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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hire of passenger motor vehicles; the rental of space (to include 
multiple year leases) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and 
not to exceed $25,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $69,000,000, 
including not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses: Provided, That for fiscal year 2001 and 
thereafter, the Commission is authorized to charge reasonable fees to 
attendees of Commission sponsored educational events and symposia to 
cover the Commission's costs of providing those events and symposia, 
and notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, said fees shall be credited to this 
account, to be available without further appropriation.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>Farm Credit Administration</DELETED>

        <DELETED>limitation on administrative expenses</DELETED>

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

            <DELETED>TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, 
appropriations and authorizations made for the Department of 
Agriculture for the current fiscal year under this Act shall be 
available for the purchase, in addition to those specifically provided 
for, of not to exceed 389 passenger motor vehicles, of which 385 shall 
be for replacement only, and for the hire of such vehicles.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 702. Funds in this Act available to the Department of 
Agriculture shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor as 
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 703. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropriations 
of the Department of Agriculture in this Act for research and service 
work authorized by sections 1 and 10 of the Act of June 29, 1935 (7 
U.S.C. 427, 427i; commonly known as the Bankhead-Jones Act), subtitle A 
of title II and section 302 of the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 U.S.C. 
1621 et seq.), and chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code, shall be 
available for contracting in accordance with such Acts and 
chapter.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 704. The Secretary may transfer funds provided under 
this Act and other available unobligated balances of the Department of 
Agriculture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition of plant 
and capital equipment necessary for the delivery of financial, 
administrative, and information technology services: Provided, That 
none of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act shall be 
transferred to the Working Capital Fund without the prior approval of 
the agency administrator.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 705. New obligational authority provided for the 
following appropriation items in this Act shall remain available until 
expended: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the contingency 
fund to meet emergency conditions, fruit fly program, integrated 
systems acquisition project, boll weevil program, up to 10 percent of 
the screwworm program, and up to $2,000,000 for costs associated with 
colocating regional offices; Food Safety and Inspection Service, field 
automation and information management project; funds appropriated for 
rental payments; Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
Service, funds for competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)) and 
funds for the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund; Farm Service 
Agency, salaries and expenses funds made available to county 
committees; Foreign Agricultural Service, middle-income country 
training program and up to $2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricultural 
Service appropriation solely for the purpose of offsetting fluctuations 
in international currency exchange rates, subject to documentation by 
the Foreign Agricultural Service.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 706. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal 
year unless expressly so provided herein.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 707. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriations 
available to the Department of Agriculture in this Act shall be 
available to provide appropriate orientation and language training 
pursuant to section 606C of the Act of August 28, 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1766b; 
commonly known as the Agricultural Act of 1954).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 708. No funds appropriated by this Act may be used to 
pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative agreements or similar 
arrangements between the United States Department of Agriculture and 
nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost 
of the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative arrangements is 
to carry out programs of mutual interest between the two parties. This 
does not preclude appropriate payment of indirect costs on grants and 
contracts with such institutions when such indirect costs are computed 
on a similar basis for all agencies for which appropriations are 
provided in this Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 709. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
commodities acquired by the Department in connection with the Commodity 
Credit Corporation and section 32 price support operations may be used, 
as authorized by law (15 U.S.C. 714c and 7 U.S.C. 612c), to provide 
commodities to individuals in cases of hardship as determined by the 
Secretary of Agriculture.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 710. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to lease 
space for its own use or to lease space on behalf of other agencies of 
the Department of Agriculture when such space will be jointly 
occupied.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 711. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
to pay indirect costs charged against competitive agricultural 
research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the 
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service that 
exceed 19 percent of total Federal funds provided under each award: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 1462 of the National 
Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3310), funds provided by this Act for grants awarded 
competitively by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
Extension Service shall be available to pay full allowable indirect 
costs for each grant awarded under section 9 of the Small Business Act 
(15 U.S.C. 638).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 712. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
all loan levels provided in this Act shall be considered estimates, not 
limitations.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 713. Appropriations to the Department of Agriculture 
for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made available in the 
current fiscal year shall remain available until expended to cover 
obligations made in the current fiscal year for the following accounts: 
the rural development loan fund program account; the rural telephone 
bank program account; the rural electrification and telecommunications 
loans program account; the rural housing insurance fund program 
account; and the rural economic development loans program 
account.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 714. Such sums as may be necessary for the current 
fiscal year pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall be 
absorbed within the levels appropriated by this Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 715. Notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, United 
States Code, marketing services of the Agricultural Marketing Service; 
the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; the Animal 
and Plant Health Inspection Service; and the food safety activities of 
the Food Safety and Inspection Service may use cooperative agreements 
to reflect a relationship between the Agricultural Marketing Service; 
the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; the Animal 
and Plant Health Inspection Service; or the Food Safety and Inspection 
Service and a State or Cooperator to carry out agricultural marketing 
programs, to carry out programs to protect the Nation's animal and 
plant resources, or to carry out educational programs or special 
studies to improve the safety of the Nation's food supply.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 716. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
(including provisions of law requiring competition), the Secretary of 
Agriculture may hereafter enter into cooperative agreements (which may 
provide for the acquisition of goods or services, including personal 
services) with a State, political subdivision, or agency thereof, a 
public or private agency, organization, or any other person, if the 
Secretary determines that the objectives of the agreement will: (1) 
serve a mutual interest of the parties to the agreement in carrying out 
the programs administered by the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service; and (2) all parties will contribute resources to the 
accomplishment of these objectives: Provided, That Commodity Credit 
Corporation funds obligated for such purposes shall not exceed the 
level obligated by the Commodity Credit Corporation for such purposes 
in fiscal year 1998.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 717. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
retire more than 5 percent of the Class A stock of the Rural Telephone 
Bank or to maintain any account or subaccount within the accounting 
records of the Rural Telephone Bank the creation of which has not 
specifically been authorized by statute: Provided, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this Act may be used to transfer to the Treasury or 
to the Federal Financing Bank any unobligated balance of the Rural 
Telephone Bank telephone liquidating account which is in excess of 
current requirements and such balance shall receive interest as set 
forth for financial accounts in section 505(c) of the Federal Credit 
Reform Act of 1990.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 718. Of the funds made available by this Act, not 
more than $1,500,000 shall be used to cover necessary expenses of 
activities related to all advisory committees, panels, commissions, and 
task forces of the Department of Agriculture, except for panels used to 
comply with negotiated rule makings and panels used to evaluate 
competitively awarded grants.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 719. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be used to carry out section 410 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 
U.S.C. 679a) or section 30 of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 
U.S.C. 471).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 720. No employee of the Department of Agriculture may 
be detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by this Act to 
any other agency or office of the Department for more than 30 days 
unless the individual's employing agency or office is fully reimbursed 
by the receiving agency or office for the salary and expenses of the 
employee for the period of assignment.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 721. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of Agriculture shall be used to transmit or 
otherwise make available to any non-Department of Agriculture employee 
questions or responses to questions that are a result of information 
requested for the appropriations hearing process.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 722. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire new 
information technology systems or significant upgrades, as determined 
by the Office of the Chief Information Officer, without the approval of 
the Chief Information Officer and the concurrence of the Executive 
Information Technology Investment Review Board: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be transferred 
to the Office of the Chief Information Officer without the prior 
approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 723. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, or 
provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this 
Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current 
fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 
United States derived by the collection of fees available to the 
agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or 
expenditure through a reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new 
programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases 
funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which 
funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or 
employees; (5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) 
contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities presently 
performed by Federal employees; unless the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such 
reprogramming of funds.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by 
previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that 
remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current fiscal 
year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United 
States derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies 
funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogramming of funds 
in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that: (1) 
augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 
percent funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or 
numbers of personnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or (3) 
results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which 
would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects 
as approved by Congress; unless the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such 
reprogramming of funds.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 724. With the exception of funds needed to administer 
and conduct oversight of grants awarded and obligations incurred prior 
to enactment of this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries 
and expenses of personnel to carry out section 793 of Public Law 104-
127, the Fund for Rural America (7 U.S.C. 2204f).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 725. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
personnel who carry out an environmental quality incentives program 
authorized by chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security 
Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) in excess of 
$174,000,000.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 726. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
available to the Department of Agriculture in the current fiscal year 
or thereafter may be used to administer the provision of contract 
payments to a producer under the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 
U.S.C. 7201 et seq.) for contract acreage on which wild rice is planted 
unless the contract payment is reduced by an acre for each contract 
acre planted to wild rice.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 727. With the exception of funds needed to administer 
and conduct oversight of grants awarded and obligations incurred prior 
to enactment of this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries 
and expenses of personnel to carry out the provisions of section 401 of 
Public Law 105-185, the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food 
Systems (7 U.S.C. 7621).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 728. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to carry out any commodity purchase 
program that would prohibit eligibility or participation by farmer-
owned cooperatives.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 729. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
personnel to carry out a conservation farm option program, as 
authorized by section 1240M of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3839bb).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 730. None of the funds made available by this Act or 
any other Act for any fiscal year may be used to carry out section 
203(h) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622(h)) 
unless the Secretary of Agriculture inspects and certifies agricultural 
processing equipment, and imposes a fee for the inspection and 
certification, in a manner that is similar to the inspection and 
certification of agricultural products under that section, as 
determined by the Secretary: Provided, That this provision shall not 
affect the authority of the Secretary to carry out the Federal Meat 
Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), the Poultry Products Inspection 
Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.), or the Egg Products Inspection Act (21 
U.S.C. 1031 et seq.).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 731. None of the funds appropriated by this Act or 
any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
personnel who prepare or submit appropriations language as part of the 
President's Budget submission to the Congress of the United States for 
programs under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on 
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies that assumes 
revenues or reflects a reduction from the previous year due to user 
fees proposals that have not been enacted into law prior to the 
submission of the Budget unless such Budget submission identifies which 
additional spending reductions should occur in the event the user fees 
proposals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening of a 
committee of conference for the fiscal year 2002 appropriations 
Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 732. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to carry out a Community Food 
Security program or any similar activity within the United States 
Department of Agriculture without the prior approval of the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 733. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to carry out provision 
of section 612 of Public Law 105-185.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 734. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or orders for 
the purpose of implementation, or in preparation for implementation, of 
the Kyoto Protocol which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, 
Japan, at the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations 
Framework Convention on Climate Change, which has not been submitted to 
the Senate for advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article 
II, section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and which 
has not entered into force pursuant to article 25 of the Protocol: 

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