H.R. 4461 (rh) 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. [Reported in House] ...

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

                      <DELETED>TITLE III</DELETED>

             <DELETED>RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS</DELETED>

 <DELETED>Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development</DELETED>

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

         <DELETED>rural community advancement program</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(including transfers of funds)</DELETED>

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

                <DELETED>Rural Housing Service</DELETED>

    <DELETED>rural housing insurance fund program account</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(including transfers of funds)</DELETED>

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

              <DELETED>rental assistance program</DELETED>

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

         <DELETED>mutual and self-help housing grants</DELETED>

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

           <DELETED>rural housing assistance grants</DELETED>

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

             <DELETED>farm labor program account</DELETED>

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

                  <DELETED>RURAL DEVELOPMENT</DELETED>

                <DELETED>Salaries and Expenses</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(including transfers of funds)</DELETED>

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

         <DELETED>Rural Business-Cooperative Service</DELETED>

     <DELETED>Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(including transfers of funds)</DELETED>

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

  <DELETED>rural economic development loans program account</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(including rescission of funds)</DELETED>

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

        <DELETED>rural cooperative development grants</DELETED>

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

     <DELETED>national sheep industry improvement center revolving 
                             fund</DELETED>

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

               <DELETED>Rural Utilities Service</DELETED>

  <DELETED>rural electrification and telecommunications loans program 
                           account</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(including transfers of funds)</DELETED>

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

        <DELETED>rural telephone bank program account</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(including transfers of funds)</DELETED>

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