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U.S.C. 551-558.

      Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Congressional Relations to carry out the programs funded 
by this Act, including programs involving intergovernmental affairs and 
liaison within the executive branch, $3,821,000: Provided, That these 
funds may be transferred to agencies of the Department of Agriculture 
funded by this Act to maintain personnel at the agency level: Provided 
further, That no other funds appropriated to the Department by this Act 
shall be available to the Department for support of activities of 
congressional relations.

                        Office of Communications

    For necessary expenses to carry out services relating to the 
coordination of programs involving public affairs, for the dissemination 
of agricultural information, and the coordination of information, work, 
and programs authorized by Congress in the Department, $9,140,000: 
Provided, That not to exceed $2,000,000 may be used for farmers' 
bulletins.

                     Office of the Inspector General

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General, 
including employment pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
$74,097,000, including such sums as may be necessary for contracting and 
other arrangements with public agencies and private persons pursuant to 
section 6(a)(9) of the Inspector General

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Act of 1978, and including not to exceed $125,000 for certain 
confidential operational expenses, including the payment of informants, 
to be expended under the direction of the Inspector General pursuant to 
Public Law 95-452 and section 1337 of Public Law 97-98.

                      Office of the General Counsel

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the General Counsel, 
$35,017,000.

   Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Research, Education and Economics to administer the laws 
enacted by the Congress for the Economic Research Service, the National 
Agricultural Statistics Service, the Agricultural Research Service, and 
the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, 
$588,000.

                        Economic Research Service

    For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in 
conducting economic research and analysis, as authorized by the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621-1627) and other laws, 
$69,123,000.

                National Agricultural Statistics Service

    For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Statistics 
Service in conducting statistical reporting and service work, including 
crop and livestock estimates, statistical coordination and improvements, 
marketing surveys, and the Census of Agriculture, as authorized by 7 
U.S.C. 1621-1627 and 2204g, and other laws, $139,354,000, of which up to 
$41,274,000 shall be available until expended for the Census of 
Agriculture.

                      Agricultural Research Service

                          salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Research Service 
to perform agricultural research and demonstration relating to 
production, utilization, marketing, and distribution (not otherwise 
provided for); home economics or nutrition and consumer use including 
the acquisition, preservation, and dissemination of agricultural 
information; and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or 
purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, and for land exchanges 
where the lands exchanged shall be of equal value or shall be equalized 
by a payment of money to the grantor which shall not exceed 25 percent 
of the total value of the land or interests transferred out of Federal 
ownership, $1,052,770,000: Provided, <<NOTE: 7 USC 2254.>> That 
appropriations hereunder shall be available for the operation and 
maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed one for 
replacement only: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall 
be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, alteration, 
and repair of buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided, 
the cost of constructing any

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one building shall not exceed $375,000, except for headhouses or 
greenhouses which shall each be limited to $1,200,000, and except for 10 
buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $750,000 
each, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 
shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value of the 
building or $375,000, whichever is greater: Provided further, That the 
limitations on alterations contained in this Act shall not apply to 
modernization or replacement of existing facilities at Beltsville, 
Maryland: Provided further, <<NOTE: Maryland.>> That appropriations 
hereunder shall be available for granting easements at the Beltsville 
Agricultural Research Center: Provided further, That the foregoing 
limitations shall not apply to replacement of buildings needed to carry 
out the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That 
funds may be received from any State, other political subdivision, 
organization, or individual for the purpose of establishing or operating 
any research facility or research project of the Agricultural Research 
Service, as authorized by law.

    None of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available 
to carry out research related to the production, processing or marketing 
of tobacco or tobacco products.
    In <<NOTE: 7 USC 3319g.>> fiscal year 2003 and thereafter, the 
agency is authorized to charge fees, commensurate with the fair market 
value, for any permit, easement, lease, or other special use 
authorization for the occupancy or use of land and facilities (including 
land and facilities at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center) 
issued by the agency, as authorized by law, and such fees shall be 
credited to this account, and shall remain available until expended for 
authorized purposes.

                        buildings and facilities

    For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improvement, 
extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities as 
necessary to carry out the agricultural research programs of the 
Department of Agriculture, where not otherwise provided, $119,480,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That, in <<NOTE: 7 USC 
3319h.>> fiscal year 2003 and thereafter, funds may be received from any 
State, other political subdivision, organization, or individual for the 
purpose of establishing any research facility of the Agricultural 
Research Service, as authorized by law.

      Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

                    research and education activities

    For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for cooperative 
forestry and other research, for facilities, and for other expenses, 
$620,827,000, as follows: to carry out the provisions of the Hatch Act 
of 1887 (7 U.S.C. 361a-i), $180,148,000; for grants for cooperative 
forestry research (16 U.S.C. 582a through a-7), $21,884,000; for 
payments to the 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University 
(7 U.S.C. 3222), $35,643,000, of which $1,507,496 shall be made 
available only for the purpose of ensuring that each institution shall 
receive no less than $1,000,000; for special grants for agricultural 
research (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $112,264,000; for special grants for 
agricultural research on improved pest control (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), 
$15,264,000; for competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), 
$167,131,000; for the support

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of animal health and disease programs (7 U.S.C. 3195), $5,098,000; for 
supplemental and alternative crops and products (7 U.S.C. 3319d), 
$1,196,000; for grants for research pursuant to the Critical 
Agricultural Materials Act (7 U.S.C. 178 et seq.), $1,250,000, to remain 
available until expended; for research grants for 1994 institutions 
pursuant to section 536 of Public Law 103-382 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), 
$1,100,000, to remain available until expended; for higher education 
graduate fellowship grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(6)), $3,243,000, to remain 
available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for higher education 
challenge grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(1)), $4,920,000; for a higher 
education multicultural scholars program (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(5)), 
$998,000, to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for an 
education grants program for Hispanic-serving Institutions (7 U.S.C. 
3241), $4,100,000; for noncompetitive grants for the purpose of carrying 
out all provisions of 7 U.S.C. 3242 (section 759 of Public Law 106-78) 
to individual eligible institutions or consortia of eligible 
institutions in Alaska and in Hawaii, with funds awarded equally to each 
of the States of Alaska and Hawaii, $3,500,000; for a secondary 
agriculture education program and 2-year post-secondary education (7 
U.S.C. 3152(j)), $1,000,000; for aquaculture grants (7 U.S.C. 3322), 
$4,500,000; for sustainable agriculture research and education (7 U.S.C. 
5811), $13,750,000; for a program of capacity building grants (7 U.S.C. 
3152(b)(4)) to colleges eligible to receive funds under the Act of 
August 30, 1890 (7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328), including Tuskegee 
University, $11,479,000, to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 
2209b); for payments to the 1994 Institutions pursuant to section 
534(a)(1) of Public Law 103-382, $1,700,000; and for necessary expenses 
of Research and Education Activities, $29,659,000.
    None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be available to 
carry out research related to the production, processing or marketing of 
tobacco or tobacco products: Provided, That this paragraph shall not 
apply to research on the medical, biotechnological, food, and industrial 
uses of tobacco.

               native american institutions endowment fund

    For the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund authorized by 
Public Law 103-382 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), $7,100,000.

                          extension activities

    For payments to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, 
the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, and American Samoa, 
$453,468,000, as follows: payments for cooperative extension work under 
the Smith-Lever Act, to be distributed under sections 3(b) and 3(c) of 
said Act, and under section 208(c) of Public Law 93-471, for retirement 
and employees' compensation costs for extension agents and for costs of 
penalty mail for cooperative extension agents and State extension 
directors, $281,218,000; payments for extension work at the 1994 
Institutions under the Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343(b)(3)), $3,387,000; 
payments for the nutrition and family education program for low-income 
areas under section 3(d) of the Act, $58,566,000; payments for the pest 
management program under section 3(d) of the Act, $10,759,000; payments 
for the farm safety program under section 3(d) of the Act, $5,525,000; 
payments to upgrade research, extension, and teaching facilities at the 
1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee

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University, as authorized by section 1447 of Public Law 95-113 (7 U.S.C. 
3222b), $15,000,000, to remain available until expended; payments for 
youth-at-risk programs under section 3(d) of the Smith-Lever Act, 
$8,481,000; for youth farm safety education and certification extension 
grants, to be awarded competitively under section 3(d) of the Act, 
$499,000; payments for carrying out the provisions of the Renewable 
Resources Extension Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.), $4,546,000; 
payments for Indian reservation agents under section 3(d) of the Smith-
Lever Act, $1,996,000; payments for sustainable agriculture programs 
under section 3(d) of the Act, $4,875,000; payments for rural health and 
safety education as authorized by section 502(i) of Public Law 92-419 (7 
U.S.C. 2662(i)), $2,622,000; payments for cooperative extension work by 
the colleges receiving the benefits of the second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 
321-326 and 328) and Tuskegee University, $32,117,000, of which 
$1,724,884 shall be made available only for the purpose of ensuring that 
each institution shall receive no less than $1,000,000; for grants to 
youth organizations pursuant to section 7630 of title 7, United States 
Code, $3,000,000; and for necessary expenses of extension activities, 
$20,877,000.

                          integrated activities

    For the integrated research, education, and extension competitive 
grants programs, including necessary administrative expenses, as 
authorized under section 406 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, 
and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7626), $46,743,000, as 
follows: payments for the water quality program, $12,971,000; payments 
for the food safety program, $14,967,000; payments for the regional pest 
management centers program, $4,531,000; payments for the Food Quality 
Protection Act risk mitigation program for major food crop systems, 
$4,889,000; payments for the crops affected by Food Quality Protection 
Act implementation, $1,497,000; payments for the methyl bromide 
transition program, $3,250,000; payments for the organic transition 
program, $2,125,000; payments for the international science and 
education grants program under 7 U.S.C. 3291, to remain available until 
expended, $500,000; payments for the critical issues program under 7 
U.S.C. 450i(c): Provided, That of the funds made available under this 
heading, $500,000 shall be for payments for the critical issues program 
under 7 U.S.C. 450i(c) and $1,513,000 shall be for payments for the 
regional rural development centers program under 7 U.S.C. 450i(c).

               outreach for socially disadvantaged farmers

    For grants and contracts pursuant to section 2501 of the Food, 
Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279), 
$3,493,000, to remain available until expended.

   Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs to administer programs 
under the laws enacted by the Congress for the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service; the Agricultural Marketing

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Service; and the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 
Administration; $730,000.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

                          salaries and expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to prevent, 
control, and eradicate pests and plant and animal diseases; to carry out 
inspection, quarantine, and regulatory activities; and to protect the 
environment, as authorized by law, $725,502,000, of which $4,103,000 
shall be available for the control of outbreaks of insects, plant 
diseases, animal diseases and for control of pest animals and birds to 
the extent necessary to meet emergency conditions; of which $62,000,000 
shall be used for the boll weevil eradication program for cost share 
purposes or for debt retirement for active eradication zones: Provided, 
That no funds shall be used to formulate or administer a brucellosis 
eradication program for the current fiscal year that does not require 
minimum matching by the States of at least 40 percent: Provided further, 
That this appropriation shall be available for the operation and 
maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed four, of which 
two shall be for replacement only: Provided further, That, in addition, 
in emergencies which threaten any segment of the agricultural production 
industry of this country, the Secretary may transfer from other 
appropriations or funds available to the agencies or corporations of the 
Department such sums as may be deemed necessary, to be available only in 

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