with local sponsors, State, and other public 
agencies in the installation of planned works of improvement to 
reduce erosion, floodwater, and sediment damage; conserve, 
develop, utilize, and dispose of water; plan and install works 
of improvement for flood prevention including the development 
of recreational facilities and the improvement of fish and 
wildlife habitat; and loans to local organizations to help 
finance the local share of the cost of carrying out planned 
watershed and flood prevention works of improvement.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For watershed and flood prevention operations, the 
Committee recommends an appropriation of $99,443,000. This 
amount is $7,800,000 more than the 2000 appropriation and 
$16,020,000 more than the budget request. The Committee directs 
that $7,800,000 of the increase provided be used for financial 
assistance only.
    The Committee continues the fiscal year 2000 level of 
funding for the Little Sioux Watershed and Mosquito Creek 
Watershed projects in Iowa.
    The Committee encourages the agency to provide assistance 
within available funds for the Emergency Watershed Protection 
Program for the restoration of the James River watershed, South 
Dakota, and for erosion control along the Tanana River 
bordering the Big Delta State Historical Park, Alaska.
    The Committee encourages the agency to provide financial 
assistance for the following projects in Texas: Blanket Creek 
Reservoir; Bexar, Medina and Atascosa watersheds; and Muenster 
Dam.
    Access to a consistent source of potable water became even 
more difficult for West Virginia families and farmers during 
the drought of 1999. While existing flood impoundments protect 
these people during floods, these impoundments do not include a 
water storage component that would allow the impoundment to 
serve a dual role. The Committee directs the NRCS in West 
Virginia to initiate the redesign of its existing flood 
impoundments to include water storage as an additional 
function.
    The Committee encourages the agency to support the 
increased demands for project completions dedicated to 
increasing water storage capacity, improving the efficiency of 
delivery systems, and conserving water through flood control 
projects in Hawaii.
    The Committee directs the agency to provide adequate 
financial assistance for the following watershed projects in 
Mississippi: Town Creek Dam 39, Lee County; Persimmon Break, 
Madison County; Sowashee Creek Channel, Lauderdale County; 
Piney Creek B.S., Yazoo County; and for branch stabilization 
sites at Lower Tippah, Chilli Creek, Benton County.
    The Committee directs the agency to work with the State of 
Washington's Game Commission, Cowlitz County, the local Soil 
Conservation District, and the Silver Lake Flood Control 
District to address flooding issues and the subsequent funding 
for repairs of Silver Lake, Washington. These repairs 
necessitated the initial involvement of NRCS along with the 
agency's technical and engineering expertise. As a result, the 
Committee expects NRCS to cooperate with these local entities 
to locate funding to offset the financial burden this project 
has placed on local residents.
    The Committee recognizes the importance of building the 
Lost River Watershed Dam Number 10, West Virginia, and 
encourages the funding for the award of the construction 
contract for this project.
    The Committee encourages the Department to assist local 
landowners with the Little Red River Watershed project in 
Arkansas.
    The Committee directs the Department to continue to use the 
funds made available for the Emergency Watershed Protection 
Program activities, at the fiscal year 2000 level, for 
financial and technical assistance for pilot rehabilitation 
projects in Mississippi and Wisconsin.
    The Committee urges the agency to proceed with the 
implementation of the watershed plans for the Upper Tygart 
Valley watershed, the Deckers Creek Watershed Acid Mine 
Drainage Remediation and Land Mine Treatment project, the 
Potomac Headwaters Land Treatment Watershed project, and the 
Knapps Creek Stream Restoration Watershed project, West 
Virginia.
    The Committee encourages the agency to continue the 
agriculture drainage and manure removal project within the 
Chino Basin Dairy Preserve, California, from within funds made 
available from the Emergency Watershed Protection Program.
    The Committee continues to be aware of flooding in the 
Devils Lake basin in North Dakota, and notes that the lake has 
risen in each of the past 6 years. The lake is now nearly 25 
feet higher than it was in 1993. The Committee encourages the 
agency, with the cooperation of the Farm Service Agency, to 
assist in the locally coordinated flood response and water 
management activities. NRCS and FSA should continue to utilize 
conservation programs in providing water holding and storage 
areas on private land as necessary intermediate measures in 
watershed management.
    The Committee expects the agency to provide adequate 
financial assistance for the Army Trail Watershed project in 
DuPage County, Illinois.
    The Committee encourages the Department to work with the 
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to restore the Lake Tahoe basin.

                 resource conservation and development

Appropriations, 2000....................................     $35,265,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      36,265,000
Committee recommendation................................      36,265,000

    The Natural Resources Conservation Service has general 
responsibility under provisions of section 102, title I of the 
Food and Agriculture Act of 1962, for developing overall work 
plans for resource conservation and development projects in 
cooperation with local sponsors; to help develop local programs 
of land conservation and utilization; to assist local groups 
and individuals in carrying out such plans and programs; to 
conduct surveys and investigations relating to the conditions 
and factors affecting such work on private lands; and to make 
loans to project sponsors for conservation and development 
purposes and to individual operators for establishing soil and 
water conservation practices.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For resource conservation and development, the Committee 
recommends an appropriation of $36,265,000. This amount is 
$1,000,000 more than the 2000 level and the same as the budget 
estimate. The Committee has provided $1,000,000 for pay cost 
increases in fiscal year 2001.

                      forestry incentives program

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................      $5,377,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................................
Committee recommendation................................       6,325,000

\1\ Includes $948,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Forestry Incentives Program is authorized by the 
Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-
313), as amended by section 1214, title XII, of the Food, 
Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 and the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996. Its 
purpose is to encourage the development, management, and 
protection of nonindustrial private forest lands. This program 
is carried out by providing technical assistance and long-term 
cost-sharing agreements with private landowners.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Forestry Incentives Program, the Committee 
recommends an appropriation of $6,325,000. This amount is 
$948,000 more than the 2000 appropriation and $6,325,000 more 
than the budget request.

      TITLE III--RURAL ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

    The Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department of 
Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-354) 
abolished the Farmers Home Administration, Rural Development 
Administration, and Rural Electrification Administration and 
replaced those agencies with the Rural Housing and Community 
Development Service, (currently, the Rural Housing Service), 
Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service (currently, 
the Rural Business-Cooperative Service), and Rural Utilities 
Service and placed them under the oversight of the Under 
Secretary for Rural Economic and Community Development, 
(currently, Rural Development). These agencies deliver a 
variety of programs through a network of State, district, and 
county offices.
    In the 1930's and 1940's, these agencies were primarily 
involved in making small loans to farmers; however, today these 
agencies have a multi-billion dollar assistance program 
throughout all America providing loans and grants for single-
family, multi-family housing, and special housing needs, a 
variety of community facilities, infrastructure, and business 
development programs.

          Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development

Appropriations, 2000....................................        $588,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................         605,000
Committee recommendation................................         605,000

    The Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development 
provides direction and coordination in carrying out the laws 
enacted by the Congress with respect to the Department's rural 
economic and community development activities. The Office has 
oversight and management responsibilities for the Rural Housing 
Service, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, and the Rural 
Utilities Service.

                       committee recommendations

    For the Office of the Under Secretary for Rural 
Development, the Committee recommends an appropriation of 
$605,000. This amount is $17,000 more than the 2000 level and 
the same as the budget request.
    The Committee supports the process the Federal agencies, 
States, and tribes are making under the umbrella of the 
Southwest Strategy. This coordinated effort is helping to 
better address the natural resource, cultural resource, and 
economic issues facing the people of New Mexico and Arizona. 
The Committee expects Rural Development to continue to support 
the Southwest Strategy.
    Current economic and global conditions underscore the need 
for programs which will strengthen the ability of farmers to 
join together in cooperatives to improve income, manage risks, 
and increase value-added production and processing. Programs 
carried out by the Cooperative Services within the Rural 
Business-Cooperative Service, as authorized under the 
Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926 (7 U.S.C. 453 (a) and (b)), 
including those related to research, education, and technical 
assistance, play an important role in promoting cooperative 
self-help efforts for the benefit of farmers. The Committee 
encourages the Department to give a high priority to these 
programs by ensuring an adequate level of funding and staff is 
provided to meet the program objectives.

                  Rural Community Advancement Program

Appropriations, 2000....................................\1\ $693,637,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     762,542,000
Committee recommendation................................     749,284,000

\1\ Excludes $5,000,000 in emergency supplemental appropriations 
provided by Public Law 106-113. Includes rescission of $25,200,00 
pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Rural Community Advancement Program [RCAP], authorized 
by the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 
(Public Law 104-127), consolidates funding for the following 
programs: direct and guaranteed water and waste disposal loans, 
water and waste disposal grants, emergency community water 
assistance grants, solid waste management grants, direct and 
guaranteed community facility loans, community facility grants, 
direct and guaranteed business and industry loans, rural 
business enterprise grants, and rural business opportunity 
grants. This proposal is in accordance with the provisions set 
forth in the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
1996, Public Law 104-127. Consolidating funding for these 12 
rural development loan and grant programs under RCAP provides 
greater flexibility to tailor financial assistance to applicant 
needs.
    With the exception of the 10 percent in the ``National 
office reserve'' account, funding is allocated to rural 
development State directors for their priority setting on a 
State-by-State basis. State directors are authorized to 
transfer not more than 25 percent of the amount in the account 
that is allocated for the State for the fiscal year to any 
other account in which amounts are allocated for the State for 
the fiscal year, with up to 10 percent of funds allowed to be 
reallocated nationwide.
    Community facility loans were created by the Rural 
Development Act of 1972 to finance a variety of rural community 
facilities. Loans are made to organizations, including certain 
Indian tribes and corporations not operated for profit and 
public and quasipublic agencies, to construct, enlarge, extend, 
or otherwise improve community facilities providing essential 
services to rural residents. Such facilities include those 
providing or supporting overall community development, such as 
fire and rescue services, health care, transportation, traffic 
control, and community, social, cultural, and recreational 
benefits. Loans are made for facilities which primarily serve 
rural residents of open country and rural towns and villages of 
not more than 20,000 people. Health care and fire and rescue 
facilities are the priorities of the program and receive the 
majority of available funds.
    The Community Facility Grant Program authorized in the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (Public 
Law 104-127), is used in conjunction with the existing direct 
and guaranteed loan programs for the development of community 
facilities, such as hospitals, fire stations, and community 
centers. Grants are targeted to the lowest income communities. 
Communities that have lower population and income levels 
receive a higher cost-share contribution through these grants, 
to a maximum contribution of 75 percent of the cost of 
developing the facility.
    The Rural Business and Industry Loans Program was created 
by the Rural Development Act of 1972, and finances a variety of 
rural industrial development loans. Loans are made for rural 
industrialization and rural community facilities under Rural 
Development Act amendments to the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act authorities. Business and industrial loans are 
made to public, private, or cooperative organizations organized 
for profit, to certain Indian tribes, or to individuals for the 
purpose of improving, developing or financing business, 
industry, and employment or improving the economic and 
environmental climate in rural areas. Such purposes include 
financing business and industrial acquisition, construction, 
enlargement, repair or modernization, financing the purchase 
and development of land, easements, rights-of-way, buildings, 
payment of startup costs, and supplying working capital. 
Industrial development loans may be made in any area that is 
not within the outer boundary of any city having a population 
of 50,000 or more and its immediately adjacent urbanized and 
urbanizing areas with a population density of more than 100 
persons per square mile. Special consideration for such loans 
is given to rural areas and cities having a population of less 
than 25,000.
    Rural business enterprise grants were authorized by the 
Rural Development Act of 1972. Grants are made to public bodies 
and nonprofit organizations to facilitate development of small 
and emerging business enterprises in rural areas, including the 
acquisition and development of land; the construction of 
buildings, plants, equipment, access streets and roads, parking 
areas, and utility extensions; refinancing fees; technical 
assistance; and startup operating costs and working capital.
    Rural business opportunity grants are authorized under 
section 306(a)(11) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act, as amended. Grants may be made, not to exceed 
$1,500,000 annually, to public bodies and private nonprofit 
community development corporations or entities. Grants are made 
to identify and analyze business opportunities that will use 
local rural economic and human resources; to identify, train, 
and provide technical assistance to rural entrepreneurs and 
managers; to establish business support centers; to conduct 
economic development planning and coordination, and leadership 
development; and to establish centers for training, technology, 
and trade that will provide training to rural businesses in the 
utilization of interactive communications technologies.
    The water and waste disposal program is authorized by 
sections 306, 306A, 309A, 306C, 306D, and 310B of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et 
seq., as amended). This program makes loans for water and waste 
development costs. Development loans are made to associations, 
including corporations operating on a nonprofit basis, 
municipalities and similar organizations, generally designated 
as public or quasipublic agencies, that propose projects for 
the development, storage, treatment, purification, and 
distribution of domestic water or the collection, treatment, or 
disposal of waste in rural areas. Such grants may not exceed 75 
percent of the development cost of the projects and can 
supplement other funds borrowed or furnished by applicants to 
pay development costs.
    The solid waste grant program is authorized under section 
310B(b) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. 
Grants are made to public bodies and private nonprofit 
organizations to provide technical assistance to local and 
regional governments for the purpose of reducing or eliminating 
pollution of water resources and for improving the planning and 
management of solid waste disposal facilities.

                       committee recommendations

    For the Rural Community Advancement Program [RCAP], the 
Committee recommends $749,284,000. This amount is $55,647,000 
more than the fiscal year 2000 level and $13,258,000 less than 
the budget request.
    The following table provides the Committee's 
recommendations, as compared to the fiscal year 2000 and budget 
request levels:

                                       RURAL COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM
                                   [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                       Fiscal year--
                                                           ------------------------------------     Committee
                                                                  2000           2001 budget     recommendation
                                                              appropriation        request
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Community:
    Community facility direct loan subsidies..............            10,150            29,225            29,225
    Community facility grants.............................            13,000            24,000            24,000
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal, community.................................            23,150            53,225            53,225
                                                           =====================================================
Business:
    Business and industry loan subsidies:
        Direct............................................  ................             2,910             2,910
        Guaranteed........................................            26,435            10,125            10,125
    Rural business enterprise grants......................        \1\ 37,664            40,664            40,664
    Rural business opportunity grants.....................             3,500             8,000             8,000
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal, business..................................            64,599            61,699            61,699
                                                           =====================================================
Utilities:
    Water and waste disposal loan subsidies: Direct.......            73,420           140,249           100,566
    Native Americans......................................  ................  ................             1,631
    Water and waste disposal grants.......................       \2\ 529,768           502,369           529,463
    Solid waste management grants.........................             2,700             5,000             2,700
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal, utilities.................................       \2\ 605,888           647,618           634,360
                                                           =====================================================
      Total, loan subsidies and grants....................           693,637           762,542           749,284
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\1\ Excludes $5,000,000 in emergency supplemental appropriations provided by Public Law 106-113.
\2\ Includes rescission of $25,200,000 pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    Rural Community Advancement Program.--The Committee 
provides the fiscal year 2000 level of funding for 
transportation technical assistance.
    The Committee directs the Department to continue the Rural 
Economic Area Partnership [REAP] initiative.
    The Committee directs that of the $24,000,000 provided for 
loans and grants to benefit Federally Recognized Native 
American Tribes, $250,000 be used to implement an American 
Indian and Alaska Native passenger transportation development 
and assistance initiative.
    Community facility grants.--The Committee is aware of and 
encourages the Department to consider the following 
applications: reconstruction of Cain Hall, Raymond, MS, and 
school facility improvements, Mound Bayou, MS; Seldovia Native 
Association, AK; school facility improvements, WV; Agriculture 
Discovery Center, Weslaco, TX; and Lyles Station School, Gibson 
County, IN.
    The Committee understands that the community center in 
Marshall, Alaska, was destroyed by fire last year. Currently, 
the city of Marshall is planning to reconstruct a new center. 
The Committee fully supports their efforts and expects the 
Department to give full consideration to funding applications 
submitted for this center.
    Rural business enterprise grants.--The Committee is aware 
of and encourages the Department to give consideration to 
applications for rural business enterprise grants [RBEG] from 
the following: Rural Entrepreneurship Program, HI; the Grants 
to Broadcasting Program; South Carolina Heritage Corridor; 
South Dakota Value-Added Agriculture Development Center; Rural 
Economic Development Through Tourism (REDIT); Association of 
Raw Milk Producers, WI; Mission Valley Market Project; National 
Rural Tourism Foundation; National Drought Mitigation Center; 
Regeneracion del Norte, NM; and the Montana Agricultural 
Product Processing Consortium (MAPPCO).
    The Committee expects the Department to consider only those 
applications judged meritorious when subjected to the 
established review process. The Committee expects the 
Department to ensure that the system by which applications for 
rural business enterprise grants are considered does not 
discriminate against applications which may benefit multiple 
States.
    Water and waste disposal loans and grants.--The Committee 
is aware of and encourages the Department to consider 
applications for the following projects: the Shulerville/Honey 
Hill Water project, Berkeley, SC; Lafayette Water Improvement 
Project and Philmath Industrial Sewer Project, OR; Jefferson 
County, MS; the city of Jal, New Mexico; the town of Colby, WI; 
the city of Blaine, WA; Oregon Garden Project, Silverton, OR; 
Wastewater trainer and circuit rider, WI; and the city of Deer 
Lodge, MT.
    The Committee also includes language in the bill to make up 
to $20,000,000 available for village safe water for the 
development of water systems for rural and native villages in 
Alaska, and $20,000,000 for water and waste disposal systems 
for the colonias along the United States-Mexico border. In 
addition, the Committee makes up to $9,500,000 available for 
the circuit rider program.
    Water and waste technical assistance training grants.--The 
Committee is aware of and encourages the Department to consider 
applications for the following: Techni-train Technical 
Assistance Program, VA; City of Valdez, AK; and for a pilot 
scale demonstration of a small-scale, cost-effective water 
treatment system utilizing the advances in technology and 
centrifuge technology, HI.
    The Committee encourages the Rural Utilities Service to 
consider a grant request from the National Drinking Water 
Clearinghouse to expand a toll-free help line assistance system 
and create a pilot Internet-based decision support system for 
small rural communities.
    Solid waste management grants.---The Committee is aware of 
and encourages the Department to consider an application for 
the following: City of Klawock, AK.
    Business and Industry Loan Program.--The Committee 
encourages the Department to consider applications for rural 
business opportunity grants for: a biofuels/ethanol plant 
feasibility study in Christian County, KY; and the Local 
Initiative Business Development Grant Program, AK.
    The Committee encourages the Rural Business-Cooperative 
Service to give serious consideration to a proposal from a 
national qualified organization to develop and pilot marketing 
strategies to assist farmers increase the value of their 
commodities.

                rural development salaries and expenses

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                                                                                                   Total, RDA
                                                             Appropriations    Transfers from     salaries and
                                                                              program accounts      expenses
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000......................................           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )
Budget estimate, 2001.....................................      $130,371,000    ($450,589,000)    ($580,960,000)
Committee recommendation..................................       130,371,000     (450,589,000)     (580,960,000)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ In 2000 Salaries and Expenses were provided in separate accounts for the Rural Utilities Service, the Rural
  Housing Service and the Rural Business-Cooperative Service. The budget estimate in 2001 proposes a new
  consolidated account to administer all Rural Development programs.

    These funds are used to administer the loan and grant 
programs of the Rural Utilities Service, the Rural Housing 
Service, and the Rural Business-Cooperative Service, including 
reviewing applications, making and collecting loans and 
providing technical assistance and guidance to borrowers; and 
to assist in extending other Federal programs to people in 
rural areas.
    Under credit reform, administrative costs associated with 
loan programs are appropriated to the program accounts. 
Appropriations to the salaries and expenses account will be for 
costs associated with grant programs.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The Committee recommends $580,960,000 for salaries and 
expenses for the Rural Economic and Community Development 
Programs. This amount is $47,428,000 more than the fiscal year 
2000 level and the same as the budget request. The Committee 
has recommended a new consolidated Salaries and Expenses 
account for all Rural Development mission area programs, as 
proposed in the budget.
    The Committee provides, within funds made available, 
$497,400 for six additional staff years and two new offices in 
Nome and Ketchikan, AK.
    The Committee recommends the continuation of the 
cooperative services office in Hilo, HI, to address the 
increasing demand for cooperatives by the expanding diversified 
agriculture sector in the State.

                         Rural Housing Service

    The Rural Housing Service [RHS] was established under 
Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture 
Reorganization Act of 1994, dated October 13, 1994.
    The mission of the Service is to improve the quality of 
life in rural America by assisting rural residents and 
communities in obtaining adequate and affordable housing and 
access to needed community facilities. The goals and objectives 
of the Service are: (1) facilitate the economic revitalization 
of rural areas by providing 
direct and indirect economic benefits to individual borrowers, 
families, and rural communities; (2) assure that benefits are 
communicated to all program eligible customers with special 
outreach efforts to target resources to underserved, 
impoverished, or economically declining rural areas; (3) lower 
the cost of programs while retaining the benefits by 
redesigning more effective programs that work in partnership 
with State and local governments and the private sector; and 
(4) leverage the economic benefits through the use of low-cost 
credit programs, especially guaranteed loans.

                       committee recommendations

    The Committee recommends total appropriations of 
$1,481,262,000 for the Rural Housing Service. This is 
$149,272,000 more than the 2000 level and $54,999,000 less than 
the budget request.
    The following table presents loan and grant program levels 
recommended by the Committee, as compared to the fiscal year 
2000 levels and the 2001 budget request:

                                              LOAN AND GRANT LEVELS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                         Fiscal year--
                                                              ----------------------------------    Committee
                                                                     2000         2001 request    recommendation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account loan levels:
    Single family housing (sec. 502):
        Direct...............................................  \1\ (1,100,000)      (1,300,000)      (1,100,000)
        Unsubsidized guaranteed..............................      (3,200,000)      (3,700,000)      (3,200,000)
    Housing repair (sec. 504)................................     \2\ (32,396)         (40,000)         (32,396)
    Farm labor (sec. 514)....................................     \3\ (25,001)          ( \4\ )          ( \5\ )
    Rental housing (sec. 515)................................        (114,321)        (120,000)        (114,321)
    Multifamily housing guarantees (sec. 538)................        (100,000)        (200,000)        (100,000)
    Credit sales of acquired property........................          (7,503)         (15,000)          (7,503)
    Site loans (sec. 524)....................................          (5,152)          (5,000)          (5,152)
    Self-help housing land development fund..................          (5,000)          (5,009)          (5,000)
                                                              --------------------------------------------------
        Total, RHIF..........................................      (4,589,373)      (5,385,009)      (4,564,372)
                                                              ==================================================
Farm Labor Program:
    Farm labor housing loans.................................          ( \6\ )         (30,000)         (30,000)
    Farm labor housing grants................................          ( \6\ )          15,000           12,973
    Low-income migrant and seasonal farm worker grants.......  ...............           5,000   ...............
                                                              --------------------------------------------------
        Total, Farm Labor Program............................  ...............         (50,000)         (42,973)
                                                              ==================================================
Grants and payments:
    Mutual and self-help housing.............................          28,000           40,000           34,000
    Rental assistance........................................         640,000          680,000          680,000
    Rural housing assistance grants [RHAG]...................      \5\ 45,000           39,000           44,000
                                                              --------------------------------------------------
        Total, rural housing grants and pay-  ments..........         713,000          759,000          758,000
                                                              ==================================================
        Total, RHS loans and grants..........................       5,302,373        6,194,009       (5,365,345)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Excludes estimated $50,000,000 increase funded by emergency supplemental appropriations provided by Public
  Law 106-113.
\2\ Excludes estimated $15,000,000 increase funded by emergency supplemental appropriations provided by Public
  Law 106-113.
\3\ Excludes estimated $5,000,000 increase funded by emergency supplemental appropriations provided by Public
  Law 106-113.
\4\ The 2001 budget estimate includes this loan in a new proposed account, Farm Labor Program Account.
\5\ Included in new Farm Labor Program Account.
\6\ Excludes $7,250,000 for farm labor grants and $7,250,000 for very low-income housing grants in emergency
  supplemental appropriations provided by Public Law 106-113.

              RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

    This fund was established in 1965 (Public Law 89-117) 
pursuant to section 517 of title V of the Housing Act of 1949, 
as amended. This fund may be used to insure or guarantee rural 
housing loans for single-family homes, rental and cooperative 
housing, farm labor housing, and rural housing sites. Rural 
housing loans are made to construct, improve, alter, repair, or 
replace dwellings and essential farm service buildings that are 
modest in size, design, and cost. Rental housing insured loans 
are made to individuals, corporations, associations, trusts, or 
partnerships to provide moderate-cost rental housing and 
related facilities for elderly persons in rural areas. These 
loans are repayable in not to exceed 30 years. Loan programs 
are limited to rural areas, which include towns, villages, and 
other places of not more than 10,000 population, which are not 
part of an urban area. Loans may also be made in areas with a 
population in excess of 10,000, but less than 20,000, if the 
area is not included in a standard metropolitan statistical 
area and has a serious lack of mortgage credit for low- and 
moderate-income borrowers.

            LOAN SUBSIDY AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES LEVELS

    The Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 established the 
program account. Appropriations to this account will be used to 
cover the lifetime subsidy costs associated with the direct 
loans obligated and loan guarantees committed in 2001, as well 
as for administrative expenses. The following table presents 
the loan subsidy levels as compared to the 2000 levels and the 
2001 budget request:

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                          Fiscal year--
                                                                ---------------------------------    Committee
                                                                    2000 level     2001 request   recommendation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Loan subsidies:
    Single family (sec. 502):
        Direct.................................................      \1\ 93,830          208,780         176,660
        Unsubsidized guaranteed................................          19,520           44,400          38,400
    Housing repair (sec. 504)..................................       \2\ 9,900           14,176          11,481
    Farm labor (sec. 514)......................................      \3\ 11,308          ( \4\ )         ( \4\ )
    Rental housing (sec. 515)..................................          45,363           59,124          56,326
    Multifamily housing guarantees (sec. 538)..................             480            3,040           1,520
    Site loans.................................................               4   ..............  ..............
    Credit sales of acquired property..........................             874            2,452             613
    Self-help housing land development fund....................             281              279             279
                                                                ------------------------------------------------
      Total, loan subsidies....................................         181,560          332,251         285,279
                                                                ================================================
Administrative expenses........................................      \5\ 61,551          ( \6\ )         ( \6\ )
(Transfer from RHIF)...........................................        (375,879)         ( \6\ )         ( \6\ )
                                                                ------------------------------------------------
      Total, RHS administrative expenses.......................        (437,430)         ( \6\ )         ( \6\ )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Excludes $4,265,000 emergency supplemental appropriations provided by Public Law 106-113.
\2\ Excludes $4,584,000 emergency supplemental appropriations provided by Public Law 106-113.
\3\ Excludes $2,250,000 emergency supplemental appropriations provided by Public Law 106-113.
\4\ The 2001 budget estimate includes this loan in a new proposed account, Farm Labor Program Account.
\5\ Includes $428,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.
\6\ The 2001 budget estimate proposes a consolidated salaries and expenses account to administer all rural
  development programs.

                       RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Appropriations, 2000....................................    $640,000,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     680,000,000
Committee recommendation................................     680,000,000

    The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
established a rural rental assistance program to be 
administered through the rural housing loans program. The 
objective of the program is to reduce rents paid by low-income 
families living in Rural Housing Service financed rental 
projects and farm labor housing projects. Under this program, 
low-income tenants will contribute the higher of: (1) 30 
percent of monthly adjusted income; (2) 10 percent of monthly 
income; or (3) designated housing payments from a welfare 
agency.
    Payments from the fund are made to the project owner for 
the difference between the tenant's payment and the approved 
rental rate established for the unit.
    The program is administered in tandem with Rural Housing 
Service section 515 rural rental and cooperative housing 
programs and the farm labor loan and grant programs. Priority 
is given to existing projects for units occupied by low-income 
families to extend expiring contracts or provide full amounts 
authority to existing contracts; any remaining authority will 
be used for projects receiving new construction commitments 
under sections 514, 515, or 516 for very low-income families 
with certain limitations.

                       committee recommendations

    For rural rental assistance payments, the Committee 
recommends an appropriation of $680,000,000. This amount is 
$40,000,000 more than the 2000 level and the same as the budget 
request.

                  MUTUAL AND SELF-HELP HOUSING GRANTS

Appropriations, 2000....................................     $28,000,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      40,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      34,000,000

    This grant program is authorized by title V of the Housing 
Act of 1949. Grants are made to local organizations to promote 
the development of mutual or self-help programs under which 
groups of usually 6 to 10 families build their own homes by 
mutually exchanging labor. Funds may be used to pay the cost of 
construction supervisors who will work with families in the 
construction of their homes and for administrative expenses of 
the organizations providing the self-help assistance.

                       Committee Recommendations

    The Committee recommends $34,000,000 for mutual and self-
help housing grants. This is $6,000,000 more than the 2000 
level and is $6,000,000 less than the budget request.

                    rural housing assistance grants

Appropriations, 2000.................................... \1\ $45,000,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................  \2\ 39,000,000
Committee recommendation................................  \2\ 44,000,000

\1\ Excludes $7,250,000 for farm labor housing grants and $7,250,000 for 
very low-income housing grants in emergency supplemental appropriations 
provided by Public Law 106-113.
\2\ Rural housing for domestic farm labor grants for fiscal year 2000 
are requested in the farm labor program account.

    This program consolidates funding for rural housing grant 
programs. This consolidation of housing grant funding provides 
greater flexibility to tailor financial assistance to applicant 
needs.
    Very low-income housing repair grants.--The Very Low-Income 
Housing Repair Grants Program is authorized under section 504 
of title V of the Housing Act of 1949. The rural housing repair 
grant program is carried out by making grants to very low-
income families to make necessary repairs to their homes in 
order to make such dwellings safe and sanitary, and remove 
hazards to the health of the occupants, their families, or the 
community.
    These grants may be made to cover the cost of improvements 
or additions, such as repairing roofs, providing toilet 
facilities, providing a convenient and sanitary water supply, 
supplying screens, repairing or providing structural supports 
or making similar repairs, additions, or improvements, 
including all preliminary and installation costs in obtaining 
central water and sewer service. A grant can be made in 
combination with a section 504 very low-income housing repair 
loan.
    No assistance can be extended to any one individual in the 
form of a loan, grant, or combined loans and grants in excess 
of $7,500, and grant assistance is limited to persons, or 
families headed by persons who are 62 years of age or older.
    Supervisory and technical assistance grants.--Supervisory 
and technical assistance grants are made to public and private 
nonprofit organizations for packaging loan applications for 
housing assistance under sections 502, 504, 514/516, 515, and 
533. The assistance is directed to very low-income families in 
underserved areas where at least 20 percent of the population 
is below the poverty level and at least 10 percent or more of 
the population resides in substandard housing. In fiscal year 
1994 a Homebuyer Education Program was implemented under this 
authority. This program provides low-income individuals and 
families education and counseling on obtaining and/or 
maintaining occupancy of adequate housing and supervised credit 
assistance to become successful homeowners.
    Compensation for construction defects.--Compensation for 
construction defects provides funds for grants to eligible 
section 502 borrowers to correct structural defects, or to pay 
claims of owners arising from such defects on a newly 
constructed dwelling purchased with RHS financial assistance. 
Claims are not paid until provisions under the builder's 
warranty have been fully pursued. Requests for compensation for 
construction defects must be made by the owner of the property 
within 18 months after the date financial assistance was 
granted.
    Rural housing preservation grants.--Rural housing 
preservation grants (section 522) of the Housing and Urban-
Rural Recovery Act of 1983 authorizes the Rural Housing Service 
to administer a program of home repair directed at low- and 
very low-income people.
    The purpose of the preservation program is to improve the 
delivery of rehabilitation assistance by employing the 
expertise of housing organizations at the local level. Eligible 
applicants will compete on a State-by-State basis for grants 
funds. These funds may be administered as loans, loan write-
downs, or grants to finance home repair. The program will be 
administered by local grantees.

                       Committee Recommendations

    For the Rural Housing Assistance Grants Program the 
Committee recommends $44,000,000. This is $1,000,000 less than 
the 2000 level and $5,000,000 more than the budget request. 
Included in this amount is $5,000,000 to provide demonstration 
housing grants for agriculture, aquaculture and seafood 
processing workers in Mississippi and Alaska.
    The following table compares the grant program levels 
recommended by the Committee to the fiscal year 2000 levels and 
the budget request:

                                         RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                           Fiscal year--
                                                                 --------------------------------    Committee
                                                                    2000 level     2001 request   recommendation
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Domestic farm labor grants......................................      \1\ 13,500         ( \2\ )         ( \2\ )
Very low-income housing repair grants...........................          25,000      \3\ 30,000      \3\ 30,000
Supervisory and technical assistance............................  ..............           1,000           1,000
Rural housing preservation grants...............................           5,500           8,000           8,000
Demonstration housing grants for agriculture processing workers.  ..............  ..............           5,000
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
      Total.....................................................          45,000          39,000          44,000
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\1\ Excludes $7,250,000 in emergency supplemental appropriations provided by Public Law 106-113.
\2\ The 2001 budget estimate proposes to fund for the grants in the farm labor program account.
\3\ Excludes $7,250,000 in emergency supplemental appropriations provided by Public Law 106-113.


                                               FARM LABOR PROGRAM
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                                                                    Loan level     Subsidy level      Grants
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Appropriations, 2000............................................         ( \1\ )         ( \1\ )         ( \1\ )
Budget estimate, 2001...........................................   ($30,000,000)     $15,777,000     $20,000,000
Committee recommendation........................................    (30,000,000)      15,777,000      12,973,000
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\1\ In 2000 farm labor housing loans were included in the Rural Housing Insurance Fund and farm labor grants
  were included in Rural Housing Assistance Grants. The budget estimate in 2001 proposes a new consolidated
  account for loans and grants.

    This new account consolidates three farm labor programs 
into one account. This consolidation will provide more 
flexibility for distributing rural farm labor housing 
assistance. The account consists of direct farm labor housing 
loans, domestic farm labor housing grants and low-income 
migrant and seasonal farm worker grants.
    The direct farm labor housing loan program is authorized 
under section 514 and the rural housing for domestic farm labor 
housing grant program is authorized under section 516 of the 
Housing Act of 1949, as amended. The loans, grants, and 
contracts are made to public and private nonprofit 
organizations for low-rent housing and related facilities for 
domestic farm labor. Grant assistance may not exceed 90 percent 
of the cost of a project. Loans and grants may be used for 
construction of new structures, site acquisition and 
development, rehabilitation of existing structures, and 
purchase of furnishings and equipment for dwellings, dining 
halls, community rooms, and infirmaries.
    The low-income migrant and seasonal farm worker grants are 
made to public agencies or private organizations with tax 
exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 and have experience in providing services to low-
income migrant and seasonal farm workers. The types of 
assistance to be provided is determined by the Secretary of 
Agriculture.
    Under credit reform, administrative costs associated with 
loan programs are appropriated to the program accounts. 
Appropriations to the salaries and expenses account will be for 
costs associated with grant programs.

                       committee recommendations

    For direct farm labor housing loans, the Committee 
recommends a total level of $28,750,000. This is $28,750,000 
more than the 2000 level and $7,027,000 less than the budget 
request. The Committee has recommended the establishment of 
this new consolidated Farm Labor Program account, as proposed 
in the budget.

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                   Total, RHS
                                                              Appropriation     Transfer from     salaries and
                                                                                loan accounts       expenses
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000......................................            61,551           375,879           437,430
Budget estimate, 2001.....................................           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )
Committee recommendation..................................           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ The 2001 budget estimate proposes consolidated salaries and expenses account to administer all rural
  development programs.

    These funds are used to administer the loan and grant 
programs of the Rural Housing Service including reviewing 
applications, making and collecting loans, and providing 
technical assistance and guidance to borrowers; and to assist 
in extending other Federal programs to people in rural areas.
    Under credit reform, administrative costs associated with 
loan programs are appropriated to the program accounts for the 
rural housing insurance fund and rural community facility 
loans. Appropriations to the ``Salaries and expenses'' account 
will be for costs associated with grant programs.

                       Committee Recommendations

    For salaries and expenses of the Rural Housing Service, 
including transfers from other accounts, the Committee 
recommends a new consolidated salaries and expenses account to 
administer all rural development programs, as proposed in the 
budget.

                   Rural Business-Cooperative Service

    The Rural Business-Cooperative Service [RBS] was 
established by Public Law 103-354, Federal Crop Insurance 
Reform and Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 
1994, dated October 13, 1994. Its programs were previously 
administered by the Rural Development Administration, the Rural 
Electrification Administration, and the Agricultural 
Cooperative Service.
    The mission of the Rural Business-Cooperative Service is to 
enhance the quality of life for all rural residents by 
assisting new and existing cooperatives and other businesses 
through partnership with rural communities. The goals and 
objectives are to: (1) promote a stable business environment in 
rural America through financial assistance, sound business 
planning, technical assistance, appropriate research, 
education, and information; (2) support environmentally 
sensitive economic growth that meets the needs of the entire 
community; and (3) assure that the Service benefits are 
available to all segments of the rural community, with emphasis 
on those most in need.

              RURAL DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     Fiscal year--
                             ----------------------------    Committee
                               2000 level   2001 request  recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Estimated loan level........  (38,256,000)  (64,495,000)   (38,256,000)
Direct loan subsidy.........   16,615,000    32,834,000     19,476,000
Administrative expenses.....  \1\ 3,337,00  \2\ 3,640,00     3,640,000
                                        0             0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ In fiscal year 2000 administrative expenses were transferred to the
  Rural-Business Cooperative Service.
\2\ In the fiscal year 2001 budget estimate administrative expenses are
  proposed to be transferred to Rural Development, Salaries and
  Expenses.

    The rural development (intermediary relending) loan program 
was originally authorized by the Economic Opportunity Act of 
1964 (Public Law 88-452). The making of rural development loans 
by the Department of Agriculture was reauthorized by Public Law 
99-425, the Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1986.
    Loans are made to intermediary borrowers (this is, small 
investment groups) who in turn will reloan the funds to rural 
businesses, community development corporations, private 
nonprofit organizations, public agencies, et cetera, for the 
purpose of improving business, industry, community facilities, 
and employment opportunities and diversification of the economy 
in rural areas.
    The Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 established the 
program account. Appropriations to this account will be used to 
cover the lifetime subsidy costs associated with the direct 
loans obligated in 2001, as well as for administrative 
expenses.

                       Committee Recommendations

    For rural development (intermediary relending) loans, the 
Committee recommends a total loan level of $38,256,000. This is 
the same as the 2000 level and $26,239,000 less than the budget 
request.
    The Committee encourages the agency to be aware and 
consider Port Morrow, LA's application for the Intermediary 
Relending Program.
    There has been a steady long-term decline of the population 
in rural States because of the downturn in the agricultural 
economy. The Committee is concerned that the IRP does not 
sufficiently address the long-term out-migration in these rural 
areas and encourages the agency to increase its efforts to make 
funding available to meritorious entities in these States. The 
Committee requests an update from the agency concerning its 
progress in addressing this matter and a recommendation as to 
whether additional criteria, such as long-term out-migration, 
are appropriate.

            RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                     Fiscal year--
                                                        --------------------------------------     Committee
                                                             2000 level        2001 request      recommendation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Estimated loan level...................................       (15,000,000)       (15,000,000)       (15,000,000)
Direct loan subsidy \1\................................         3,453,000          3,911,000          3,911,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Offset by a rescission from interest on the cushion of credit payments as authorized by section 313 of the
  Rural Electrification Act of 1936.

    The rural economic development loans program was 
established by the Reconciliation Act of December 1987 (Public 
Law 100-203), which amended the Rural Electrification Act of 
1936, by establishing a new section 313. This section of the 
Rural Electrification Act (7 U.S.C. 901) established a cushion 
of credits payment program and created the rural economic 
development subaccount. The Administrator of RUS is authorized 
under the act to utilize funds in this program to provide zero 
interest loans to electric and telecommunications borrowers for 
the purpose of promoting rural economic development and job 
creation projects, including funding for feasibility studies, 
startup costs, and other reasonable expenses for the purpose of 
fostering rural economic development.

                        Committee Recommendation

    The Committee recommends a direct loan subsidy 
appropriation for rural economic development loans of 
$3,911,000. This amount is $458,000 more than the 2000 level 
and the same as the budget request. As proposed in the budget, 
the $3,911,000 provided is derived by transfer from interest on 
the cushion of credit payments.

                  RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

Appropriations, 2000....................................      $6,000,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      11,500,000
Committee recommendation................................       6,000,000

    Rural cooperative development grants are authorized under 
section 310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
Act, as amended. Grants are made to fund the establishment and 
operation centers for rural cooperative development with their 
primary purpose being the improvement of economic conditions in 
rural areas. Grants may be made to nonprofit institutions or 
institutions of higher education. Grants may be used to pay up 
to 75 percent of the cost of the project and associated 
administrative costs. The applicant must contribute at least 25 
percent from non-Federal sources. Grants are competitive and 
are awarded based on specific selection criteria.
    Cooperative research agreements are authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
2204b. The funds are used for cooperative research agreements, 
primarily with colleges and universities, on critical 
operational, organizational, and structural issues facing 
cooperatives.
    Cooperative agreements are authorized under 7 U.S.C. 2201 
to any qualified State departments of agriculture, university, 
and other State entity to conduct research that will strengthen 
and enhance the operations of agricultural marketing 
cooperatives in rural areas.
    The Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA) 
program was first authorized by the Food Security Act of 1985. 
The program provides information and technical assistance to 
agricultural producers to adopt sustainable agricultural 
practices that are environmentally friendly and lower 
production costs.

                       Committee Recommendations

    The Committee recommends $6,000,000 for rural cooperative 
development grants. This is the same as the 2000 level and 
$5,500,000 less than the budget request. The Committee does not 
provide a transfer of $2,000,000 from salaries and expenses to 
fund cooperative research agreements, as proposed in the 
budget.
    The Committee is aware of and encourages the Department to 
consider the following applications for cooperative development 
grants: Malt Montana, Inc.; Dawson County economic development, 
BioGold Composites, and Montana State University-Northern 
Cooperative Development Center, MT; Mississippi Association of 
Cooperatives, MS; Southern Loop Water Main to construct an 
alternate water main serving the Cadds-Bassier Port, LA; and a 
Cooperative Development Center, AK.
    Of the funds provided for rural cooperative development 
grants, $1,500,000 is provided for a cooperative agreement for 
the Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas Program.
    The Committee has included language in the bill which 
clarifies the Committee's intent that not more than $1,500,000 
be available to cooperatives or associations of cooperatives 
whose primary focus is to provide assistance to small, minority 
producers.

       NATIONAL SHEEP INDUSTRY IMPROVEMENT CENTER REVOLVING FUND

Appropriations, 2000....................................         ( \1\ )
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      $5,000,000
Committee recommendation................................................

\1\ No funds were appropriated in fiscal year 2000.

    The National Sheep Industry Improvement Center was 
established by the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform 
Act of 1996 to promote activities to strengthen and enhance 
production or marketing of sheep and goat products in the 
United States. The Center may provide loans or grants to 
eligible entities to provide assistance to the industry for 
infrastructure development, business development, production, 
resource development, and market and environmental research. 
The 1996 Act provided up to $20,000,000 in mandatory funding 
for the establishment and operation of the Center and 
authorized additional discretionary appropriations of up to 
$30,000,000.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The Committee does not recommend an appropriation for this 
new program. This is $5,000,000 less than the budget request. 
The program received no appropriation for fiscal year 2000.

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                   Total, RBS,
                                                              Appropriation     Transfer from     salaries and
                                                                                loan accounts       expenses
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000......................................            24,612             3,337            27,949
Budget estimate, 2001.....................................           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )
Committee recommendation..................................  ................  ................  ................
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ The 2001 budget estimate proposes a consolidated salaries and expenses account to administer all rural
  development programs.

    These funds are used to administer the loan and grant 
programs of the Rural Business-Cooperative Service including 
reviewing applications, making and collecting loans, and 
providing technical assistance and guidance to borrowers; and 
to assist in extending other Federal programs to people in 
rural areas.

                       committee recommendations

    The Committee recommends that salaries and expenses of the 
Rural Business-Cooperative Service, including transfers from 
other accounts, be funded under the new account, Rural 
Development, Salaries and Expenses, as proposed in the budget.

                        Rural Utilities Service

    The Rural Utilities Service [RUS] was established under the 
Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture 
Reorganization Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-354), October 13, 
1994. RUS administers the electric and telephone programs of 
the former Rural Electrification Administration and the water 
and waste programs of the former Rural Development 
Administration.
    The mission of the RUS is to serve a leading role in 
improving the quality of life in rural America by administering 
its electric, telecommunications, and water and waste programs 
in a service oriented, forward looking, and financially 
responsible manner. All three programs have the common goal of 
modernizing and revitalizing rural communities. RUS provides 
funding and support service for utilities serving rural areas. 
The public-private partnerships established by RUS and local 
utilities assist rural communities in modernizing local 
infrastructure. RUS programs are also characterized by the 
substantial amount of private investment which is leveraged by 
the public funds invested into infrastructure and technology, 
resulting in the creation of new sources of employment.

   RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

    The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 901 et 
seq.) provides the statutory authority for the electric and 
telecommunications programs.
    The Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 established the 
program account. An appropriation to this account will be used 
to cover the lifetime subsidy costs associated with the direct 
loans obligated and loan guarantees committed in 2001, as well 
as for administrative expenses.

                       committee recommendations

    The following table reflects the Committee's recommendation 
for the ``Rural electrification and telecommunications loans 
program'' account, the loan subsidy and administrative 
expenses, as compared to the fiscal year 2000 and budget 
request levels:

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                           Fiscal year--
                                                                   ----------------------------     Committee
                                                                     2000 level   2001 request   recommendation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Loan authorizations:
    Electric:
        Direct, 5 percent.........................................     (121,500)      (50,000)         (121,500)
        Direct, Muni..............................................     (295,000)     (300,000)         (295,000)
        Direct, FFB...............................................   (1,700,000)     (800,000)       (1,700,000)
        Direct, Treasury rate.....................................  ............  ............         (500,000)
        Guaranteed................................................  ............  \1\ (400,000  ................
                                                                                             )
                                                                   ---------------------------------------------
          Subtotal................................................   (2,116,500)   (1,550,000)       (2,616,500)
                                                                   =============================================
    Telecommunications:
        Direct, 5 percent.........................................      (75,000)      (75,000)          (75,000)
        Direct, Treasury rate.....................................     (300,000)     (300,000)         (300,000)
        Direct, FFB...............................................     (120,000)     (120,000)         (120,000)
                                                                   ---------------------------------------------
          Subtotal................................................     (495,000)     (495,000)         (495,000)
                                                                   ---------------------------------------------
          Total, loan authorizations..............................   (2,611,500)   (2,045,000)       (3,111,500)
                                                                   =============================================
Loan Subsidies:
    Electric:
        Direct, 5 percent.........................................        1,095         4,980            12,101
        Direct, Muni..............................................       10,827        20,850            20,503
        Direct, FFB...............................................       ( \2\ )       ( \2\ )           ( \2\ )
        Direct, Treasury rate.....................................  ............  ............           ( \2\ )
        Guaranteed................................................       ( \2\ )           40   ................
                                                                   ---------------------------------------------
          Subtotal................................................       11,922        25,870            32,604
                                                                   =============================================
    Telecommunications:
        Direct, 5 percent.........................................          840         7,770             7,770
        Direct, Treasury rate.....................................        2,370        ( \2\ )           ( \2\ )
        Direct, FFB...............................................       ( \2\ )       ( \2\ )           ( \2\ )
                                                                   ---------------------------------------------
          Subtotal................................................        3,210         7,770             7,770
                                                                   ---------------------------------------------
          Total, loan subsidies...................................       15,132        33,640            40,374
                                                                   =============================================
Administrative expenses...........................................   \3\ 31,046    \4\ 34,716        \4\ 34,716
                                                                   ---------------------------------------------
      Total, Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans          46,178        68,356            75,090
       Programs Account...........................................
                                                                   =============================================
          (Loan authorization)....................................   (2,611,500)   (2,045,000)       (3,111,500)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ The budget estimate in 2001 proposes a new Electric Private Sector Guarantee Loan Program.
\2\ Negative subsidy rates for fiscal year 2000 and 2001 are calculated for this program.
\3\ In fiscal year 2000 Rural Electrification and Telecommunication Loans Program administrative expenses were
  transferred to Rural Utilities Service.
\4\ In the fiscal year 2001, the budget proposes a new consolidated account, Rural Development, Salaries and
  Expenses; the Rural Electrification and Telecommunication Loans Program administrative expenses will be
  transferred to this account.

    The Committee is aware of the backlog in rural 
electrification loans. In order to better address this backlog, 
the Committee recommends $500,000,000 in Treasury rate direct 
electric loans to remedy this situation.

                  RURAL TELEPHONE BANK PROGRAM ACCOUNT

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                   Direct loan    Administrative
                                                                   Loan level        subsidy          expenses
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000..........................................        (175,000)           3,290        \1\ 3,000
Budget estimate, 2001 \2\.....................................        (175,000)           2,590        \3\ 3,000
Committee recommendation \2\..................................        (175,000)           2,590        \3\ 3,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ In fiscal year 2000 Rural Telephone Bank Program Account administrative expenses were transferred to Rural
  Utilities Service.
\2\ To be derived by transfer from unobligated balances in the ``Rural Telephone Bank Liquidating'' account.
\3\ In the fiscal year 2001, the budget estimate proposes a new consolidated account, Rural Development,
  Salaries and Expenses; the Rural Telephone Bank Program Account administrative expenses will be transferred to
  this account.

    The Rural Telephone Bank [RTB] is required by law to begin 
privatization (repurchase of federally owned stock) in fiscal 
year 1996. RTB borrowers are able to borrow at private market 
rates and no longer require Federal assistance.
    The Rural Telephone Bank is managed by a 13-member board of 
directors. The Administrator of RUS serves as Governor of the 
Bank until conversion to private ownership, control, and 
operation. This will take place when 51 percent of the class A 
stock issued to the United States and outstanding at any time 
after September 30, 1996, has been fully redeemed and retired. 
Activities of the Bank are carried out by RUS employees and the 
Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture.
    The Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 established the 
program account. Appropriations to this account will be used to 
cover the lifetime subsidy costs associated with the direct 
loans obligated in 2001, as well as for administrative 
expenses.

                       committee recommendations

    The Committee recommends $2,590,000 which supports a loan 
level of $175,000,000. This amount is $700,000 less than the 
2000 level and the same as the budget request.

               DISTANCE LEARNING AND telemedicine program

                            loans and grants

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                         Fiscal year--
                                                              ----------------------------------    Committee
                                                                  2000 level      2001 request    recommendation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Loan authorization...........................................        (200,000)        (400,000)        (400,000)
Direct loan subsidy..........................................             700           ( \1\ )          ( \1\ )
Grants.......................................................          20,000           27,000           27,000
                                                              --------------------------------------------------
        Total................................................        (220,700)        (427,000)        (427,000)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Negative subsidy rates for fiscal year 2001 are calculated for this program.

    The Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program is 
authorized by the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act 
of 1990 (104 Stat. 4017, 7 U.S.C. 950aaa et seq.), as amended 
by the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996. 
This program provides incentives to improve the quality of 
phone services, to provide access to advanced 
telecommunications services and computer networks, and to 
improve rural opportunities.
    This program provides the facilities and equipment to link 
rural education and medical facilities with more urban centers 
and other facilities providing rural residents access to better 
health care through technology and increasing educational 
opportunities for rural students. These funds are available for 
loans and grants.

                       Committee Recommendations

    For the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program, the 
Committee recommends $27,000,000. This amount is $6,300,000 
more than the 2000 level and the same as the budget request. Of 
the funds provided $2,000,000 is made available for a pilot 
program to finance broadband transmission and local dial-up 
Internet service for rural areas.
    The Committee is aware of and encourages the Department to 
give consideration to the following applications for grants and 
loans: the University of Vermont College of Medicine to support 
a statewide telemedicine system for trauma services; Fresno 
Community Medical Center's Rural Outreach and Telemedicine 
Network; the Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network; the 
Northwest Telehealth Services program in Washington State; and 
the State of Vermont to support expansion of distance learning 
networks in schools.
    The Committee also is aware of the need for the distance 
learning and telemedicine link program of the Maui Community 
College, the community hospital system, and the nutrition 
education activities of the University of Hawaii College of 
Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. The Committee 
encourages the Department to fund a demonstration project to 
build upon existing resources and to further the use of 
advanced telecommunications by rural communities.

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                   Total, RUS,
                                                              Appropriation    Transfers from     salaries and
                                                                                loan accounts       expenses
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000......................................       $34,107,000       $34,046,000       $68,153,000
Budget estimate, 2001.....................................           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )
Committee recommendation..................................           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )           ( \1\ )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ The 2001 budget estimate proposes a consolidated salaries and expenses account to administer all rural
  development programs.

    These funds are used to administer the loan and grant 
programs of the Rural Utilities Service, including reviewing 
applications, making and collecting loans, and providing 
technical assistance and guidance to borrowers, and to assist 
in extending other Federal programs to people in rural areas.
    Under credit reform, administrative costs associated with 
loan programs are appropriated to the program accounts for the 
agricultural credit insurance fund and the rural housing 
insurance fund. Appropriations to the salaries and expenses 
account will be for costs associated with grant programs.

                       committee recommendations

    The Committee recommends that salaries and expenses of the 
Rural Utilities Service, including transfers from other 
accounts, be funded under the new account, Rural Development, 
Salaries and Expenses, as proposed in the budget. The fiscal 
year 2000 appropriation is $34,107,000.

                    TITLE IV--DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS

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

Appropriations, 2000....................................        $554,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................         570,000
Committee recommendation................................         570,000

    The Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and 
Consumer Services provides direction and coordination in 
carrying out the laws enacted by the Congress with respect to 
the Department's food and consumer activities. The Office has 
oversight and management responsibilities for the Food and 
Nutrition Service.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition 
and Consumer Services, the Committee recommends an 
appropriation of $570,000. This amount is $16,000 more than the 
2000 level and the same as the budget request.

                       Food and Nutrition Service

    The Food and Nutrition Service represents an organizational 
effort to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in this country. 
Nutrition assistance programs provide access to a nutritionally 
adequate diet for families and persons with low incomes and 
encourage better eating patterns among the Nation's children. 
These programs include:
    Child Nutrition Programs.--The national school lunch and 
school breakfast, summer food service, and child and adult care 
food programs provide funding to the States, Puerto Rico, the 
Virgin Islands, and Guam for use in serving nutritious lunches 
and breakfasts to children attending schools of high school 
grades and under, to children of preschool age in child care 
centers, and to children in other institutions in order to 
improve the health and well-being of the Nation's children, and 
broaden the markets for agricultural food commodities. Through 
the special milk program, assistance is provided to the States 
for making reimbursement payments to eligible schools and child 
care institutions which institute or expand milk service in 
order to increase the consumption of fluid milk by children. 
Funds for this program are provided by direct appropriation and 
transfer from section 32.
    Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, 
and Children [WIC].--This program safeguards the health of 
pregnant, post partum, and breast-feeding women, infants, and 
children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk because of 
inadequate nutrition and income by providing supplemental 
foods. The delivery of supplemental foods may be done through 
health clinics, vouchers redeemable at retail food stores, or 
other approved methods which a cooperating State health agency 
may select. Funds for this program are provided by direct 
appropriation.
    Food Stamp Program.--This program seeks to improve 
nutritional standards of needy persons and families. Assistance 
is provided to eligible households to enable them to obtain a 
better diet by increasing their food purchasing capability, 
usually by furnishing benefits in the form of food stamps. The 
program also includes Nutrition Assistance to Puerto Rico. The 
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Public Law 97-35) 
authorizes a block grant for Nutrition Assistance to Puerto 
Rico which gives the Commonwealth broad flexibility in 
establishing a nutrition assistance program that is 
specifically tailored to the needs of its low-income 
households.
    The program also includes the Food Distribution Program on 
Indian Reservations which provides nutritious agricultural 
commodities to low-income persons living on or near Indian 
reservations who choose not to participate in the Food Stamp 
Program.
    Effective October 1, 1997, the Personal Responsibility and 
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-
193) added section 27 to the Food Stamp Act which provides that 
$100,000,000 of food stamp funds be used to purchase 
commodities for The Emergency Food Assistance Program. Funds 
for this program are provided by direct appropriation.
    Commodity Assistance Program [CAP].--This program provides 
funding for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program [CSFP], and 
administrative expenses for The Emergency Food Assistance 
Program [TEFAP].
    CSFP provides supplemental foods to infants and children up 
to age 6, and to pregnant, post partum, and breast-feeding 
women with low incomes, and who reside in approved project 
areas. In addition, this program operates commodity 
distribution projects directed at low-income elderly persons.
    TEFAP provides commodities and grant funds to State 
agencies to assist in the cost of storage and distribution of 
donated commodities. The Soup Kitchen/Food Bank Program was 
absorbed into TEFAP under the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-193), by 
an amendment to section 201A of the Emergency Food Assistance 
Act.
    Food Donations Programs.--Nutritious agricultural 
commodities are provided to residents of the Federated States 
of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Cash assistance is 
provided to distributing agencies to assist them in meeting 
administrative expenses incurred. It also provides funding for 
use in non-Presidentially declared disasters and for FNS' 
administrative costs in connection with relief for all 
disasters. Commodities, or cash in lieu of commodities, are 
provided to assist nutrition programs for the elderly. Funds 
for this program are provided by direct appropriation.
    Food Program Administration.--Most salaries and Federal 
operating expenses of the Food and Nutrition Service are funded 
from this account. Also included is the Center for Nutrition 
Policy and Promotion [CNPP] which oversees improvements in and 
revisions to the food and guidance systems, and serves as the 
focal point for advancing and coordinating nutrition promotion 
and education policy to improve the health of all Americans. As 
of September 30, 1999, there were 1,539 full-time permanent and 
105 part-time and temporary employees in the agency. FNS's 
headquarters staff, which is located in Alexandria VA, totals 
539, and 1,000 FNS employees are located in the field. There 
are 7 regional offices employing 613 employees, and the balance 
of the agency is located in 4 food stamp compliance offices, 1 
computer support center in Minneapolis, MN, 1 administrative 
review office, and 69 field offices. Funds for this program are 
provided by direct appropriation.

                        child nutrition programs


                                            [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                                 Section 32
                                                              Appropriation       transfers           Total
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Appropriations, 2000......................................         4,618,829         4,935,199         9,554,028
Budget estimate, 2001 \1\.................................         4,578,482         4,967,574         9,546,056
Committee recommendation \2\..............................         4,413,960         5,127,579         9,541,539
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\1\ Includes $8,000,000 in discretionary funding.
\2\ Includes $6,000,000 in discretionary funding.

    The Child Nutrition Programs, authorized by the National 
School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, provide 
Federal assistance to State agencies in the form of cash and 
commodities for use in preparing and serving nutritious meals 
to children while they are attending school, residing in 
service institutions, or participating in other organized 
activities away from home. The purpose of these programs is to 
help maintain the health and proper physical development of 
America's children. Milk is provided to children either free or 
at a low cost depending on their family income level. FNS 
provides cash subsidies to States administering the programs 
and directly administers the program in the States which choose 
not to do so. Grants are also made for nutritional training and 
surveys and for State administrative expenses. Under current 
law, most of these payments are made on the basis of 
reimbursement rates established by law and applied to lunches 
and breakfasts actually served by the States. The reimbursement 
rates are adjusted annually to reflect changes in the Consumer 
Price Index for food away from home.
    The William F. Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act 
of 1998, Public Law 105-336, contains a number of child 
nutrition provisions. These include:
    Summer Food Service Program [SFSP].--Reauthorizes the 
program through 2003 and relaxes the site limitations for 
private nonprofit sponsors in SFSP.
    Child and Adult Care Food Program [CACFP].--Permanently 
authorizes payments for snacks provided to children through age 
18 in after-school programs, and provides funds for 
demonstration projects to expand services to homeless children 
and family day care homes in low-income areas. Beginning on 
July 1, 1999, the Homeless Child Nutrition Program and the 
Homeless Summer Food Service Program will be transferred into 
the CACFP.
    National School Lunch Program [NSLP].--(1) Significantly 
expands reimbursement for snacks for children up to age 18 in 
after-school care programs; (2) provides for free snacks in 
needy areas; and (3) requires participating schools to obtain a 
food safety inspection conducted by a State or local agency.
    A description of Child Nutrition Programs follows:
    1. Cash payments to States.--The programs are operated 
under an agreement entered into by the State agencies and the 
Department. Funds are made available under letters of credit to 
State agencies for use in reimbursing participating schools and 
other institutions. Sponsors make application to the State 
agencies, and if approved, are reimbursed on a per-meal basis 
in accordance with the terms of their agreements and rates 
prescribed by law. The reimbursement rates are adjusted 
annually to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index for 
food away from home.
          (a) School Lunch Program.--Assistance is provided to 
        the States for the service of lunches to all school 
        children, regardless of family income. States must 
        match some of the Federal cash grant. In fiscal year 
        2001, the School Lunch Program will provide assistance 
        for serving an estimated 4.6 billion school lunches 
        including 1.9 billion for children from upper-income 
        families and 2.7 billion for children from lower and 
        low-income families. An estimated 27.8 million children 
        are expected to participate in the program daily during 
        the school year.
          (b) Special assistance for free and reduced-price 
        lunches.--Additional assistance is provided to the 
        States for serving lunches free or at a reduced price 
        to needy children. In fiscal year 2001, under current 
        law, the program will provide assistance for about 4.6 
        billion lunches, of which 2.3 billion will be served 
        free of charge and 0.4 billion at reduced price. About 
        16.1 million needy children will participate in the 
        program on an average schoolday during the year.
          (c) School Breakfast Program.--Federal reimbursement 
        to the States is based on the number of breakfasts 
        served free, at a reduced price, or at the general rate 
        for those served to nonneedy children. Certain schools 
        are designated in severe need because, in the second 
        preceding year, they served at least 40 percent of 
        their lunches at free or reduced prices and because the 
        regular breakfast reimbursement is insufficient to 
        cover cost, receive higher rates of reimbursement in 
        both the free and reduced-price categories. In fiscal 
        year 2001, the program will serve an estimated 1.3 
        billion breakfasts to a daily average of 8 million 
        children.
          A pilot project is authorized and partially funded to 
        study the effects of providing free breakfast to all 
        students without regard to family income.
          (d) State administrative expenses.--The funds may be 
        used for State employee salaries, benefits, support 
        services, and office equipment. Public Law 95-627 made 
        the State administrative expenses grant equal to 1.5 
        percent of certain Federal payments in the second 
        previous year. In fiscal year 2001, $127,321,000 will 
        be allocated among the States to fund ongoing State 
        administrative expenses and to improve the management 
        of various nutrition programs.
          (e) Summer Food Service Program.--Meals served free 
        to children in low-income neighborhoods during the 
        summer months are supported on a performance basis by 
        Federal cash subsidies to State agencies. Funds are 
        also provided for related State and local 
        administrative expenses. During the summer of 2001, 
        approximately 155.3 million meals will be served.
          (f) Child and Adult Care Food Program.--Preschool 
        children receive year-round food assistance in 
        nonprofit child care centers and family and group day 
        care homes under this program. Public Law 97-35 permits 
        profitmaking child care centers receiving compensation 
        under title XX of the Social Security Act to 
        participate in the program if 25 percent of the 
        children served are title XX participants. Certain 
        adult day care centers are also eligible for 
        participation in this program, providing subsidized 
        meals to nonimpaired individuals age 60 years or older. 
        The Child and Adult Care Food Program reimburses State 
        agencies at varying rates for breakfasts, lunches, 
        suppers, and meal supplements and for program-related 
        State audit expenses. In fiscal year 2001, 
        approximately 1.8 billion meals will be served.
    2. Commodity procurement.--Commodities are purchased for 
distribution to the school lunch, child care food, and summer 
food service programs. The minimum commodity support rate for 
all school lunch and child care center lunches and suppers 
served is mandated by law and adjusted annually on July 1 to 
reflect changes in the producer price index for food used in 
schools and institutions. The commodities purchased with these 
funds are supplemented by commodities purchased with section 32 
funds.
    3. Nutrition studies and education.--
          (a) Nutrition education and training [NET].--This 
        program provides funds to State agencies for the 
        development of comprehensive nutrition education and 
        information programs for children participating in or 
        eligible for school lunch and related child nutrition 
        programs.
          (b) National Food Service Management Institute 
        [NFSMI].--The National Food Service Management 
        Institute provides instruction for educators and school 
        food service personnel in nutrition and food service 
        management.
    4. Special milk.--In fiscal year 2001, approximately 130.4 
million half-pints will be served in the Special Milk Program. 
These include about 122.9 million half-pints served to children 
whose family income is above 130 percent of poverty. During 
fiscal year 2001, the average full cost reimbursement for milk 
served to needy children is expected to be 16.6 cents for each 
half-pint. Milk served to nonneedy children is expected to be 
reimbursed at 12.7 cents for each half-pint.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the child nutrition programs, the Committee recommends 
an appropriation of $4,413,960,000, plus transfers from section 
32 of $5,127,579,000, for a total program of $9,541,539,000. 
This amount is $12,489,000 less than the 2000 level and 
$4,517,000 less than the budget request.
    The Committee's recommendation provides for the following 
annual rates for the child nutrition programs.

                                          TOTAL OBLIGATIONAL AUTHORITY
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                                                     Committee
                    Child nutrition programs                       2000 estimate    2001 budget   recommendation
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School Lunch Program............................................       5,664,900       5,387,523       5,387,523
School Breakfast Program........................................       1,408,697       1,495,684       1,495,684
State administrative expenses...................................         117,839         127,321         127,321
Summer Food Service Program.....................................         298,013         323,499         323,499
Child and Adult Care Food Program...............................       1,689,853       1,807,435       1,807,435
Special Milk Program............................................          17,159          16,843          16,843
Commodity procurement, processing, and computer support.........         334,204         360,223         360,223
Nutrition studies and surveys...................................  ..............           3,000  ..............
Coordinated review system.......................................           4,363           4,511           4,511
Team nutrition..................................................          10,000          10,017          10,000
Food safety education...........................................           2,000           2,000           2,000
Nutrition education and training................................  ..............           2,000  ..............
School breakfast demonstration project..........................           7,000           6,000           6,000
School breakfast pilot project..................................  ..............  ..............             500
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    The Committee provides $10,000,000 for TEAM nutrition. 
Included in this amount is $4,000,000 for food service training 
grants to States; $1,600,000 for technical assistance 
materials; $800,000 for National Food Service Management 
Institute cooperative agreements; $400,000 for print and 
electronic food service resource systems; and $3,200,000 for 
other activities.
    The Committee encourages the agency to consider grant 
applications for local initiatives for nutrition education, 
such as the ``Common Roots'' program.
    The Committee expects FNS to utilize the Food Service 
Management Institute to carry out the food safety education 
program.
    The Committee provides $6,000,000 to complete funding for 
the school breakfast demonstration project.
    The Committee provides $500,000 for a School Breakfast 
Program startup grant pilot program for the State of Wisconsin 
in order to help cover non-recurring costs associated with the 
program and to expand the availability of school breakfasts for 
children.
    The Committee urges the agency to provide technical 
assistance and guidance to those States that do not maximize 
the number of children served under the Child and Adult Care 
Food Program in their jurisdiction. The agency should encourage 
the States to follow the example of other States that pool a 
limited amount of Title XX with Child Care Development Block 
Grant (CCDBG) funds to meet the technical requirement of the 
current law.
    The Committee is aware that the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture has recently issued a final rule regarding the use 
of alternate protein products in the National School Lunch 
Program, School Breakfast Program, Summer Food Service Program, 
and the Child and Adult Care Food Program. The Committee 
recognizes that the Department's final rule fails to 
incorporate public comments submitted by industry and 
organizations representing producer groups. The Committee is 
concerned that the Department's decision to not adopt these 
recommendations could result in participant and parental 
confusion about foods offered in these important programs. 
Also, they may have unintended consequences for the nutritional 
well-being of children, including an increase in iron and zinc 
deficiencies. The Committee directs the Department to work with 
interested organizations to ensure that fortification, name and 
labeling requirements are sufficient to protect the health, 
growth, and cognitive development of America's school children. 
The Committee believes 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. 
Also, the Committee encourages that any recommended labeling 
requirements be consistent with similar guidelines of other 
Departmental agencies and the Food and Drug Administration.

special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children 
                                 [wic]

Appropriations, 2000 \1\................................  $4,032,000,000
Budget estimate, 2001 \2\...............................   4,148,100,000
Committee recommendation \3\............................   4,052,000,000

\1\ Includes up to $15,000,000 for the Farmers' Market Nutrition 
Program.
\2\ Excludes funding for the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program which 
the budget proposes to fund under the ``Commodity Assistance Programs'' 
account.
\3\ Includes up to $20,000,000 for the Farmers' Market Nutrition 
Program.

    The special supplemental nutrition program for women, 
infants, and children [WIC] is authorized by section 17 of the 
Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Its purpose is to safeguard the 
health of pregnant, breast-feeding and post partum women and 
infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk 
because of inadequate nutrition and inadequate income. The 
budget estimate assumes an average monthly participation of 7.5 
million participants at an average food cost of $34.04 per 
person per month in fiscal year 2001.
    The WIC program food packages are designed to provide foods 
which studies have demonstrated are lacking in the diets of the 
WIC program target population. The authorized supplemental 
foods are iron-fortified breakfast cereal, fruit or vegetable 
juice which contains vitamin C, dry beans, peas, and peanut 
butter.
    There are three general types of delivery systems for WIC 
foods: (1) retail purchase in which participants obtain 
supplemental foods through retail stores; (2) home delivery 
systems in which food is delivered to the participant's home; 
and (3) direct distribution systems in which participants pick 
up food from a distribution outlet. The food is free of charge 
to all participants.
    The William F. Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act 
of 1998 Public Law 105-336, reauthorizes the program through 
2003 and adds several provisions to the program. For example, 
the Act requires that an individual seeking certification or 
recertification in the program must provide documentation of 
family income. In addition, the Act permits State agencies to 
award infant formula rebate contracts to the bidder offering 
the lowest net wholesale price, unless the State agency 
demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the 
weighted average retail price for different brands of formula 
in that State does not vary by more than 5 percent.
    Public Law 105-336 also includes many provisions to improve 
retailer integrity and help to prevent fraud, waste and abuse 
in the program.
    The WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program [FMNP] is also 
funded from the WIC appropriation. FMNP is designed to 
accomplish two major goals: (1) to improve the diets of WIC (or 
WIC-eligible) participants by providing them with coupons to 
purchase fresh, nutritious, unprepared food, such as fruits and 
vegetables, from farmers markets; and (2) to increase the 
awareness and use of farmers' markets by low-income households. 
Although directly related to the WIC Program, about one-half of 
the current FMNP operations are administered by State 
departments of agriculture rather than the State WIC agencies.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, 
Infants, and Children [WIC], the Committee recommends an 
appropriation of $4,052,000,000. This amount is $20,000,000 
more than the 2000 appropriation and $96,100,000 less than the 
budget request.
    The WIC Program continues to be a high priority of the 
Committee. Based on actual participation to date, the average 
monthly WIC participation level is expected to be 7.2 million 
for fiscal year 2000. The fiscal year 2001 appropriation 
recommended by the Committee, together with anticipated 
carryover funds, will support an average monthly participation 
of 7.35 million women, infants, and children.
    The Committee makes available up to $20,000,000, $5,000,000 
more than the fiscal year 2000 level, to carry out the WIC 
Farmers' Market Nutrition Program.
    The Committee also provides an increase of $4,000,000 for 
infrastructure funding and includes language in the bill 
earmarking $6,000,000 for WIC electronic benefit transfer 
systems and raising the authorized level of infrastructure 
funding to accommodate this amount, as requested in the budget.
    While the Committee supports and encourages State and local 
agency efforts to utilize WIC as an important means of 
participant referral to other health care services, it 
recognizes the tremendous constraints that WIC programs are 
experiencing as a result of expanding health care priorities. 
The Committee also recognizes that the Department's broad 
interpretation of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, with respect 
to the delivery of screening, assessment and referral services 
on behalf of other Federal agencies or departments, may 
jeopardize WIC agencies' ability to deliver the core mission of 
WIC program services--quality nutrition education and 
counseling, breast-feeding promotion and support, and related 
health care services. The Committee wishes to clarify that 
while WIC plays an important role in screening and referral to 
other health care services, it was never the Committee's 
intention that WIC should perform aggressive screening, 
referral and assessment functions on behalf of other programs, 
nor was it the Committee's intention that WIC State and local 
agencies should assume the full burden of entering into and 
negotiating appropriate cost sharing agreements. The Committee 
again includes language in the bill to preserve WIC funding for 
authorized WIC services and again directs the Secretary to work 
with other Federal departments and agencies to ensure that 
except for basic education and referral purposes, WIC funds are 
not used to pay the administrative expenses or to coordinate 
operations or activities of other Federal agency services, 
activities or programs not authorized by section 17 of the 
Child Nutrition Act of 1966, unless fully reimbursed by those 
agencies.
    The Committee is concerned about the Department's failure 
to publish a final rule on WIC Food Delivery Systems. This rule 
was first published for public comment on December 28, 1990, 
and again republished for public comment on June 16, 1999. 
While State and local WIC Agencies have done an admirable job 
protecting the integrity of the program, they have been 
hampered in their efforts to ensure full compliance because of 
a lack of adequate Federal regulation. The needs of WIC 
participants to receive the supplementary foods that are 
essential to their overall health and nutritional well-being 
and the interests of the American people to be protected from 
fraud and abuse require that a final rule be published. The 
Committee directs the Secretary to release the final rule on 
WIC Food Delivery Systems by October 1, 2000.
    The Committee understands that the Food and Nutrition 
Service (FNS) is considering a proposed regulation that would 
broaden the variety of fresh fruits and vegetables available 
for purchase under the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) 
program. The Committee also understands that this action is 
based on the recent FNS report titled ``Review of the 
Nutritional Status of WIC Participants'' which concluded that 
participating WIC mothers and children could benefit from the 
vital nutrients found in fruit and vegetables. The Committee 
strongly supports this proposal and expects USDA to broaden WIC 
vouchers to ensure that a variety of fresh fruits and 
vegetables are available for purchase by WIC participants.

                           food stamp program


                                            [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                                          TEFAP
                                              Expenses      Amount in    Puerto Rico    commodity       Total
                                                             reserve                    purchases
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Appropriations, 2000......................    19,605,751       100,000     1,268,000        98,000    21,071,751
Budget estimate, 2001.....................    19,730,993     1,000,000     1,301,000       100,000    22,131,993
Committee recommendation..................    19,720,293       100,000     1,301,000       100,000    21,221,293
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    The Food Stamp Program, authorized by the Food Stamp Act of 
1964, attempts to alleviate hunger and malnutrition among low-
income persons by increasing their food purchasing power. 
Eligible households receive food stamps with which they can 
purchase food through regular retail stores. They are thus 
enabled to obtain a more nutritious diet than would be possible 
without food stamp assistance. The Personal Responsibility and 
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Public Law 104-
193, reauthorizes the Food Stamp Program through fiscal year 
2002.
    The Food Stamp Program is currently in operation in all 50 
States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. 
Participating households receive food stamps, the value of 
which is determined by household size and income. The cost of 
the stamps is paid by the Federal Government and is called the 
benefit cost. As required by law, the Food and Nutrition 
Service periodically revises household stamp allotments to 
reflect changes in the cost of the thrifty food plan. The last 
revision was made on October 1, 1999.
    State social service agencies assume responsibility for 
certifying eligible households and issuing the stamps through 
suitable outlets. Authorized grocery stores accept the stamps 
as payment for food purchases and forward them to commercial 
banks for cash or credit. The stamps flow through the banking 
system to the Federal Reserve Bank for redemption out of a 
special account maintained by the U.S. Treasury Department. The 
major alternative to the paper food stamp system is electronic 
benefit transfer [EBT].
    By the end of fiscal year 1999, 40 States and the District 
of Columbia had operating EBT systems. They are Alabama, 
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, 
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, 
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, 
Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, 
North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, 
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, 
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and 
Wyoming. Thirty-three of these systems are statewide. All other 
States are in some stage of planning or implementing their EBT 
systems.
    Nutrition Assistance to Puerto Rico.--The Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1981, Public Law 97-35, authorized a 
block grant for Nutrition Assistance to Puerto Rico which gives 
the commonwealth broad flexibility to establish a nutrition 
assistance program that is specifically tailored to the needs 
of its low-income households. However, the commonwealth must 
submit its annual plan of operation to the Secretary for 
approval. The FAIR Act of 1996, Public Law 104-127, enacted 
November 5, 1996, reauthorizes appropriations through fiscal 
year 2002. In addition to the provision of direct benefits to 
the needy, a portion of the grant may be used to fund up to 50 
percent of the cost of administering the program. The grant may 
also be used to fund projects to improve agriculture and food 
distribution in Puerto Rico.
    The program also includes the Food Distribution Program on 
Indian Reservations which provides nutritious agricultural 
commodities to low-income persons living on or near Indian 
reservations who choose not to participate in the Food Stamp 
Program.
    Effective October 1, 1997, the Personal Responsibility and 
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-
193) added section 27 to the Food Stamp Act which provides that 
$100,000,000 of food stamp funds be used to purchase 
commodities for the Emergency Food Assistance Program.
    Administrative costs.--All direct and indirect 
administrative costs incurred for certification of households, 
issuance of food coupons, quality control, outreach, and fair 
hearing efforts are shared by the Federal Government and the 
States on a 50-50 basis. Under the Hunger Prevention Act of 
1988, a State agency is held liable if its error rate of 
overissuances exceeds the lowest achieved national error rate 
average plus 1 percent. Liabilities are based on the level of 
State issuance and the extent to which the State's error rate 
exceeds a tolerance level. State agencies which reduce quality 
control error rates below 6 percent receive up to a maximum 
match of 60 percent of their administrative expenses. Also, 
State agencies are paid up to 100 percent of the costs of 
administering the program on Indian reservations.
    State administration also includes State antifraud 
activities.--Under the provisions of the Food Stamp Act of 
1977, as amended by the Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief 
Act of 1993, States are eligible to be reimbursed for 50 
percent of the costs of their food stamp fraud investigations 
and prosecutions.
    States are required to implement an employment and training 
program for the purpose of assisting members of households 
participating in the Food Stamp Program in gaining skills, 
training, or experience that will increase their ability to 
obtain regular employment. In fiscal year 1987, the Department 
of Agriculture implemented a new grant program to States to 
assist them in providing employment and training services.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Food Stamp Program, the Committee recommends 
$21,221,293,000. This is $149,542,000 more than the 2000 
appropriated level and $910,700,000 less than the budget 
request. Of the amount provided, $100,000,000 is made available 
as a contingency reserve. This is $900,000,000 less than the 
contingency reserve level proposed in the budget and the same 
as the 2000 level.
    Pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2028, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico 
must submit for the Secretary's approval a yearly plan that 
contains information regarding how food and assistance benefits 
under the Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) for Puerto Rico 
are provided during the following fiscal year. While the 
Committee notes the program flexibility normally afforded to 
Puerto Rico, the Committee encourages the Secretary not to 
approve any NAP plan that does not require at least 75 percent 
of NAP funds to be spent on food at certain stores with point-
of-sales devices.

                      commodity assistance program

Appropriations, 2000....................................    $133,300,000
Budget estimate, 2001 \1\...............................     158,300,000
Committee recommendation................................     140,300,000

\1\ Includes $20,000,000 in funding for the WIC Farmers' Market 
Nutrition Program.

    The Commodity Assistance Program includes funding for the 
Commodity Supplemental Food Program and administrative expenses 
for The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
    The Commodity Supplemental Food Program [CSFP].--Authorized 
by section 4(a) of the Agricultural and Consumer Protection Act 
of 1973, as amended in 1981 by Public Law 97-98, this program 
provides supplemental food to infants and children up to age 6, 
and to pregnant, post partum, and breast-feeding women who have 
low incomes, and reside in approved project areas. In addition, 
the program operates commodity distribution projects directed 
at low-income elderly persons 60 years of age or older.
    In fiscal year 2001 approximately 102,800 women, infants, 
and young children and 320,100 elderly are authorized to 
receive food packages each month. The foods are provided by the 
Department of Agriculture for distribution through State 
agencies. The authorized commodities are iron-fortified infant 
formula, rice cereal, canned juice, evaporated milk and/or 
nonfat dry milk, canned vegetables or fruits, canned meat or 
poultry, egg mix, dehydrated potatoes, farina, and peanut 
butter or dry beans. Elderly participants may receive all 
commodities except iron-fortified infant formula and rice 
cereal.
    The 1996 FAIR Act, Public Law 104-127, reauthorizes the 
program through fiscal year 2002.
    The Emergency Food Assistance Program [TEFAP].--Title II of 
Public Law 98-8, enacted March 3, 1983, authorized and 
appropriated funds for the costs of intrastate storage and 
transportation of CCC-donated commodities. Under the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 
(Public Law 104-193), the Soup Kitchen/Food Bank Program was 
absorbed into TEFAP by amending section 201A of the Emergency 
Food Assistance Act. While commodities will not be purchased 
specifically for soup kitchens and food banks, they will be 
eligible to receive commodities through TEFAP.
    Funds are administered by FNS through grants to State 
agencies which operate commodity distribution programs. 
Allocation of the funds to States is based on a formula which 
considers the States' unemployment rate and the number of 
persons with income below the poverty level.
    In fiscal year 1999, $107,542,233 worth of surplus 
commodities were distributed to assist needy individuals. 
Donations will continue in fiscal year 2000. Precise levels 
depend upon the availability of surplus commodities and 
requirements regarding displacement. In fiscal year 2001, 
$45,000,000 will be used to help State and local authorities 
with the storage and distribution costs of providing surplus 
commodities to needy individuals. Although the $45,000,000 was 
allocated to each State in the form of administrative funds, 
each State is authorized to redirect funding for the purchase 
of additional commodities.
    The 1996 FAIR Act reauthorizes administrative funding 
through fiscal year 2002 and allows these funds to be used for 
local repackaging and further processing of commodities high in 
nutrient content. The law requires CCC bonus commodities to be 
distributed through TEFAP, and reauthorizes funding for the 
purchase of TEFAP commodities.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the Commodity Assistance Program, the Committee 
recommends an appropriation of $140,300,000. This amount is 
$7,000,000 more than the 2000 appropriation and $18,000,000 
less than the budget request.
    The Committee continues to encourage the Department to 
distribute Commodity Assistance Program funds equitably among 
the States, based on an assessment of the needs and priorities 
of each State and the State's preference to receive commodity 
allocations through each of the programs funded under this 
account.

                        FOOD DONATIONS PROGRAMS

Appropriations, 2000....................................    $141,081,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     151,081,000
Committee recommendation................................     141,081,000

    Nutrition Program for the Elderly.--Commodity support for 
the Nutrition Program for the Elderly is authorized by titles 
III and VI of the Older Americans Act of 1965. The foods 
provided are used in preparing meals which are served in senior 
citizen centers and similar settings or delivered to the 
homebound elderly. These meals are the focal point of the 
nutrition projects for the elderly which have the dual 
objective of promoting better health and reducing the isolation 
of old age.
    Currently, commodities or cash in lieu of commodities are 
distributed through State agencies to the local meal sites at a 
specific rate per meal. The estimated rate for 2000 is 54.04 
cents per meal. Some States elect to take all of their subsidy 
in cash and some States choose to receive a combination of cash 
and commodities. The commodities made available to the 
Nutrition Program for the Elderly are generally the same as 
those provided to schools under the Child Nutrition Programs.
    Pacific Island assistance.--This program provides funding 
for assistance to the nuclear-affected islands in the form of 
commodities and administrative funds. It also provides funding 
for use in non-Presidentially declared disasters and for FNS' 
administrative costs in connection with relief for all 
disasters.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For the food donations programs for selected groups, the 
Committee recommends $141,081,000. This amount is the same as 
the 2000 appropriation and $10,000,000 less than the budget 
request. Of the amount recommended by the Committee, $1,081,000 
is for food distribution payments to the Pacific Islands and 
$140,000,000 is for the elderly feeding program.

                      food program administration

Appropriations, 2000 \1\ \2\ \3\........................    $111,392,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     128,558,000
Committee recommendation \1\............................     116,807,000

\1\ Does not reflect the transfer of $1,000,000 from the Economic 
Research Service for studies and evaluations pursuant to Public Law 105-
277.
\2\ Includes $169,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.
\3\ Does not reflect $2,000,000 transferred to the Congressional Hunger 
Center Foundation provided by Public Law 106-113.

    The Food Program Administration appropriation provides for 
most of the Federal operating expenses of the Food and 
Nutrition Service, which includes the Child Nutrition Programs; 
Special Milk Program; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program 
for Women, Infants, and Children [WIC], including the Farmers' 
Market Nutrition Program; Food Stamp Program; Nutrition 
Assistance for Puerto Rico; the Commodity Assistance Program, 
including the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, and the 
Emergency Food Assistance Program; and the Food Donations 
Programs, including the Nutrition Program for the Elderly and 
Pacific Island Assistance.
    The major objective of Food Program Administration is to 
efficiently and effectively carry out the nutrition assistance 
programs mandated by law. This is to be accomplished by the 
following: (1) giving clear and consistent guidance and 
supervision to State agencies and other cooperators; (2) 
assisting the States and other cooperators by providing 
program, managerial, financial, and other advice and expertise; 
(3) measuring, reviewing, and analyzing the progress being made 
toward achieving program objectives; and (4) carrying out 
regular staff support functions.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    For Food Program Administration, the Committee recommends 
an appropriation of $116,807,000. This amount is $5,415,000 
more than the 2000 level and $11,751,000 less than the budget 
request. The Committee provides an additional $3,915,000 from 
the 2000 fiscal year level for pay cost increases, as requested 
in the budget, and an additional $1,500,000 from the fiscal 
year 2000 level for program integrity.

            TITLE V--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

                      Foreign Agricultural Service

                         salaries and expenses

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                               Transfers from
                                                             Appropriations     loan accounts         Total
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000......................................       \1\ 109,186           (4,266)         (113,452)
Budget estimate, 2001.....................................           113,587           (4,266)         (117,853)
Committee recommendation..................................           113,424           (4,266)         (117,690)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Includes $17,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Foreign Agricultural Service [FAS] was established 
March 10, 1953, by Secretary's Memorandum No. 1320, supplement 
1. Public Law 83-690, approved August 28, 1954, transferred the 
agricultural attaches from the Department of State to the 
Foreign Agricultural Service.
    The Agency maintains a worldwide agricultural intelligence 
and reporting service to provide U.S. farmers and traders with 
information on world agricultural production and trade that 
they can use to adjust to changes in world demand for U.S. 
agricultural products. This is accomplished through a 
continuous program of reporting by 63 posts located throughout 
the world covering some 130 countries.
    The Foreign Agricultural Service analyzes agricultural 
information essential to the assessment of foreign supply and 
demand conditions in order to provide estimates of the current 
situation and to forecast the export potential for specific 
U.S. agricultural commodities. Published economic data about 
commodities are combined with attache reports and subjected to 
analysis through advanced econometric techniques to generate 
these estimates.
    In addition, the Service is now using advanced techniques 
for identifying, delineating, and assessing the impact of 
events which may affect the condition and expected production 
of foreign crops of economic importance to the United States. 
The crop condition activity relies heavily on computer-aided 
analysis of satellite, meteorological, agricultural, and 
related data.
    The mission of FAS overseas is to represent U.S. 
agricultural interests, to promote export of domestic farm 
products, improve world trade conditions, and report on 
agricultural production and trade in foreign countries. FAS 
staff are stationed at 80 offices around the world where they 
provide expertise in agricultural economics and marketing, as 
well as provide attache services.
    The Foreign Agricultural Service works in conjunction with 
market development cooperators, trade associations, State 
departments of agriculture and their affiliates, and U.S. sales 
teams to develop foreign markets for U.S. farm products. FAS 
sponsors overseas trade exhibits to promote U.S. agricultural 
products, provides information about foreign importers, and 
performs a wide range of market development activities.
    FAS carries out several export assistance programs to 
counter the adverse effects of unfair trade practices by 
competitors on U.S. agricultural trade. The Export Enhancement 
Program uses CCC-owned commodities as export bonuses to provide 
export enhancements to U.S. producers. The Market Access 
Program [MAP] conducts both generic and brand-identified 
promotional programs in conjunction with nonprofit agricultural 
associations and private firms financed through reimbursable 
CCC payments.
    These programs are supplemented by the Cooperator Program, 
a joint FAS-nonprofit private trade and producer association 
partnership program developing strategies for U.S. agriculture 
export expansion. Through 1999, nonprofit private trade and 
producer associations have generated an estimated 
$1,329,000,000 in contributions to more than match the 
$792,000,000 contributed by FAS to finance overseas market 
promotion activities under the Cooperator Program. In addition, 
GSM credit guarantee programs play an integral role in the 
recent progress of American agriculture in the world 
marketplace.
    The Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 includes authority to 
establish up to 25 agricultural trade offices. Currently, 17 
such offices are in operation at key foreign trading centers to 
assist U.S. exporters, trade groups, and State export marketing 
officials in trade promotion.
    The Service initiates, directs, and coordinates the 
Department's formulation of trade policies and programs with 
the goal of maintaining and expanding world markets for U.S. 
agricultural products. It monitors international compliance 
with bilateral and multilateral trade agreements. It identifies 
restrictive tariff and trade practices which act as barriers to 
the import of U.S. agricultural commodities, then supports 
negotiations to remove them. It acts to counter and eliminate 
unfair trade practices by other countries that hinder U.S. 
agricultural exports to third markets.
    FAS also carries out the mission of the former Office of 
International Cooperation and Development [OICD] to promote 
U.S. agriculture and to advance the agriculture of developing 
countries as parts of a complementary global agricultural 
system capable of providing ample food and fiber for all 
people. To accomplish this mission, FAS applies USDA policies 
and U.S. agricultural perspectives in its programs of 
international agricultural cooperation and development, and in 
its work with foreign countries, international organizations, 
U.S. universities and other institutions, agencies of the U.S. 
Government, and the U.S. private sector.
    The General Sales Manager was established pursuant to 
section 5(f) of the charter of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
and 15 U.S.C. 714-714p. The funds allocated to the General 
Sales Manager are used for conducting the following programs: 
(1) CCC Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102), including 
supplier credit guarantees and facilities financing guarantees, 
(2) Intermediate Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-103), (3) Public 
Law 480, (4) section 416 Overseas Donations Program, (5) Export 
Enhancement Program, (6) Market Access Program, and (7) 
programs authorized by the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter 
Act including barter, export sales of most CCC-owned 
commodities, export payments, and other programs as assigned to 
encourage and enhance the export of U.S. agricultural 
commodities.

                       committee recommendations

    For the Foreign Agricultural Service, the Committee 
recommends an appropriation of $113,424,000. This is $4,238,000 
more than the 2000 appropriation and $163,000 less than the 
budget request.
    Included in the Committee's recommendation is $3,120,000 
for mandatory pay cost increases, and the additional $618,000 
requested in the budget for funding of the FAS attache office 
in the American Institute in Taiwan.
    The Committee provides $4,000,000 for the Cochran 
Fellowship Program, an increase of $500,000 from the fiscal 
year 2000 level. The Committee encourages the Secretary to 
continue to provide additional support for the program through 
the Commodity Credit Corporation Emerging Markets Program at 
the fiscal year 1999 level.
    The Committee includes language in the bill, as requested 
in the budget, to allow up to $2,000,000 of the amount 
appropriated to the FAS to remain available until expended 
solely for the purpose of offsetting fluctuations in 
international currency exchange rates, subject to 
documentation.
    The Committee expects the Secretary to use the fully-
authorized levels of the Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) 
and to reallocate cancelled DEIP tonnage in order to ensure 
U.S. producers have fair access to foreign markets.
    The Committee also expects the Foreign Agricultural Service 
to reconsider its plans to eliminate the Agricultural Trade 
Officer position in Singapore. The Committee believes this 
position is necessary not only for continuing the valuable 
trade relationships in the region, but for the purpose of 
expanding export markets for the United States elsewhere in 
Asia.
    To promote the export of domestic farm products and improve 
world agriculture trade conditions, the Foreign Agricultural 
Service must increase its efforts to improve the understanding 
among trading partners of the safety of biotechnology and the 
thoroughness of the U.S. regulatory oversight of biotechnology. 
As trading partners construct regulatory systems for 
biotechnology and commodity trade, FAS is frequently requested 
to provide experts for the purpose of educating foreign 
government officials on the U.S. regulatory system. If the U.S. 
fails to participate in such discussions, those attempting to 
limit the access to foreign markets by U.S. producers will be 
presented an opportunity to undermine confidence in the 
benefits and safety of the technology while reducing trade 
opportunities for American producers. The Committee directs FAS 
to allocate adequate funding to meet the needs of our trading 
partners so that officials from the Department of Agriculture 
may, when requested, educate foreign regulators on the safety 
of the technology and the thoroughness of the U.S. regulatory 
process.
    The Committee is aware of efforts underway by the Foreign 
Agricultural Service to develop emerging markets in areas 
including the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and 
Estonia. The Committee encourages the agency to consider a 
request of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls to 
participate in this program.

                 public law 480 title i program account

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                 Administrative
                                                              Credit level      Loan subsidy        expenses
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000......................................       \1\ 145,298       \2\ 119,813             1,850
Budget estimate, 2001.....................................           159,678           114,186             1,850
Committee recommendation..................................           159,678           114,186             1,850
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Includes $9,702,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.
\2\ Includes $8,000,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    The Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 established the 
program account. Appropriations to this account will be used to 
cover the lifetime subsidy cost associated with direct loans 
obligated in 2001 and beyond, as well as for administrative 
expenses.
    Financing sales of agricultural commodities to developing 
countries and private entities for dollars on credit terms, or 
for local currencies (including for local currencies on credit 
terms) for use under section 104; and for furnishing 
commodities to carry out the Food for Progress Act of 1985, as 
amended (title I).--Title I of the act authorizes financing of 
sales to developing countries for local currencies and for 
dollars on credit terms. Sales for dollars or local currency 
may be made to foreign governments. The legislation provides 
for repayment terms either in local currencies or U.S. dollars 
on credit terms of up to 30 years, with a grace period of up to 
5 years.
    Local currencies under title I sales agreements may be used 
in carrying out activities under section 104 of the 
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as 
amended. Activities in the recipient country for which these 
local currencies may be used include developing new markets for 
U.S. agricultural commodities, paying U.S. obligations, and 
supporting agricultural development and research.
    Title I appropriated funds may also be used under the Food 
for Progress Act of 1985 to furnish commodities on credit terms 
or on a grant basis to assist developing countries and 
countries that are emerging democracies that have a commitment 
to introduce and expand free enterprise elements in their 
agricultural economies.

                       committee recommendations

    For Public Law 480, title I, the Committee recommends total 
appropriations of $116,036,000. This amount is $5,627,000 less 
than the 2000 level and the same as the budget request. This 
appropriation will support a Public Law 480, title I, credit 
level of $159,678,000 for fiscal year 2001, $14,380,000 more 
than the 2000 level and the same as the budget request. The 
corresponding loan levels, loan subsidy amounts, and 
administrative expenses are reflected in the table above, as 
compared to the fiscal year 2000 and budget request levels.

            public law 480 ocean freight differential grants

Appropriations, 2000....................................         ( \1\ )
Budget estimate, 2001...................................     $20,322,000
Committee recommendation................................      20,322,000

\1\ Funding for ocean freight differential in fiscal year 2000 was 
provided under the Public Law 480 Grants account appropriation.

    Ocean freight differential costs in connection with 
commodity sales financed for local currencies or U.S. dollars 
(title I).--The Commodity Credit Corporation pays ocean freight 
differential costs on shipments under this title. These costs 
are the difference between foreign flag and U.S. flag shipping 
costs.

                       committee recommendations

    For Public Law 480 ocean freight differential costs, the 
Committee recommends $20,322,000. This is $678,000 less than 
the fiscal year 2000 level and the same as the budget request.

              public law 480 title ii and title iii grants

Appropriations, 2000....................................    $821,000,000
Budget estimate, 2001 \1\...............................     837,000,000
Committee recommendation \1\............................     837,000,000

\1\ Excludes funding for title I ocean freight differential which is 
proposed to be provided in a separate account for fiscal year 2001.

    Commodities supplied in connection with dispositions abroad 
(title II) (7 U.S.C. 1721-1726).--Commodities are supplied 
without cost through foreign governments to combat malnutrition 
and to meet famine and other emergency requirements. 
Commodities are also supplied for nonemergencies through public 
and private agencies, including intergovernmental 
organizations. The Commodity Credit Corporation pays ocean 
freight on shipments under this title, and may also pay 
overland transportation costs to a landlocked country, as well 
as internal distribution costs in emergency situations. The 
funds appropriated for title II are made available to private 
voluntary organizations and cooperatives to assist these 
organizations in meeting administrative and related costs.
    Commodities supplied in connection with dispositions abroad 
(title III).--Commodities are supplied without cost to least 
developed countries through foreign governments for direct 
feeding, development of emergency food reserves, or may be sold 
with the proceeds of such sale used by the recipient country 
for specific economic development purposes. The Commodity 
Credit Corporation may pay ocean freight on shipments under 
this title, and may also pay overland transportation costs to a 
landlocked country, as well as internal distribution costs.

                       COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

    The following table shows the Committee's recommendations 
for the Public Law 480 grants account:

                                          PUBLIC LAW 480 GRANTS ACCOUNT
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                     Committee
                                                                   2000 enacted     2001 budget   recommendation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Title I ocean freight differential..............................          21,000         ( \1\ )         ( \1\ )
Title II commodities supplied in connection with dispositions            800,000         837,000         837,000
 abroad.........................................................
Title III commodities supplied in connection with dispositions    ..............  ..............  ..............
 abroad.........................................................
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
      Total.....................................................         821,000         837,000         837,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Excludes funding request of $20,322,000 for the title I ocean freight differential which is proposed to be
  provided in a separate account for fiscal year 2001.

    Public Law 480, title II.--For Title II, the Committee 
recommends a program level of $837,000,000. This is $37,000,000 
more than the fiscal year 2000 level and the same as the budget 
request.
    The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 
[FAIR Act], Public Law 104-127, requires that a minimum of 
2.025 million metric tons of commodities be provided each 
fiscal year under title II authority, of which 1.55 million 
metric tons--three-fourths of the total minimum tonnage--is 
designated for development programs that address chronic hunger 
and its root causes in areas with inadequate food security.
    The Committee expects USAID's administration of Public Law 
480 title II to encourage private voluntary organizations 
[PVO's], cooperatives, and the World Food Program [WFP] to 
generate a sufficient volume of proposals to allocate roughly 
three-fourths of the total title II tonnage funded for fiscal 
year 2001 for these PVOs, cooperatives, and the WFP for 
developmental food security programs.
    The Committee recognizes the authority of USAID to waive 
this minimum when this volume of commodities cannot be used 
effectively and for certain emergencies, but believes this 
waiver should be used rarely, and only when emergency needs can 
be weighed against concrete proposals for a fully funded 
longer-term development program.
    The Committee supports the use of title II funds in fiscal 
year 2001 to continue the fiscal year 2000 level of funding for 
the orphan feeding program in Haiti.
    The Committee notes the extraordinary effort made by the 
people of Alaska through Rotary International, the Interfaith 
Council, the Municipality of Anchorage, and other groups to 
collect and distribute food and other assistance to people 
living in the Russian Far East. The Committee urges the 
Administration to work with these entities to take advantage of 
their volunteer efforts in feeding people in the Russian Far 
East, particularly abandoned children living in orphanages and 
hospitals.
    The Committee is aware that, under some circumstances, the 
containers used for the distribution of vegetable oil under the 
Public Law 480 food program may not be practical for the end 
user and may not be suitably durable for transportation under 
all conditions. The Committee encourages the Secretary to 
evaluate the feasibility, costs, and benefits of using 
alternative vegetable containers and alternative procurement 
procedures, and test on a pilot project basis the durability 
and end use flexibility of alternative containers.
    Public Law 480, title III.--As proposed in the budget, the 
Committee provides no new funding for title III grants. 
Authority is provided by law (7 U.S.C. 1736f) to transfer up to 
15 percent of the funds available for any fiscal year for 
carrying out any title of Public Law 480 to any other title of 
the program. This authority may be used to transfer funds to 
title III should a transfer be deemed appropriate.

       commodity credit corporation export loans program account

             (export credit programs, gsm-102 and gsm-103)

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                             Guaranteed loan   Guaranteed loan   Administrative
                                                                 levels            subsidy          expenses
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000......................................         3,787,000       \1\ 319,987             3,820
Budget estimate, 2001.....................................         3,792,000       \1\ 323,479             3,820
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ No appropriation required since export credit authorizations are permanent authority.

    In 1980, the Commodity Credit Corporation [CCC] instituted 
the Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) under its charter 
authority. With this program, CCC guarantees, for a fee, 
payments due U.S. exporters under deferred payment sales 
contracts (up to 36 months) for defaults due to commercial as 
well as noncommercial risks. The risk to CCC extends from the 
date of export to the end of the deferred payment period 
covered in the export sales contract and covers only that 
portion of the payments agreed to in the assurance agreement. 
Operation of this program is based on criteria which will 
assure that it is used only where it is determined that it will 
develop new market opportunities and maintain and expand 
existing world markets for U.S. agricultural commodities. The 
program encourages U.S. financial institutions to provide 
financing to those areas where the institutions would be 
unwilling to provide financing in the absence of the CCC 
guarantees. Other credit activities may also be financed under 
the Export Credit Guarantee programs including supplier credit 
guarantee, under which CCC guarantees payments due to importers 
under short term financing (up to 180 days) that exporters 
extend directly to importers for the purchase of U.S. 
agricultural products. CCC also provides facilities financing 
guarantees.
    In 1986, the Intermediate Export Credit Guarantee Program 
(GSM-103) was implemented by CCC under its charter authority as 
required by the Food Security Act of 1985. The program is 
similar to the Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102), but 
provides for CCC guarantees to exporters for commodities sold 
on credit terms in excess of 3 years, but not more than 10 
years. The program also provides for adjusting the maximum 
amount of interest which CCC guarantees to pay under the 
payment guarantee and permits freight costs to be covered for 
breeding animals financed under the GSM-102 and GSM-103 
programs.
    The Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 establishes the 
program account. The subsidy costs of the CCC export guarantee 
programs are exempt from the requirement of advance 
appropriations of budget authority according to section 
504(c)(2) of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, Public Law 
101-508. Appropriations to this account will be used for 
administrative expenses.

      TITLE VI--RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                      Food and Drug Administration

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a scientific 
regulatory agency whose sole mission is to protect and promote 
the health and safety of Americans. The Food and Drug 
Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA) reaffirmed the 
responsibilities of the FDA: To promote the public health by 
promptly and efficiently reviewing clinical research and taking 
appropriate action on the marketing of regulated products in a 
timely manner.
    The FDA Foods Program has the primary responsibility for 
assuring that the U.S. food supply is safe, sanitary, 
wholesome, and honestly labeled, and that cosmetic products are 
safe and properly labeled. The variety and complexity of the 
food supply has grown dramatically while new and more complex 
safety issues, such as emerging microbial pathogens, natural 
toxins, and technological innovations in production and 
processing, have developed. This program plays a major role in 
keeping the United States food supply among the safest in the 
world.
    The FDA drugs programs are comprised of three separate 
areas, Human Drugs, Animal Drugs and Biologics. FDA is 
responsible for the premarket review and postmarket 
surveillance of human, animal and biological products to ensure 
their safety and efficacy. For Human Drugs this includes the 
review of investigational new drug applications; evaluation of 
market applications for new and generic drugs, labeling and 
composition of prescription and over-the-counter drugs; 
monitoring the quality and safety of products manufactured in, 
or imported into, the United States; and, regulating the 
advertising and promotion of prescription drugs. The Animal 
Drugs and Feeds Program ensures only safe and beneficial 
veterinary drugs, intended for the treatment and/or prevention 
of diseases in animals and the improved production of food-
producing animals, are approved for marketing. Surveillance 
activities are accomplished through review of drug experience 
reports, adverse experience reporting and nationwide 
inspections and investigations. The Biologics program assures 
that blood and blood products, blood test kits, vaccines, 
including vaccines to counter bioterrorism activities, 
bacterial vaccines, and viral vaccines, are pure, potent, safe, 
effective, and properly labeled. The program inspects blood 
banks and blood processors, licenses and inspects firms 
collecting human source plasma, evaluates and licenses 
biologics manufacturing firms and products; lot release of 
licensed products; and monitors adverse events associated with 
vaccine immunization.
    The Devices and Radiological program ensures safety and 
effectiveness of medical devices and eliminating unnecessary 
human exposure to manmade radiation from medical, occupational, 
and consumer products. Postmarket surveillance is carried out 
to ensure the continued safety and effectiveness of marketed 
devices and radiation emitting products once approved. In 
addition, the program enforces quality standards under the 
Mammography Quality Standards Act. Medical devices include 
thousands of products from thermometers and contact lenses to 
heart pacemakers, hearing aids, MRIs, microwave ovens, and 
video display terminals.
    FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research in 
Jefferson, Arkansas, serves as a specialized resource, 
conducting peer-review scientific research that provides the 
basis for FDA to make sound science-based regulatory decisions 
through its premarket review and postmarket surveillance. The 
research is designed to define and understand the biological 
mechanisms of action underlying the toxicity of products and 
developing methods to improve assessment of human exposure, 
susceptibility and risk of those products regulated by FDA.

                         salaries and expenses

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                          Mammography
                                                            Prescription    clinics      Export and
                                             Appropriation    drug user    inspection  certification     Total
                                                                fees          fees          fees
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appropriations, 2000 \1\...................     1,037,661       145,434        14,817         4,907    1,202,819
Budget estimate, 2001 \2\..................     1,156,905       149,273        15,128         5,992    1,327,298
Committee recommendation...................     1,067,523       149,273        15,128         5,992    1,237,916
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Includes $2,977,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.
\2\ The President's budget assumes that an additional $19,483,000 in collections will be available to FDA for
  fiscal year 2001 from proposed new user fees for premarket review of direct food additive petitions, food
  export certificates, and review of medical device premarket notifications; along with an additional
  $12,700,000 in fee collections associated with the proposed transfer of the Seafood Inspection Program to FDA
  from the Department of Commerce.

                       committee recommendations

    For salaries and expenses, the Committee recommends an 
appropriation of $1,067,523,000. This amount is $29,862,000 
more than the 2000 level and $89,382,000 less than the budget 
request. The Committee also recommends $149,273,000 in 
Prescription Drug User Fee Act user fee collections, and 
$15,128,000 in Mammography Quality Standards Act fee 
collections, as assumed in the President's budget. These 
amounts are $3,839,000 and $311,000 more than the 2000 levels, 
respectively. The Committee includes bill language which 
prohibits FDA from developing, establishing, or operating any 
program of user fees authorized by 31 U.S.C. 9701.
    The following table reflects the Committee's 
recommendations, as compared to the fiscal year 2000 and budget 
request levels:

           FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     Fiscal year--
                             ----------------------------    Committee
                              2000 enacted  2001 request  recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Centers and related field
 activities:
    Foods...................      267,449       302,557        292,934
                             -------------------------------------------
        Center for Food           118,058       135,608        129,520
         Safety and Applied
         Nutrition [CFSAN]..
        Field activities....      149,391       166,949        163,414
            (Food safety         (168,444)     (190,044)      (185,044)
             initiatives)...
                             ===========================================
    Human drugs.............      206,129       230,499        213,845
                             -------------------------------------------
        Center for Drug           133,694       144,607        137,536
         Evaluation and
         Research [CDER]....
        Orphan product             11,534        11,534         12,534
         grants.............
        Field activities....       60,901        74,358         63,775
                             ===========================================
    Biologics...............      101,283       121,325        109,214
                             -------------------------------------------
        Center for Biologics       83,432        98,276         89,978
         Evaluation and
         Research [CBER]....
        Field activities....       17,851        23,049         19,236
                             ===========================================
    Animal drugs............       48,713        62,761         59,349
                             -------------------------------------------
        Center for                 36,087        47,040         46,037
         Veterinary Medicine
         [CVM]..............
        Field activities....       12,626        15,721         13,312
            (Food safety           (8,949)      (15,349)       (15,349)
             initiatives)...
                             ===========================================
    Medical and radiological      154,107       171,677        164,762
     devices................
                             -------------------------------------------
        Center for Devices        114,065       125,920        121,835
         and Radiological
         Health  [CDRH].....
        Field activities....       40,042        45,757         42,927
                             ===========================================
    National Center for            34,186        37,868         35,842
     Toxicological Research
     [NCTR].................
        (Food safety               (1,000)       (3,000)        (2,000)
         initiatives).......
                             ===========================================
    Tobacco.................       34,000        39,000   ..............
                             ===========================================
Other activities............       71,628        66,269         66,628
                             -------------------------------------------
    Office of the                   9,518         8,927          7,930
     Commissioner...........
    Office of Management and       30,895        28,413         31,722
     Systems................
    Office of Senior               10,256         9,401          8,422
     Associate Commissioner.
    Office of International         4,910         4,444          4,032
     and Constituent
     Relations..............
    Office of Policy,               8,536         7,574          7,009
     Legislation, and
     Planning...............
    Central services........        7,513         7,513          7,513
        (Food safety               (8,759)       (8,759)        (8,759)
         initiatives).......
                             ===========================================
Rent and related activities.       25,855        25,855         25,855
                             ===========================================
Rental payments to GSA......       94,311        99,094         99,094
                             ===========================================
      Total, FDA salaries     \1\ 1,037,66    1,156,905      1,067,523
       and expenses, new                1
       budget authority.....
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Includes $2,977,000 rescission pursuant to Public Law 106-113.

    Food safety.--An increase of $24,000,000 from the fiscal 
year 2000 level is recommended by the Committee for FDA food 
safety activities.
    Of the total increase provided, $16,600,000 is allocated 
for the Foods Program; $6,400,000 for Animal Drugs; and 
$1,000,000 for the National Center for Toxicological Research 
(NCTR). As proposed, FDA will use these funds to expand 
inspections and conduct annual inspections of high-risk food 
establishments, implement the Hazard Analysis and Critical 
Control Point (HACCP) system for fruit and vegetable juices, 
complete the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring 
System (NARMS), and develop methods to predict more quickly and 
accurately risks associated with antimicrobial resistance and 
foodborne pathogens/contaminants.
    Within the total funding available for food safety, at 
least $1,800,000 is for FDA activities in support of Codex 
Alimentarius.
    Within the amount provided for food safety, the Committee 
also continues the fiscal year 2000 funding level of $250,000 
for a cooperative research program related to molluscan 
shellfish and further expects the agency to continue its 
education program on the consumption of raw shellfish.
    With the growing threat of foodborne illness to the public 
health, the Committee believes that collaborative research in 
food safety should continue among government, academia, and 
private industry. The national model for that collaboration has 
been the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) 
in Summit-Argo, Illinois. The Committee expects the FDA to 
maintain at least $2,000,000 as the annual base level of 
funding for the National Center, and to provide an additional 
$1,000,000 to the Center for collaborative research in support 
of the President's Food Safety Initiative.
    In addition, the funding provided for food safety will 
ensure the expansion of food contract inspections in the State 
of Alaska. Specifically, it will allow the FDA to contract with 
the State of Alaska for 100 additional inspections of food and 
seafood processors operating in Alaska. The current contract 
funds 100 inspections, approximately 90 seafood/HACCP 
inspections and 10 other food inspections, at a cost of 
approximately $58,000. The contract proposal to begin July 1, 
2000, for approximately $121,000, will fund 200 inspections 
which includes about 140 seafood/HACCP inspections and 60 other 
food inspections. The establishments to be inspected will be 
mutually agreed upon by FDA and the State of Alaska.
    Premarket review.--The Committee provides an increase of 
$25,079,000 in budget authority from the fiscal year 2000 level 
for FDA premarket review, $2,200,000 more than the budget 
request level of $22,879,000. Delays in getting new products to 
market postpone critically needed treatment. FDA is to use 
these funds to strengthen its science base with a focus on 
efficiencies in the premarket review program. Specifically, FDA 
will better manage risks associated with emerging biotech 
foods; expedite review of generic drugs; reduce review times 
for animal drugs; enhance the availability of new products, 
such as vaccines and novel therapies; improve the quality and 
safety of the nation's blood supply; increase product review; 
and develop standards for high-risk medical device reuse 
applications.
    The $25,079,000 increase in new budget authority for 
premarket review is to be allocated as follows: $1,232,000 for 
Foods; $4,450,000 for Human Drugs; $7,309,000 for Biologics; 
$3,936,000 for Animal Drugs; $7,708,000 for Devices; and 
$444,000 for NCTR.
    Included in the total increase provided for premarket 
review is $1,000,000 to analyze risks associated with emerging 
biotech foods and develop criteria for evaluating the safety of 
biotech foods used for animal feeds.
    Included in the Human Drugs premarket funding increase 
recommended by the Committee is $1,200,000 for the generic 
drugs program. These funds are to be used to improve the 
science base thus enhancing the timely review of generic drug 
applications.
    Also included in the Human Drugs premarket funding increase 
is $1,000,000 for orphan product grants, for a total fiscal 
year 2001 funding level of $12,534,000.
    Included in the premarket review increase for Biologics is 
$2,200,000 to improve the quality and safety of the Nation's 
blood supply by improving, developing diagnostic tests and 
identifying validation criteria.
    Included in the Device premarket review increase is 
$2,800,000 to ensure the safety and efficacy of reprocessed 
devices. FDA will focus on increasing product review activities 
and development of standards for high-risk reuse applications. 
FDA will accomplish these activities through hospital outreach, 
such as mailings, conferences, and web notices.
    The Committee continues to provide $500,000 for clinical 
pharmacology grants awarded on a competitive basis, an increase 
of $40,000 from the fiscal year 2000 funding level.
    Dietary Supplements.--An increase of $1,000,000 is included 
in the total funding recommended for fiscal year 2001 for the 
Foods Program for collaborative research on dietary supplements 
with the National Center for Natural Products Research, Oxford, 
MS. This will be a joint effort between the Center and FDA's 
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and the 
National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) laboratories 
to analyze samples of botanical supplements. The National 
Center for Natural Products Research will perform the chemical 
characterizations for the active ingredients and likely 
contaminants, with regards to efficacy and safety, and will 
determine the botanical identity of the supplement. NCTR will 
evaluate samples for metal contaminants, and CFSAN will provide 
toxicological evaluations of potential toxic interactions and 
evaluate samples for microbiological safety.
    Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition facility.--The 
new facility for the Center for Food Safety and Applied 
Nutrition in College Park, MD, is scheduled to open in 2001. 
The Committee provides an increase of $5,000,000, as requested 
in the budget, to occupy and equip the facility. These funds 
will support telecommunications equipment and necessary 
connections and moving costs.
    Inspections.--An increase of $4,000,000 is provided for FDA 
inspection activities, of which $2,000,000 is for the Human 
Drugs program and $2,000,000 for the Medical Device program. 
The Committee understands that FDA's current level of 
inspection effort is falling short of the minimum inspection 
obligations required by FDAMA. The additional funding will 
enable FDA to conduct more inspections where the law requires 
specific inspection frequency. These funds will be used to 
implement European Mutual Recognition Agreements and intensify 
drug inspections in developing countries, and provide funding 
to inspect Class II and III manufacturers for both domestic and 
foreign manufacturers.
    Rent payments.--The Committee recommends $104,954,000 for 
FDA rental payments to the General Services Administration 
[GSA], the same level as proposed in the budget and $5,000,000 
more than the 2000 level.
    Tobacco.--No funding is provided for fiscal year 2001 for 
FDA tobacco activities. The Supreme Court affirmed on March 21, 
2000, that FDA lacks jurisdiction under the Food, Drug and 
Cosmetic Act to regulate tobacco products. The FDA is in the 
process of terminating its contracts with States for the 
enforcement and compliance activities. In fiscal year 2000, 
$34,000,000 was appropriated to FDA for tobacco activities. It 
is the Committee's understanding that of this amount, 
$6,800,000 is needed to cover the cost of closing out the 
tobacco program, leaving a remainder of $27,000,000 for fiscal 
year 2000. The Committee directs FDA to work with the Committee 
to reprogram the remaining balance to meet priority resource 
needs.
    Gene Therapy Patient Tracking System.--The Committee 
believes FDA should establish a gene therapy tracking system 
designed to measure both short-term and long-term outcomes of 
treatment protocols. The FDA was urged in 1994 to set up such a 
system. Between December 1994 and 1996, FDA developed a pilot 
gene therapy patient tracking system, known as Gene Therapy 
Information Network (GTIN). This model was used to develop the 
National Xenotransplantation Database (NXD). However, no gene 
therapy patient tracking system has been put in to operation to 
date by FDA. Given the long time that FDA has had to develop 
such a tracking system, and the recent reported deaths of gene 
therapy patients, the Committee believes that FDA should move 
aggressively to establish such a tracking system. Therefore, 
the Committee directs FDA to report back to the Committee 
within 3 months from the date of enactment of this Act on a 
full plan, including the budget needed to establish this 
tracking system and its integration into the FDA's adverse 
event reporting system within the upcoming 12 months.
    Biotechnology.--The Committee understands that the FDA 
frequently receives requests from foreign governments for FDA 
regulators to visit foreign countries to educate regulators on 
the evaluation of the safety of biotechnology. Providing 
information on the soundness of the U.S. regulatory process 
will promote the understanding of the benefits of biotechnology 
to human health and the environment and improve the climate for 
acceptance of U.S. agricultural products abroad. The Committee 
directs the FDA to allocate adequate funding so that agency 
representatives may perform this service.
    FDA labeling disclosures of food irradiation.--The 
Conference Report accompanying the FDA Modernization Act of 
1997 directed FDA to complete a final rule by November 1998 
revising its regulations regarding the labeling of foods 
treated with ionizing radiation. To date, the FDA has not 
completed this requirement. The Committee believes that any 
required disclosure should not be perceived as a warning. The 
Committee expects FDA to make final by October 30, 2001, 
regulations that prescribe alternative truthful and non-
misleading labeling disclosures that may be used on foods 
treated by ionizing radiation in lieu of the existing FDA 
required disclosure.
    Heart Healthy Labeling of Salmon.--The Food and Drug 
Administration is considering adoption of a health claim that 
``consumption of omega 3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of 
coronary artery disease'' and accepted public comment through 
November 22, 1999. The Committee has been advised that the 
scientific evidence was overwhelming on the positive effects 
that Omega 3 fatty acids found in salmon have on preventing 
heart disease and, in some cases, even reversing it. The 
Committee directs the agency to expedite consideration of this 
issue and report back to the Senate Committee on Appropriations 
on its decision no later than December 1, 2000.
    Direct food additive reviews.--The Congress provided FDA 
with additional funds for fiscal year 2000 to accelerate the 
rate of review of direct food and color additive petitions, 
including those with food safety benefits. The Committee 
expects FDA to establish performance benchmarks to measure its 
progress in utilizing these resources to meet its application 
review goals. The Committee also expects FDA to seek public 
input on program enhancements, including those intended to 
optimize prefiling interactions between the agency and 
potential applicants of new direct additives and other food 
ingredients. These actions should occur as soon as possible. 
FDA should report to the Committee by December 31, 2000, on its 
use of fiscal year 2000 funds to reduce the backlog of food 
additive petitions.
    Expedited Review of Competitive Exclusion Products.--The 
Committee understands that competitive exclusion products offer 
an innovative and valuable approach to reducing Salmonella and 
other harmful bacteria in poultry and livestock. The Committee 
is concerned, however, that only one competitive exclusion 
product has been approved to date despite public statements by 
FDA, USDA, and the President's Food Safety Council supporting 
this emerging technology. In view of the significant public 
health benefits of competitive exclusion products, the FDA 
should review new animal drug applications for these products 
on an expedited review basis.

                        buildings and facilities

Appropriations, 2000....................................     $11,350,000
Budget estimate, 2001 \1\...............................      31,350,000
Committee recommendation................................      31,350,000

\1\ In addition, the budget proposes advance appropriations totaling 
$23,000,000 for fiscal year 2002.

    In addition to Washington, D.C., area laboratories which 
are in six separate locations, FDA has 16 laboratories at other 
locations around the country, including regular field 
laboratories and specialized facilities, as well as the 
National Center for Toxicological Research complex. Continued 
repairs, modifications, improvements and construction to FDA 
headquarters and field facilities must be made to preserve the 
properties, ensure employee safety, meet changing program 
requirements, and permit the agency to keep its laboratory 
methods up to date.

                       committee recommendations

    For continued repairs and improvements of FDA buildings and 
facilities, the Committee recommends $31,350,000. This amount 
is $20,000,000 more than the 2000 appropriation and the same as 
the budget request.
    Included in the amount provided by the Committee is 
$8,350,000 for ongoing facilities' repairs and improvements; an 
additional $3,000,000 toward construction of the Arkansas 
Regional Laboratory in Jefferson, AR; and $20,000,000 for the 
first construction phase of the Los Angeles, CA, replacement 
laboratory and office space project.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES


                  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Appropriations, 2000....................................     $63,000,000
Budget estimate, 2001...................................      72,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      67,100,000

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] was 
established as an independent agency by the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 1389; 7 U.S.C. 4a).
    The Commission administers the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 
U.S.C. section 1, et seq. The 1974 act brought under Federal 
regulation futures trading in all goods, articles, services, 
rights, and interests; commodity options trading; and leverage 
trading in gold and silver bullion and coins; and otherwise 
strengthened the regulation of the commodity futures trading 
industry. It established a comprehensive regulatory structure 
to oversee the volatile futures trading complex.
    The purpose of the Commission is to protect and further the 
economic utility of futures and commodity options markets by 
encouraging their efficiency, assuring their integrity, and 
protecting participants against manipulation, abusive trade 
practices, fraud, and deceit. The objective is to enable the 
markets to better serve their designated functions of providing 
a price discovery mechanism and providing price risk insurance. 
In properly serving these functions, the futures and commodity 
options markets contribute toward better production and 
financial planning, more efficient distribution and 
consumption, and more economical marketing.
    Programs in support of the overall mission include market 
surveillance analysis and research; registration, audits, and 
contract markets; enforcement; reparations; proceedings; legal 
counsel; agency direction; and administrative support services. 
CFTC activities are carried out in Washington, DC; two regional 
offices located in Chicago and New York; and smaller offices in 
Kansas City, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis.

                       committee recommendations

    For the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Committee 
recommends $67,100,000. The amount provided is $4,100,000 more 
than the 2000 appropriation and $4,900,000 less than the budget 
request. Included in the Committee's recommendation is an 
additional $3,505,000 for pay cost increases. The remaining 
increase provided is to be applied to the highest priority 
needs for which additional funding is requested in the budget.

                       Farm Credit Administration


                 limitation on administrative expenses

Limitation, 2000........................................   ($35,800,000)
Budget estimate, 2001...................................................
Committee recommendation................................    (36,800,000)

    The Farm Credit Administration [FCA] is the independent 
agency in the executive branch of the Government responsible 
for the examination and regulation of the banks, associations, 
and other institutions of the Farm Credit System.
    Activities of the Farm Credit Administration include the 
planning and execution of examinations of Farm Credit System 
institutions and the preparation of examination reports. FCA 
also establishes standards, enforces rules and regulations, and 
approves certain actions of the institutions.
    The administration and the institutions under its 
jurisdiction now operate under authorities contained in the 
Farm Credit Act of 1971, Public Law 92-181, effective December 
10, 1971. Public Law 99-205, effective December 23, 1985, 
restructured FCA and gave the agency regulatory authorities and 
enforcement powers.
    The act provides for the farmer-owned cooperative system to 
make sound, adequate, and constructive credit available to 
farmers and ranchers and their cooperatives, rural residences, 
and associations and other entities upon which farming 
operations are dependent, and to modernize existing farm credit 
law to meet current and future rural credit needs.
    The Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 authorized the 
formation of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation 
[FAMC] to operate a secondary market for agricultural and rural 
housing mortgages. The Farm Credit Administration, under 
section 8.11 of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended, is 
assigned the responsibility of regulating this entity and 
assuring its safe and sound operation.
    Expenses of the Farm Credit Administration are paid by 
assessments collected from the Farm Credit System institutions 
and by assessments to the Federal Agricultural Mortgage 
Corporation.

                       committee recommendations

    The Committee recommends a limitation of $36,800,000 on 
administrative expenses of the Farm Credit Administration 
[FCA]. This is $1,000,000 more than the fiscal year 2000 level. 
The budget proposes no limitation on FCA administrative 
expenses for fiscal year 2001.

                     TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sections 701-713, 715-728, and 730-734 of the general 
provisions are essentially the same as those included in the 
fiscal year 2000 and previous years' appropriations acts.
    In addition, the Committee recommends the following 
provisions:
    Section 714 to provide authority to the Natural Resources 
and Conservation Service to enter into non-competitive 
cooperative agreements.
    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.
    Section 735 to establish the average income level for 
eligibility for assistance from rural development programs for 
Alaska at 150 percent.
    Section 736 to require that property acquired with excess 
Public Law 480 foreign currencies and currently used to house 
agricultural attaches not be disposed of without replacement.
    Section 737 to provide authority to the Department of 
Agriculture to acquire personal services agreements for 
overseas operations.
    Section 738 to prohibit the use of funds provided by this 
Act to relocate a rural development office unless the 
relocation of the office will save money and enhance program 
delivery.
    Section 739 to require that of any shipments of commodities 
made pursuant to Section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 
1949, to the extent practicable, the Secretary of Agriculture 
make available tonnage equal in value to not less than 
$25,000,000 to foreign countries to assist in mitigating the 
effects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune 
Deficiency Syndrome on communities.

                     Program, Project, and Activity

    During fiscal year 2001, for purposes of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 
99-177) or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Reaffirmation Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-119), the following 
information provides the definition of the term ``program, 
project, and activity'' for departments and agencies under the 
jurisdiction of the Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related 
Agencies Subcommittee. The term ``program, project, and 
activity'' shall include the most specific level of budget 
items identified in the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2001, the House and Senate Committee reports, and the 
conference report and accompanying joint explanatory statement 
of the managers of the committee of conference.
    If a sequestration order is necessary, in implementing the 
Presidential order, departments and agencies shall apply any 
percentage reduction required for fiscal year 2001 pursuant to 
the provisions of Public Law 99-177 or Public Law 100-119 to 
all items specified in the explanatory notes submitted to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate in support 
of the fiscal year 2001 budget estimates, as amended, for such 
departments and agencies, as modified by congressional action, 
and in addition:
    For the Agricultural Research Service the definition shall 
include specific research locations as identified in the 
explanatory notes and lines of research specifically identified 
in the reports of the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees.
    For the Natural Resources Conservation Service the 
definition shall include individual flood prevention projects 
as identified in the explanatory notes and individual 
operational watershed projects as summarized in the notes.
    For the Farm Service Agency the definition shall include 
individual, regional, State, district, and county offices.

  COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7, RULE XVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE 
                                 SENATE

    Paragraph 7 of rule XVI requires that Committee reports 
accompanying general appropriations bills identify each 
recommended amendment which proposes an item of appropriation 
which is not made to carry out the provisions of an existing 
law, a treaty stipulation, or an act or resolution previously 
passed by the Senate during that session.
    The Committee recommends funding for the following programs 
or activities which currently lack authorization for fiscal 
year 2001:
    Dairy indemnity program;
    Nutrition program for the elderly; and
    State Mediation Grants.

  COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL FOR FISCAL
                                                                        YEAR 2001
                                                                [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                                                                       Senate Committee recommendation
                                                                                                                           compared with (+ or -)
                           Item                                   2000         Budget estimate       Committee     -------------------------------------
                                                             appropriation                         recommendation          2000
                                                                                                                      appropriation     Budget estimate
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              TITLE I--AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

          Production, Processing, and Marketing

Office of the Secretary..................................            15,435              2,914             27,914            +12,479            +25,000

Executive Operations:
    Chief Economist......................................             6,408              8,612              7,462             +1,054             -1,150
    National Appeals Division............................            11,707             12,610             12,421               +714               -189
    Office of Budget and Program Analysis................             6,581              6,765              6,765               +184   .................
    Office of the Chief Information Officer..............             6,046             14,680             10,046             +4,000             -4,634
        Common computing environment.....................  .................            75,000   .................  .................           -75,000
    Office of the Chief Financial Officer................             4,783              6,465              5,171               +388             -1,294
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Executive Operations........................            35,525            124,132             41,865             +6,340            -82,267

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration.....               613                629                629                +16   .................
Agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments.           140,343            182,747            182,747            +42,404   .................
    Payments to GSA......................................          (115,542)          (125,542)          (125,542)          (+10,000)  .................
    Building operations and maintenance..................           (24,801)           (31,205)           (31,205)           (+6,404)  .................
    Repairs, renovations, and construction...............  .................           (26,000)           (26,000)          (+26,000)  .................
Hazardous materials management...........................            15,700             30,073             15,700   .................           -14,373
Departmental administration..............................            34,708             40,740             36,840             +2,132             -3,900
Outreach for socially disadvantaged farmers..............             3,000             10,000              3,000   .................            -7,000
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional                   3,568              3,778              3,568   .................              -210
 Relations...............................................
Office of Communications.................................             8,138              9,031              8,873               +735               -158
Office of the Inspector General..........................            65,097             70,214             66,867             +1,770             -3,347
Office of the General Counsel............................            29,194             32,881             31,080             +1,886             -1,801
Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and               540              1,356                556                +16               -800
 Economics...............................................
Economic Research Service................................            65,363             55,424             67,038             +1,675            +11,614
National Agricultural Statistics Service.................            99,333            100,615            100,615             +1,282   .................
    Census of Agriculture................................           (16,490)           (15,000)           (15,000)           (-1,490)  .................

Agricultural Research Service:
    Salaries and expenses................................           830,384            894,258            871,593            +41,209            -22,665
    Buildings and facilities.............................            52,500             39,300             56,330             +3,830            +17,030
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Agricultural Research Service...............           882,884            933,558            927,923            +45,039             -5,635

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension
 Service:
    Research and education activities....................           481,881            460,865            494,744            +12,863            +33,879
    Native American Institutions Endowment Fund..........            (4,600)            (7,100)            (7,100)           (+2,500)  .................
    Extension activities.................................           424,174            428,236            426,504             +2,330             -1,732
    Integrated activities................................            39,541             76,194             43,541             +4,000            -32,653
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Cooperative State Research, Education, and             945,596            965,295            964,789            +19,193               -506
       Extension Service.................................

Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and                         618                635                635                +17   .................
 Regulatory Programs.....................................

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service:
    Salaries and expenses................................           437,768            512,444            458,149            +20,381            -54,295
    AQI user fees........................................           (87,000)           (87,000)           (87,000)  .................  .................
    Buildings and facilities.............................             5,200              5,200              9,870             +4,670             +4,670
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service..           442,968            517,644            468,019            +25,051            -49,625

Agricultural Marketing Service:
    Marketing Services...................................            51,497             66,572             64,696            +13,199             -1,876
        Standardization user fees........................            (4,000)            (4,000)            (4,000)  .................  .................
    (Limitation on administrative expenses, from fees               (60,730)           (60,730)           (60,730)  .................  .................
     collected)..........................................
    Funds for strengthening markets, income, and supply              12,428             13,438             13,438             +1,010   .................
     (transfer from section 32)..........................
    Payments to states and possessions...................             1,200              1,500              1,200   .................              -300
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Agricultural Marketing Service..............            65,125             81,510             79,334            +14,209             -2,176

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration:
    Salaries and expenses................................            26,433             33,549             27,269               +836             -6,280
    Limitation on inspection and weighing services.......           (42,557)           (42,557)           (42,557)  .................  .................
Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety............               446                560                460                +14               -100
Food Safety and Inspection Service.......................           649,119            688,204            678,011            +28,892            -10,193
    Lab accreditation fees \1\...........................            (1,000)            (1,000)            (1,000)  .................  .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
      Total, Production, Processing, and Marketing.......         3,529,746          3,885,489          3,733,732           +203,986           -151,757
                                                          ==============================================================================================
                 Farm Assistance Programs

Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign                      572                589                589                +17   .................
 Agricultural Services...................................
Farm Service Agency:
    Salaries and expenses................................           794,394            828,385            828,385            +33,991   .................

    (Transfer from export loans).........................              (589)              (589)              (589)  .................  .................
    (Transfer from Public Law 480).......................              (815)              (815)              (815)  .................  .................
    (Transfer from ACIF).................................          (209,861)          (265,315)          (265,315)          (+55,454)  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal, Transfers from program accounts..........          (211,265)          (266,719)          (266,719)          (+55,454)  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, salaries and expenses.......................        (1,005,659)        (1,095,104)        (1,095,104)          (+89,445)  .................

    State mediation grants...............................             3,000              4,000              3,000   .................            -1,000
    Dairy indemnity program..............................               450                450                450   .................  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal, Farm Service Agency......................           797,844            832,835            831,835            +33,991             -1,000

Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program Account:
    Loan authorizations:
        Farm ownership loans:
            Direct.......................................          (128,049)          (128,000)          (128,000)              (-49)  .................
            Guaranteed...................................          (431,373)        (1,000,000)          (431,373)  .................         (-568,627)
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Subtotal...................................          (559,422)        (1,128,000)          (559,373)              (-49)         (-568,627)

        Farm operating loans:
            Direct.......................................          (500,000)          (700,000)          (500,000)  .................         (-200,000)
            Guaranteed unsubsidized......................        (1,697,842)        (2,000,000)        (1,697,842)  .................         (-302,158)
            Guaranteed subsidized........................          (200,000)          (477,868)          (200,000)  .................         (-277,868)
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Subtotal...................................        (2,397,842)        (3,177,868)        (2,397,842)  .................         (-780,026)

        Indian tribe land acquisition loans..............            (1,028)            (2,005)            (1,028)  .................             (-977)
        Emergency disaster loans.........................           (25,000)          (150,065)           (25,000)  .................         (-125,065)
        Boll weevil eradication loans....................          (100,000)          (100,000)          (100,000)  .................  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, Loan authorizations.....................        (3,083,292)        (4,557,938)        (3,083,243)              (-49)       (-1,474,695)

    Loan subsidies:
        Farm ownership loans:
            Direct.......................................             4,827             13,786             13,786             +8,959   .................
            Guaranteed...................................             2,416              5,100              2,200               -216             -2,900
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Subtotal...................................             7,243             18,886             15,986             +8,743             -2,900

        Farm operating loans:
            Direct.......................................            29,300             63,140             45,100            +15,800            -18,040
            Guaranteed unsubsidized......................            23,940             27,400             23,260               -680             -4,140
            Guaranteed subsidized........................            17,620             38,994             16,320             -1,300            -22,674
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Subtotal...................................            70,860            129,534             84,680            +13,820            -44,854

        Indian tribe land acquisition....................                21                323                166               +145               -157
        Emergency disaster loans.........................             3,882             36,811              6,133             +2,251            -30,678
        Boll weevil eradication loans....................  .................  .................  .................  .................  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, Loan subsidies..........................            82,006            185,554            106,965            +24,959            -78,589

    ACIF expenses:
        Salaries and expense (transfer to FSA)...........           209,861            265,315            265,315            +55,454   .................
        Administrative expenses..........................             4,300              4,139              4,139               -161   .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, ACIF expenses...........................           214,161            269,454            269,454            +55,293   .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          Total, Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund......           296,167            455,008            376,419            +80,252            -78,589
              (Loan authorization).......................        (3,083,292)        (4,557,938)        (3,083,243)              (-49)       (-1,474,695)
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          Total, Farm Service Agency.....................         1,094,011          1,287,843          1,208,254           +114,243            -79,589
                                                          ==============================================================================================
Risk Management Agency...................................            63,983             67,700             65,597             +1,614             -2,103
                                                          ==============================================================================================
      Total, Farm Assistance Programs....................         1,158,566          1,356,132          1,274,440           +115,874            -81,692
                                                          ==============================================================================================
                       Corporations

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation: Federal crop                    710,857          1,727,671          1,727,671         +1,016,814   .................
 insurance corporation fund..............................
Commodity Credit Corporation Fund:
    Reimbursement for net realized losses................        30,037,136         27,771,007         27,771,007         -2,266,129   .................
    Operations and maintenance for hazardous waste                   (5,000)            (5,000)            (5,000)  .................  .................
     management (limitation on administrative expenses)..
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, Corporations..............................        30,747,993         29,498,678         29,498,678         -1,249,315   .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
        Total, title I, Agricultural Programs............        35,436,305         34,740,299         34,506,850           -929,455           -233,449
            (By transfer)................................          (211,265)          (266,719)          (266,719)          (+55,454)  .................
            (Loan authorization).........................        (3,083,292)        (4,557,938)        (3,083,243)              (-49)       (-1,474,695)
            (Limitation on administrative expenses)......          (108,287)          (108,287)          (108,287)  .................  .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
             TITLE II--CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and                 693                711                711                +18   .................
 Environment.............................................

Natural Resources Conservation Service:
    Conservation operations..............................           660,812            747,243            714,116            +53,304            -33,127
    Watershed surveys and planning.......................            10,368             10,368             10,705               +337               +337
    Watershed and flood prevention operations............            91,643             83,423             99,443             +7,800            +16,020
    Resource conservation and development................            35,265             36,265             36,265             +1,000   .................
    Forestry incentives program..........................             5,377   .................             6,325               +948             +6,325
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Natural Resources Conservation Service......           803,465            877,299            866,854            +63,389            -10,445
                                                          ==============================================================================================
      Total, title II, Conservation Programs.............           804,158            878,010            867,565            +63,407            -10,445
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          TITLE III--RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development......               588                605                605                +17   .................

Rural Development:
    Rural community advancement program..................           693,637            762,542            749,284            +55,647            -13,258

    RD expenses:
        Salaries and expenses............................  .................           130,371            130,371           +130,371   .................
        (Transfer from RHIF).............................  .................          (409,233)          (409,233)         (+409,233)  .................
        (Transfer from RDLFP)............................  .................            (3,640)            (3,640)           (+3,640)  .................
        (Transfer from RETLP)............................  .................           (34,716)           (34,716)          (+34,716)  .................
        (Transfer from RTP)..............................  .................            (3,000)            (3,000)           (+3,000)  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, RD expenses.............................  .................          (580,960)          (580,960)         (+580,960)  .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          Total, Rural Development.......................           693,637            892,913            879,655           +186,018            -13,258
                                                          ==============================================================================================
Rural Housing Service:
    Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account:
        Loan authorizations:
            Single family (sec. 502).....................        (1,100,000)        (1,300,000)        (1,100,000)  .................         (-200,000)
                Unsubsidized guaranteed..................        (3,200,000)        (3,700,000)        (3,200,000)  .................         (-500,000)
            Housing repair (sec. 504)....................           (32,396)           (40,000)           (32,396)  .................           (-7,604)
            Farm labor (sec. 514)........................           (25,001)  .................  .................          (-25,001)  .................
            Rental housing (sec. 515)....................          (114,321)          (120,000)          (114,321)  .................           (-5,679)
            Multi-family housing guarantees (sec. 538)...          (100,000)          (200,000)          (100,000)  .................         (-100,000)
            Site loans (sec. 524)........................            (5,152)            (5,000)            (5,152)  .................             (+152)
            Multi-family housing credit sales............            (1,250)            (5,000)            (1,250)  .................           (-3,750)
            Single family housing credit sales...........            (6,253)           (10,000)            (6,253)  .................           (-3,747)
                Credit sales of acquired property........            (7,503)           (15,000)            (7,503)  .................           (-7,497)
            Self-help housing land development fund......            (5,000)            (5,009)            (5,000)  .................               (-9)
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Loan authorizations.................        (4,589,373)        (5,385,009)        (4,564,372)          (-25,001)         (-820,637)

        Loan subsidies:
            Single family (sec. 502).....................            93,830            208,780            176,660            +82,830            -32,120
                Unsubsidized guaranteed..................            19,520             44,400             38,400            +18,880             -6,000
            Housing repair (sec. 504)....................             9,900             14,176             11,481             +1,581             -2,695
            Multi-family housing guarantees (sec. 538)...               480              3,040              1,520             +1,040             -1,520
            Farm labor (sec. 514)........................            11,308   .................  .................           -11,308   .................
            Rental housing (sec. 515)....................            45,363             59,124             56,326            +10,963             -2,798
            Site loans (sec. 524)........................                 4   .................  .................                -4   .................
            Multi-family housing credit sales............               494              2,452                613               +119             -1,839
            Single family housing credit sales...........               380   .................  .................              -380   .................
                Credit sales of acquired property........               874              2,452                613               -261             -1,839
            Self-help housing land development fund......               281                279                279                 -2   .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Loan subsidies......................           181,560            332,251            285,279           +103,719            -46,972

        RHIF administrative expenses (transfer to RHS)...           375,879   .................  .................          -375,879   .................
        RHIF administrative expenses (transfer to RD)....  .................           409,233            409,233           +409,233   .................

        Rental assistance program:
            (Sec. 521)...................................           634,100            674,100            674,100            +40,000   .................
            (Sec. 502(c)(5)(D))..........................             5,900              5,900              5,900   .................  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Rental assistance program...........           640,000            680,000            680,000            +40,000   .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
              Total, Rural Housing Insurance Fund........         1,197,439          1,421,484          1,374,512           +177,073            -46,972
                  (Loan authorization)...................        (4,589,373)        (5,385,009)        (4,564,372)          (-25,001)         (-820,637)
                                                          ==============================================================================================
    Mutual and self-help housing grants..................            28,000             40,000             34,000             +6,000             -6,000
    Rural housing assistance grants......................            45,000             39,000             44,000             -1,000             +5,000
    Farm labor program account...........................  .................            35,777             28,750            +28,750             -7,027
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal, grants and payments......................            73,000            114,777            106,750            +33,750             -8,027

    RHS expenses:
        Salaries and expenses............................            61,551   .................  .................           -61,551   .................
        (Transfer from RHIF).............................          (375,879)  .................  .................         (-375,879)  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, RHS expenses............................          (437,430)  .................  .................         (-437,430)  .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          Total, Rural Housing Service...................         1,331,990          1,536,261          1,481,262           +149,272            -54,999
              (Loan authorization).......................        (4,589,373)        (5,385,009)        (4,564,372)          (-25,001)         (-820,637)
                                                          ==============================================================================================
Rural Business-Cooperative Service:
    Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account:
        (Loan authorization).............................           (38,256)           (64,495)           (38,256)  .................          (-26,239)
        Loan subsidy.....................................            16,615             32,834             19,476             +2,861            -13,358
        Administrative expenses (transfer to RBCS).......             3,337   .................  .................            -3,337   .................
        Administrative expenses (transfer to RD).........  .................             3,640              3,640             +3,640   .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, Rural Development Loan Fund.............            19,952             36,474             23,116             +3,164            -13,358

    Rural Economic Development Loans Program Account:
        (Loan authorization).............................           (15,000)           (15,000)           (15,000)  .................  .................
        Direct subsidy...................................             3,453              3,911              3,911               +458   .................

    Rural cooperative development grants.................             6,000             11,500              6,000   .................            -5,500
    National sheep industry improvement center revolving   .................             5,000   .................  .................            -5,000
     fund................................................

    RBCS expenses:
        Salaries and expenses............................            24,612   .................  .................           -24,612   .................
        (Transfer from RDLFP)............................            (3,337)  .................  .................           (-3,337)  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, RBCS expenses...........................           (27,949)  .................  .................          (-27,949)  .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          Total, Rural Business-Cooperative Service......            54,017             56,885             33,027            -20,990            -23,858
              (By transfer)..............................            (3,337)  .................  .................           (-3,337)  .................
              (Loan authorization).......................           (53,256)           (79,495)           (53,256)  .................          (-26,239)
                                                          ==============================================================================================
Rural Utilities Service:
    Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans
     Program Account:
        Electric:
            Direct loans:
                Direct, 5 percent........................          (121,500)           (50,000)          (121,500)  .................          (+71,500)
                Direct, Muni.............................          (295,000)          (300,000)          (295,000)  .................           (-5,000)
                Direct, FFB..............................        (1,700,000)          (800,000)        (1,700,000)  .................         (+900,000)
                Direct, Treasury rate....................  .................  .................          (500,000)         (+500,000)         (+500,000)
                Guaranteed...............................  .................          (400,000)  .................  .................         (-400,000)
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  Subtotal...............................        (2,116,500)        (1,550,000)        (2,616,500)         (+500,000)       (+1,066,500)

            Telecommunications:
                Direct, 5 percent........................           (75,000)           (75,000)           (75,000)  .................  .................
                Direct, Treasury rate....................          (300,000)          (300,000)          (300,000)  .................  .................
                Direct, FFB..............................          (120,000)          (120,000)          (120,000)  .................  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  Subtotal...............................          (495,000)          (495,000)          (495,000)  .................  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  Total, Loan authorizations.............        (2,611,500)        (2,045,000)        (3,111,500)         (+500,000)       (+1,066,500)
        Loan subsidies:
            Electric:
                Direct, 5 percent........................             1,095              4,980             12,101            +11,006             +7,121
                Direct, Muni.............................            10,827             20,850             20,503             +9,676               -347
                Direct, FFB..............................  .................  .................  .................  .................  .................
                Direct, Treasury rate....................  .................  .................  .................  .................  .................
                Guaranteed...............................  .................                40   .................  .................               -40
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  Subtotal...............................            11,922             25,870             32,604            +20,682             +6,734

        Telecommunications:
            Direct, 5 percent............................               840              7,770              7,770             +6,930   .................
            Direct, Treasury rate........................             2,370   .................  .................            -2,370   .................
            Direct, FFB..................................  .................  .................  .................  .................  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Subtotal...................................             3,210              7,770              7,770             +4,560   .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Loan subsidies......................            15,132             33,640             40,374            +25,242             +6,734

        RETLP administrative expenses (transfer to RUS)..            31,046   .................  .................           -31,046   .................
        RETLP administrative expenses (transfer to RD)...  .................            34,716             34,716            +34,716   .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          Total, Rural Electrification and                           46,178             68,356             75,090            +28,912             +6,734
           Telecommunications Loans Program Account......
              (Loan authorization).......................        (2,611,500)        (2,045,000)        (3,111,500)         (+500,000)       (+1,066,500)
                                                          ==============================================================================================
    Rural Telephone Bank Program Account:
        (Loan authorization).............................          (175,000)          (175,000)          (175,000)  .................  .................
        Direct loan subsidy..............................             3,290              2,590              2,590               -700   .................
        RTP administrative expenses (transfer to RUS)....             3,000   .................  .................            -3,000   .................
        RTP administrative expenses (transfer to RD).....  .................             3,000              3,000             +3,000   .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total..........................................             6,290              5,590              5,590               -700   .................

    Distance learning and telemedicine program:
        (Loan authorization).............................          (200,000)          (400,000)          (400,000)         (+200,000)  .................
        Direct loan subsidy..............................               700   .................  .................              -700   .................
        Grants...........................................            20,000             27,000             27,000             +7,000   .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total..........................................            20,700             27,000             27,000             +6,300   .................

    RUS expenses:
        Salaries and expenses............................            34,107   .................  .................           -34,107   .................
        (Transfer from RETLP)............................           (31,046)  .................  .................          (-31,046)  .................
        (Transfer from RTP)..............................            (3,000)  .................  .................           (-3,000)  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, RUS expenses............................           (68,153)  .................  .................          (-68,153)  .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          Total, Rural Utilities Service.................           107,275            100,946            107,680               +405             +6,734
              (By transfer)..............................           (34,046)  .................  .................          (-34,046)  .................
              (Loan authorization).......................        (2,986,500)        (2,620,000)        (3,686,500)         (+700,000)       (+1,066,500)
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          Total, title III, Rural Economic and Community          2,187,507          2,587,610          2,502,229           +314,722            -85,381
           Development Programs..........................
              (By transfer)..............................          (413,262)          (450,589)          (450,589)          (+37,327)  .................
              (Loan authorization).......................        (7,629,129)        (8,084,504)        (8,304,128)         (+674,999)         (+219,624)
                                                          ==============================================================================================
             TITLE IV--DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS

Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and                   554                570                570                +16   .................
 Consumer Services.......................................

Food and Nutrition Service:
    Child nutrition programs.............................         4,611,829          4,570,465          4,407,460           -204,369           -163,005
        Transfer from section 32.........................         4,935,199          4,967,574          5,127,579           +192,380           +160,005
        Discretionary spending...........................             7,000              8,017              6,500               -500             -1,517
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, Child nutrition programs................         9,554,028          9,546,056          9,541,539            -12,489             -4,517

    Special supplemental nutrition program for women,             4,032,000          4,148,100          4,052,000            +20,000            -96,100
     infants, and children (WIC).........................

    Food stamp program:
        Expenses.........................................        19,605,751         19,730,993         19,720,293           +114,542            -10,700
        Reserve..........................................           100,000          1,000,000            100,000   .................          -900,000
        Nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico.............         1,268,000          1,301,000          1,301,000            +33,000   .................
        The emergency food assistance program............            98,000            100,000            100,000             +2,000   .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, Food stamp program......................        21,071,751         22,131,993         21,221,293           +149,542           -910,700

    Commodity assistance program.........................           133,300            158,300            140,300             +7,000            -18,000

    Food donations programs:
        Needy family program.............................             1,081              1,081              1,081   .................  .................
        Elderly feeding program..........................           140,000            150,000            140,000   .................           -10,000
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, Food donations programs.................           141,081            151,081            141,081   .................           -10,000

    Food program administration..........................           111,392            128,558            116,807             +5,415            -11,751
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Food and Nutrition Service..................        35,043,552         36,264,088         35,213,020           +169,468         -1,051,068
                                                          ==============================================================================================
      Total, title IV, Domestic Food Programs............        35,044,106         36,264,658         35,213,590           +169,484         -1,051,068
                                                          ==============================================================================================
     TITLE V--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

Foreign Agricultural Service and General Sales Manager:
    Direct appropriation.................................           109,186            113,587            113,424             +4,238               -163
    (Transfer from export loans).........................            (3,231)            (3,231)            (3,231)  .................  .................
    (Transfer from Public Law 480).......................            (1,035)            (1,035)            (1,035)  .................  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Program level...............................          (113,452)          (117,853)          (117,690)           (+4,238)             (-163)
                                                          ==============================================================================================
Public Law 480 Program and Grant Accounts:
    Title I--Credit sales:
        Direct loans.....................................          (145,298)          (159,678)          (159,678)          (+14,380)  .................
        Loan subsidies...................................           119,813            114,186            114,186             -5,627   .................

    Ocean freight differential...........................            21,000             20,322             20,322               -678   .................

    Title II--Commodities for disposition abroad:
        Program level....................................          (800,000)          (837,000)          (837,000)          (+37,000)  .................
        Appropriation....................................           800,000            837,000            837,000            +37,000   .................

    Salaries and expenses:
        General Sales Manager (transfer to FAS)..........             1,035              1,035              1,035   .................  .................
        Farm Service Agency (transfer to FSA)............               815                815                815   .................  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Subtotal.......................................             1,850              1,850              1,850   .................  .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          Total, Public Law 480:
              Program level..............................          (945,298)          (996,678)          (996,678)          (+51,380)  .................
              Appropriation..............................           942,663            973,358            973,358            +30,695   .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
CCC Export Loans Program Account (administrative
 expenses):
    Salaries and expenses (Export Loans):
        General Sales Manager (transfer to FAS)..........             3,231              3,231              3,231   .................  .................
        Farm Service Agency (transfer to FSA)............               589                589                589   .................  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, CCC Export Loans Program Account........             3,820              3,820              3,820   .................  .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
          Total, title V, Foreign Assistance and Related          1,055,669          1,090,765          1,090,602            +34,933               -163
           Programs......................................
              (By transfer)..............................            (4,266)            (4,266)            (4,266)  .................  .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
    TITLE VI--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION AND RELATED
                         AGENCIES

         DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

               Food and Drug Administration

Salaries and expenses, direct appropriation..............         1,037,661          1,156,905          1,067,523            +29,862            -89,382
    Prescription Drug User Fee Act.......................          (145,434)          (149,273)          (149,273)           (+3,839)  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal...........................................        (1,183,095)        (1,306,178)        (1,216,796)          (+33,701)          (-89,382)

    Mammography Standards Quality Act....................           (14,817)           (15,128)           (15,128)             (+311)  .................
    Export and certification.............................            (4,907)            (5,992)            (5,992)           (+1,085)  .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal...........................................        (1,202,819)        (1,327,298)        (1,237,916)          (+35,097)          (-89,382)

    Limitation on payments to GSA........................           (99,954)          (104,954)          (104,954)           (+5,000)  .................

Buildings and facilities.................................            11,350             31,350             31,350            +20,000   .................
    Advance appropriations, fiscal year 2002.............  .................            23,000   .................  .................           -23,000
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Food and Drug Administration................         1,049,011          1,211,255          1,098,873            +49,862           -112,382
                                                          ==============================================================================================
                   INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

Commodity Futures Trading Commission.....................            63,000             72,000             67,100             +4,100             -4,900
Farm Credit Administration (limitation on administrative            (35,800)  .................           (36,800)           (+1,000)          (+36,800)
 expenses)...............................................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
      Total, title VI, Related Agencies and Food and Drug         1,112,011          1,283,255          1,165,973            +53,962           -117,282
       Administration....................................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
              TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

Hunger fellowships.......................................             2,000   .................  .................            -2,000   .................
Sec. 388 Fair Act--NH....................................               250   .................  .................              -250   .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
      Total, title VII, General provisions...............             2,250   .................  .................            -2,250   .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
           TITLE VIII--EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

                DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

               Commodity Credit Corporation

Crop loss (contingent emergency appropriations)..........         1,200,000   .................  .................        -1,200,000   .................
Market loss (contingent emergency appropriations)........         5,520,351   .................  .................        -5,520,351   .................
Specialty Crops:
    Peanuts (contingent emergency appropriations)........            42,000   .................  .................           -42,000   .................
    Suspend sugar assessments (contingent emergency                  42,000   .................  .................           -42,000   .................
     appropriations).....................................
    Tobacco (contingent emergency appropriations)........           326,601   .................  .................          -326,601   .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal, Specialty crops..........................           410,601   .................  .................          -410,601   .................

Oilseeds (contingent emergency appropriations)...........           467,974   .................  .................          -467,974   .................
Livestock and dairy (contingent emergency appropriations)           320,614   .................  .................          -320,614   .................
Upland cotton competitiveness (contingent emergency                 201,000   .................  .................          -201,000   .................
 appropriations).........................................
Extend milk price supports (contingent emergency                   -102,000   .................  .................          +102,000   .................
 appropriations).........................................
Crop insurance (contingent emergency appropriations).....           400,000   .................  .................          -400,000   .................
Crop insurance discount associated costs (contingent                250,000   .................  .................          -250,000   .................
 emergency appropriations)...............................
Water and waste loan forgiveness (contingent emergency                2,000   .................  .................            -2,000   .................
 appropriations).........................................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, title VIII, Emergency appropriations........         8,670,540   .................  .................        -8,670,540   .................
                                                          ==============================================================================================
      Grand total:
          New budget (obligational) authority............        84,312,546         76,844,597         75,346,809         -8,965,737         -1,497,788
              Appropriations.............................       (75,642,006)       (76,821,597)       (75,346,809)         (-295,197)       (-1,474,788)
              Contingent emergency appropriations........        (8,670,540)  .................  .................       (-8,670,540)  .................
              Advance appropriations.....................  .................           (23,000)  .................  .................          (-23,000)
          (By transfer)..................................          (628,793)          (721,574)          (721,574)          (+92,781)  .................
          (Loan authorization)...........................       (10,712,421)       (12,642,442)       (11,387,371)         (+674,950)       (-1,255,071)
          (Limitation on administrative expenses)........          (144,087)          (108,287)          (145,087)           (+1,000)          (+36,800)
                                                          ==============================================================================================
                      RECAPITULATION

Title I--Agricultural programs...........................        35,436,305         34,740,299         34,506,850           -929,455           -233,449
Title II--Conservation programs..........................           804,158            878,010            867,565            +63,407            -10,445
Title III--Rural economic and community development               2,187,507          2,587,610          2,502,229           +314,722            -85,381
 programs................................................
Title IV--Domestic food programs.........................        35,044,106         36,264,658         35,213,590           +169,484         -1,051,068
Title V--Foreign assistance and related programs.........         1,055,669          1,090,765          1,090,602            +34,933               -163
Title VI--Related agencies and Food and Drug                      1,112,011          1,283,255          1,165,973            +53,962           -117,282
 Administration..........................................
Title VII--General provisions............................             2,250   .................  .................            -2,250   .................
Title VIII--Emergency appropriations.....................         8,670,540   .................  .................        -8,670,540   .................
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, new budget (obligational) authority.........        84,312,546         76,844,597         75,346,809         -8,965,737         -1,497,788
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\1\ In addition to appropriation.


                               DIVISION B

                                TITLE I

                               CHAPTER 1

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    The Committee is aware of the Mormon cricket and 
grasshopper infestation which has affected Utah and other 
States causing significant crop losses. The Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service has requested $400,000 in contingency 
funds to conduct a survey to assess the damage from the 
infestation. The Committee supports this request and expects 
the Department to report the results of the survey, including 
but not limited to, the monetary losses and the acreage 
affected, to the Committee on Appropriations. Should the survey 
prove that emergency conditions do exist and eradication 
efforts are needed, Commodity Credit Corporation funds should 
be released to address this problem.

                          Farm Service Agency

                         salaries and expenses

2000 appropriation to date..............................\1\ $794,839,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................      39,000,000

\1\ Excludes $56,000,000 in emergency supplemental appropriations 
provided by Public Law 106-78.

    The Committee recommends an additional $39,000,000 for Farm 
Service Agency salaries and expenses. This funding is necessary 
to increase temporary staff to process higher than expected 
workload volume due to the demand for Loan Deficiency Payments 
and natural disasters, and to administer new emergency 
agriculture assistance programs. These additional funds have 
not been requested by the President.

                Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund

    The Committee recommends an additional $13,000,000 to cover 
the shortage in funding for the crop insurance premium 
discounts to farmers for their 1999 crops. The U.S. Department 
of Agriculture reserved funds from those made available for 
1998 crop losses, providing a 30 percent premium discount on 
1999 crop insurance premiums. However, the producer 
participation was larger than anticipated and the resulting 
discount was only 28 percent. Thus, an additional $13,000,000 
is provided to make up this difference and to avoid having to 
bill participating producers an average of $10 each to recover 
the excess premium. This entire amount is requested and 
designated by the President as an emergency.

                  Rural Community Advancement Program

    The Committee provides funding for the Rural Community 
Facilities Grant Program for areas of extreme unemployment or 
economic depression.
    The Committee provides funding for the Rural Utilities 
Service Grant Program for rural communities with extremely high 
energy costs.
    An additional amount is provided to communities or 
associations for water supply relating to emergency or at-risk 
conditions of which no less than $35,000,000 shall be for 
grants and may be used in counties other than those for which a 
Presidential or Secretarial emergency is designated.

                         Rural Housing Service


              RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

2000 appropriation to date..............................\1\ $181,560,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................      15,872,000
Committee recommendation................................      15,872,000

\1\ Excludes $11,099,000 in emergency supplemental appropriations 
provided by Public Law 106-113.

    The Committee recommends $15,872,000 to support an 
additional $40,000,000 in direct loans to fund new Section 515 
rural rental housing projects in areas affected by natural 
disasters in 1999. This appropriation will provide 1,000 units 
for those who were displaced from their housing by Hurricanes 
Dennis, Floyd, or Irene. This entire amount is requested and 
designated by the President as an emergency.

                       Rental Assistance Program

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $640,000,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................      13,600,000
Committee recommendation................................      13,600,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $13,600,000 for 
rental assistance. These funds will be used to support an 
estimated 1,000 new multi-family housing units in areas 
affected by Hurricanes Dennis, Floyd, or Irene. This entire 
amount is requested and designated by the President as an 
emergency.

                        Rural Utilities Service


   RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

    The Committee recommends an additional $1,000,000 to 
subsidize the cost of an additional $113,250,000 in direct 5 
percent rural electrification loans. The Committee encourages 
the Department to give consideration to an application from an 
area with high energy costs and dependent on refined oil to 
generate electricity.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 1101. The Committee recommends that an additional 
$35,000,000 be provided for conservation technical assistance 
to support ongoing enrollment of acreage in the Conservation 
Reserve Program and the Wetlands Reserve Program.
    Sec. 1102. The Committee recommends language that 
authorizes poultry losses due to severe weather conditions 
which occurred in Arkansas during the first 2 months of this 
year to be eligible for livestock indemnity payments.
    Sec. 1103. Extends notice and comment exemptions to 
additional uses of prior appropriated funds.
    Sec. 1104. The Committee recommends that up to $81,000,000 
be provided to forgive marketing loans made by the Commodity 
Credit Corporation to producer-owned associations or producers 
that suffered losses from natural disasters. This would cover a 
portion of the loans and relieve additional financial stress on 
producers that suffered losses from Hurricanes Dennis, Floyd, 
and Irene. This entire amount is requested and designated by 
the President as an emergency.
    Sec. 1105. Conforms the definition of ``livestock'' for 
purposes of administering the Livestock Indemnity Program and 
the Livestock Assistance Program.
    Sec. 1106. Provides assistance to dairy producers 
consistent with dairy assistance provisions included in section 
805 of Public Law 106-78. These additional funds have not been 
requested by the President.
    Sec. 1107. Provides assistance to producers for losses 
associated with new and emergent pests and diseases, including: 
Mexican fruit flies, plum pox virus, Pierce's disease, 
grasshoppers and mormon crickets, and citrus canker. These 
additional funds have not been requested by the President.
    Sec. 1108. Extends the milk price support program through 
2001 and makes a conforming amendment delaying implementation 
of the dairy recourse loan program until 2002.
    Sec. 1109. Provides assistance for livestock producers in 
counties designated an emergency by the President or the 
Secretary after January 1, 2000 and shall give consideration to 
the effect of recurring droughts on ongoing livestock 
operations.
    Sec. 1110. Provides authority for the Commodity Credit 
Corporation to offset the assessment on peanut producers for 
program losses from 1999 using excess assessments to be 
collected for crop year 2000 and subsequent years.

                               CHAPTER 2


                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL


                         Department of the Army


                       Corps of Engineers--Civil


                         General Investigations

2000 appropriation to date..............................................
2000 supplemental estimate..............................      $8,500,000
Committee recommendation................................       4,500,000

    The Committee recommends an emergency supplemental 
appropriation of $4,500,000 for the Corps of Engineers to 
resume engineering and design of an outlet at Devils Lake, 
North Dakota.
    An emergency supplemental requests of $7,000,000 was 
included in the fiscal year 2001 budget transmittal which would 
allow the Corps of Engineers to complete preconstruction 
engineering and design for an outlet at Devils Lake in North 
Dakota. The Committee notes that the supplemental request 
assumed that the Congress would approve a $2,500,000 
reprogramming to allow the Corps to resume design activities 
earlier this year. This reprogramming has not occurred, 
therefore, the $2,500,000 included in the request to repay 
funding taken from other projects in the proposed reprogramming 
is not provided.

 Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, 
        Kentucy, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $309,000,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................      10,000,000

    The Committee recommendation includes $10,000,000 for the 
Corps of Engineers to address unforeseen needs as the result of 
drought induced low water conditions on the Mississippi River 
and its tributaries. The work to be undertaken includes, among 
other things, dredging to maintain navigation channels, levee 
repairs, channel clean out and clearing, and scour repairs.

                   Operation and Maintenance, General

2000 appropriation to date..............................  $1,116,000,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................      19,175,000
Committee recommendation................................      35,000,000

    An emergency appropriation of $35,000,000 is recommended 
for Operation and Maintenance activities of the Corps of 
Engineers.
    The additional funding is needed for repairs of damages 
caused by Tropical Storm Bret and Hurricane Floyd, which caused 
major damages along the Gulf and Southeast and Atlantic coasts; 
and the impacts of low water caused by drought conditions. The 
recommended funding will restore navigation channels and 
harbors, repair disposal areas, and provide snagging drift and 
debris removal.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES


                    Appalachian Regional Commission

2000 appropriation to date..............................     $66,400,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................      11,000,000

    The funds recommended by the Committee are for the North 
Fork Hughes River Watershed project in Ritchie County, WV, a 
multipurpose project for flood control, water supply and 
treatment, recreational opportunities and economic development 
in a distressed Appalachian county. The funds will cover 
increased costs for this project, which resulted from a long 
delay caused by litigation, and are critical, at this time, to 
address urgent drought-related water supply needs in the 
county.

                               CHAPTER 3


                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

    The Committee is aware that the requirement for disaster 
related repairs for Department of the Interior bureaus may 
substantially exceed the amounts requested by the 
Administration. The requests themselves, however, include very 
little information that would help the Committee determine how 
the request levels were determined, or what specific repair 
projects would be accomplished with the amounts requested. As 
more detailed damage assessments become available, the 
Committee urges the Department to consult with the Committee as 
to how the funds provided will be allocated, and how priorities 
will be determined among competing projects.

                       Bureau of Land Management


                   Management of Lands and Resources

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $643,105,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................      17,172,000

    The Committee recognizes the severity of the 1999 fire 
season and the consequential ecological effects of fire on 
lands managed by the BLM. Additional emergency funding of 
$15,687,000 is provided to restore damaged biotic resources and 
infrastructure to their pre-fire condition in order to prevent 
a decline in fish and wildlife habitat. Accordingly, the 
Committee provides funds to complete restoration activities, 
including but not limited to fence replacement, wild horse 
removal, tree and shrub seedling purchase and planting, and 
cheatgrass control. The Committee also recognizes the severity 
of the grasshopper and mormon cricket infestations on lands 
managed by the BLM and provides emergency funding in the amount 
of $1,485,000 to protect critical native vegetative resources, 
adjacent farms and ranch lands, and newly planted fire 
rehabilitation projects from further infestations. The 
Committee expects coordination with state, local and other 
Federal entities in addressing these efforts.

                        WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $290,957,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................     100,000,000
Committee recommendation................................     100,000,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $100,000,000 for 
wildland fire management. This amount is contingent upon 
receipt of a budget request that includes a Presidential 
designation of the amount requested as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service


                          RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $714,543,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................       6,500,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $6,500,000 for 
resource management. $1,500,000 of these funds are to be 
expended for the preparation and implementation of plans, 
programs, or agreements identified by the State of Idaho that 
will address habitat for freshwater aquatic species on non-
Federal lands in the State. These funds will supplement funds 
that have already been allocated by the State and will only be 
expended for landowners that are voluntarily enrolled in such 
plans, programs, or agreements.
    The Committee also recommends $5,000,000 for the 
conservation and restoration of Atlantic salmon in the Gulf of 
Maine. The condition of the Atlantic salmon population is at a 
critical point, and the decision regarding the listing of the 
Atlantic salmon under the Endangered Species Act appears to be 
imminent. Therefore, the funds are needed to assist in the 
prevention of the listing of the Atlantic salmon. The funds 
provided will support efforts to acquire lands and conservation 
easements to benefit Atlantic salmon, to develop irrigation and 
water use management measures to minimize any adverse effects 
on salmon habitat, and to develop and phase in enhanced 
aquaculture cages to minimize escape of salmon. The funds 
provided for the Atlantic Salmon Commission for salmon 
restoration and conservation will support installation and 
upgrading of weirs and fish collection facilities, conduct of 
risk assessments, fish marking, salmon genetics studies and 
testing, and development of enhanced aquaculture cages. Funds 
are also provided for a National Academy of Sciences study on 
Atlantic salmon.

                              CONSTRUCTION

2000 appropriation to date..............................     $53,528,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................       5,000,000
Committee recommendation................................       8,500,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $8,500,000 to repair 
Fish and Wildlife Service Facilities damaged by hurricanes and 
winter storms. The Committee understands that these funds will 
be used for repairs to Service property in the States of 
Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South 
Carolina, Virginia, and Washington.

                         National Park Service


                              CONSTRUCTION

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $221,191,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................       4,000,000
Committee recommendation................................       5,300,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $5,300,000 for 
construction to repair or replace visitor facilities, 
equipment, roads and trails, visitor facilities, and cultural 
sites and artifacts at national park units damaged by 
hurricanes, tropical storms, ice storms, lightning, and floods.

                    United States Geological Survey


                 Surveys, Investigations, and Research

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $813,376,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................       1,800,000
Committee recommendation................................       1,800,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $1,800,000 for 
surveys, investigations, and research to repair or replace 
stream monitoring equipment and associated facilities damaged 
by storms, floods, and hurricanes. The Committee understands 
that these funds will be used for repairs in Alaska, Colorado, 
Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland-Delaware-
Washington, D.C., Massachusetts-Rhode Island, Nevada, New 
Hampshire-Vermont, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North 
Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, and 
Virginia.

          Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement


                       Regulation and Technology

2000 appropriation to date..............................     $95,860,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................       9,821,000

    The Committee is concerned that the State of West Virginia 
lacks sufficient funding and staffing resources to regulate the 
effects of surface coal mining operations within the State 
pursuant to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 
(SMCRA). Recent litigation and the commencement of a formal 
review by the Office of Surface Mining related to the State's 
regulatory program demonstrate that unless additional funds are 
provided immediately a Federal takeover of these 
responsibilities may be imminent. If a takeover occurs it will 
drastically increase the costs to the Federal Government for 
regulating coal mining in West Virgina and cause major 
disruptions on the ground. With the additional resources 
provided in this Act, the State will have the capability to 
administer an adequate regulatory program to enforce 
environmental laws and have the necessary tools to perform 
technical reviews of permit applications effectively and 
efficiently. Accordingly, the Committee is providing a total of 
$9,821,000 to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 
Enforcement to ensure that the State has adequate funds to 
carry out its regulatory responsibilities under SMCRA.
    Of this amount, the Committee is providing $6,222,000 for 
the Office of Surface Mining to enter into a cooperative 
agreement with the West Virginia Division of Environmental 
Protection to enhance program capabilities including developing 
a geospatial database to ensure appropriate geologic and 
hydrologic sampling, performing watershed modeling and other 
programmatic improvements to ensure the State is able to meet 
its regulatory requirements under SMCRA.
    The Committee is also providing $3,599,000 to address the 
West Virginia Office's staffing deficiencies. The Committee 
notes that West Virginia operates its program with about half 
the staff and budget of surrounding States with similarly sized 
programs. The controversy over mountaintop removal mining has 
been a catalyst for demonstrating weaknesses in the West 
Virginia regulatory program. These funds are subject to the 50 
percent matching requirement of section 705(a) of SMCRA.
    The Committee appreciates that the Office of Surface Mining 
and the State of West Virginia have worked closely together to 
characterize the deficiencies in the State's regulatory 
program. The Committee expects this close cooperation to 
continue as the parties address and resolve program 
deficiencies. The Committee directs the Office of Surface 
Mining, in conjunction with the State, to keep the Committee 
apprized of the efforts made to correct these problems in the 
State's regulatory program.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs


                      operation of indian programs

2000 appropriation to date..............................  $1,639,535,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................       1,200,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $1,200,000 to repair 
portions of the Yakama Nation's Signal Peak Road. The Yakama 
Nation shall provide $645,750 towards completion of road 
repairs, of which $100,000 has already been spent by the Tribe. 
The Yakama Nation shall meet the remainder of its cost share 
responsibility prior to the end of fiscal year 2000. These 
funds are necessary to repair portions of the road that have 
become significantly damaged in the past year due to a massive 
increase in traffic resulting from efforts to combat a spruce 
budworm infestation and to salvage timber from infested areas. 
The funds will be used to repair the portions of the roads with 
the most serious damage--Mileposts 26-30 and Milepost 31.2. The 
funds will be used for field engineering, surveying, project 
management, materials testing, construction and maintenance of 
a traffic bypass.

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


                             Forest Service


                         NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM

2000 appropriation to date..............................  $1,261,184,000
2001 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................       5,759,000

    The Committee recommends emergency funding in the amount of 
$5,759,000 for the National Forest System to repair damage 
caused by severe windstorms in the States of Minnesota and 
Wisconsin. The fallen timber caused by these storms in the 
national forests has caused serious environmental and other 
damage which must be addressed immediately.

                        Wildland Fire Management

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $560,827,000
2001 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................       1,620,000

    The Committee recommends $1,620,000 for Wildland Fire 
Management. Of this amount, $1,140,000 is recommended to treat 
and dispose of hazardous fuel accumulations caused by severe 
windstorms on national forests in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and 
$480,000 is recommended to provide additional presuppression 
resources for protection purposes during this period of 
hazardous fuel treatment.

                     Reconstruction and Maintenance

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $396,894,000
2001 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................       1,870,000

    The Committee recommends $1,870,000 for Reconstruction and 
Maintenance. These funds shall be used to repair Forest Service 
roads and facilities damaged by severe windstorms in Minnesota 
and Wisconsin.

                               CHAPTER 4


                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


                  Health Care Financing Administration


                           Program Management

    The Committee recommendation includes $15,000,000 for 
provider education. The Committee has heard testimony and 
received input from health care professionals about the 
complexity of Medicare billing and program integrity 
requirements. Greater technical assistance and education 
regarding these requirements would improve compliance. 
Therefore, the Committee has provided $15,000,000 to 
substantially expand HCFA's Medicare provider education 
efforts. The Committee expects that a portion of these funds 
will be used to promptly restore the toll-free telephone lines 
that allow physicians and other professionals to call their 
local Medicare carrier for answers to billing and coding 
questions. The Committee also expects HCFA to consult with 
health care professional associations in developing their plan 
for expending these additional funds.

                Administration for Children and Families


                   low income home energy assistance

2000 appropriation to date..............................  $1,100,000,000
2000 emergency funding..................................     300,000,000
2000 supplemental estimate (emergency funding)..........     600,000,000
Committee recommendation (emergency funding)............     600,000,000

    The Committee recommendation includes an additional 
$600,000,000, as requested by the Administration, to be made 
available only upon submission of a formal request designating 
the need for the funds as an emergency, as defined by the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act. The 
Committee took this action because of the increase in fuel oil 
and propane prices, which in some cases, have doubled since 
last year.

                               CHAPTER 5


                           LEGISLATIVE BRANCH


                        CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS


                              JOINT ITEMS


                          Capitol Police Board


                         SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS

    The bill provides an additional $11,874,000 to the Capitol 
Police Board for security enhancements for the initial 
implementation of the United States Capitol Police master plan 
($10,000,000), to complete the closed circuit television at the 
Library of Congress ($1,390,000), and access control 
improvement tasks at the Library of Congress ($484,000). The 
projects at the Library of Congress were initially funded in 
the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 1999 Public Law 105-277, and require 
additional funding for the closed circuit television 
installation and the bollard perimeter at the James Madison 
Memorial building. Funding is provided to the Capitol Police to 
begin the initial implementation of the Capitol Police master 
plan which was recently completed.

                        ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL


                     Capitol Buildings and Grounds


                              FIRE SAFETY

    The bill provides $17,480,000 to the Architect of the 
Capitol to address deficiencies identified in the Office of 
Compliance's recently issued ``Report on Fire Safety 
Inspections of Congressional Buildings.''
    According to the Architect of the Capitol, the Office of 
Compliance identified 253 potential fire safety hazards or 
violations in the Capitol, Senate, and House office buildings. 
The Office of the Architect has advised the Committee that most 
of these findings have been addressed through a combination of 
ongoing studies, designs, project implementations, or existing 
funding. The funding in this bill will provide the resources 
necessary to address all remaining findings with design or 
construction funds, testing and maintenance services, or 
studies of appropriate options. The Architect of the Capitol 
has indicated that since report issuance, 89 of the findings 
either had been or now have been resolved; 47 are still in the 
process of being corrected, and study, design, or construction 
funds have already been appropriated for another 117 items. In 
this bill, funding is provided to continue design and 
implementation for 38 of the 117 projects which can be started 
during fiscal year 2000. For the remaining 79 of the 117 
projects, further study and design solutions are in process and 
need to be completed before the Architect will have the 
necessary documentation to request additional finding. For some 
projects, additional funds will probably be required when 
solution options are determined or designs have been completed.
    In addition, the Committee has provided funds to address 
similar fire safety issues that the Architect has identified in 
other buildings under his jurisdiction, namely the Library of 
Congress, the Botanic Garden and the Capitol Power Plant. In 
order to avoid unnecessary permanent staff build-up for 
temporary design and construction tasks, the bill also provides 
funds for project management and fire engineering services.
    A list of the specific projects in the bill follows:

                                                               Committee
                                                          recommendation

Capitol Buildings, Salaries and Expenses:
    Study and Design, Replace Halon Systems...................   $40,000
    Asbestos Survey, Capitol Complex.......................... 1,225,000
    Install Smoke Detectors and Fire Alarm.................... 2,600,000
    Fire Alarm System Upgrade.................................    50,000
    Testing Emergency Generator and Switchgear, Hill Wide..... 1,170,000
    Fire Safety Project Management............................   400,000
    Fire Engineers............................................ 1,304,000
    Study Damper/Smoke Control................................    50,000
    Fire SOP and Program Development..........................   200,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________

      TOTAL CAPITOL BUILDINGS................................. 7,039,000
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Senate Office Buildings:
    Design, Additional Sprinklers, RSOB and HSOB Attics.......   112,000
    Study, Sprinkler Relocation, HSOB.........................    52,000
    Fire Alarm System Upgrade.................................   150,000
    Fire Alarm Upgrades for ADA...............................   150,000
    Design, Fire Alarm System Upgrade for ADA, Legislative 
      Garage, USCP Headquarters, Webster Hall and Tunnels.....    15,000
    Design, Refuge Areas......................................   125,000
    Design, Replace Fire Alarm, HSOB..........................   450,000
    Design, Emergency Power Distribution, RSOB................    90,000
    Emergency Lighting Survey, All Buildings..................   100,000
    Correct Fire Wall Penetrations............................    40,000
    Transfer Switch For Fire Pump, HSOB.......................    30,000
    Fire Alarm, Legislative Garage............................    85,000
    Smoke Control System, HSOB, Troubleshoot, Inspection, 
      Testing and Making Operational..........................   100,000
    Study, Damper/Smoke Control...............................   100,000
    Replace Doors to Subways, DSOB and RSOB...................    55,000
    Sprinkle 12 Mechanical Equipment Rooms, HSOB and RSOB.....   360,000
    Fire Safety Project Management............................   200,000
    Repair/Replace Switchgear, HSOB...........................   100,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________

      TOTAL SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGS........................... 2,314,000
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
House Office Buildings:
    Replace Omega Sprinkler Heads, LHOB and CHOB..............   100,000
    Design, Replace Switchgear, FHOB..........................    30,000
    Design, Replace Halon Fire Suppression Systems............   125,000
    Fire Alarm System Upgrade.................................   190,000
    Upgrade Pull Stations, RHOB...............................    20,000
    Design, Fire Protection for non Sprinkled Areas, CHOB, 
      LHOB and FHOB...........................................   107,000
    Survey for Upgrade Emergency Lighting.....................   209,000
    Elevator Fireman's Recall.................................    41,000
    Storage of Hazardous Materials............................    25,000
    Design, Refuge Areas......................................   155,000
    Correct Fire Wall Penetrations............................    40,000
    Fire Dampers, CHOB Storerooms.............................    10,000
    Fire Safety Project Management............................   200,000
    RHOB Sprinklers and Telecommunications Cable Trays........ 1,815,000
    Emergency Generator LHOB..................................   150,000
    Emergency Power Distribution, LHOB........................   325,000
    Sprinkle Mechanical Equipment Rooms.......................    36,000
    Study Damper/Smoke Control................................   235,000
    Emergency Power Distribution, CHOB........................   400,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________

      TOTAL HOUSE OFFICE BUILDINGS............................ 4,213,000
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Capitol Power Plant: Design, Fire Alarm Upgrade for ADA.......     3,000
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Botanic Garden, Salaries And Expenses:
    Design, D.C Village Refuge Areas..........................    10,000
    Study Damper/Smoke Control................................    11,000
    Design, D.C. Village Fire Alarm System for ADA............     5,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________

      TOTAL BOTANIC GARDEN....................................    26,000
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
Library Buildings and Grounds, Structural and Mechanical Care:
    Replace Sprinkler Heads...................................   550,000
    Replace Switchgear, JMMB.................................. 1,750,000
    Study and Design, Replace Halon Fire Suppression Systems..   120,000
    Study, Emergency Lighting.................................   200,000
    ADA Fire Alarm Upgrades...................................   750,000
    Design, Refuge Areas......................................    85,000
    Fire Safety Project Management............................   200,000
    Study Damper/Smoke Control................................   230,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________

      TOTAL LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS..................... 3,885,000
                    ==============================================================
                    ____________________________________________________
      TOTAL ALL ITEMS.........................................17,480,000

                             Capitol Police


                                Salaries

    The bill provides $2,700,000 to be available in equal 
amounts to the House and Senate for overtime costs to ensure 
adequate staffing levels.

                    GENERAL PROVISION--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 1501. The bill increases from $10,000,000 to 
$14,500,000 the amount of privately raised donations that the 
Architect of the Capitol may accept and obligate for 
construction of the National Garden. The increase will provide 
for higher design and construction costs, furniture and 
furnishings, security measures, and a food and gift shop to 
serve Garden visitors. The bill also permits the Architect of 
the Capitol to accept amounts in excess of $14,500,000 for 
program support as approved in appropriations acts.
    Sec. 1502. Bill makes changes to the Trade Deficit Review 
Commission funding and reporting requirements.

                               CHAPTER 6


           DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES


                  National Transportation Safety Board


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                       (Emergency appropriation)

2000 appropriation to date..............................     $57,000,000
2000 supplemental estimate (emergency appropriation)....      25,096,000
Committee recommendation................................      24,739,000

    The Committee recommends $24,739,000 to reimburse the Navy 
for wreckage location and recovery of Egypt Air 990 and Alaska 
Air 261, as well as for facilities, technical assistance, and 
testing associated with each investigation. The Committee also 
directs that $10,000 be available only for the location and 
recovery of the wreckage of N41078, an accident which the NTSB 
is investigating. The entire amount appropriated has been 
designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                               CHAPTER 7


                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


                          Departmental Offices


                          Salaries and Expenses

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $134,034,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................      24,900,000

    The Committee directs that the Secretary of the Treasury 
undertake the establishment of an in-service firearms training 
facility in West Virginia for use by the U.S. Customs Service 
and other law enforcement agencies. The Committee notes with 
grave concern the serious threats that have arisen at U.S. 
borders with respect to attempted terrorist infiltrations and 
the increasing complexity of the interdiction of illegal drugs 
into this country. The Treasury Department has approximately 
20,000 armed officers engaged in a wide variety of dangerous 
law enforcement activities. Because of the need to provide in-
service firearms training for armed Treasury personnel, the 
Committee has included $24,900,000 to accelerate the design and 
construction of a firearms complex on land currently owned by 
the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Secretary of the Treasury is 
authorized to designate a lead agency to oversee the 
development, implementation and operation of the facility and 
the conduct of training. The complex would also be available 
for use by the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park 
Service, certain other Federal law enforcement personnel and 
selected State and local law enforcement personnel. The 
Committee has also included language to transfer land for 
development of this critical training facility. The entire 
amount is contingent upon receipt of a budget request that 
includes a Presidential designation of the amount requested as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $564,773,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................      93,751,000

    The Committee is concerned that the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco and Firearms lacks sufficient resources to effectively 
enforce existing gun laws. Therefore, the Committee recommends 
an additional $93,751,000 for this purpose, to remain available 
until expended. This amount is contingent upon receipt of a 
budget request that includes a Presidential designation of the 
amount requested as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.
    Of the amount provided, $19,078,000 is for expansion of the 
Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative into 12 additional 
cities, $41,322,000 is to expand the Integrated Violence 
Reduction Strategy to support local enforcement initiatives, 
$23,361,000 is for expansion of the ballistics imaging 
technology to State and local law enforcement, and $9,990,000 
is for comprehensive crime gun tracing.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES


                    General Services Administration


                         Policy and Operations

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $116,223,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................       3,300,000

    The Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) for the Winter 
Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002 is responsible for 
providing a doping control program for the two events to ensure 
that athletic competition is fairly conducted. The Indiana 
University Athletic Drug Testing and Toxicology Laboratory was 
selected in December 1998 as the International Olympic 
Committee-accredited doping laboratory for the 2002 Winter 
Olympic and Paralympic Games. All sports and disciplines will 
be subject to doping tests. GSA will work closely with SLOC as 
SLOC sets up elements of the basic doping control program. This 
program will include: establishing doping control stations at 
the competition venues, equipping the accredited doping control 
laboratory, preparation of required documents and forms, and 
administration of the program. Operations of the lab during the 
Games will be contracted to the Indiana University Athletic 
Drug Testing and Toxicology Lab.

                               CHAPTER 8


              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT


                   Community Planning and Development


                  HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM

2000 appropriation to date..............................  $1,600,000,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................      25,000,000

    The Committee recommends $25,000,000 in HOME funds to be 
used to assist very low-income families that were displaced 
from their homes because of flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd. 
The Administration recommended making $12,000,000 in section 8 
funds available for displaced families. The benefit of making 
HOME funds available instead of section 8 funds is that these 
funds are more flexible in meeting the housing needs of very 
low-income families, especially where there is a need to 
rebuild affordable low-income rental housing. These funds are 
in addition to funds being made available through the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency for buy-outs.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES


                  Federal Emergency Management Agency


                            DISASTER RELIEF

    The Committee recommends making available up to $50,000,000 
within the Disaster Relief Fund for buyouts of repetitive loss 
properties in Federal disaster areas which were, or will be, 
declared in fiscal years 1999 and 2000. The properties must be 
principal residences, located in a 100-year flood plain. They 
must be uninhabitable and substantially damaged as a result of 
the flood disaster, consistent with the Phase I criteria being 
used in the State of North Carolina to buy out properties 
substantially damaged as a result of Hurricane Floyd.
    The Committee does not recommend the President's request of 
up to $77,000,000 in additional funds for buyouts of properties 
damaged by Hurricane Floyd because preliminary information from 
FEMA's Inspector General indicate that the $215,000,000 in 
funds appropriated to date are more than sufficient to buy out 
eligible properties in Hurricane Floyd States. However, should 
the final Inspector General report reveal that additional funds 
are necessary, Hurricane Floyd States are eligible to apply for 
the additional funds recommended herein.
    The Committee continues to be concerned that the buyout 
program does not currently have, at a minimum: (1) sufficiently 
strong criteria to ensure a strong incentive for the purchase 
of flood insurance, (2) an appropriate estimate of pre-flood 
fair market value, and (3) a mechanism to ensure an equitable 
distribution of funds to the most appropriate buyout 
candidates. The Committee reiterates that the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act is 
predicated on the Federal Government's involvement in disasters 
only when State and local capability is overwhelmed. This 
principle must be applied in the buyout program. The Committee 
expects to follow closely FEMA's distribution of funds.

                               CHAPTER 9


                     GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS TITLE

    Sec. 1901. Libby, Montana. The Committee recommends 
providing emergency funding support to the City of Libby, 
Montana and the surrounding county for the improvement and 
modernization of Saint John's Lutheran Hospital for the 
identification and treatment of asbestos related illnesses and 
has also recommended funding for the economic development and 
revitalization of a community severely damaged by asbestos 
contamination.
    Sec. 1902. The President requested $20,000,000 in his 
supplemental request to address the 86 percent decline in the 
opilio crab harvest and fisheries issues off the coast of Puget 
Sound. The Committee notes that the 1999 opilio crab harvest 
level of 196 million pounds fell to a low 28 million pounds 
during the current crab season, an 86 percent decline. Because 
of this precipitous decline, the crab fishery is expected to be 
closed next year with no harvest permitted at all.
    Fishermen from Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, particularly 
Alaska Native fishermen living in remote villages rely on crab 
for a substantial portion of their income. As many as 80 
percent of adults in the affected regions are now unemployed 
with no prospect of finding work. To address this situation, 
the Committee has provided $10,000,000 for three purposes: (1) 
to allow the Governors in the affected States to provide 
emergency assistance to low income families who qualify for the 
Federal Food Stamp Program, (2) to determine the cause of the 
fisheries disaster through a cooperative research effort 
between the National Marine Fisheries Service and the State of 
Alaska, and (3) to develop a plan to restore the crab 
population. Fisheries disaster assistance is contingent on a 
fisheries failure declaration by the Secretary of Commerce and 
a finding by the President and the Congress that the entire 
amount is an emergency requirement.
    Sec. 1903. During April 2000, the District of Columbia was 
host to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank 
Organization (IMF/WB) Spring Conference. Hundreds of opponents 
of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank gathered in 
Washington, D.C. to protest these meetings. In anticipation of 
the large gathering of protesters, the District government 
engaged in extensive planning to prepare for potential problems 
caused by large crowds, traffic congestion, and health and 
medical emergencies. As a consequence of actions taken to 
protect life and property, the Metropolitan Police Department 
incurred expenses, including overtime hours required to post 
additional officers throughout the District; protective 
equipment for the officers; and barricades and other equipment 
for crowd control. The Committee recommends the appropriation 
of $4,485,000 to compensate the District of Columbia government 
for the costs of these necessary expenses incurred in 
connection with the IMF/WB Spring Conference.

                                TITLE II

                SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND OFFSETS

                               CHAPTER 1


                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

    The Committee has provided the Department authority to use 
up to $6,000,000 in fiscal year 2000 appropriated funds not 
needed for Federal food inspection to liquidate obligations 
from prior fiscal years. The Committee is extremely concerned 
that the Food Safety and Inspection Service has exceeded its 
appropriations in at least two fiscal years. The Secretary of 
Agriculture should take immediate steps to ensure that future 
Antideficiency Act violations do not occur and that the 
overobligations which have occurred do not necessitate the need 
for additional appropriations.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 2101. The Committee recommends that authority be 
provided for rural areas with a population in excess of 50,000 
inhabitants when the primary economic beneficiaries of such 
projects or facilities are producers of agricultural 
commodities to be eligible for business and industry loan 
guarantees.
    Sec. 2102. The Committee recommends that of the funds 
available for the Emergency Watershed Program, the agency shall 
fulfill its obligation to the State of Utah regarding Long Park 
Dam.
    Sec. 2103. The Committee recommends that of the funds 
available for the Emergency Watershed Program, the agency shall 
provide funds to complete Phase I of the Kuhn Bayou (Point 
Remove) Project in Arkansas.
    Sec. 2104. The Committee recommends that of the funds 
available for the Emergency Watershed Program, the agency shall 
provide funds for Snake River Watershed project in Minnesota.

                               CHAPTER 2


                         DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


                    Radiation Exposure Compensation


       PAYMENT TO THE RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION TRUST FUND

    The Committee recommends $7,246,000 to fund payments to 
approved claimants under the Radiation Exposure Compensation 
Act of 1990. There remains concern that the Administration 
created new obligations through the issuing of regulations 
while the Congress continues to consider changes to the 
program. The fiscal year 2000 appropriation provided direction 
concerning the payments to eligible claimants. This direction 
was not followed by the Department and a funding shortfall is 
imminent.

                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


                  Economic Development Administration


                ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

    The Committee recommends $8,000,000 for public works grants 
for communities affected by hurricanes and other natural 
disasters. Any funding provided in this bill for emergencies 
under the Department of Commerce and the Small Business 
Administration should also be used to assist in tornado 
recovery efforts for Fort Worth, Texas.

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $300,000 to administer public 
works grants for communities affected by hurricanes and other 
natural disasters.

                         Science and Technology


             National Institute of Standards and Technology


                     INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

    The Committee is very concerned about potential 
vulnerabilities to our Nation's critical infrastructures. A 
focused response that takes into consideration the unique needs 
of industry and government is needed to insure that information 
can be exchanged freely between all Internet consumers. The 
Committee looks forward to working with the Department of 
Commerce and other concerned agencies during the normal 
legislative process to develop a comprehensive plan to protect 
our critical infrastructures while avoiding duplication of 
effort and maintaining trust and cooperation between all 
involved.
    The Committee is willing to entertain reprogramming 
requests from the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology during the current fiscal year to meet any short 
term gaps the Department can demonstrate are not being 
addressed by another Federal agency.

            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES

    The Committee recommends $2,000,000 to repair damage to the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Beaufort, 
North Carolina research laboratory as a result of Hurricane 
Floyd. The Committee also recommends $500,000 for the National 
Ocean Service for a study on the impact of Hurricane Floyd on 
the water quality and fisheries resources in the Pamilco Sound. 
In addition, $2,000,000 is recommended for the National Marine 
Fisheries Service for studies relating to longline interactions 
with sea turtles in the North Pacific and commercial fishing 
activities in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands in response to 
pending lawsuits. The studies relating to commercial fishing 
activities are important because of a court order prohibiting 
Hawaii-based vessels from fishing while allowing vessels 
licensed in other states to continue fishing in these waters. 
The agency has requested additional funds for declared and 
undeclared fishery disasters which the Committee does not 
recommend funding. The Committee has also included $1,000,000 
for fuel price increases to ensure that NOAA hurricane 
reconnaissance flights, fisheries surveys and other days at sea 
continue at currently planned and funded levels.

                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE


                   Administration of Foreign Affairs


                    Diplomatic and Consular Programs

    No funds are recommended for Diplomatic and Consular 
Programs [D&CP]. The Committee is aware that unbudgeted 
mandatory increases, not operating tempos in the Balkans, are 
creating budget pressures within the State Department. The 
Committee was under the impression that a last minute increase 
of $47,000,000 in D&CP at the close of last year's Conference 
would address this problem. Unbudgeted mandatory increases are 
creating difficulties government-wide. Having just received the 
required fiscal year 2000 spending plan for this account, the 
Committee cannot suggest which efficiencies adopted by other 
agencies might be of benefit. The Committee is prepared to work 
with the Department on cost saving measures now that the 
spending plan has been submitted.

               Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs

    No funds are recommended for Educational and Cultural 
Exchange Programs [ECE]. In addition to $205,000,000 in direct 
appropriations, the ECE account has $29,047,000 in carryover 
and transfers available to it in fiscal year 2000. This should 
be more than adequate to initiate the yet-to-be justified 
Balkans exchange program.

           Security and Maintenance of United States Missions

    No funds are recommended for Security and Maintenance of 
United States Missions. Recently, the Committee approved 
security upgrades and improvements to existing facilities in 
Pristina, Kosovo and nearby cities with the understanding that 
funds for new construction would not be sought until the final 
status of Kosovo and its neighbors was settled. The 
supplemental request violates that agreement. Furthermore, 
since U.S. policy does not support an independent Kosovo, the 
need to build a $102,000,000 embassy in Pristina is unclear.

              International Organizations and Conferences


        Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities

    No funds are recommended for Contributions for 
International Peacekeeping Activities [CIPA]. CIPA more than 
doubled from $231,000,000 in fiscal year 1999 to $500,000,000 
in fiscal year 2000. The Committee is in the midst of an 
unusually thorough review of pending requests for peacekeeping. 
Current projections indicate that more than enough funds are 
available to cover U.S. commitments.

                             RELATED AGENCY


                     Small Business Administration


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee directs the Small Business Administration to 
allocate no less than $2,000,000 to the Office of Inspector 
General to undertake the following activities: conduct a review 
of the integrity of SBA's internal financial management 
systems, including an examination of the agency's difficulties 
in completing the annual financial statements and account 
balances as required by the Government Management Reform Act of 
1994; perform an audit of SBA's planned Loan Monitoring/Risk 
Management System to ensure successful completion of all 
planning before the purchase of hardware and the full scale 
implementation of the new system; examine annually SBA-licensed 
Small Business Lending Companies; and assess the adequacy of 
SBA's oversight on lenders and defaulted loans.

                               CHAPTER 3


                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


                            ENERGY PROGRAMS


      Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $250,198,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................      16,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      58,000,000

    The Committee recommendation totals $58,000,000 for Uranium 
Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.
    Additional funding is needed to address critical work 
already included in the Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky 
Uranium Enrichment Plants environmental management baseline to 
characterize and clean up areas of radioactive contamination 
that may include transuranics, dispose of legacy waste, and 
stabilize shutdown facilities. In addition, activities related 
to health and safety concerns identified during the Paducah 
environmental, safety, and health phase I investigation 
completed last November will be undertaken.
    In addition, the Committee recommendation includes 
$42,000,000 for reimbursements to uranium and thorium licensees 
under Title X of the Energy Policy Act of 1992. The Committee 
understands that pending reimbursements under this authority 
are estimated to be between $70,000,000 and $100,000,000, with 
$71,900,000 approved for payment. The Committee believes that 
timely reimbursement of claims for cleanup work completed is 
essential, and, therefore, has recommended additional funding 
to help address the growing backlog of approved claims.

                               CHAPTER 4


     DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION


                          DEPARTMENT OF LABOR


                 Employment and Training Administration


                    Training and Employment Services

2000 appropriation to date..............................  $5,465,618,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................      40,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      40,000,000

    The Committee recommendation includes bill language that 
provides $40,000,000 to support summer jobs for low-income 
youth in the 50 largest cities in the United States, as 
authorized by the Workforce Investment Act. These funds will 
allow approximately 24,000 economically disadvantaged youth, 
aged 14 to 21, to gain skills, work experience, and academic 
enrichment in order to enhance their long-term employability. 
This increase is fully offset by a cancellation of unobligated 
Year 2000 computer conversion balances.

                 Mine Safety and Health Administration


                         salaries and expenses

    The Committee includes bill language clarifying that 
$750,000 in funds collected by the National Mine Health and 
Safety Academy, for room, board, and tuition, and the sale of 
training materials and other authorized activities, may be used 
to support these activities in addition to the $228,373,000 
already appropriated. This is consistent with the 
Administration's budget request.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


                Administration for Children and Families


       payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $105,000,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................      35,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      35,000,000

    The Committee recommendation includes an additional 
$35,000,000, as requested by the Administration, for Payments 
to States for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance, for fiscal 
year 2000. These additional dollars, along with the 
$105,000,000 already appropriated will provide the full amount 
authorized by Public Law 106-169.

                        Administration on Aging


                        aging services programs

    The Committee recommendation includes a technical change 
which extends the availability of $2,200,000 of the funds made 
available to the Anchorage, Alaska Senior Center.

      General Provisions--Department of Health and Human Services

    Sec. 2401. CDC--Transfer of Funds.--The Committee 
recommendation includes a provision which amends Section 206 of 
Public Law 106-113 by deleting the authority of the Secretary 
regarding the transfer of funds for the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention. The Committee has taken this action 
because of the inaccurate reporting of the spending of chronic 
fatigue syndrome and hantavirus funds over the past several 
years. The Committee understands that the Department has taken 
steps to correct the financial management problems; however, 
until the Committee can be assured that financial management 
systems have been put in place to accurately reflect how 
dollars are actually spent, the transfer authority will not be 
available.
    Sec. 2402. Delayed Obligations.--The Committee 
recommendation includes a provision which repeals Section 216 
of Public Law 106-113. This section delayed the obligation of 
certain funds until September 29, 2000 for the National 
Institutes of Health--$3,000,000,000; Health Resources and 
Services Administration--$450,000,000; Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention--$500,000,000; Children and Families 
Services Programs--$400,000,000; Social Services Block Grant--
$425,000,000; and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration--$200,000,000. The Committee 
recommendation is consistent with the Administration's budget 
request.

                        DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


                            higher education

    The Committee recommendation includes bill language which 
would extend the availability of funds appropriated in Public 
Laws 105-78 and 105-277 for activities authorized by title X-E 
of the Higher Education Act and title VIII-D of the Higher 
Education Amendments of 1998.

                     vocational and adult education

    The Committee has not included language requested by the 
Administration regarding the National Occupational Information 
Coordination Committee.

             education research, statistics and improvement

    The Committee recommends several technical changes 
clarifying individual projects funded in this account.

                            RELATED AGENCIES


                       Railroad Retirement Board


                      Limitation on Administration

2000 appropriation to date..............................     $91,000,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................................
Committee recommendation................................         500,000

    The Committee recommendation includes bill language 
providing $500,000 for implementation of Public Law 106-182. 
This amount is $500,000 above the Administration's request. The 
Committee understands that these funds are needed for full and 
seamless implementation of this new law which repeals the 
retirement earnings test for workers at or above the normal 
retirement age. These funds will be used for administrative 
costs of processing retroactive benefit payments and additional 
claims, handling the expected increases in telephone calls and 
field office visits, and reprogramming computer systems. This 
increase is fully offset by a cancellation of unobligated Year 
2000 computer conversion balances.

                     Social Security Administration


                 Limitation on Administrative Expenses

2000 appropriation to date..............................  $6,111,871,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................      35,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      50,000,000

    The Committee recommendation includes bill language 
providing $50,000,000 for implementation of Public Law 106-182. 
This amount is $15,000,000 above the Administration's request. 
The Committee understands that these funds are needed for full 
and seamless implementation of this new law which repeals the 
retirement earnings test for workers at or above the normal 
retirement age. These funds will be used for administrative 
costs of processing retroactive benefit payments and additional 
claims, handling the expected increases in telephone calls and 
field office visits, and reprogramming computer systems. This 
increase is fully offset by a cancellation of unobligated Year 
2000 computer conversion balances.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 2403. The Committee recommendation includes a 
provision which makes technical corrections to the Welfare-to-
Work Amendments of 1999 as enacted Public Law 106-113.
    Sec. 2404. The Committee recommendation includes technical 
revisions to the Vocational Education program related to 
incentive grant funds made available through the Department of 
Education Appropriations Act, 2000. The funds in this Act, 
initially available for this purpose, instead will be 
distributed as part of State grants. The Committee expects the 
Department to continue to assist the States with efforts to 
improve their capacity to measure and collect performance data 
as required by GPRA and the Perkins Act.

                               CHAPTER 5


                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION


                        Office of the Secretary

    The Committee continues to be concerned by the Department 
of Transportation's oversight and review of the modal 
administrations discretionary grants, letters of intent, or 
full funding grant agreements. The Department is directed to 
comply with the letter, the spirit, and the intent of the 3-day 
notification language included in the Fiscal Year 2000 
Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act with 
respect to all discretionary grants totaling $1,000,000 or more 
of the Federal Highway Administration (excluding the emergency 
relief program), any program of the Federal Transit 
Administration (excluding the formula grants and fixed guideway 
modernization programs), and the airport improvement program of 
the Federal Aviation Administration. Further, no notification 
or announcement should involve funds that are not available for 
obligation.
    Additionally, the Committee is gravely concerned with the 
Department's management of the discretionary highway program. 
On more than one occasion, the Department has instituted major 
initiatives that deviate from the legislative history without 
keeping Congress adequately informed. Even more troublesome, 
the Department has left no stone unturned in its search for 
loopholes that would justify its actions. The Committee reminds 
the Department that Executive Branch propensities cannot 
substitute for Congress' own statements concerning the best 
evidence of Congressional intentions, that is, the official 
reports of the Congress. The Office of the Secretary is 
directed to submit a report to the Committee by June 1, 2000 
that explains how the department will handle such situations in 
the future.

                            U.S. Coast Guard


                           Operating Expenses

                             (By transfer)

2000 appropriation to date..............................  $2,781,000,000
2000 supplemental estimate (by transfer)................      18,000,000
Committee recommendation................................................

    The administration requested a transfer of not to exceed 
$18,000,000 from amounts appropriated in the Fiscal Year 2000 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, to cover costs 
related to the delivery of health care to Coast Guard personnel 
and retirees. The Committee has provided the requested health 
care delivery funding within the ``Counternarcotics'' title of 
this bill, as part of a larger operating expenses supplemental 
funding recommendation. The entire amount appropriated has been 
designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    Federal Aviation Administration


                               OPERATIONS

                    (Airport and Airways Trust Fund)

                          (Transfer of Funds)

2000 appropriation to date.............................. $5,900,000,000 
2000 supplemental estimate..............................     77,000,000 
Committee recommendation................................    (77,000,000)

    This supplemental appropriation by transfer of $77,000,000 
will permit the FAA to hire 170 aviation safety inspectors and 
certification staff, who will ensure industry compliance 
through an additional 10,000 safety and 100 substance abuse 
inspections. The balance of the appropriation will be used 
first for completion of the cost accounting system 
modernization, with the remaining balance being available for 
software and hardware contracts, spare part support, contract 
maintenance, contract training, and critical telecommunication 
support.
    The appropriation is comprised of two transfers:

To be derived from the unobligated balances of 
    ``Facilities and Equipment''........................     $50,400,000
To be derived from funds transferred to DOT for year 
    2000 conversion of Federal information technology 
    systems and related expenses........................      26,600,000

    The Y2K remediation funds were provided to DOT in fiscal 
year 1999, and $26,600,000 remains unobligated and is available 
for transfer or reprogramming. In identifying Federal Aviation 
Administration ``facilities and equipment'' funds for transfer, 
the Committee suggests that the FAA first look at unobligated 
or recoverable balances of the Wide Area Augmentation System 
and other troubled procurement programs for sources. In 
addition, the FAA is directed to report to the Committee by 
June 1, 2000 on legal obligations established in authorization 
and appropriations acts that, absent an act of Congress require 
expenditure of resources on the part of the FAA.
    The administration requested legislative authority for the 
Secretary of Transportation to transfer to FAA ``Operations'' 
any unobligated balances available to the Department of 
Transportation, provided that the transfers be derived from 
accounts with equal or faster outlay rates and that the House 
and Senate Appropriations Committees be given prior written 
notification of such transfers. The Committee does not agree 
with this request, and has instead provided funding for FAA 
operational activities by transfer.

                       GRANTS-IN-AID FOR AIRPORTS

                    (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)

                   (Obligation limitation reduction)

2000 obligation limitation..............................($1,950,000,000)
2000 supplemental estimate (reduction in obligation 
    limitation).........................................   (-50,000,000)
Committee recommendation................................................

    The Committee does not approve the administration's 
requested reduction of $50,000,000 from the Airport Improvement 
Program's limitation on obligations. The Committee also does 
not approve the administration's requested legislative language 
that would have provided the authority for obligation and 
expenditure of not more than $12,858,000 of Airport Improvement 
Program grant funds for the Essential Air Service program.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 2501. The Committee has included a provision that 
allows the Federal Transit Administration to reprogram funds 
provided in fiscal year 1998 for the Salt Lake City regional 
commuter rail project to other related terminals connected to 
the Salt Lake City regional commuter system.
    Sec. 2502. The Committee has included a general provision 
which allows the Coast Guard to transfer $8,000,000 provided in 
the Fiscal Year 2000 Department of Transportation and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act to the City of Unalaska, Alaska for 
the construction of a municipal pier and other harbor 
improvements. The Coast Guard has indicated that this is their 
preferred approach for managing this acquisition project to 
accommodate Coast Guard vessels in support of operations in the 
Bering Sea.
    Sec. 2503. The Committee has included a provision that 
provides $600,000 from funds made available to the Federal 
Aaviation Administration in Public Law 106-69 (Department of 
Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000) 
for testing the potential for ultra-wideband signals to 
interfere with global positioning system receivers by the 
National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA). This report and funding are the first portion of a 
larger GPS study to be funded in the fiscal year 2001 
Transportation Appropriations Bill. The report of the test 
results are be forwarded to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations within 6 months from the date of enactment of 
this act.
    Sec. 2504. The Department of Transportation has 
historically provided support to Olympic Games held in the 
United States. This support has included funding for 
infrastructure improvements, primarily highways and transit 
systems, planning and operations.
    The Salt Lake Organizing Committee has developed a 
transportation plan for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games which has 
been reviewed by the Secretary of Transportation. The plan 
calls for significant investments in temporary and permanent 
infrastructure improvements to support the Olympic spectator 
transportation system. The resources needed for these 
investments are unavailable through Olympic and Paralympic 
sponsorships. Moreover, the Utah Department of Transportation 
and local transportation agencies are managing an ambitious 
capital program designed to accelerate construction of long 
term capital infrastructure to ensure it is completed before 
2002. Consequently, regular transportation funding 
apportionments to Utah and State and local resources are 
stretched to their limit and cannot be directed to these 
specific needs.
    Congress and the administration have supported Federal 
funding for these investments, as evidenced by appropriations 
in fiscal years 1999 and 2000, grants of discretionary funds 
provided by the Department of Transportation, and requests 
included in the President's Budget for fiscal years 2000 and 
2001.
    With the 2002 Olympic Winter Games scheduled to begin in 
less than 2 years, and recognizing the extremely short 
construction season in mountain regions of Utah, additional 
funds are needed in fiscal year 2000 to complete planning, 
engineering, design and construction of temporary and permanent 
transportation facilities associated with the Games.

                               CHAPTER 6


              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT


                       Public and Indian Housing

    The Committee remains concerned with HUD's inability to 
develop a fair and cost-effective system to assess the 
financial and physical condition of the Nation's public housing 
stock. HUD and the housing community have invested a 
significant amount of resources to develop the new ``Public 
Housing Assessment System'' or ``PHAS'' but many problems still 
exist with the system. Further, the Committee is troubled by 
HUD's failure to follow the directions provided in last year's 
VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Appropriations conference 
report before publishing a final rule. Accordingly, the 
Committee directs HUD to delay the implementation of PHAS until 
July 5, 2000 until it has reviewed GAO's pending report, 
performed a statistically valid test of PHAS, and conducted a 
thorough analysis of the tests.

                       HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS

    The Committee recommends including language for the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development's Stewart B. 
McKinney Homeless Assistance programs that will ensure that all 
expiring rental assistance contracts will be renewed for the 
Supportive Housing program and the Shelter Plus Care program 
for fiscal year 2000. The legislation also will allow HUD to 
renew the rental assistance contracts of some 40 homeless 
assistance projects nation-wide that were refused funding by 
HUD under its ``continuum of care'' system for fiscal year 
1999.
    The Committee is concerned that HUD's continuum of care 
approach to the funding of homeless assistance projects has 
left a number of important local homeless assistance projects 
with expiring rental subsidies unfunded each year. It is not 
clear why these rental subsidies have not been renewed, leaving 
this stock of housing vulnerable to loss as housing units for 
the homeless, including those with significant physical and 
mental disabilities.
    The Committee also is concerned that HUD remains unable to 
quantify the successes and failures of the McKinney Homeless 
Assistance program. Without this information, the Committee is 
hard-pressed to determine the appropriate level of funding for 
homeless assistance programs as well as to determine the 
appropriate activities and programs that should be funded. 
Therefore, as part of an initial analysis, HUD is directed to 
report within 60 days of enactment on why 40 homeless 
assistance projects with expiring rental subsidies were 
rejected for rental assistance funding for fiscal year 1999, 
the quality of these projects in meeting the needs of the 
homeless, and whether these projects should be funded in the 
future and under what circumstances. With the exception of the 
Emergency Shelter Grants program, the Committee expects HUD to 
prioritize homeless assistance funding to ensure the renewal of 
expiring rental assistance subsidies, unless a project fails to 
meet appropriate financial standards, local homeless housing 
needs or housing quality standards.

                            Housing Programs


              FHA-General and Special Risk Program Account

    The Committee recommends including $49,000,000 for the FHA 
multifamily credit subsidy which subsidizes the insurance 
underwriting the FHA General and Special Risk Insurance 
programs. This is consistent with the President's request, and 
reflects the Department of Housing and Urban Development's 
failure to implement certain changes to the FHA multifamily 
mortgage insurance program that would have provided the needed 
amount of credit subsidy for fiscal year 2000.

                     Management and Administration


                    Office of the Inspector General

    The Committee recommends including several technical 
changes to the salaries and expense account of the HUD 
Inspector General, consistent with the Administration's 
request. Basically, this revision would make HUD IG funds 
available for 2 years instead of 1 year.

              National Aeronautic and Space Administration


                           Human Space Flight

2000 appropriation to date.............................. $5,488,000,000 
2000 supplemental estimate..............................   (-20,200,000)
Committee recommendation................................     25,800,000 

    The Committee recommends $25,800,000 for shuttle upgrades 
to ensure the continued safe operation of the space shuttle 
fleet. The President had requested a rescission of $40,000,000 
from designated funding for a space science mission, with these 
funds targeted for shuttle upgrades and staffing needs. The 
Committee believes that this mission is important, and instead 
has provided new funding for both the shuttle upgrades under 
the Human Space Flight account and the staffing needs under the 
Mission Support account. The Committee especially is concerned 
about the need to maintain the operational fitness of the space 
shuttle fleet, and recent problems associated with obsolete 
shuttle wiring in 1999 reemphasizes these concerns. 
Nevertheless, the Committee also is concerned over the failure 
of NASA to budget properly for needed upgrades and repairs in 
the space shuttle fleet. These issues need to be identified in 
a timely manner and budgeted accordingly.
    The Committee is supportive of commercial activity on the 
International Space Station (ISS) and supported the 
establishment of a new ISS Commercial Demonstration program in 
the VA/HUD Fiscal Year 2000 Appropriations bill. Since the 
enactment of that legislation, the Committee understands that 
NASA has requested entrepreneurial offers for the provision of 
multi-media equipment and services. The Committee wants to 
ensure that this new ISS Commercial demonstration program is 
consistent with congressional intent that NASA should establish 
objective criteria to assess the value and viability of the 
commercial proposals. Therefore, the Committee directs the 
Administrator to report to the Committee on the status of this 
program and how the agency plans to assess and select 
commercial proposals.

                            Mission Support

2000 appropriation to date.............................. $2,512,000,000 
2000 supplemental estimate..............................   (+20,200,000)
Committee recommendation................................     20,200,000 

    The Committee recommend $20,200,000 for NASA to meet 
additional staffing needs throughout the agency and most 
especially for staffing needs associated with the operational 
readiness of the space shuttle fleet. The Committee understands 
the concerns raised by the 1999 Annual Report of the Aerospace 
Safety Advisory Panel that identified as its first finding that 
``The continued downsizing at the Office of the Space Flight 
Centers, coupled with the effects of the prior hiring freeze 
and unplanned departures, has produced critical skills deficits 
in some areas, growing workload pressure and stress levels, and 
a serious shortfall of younger S&Es.'' Staff capacity and 
expertise is critical to the success and safety of NASA's 
programs and activities, and the Committee intends to ensure 
the ability of NASA to meet its mission. Nevertheless, the 
Committee remains concerned regarding NASA's failure to budget 
adequately these needs and directs NASA to submit a workforce 
plan that identifies staffing needs and budget estimates for 
the next 5 years.

                      National Science Foundation


                     EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

2000 appropriation to date..............................    $690,870,000
2000 supplemental estimate..............................       1,000,000
Committee recommendation................................       1,000,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $1,000,000 to 
initiate a new cyber-security program called Scholarships for 
Service. These funds would be given to undergraduate students 
for the upcoming fall semester to develop the skills needed to 
provide high-quality security for the Federal Government's 
information infrastructure.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 2601. Makes technical correction to the use of 
enhanced vouchers.
    Sec. 2602. Prohibits HUD from replacing any external 
community builders and requires HUD to submit an employment 
plan to meet staffing and capacity needs while restoring a 
staffing balance to the Department.
    Sec. 2603. Prohibits HUD from removing the administrative 
entities (``convenors'') from the responsibility for 
administering local ``continuums of care'' for purposes of 
McKinney Homeless Assistance funding decisions without adequate 
due process requirements. The Committee is very concerned over 
HUD's failure to conduct a complete investigation or provide 
due process requirements in removing New York City as the local 
convenor for the administration of McKinney Homeless Assistance 
funding in New York City.
    Sec. 2604. Makes technical correction for a grant in 
Alaska.
    Sec. 2605. Makes technical correction for a grant in South 
Dakota.
    Sec. 2606. Makes several technical corrections to VA/HUD 
Appropriations legislation for fiscal year 2000.
    Sec. 2607. Makes a technical correction to rescission 
language in Public Law 106-74.
    Sec. 2608. This section would exempt State housing finance 
agencies that administer public housing and section 8 programs 
from the requirement that a section 8 or public housing tenant 
be appointed to the board of directors of the State housing 
finance agency. This is a key concern for State housing finance 
agencies that administer a wide variety of programs beyond 
public housing and section 8. In many cases, State housing 
finance agencies are responsible for State-insured housing 
programs, bond programs, and the allocation of low income 
housing tax credits as well as other responsibilities. Instead, 
under this section, State housing finance agencies would be 
required to establish an advisory committee of public housing 
and section 8 tenants to assist the State housing finance 
agency in addressing issues that directly impact public housing 
and section 8. It is expected that the members of an advisory 
committee will reflect a cross-section of the persons assisted 
by section 8 and public housing.

                               CHAPTER 7


                                OFFSETS


                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


                Office of the Chief Information Officer

    The Committee recommends the cancellation of $2,435,000 of 
unobligated balances of supplemental funds transferred to the 
Office of the Chief Information Officer for year 2000 (Y2K) 
conversion of information technology systems and related costs, 
as proposed by the President.

                         DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


                         General Administration


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $2,000,000 from 
the amounts made available for General Administration. The 
Committee expects this rescission to be applied equally across 
all General Administration activities.

                    United States Parole Commission


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $1,147,000 from 
the unobligated balances available in the ``Salaries and 
Expenses'' account.

                            Legal Activities


            Salaries and Expenses, General Legal Activities

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $2,000,000 from 
unobligated balances available under this heading for the Civil 
Division.

                         asset forfeiture fund

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $13,500,000 from 
the unobligated balances available in the ``Asset Forfeiture 
Fund''.

                    Federal Bureau of Investigation


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $15,000,000 from 
the unobligated balances available for the Information Sharing 
Initiative in the ``Salaries and Expenses'' account.

                 Immigration and Naturalization Service


                         salaries and expenses

                     enforcement and border affairs

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $5,000,000 from 
the unobligated balances available for Washington headquarters 
operations, including the Office of the Chief of the Border 
Patrol, in the ``Enforcement and Border Affairs'' account.

  citizenship and benefits, immigration support and program direction

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $5,000,000 from 
the unobligated balances available for Washington headquarters 
operations in the ``Citizenship and Benefits, Immigration 
Support and Program Direction'' account.

                    violent crime reduction programs

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $5,000,000 from 
the unobligated balances available for Washington headquarters 
operations in the ``Violent Crime Reduction Programs'' account.

                       Office of Justice Programs


                           JUSTICE ASSISTANCE

                              (RESCISSION)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $500,000 from the 
amounts made available to the Bureau of Justice Assistance in 
the ``Justice Assistance'' account. This rescission is intended 
to reduce the Bureau of Justice Assistance's workyears and 
position ceiling in fiscal year 2000 from 132 to 119.

               state and local law enforcement assistance

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $82,399,000 from 
the unobligated balances available for the State Criminal Alien 
Assistance Program in the ``State and Local Law Enforcement 
Assistance'' account.

                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


                         Science and Technology


             National Institute of Standards and Technology


                     INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

                              (RESCISSION)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $4,500,000 from 
the deobligated balances available for the Advanced Technology 
Program.

                            RELATED AGENCIES


                     Small Business Administration


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                              (RESCISSION)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $5,000,000 from 
the unobligated balances available under this heading for the 
New Markets Venture Capital Program.

                     BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

                              (RESCISSION)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $1,500,000 from 
the unobligated balances available for the New Markets Venture 
Capital Program under this heading.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


                        Departmental Management


            Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund

    The Committee recommendation includes bill language 
canceling unobligated balances for costs associated with the 
Department's Year 2000 computer conversion. These unobligated 
balances are no longer needed for the purposes specified at the 
time the funds were provided.

                   EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT


                     Federal Drug Control Programs


                        Special Forfeiture Fund

                              (Rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $3,300,000 from 
the national media campaign for the purpose of funding a doping 
control program.

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT


                       Public and Indian Housing


                        Housing Certificate Fund

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $128,000,000 from 
section 8 funds recaptured during fiscal year 2000 and prior 
fiscal years. This rescission is at the recommendation of the 
President.

                               CHAPTER 8


                     GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS TITLE

    Sec. 2801. Language is included to extend the patent term 
held by a university for an elemental biologic. Since this 
patent is not subject to Food and Drug Administration review, 
current law does not provide a mechanism by which non-profit 
organizations can seek term extensions. Current law does, 
however, permit for-profit corporations to seek and obtain 
patent term extensions.
    Sec. 2802. Language is included in the bill to designate 
the new home port of the vessel RAINIER when the existing lease 
expires. This vessel collects data to update navigational maps 
and charts in the North Pacific and the change in home port 
will improve the efficiency of this effort. Local government 
has agreed to contribute $300,000 to cover the cost of the new 
facilities that will be required.
    Sec. 2803. The Committee recommends repealing Section 109 
of the Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act 1995, Public Law 103-317 (28 U.S.C. 
509 note).
    Sec. 2804. The Committee recommends transferring funds back 
from the Department of Justice for efforts to fund tobacco 
litigation.
    Sec. 2805. Permits the Federal Communications Commission to 
use excess regulatory fees collected during fiscal year 2000 
for agency priorities.
    Sec. 2806. Provides the funds necessary to meet the 
statutory requirements of 47 U.S.C. 1008.
    Sec. 2807. Provides the funds necessary for the purchase of 
two Sabreliner-class aircraft to replace four Justice Prisoner 
and Alien Transportation System aircraft of the same type that 
have reached the end of useful service life.
    Sec. 2808. Provides the State Department with the authority 
to implement a similar provision included in the Fiscal Year 
2000 Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act Conference report.
    Sec. 2809. Provides a transfer of funds to address critical 
offender incarceration needs.
    Sec. 2810. The Committee commends the Department for its 
efforts in preparing for the TOPOFF exercise. However, the 
National Domestic Preparedness Office (NDPO) remains unfunded. 
A reprogramming has been delivered to the Committee but 
requests only $1,400,000 in fiscal year 2000. This request is 
inadequate in addressing our counterterrorism strategy. The 
Committee is greatly concerned with the lack of commitment by 
the Administration to execute this strategy. The Committee 
recommends an additional $3,000,000 for the NDPO. The funds 
shall be used to create an accessible site outside of FBI 
Headquarters that is adequate to accommodate the planned 
detailees articulated in the FBI's ``Blueprint'' as well as 
execute the specific direction of the ``Blueprint'' in relation 
to domestic preparedness. The new site shall allow easy access 
to State and local first responders. The Committee directs that 
the Attorney General present a plan to the Committee to 
establish a new site and to implement the ``Blueprint'' within 
10 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
    Sec. 2811. Language is included in the bill to fund the 
Commission on Online Child Protection, which was authorized 
under Title XIII of Public Law 105-825 and extended by a 
subsequent act of Congress. The funds are to be derived from 
resources made available from the General Administration and 
Office of the Inspector General accounts of the Department of 
Commerce in fiscal year 2000.

                               TITLE III

                   GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS DIVISION

    Sec. 3105. Section 357 of the Fiscal Year 2000 Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act (Appendix C of Public Law 
106-113) permitted the Secretary of the Interior to issue final 
rules to amend 43 C.F.R. Subpart 3809 which are not 
inconsistent with the recommendations contained in the report 
by the National Research Council titled ``Hardrock Mining on 
Federal Lands.'' The clear intent of this language was to allow 
the Bureau of Land Management to publish final regulations so 
long as the regulations fit within the bounds of the NRC 
recommendations. The Solicitor for the Department of the 
Interior has issued a memorandum to the Director of BLM 
interpreting Section 357 to mean that the BLM's final 
regulations can address any subjects outside the 
recommendations so long as the regulations do not directly 
contradict the recommendations.
    The Solicitior's interpretation does not reflect 
Congressional intent. This section simply clarifies the 
original intent of the language contained in the Fiscal Year 
2000 Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act by more 
explicitly stating that the Bureau of Land Management is not to 
address subjects which are outside the specific recommendations 
contained in the NRC report.
    Sec. 3106. The Committee recommends language which would 
clarify Congressional intent with respect to spectrum used for 
public broadcasting.
    Sec. 3107. Directs the Secretary to provide interim 
compensation to persons eligible for compensation because of 
the closure of commercial fisheries in Glacier Bay, Alaska. 
These funds will be derived from funds previously appropriated 
for related purposes. By July 1, 2000, the Secretary shall 
report to the Committees on Appropriations on the number of 
persons and entities eligible who apply for interim 
compensation, and the amount of interim compensation sought and 
provided.
    Sec. 3108. Provides for the transfer of administrative 
authority over certain National Park Service and U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service lands from the Secretary of the Interior to 
the Secretary of the Army in order to facilitate the 
construction of a dual jetty and sand transfer system for the 
stabilization of the Oregon Inlet, a passage through the North 
Carolina barrier islands.
    Sec. 3109. Provides authority required by the Indian Health 
Service to release funds appropriated in fiscal year 1999 for 
construction of a new clinic for the community of King Cove, 
Alaska. Because the location of the existing clinic has not 
proven sufficient to accommodate new construction as previously 
planned, land owned by the city has been designated as the site 
of the replacement facility. Language included in the bill will 
resolve any potential property title issues that might arise as 
a result of this relocation.
    Sec. 3110. Repeals section 306 of H.R. 3425, as enacted 
into law by section 1000(a)(5) of Public Law 106-113.

                                TITLE IV

                  FOOD AND MEDICINE FOR THE WORLD ACT

    The Committee recommends statutory language requiring the 
President to terminate existing unilateral agricultural and 
medicine sanctions while leaving in place certain prohibitions 
relating to terrorist states. Any future Presidential 
agricultural or trade sanctions shall be subject to expedited 
congressional review and approval procedures.

 COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 12, RULE XXVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE 
                                 SENATE

    Paragraph 12 of rule XXVI requires that Committee reports 
on a bill or joint resolution repealing or amending any statute 
or part of any statute include ``(a) the text of the statute or 
part thereof which is proposed to be repealed; and (b) a 
comparative print of that part of the bill or joint resolution 
making the amendment and of the statute or part thereof 
proposed to be amended, showing by stricken-through type and 
italics, parallel columns, or other appropriate typographical 
devices the omissions and insertions which would be made by the 
bill or joint resolution if enacted in the form recommended by 
the committee.''
    In compliance with this rule, the following changes in 
existing law proposed to be made by the bill are shown as 
follows: existing law to be omitted is enclosed in black 
brackets; new matter is printed in italics; and existing law in 
which no change is proposed is shown in roman.

                         TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE

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                    CHAPTER 50--AGRICULTURAL CREDIT

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           Subchapter V--Rural Community Advancement Program

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Sec. 2009. Definitions

    In this subchapter:
            [(1) Rural and Rural Area.--The terms ``rural'' and 
        ``rural area'' mean, subject to section 1926(a)(7) of 
        this title, a city, town, or unincorporated area that 
        has a population of 50,000 inhabitants or less, other 
        than an urbanized area immediately adjacent to a city, 
        town, or unincorporated area that has a population in 
        excess of 50,000 inhabitants.]
            (1) Rural and Rural Area.--The terms ``rural and 
        rural area''' mean, subject to 306(a)(7), a city or 
        town that has a population of 50,000 inhabitants or 
        less, other than an urbanized area immediately adjacent 
        to a city or town that has a population in excess of 
        50,000 inhabitants, except for business and industry 
        projects or facilities described in section 
        310(B)(a)(1), a city or town with a population in 
        excess of 50,000 inhabitants and its immediately 
        adjacent urbanized area shall be eligible for funding 
        when the primary economic beneficiaries of such 
        projects or facilities are producers of agriculture 
        commodities.

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              TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE

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                    PART II--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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                   CHAPTER 31--THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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Sec. 509. Functions of the Attorney General

    All functions of other officers of the Department of 
Justice and all functions of agencies and employees of the 
Department of Justice are vested in the Attorney General except 
the functions--

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                     Historical and Revision Notes

    Pub. L. 103-317, title I, Sec. 109, Aug. 26, 1994, 108 
Stat. 1735, provided that: [``Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302 or 
any other law, in litigation involving unusually high costs, 
the Department of Justice may receive and retain reimbursement 
for salaries and expenses, for fiscal year 1995 and thereafter, 
from any other governmental component being represented in the 
litigation.'']

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                          Social Security Act


SEC. 403. GRANTS TO STATES.

    (a) Grants.--
            (1) * * *

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            (5) Welfare-to-work grants.--
                    (A) * * *

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                    (F) Funding for indian tribes.--1 percent 
                of the amount specified in subparagraph (I) for 
                fiscal year 1998 and [$1,500,000] $15,000,000 
                of the amount so specified for fiscal year 1999 
                shall be reserved for grants to Indian tribes 
                under section 412(a)(3).
                    (G) Funding for evaluations of welfare-to-
                work programs.--0.6 percent of the amount 
                specified in subparagraph (I) for fiscal year 
                1998 and [$900,000] $9,000,000 of the amount so 
                specified for fiscal year 1999 shall be 
                reserved for use by the Secretary to carry out 
                section 413(j).
                    (H) Funding for evaluation of abstinence 
                education programs.--
                            (i) In general.--0.2 percent of the 
                        amount specified in subparagraph (I) 
                        for fiscal year 1998 and [$300,000] 
                        $3,000,000 of the amount so specified 
                        for fiscal year 1999 shall be reserved 
                        for use by the Secretary to evaluate 
                        programs under section 510, directly or 
                        through grants, contracts, or 
                        interagency agreements.

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          United States Housing Act of 1937, Public Law 93-383


             TITLE I--GENERAL PROGRAM OF ASSISTED HOUSING

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SEC. 2. DECLARATION OF POLICY AND PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY ORGANIZATION.

    (a) * * *

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    (b) Public Housing Agency Organization.--
            (1) Required membership.--Except as provided in 
        paragraph (2), the membership of the board of directors 
        or similar governing body of each public housing agency 
        shall contain not less than 1 member--
                    (A) who is directly assisted by the public 
                housing agency; and
                    (B) who may, if provided for in the public 
                housing agency plan, be elected by the 
                residents directly assisted by the public 
                housing agency.
            (2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to 
        any public housing agency--
                    (A) that is located in a State that 
                requires the members of the board of directors 
                or similar governing body of a public housing 
                agency to be salaried and to serve on a full-
                time basis; [or]
                    (B) with less than 300 public housing 
                units, if--
                            (i) the agency has provided 
                        reasonable notice to the resident 
                        advisory board of the opportunity of 
                        not less than 1 resident described in 
                        paragraph (1) to serve on the board of 
                        directors or similar governing body of 
                        the public housing agency pursuant to 
                        such paragraph; and
                            (ii) within a reasonable time after 
                        receipt by the resident advisory board 
                        established by the agency pursuant to 
                        section 5A(e) of notice under clause 
                        (i), the public housing agency has not 
                        been notified of the intention of any 
                        resident to participate on the board of 
                        directors[.] ; or
                    (C) that is a state housing finance agency 
                that is responsible for administering public 
                housing or section 8 in a state, except that 
                the state housing finance agency shall 
                establish an advisory committee of persons who 
                are residents of such public housing or who are 
                assisted under such section 8. This advisory 
                committee shall meet not less than quarterly 
                and shall advise the state housing finance 
                agency on issues that directly impact the 
                public housing or section 8 that is 
                administered by the state housing finance 
                agency.

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 Public Law 104-127--Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
                                  1996


    AN ACT To modify the operation of certain agricultural programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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                     Subtitle D--Other Commodities


                            CHAPTER 1--DAIRY


SEC. 141. MILK PRICE SUPPORT PROGRAM.

    (a) * * *
    (b) Rate.--The price of milk shall be supported at the 
following rates per hundredweight for milk containing 3.67 
percent butterfat:
            (1) During calendar year 1996, $10.35.
            (2) During calendar year 1997, $10.20.
            (3) During calendar year 1998, $10.05.
            (4) During calendar year [and 2000] through 2001, 
        $9.90.

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    (h) Period of Effectiveness.--This section (other than 
subsection (g)) shall be effective only during the period 
beginning on the first day of the first month beginning after 
the date of enactment of this title and ending on December 31, 
[2000] 2001. The program authorized by this section shall 
terminate on December 31, [2000] 2001, and shall be considered 
to have expired notwithstanding section 257 of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
907).

SEC. 142. RECOURSE LOAN PROGRAM FOR COMMERCIAL PROCESSORS OF DAIRY 
                    PRODUCTS.

    (a) * * *

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    (e) Effective Date.--This section shall be effective 
beginning January 1, [2001] 2002.

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    Public Law 105-66--Making Appropriations for the Department of 
    Transportation and Related Agencies for the Fiscal Year Ending 
               September 30, 1998, and for Other Purposes


                          Discretionary Grants


                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    None of the funds in this Act shall be available for the 
implementation or execution of programs the obligations for 
which are in excess of $2,000,000,000 in fiscal year 1998 for 
grants under the contract authority in 49 U.S.C. 5338(b): 
Provided, That there shall be available for fixed guideway 
modernization, $800,000,000; there shall be available for the 
replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and related 
equipment and the construction of bus-related facilities, 
$400,000,000; and there shall be available for new fixed 
guideway systems $800,000,000, to be available as follows:

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            [$4,000,000 for the Salt Lake City regional 
        commuter system project;]
            $4,000,000 for the transit and other 
        transportation-related portions of the Salt Lake City 
        regional commuter system and Gateway Intermodal 
        Terminal;

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          Public Law 105-220--Workforce Investment Act of 1998


                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

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SEC. 503. INCENTIVE GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--Beginning on July 1, 2000, the Secretary 
shall award a grant to each State that exceeds the State 
adjusted levels of performance for title I, the expected levels 
of performance for title II, and the levels of performance for 
programs [under Public Law 88-210 (as amended; 20 U.S.C. 2301 
et seq.)] under Public Law 105-332 (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.), 
for the purpose of carrying out an innovative program 
consistent with the requirements of any one or more of the 
programs within title I, title II, or such Public Law, 
respectively.
    (b) Application.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary may provide a grant 
        to a State under subsection (a) only if the State 
        submits an application to the Secretary for the grant 
        that meets the requirements of paragraph (2).
            (2) Requirements.--The Secretary may review an 
        application described in paragraph (1) only to ensure 
        that the application contains the following assurances:
                    (A) The legislature of the State was 
                consulted with respect to the development of 
                the application.
                    (B) The application was approved by the 
                Governor, the eligible agency (as defined in 
                section 203), and the State agency responsible 
                for programs established [under Public Law 88-
                210 (as amended; 20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.)] under 
                Public Law 105-332 (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.).
                    (C) The State and the eligible agency, as 
                appropriate, exceeded the State adjusted levels 
                of performance for title I, the expected levels 
                of performance for title II, and the levels of 
                performance for programs [under Public Law 88-
                210 (as amended; 20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.)] under 
                Public Law 105-332 (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.).
    (c) Amount.--
            (1) Minimum and maximum grant amounts.--Subject to 
        paragraph (2), a grant provided to a State under 
        subsection (a) shall be awarded in an amount that is 
        not less than $750,000 and not more than $3,000,000.
            (2) Proportionate reduction.--If the amount 
        available for grants under this section for a fiscal 
        year is insufficient to award a grant to each State or 
        eligible agency that is eligible for a grant, the 
        Secretary shall reduce the minimum and maximum grant 
        amount by a uniform percentage.
    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, 
for fiscal year 2000, the Secretary shall not consider the 
expected levels of performance under Public Law 105-332 (20 
U.S.C. 2301 et seq.) and shall not award a grant under 
subsection (a) based on the levels of performance for that Act.

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  Public Law 105-277--Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental 
                        Appropriations Act, 1999


   TITLE III--YEAR 2000 CONVERSION OF FEDERAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 
                                SYSTEMS


         FISCAL YEAR 1999 EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS


                  FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT


          Information Technology Systems and Related Expenses

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    For an additional amount for emergency expenses related to 
Year 2000 conversion of Federal information technology systems, 
and related expenses, [$2,250,000,000] $2,015,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2001, of which $5,500,000 
shall be transferred to the Legislative Branch for ``SENATE'', 
``Contingent Expenses of the Senate'', ``Sergeant at Arms and 
Doorkeeper of the Senate'' for salaries and expenses related to 
Year 2000 conversion of Senate information technology systems: 
Provided, That the funds may be obligated with the prior 
approval of the Senate Committee on Appropriations; and of 
which, $6,373,000 shall be transferred to the Legislative 
Branch for ``HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES'', ``Salaries and 
Expenses'', ``Salaries, Officers and Employees'' for salaries 
and expenses related to Year 2000 conversion of House of 
Representatives information technology systems; and of which 
$5,000,000 shall be transferred to the Legislative Branch for 
``GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE'', ``Information Technology Systems 
and Related Expenses'' for expenses related to Year 2000 
conversion of information technology systems and related 
expenses of all entities in the Legislative Branch other than 
the ``Senate'' and ``House of Representatives'' covered by the 
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105-
55), which the Comptroller General shall transfer to the 
affected entities in the Legislative Branch, upon the approval 
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and of 
which $13,044,000 shall be transferred to the Judiciary to the 
Judiciary Information Technology Fund for expenses related to 
Year 2000 conversion of Judicial Branch information technology 
and security systems: Provided further, That the remaining 
funds made available shall be transferred, as necessary, by the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget to all affected 
Federal Departments and Agencies, except the Department of 
Defense, for expenses necessary to ensure the information 
technology that is used or acquired by the Federal government 
meets the definition of Year 2000 compliant under Federal 
Acquisition Regulations (concerning accurate processing of 
date/time data, including calculating, comparing, and 
sequencing from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-
first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000 and leap year 
calculations) and to meet other criteria for Year 2000 
compliance as the head of each Department or Agency considers 
appropriate: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
under this heading, except those transferred to the Legislative 
Branch and the Judiciary, may be transferred to any Department 
or Agency until fifteen days after the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget has submitted to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations, the Senate Special Committee on 
the Year 2000 Technology Problem, the House Committee on 
Science, and the House Committee on Government Reform and 
Oversight, a proposed allocation and plan for that Department 
or Agency to achieve Year 2000 compliance for technology 
information systems: Provided further, That the transfer 
authority provided in this paragraph is in addition to any 
other transfer authority contained elsewhere in this or any 
other Act: Provided further, That funds provided under this 
heading shall be in addition to funds available in this or any 
other Act for Year 2000 compliance by any Federal Department or 
Agency: Provided further, That the entire amount, except those 
amounts transferred to the Legislative Branch and the 
Judiciary, shall be available only to the extent that 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 the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

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    Sec. 127. Trade Deficit Review Commission. (a) * * *

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    (d) Duties of the Commission.--
            (1) * * *
            (2) Issues to be addressed.--The Commission shall 
        examine and report to the President, the Committee on 
        Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the 
        Committee on Finance of the Senate, and other 
        appropriate committees of Congress on the following:
                    (A) * * *

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                    (H) The flow of investments both into and 
                out of the United States, including--
                            (i) any consequences for the United 
                        States economy of the current status of 
                        the United States as a debtor nation;
                            (ii) any relationship between such 
                        investment flows and the United States 
                        merchandise trade and current account 
                        deficits and living standards of United 
                        States workers;
                            (iii) any impact such investment 
                        flows may have on United States labor, 
                        community, environmental, and health 
                        and safety standards, and how such 
                        investment flows influence the location 
                        of manufacturing facilities; and
                            (iv) the effect of barriers to 
                        United States foreign direct investment 
                        in developed and developing nations, 
                        particularly nations with which the 
                        United States has a merchandise trade 
                        and current account deficit.
                    (I) The impact of the merchandise trade and 
                current account balances on the national 
                security of the United States, including in 
                particular an assessment of the significance to 
                national security of persistent and substantial 
                bilateral trade deficits and the need of a 
                fully integrated national security, trade, and 
                industrial base trade-impact adjustment policy.
    (e) Final Report.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than [12 months] 15 
        months after the date of the initial meeting of the 
        Commission, the Commission shall submit to the 
        President and Congress a final report which contains--

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 Public Law 105-332--Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology 
                      Education Amendemtns of 1998


``SEC. 111. RESERVATIONS AND STATE ALLOTMENT.

    ``(a) Reservations and State Allotment.--
            ``(1) Reservations.--From the sum appropriated 
        under section 8 for each fiscal year, the Secretary 
        shall reserve--
                    ``(A) 0.2 percent to carry out section 115;
                    ``(B) 1.50 percent to carry out section 
                116, of which--
                            ``(i) 1.25 percent of the sum shall 
                        be available to carry out section 
                        116(b); and
                            ``(ii) 0.25 percent of the sum 
                        shall be available to carry out section 
                        116(h); and
                            ``(C) in the case of each of the 
                        [fiscal years 2000] fiscal years 2001 
                        through 2003, 0.54 percent to carry out 
                        section 503 of Public Law 105-220.

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  Public Law 106-74--Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
    Urban Development, Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000


         TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

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                  Community Planning and Development

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                        Urban Empowerment Zones

    For grants in connection with a second round of the 
empowerment zones program in urban areas, designated by the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in fiscal year 1999 
pursuant to the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, $55,000,000 to the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for ``Urban 
Empowerment Zones'', including [$3,666,000] $3,666,666 for each 
empowerment zone for use in conjunction with economic 
development activities consistent with the strategic plan of 
each empowerment zone, to remain available until expended.

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                   Community Development Block Grants

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For grants to States and units of general local government 
and for related expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry 
out a community development grants program as authorized by 
title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, 
as amended (the ``Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C. 5301), 
$4,800,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2002: 
Provided, That $67,000,000 shall be for grants to Indian tribes 
notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of such Act, $3,000,000 shall 
be available as a grant to the Housing Assistance Council, 
$2,200,000 shall be available as a grant to the National 
American Indian Housing Council, and $41,500,000 shall be for 
grants pursuant to section 107 of the Act including $2,000,000 
to support Alaska Native serving institutions and native 
Hawaiian serving institutions, as defined under the Higher 
Education Act, as amended: Provided further, That $20,000,000 
shall be for grants pursuant to the Self Help Housing 
Opportunity Program: Provided further, That not to exceed 20 
percent of any grant made with funds appropriated herein (other 
than a grant made available in this paragraph to the Housing 
Assistance Council or the National American Indian Housing 
Council, or a grant using funds under section 107(b)(3) of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended) 
shall be expended for ``Planning and Management Development'' 
and ``Administration'' as defined in regulations promulgated by 
the department: Provided further, That all balances for the 
Economic Development Initiative grants program, the John Heinz 
Neighborhood Development program, grants to Self Help Housing 
Opportunity program, and the Moving to Work Demonstration 
program previously funded within the ``Annual Contributions for 
Assisted Housing'' account shall be transferred to this 
account, to be available for the purposes for which they were 
originally appropriated.
    Of the amount made available under this heading, 
$23,750,000 shall be made available for capacity building, of 
which $20,000,000 shall be made available for ``Capacity 
Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing'', 
for LISC and the Enterprise Foundation for activities as 
authorized by section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 
(Public Law 103-120), as in effect immediately before June 12, 
1997, with not less than $4,000,000 of the funding to be used 
in rural areas, including tribal areas, and of which $3,750,000 
shall be made available to Habitat for Humanity International.
    Of the amount made available under this heading, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may use up to 
$55,000,000 for supportive services for public housing 
residents, as authorized by section 34 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937, as amended, and for grants for service 
coordinators and congregate services for the elderly and 
disabled residents of public and assisted housing: Provided 
further, That amounts made available for congregate services 
and service coordinators for the elderly and disabled under 
this heading and in prior fiscal years may be used by grantees 
to reimburse themselves for costs incurred in connection with 
providing service coordinators previously advanced by grantees 
out of other funds due to delays in the granting by or receipt 
of funds from the Secretary, and the funds so made available to 
grantees for congregate services or service coordinators under 
this heading or in prior years shall be considered as expended 
by the grantees upon such reimbursement. The Secretary shall 
not condition the availability of funding made available under 
this heading or in prior years for congregate services or 
service coordinators upon any grantee's obligation or 
expenditure of any prior funding.
    Of the amount made available under this heading, 
$30,000,000 shall be available for neighborhood initiatives 
that are utilized to improve the conditions of distressed and 
blighted areas and neighborhoods, to stimulate investment, 
economic diversification, and community revitalization in areas 
with population outmigration or a stagnating or declining 
economic base, or to determine whether housing benefits can be 
integrated more effectively with welfare reform initiatives: 
Provided, that any unobligated balances of amounts set aside 
for neighborhood initiatives in fiscal years 1998 and 1999 may 
be utilized for any of the foregoing purposes: Provided 
further, That of the amount set aside for fiscal year 2000 
under this paragraph, [$23,000,000] $22,750,000 shall be used 
for grants specified in the statement of the managers of the 
committee of conference accompanying this Act.
    Of the amount made available under this heading, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $42,500,000 shall 
be available for YouthBuild program activities authorized by 
subtitle D of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act, as amended, and such activities shall 
be an eligible activity with respect to any funds made 
available under this heading: Provided, That local YouthBuild 
programs that demonstrate an ability to leverage private and 
nonprofit funding shall be given a priority for YouthBuild 
funding: Provided further, That of the amount provided under 
this paragraph, $2,500,000 shall be set aside and made 
available for a grant to Youthbuild USA for capacity building 
for community development and affordable housing activities as 
specified in section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993, as 
amended.
    Of the amount made available under this heading, 
$275,000,000 shall be available for grants for the Economic 
Development Initiative (EDI) to finance a variety of economic 
development efforts, including $240,000,000 for making 
individual grants for targeted economic investments in 
accordance with the terms and conditions specified for such 
grants in the statement of the managers of the committee of 
conference accompanying this Act.
    For the cost of guaranteed loans, $29,000,000, as 
authorized by section 108 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974: 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, as 
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, not to exceed $1,261,000,000, notwithstanding any 
aggregate limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in 
section 108(k) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974: Provided further, That in addition, for administrative 
expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan program, $1,000,000, 
which shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation 
for ``Salaries and expenses''.
    The Secretary is directed to transfer the administration of 
the small cities component of the Community Development Block 
Grant Program for the funds allocated for the State of New York 
under section 106(d) of the Housing and Community Development 
Act of 1974 for fiscal year 2000 and all fiscal years 
thereafter to the State of New York to be administered by the 
Governor of New York.

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                       Administrative Provisions

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    Sec. 208. Of the balances remaining from funds appropriated 
to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Public 
Law 105-65 and prior appropriations Acts, $74,400,000 is 
rescinded: Provided, That the amount rescinded shall be 
comprised of--
            (1) * * *

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            (3) $22,975,000 of amounts appropriated for 
        homeownership assistance under section [235(r)] 235 of 
        the National Housing Act, including $6,875,000 
        appropriated in Public Law 103-327 (approved September 
        28, 1994, 104 Stat. 2305) for payments under section 
        235(r) of the National Housing Act [for such purposes];

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              TITLE V--PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING

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    Subtitle C--Renewal of Expiring Rental Assistance Contracts and 
Protection of Residents

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SEC. 538. UNIFIED ENHANCED VOUCHER AUTHORITY.

    (a) In General.----Section 8 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) is amended by inserting after 
subsection (s) the following new subsection:
    ``(t) Enhanced Vouchers.--
            ``(1) In general.--Enhanced voucher assistance 
        under this subsection for a family shall be voucher 
        assistance under subsection (o), except that under such 
        enhanced voucher assistance--
                    ``(A) subject only to subparagraph (D), the 
                assisted family shall pay as rent no less than 
                the amount the family was paying on the date of 
                the eligibility event for the project in which 
                the family was residing on such date;
                    ``(B) [during any period that the assisted 
                family continues residing in the same project 
                in which the family was residing on the date of 
                the eligibility event for the project, if] the 
                assisted family may elect to remain in the same 
                project in which the family was residing on the 
                date of the eligibility event for the project, 
                and if, during any period the family makes such 
                an election and continues to reside, the rent 
                for the dwelling unit of the family in such 
                project exceeds the applicable payment standard 
                established pursuant to subsection (o) for the 
                unit, the amount of rental assistance provided 
                on behalf of the family shall be determined 
                using a payment standard that is equal to the 
                rent for the dwelling unit (as such rent may be 
                increased from time-to-time), subject to 
                paragraph (10)(A) of subsection (o);

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      Public Law 106-113--District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1999

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               TITLE I--FISCAL YEAR 2000 APPROPRIATIONS

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                          General Provisions

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    Sec. 175. (a)(1) The first paragraph under the heading 
``Community Development Block Grants'' in title II of H.R. 2684 
(Public Law 106-74) is amended by inserting after ``National 
American Indian Housing Council,'' the following: ``$4,000,000 
shall be available [as a grant for the Special Olympics in 
Anchorage, Alaska to develop the Ben Boeke Arena and Hilltop 
Ski Area,] to the Organizing Committee for the 2001 Special 
Olympics World Winter games to be used in support of related 
activities in Alaska,''; and

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                        APPENDIX A--H.R. 3421

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                     TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


                         General Administration

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               telecommunications carrier compliance fund

    For payments authorized by section 109 of the 
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (47 U.S.C. 
1008), [$15,000,000] $115,000,000, to remain available until 
expended.

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 justice prisoner and alien transportation system fund, united states 
                            marshals service

    Beginning in fiscal year 2000 and thereafter, payment shall 
be made from the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation 
System Fund for necessary expenses related to the scheduling 
and transportation of United States prisoners and illegal and 
criminal aliens in the custody of the United States Marshals 
Service, as authorized in 18 U.S.C. 4013, including, without 
limitation, salaries and expenses, operations, and the 
acquisition, lease, and maintenance of aircraft and support 
facilities: Provided, That the Fund shall be reimbursed or 
credited with advance payments from amounts available to the 
Department of Justice, other Federal agencies, and other 
sources at rates that will recover the expenses of Fund 
operations, including, without limitation, accrual of annual 
leave and depreciation of plant and equipment of the Fund: 
Provided further, That proceeds from the disposal of Fund 
aircraft shall be credited to the Fund: Provided further, That 
amounts in the Fund shall be available without fiscal year 
limitation, and may be used for operating equipment lease 
agreements that do not exceed 5 years. In addition, 
$13,500,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
available only for the purchase of two Sabreliner-class 
aircraft.

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                    Federal Bureau of Investigation


                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation for detection, investigation, and prosecution of 
crimes against the United States; including purchase for 
police-type use of not to exceed 1,236 passenger motor 
vehicles, of which 1,142 will be for replacement only, without 
regard to the general purchase price limitation for the current 
fiscal year, and hire of passenger motor vehicles; acquisition, 
lease, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; and not to 
exceed $70,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential 
character, to be expended under the direction of, and to be 
accounted for solely under the certificate of, the Attorney 
General, $2,337,015,000; of which not to exceed $50,000,000 for 
automated data processing and telecommunications and technical 
investigative equipment and not to exceed $1,000,000 for 
undercover operations shall remain available until September 
30, 2001; of which not less than $292,473,000 shall be for 
counterterrorism investigations, foreign counterintelligence, 
and other activities related to our national security; of which 
not to exceed $10,000,000 is authorized to be made available 
for making advances for expenses arising out of contractual or 
reimbursable agreements with State and local law enforcement 
agencies while engaged in cooperative activities related to 
violent crime, terrorism, organized crime, and drug 
investigations; and of which not less than $50,000,000 shall be 
for the costs of conversion to narrowband communications, and 
for the operations and maintenance of legacy Land Mobile Radio 
systems: Provided, That such amount shall be transferred to and 
administered by the Department of Justice Wireless Management 
Office: Provided further, That not to exceed $45,000 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses: 
Provided further, That no funds in this Act may be used to 
provide ballistics imaging equipment to any State or local 
authority which has obtained similar equipment through a 
Federal grant or subsidy unless the State or local authority 
agrees to return that equipment or to repay that grant or 
subsidy to the Federal Government: Provided further, That in 
addition to amounts made available under this heading, 
$3,000,000 shall be available for the creation of a new site 
for the National Domestic Preparedness Office outside of FBI 
Headquarters and the implementation of the ``Blueprint'' with 
regard to the National Domestic Preparedness Office.

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         TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND RELATED AGENCIES

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            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


                  operations, research, and facilities


                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of activities authorized by law for 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including 
maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft; grants, 
contracts, or other payments to nonprofit organizations for the 
purposes of conducting activities pursuant to cooperative 
agreements; and relocation of facilities as authorized by 33 
U.S.C. 883i, $1,688,189,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That fees and donations received by the 
National Ocean Service for the management of the national 
marine sanctuaries may be retained and used for the salaries 
and expenses associated with those activities, notwithstanding 
31 U.S.C. 3302: Provided further, That in addition, $68,000,000 
shall be derived by transfer from the fund entitled ``Promote 
and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to 
American Fisheries'': Provided further, That grants to States 
pursuant to sections 306 and 306A of the Coastal Zone 
Management Act of 1972, as amended, shall not exceed 
$2,000,000: Provided further, That not to exceed $31,439,000 
shall be expended for Executive Direction and Administration, 
which consists of the Offices of the Undersecretary, the 
Executive Secretariat, Policy and Strategic Planning, 
International Affairs, Legislative Affairs, Public Affairs, 
Sustainable Development, the Chief Scientist, and the General 
Counsel: Provided further, That the aforementioned offices, 
excluding the Office of the General Counsel, shall not be 
augmented by personnel details, temporary transfers of 
personnel on either a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis or 
any other type of formal or informal transfer or reimbursement 
of personnel or funds on either a temporary or long-term basis 
above the level of 33 personnel: Provided further, That no 
general administrative charge shall be applied against any 
assigned activity included in this Act and, further, that any 
direct administrative expenses applied against assigned 
activities shall be limited to 5 percent of the funds provided 
for that assigned activity: Provided further, That of the 
amount made available under this heading for the National 
Marine Fisheries Services Pacific Salmon Treaty Program, 
$10,000,000 is appropriated for a Southern Boundary and 
Transboundary Rivers Restoration Fund, subject to express 
authorization: Provided further, That the vessel RAINIER shall 
use Ketchikan, Alaska as its home port.

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            TITLE IV--DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED AGENCY


                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE


                   Administration of Foreign Affairs


                    diplomatic and consular programs

    For necessary expenses of the Department of State and the 
Foreign Service not otherwise provided for, including expenses 
authorized by the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 
1956, as amended, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange 
Act of 1961, as amended, and the United States Information and 
Educational Exchange Act of 1948, as amended, including 
employment, without regard to civil service and classification 
laws, of persons on a temporary basis (not to exceed $700,000 
of this appropriation), as authorized by section 801 of such 
Act; expenses authorized by section 9 of the Act of August 31, 
1964, as amended; representation to certain international 
organizations in which the United States participates pursuant 
to treaties, ratified pursuant to the advice and consent of the 
Senate, or specific Acts of Congress; arms control, 
nonproliferation and disarmanent activities as authorized by 
the Arms Control and Disarmament Act of September 26, 1961, as 
amended; acquisition by exchange or purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles as authorized by law; and for expenses of general 
administration, $2,569,825,000: Provided, That, of the amount 
made available under this heading, not to exceed $4,000,000 may 
be transferred to, and merged with, funds in the ``Emergencies 
in the Diplomatic and Consular Service'' appropriations 
account, to be available only for emergency evacuations and 
terrorism rewards: Provided further, That, of the amount made 
available under this heading, not to exceed $4,500,000 may be 
transferred to, and merged with, funds in the ``International 
Broadcasting Operations'' appropriations account only to avoid 
reductions in force at the Voice of America, subject to the 
reprogramming procedures described in section 605 of this Act: 
Provided further, That, in fiscal year 2000, all receipts 
collected from individuals for assistance in the preparation 
and filing of an affidavit of support pursuant to section 213A 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act shall be deposited into 
this account as an offsetting collection and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That of the amount 
made available under this heading, $236,291,000 shall be 
available only for public diplomacy international information 
programs: Provided further, That of the amount made available 
under this heading, $5,000,000, less any costs already paid, 
shall be used to reimburse the City of Seattle and other 
Washington state jurisdictions for security costs incurred in 
hosting the Third World Trade Organization Ministerial 
Conference: Provided further, That of the amount made available 
under this heading, $500,000 shall be available only for the 
National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade: Provided 
further, That of the amount made available under this heading, 
$2,500,000 shall be available only for overseas continuing 
language education: Provided further, That of the amount made 
available under this heading, not to exceed $1,162,000 shall be 
available for transfer to the Presidential Advisory Commission 
on Holocaust Assets in the United States: Provided further, 
That any amount transferred pursuant to the previous proviso 
shall not result in a total amount transferred to the 
Commission from all Federal sources that exceeds the authorized 
amount: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
140(a)(5), and the second sentence of section 140(a)(3), of the 
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 
1995, fees may be collected during fiscal years 2000 and 2001, 
under the authority of section 140(a)(1) of that Act: Provided 
further, That all fees collected under the preceding proviso 
shall be deposited in fiscal years 2000 and 2001 as an 
offsetting collection to appropriations made under this heading 
to recover costs as set forth under section 140(a)(2) of that 
Act and shall remain available until expended: Provided 
further, That of the amount made available under this heading, 
$10,000,000 is appropriated for a Northern Boundary and 
Transboundary Rivers Restoration Fund: Provided further, That 
of the amount made available under this heading, not less than 
$9,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Defense Trade 
Controls.

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                       TITLE V--RELATED AGENCIES

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                   Federal Communications Commission


                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Communications 
Commission, as authorized by law, including uniforms and 
allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; not 
to exceed $600,000 for land and structure; not to exceed 
$500,000 for improvement and care of grounds and repair to 
buildings; not to exceed $4,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; purchase (not to exceed 16) and hire 
of motor vehicles; special counsel fees; and services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, [$210,000,000] $215,800,000, of 
which not to exceed $300,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2001, for research and policy studies: Provided, 
That [$185,754,000] $191,554,000 of offsetting collections 
shall be assessed and collected pursuant to section 9 of title 
I of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and shall be 
retained and used for necessary expenses in this appropriation, 
and shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such 
offsetting collections are received during fiscal year 2000 so 
as to result in a final fiscal year 2000 appropriation 
estimated at $24,246,000: Provided further, That any offsetting 
collections received in excess of [$185,754,000] $191,554,000 
in fiscal year 2000 shall remain available until expended, but 
shall not be available for obligation until October 1, 2000.

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                         Appendix D--H.R. 3424


                     TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

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                 Mine Safety and Health Administration


                         Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration, $228,373,000, including purchase and bestowal 
of certificates and trophies in connection with mine rescue and 
first-aid work, and the hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
[including not to exceed $750,000 may be collected by the 
National Mine Health and Safety Academy] and, in addition, not 
to exceed $750,000 may be collected by the National Mine Health 
and Safety Academy for room, board, tuition, and the sale of 
training materials, otherwise authorized by law to be 
collected, to be available for mine safety and health education 
and training activities, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302; the 
Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, 
and other contributions from public and private sources and to 
prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, 
State, or private; the Mine Safety and Health Administration is 
authorized to promote health and safety education and training 
in the mining community through cooperative programs with 
States, industry, and safety associations; and any funds 
available to the department may be used, with the approval of 
the Secretary, to provide for the costs of mine rescue and 
survival operations in the event of a major disaster.

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           TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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                        Administration on Aging


                        Aging Services Programs

    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the 
Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, and section 398 of the 
Public Health Service Act, $934,285,000, of which $2,200,000 
shall be for the Anchorage, Alaska Senior Center, and shall 
remain available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 308(b)(1) of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as 
amended, the amounts available to each State for administration 
of the State plan under title III of such Act shall be reduced 
not more than 5 percent below the amount that was available to 
such State for such purpose for fiscal year 1995: Provided 
further, That in considering grant applications for nutrition 
services for elder Indian recipients, the Assistant Secretary 
shall provide maximum flexibility to applicants who seek to 
take into account subsistence, local customs, and other 
characteristics that are appropriate to the unique cultural, 
regional, and geographic needs of the American Indian, Alaska 
and Hawaiian Native communities to be served.

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                          GENERAL PROVISIONS

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                          (transfer of funds)

    Sec. 206. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary 
funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for the 
current fiscal year for the Department of Health and Human 
Services in this Act may be transferred between appropriations, 
but no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 
percent by any such transfer: Provided, That the Appropriations 
Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified at least 15 
days in advance of any transfer: Provided further, That this 
section shall not apply to funds appropriated under the heading 
``Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--Disease Control, 
Research, and Training'', funds made available to the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention under the heading ``Public 
Health and Social Services Emergency Fund'', or any other funds 
made available in this Act to the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.

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    [Sec. 216. Of the funds appropriated for the National 
Institutes of Health for fiscal year 2000, $3,000,000,000 shall 
not be available for obligation until September 29, 2000. Of 
the funds appropriated for the Health Resources and Services 
Administration for fiscal year 2000, $450,000,000 shall not be 
available for obligation until September 29, 2000. Of the funds 
appropriated for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
for fiscal year 2000, $500,000,000 shall not be available for 
obligation until September 29, 2000. Of the funds appropriated 
for the Children and Families Services Programs for fiscal year 
2000, $400,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until 
September 29, 2000. Of the funds appropriated for the Social 
Services Block Grant for fiscal year 2000, $425,000,000 shall 
not be available for obligation until September 29, 2000. Of 
the funds appropriated for the Substance Abuse and Mental 
Health Services Administration for fiscal year 2000, 
$200,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until 
September 29, 2000. Such funds delayed by this section shall be 
available for obligation until October 15, 2000.]

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                  TITLE III--DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

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            Education Research, Statistics, and Improvement

    For carrying out activities authorized by the Educational 
Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 
1994, including part E; the National Education Statistics Act 
of 1994, including sections 411 and 412; section 2102 of title 
II, and parts A, B, and K and section 10102, section 10105, and 
10601 of title X, and part C of title XIII of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, and title VI 
of Public Law 103-227, $596,892,000: Provided, That $50,000,000 
shall be available to demonstrate effective approaches to 
comprehensive school reform, to be allocated and expended in 
accordance with the instructions relating to this activity in 
the statement of managers on the conference report accompanying 
Public Law 105-78 and in the statement of the managers on the 
conference report accompanying Public Law 105-277: Provided 
further, That the funds made available for comprehensive school 
reform shall become available on July 1, 2000, and remain 
available through September 30, 2001, and in carrying out this 
initiative, the Secretary and the States shall support only 
approaches that show the most promise of enabling children to 
meet challenging State content standards and challenging State 
student performance standards based on reliable research and 
effective practices, and include an emphasis on basic academics 
and parental involvement: Provided further, That $30,000,000 of 
the funds provided for the national education research 
institutes shall be allocated notwithstanding section 
912(m)(1)(B-F) and subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section 
931(c)(2) of Public Law 103-227: Provided further, That of the 
funds appropriated under section 10601 of title X of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, 
$1,500,000 shall be used to conduct a violence prevention 
demonstration program: Provided further, That $45,000,000 shall 
be available to support activities under section 10105 of Part 
A of Title X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965, of which up to $2,250,000 may be available for 
evaluation, technical assistance, and school networking 
activities: Provided further, That funds made available to 
local educational agencies under this section shall be used 
only for activities related to establishing smaller learning 
communities in high schools: Provided further, That funds made 
available for section 10105 of Part A of Title X of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 shall become 
available on July 1, 2000 and remain available through 
September 30, 2001: Provided further, That of the funds 
available for part A of title X of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965, $10,000,000 shall be awarded to the 
National Constitution Center, established by Public Law 100-
433, for exhibition design, program planning and operation of 
the center, $10,000,000 shall be provided to continue a 
demonstration of public school facilities to the Iowa 
Department of Education, $1,000,000 shall be made available to 
the New Mexico Department of Education for school performance 
improvement and drop-out prevention, $300,000 shall be made 
available to Semos Unlimited, Inc., in New Mexico to support 
bilingual education and literacy programs, $700,000 shall be 
awarded to Loyola University Chicago for recruitment and 
preparation of new teacher candidates for employment in rural 
and inner-city schools, $500,000 shall be awarded to Shedd 
Aquarium/Brookfield Zoo for science education/exposure programs 
for local elementary school students, $3,000,000 shall be 
awarded to Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America to expand 
school-based mentoring, $2,500,000 shall be awarded to the 
Chicago Public School System to support a substance abuse pilot 
program in conjunction with Elgin and East Aurora School 
Systems, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the University of 
Virginia Center for Governmental Studies for the Youth 
Leadership Initiative, $800,000 shall be awarded to the 
Institute for Student Achievement at Holmes Middle School and 
Annandale High School in Virginia for academic enrichment 
programs, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Mountain Arts Center 
for educational programming, $1,500,000 shall be awarded to the 
University of Louisville for research in the area of academic 
readiness, $500,000 shall be awarded to the West Ed Regional 
Educational Laboratory for the 24 Challenge and Jumping Levels 
Math Demonstration Project, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to 
Central Michigan University for a charter schools development 
and performance institute, $950,000 shall be awarded to the 
Living Science Interactive Learning Model partnership in Indian 
River, Florida for a science education program, $825,000 shall 
be awarded to the [North Babylon Community Youth Services for 
an educational program] Town of Babylon Youth Bureau for an 
educational program, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the Los 
Angeles County Office of Education/Educational 
Telecommunications and Technology for a pilot program for 
teachers, $650,000 shall be awarded to the University of 
Northern Iowa for an institute of technology for inclusive 
education, $500,000 shall be awarded to Youth Crime Watch of 
America to expand a program to prevent crime, drugs and 
violence in schools, $892,000 shall be awarded to Muhlenberg 
College in Pennsylvania for an environmental science program, 
$560,000 shall be awarded to the Western Suffolk St. Johns-
LaSalle Academy Science and Technology Mentoring Program, 
$4,000,000 shall be awarded to the National Teaching Academy of 
Chicago for a model teacher recruitment, preparation and 
professional development program, $2,000,000 shall be awarded 
to the University of West Florida for a teacher enhancement 
program, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to Delta State University 
in Mississippi for innovative teacher training, $1,000,000 
shall be awarded to the Alaska Humanities Forum, Inc., in 
Anchorage, Alaska, $250,000 shall be awarded to An Achievable 
Dream in Newport News, Virginia to improve academic performance 
of at-risk youths, $250,000 shall be awarded to the Rock School 
of Ballet in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to expand its 
community-outreach programs for inner-city children and 
underprivileged youth in Camden, New Jersey and southern New 
Jersey, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the University of 
Maryland Center for Quality and Productivity to provide a link 
for the Blue Ribbon Schools, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the 
Continuing Education Center and Teachers' Institute in South 
Boston, Virginia [to promote participation among youth in the 
United States democratic process] to expand access to and 
improve advanced education, $1,000,000 shall be for the 
National Museum of Women in the Arts to expand its 
``Discovering Art'' program to elementary and secondary schools 
and other educational organizations, $400,000 shall be awarded 
to the Alaska Department of Education's summer reading program, 
$400,000 shall be awarded to the Partners in Education, Inc., 
to foster successful business-school partnerships, $250,000 
shall be for the Kodiak Island Borough School District for 
development of an environmental education program, $2,000,000 
shall be for the Reach Out and Read Program to expand literacy 
and health awareness for at-risk families, $1,000,000 shall be 
for the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Virginia for an 
educational program, $450,000 shall be for the Challenger 
Learning Center in Hardin County, Kentucky for technology 
assistance and teacher training, $250,000 shall be for the 
Crawford County School System in Georgia for technology and 
curriculum support, $500,000 shall be for the Berrien County 
School System in Georgia for technology development, $35,000 
shall be for the Louisville Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club 
Diversion Enhancement Program, $100,000 shall be awarded to the 
Philadelphia Orchestra's Philly Pops to operate the Jazz in the 
Schools program in the Philadelphia school district, $500,000 
for the Mississippi Delta Education for a teacher incentive 
program initiative, $500,000 shall be for A Community of Agile 
Partners in Education and the Pennsylvania Telecommunications 
Exchange Network for a technology resource sharing initiative, 
$500,000 shall be for enhanced teacher training in reading in 
the District of Columbia, $100,000 shall be awarded to the 
Project 2000 D.C. mentoring project, and $1,250,000 shall be 
awarded to Helen Keller World Wide to expand the ChildSight 
vision screening program and provide eyeglasses to additional 
children whose educational performance may be hindered by poor 
vision, $750,000 shall be awarded to the Explornet Technology 
Learning Project in North Carolina, $1,750,000 shall be awarded 
to the Connecticut Early Reading Success Institute to broaden 
the training of professionals in best practices in reading 
instruction, $400,000 shall be awarded to the National Academy 
of Recording Artists and Sciences Foundation for the GRAMMY in 
the Schools program to provide music education to high school 
students, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the Rosa and Raymond 
Parks Institute for Self-Development for the Pathways to 
Freedom program for civil rights education for young people and 
for community learning centers, $500,000 shall be awarded to 
the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation to replicate and 
scientifically evaluate full-service community schools, 
$500,000 shall be awarded to the Henry Abbott Technical High 
School in Danbury, Connecticut for workforce education and 
training activities, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the 
Educational Performance Foundation, CPI music education program 
called ``From the Top'', $250,000 shall be awarded to the Mount 
Vernon School District in Mount Vernon, New York for the 
Institute of Student Achievement program, $2,000,000 shall be 
awarded to the National Council of La Raza for a project to 
improve educational outcomes and opportunities for Hispanic 
children, $250,000 shall be awarded to the [Oakland Unified 
School District in California for an African American Literacy 
and Culture Project] California State University, Hayward, for 
an African-American Literacy and Culture Project carried out in 
partnership with the Oakland Unified School District in 
California carried out in partnership with the Oakland Unified 
School District in California, $300,000 shall be awarded to the 
Vasona Center Youth Science Institute, $750,000 shall be 
awarded to the Life Learning Academy Charter School in San 
Francisco, California, $250,000 shall be awarded to the 
National Urban Coalition Say YES To A Youngster's Future 
Program to provide math and science education, $750,000 shall 
be awarded to the Wisconsin Academy Staff Development 
Initiative in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin to provide math, 
science, and technology teacher training, $500,000 shall be 
awarded to the University of Missouri-St. Louis to develop a 
plan to improve the education system in the City of St. Louis, 
Missouri, $313,000 shall be awarded to the City of Houston for 
the ASPIRE after-school program, [$900,000 shall be awarded to 
Boston Music Education Collaborative comprehensive 
interdisciplinary music program and teacher resource center in 
Boston, Massachusetts] $462,000 shall be awarded to the Boston 
Symphony Orchestra for the teacher resource center and $370,000 
shall be awarded to the Boston Music Education Collaborative 
for an interdisciplinary music program, in Boston, 
Massachusetts, $250,000 shall be awarded to the Baltimore Reads 
after-school tutoring program in Baltimore, Maryland, $300,000 
shall be awarded to the School of International Training in 
Brattleboro, Vermont to develop an education curriculum 
addressing child labor issues in collaboration with the 
Brattleboro Union High School, $750,000 shall be awarded to the 
University of Puerto Rico for the continuation and expansion of 
the Hispanic Educational Linkages Program in New York City, 
including the South Bronx, New York, $250,000 shall be awarded 
to the Community Service Society of New York for mentoring, 
tutoring and technology activities in New York City public 
schools, including schools in the South Bronx, $250,000 shall 
be awarded to the Smithsonian Institution for a jazz music 
education program in Washington, D.C., $500,000 shall be 
awarded to Johnson Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to 
develop an innovative arts education model which could be 
replicated in other schools, $2,000,000 shall be awarded to the 
Boys and Girls Clubs of America for after-school programs, 
$500,000 shall be for the University of New Orleans for a 
teacher preparation and educational technology initiative, and 
$250,000 shall be for the Florida Department of Education for 
an Internet-based teacher recruitment model, $250,000 shall be 
awarded to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 
``Make a Ballet'' arts education program in the New York City 
area: Provided further, That of the funds available for section 
10601 of title X of such Act, $2,000,000 shall be awarded to 
the Center for Educational Technologies for production and 
distribution of an effective CD-ROM product that would 
complement the ``We the People: The Citizen and the 
Constitution'' curriculum: Provided further, That, in addition 
to the funds for title VI of Public Law 103-227 and 
notwithstanding the provisions of section 601(c)(1)(C) of that 
Act, $1,000,000 shall be available to the Center for Civic 
Education to conduct a civic education program with Northern 
Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and, consistent with the 
civics and Government activities authorized in section 
601(c)(3) of Public Law 103-227, to provide civic education 
assistance to democracies in developing countries. The term 
``developing countries'' shall have the same meaning as the 
term ``developing country'' in the Education for the Deaf Act.

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                         APPENDIX E--H.R. 3425


             TITLE I--EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS


                               CHAPTER 1


                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

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                          LIVESTOCK ASSISTANCE

    For an additional amount for livestock assistance 
authorized by section 805 of Public Law 106-78, $10,000,000: 
Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture may use this 
additional amount to provide assistance to persons who raise 
livestock owned by other persons for income losses sustained 
with respect to livestock [during 1999] from January 1, 1999, 
through February 7, 2000 if the Secretary finds that such 
losses are the result of natural disasters.

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                TITLE II--OTHER APPROPRIATIONS MATTERS

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *


    Sec. 242. (a) The [seventh] sixth paragraph under the 
heading ``Community Development Block Grants'' in title II of 
H.R. 2684 (Public Law 106-74) is amended by striking the figure 
making individual grants for targeted economic investments and 
inserting ``[$250,175,000] $250,900,000'' in lieu thereof.

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          TITLE III--FISCAL YEAR 2000 OFFSETS AND RESCISSIONS

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    [Sec. 306. The pay of any Federal officer or employee that 
would be payable on September 29, 2000, or September 30, 2000, 
for the preceding applicable pay period (if not for this 
section) shall be paid, whether by electronic transfer of funds 
or otherwise, on October 1, 2000.]

                                            BUDGETARY IMPACT OF BILL
  PREPARED IN CONSULTATION WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE PURSUANT TO SEC. 308(a), PUBLIC LAW 93-344, AS
                                                     AMENDED
                                            [In millions of dollars]
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                                                                  Budget authority               Outlays
                                                             ---------------------------------------------------
                                                               Committee    Amount  of   Committee    Amount  of
                                                               allocation      bill      allocation      bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comparison of amounts in the bill with Committee allocations
 to its subcommittees of amounts in the First Concurrent
 Resolution for 2001: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural
 Development, and Related Agencies:
    General purpose, nondefense discretion ary..............  ...........       14,812  ...........   \1\ 12,805
    General purpose, defense discretionary..................  ...........  ...........  ...........       -1,239
    Mandatory...............................................  ...........       60,853  ...........       28,621
Projections of outlays associated with the recommendation:
    2000....................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........    \2\ 4,657
    2001....................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........       37,100
    2002....................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........        3,968
    2003....................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........          649
    2004....................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........          383
    2005 and future years...................................  ...........  ...........  ...........          569
Financial assistance to State and local governments for 2001           NA       18,828           NA       15,549
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Includes outlays from prior-year budget authority.
\2\ Excludes outlays from prior-year budget authority.

NA: Not applicable.


 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL FOR
                                          FISCAL YEAR 2000 SUPPLEMENTAL
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                                                    Committee
                                                                                                  recommendation
                                                                 Supplemental      Committee      compared with
Doc. No.                                                           request       recommendation    supplemental
                                                                                                 request (+ or -
                                                                                                        )
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                             DIVISION B

                               TITLE I

                NATURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE AND OTHER

                      EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

                              CHAPTER 1

                      DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                         Farm Service Agency

  ...... Salaries and expenses (contingent emergency         ...............          39,000          +39,000
          appropriations)

                 Federal Crop Insurance Corporation

 106-198 Federal crop insurance corporation fund (emergency          13,000           13,000   ...............
          appropriations)

                          Rural Development

  ...... Rural community advancement program (contingent     ...............         130,000         +130,000
          emergency appropriations)

                        Rural Housing Service

         Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account:
 106-198     Loan authorizations: Rental housing (sec. 515)         (40,000)         (40,000)  ...............
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, loan authorizations                           (40,000)         (40,000)  ...............

 106-198     Loan subsidy: Rental housing (sec. 515)                 15,872           15,872   ...............
              (emergency appropriations)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, loan subsidies                                 15,872           15,872   ...............

 106-198     Rental assistance program (sec. 521)                    13,600           13,600   ...............
              (emergency appropriations)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program           29,472           29,472   ...............
                Account
                                                            ====================================================
                       Rural Utilities Service

         Rural Electrification and Telecommunications:
  ......     Loan Program Account: Direct 5% Electric Loan   ...............        (113,250)       (+113,250)
              (contingent emergency appropriations)
  ......     Loan Subsidy: Direct 5% Electric Loan           ...............           1,000           +1,000
              (contingent emergency appropriations)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Department of Agriculture                      42,472          212,472         +170,000
                                                            ====================================================
                         General Provisions

  ...... Conservation technical assistance (contingent       ...............          35,000          +35,000
          emergency appropriations) (sec. 1101)
 106-198 CCC Marketing associations loan forgiveness                 81,000   ...............         -81,000
          (emergency appropriations)
  ...... CCC Marketing associations loan forgiveness         ...............          81,000          +81,000
          contingent emergency appropriations) (sec. 1104)
  ...... CCC Dairy assistance (contingent emergency          ...............         443,000         +443,000
          appropriations) (sec. 1106)
  ...... CCC Disease loss compensation (contingent           ...............          58,000          +58,000
          emergency appropriations) (sec. 1107)
  ...... CCC Milk price support extension (contingent        ...............         -14,000          -14,000
          emergency appropriations) (sec. 1108)
  ...... CCC Livestock assistance program (contingent        ...............         450,000         +450,000
          emergency appropriations) (sec. 1109)
  ...... CCC Peanut assessments (contingent emergency        ...............           7,000           +7,000
          appropriations) (sec. 1110)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, General Provisions                             81,000        1,060,000         +979,000
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 1:
                   New budget (obligational) authority              123,472        1,272,472       +1,149,000
                       Emergency appropriations                    (123,472)         (42,472)        (-81,000)
                       Contingent emergency appropriations   ...............      (1,230,000)     (+1,230,000)
                   (Loan authorizations)                            (40,000)        (153,250)       (+113,250)
                                                            ====================================================
                             CHAPTER 2-A

                       DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                 Economic Development Administration
 106-198
 106-162 Economic development assistance programs                    30,350   ...............         -30,350
          (emergency appropriations)
 106-198 Contingent emergency appropriations                            900   ...............            -900
 106-198
 106-162 Salaries and expenses (emergency appropriations)             1,625   ...............          -1,625
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Economic Development Administration            32,875   ...............         -32,875
                                                            ====================================================
           National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 106-198
 106-162 Operations, research, and facilities (emergency             23,900   ...............         -23,900
          appropriations)
 106-198 Contingent emergency appropriations                          5,000   ...............          -5,000
 106-198 Fisheries finance program account (emergency                 6,240   ...............          -6,240
          appropriations)
 106-198     Contingent emergency appropriations                     15,000   ...............         -15,000
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, National Oceanic and Atmospheric               50,140   ...............         -50,140
                Administration
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Department of Commerce                         83,015   ...............         -83,015
                                                            ====================================================
                           RELATED AGENCY

                    Small Business Administration

 106-162 Disaster Loans Program Account: Direct loans                31,000   ...............         -31,000
          subsidy (contingent emergency appropriations)
 106-162 Administrative expenses (contingent emergency               19,500   ...............         -19,500
          appropriations)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Small Business Administration                  50,500   ...............         -50,500
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 2-A:
                   New budget (obligational) authority              133,515   ...............        -133,515
                       Emergency appropriations                     (62,115)  ...............        (-62,115)
                       Contingent emergency appropriations          (71,400)  ...............        (-71,400)
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 2

                    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                      Corps of Engineers--Civil
 106-198
 106-162 General investigations (emergency appropriations)            8,100            4,500           -3,600
  ...... Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries,   ...............          10,000          +10,000
          Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana,
          Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee (contingency
          emergency appropriations)
 106-162 Operation and maintenance, general (emergency               19,175           35,000          +15,825
          appropriations)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Corps of Engineers--Civil                      27,275           49,500          +22,225
                                                            ====================================================
                        INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

  ...... Appalachian Regional Commission (contingent         ...............          11,000          +11,000
          emergency appropriations)
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 2:
                   New budget (obligational) authority               27,275           60,500          +33,225
                       Emergency appropriations                     (27,275)         (39,500)        (+12,225)
                       Contingent emergency appropriations   ...............         (21,000)        (+21,000)
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 3

                     DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                      Bureau of Land Management

  ...... Management of land and resources (contingent        ...............          17,172          +17,172
          emergency appropriations)
 106-162 Wildland fire management (contingent emergency             100,000          100,000   ...............
          appropriations)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Bureau of Land Management                     100,000          117,172          +17,172
                                                            ====================================================
               United States Fish and Wildlife Service

  ...... Resource management (emergency appropriations)      ...............           6,500           +6,500
 106-162 Construction (emergency appropriations)                      5,000            5,000   ...............
  ......     (Contingent emergency appropriations)           ...............           3,500           +3,500
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, United States Fish and Wildlife                 5,000           15,000          +10,000
                Service
                                                            ====================================================
                        National Park Service
 106-162 Construction (emergency appropriations)                      4,000            4,000   ...............
  ......     (Contingent emergency appropriations)           ...............           1,300           +1,300

                   United States Geological Survey

 106-162 Surveys, investigations, and research (emergency             1,800            1,800   ...............
          appropriations)

              Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and
                             Enforcement

  ...... Regulation and technology (contingent emergency     ...............           9,821           +9,821
          appropriations)

                      Bureau of Indian Affairs

  ...... Operation of Indian programs (contingent emergency  ...............           1,200           +1,200
          appropriations)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Department of the Interior                    110,800          150,293          +39,493
                                                            ====================================================
                      DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                           Forest Service

  ...... National forest system (contingent emergency        ...............           5,759           +5,759
          appropriations)
  ...... Wildland fire management (contingent emergency      ...............           1,620           +1,620
          appropriations)
  ...... Reconstruction and maintenance (contingent          ...............           1,870           +1,870
          emergency appropriations)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Forest Service                         ...............           9,249           +9,249
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 3:
                   New budget (obligational) authority              110,800          159,542          +48,742
                       Emergency appropriations                     (10,800)         (17,300)         (+6,500)
                       Contingent emergency appropriations         (100,000)        (142,242)        (+42,242)
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 4

               DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                Health Care Financing Administration

  ...... Program management (contingent emergency            ...............          15,000          +15,000
          appropriations)

              Administration for Children and Families

 106-198 Low income home energy assistance (contingent              600,000          600,000   ...............
          emergency appropriations)
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 3:
                   New budget (obligational) authority              600,000          615,000          +15,000
                       Contingent emergency appropriations         (600,000)        (615,000)        (+15,000)
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 5

                      CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS

                             JOINT ITEMS

                        Capitol Police Board

                           Capitol Police

  ...... Security enhancements (emergency appropriations)    ...............          11,874          +11,874
  ...... Salaries (emergency appropriations)                 ...............           2,700           +2,700
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Capitol Police Board                   ...............          14,574          +14,574
                                                            ====================================================
                      ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

                    Capitol Buildings and Grounds

  ...... Capitol buildings, salaries and expenses            ...............           7,039           +7,039
          (emergency appropriations)
  ...... Senate office buildings (emergency appropriations)  ...............           2,314           +2,314
  ...... House office buildings (emergency appropriations)   ...............           4,213           +4,213
  ...... Capitol power plant (emergency appropriations)      ...............               3               +3
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Architect of the Capitol               ...............          13,569          +13,569
                                                            ====================================================
                         GENERAL PROVISIONS

  ...... Section 1501                                        ...............           3,000           +3,000
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Congressional Operations               ...............          31,143          +31,143
                                                            ====================================================
                           OTHER AGENCIES

                           BOTANIC GARDENS

  ...... Salaries and expenses (emergency appropriations)    ...............              26              +26

                      ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

                    Library Buildings and Grounds

  ...... Structural and mechanical care (emergency           ...............           3,885           +3,885
          appropriations)
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 5:
                   New budget (obligational) authority       ...............          35,054          +35,054
                       Emergency appropriations              ...............         (35,054)        (+35,054)
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 6

                    DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                          RELATED AGENCIES

                National Transportation Safety Board
 106-198
 106-162 Salaries and expenses (emergency appropriations)            25,096           24,739             -357
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 7

                     DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                        Departmental Offices

  ...... Salaries and expenses (contingent emergency         ...............          24,900          +24,900
          appropriations)

  ...... Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms             ...............          93,751          +93,751
          (contingent emergency appropriations)

                   GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

  ...... Policy and operations                               ...............           3,300           +3,300
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 7:
                   New budget (obligational) authority       ...............         121,951         +121,951
                       Appropriations                        ...............          (3,300)         (+3,300)
                       Contingent emergency appropriations   ...............        (118,651)       (+118,651)
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 8

             DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                      Public and Indian Housing

 106-198 Housing certificate fund (emergency                         12,000   ...............         -12,000
          appropriations)

                 Community Planning and Development

  ...... HOME investment partnerships program (contingent    ...............          25,000          +25,000
          emergency appropriations)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Housing and Urban Development                  12,000           25,000          +13,000
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 8:
                   New budget (obligational) authority               12,000           25,000          +13,000
                       Emergency appropriations                     (12,000)  ...............        (-12,000)
                       Contingent emergency appropriations   ...............         (25,000)        (+25,000)
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 9

                          GENERAL PROVISION

  ...... Section 1901 Libby Montana (contingent emergency    ...............          11,500          +11,500
          appropriations)
  ...... Section 1902 NOAA fisheries conservation            ...............          10,000          +10,000
          (contingent emergency appropriations)
  ...... Section 1903 District of Columbia Metropolitan      ...............           4,485           +4,485
          Police (contingent emergency appropriations)
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 9: New budget (obligational)   ...............          25,985          +25,985
                authority
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, title I:
                   New budget (obligational) authority            1,032,158        2,340,243       +1,308,085
                       Appropriations                        ...............          (3,300)         (+3,300)
                       Emergency appropriations                    (260,758)        (159,065)       (-101,693)
                       Contingent emergency appropriations         (771,400)      (2,177,878)     (+1,406,478)
                   (Loan authorizations)                            (40,000)        (153,250)       (+113,250)
                                                            ====================================================
                              TITLE II

               SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND OFFSETS

                              CHAPTER 2

                        DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

                   Radiation Exposure Compensation

  ...... Payment to radiation exposure compensation trust    ...............           7,246           +7,246
          fund

                       DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                 Economic Development Administration

  ...... Economic development assistance program             ...............           8,000           +8,000
  ...... Salaries and expenses                               ...............             300             +300
 106-198 Assistance to Vieques, Puerto Rico                          40,000   ...............         -40,000
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Economic Development Administration            40,000            8,300          -31,700
                                                            ====================================================
           National Institute of Standards and Technology

 106-162 Scientific and technical research and services               1,000   ...............          -1,000
 106-162 Industrial technology services                               4,000   ...............          -4,000
 106-162 NTIS revolving fund (by transfer)                           (4,500)  ...............         (-4,500)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, National Institute of Standards and             5,000   ...............          -5,000
                Technology
                                                            ====================================================
           National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  ...... Operations, research, and facilities                ...............           5,500           +5,500

                         DEPARTMENT OF STATE

                  Administration of Foreign Affairs

 106-218 Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust                1,400   ...............          -1,400
          Assets in the United States
  ......     (Contingent emergency appropriations)           ...............           1,400           +1,400

                          RELATED AGENCIES

                     Commission on Civil Rights
 106-162 Salaries and expenses                                          800   ...............            -800

                     Federal Maritime Commission
 106-162 Salaries and expenses                                          490   ...............            -490

                    Small Business Administration
 106-198 Salaries and expenses (by transfer)                         (2,000)  ...............         (-2,000)

 106-198 Business Loans Program Account: Guaranteed loans             1,000   ...............          -1,000
          subsidy
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 2:
                   New budget (obligational) authority               48,690           22,446          -26,244
                       Appropriations                               (48,690)         (21,046)        (-27,644)
                       Contingent emergency appropriations   ...............          (1,400)         (+1,400)
                   (By transfer)                                     (6,500)  ...............         (-6,500)
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 3

                        DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

 106-162 Uranium enrichment decontamination and                      16,000           58,000          +42,000
          decommissioning fund
                                                            ====================================================
                             CHAPTER 4-B

                        DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 106-198 Energy conservation                                         19,000   ...............         -19,000

                              CHAPTER 4

                         DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

               Employment and Training Administration
 106-218 Training and employment services                            40,000           40,000   ...............

               DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

              Administration for Children and Families

 106-162 Payments to States for foster care and adoption             35,000           35,000   ...............
          assistance

                       Departmental Management
 106-218 Public Health and Social Services Emergency fund           100,000   ...............        -100,000

                          RELATED AGENCIES

                      Railroad Retirement Board

  ...... Limitation on administrative expenses               ...............             500             +500

                   Social Security Administration

 106-218 Limitation on administrative expenses: Trust funds          35,000           50,000          +15,000
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 4: New budget (obligational)          210,000          125,500          -84,500
                authority
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 5

                    DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                             Coast Guard
 106-162 Operating expenses (by transfer)                           (18,000)  ...............        (-18,000)

                   Federal Aviation Administration

 106-218 Operations (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)                  77,000   ...............         -77,000
  ......     (By transfer)                                   ...............         (77,000)        (+77,000)
 106-162 Grants-in-aid for airports (Airport and Airway            (-50,000)  ...............        (+50,000)
          Trust Fund): (Obligation limitation reduction)
                                                            ====================================================
                   Federal Highway Administration

  ...... Olympic Winter Games support                        ...............          35,000          +35,000
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 5:
                   New budget (obligational) authority               77,000           35,000          -42,000
                   (By transfer)                                    (18,000)         (77,000)        (+59,000)
                                                            ====================================================
                             CHAPTER 6-A

                     DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                      Internal Revenue Service

 106-162 Processing, assistance and management                       19,796   ...............         -19,796
 106-162 Tax law enforcement                                          6,807   ...............          -6,807
 106-162 Information systems                                         13,180   ...............         -13,180
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Internal Revenue Service                       39,783   ...............         -39,783
                                                            ====================================================
                        INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

 106-162 Committee for the Purchase from People Who Are                 687   ...............            -687
          Blind or Severely Disabled

 106-162 General Services Administration: Policy and                  2,000   ...............          -2,000
          operations

 106-162 Office of Personnel Management: Salaries and                 1,000   ...............          -1,000
          expenses
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 6-A: New budget                        43,470   ...............         -43,470
                (obligational) authority
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 6

             DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                   Federal Housing Administration

 106-162 FHA--General and special risk program account:              49,000           49,000   ...............
          Administrative expenses

                    Management and Administration

  ...... Office of Inspector General                         ...............          20,000          +20,000
  ......     (Rescission)                                    ...............         -20,000          -20,000
 106-198
 106-162     (Reappropriation)                                       -6,000   ...............          +6,000
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Management and Administration                  -6,000   ...............          +6,000
                                                            ====================================================
                        INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

            National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  ...... Human space flight                                  ...............          25,800          +25,800
  ...... Mission support                                     ...............          20,200          +20,200
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, National Aeronautics and Space         ...............          46,000          +46,000
                Administration
                                                            ====================================================
                     National Science Foundation

 106-162 Education and human resources                                1,000            1,000   ...............
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 6: New budget (obligational)           44,000           96,000          +52,000
                authority
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 7

                               OFFSETS

                      DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 106-218 Information technology systems and related                  -2,435           -2,435   ...............
          expenses (offset) (emergency appropriations)

                       DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                       General Administration

 106-218 Information technology systems and related                  -3,565   ...............          +3,565
          expenses (offset) (emergency appropriations)

                 Economic Development Administration

 106-198
 106-218 Emergency oil and gas guarantee loan program               -62,756   ...............         +62,756
          account (offset) (emergency appropriations)

                       Science and Technology

           National Institute of Standards and Technology

  ...... Industrial technology services (rescission)         ...............          -4,500           -4,500

                        DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

                       General Administration

  ...... Salaries and expenses (rescission)                  ...............          -2,000           -2,000

                   United States Parole Commission

  ...... Salaries and expenses (rescission)                  ...............          -1,147           -1,147

                    DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                       Maritime Administration

 106-218 Maritime Guaranteed Loan (Title XI) Program                 -7,644   ...............          +7,644
          account: (offset)

                  Federal Communications Commission

 106-218 Information technology systems and related                  -1,900   ...............          +1,900
          expenses (offset) (emergency appropriations)

                          Legal Activities

  ...... Salaries and Expenses, General legal Activities     ...............          -2,000           -2,000
          (rescission)
  ...... Asset forfeiture fund (rescission)                  ...............         -13,500          -13,500

                   Federal Bureau of Investigation

  ...... Salaries and expenses (rescission)                  ...............         -15,000          -15,000

               Immigration and Naturalization Service

  ...... Enforcement and border affairs (rescission)         ...............          -5,000           -5,000
  ...... Citizenship and benefits, immigration support and   ...............          -5,000           -5,000
          program direction (rescission)
  ...... Violent crime reduction programs (rescission)       ...............          -5,000           -5,000
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Immigration and Naturalization         ...............         -15,000          -15,000
                Service
                                                            ====================================================
                     Office of Justice Programs

  ...... Justice Assistance: Bureau of Justice assistance    ...............            -500             -500
          (rescission)

  ...... State and local law enforcement assistance: State   ...............         -82,399          -82,399
          criminal alien assistance program (rescission)
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, State and local law enforcement        ...............         -82,399          -82,399
                                                            ====================================================
                    Small Business Administration

  ...... Salaries and expenses (rescission)                  ...............          -5,000           -5,000
  ...... Business loans program account (rescission)         ...............          -1,500           -1,500
                                                            ----------------------------------------------------
               Total, Small Business Administration          ...............          -6,500           -6,500
                                                            ====================================================
                     DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                        National Park Service

 106-198 Construction                                                -5,000   ...............          +5,000

                        DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

 106-194 SPR petroleum account (rescission)                         -12,000   ...............         +12,000

                         DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

                       Departmental Management

 106-218 Information technology systems and related                    -350   ...............            +350
          expenses (offset) (emergency appropriations)

               DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

          Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund

 106-218 Information technology systems and related                -163,752         -124,500          +39,252
          expenses (offset) (emergency appropriations)

                       DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

                       Departmental Management

 106-218 Information technology systems and related                    -866   ...............            +866
          expenses (offset) (emergency appropriations)

                    DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 106-218 Information technology systems and related                 -26,600   ...............         +26,600
          expenses (offset) (emergency appropriations)

                  EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

                         Unanticipated Needs

 106-198 Information technology systems and related                -235,000         -235,000   ...............
          expenses (offset) (emergency appropriations)

                    Federal Drug Control Programs

  ...... Special forfeiture fund (rescission)                ...............          -3,300           -3,300

                        INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                   General Services Administration

 106-218 Information technology systems and related                  -3,532   ...............          +3,532
          expenses (offset) (emergency appropriations)

             DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                      Public and Indian Housing

 106-198
 106-194 Housing certificate fund (rescission)                     -128,000         -128,000   ...............
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 7:
                   Rescissions                                    (-145,000)       (-273,846)       (-128,846)
                   Offsets                                          (-7,644)  ...............         (+7,644)
                   Offsets (emergency appropriations)             (-500,756)       (-361,935)       (+138,821)
                                                            ====================================================
                              CHAPTER 8

                         GENERAL PROVISIONS

  ...... Section 2805 FCC salaries and expenses              ...............           5,800           +5,800
  ...... Section 2805 FCC Offsetting collections             ...............          -5,800           -5,800
  ...... Section 2806 (CALEA)                                ...............         100,000         +100,000
  ...... Section 2810 (JPATS)                                ...............          13,500          +13,500
  ...... Department of Commerce, (transfer out)              ...............          -1,000           -1,000
  ...... Commerce, OIG (transfer out)                        ...............            -500             -500
  ...... Commission on Online Child Protection, (by          ...............           1,500           +1,500
          transfer)
  ...... Section 2810 State prison grants (by transfer)      ...............          (1,000)         (+1,000)
  ...... Federal Bureau of Investigation, Salaries and       ...............           3,000           +3,000
          Expenses
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, Chapter 8: New budget (obligational)   ...............         116,500         +116,500
                authority
                                                            ====================================================
               Total, title II:
                   New budget (obligational) authority             -195,240         -182,335          +12,905
                       Appropriations                              (458,160)        (472,046)        (+13,886)
                       Contingent emergency appropriations   ...............          (1,400)         (+1,400)
                       Rescissions                                (-145,000)       (-293,846)       (-148,846)
                       Offsets                                      (-7,644)  ...............         (+7,644)
                       Offsets (emergency appropriations)         (-500,756)       (-361,935)       (+138,821)
                   (By transfer)                                    (24,500)         (78,000)        (+53,500)
                                                            ====================================================
               Grand total, all titles:
                   New budget (obligational) authority              836,918        2,157,908       +1,320,990
                       Appropriations                              (458,160)        (475,346)        (+17,186)
                       Rescissions                                (-145,000)       (-293,846)       (-148,846)
                       Offsets                                      (-7,644)  ...............         (+7,644)
                       Emergency appropriations                    (260,758)        (159,065)       (-101,693)
                       Contingent emergency appropriations         (771,400)      (2,179,278)     (+1,407,878)
                       Rescission of emergency               ...............  ...............  ...............
                        appropriations
                       Offsets (emergency appropriations)         (-500,756)       (-361,935)       (+138,821)
                   (By transfer)                                    (24,500)         (78,000)        (+53,500)
                   (Loan authorizations)                            (40,000)        (153,250)       (+113,250)
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