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Union Calendar No. 96
118THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 4368
[Report No. 118–124]
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE27, 2023
Mr. H
ARRIS, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following
bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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A BILL
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development,
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024,
and for other purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for Ag-4
riculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-5
tion, and Related Agencies programs for fiscal year ending 6
September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, namely: 7
TITLE I 8
AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS 9
P
ROCESSING, RESEARCH, ANDMARKETING 10
O
FFICE OF THESECRETARY 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 12
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 13
$41,072,000 of which not to exceed $5,051,000 shall be 14
available for the immediate Office of the Secretary; not 15
to exceed $1,578,000 shall be available for the Office of 16
Homeland Security; not to exceed $2,215,000 shall be 17
available for the Office of Tribal Relations; not to exceed 18
$7,044,000 shall be available for the Office of Partner-19
ships and Public Engagement; not to exceed $21,315,000 20
shall be available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary 21
for Administration, of which $20,440,000 shall be avail-22
able for Departmental Administration to provide for nec-23
essary expenses for management support services to of-24
fices of the Department and for general administration, 25
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security, repairs and alterations, and other miscellaneous 1
supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and nec-2
essary for the practical and efficient work of the Depart-3
ment: Provided, That funds made available by this Act to 4
an agency in the Administration mission area for salaries 5
and expenses are available to fund up to one administra-6
tive support staff for the Office; and not to exceed 7
$3,869,000 shall be available for the Office of Assistant 8
Secretary for Congressional Relations and Intergovern-9
mental Affairs to carry out the programs funded by this 10
Act, including programs involving intergovernmental af-11
fairs and liaison within the executive branch: Provided fur-12
ther, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to 13
transfer funds appropriated for any office of the Office 14
of the Secretary to any other office of the Office of the 15
Secretary: Provided further, That no appropriation for any 16
office shall be increased or decreased by more than 5 per-17
cent: Provided further, That the amount made available 18
under this heading for Departmental Administration shall 19
be reimbursed from applicable appropriations in this Act 20
for travel expenses incident to the holding of hearings as 21
required by 5 U.S.C. 551–558: Provided further, That 22
funds made available under this heading for the Office of 23
the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations and 24
Intergovernmental Affairs shall be transferred to agencies 25
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of the Department of Agriculture funded by this Act to 1
maintain personnel at the agency level: Provided further, 2
That no funds made available under this heading for the 3
Office of Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations 4
may be obligated after 30 days from the date of enactment 5
of this Act, unless the Secretary has notified the Commit-6
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress on the 7
allocation of these funds by USDA agency: Provided fur-8
ther, That during any 30 day notification period ref-9
erenced in section 716 of this Act, the Secretary of Agri-10
culture shall take no action to begin implementation of 11
the action that is subject to section 716 of this Act or 12
make any public announcement of such action in any 13
form. 14
E
XECUTIVEOPERATIONS 15
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ECONOMIST 16
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief 17
Economist, $29,181,000, of which $8,000,000 shall be for 18
grants or cooperative agreements for policy research under 19
7 U.S.C. 3155: Provided, That of the amounts made avail-20
able under this heading, $500,000 shall be available to 21
carry out section 224 of subtitle A of the Department of 22
Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6924), 23
as amended by section 12504 of Public Law 115–334. 24
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OFFICE OF HEARINGS AND APPEALS 1
For necessary expenses of the Office of Hearings and 2
Appeals, $16,173,000. 3
OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS 4
For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and 5
Program Analysis, $11,337,000. 6
O
FFICE OF THECHIEFINFORMATIONOFFICER 7
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief In-8
formation Officer, $79,442,000, of which not less than 9
$66,731,000 is for cybersecurity requirements of the de-10
partment. 11
O
FFICE OF THECHIEFFINANCIALOFFICER 12
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Fi-13
nancial Officer, $7,118,000. 14
O
FFICE OF THEASSISTANTSECRETARY FORCIVIL 15
R
IGHTS 16
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant 17
Secretary for Civil Rights, $901,000: Provided, That 18
funds made available by this Act to an agency in the Civil 19
Rights mission area for salaries and expenses are available 20
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the Of-21
fice. 22
O
FFICE OFCIVILRIGHTS 23
For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 24
$22,789,000. 25
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OFFICE OFSAFETY, SECURITY, ANDPROTECTION 1
For necessary expenses of the Office of Safety, Secu-2
rity, and Protection, $18,800,000. 3
O
FFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 4
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 5
General, including employment pursuant to the Inspector 6
General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–452; 5 U.S.C. App.), 7
$109,561,000, including such sums as may be necessary 8
for contracting and other arrangements with public agen-9
cies and private persons pursuant to section 6(a)(9) of the 10
Inspector General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–452; 5 11
U.S.C. App.), and including not to exceed $125,000 for 12
certain confidential operational expenses, including the 13
payment of informants, to be expended under the direction 14
of the Inspector General pursuant to the Inspector Gen-15
eral Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–452; 5 U.S.C. App.) and 16
section 1337 of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 17
(Public Law 97–98). 18
O
FFICE OF THEGENERALCOUNSEL 19
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General 20
Counsel, $44,408,000. 21
O
FFICE OFETHICS 22
For necessary expenses of the Office of Ethics, 23
$4,277,000. 24
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OFFICE OF THEUNDERSECRETARY FORRESEARCH, 1
E
DUCATION, ANDECONOMICS 2
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 3
Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics, 4
$1,800,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 5
Act to an agency in the Research, Education, and Eco-6
nomics mission area for salaries and expenses are avail-7
able to fund up to one administrative support staff for 8
the Office: Provided further, That of the amounts made 9
available under this heading, $1,000,000 shall be made 10
available for the Office of the Chief Scientist. 11
E
CONOMICRESEARCHSERVICE 12
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research 13
Service, $90,612,000. 14
N
ATIONALAGRICULTURALSTATISTICSSERVICE 15
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural 16
Statistics Service, $187,513,000, of which up to 17
$46,850,000 shall be available until expended for the Cen-18
sus of Agriculture: Provided, That amounts made available 19
for the Census of Agriculture may be used to conduct Cur-20
rent Industrial Report surveys subject to 7 U.S.C. 21
2204g(d) and (f). 22
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AGRICULTURALRESEARCHSERVICE 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Research 3
Service and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, 4
or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100,000 and 5
with prior notification and approval of the Committees on 6
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress, and for land 7
exchanges where the lands exchanged shall be of equal 8
value or shall be equalized by a payment of money to the 9
grantor which shall not exceed 25 percent of the total 10
value of the land or interests transferred out of Federal 11
ownership, $1,745,542,000: Provided, That appropriations 12
hereunder shall be available for the operation and mainte-13
nance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed one 14
for replacement only: Provided further, That appropria-15
tions hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 16
2250 for the construction, alteration, and repair of build-17
ings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided, the 18
cost of constructing any one building shall not exceed 19
$500,000, except for headhouses or greenhouses which 20
shall each be limited to $1,800,000, except for 10 build-21
ings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed 22
$1,100,000 each, and except for four buildings to be con-23
structed at a cost not to exceed $5,000,000 each, and the 24
cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 25
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shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement 1
value of the building or $500,000, whichever is greater: 2
Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be 3
available for entering into lease agreements at any Agri-4
cultural Research Service location for the construction of 5
a research facility by a non-Federal entity for use by the 6
Agricultural Research Service and a condition of the lease 7
shall be that any facility shall be owned, operated, and 8
maintained by the non-Federal entity and shall be re-9
moved upon the expiration or termination of the lease 10
agreement: Provided further, That the limitations on alter-11
ations contained in this Act shall not apply to moderniza-12
tion or replacement of existing facilities at Beltsville, 13
Maryland: Provided further, That appropriations here-14
under shall be available for granting easements at the 15
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Provided further, 16
That the foregoing limitations shall not apply to replace-17
ment of buildings needed to carry out the Act of April 18
24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That appro-19
priations hereunder shall be available for granting ease-20
ments at any Agricultural Research Service location for 21
the construction of a research facility by a non-Federal 22
entity for use by, and acceptable to, the Agricultural Re-23
search Service and a condition of the easements shall be 24
that upon completion the facility shall be accepted by the 25
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Secretary, subject to the availability of funds herein, if the 1
Secretary finds that acceptance of the facility is in the 2
interest of the United States: Provided further, That funds 3
may be received from any State, other political subdivi-4
sion, organization, or individual for the purpose of estab-5
lishing or operating any research facility or research 6
project of the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized 7
by law. 8
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 9
For the acquisition of land, construction, repair, im-10
provement, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed 11
equipment or facilities as necessary to carry out the agri-12
cultural research programs of the Department of Agri-13
culture, where not otherwise provided, up to $16,700,000 14
to remain available until expended, shall be for the pur-15
poses, and in the amounts, specified for this account in 16
the table titled ‘‘Community Project Funding’’ in the re-17
port accompanying this Act. 18
N
ATIONALINSTITUTE OFFOOD ANDAGRICULTURE 19
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES 20
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for 21
cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and 22
for other expenses, $1,085,221,000 which shall be for the 23
purposes, and in the amounts, specified in the table titled 24
‘‘National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Research 25
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and Education Activities’’ in the report accompanying this 1
Act: Provided, That funds for research grants for 1994 2
institutions, education grants for 1890 institutions, His-3
panic serving institutions education grants, capacity build-4
ing for non-land-grant colleges of agriculture, the agri-5
culture and food research initiative, veterinary medicine 6
loan repayment, multicultural scholars, graduate fellow-7
ship and institution challenge grants, grants management 8
systems, tribal colleges education equity grants, and schol-9
arships at 1890 institutions shall remain available until 10
expended: Provided further, That each institution eligible 11
to receive funds under the Evans-Allen program receives 12
no less than $1,000,000: Provided further, That funds for 13
education grants for Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian- 14
serving institutions be made available to individual eligible 15
institutions or consortia of eligible institutions with funds 16
awarded equally to each of the States of Alaska and Ha-17
waii: Provided further, That funds for providing grants for 18
food and agricultural sciences for Alaska Native and Na-19
tive Hawaiian-Serving institutions and for Insular Areas 20
shall remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided 21
further, That funds for education grants for 1890 institu-22
tions shall be made available to institutions eligible to re-23
ceive funds under 7 U.S.C. 3221 and 3222: Provided fur-24
ther, That not more than 5 percent of the amounts made 25
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available by this or any other Act to carry out the Agri-1
culture and Food Research Initiative under 7 U.S.C. 3157 2
may be retained by the Secretary of Agriculture to pay 3
administrative costs incurred by the Secretary in carrying 4
out that authority. 5
NATIVE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS ENDOWMENT FUND 6
For the Native American Institutions Endowment 7
Fund authorized by Public Law 103–382 (7 U.S.C. 301 8
note), $11,880,000, to remain available until expended. 9
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES 10
For payments to States, the District of Columbia, 11
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, the 12
Northern Marianas, and American Samoa, $564,860,000 13
which shall be for the purposes, and in the amounts, speci-14
fied in the table titled ‘‘National Institute of Food and 15
Agriculture, Extension Activities’’ in the report accom-16
panying this Act: Provided, That funds for extension serv-17
ices at 1994 institutions and for facility improvements at 18
1890 institutions shall remain available until expended: 19
Provided further, That institutions eligible to receive funds 20
under 7 U.S.C. 3221 for cooperative extension receive no 21
less than $1,000,000: Provided further, That funds for co-22
operative extension under sections 3(b) and (c) of the 23
Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343(b) and (c)) and section 24
208(c) of Public Law 93–471 shall be available for retire-25
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ment and employees’ compensation costs for extension 1
agents. 2
INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES 3
For the integrated research, education, and extension 4
grants programs, including necessary administrative ex-5
penses, $41,500,000, which shall be for the purposes, and 6
in the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘National In-7
stitute of Food and Agriculture, Integrated Activities’’ in 8
the report accompanying this Act: Provided, That funds 9
for the Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative shall re-10
main available until September 30, 2025: Provided further, 11
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, indirect 12
costs shall not be charged against any Extension Imple-13
mentation Program Area grant awarded under the Crop 14
Protection/Pest Management Program (7 U.S.C. 7626). 15
O
FFICE OF THEUNDERSECRETARY FORMARKETING 16
ANDREGULATORYPROGRAMS 17
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 18
Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, 19
$800,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 20
Act to an agency in the Marketing and Regulatory Pro-21
grams mission area for salaries and expenses are available 22
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the Of-23
fice. 24
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ANIMAL ANDPLANTHEALTHINSPECTIONSERVICE 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
For necessary expenses of the Animal and Plant 4
Health Inspection Service, including up to $30,000 for 5
representation allowances and for expenses pursuant to 6
the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4085), 7
$1,168,964,000; of which $514,000, to remain available 8
until expended, shall be available for the control of out-9
breaks of insects, plant diseases, animal diseases and for 10
control of pest animals and birds (‘‘contingency fund’’) to 11
the extent necessary to meet emergency conditions; of 12
which $15,450,000, to remain available until expended, 13
shall be used for the cotton pests program, including for 14
cost share purposes or for debt retirement for active eradi-15
cation zones; of which $49,683,000, to remain available 16
until expended, shall be for Animal Health Technical Serv-17
ices; of which $3,096,000 shall be for activities under the 18
authority of the Horse Protection Act of 1970, as amend-19
ed (15 U.S.C. 1831); of which $67,430,000, to remain 20
available until expended, shall be used to support avian 21
health; of which $4,251,000, to remain available until ex-22
pended, shall be for information technology infrastructure; 23
of which $224,521,000, to remain available until ex-24
pended, shall be for specialty crop pests; of which, 25
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$13,637,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 1
for field crop and rangeland ecosystem pests; of which 2
$21,567,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 3
for zoonotic disease management; of which $44,617,000, 4
to remain available until expended, shall be for emergency 5
preparedness and response; of which $55,562,000, to re-6
main available until expended, shall be for tree and wood 7
pests; of which $6,500,000, to remain available until ex-8
pended, shall be for the National Veterinary Stockpile; of 9
which up to $1,500,000, to remain available until ex-10
pended, shall be for the scrapie program for indemnities; 11
of which $2,500,000, to remain available until expended, 12
shall be for the wildlife damage management program for 13
aviation safety: Provided, That of amounts available under 14
this heading for wildlife services methods development, 15
$1,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Pro-16
vided further, That of amounts available under this head-17
ing for the screwworm program, $4,990,000 shall remain 18
available until expended; of which $24,527,000, to remain 19
available until expended, shall be used to carry out the 20
science program and transition activities for the National 21
Bio and Agro-defense Facility located in Manhattan, Kan-22
sas: Provided further, That no funds shall be used to for-23
mulate or administer a brucellosis eradication program for 24
the current fiscal year that does not require minimum 25
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matching by the States of at least 40 percent: Provided 1
further, That this appropriation shall be available for the 2
purchase, replacement, operation, and maintenance of air-3
craft: Provided further, That in addition, in emergencies 4
which threaten any segment of the agricultural production 5
industry of the United States, the Secretary may transfer 6
from other appropriations or funds available to the agen-7
cies or corporations of the Department such sums as may 8
be deemed necessary, to be available only in such emer-9
gencies for the arrest and eradication of contagious or in-10
fectious disease or pests of animals, poultry, or plants, and 11
for expenses in accordance with sections 10411 and 10417 12
of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8310 and 13
8316) and sections 431 and 442 of the Plant Protection 14
Act (7 U.S.C. 7751 and 7772), and any unexpended bal-15
ances of funds transferred for such emergency purposes 16
in the preceding fiscal year shall be merged with such 17
transferred amounts: Provided further, That appropria-18
tions hereunder shall be available pursuant to law (7 19
U.S.C. 2250) for the repair and alteration of leased build-20
ings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided the 21
cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 22
shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement 23
value of the building. 24
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In fiscal year 2024, the agency is authorized to collect 1
fees to cover the total costs of providing technical assist-2
ance, goods, or services requested by States, other political 3
subdivisions, domestic and international organizations, 4
foreign governments, or individuals, provided that such 5
fees are structured such that any entity’s liability for such 6
fees is reasonably based on the technical assistance, goods, 7
or services provided to the entity by the agency, and such 8
fees shall be reimbursed to this account, to remain avail-9
able until expended, without further appropriation, for 10
providing such assistance, goods, or services. 11
A
GRICULTURALMARKETINGSERVICE 12
MARKETING SERVICES 13
For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Marketing 14
Service, $184,668,000, of which $5,004,000 shall be avail-15
able for the purposes of section 12306 of Public Law 113– 16
79: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available 17
pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and 18
repair of buildings and improvements, but the cost of al-19
tering any one building during the fiscal year shall not 20
exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value of the 21
building. 22
Fees may be collected for the cost of standardization 23
activities, as established by regulation pursuant to law (31 24
U.S.C. 9701), except for the cost of activities relating to 25
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the development or maintenance of grain standards under 1
the United States Grain Standards Act, 7 U.S.C. 71 et 2
seq. 3
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 4
Not to exceed $62,596,000 (from fees collected) shall 5
be obligated during the current fiscal year for administra-6
tive expenses: Provided, That if crop size is understated 7
and/or other uncontrollable events occur, the agency may 8
exceed this limitation by up to 10 percent with notification 9
to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 10
Congress. 11
FUNDS FOR STRENGTHENING MARKETS , INCOME, AND 12
SUPPLY (SECTION 32) 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 14
Funds available under section 32 of the Act of Au-15
gust 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), shall be used only for com-16
modity program expenses as authorized therein, and other 17
related operating expenses, except for: (1) transfers to the 18
Department of Commerce as authorized by the Fish and 19
Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a et seq.); (2) trans-20
fers otherwise provided in this Act; and (3) not more than 21
$21,501,000 for formulation and administration of mar-22
keting agreements and orders pursuant to the Agricultural 23
Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 and the Agricultural 24
Act of 1961 (Public Law 87–128). 25
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PAYMENTS TO STATES AND POSSESSIONS 1
For payments to departments of agriculture, bureaus 2
and departments of markets, and similar agencies for 3
marketing activities under section 204(b) of the Agricul-4
tural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623(b)), 5
$1,235,000. 6
LIMITATION ON INSPECTION AND WEIGHING SERVICES 7
EXPENSES 8
Not to exceed $55,000,000 (from fees collected) shall 9
be obligated during the current fiscal year for inspection 10
and weighing services: Provided, That if grain export ac-11
tivities require additional supervision and oversight, or 12
other uncontrollable factors occur, this limitation may be 13
exceeded by up to 10 percent with notification to the Com-14
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 15
O
FFICE OF THEUNDERSECRETARY FORFOODSAFETY 16
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 17
Secretary for Food Safety, $800,000: Provided, That 18
funds made available by this Act to an agency in the Food 19
Safety mission area for salaries and expenses are available 20
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the Of-21
fice. 22
F
OODSAFETY ANDINSPECTIONSERVICE 23
For necessary expenses to carry out services author-24
ized by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry 25
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Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection 1
Act, including not to exceed $10,000 for representation 2
allowances and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the 3
Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), 4
$1,197,067,000; and in addition, $1,000,000 may be cred-5
ited to this account from fees collected for the cost of lab-6
oratory accreditation as authorized by section 1327 of the 7
Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 8
(7 U.S.C. 138f): Provided, That funds provided for the 9
Public Health Data Communication Infrastructure system 10
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 11
That no fewer than 148 full-time equivalent positions shall 12
be employed during fiscal year 2024 for purposes dedi-13
cated solely to inspections and enforcement related to the 14
Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (7 U.S.C. 1901 et 15
seq.): Provided further, That this appropriation shall be 16
available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alter-17
ation and repair of buildings and improvements, but the 18
cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 19
shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement 20
value of the building. 21
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TITLE II 1
FARM PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION 2
PROGRAMS 3
O
FFICE OF THEUNDERSECRETARY FORFARM 4
P
RODUCTION ANDCONSERVATION 5
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 6
Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation, 7
$901,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 8
Act to an agency in the Farm Production and Conserva-9
tion mission area for salaries and expenses are available 10
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the Of-11
fice. 12
F
ARMPRODUCTION ANDCONSERVATIONBUSINESS 13
C
ENTER 14
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 15
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 16
For necessary expenses of the Farm Production and 17
Conservation Business Center, $231,302,000: Provided, 18
That $60,228,000 of amounts appropriated for the cur-19
rent fiscal year pursuant to section 1241(a) of the Farm 20
Security and Rural Investment Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 21
3841(a)) shall be transferred to and merged with this ac-22
count. 23
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FARMSERVICEAGENCY 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
For necessary expenses of the Farm Service Agency, 4
$1,215,307,000, of which not less than $15,000,000 shall 5
be for the hiring of new employees to fill vacancies and 6
anticipated vacancies at Farm Service Agency county of-7
fices and farm loan officers and shall be available until 8
September 30, 2025: Provided, That not more than 50 9
percent of the funding made available under this heading 10
for information technology related to farm program deliv-11
ery may be obligated until the Secretary submits to the 12
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-13
gress, and receives written or electronic notification of re-14
ceipt from such Committees of, a plan for expenditure that 15
(1) identifies for each project/investment over $25,000 (a) 16
the functional and performance capabilities to be delivered 17
and the mission benefits to be realized, (b) the estimated 18
lifecycle cost for the entirety of the project/investment, in-19
cluding estimates for development as well as maintenance 20
and operations, and (c) key milestones to be met; (2) dem-21
onstrates that each project/investment is, (a) consistent 22
with the Farm Service Agency Information Technology 23
Roadmap, (b) being managed in accordance with applica-24
ble lifecycle management policies and guidance, and (c) 25
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subject to the applicable Department’s capital planning 1
and investment control requirements; and (3) has been re-2
viewed by the Government Accountability Office and ap-3
proved by the Committees on Appropriations of both 4
Houses of Congress: Provided further, That the agency 5
shall submit a report by the end of the fourth quarter of 6
fiscal year 2024 to the Committees on Appropriations and 7
the Government Accountability Office, that identifies for 8
each project/investment that is operational (a) current 9
performance against key indicators of customer satisfac-10
tion, (b) current performance of service level agreements 11
or other technical metrics, (c) current performance against 12
a pre-established cost baseline, (d) a detailed breakdown 13
of current and planned spending on operational enhance-14
ments or upgrades, and (e) an assessment of whether the 15
investment continues to meet business needs as intended 16
as well as alternatives to the investment: Provided further, 17
That the Secretary is authorized to use the services, facili-18
ties, and authorities (but not the funds) of the Commodity 19
Credit Corporation to make program payments for all pro-20
grams administered by the Agency: Provided further, That 21
other funds made available to the Agency for authorized 22
activities may be advanced to and merged with this ac-23
count: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated 24
under this heading, $696,594,000 shall be made available 25
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to county committees, to remain available until expended: 1
Provided further, That, notwithstanding the preceding pro-2
viso, any funds made available to county committees in 3
the current fiscal year that the Administrator of the Farm 4
Service Agency deems to exceed or not meet the amount 5
needed for the county committees may be transferred to 6
or from the Farm Service Agency for necessary expenses: 7
Provided further, That none of the funds available to the 8
Farm Service Agency shall be used to close Farm Service 9
Agency county offices: Provided further, That none of the 10
funds available to the Farm Service Agency shall be used 11
to permanently relocate county based employees that 12
would result in an office with two or fewer employees with-13
out prior notification and approval of the Committees on 14
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 15
STATE MEDIATION GRANTS 16
For grants pursuant to section 502(b) of the Agricul-17
tural Credit Act of 1987, as amended (7 U.S.C. 5101– 18
5106), $6,000,000. 19
GRASSROOTS SOURCE WATER PROTECTION PROGRAM 20
For necessary expenses to carry out wellhead or 21
groundwater protection activities under section 1240O of 22
the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb–2), 23
$7,500,000, to remain available until expended. 24
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DAIRY INDEMNITY PROGRAM 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 2
For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity 3
payments to dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy 4
products under a dairy indemnity program, such sums as 5
may be necessary, to remain available until expended: Pro-6
vided, That such program is carried out by the Secretary 7
in the same manner as the dairy indemnity program de-8
scribed in the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 9
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropria-10
tions Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–387, 114 Stat. 1549A– 11
12). 12
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM 13
ACCOUNT 14
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 15
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-16
rect and guaranteed farm ownership (7 U.S.C. 1922 et 17
seq.) and operating (7 U.S.C. 1941 et seq.) loans, emer-18
gency loans (7 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.), Indian tribe land ac-19
quisition loans (25 U.S.C. 5136), boll weevil loans (7 20
U.S.C. 1989), guaranteed conservation loans (7 U.S.C. 21
1924 et seq.), relending program (7 U.S.C. 1936c), and 22
Indian highly fractionated land loans (25 U.S.C. 5136) 23
to be available from funds in the Agricultural Credit In-24
surance Fund, as follows: $3,500,000,000 for guaranteed 25
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farm ownership loans and $3,100,000,000 for farm owner-1
ship direct loans; $2,118,491,000 for unsubsidized guar-2
anteed operating loans and $1,633,000,000 for direct op-3
erating loans; emergency loans, $37,667,000; Indian tribe 4
land acquisition loans, $20,000,000; guaranteed conserva-5
tion loans, $150,000,000; relending program, 6
$61,426,000; Indian highly fractionated land loans, 7
$5,000,000; and for boll weevil eradication program loans, 8
$60,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary shall deem the 9
pink bollworm to be a boll weevil for the purpose of boll 10
weevil eradication program loans. 11
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans and 12
grants, including the cost of modifying loans as defined 13
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 14
as follows: $3,507,000 for emergency loans, to remain 15
available until expended; and $27,598,000 for direct farm 16
operating loans, $1,483,000 for unsubsidized guaranteed 17
farm operating loans, $19,368,000 for the relending pro-18
gram,$1,577,000 for Indian highly fractionated land 19
loans, and $258,000 for boll weevil eradication program 20
loans. 21
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 22
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 23
$326,053,000: Provided, That of this amount, 24
$305,803,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the 25
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appropriation for ‘‘Farm Service Agency, Salaries and Ex-1
penses’’. 2
Funds appropriated by this Act to the Agricultural 3
Credit Insurance Program Account for farm ownership, 4
operating and conservation direct loans and guaranteed 5
loans may be transferred among these programs: Pro-6
vided, That the Committees on Appropriations of both 7
Houses of Congress are notified at least 15 days in ad-8
vance of any transfer. 9
R
ISKMANAGEMENTAGENCY 10
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 11
For necessary expenses of the Risk Management 12
Agency, $63,637,000: Provided, That $1,000,000 of the 13
amount appropriated under this heading in this Act shall 14
be available for compliance and integrity activities re-15
quired under section 516(b)(2)(C) of the Federal Crop In-16
surance Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1516(b)(2)(C)), and shall 17
be in addition to amounts otherwise provided for such pur-18
pose: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000 shall 19
be available for official reception and representation ex-20
penses, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1506(i). 21
N
ATURALRESOURCESCONSERVATIONSERVICE 22
CONSERVATION OPERATIONS 23
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provi-24
sions of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a–f), 25
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including preparation of conservation plans and establish-1
ment of measures to conserve soil and water (including 2
farm irrigation and land drainage and such special meas-3
ures for soil and water management as may be necessary 4
to prevent floods and the siltation of reservoirs and to con-5
trol agricultural related pollutants); operation of conserva-6
tion plant materials centers; classification and mapping of 7
soil; dissemination of information; acquisition of lands, 8
water, and interests therein for use in the plant materials 9
program by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal 10
cost not to exceed $100 pursuant to the Act of August 11
3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 2268a); purchase and erection or alter-12
ation or improvement of permanent and temporary build-13
ings; and operation and maintenance of aircraft, 14
$911,399,000, to remain available until September 30, 15
2025, of which up to $18,748,000, to remain available 16
until expended, shall be for the purposes, and in the 17
amounts, specified for this account in the table titled 18
‘‘Community Project Funding’’ in the report accom-19
panying this Act: Provided further, That appropriations 20
hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 21
for construction and improvement of buildings and public 22
improvements at plant materials centers, except that the 23
cost of alterations and improvements to other buildings 24
and other public improvements shall not exceed $250,000: 25
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Provided further, That when buildings or other structures 1
are erected on non-Federal land, that the right to use such 2
land is obtained as provided in 7 U.S.C. 2250a. 3
CORPORATIONS 4
The following corporations and agencies are hereby 5
authorized to make expenditures, within the limits of 6
funds and borrowing authority available to each such cor-7
poration or agency and in accord with law, and to make 8
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year 9
limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government 10
Corporation Control Act as may be necessary in carrying 11
out the programs set forth in the budget for the current 12
fiscal year for such corporation or agency, except as here-13
inafter provided. 14
F
EDERALCROPINSURANCECORPORATIONFUND 15
For payments as authorized by section 516 of the 16
Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1516), such sums 17
as may be necessary, to remain available until expended. 18
C
OMMODITYCREDITCORPORATIONFUND 19
REIMBURSEMENT FOR NET REALIZED LOSSES 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 21
For the current fiscal year, such sums as may be nec-22
essary to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for 23
net realized losses sustained, but not previously reim-24
bursed, pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 17, 25
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1961 (15 U.S.C. 713a–11): Provided, That of the funds 1
available to the Commodity Credit Corporation under sec-2
tion 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act 3
(15 U.S.C. 714i) for the conduct of its business with the 4
Foreign Agricultural Service, up to $5,000,000 may be 5
transferred to and used by the Foreign Agricultural Serv-6
ice for information resource management activities of the 7
Foreign Agricultural Service that are not related to Com-8
modity Credit Corporation business: Provided further, 9
That the Secretary shall notify the Committees on Appro-10
priations of the House and Senate in writing 15 days prior 11
to the obligation or commitment of any emergency funds 12
from the Commodity Credit Corporation. 13
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT 14
(LIMITATION ON EXPENSES) 15
For the current fiscal year, the Commodity Credit 16
Corporation shall not expend more than $15,000,000 for 17
site investigation and cleanup expenses, and operations 18
and maintenance expenses to comply with the requirement 19
of section 107(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental 20
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 21
9607(g)), and section 6001 of the Solid Waste Disposal 22
Act (42 U.S.C. 6961). 23
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TITLE III 1
RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 2
O
FFICE OF THEUNDERSECRETARY FORRURAL 3
D
EVELOPMENT 4
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 5
Secretary for Rural Development, $800,000: Provided, 6
That funds made available by this Act to an agency in 7
the Rural Development mission area for salaries and ex-8
penses are available to fund up to one administrative sup-9
port staff for the Office. 10
R
URALDEVELOPMENT 11
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 12
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 13
For necessary expenses for carrying out the adminis-14
tration and implementation of Rural Development pro-15
grams, including activities with institutions concerning the 16
development and operation of agricultural cooperatives; 17
and for cooperative agreements; $331,087,000: Provided 18
further, That of the amount made available under this 19
heading, no less than $75,000,000, to remain available 20
until expended, shall be for information technology ex-21
penses. Provided, That notwithstanding any other provi-22
sion of law, funds appropriated under this heading may 23
be used for advertising and promotional activities that 24
support Rural Development programs: Provided further, 25
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That in addition to any other funds appropriated for pur-1
poses authorized by section 502(i) of the Housing Act of 2
1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472(i)), any amounts collected under 3
such section, as amended by this Act, will immediately be 4
credited to this account and will remain available until ex-5
pended for such purposes. 6
R
URALHOUSINGSERVICE 7
RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT 8
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 9
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-10
rect and guaranteed loans as authorized by title V of the 11
Housing Act of 1949, to be available from funds in the 12
rural housing insurance fund, as follows: $880,691,000 13
shall be for Section 502 direct loans; $5,000,000 for a 14
Single Family Housing Relending demonstration program 15
for Native American Tribes; and $30,000,000,000 for Sec-16
tion 502 unsubsidized guaranteed loans; $25,000,000 for 17
section 504 housing repair loans; $60,000,000 for section 18
515 rental housing; $400,000,000 for section 538 guaran-19
teed multi-family housing loans; $10,000,000 for credit 20
sales of single family housing acquired property; 21
$5,000,000 for section 523 self-help housing land develop-22
ment loans; and $5,000,000 for section 524 site develop-23
ment loans. 24
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For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including 1
the cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of 2
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: section 3
502 loans, $86,660,000 shall be for direct loans; Single 4
Family Housing Relending demonstration program for 5
Native American Tribes, $2,288,000; section 504 housing 6
repair loans, $4,337,000; section 523 self-help housing 7
land development loans, $637,000; section 524 site devel-8
opment loans, $477,000; and repair, rehabilitation, and 9
new construction of section 515 rental housing, 10
$20,998,000: Provided, That to support the loan program 11
level for section 538 guaranteed loans made available 12
under this heading the Secretary may charge or adjust 13
any fees to cover the projected cost of such loan guaran-14
tees pursuant to the provisions of the Credit Reform Act 15
of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.), and the interest on such 16
loans may not be subsidized: Provided further, That appli-17
cants in communities that have a current rural area waiv-18
er under section 541 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 19
U.S.C. 1490q) shall be treated as living in a rural area 20
for purposes of section 502 guaranteed loans provided 21
under this heading: Provided further, That of the amounts 22
available under this paragraph for section 502 direct 23
loans, no less than $5,000,000 shall be available for direct 24
loans for individuals whose homes will be built pursuant 25
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to a program funded with a mutual and self-help housing 1
grant authorized by section 523 of the Housing Act of 2
1949 until June 1, 2024: Provided further, That the Sec-3
retary shall implement provisions to provide incentives to 4
nonprofit organizations and public housing authorities to 5
facilitate the acquisition of Rural Housing Service (RHS) 6
multifamily housing properties by such nonprofit organi-7
zations and public housing authorities that commit to keep 8
such properties in the RHS multifamily housing program 9
for a period of time as determined by the Secretary, with 10
such incentives to include, but not be limited to, the fol-11
lowing: allow such nonprofit entities and public housing 12
authorities to earn a Return on Investment on their own 13
resources to include proceeds from low income housing tax 14
credit syndication, own contributions, grants, and devel-15
oper loans at favorable rates and terms, invested in a deal; 16
and allow reimbursement of organizational costs associ-17
ated with owner’s oversight of asset referred to as ‘‘Asset 18
Management Fee’’ of up to $7,500 per property. 19
In addition, for the cost of direct loans and grants, 20
including the cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 21
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 22
$34,000,000, to remain available until expended, for a 23
demonstration program for the preservation and revital-24
ization of the sections 514, 515, and 516 multi-family 25
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rental housing properties to restructure existing USDA 1
multi-family housing loans, as the Secretary deems appro-2
priate, expressly for the purposes of ensuring the project 3
has sufficient resources to preserve the project for the pur-4
pose of providing safe and affordable housing for low-in-5
come residents and farm laborers including reducing or 6
eliminating interest; deferring loan payments, subordi-7
nating, reducing or re-amortizing loan debt; and other fi-8
nancial assistance including advances, payments and in-9
centives (including the ability of owners to obtain reason-10
able returns on investment) required by the Secretary: 11
Provided, That the Secretary shall, as part of the preser-12
vation and revitalization agreement, obtain a restrictive 13
use agreement consistent with the terms of the restruc-14
turing. 15
In addition, for the cost of direct loans, grants, and 16
contracts, as authorized by sections 514 and 516 of the 17
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1484, 1486), 18
$9,525,000, to remain available until expended, for direct 19
farm labor housing loans and domestic farm labor housing 20
grants and contracts. 21
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 22
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 23
$412,254,000 shall be paid to the appropriation for 24
‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’. 25
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RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 1
For rental assistance agreements entered into or re-2
newed pursuant to the authority under section 521(a)(2) 3
of the Housing Act of 1949 or agreements entered into 4
in lieu of debt forgiveness or payments for eligible house-5
holds as authorized by section 502(c)(5)(D) of the Hous-6
ing Act of 1949, $1,606,926,000, and in addition such 7
sums as may be necessary, as authorized by section 521(c) 8
of the Act, to liquidate debt incurred prior to fiscal year 9
1992 to carry out the rental assistance program under sec-10
tion 521(a)(2) of the Act: Provided, That rental assistance 11
agreements entered into or renewed during the current fis-12
cal year shall be funded for a one-year period: Provided 13
further, That upon request by an owner of a project fi-14
nanced by an existing loan under section 514 or 515 of 15
the Act, the Secretary may renew the rental assistance 16
agreement for a period of 20 years or until the term of 17
such loan has expired, subject to annual appropriations: 18
Provided further, That any unexpended balances remain-19
ing at the end of such one-year agreements may be trans-20
ferred and used for purposes of any debt reduction, main-21
tenance, repair, or rehabilitation of any existing projects; 22
preservation; and rental assistance activities authorized 23
under title V of the Act: Provided further, That notwith-24
standing any other provision of the Act, the Secretary may 25
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recapture rental assistance provided under agreements en-1
tered into prior to fiscal year 2024 for a project the Sec-2
retary determines no longer needs rental assistance and 3
use such recaptured funds for current needs: Provided fur-4
ther, That such recaptured funds shall remain available 5
for obligation in fiscal year 2024 for the purposes specified 6
under the heading: Provided further, That such recaptured 7
rental assistance shall, to the extent practicable, be ap-8
plied to another farm labor multi-family housing project 9
financed under section 514 or 516 of the Act. 10
RURAL HOUSING VOUCHER ACCOUNT 11
For the rural housing voucher program as authorized 12
under section 542 of the Housing Act of 1949, but not-13
withstanding subsection (b) of such section, $48,000,000, 14
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the 15
funds made available under this heading shall be available 16
for rural housing vouchers to any low-income household 17
(including those not receiving rental assistance) residing 18
in a property financed with a section 515 loan which has 19
been prepaid or otherwise paid off after September 30, 20
2005: Provided further, That the amount of such voucher 21
shall be the difference between comparable market rent 22
for the section 515 unit and the tenant paid rent for such 23
unit: Provided further, That funds made available for such 24
vouchers shall be subject to the availability of annual ap-25
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propriations: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, 1
to the maximum extent practicable, administer such 2
vouchers with current regulations and administrative guid-3
ance applicable to section 8 housing vouchers administered 4
by the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban 5
Development: Provided further, That in addition to any 6
other available funds, the Secretary may expend not more 7
than $1,000,000 total, from the program funds made 8
available under this heading, for administrative expenses 9
for activities funded under this heading. 10
MUTUAL AND SELF-HELP HOUSING GRANTS 11
For grants and contracts pursuant to section 12
523(b)(1)(A) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 13
1490c), $25,000,000, to remain available until expended. 14
RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS 15
For grants for very low-income housing repair and 16
rural housing preservation made by the Rural Housing 17
Service, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1474, and 1490m, 18
$35,000,000, to remain available until expended. 19
RURAL COMMUNITY FACILITIES PROGRAM ACCOUNT 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 21
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-22
rect and guaranteed loans as authorized by section 306 23
and described in section 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated 24
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Farm and Rural Development Act, $2,800,000,000 for di-1
rect loans and $650,000,000 for guaranteed loans. 2
For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees and 3
grants, including the cost of modifying loans, as defined 4
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 5
for rural community facilities programs as authorized by 6
section 306 and described in section 381E(d)(1) of the 7
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, 8
$327,636,000, to remain available until expended, of 9
which up to $312,037,648 shall be for the purposes, and 10
in the amounts, specified for this account in the table ti-11
tled ‘‘Community Project Funding’’ in the report accom-12
panying this Act: Provided, That $5,000,000 of the 13
amount appropriated under this heading shall be available 14
for a Rural Community Development Initiative: Provided 15
further, That such funds shall be used solely to develop 16
the capacity and ability of private, nonprofit community- 17
based housing and community development organizations, 18
low-income rural communities, and Federally Recognized 19
Native American Tribes to undertake projects to improve 20
housing, community facilities, community and economic 21
development projects in rural areas: Provided further, 22
That such funds shall be made available to qualified pri-23
vate, nonprofit and public intermediary organizations pro-24
posing to carry out a program of financial and technical 25
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assistance: Provided further, That such intermediary orga-1
nizations shall provide matching funds from other sources, 2
including Federal funds for related activities, in an 3
amount not less than funds provided: Provided further, 4
That any unobligated balances from prior year appropria-5
tions under this heading for the cost of direct loans, loan 6
guarantees and grants, including amounts deobligated or 7
cancelled, may be made available to cover the subsidy costs 8
for direct loans and or loan guarantees under this heading 9
in this fiscal year: Provided further, That no amounts may 10
be made available pursuant to the preceding proviso from 11
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an 12
emergency requirement pursuant to a Concurrent Resolu-13
tion on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-14
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or that were specified 15
in the table titled ‘‘Community Project Funding/Congres-16
sionally Directed Spending’’ in the explanatory statement 17
for division A of Public Law 117-328 described in section 18
4 in the matter preceding such division A: Provided fur-19
ther, That $6,000,000 of the amount appropriated under 20
this heading shall be available for community facilities 21
grants to tribal colleges, as authorized by section 22
306(a)(19) of such Act: Provided further, That sections 23
381E–H and 381N of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 24
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Development Act are not applicable to the funds made 1
available under this heading. 2
R
URALBUSINESS—COOPERATIVESERVICE 3
RURAL BUSINESS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 4
For the cost of loan guarantees and grants, for the 5
rural business development programs authorized by sec-6
tion 310B and described in subsections (a), (c), (f) and 7
(g) of section 310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 8
Development Act, $68,840,000, to remain available until 9
expended: Provided, That of the amount appropriated 10
under this heading, not to exceed $500,000 shall be made 11
available for one grant to a qualified national organization 12
to provide technical assistance for rural transportation in 13
order to promote economic development and $6,000,000 14
shall be for grants to the Delta Regional Authority (7 15
U.S.C. 2009aa et seq.), the Northern Border Regional 16
Commission (40 U.S.C. 15101 et seq.), and the Appa-17
lachian Regional Commission (40 U.S.C. 14101 et seq.) 18
for any Rural Community Advancement Program purpose 19
as described in section 381E(d) of the Consolidated Farm 20
and Rural Development Act, of which not more than 5 21
percent may be used for administrative expenses: Provided 22
further, That of the amount appropriated under this head-23
ing, not to exceed $100,000 shall be made available for 24
one or more qualified state technology councils to promote 25
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private-sector economic development in the bio-sciences: 1
Provided further, That $4,000,000 of the amount appro-2
priated under this heading shall be for business grants to 3
benefit Federally Recognized Native American Tribes, in-4
cluding $250,000 for a grant to a qualified national orga-5
nization to provide technical assistance for rural transpor-6
tation in order to promote economic development: Pro-7
vided further, That sections 381E–H and 381N of the 8
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act are not 9
applicable to funds made available under this heading. 10
INTERMEDIARY RELENDING PROGRAM FUND ACCOUNT 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 12
For the principal amount of direct loans, as author-13
ized by the Intermediary Relending Program Fund Ac-14
count (7 U.S.C. 1936b), $16,000,000. 15
For the cost of direct loans, $4,856,000, as author-16
ized by the Intermediary Relending Program Fund Ac-17
count (7 U.S.C. 1936b), of which $331,000 shall be avail-18
able through June 30, 2024, for Federally Recognized Na-19
tive American Tribes; and of which $663,000 shall be 20
available through June 30, 2024, for Mississippi Delta Re-21
gion counties (as determined in accordance with Public 22
Law 100–460): Provided, That such costs, including the 23
cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 24
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 25
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In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 1
the direct loan programs, $4,468,000 shall be paid to the 2
appropriation for ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Ex-3
penses’’. 4
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS PROGRAM 5
ACCOUNT 6
For the principal amount of direct loans, as author-7
ized under section 313B(a) of the Rural Electrification 8
Act, for the purpose of promoting rural economic develop-9
ment and job creation projects, $75,000,000. 10
The cost of grants authorized under section 313B(a) 11
of the Rural Electrification Act, for the purpose of pro-12
moting rural economic development and job creation 13
projects shall not exceed $15,000,000. 14
RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 15
For rural cooperative development grants authorized 16
under section 310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and 17
Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932), $19,600,000, of 18
which $2,800,000 shall be for cooperative agreements for 19
the appropriate technology transfer for rural areas pro-20
gram: Provided, That not to exceed $3,000,000 shall be 21
for grants for cooperative development centers, individual 22
cooperatives, or groups of cooperatives that serve socially 23
disadvantaged groups and a majority of the boards of di-24
rectors or governing boards of which are comprised of in-25
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dividuals who are members of socially disadvantaged 1
groups; and of which $8,000,000, to remain available until 2
expended, shall be for value-added agricultural product 3
market development grants, as authorized by section 210A 4
of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946. 5
RURAL MICROENTREPRENEUR ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 6
For the principal amount of direct loans as author-7
ized by section 379E of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 8
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008s), $5,000,000. 9
For the cost of loans and grants, $6,000,000 under 10
the same terms and conditions as authorized by section 11
379E of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 12
Act (7 U.S.C. 2008s). 13
RURAL ENERGY FOR AMERICA PROGRAM 14
For the principal amount of loan guarantees, under 15
the same terms and conditions as authorized by section 16
9007 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 17
2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107), $50,000,000. 18
R
URALUTILITIESSERVICE 19
RURAL WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL PROGRAM ACCOUNT 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 21
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-22
rect and guaranteed loans as authorized by section 306 23
and described in section 381E(d)(2) of the Consolidated 24
Farm and Rural Development Act, as follows: 25
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$1,000,000,000 for direct loans; and $50,000,000 for 1
guaranteed loans. 2
For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees and 3
grants, including the cost of modifying loans, as defined 4
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 5
for rural water, waste water, waste disposal, and solid 6
waste management programs authorized by sections 306, 7
306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B and described in sec-8
tions 306C(a)(2), 306D, 306E, and 381E(d)(2) of the 9
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, 10
$587,120,000, to remain available until expended, of 11
which up to $120,101,362 shall be for the purposes, and 12
in the amounts, specified for this account in the table ti-13
tled ‘‘Community Project Funding’’ in the report accom-14
panying this Act, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall 15
be available for the rural utilities program described in 16
section 306(a)(2)(B) of such Act, and of which not to ex-17
ceed $4,000,000 shall be available for the rural utilities 18
program described in section 306E of such Act: Provided, 19
That not to exceed $10,000,000 of the amount appro-20
priated under this heading shall be for grants authorized 21
by section 306A(i)(2) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 22
Development Act in addition to funding authorized by sec-23
tion 306A(i)(1) of such Act: Provided further, That 24
$30,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this head-25
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ing shall be for loans and grants including water and 1
waste disposal systems grants authorized by section 2
306C(a)(2)(B) and section 306D of the Consolidated 3
Farm and Rural Development Act, and Federally Recog-4
nized Native American Tribes authorized by 306C(a)(1) 5
of such Act: Provided further, That funding provided for 6
section 306D of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Devel-7
opment Act may be provided to a consortium formed pur-8
suant to section 325 of Public Law 105–83: Provided fur-9
ther, That not more than 2 percent of the funding pro-10
vided for section 306D of the Consolidated Farm and 11
Rural Development Act may be used by the State of Alas-12
ka for training and technical assistance programs and not 13
more than 2 percent of the funding provided for section 14
306D of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 15
Act may be used by a consortium formed pursuant to sec-16
tion 325 of Public Law 105–83 for training and technical 17
assistance programs: Provided further, That not to exceed 18
$37,500,000 of the amount appropriated under this head-19
ing shall be for technical assistance grants for rural water 20
and waste systems pursuant to section 306(a)(14) of such 21
Act, unless the Secretary makes a determination of ex-22
treme need, of which $8,500,000 shall be made available 23
for a grant to a qualified nonprofit multi-State regional 24
technical assistance organization, with experience in work-25
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ing with small communities on water and waste water 1
problems, the principal purpose of such grant shall be to 2
assist rural communities with populations of 3,300 or less, 3
in improving the planning, financing, development, oper-4
ation, and management of water and waste water systems, 5
and of which not less than $800,000 shall be for a quali-6
fied national Native American organization to provide 7
technical assistance for rural water systems for tribal com-8
munities: Provided further, That not to exceed 9
$21,817,000 of the amount appropriated under this head-10
ing shall be for contracting with qualified national organi-11
zations for a circuit rider program to provide technical as-12
sistance for rural water systems: Provided further, That 13
not to exceed $4,000,000 of the amounts made available 14
under this heading shall be for solid waste management 15
grants. 16
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 17
LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 18
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 19
The principal amount of loans and loan guarantees 20
as authorized by sections 4, 305, 306, 313A, and 317 of 21
the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 904, 935, 22
936, 940c–1, and 940g) shall be made as follows: guaran-23
teed rural electric loans made pursuant to section 306 of 24
that Act, $2,167,000,000; cost of money direct loans made 25
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pursuant to sections 4, notwithstanding the one-eighth of 1
one percent in 4(c)(2), and 317, notwithstanding 317(c), 2
of that Act, $4,333,000,000; guaranteed underwriting 3
loans pursuant to section 313A of that Act, $900,000,000; 4
and for cost-of-money rural telecommunications loans 5
made pursuant to section 305(d)(2) of that Act, 6
$690,000,000: Provided, That up to $2,000,000,000 shall 7
be used for the construction, acquisition, design, engineer-8
ing or improvement of fossil-fueled electric generating 9
plants (whether new or existing) that utilize carbon sub-10
surface utilization and storage systems. 11
For the cost of direct loans as authorized by section 12
305(d)(2) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 13
U.S.C. 935(d)(2)), including the cost of modifying loans, 14
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 15
of 1974, cost of money rural telecommunications loans, 16
$7,176,000. 17
In addition, $3,578,000 to remain available until ex-18
pended, to carry out section 6407 of the Farm Security 19
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107a): Pro-20
vided, That the energy efficiency measures supported by 21
the funding in this paragraph shall contribute in a demon-22
strable way to the reduction of greenhouse gases. 23
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 24
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 25
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$33,270,000, which shall be paid to the appropriation for 1
‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’. 2
DISTANCE LEARNING, TELEMEDICINE, AND BROADBAND 3
PROGRAM 4
For grants for telemedicine and distance learning 5
services in rural areas, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa 6
et seq., $56,973,000, to remain available until expended, 7
of which up to $6,972,570 shall be for the purposes, and 8
in the amounts, specified for this account in the table ti-9
tled ‘‘Community Project Funding’’ in the report accom-10
panying this Act: Provided, That $3,000,000 shall be 11
made available for grants authorized by section 379G of 12
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: Pro-13
vided further, That funding provided under this heading 14
for grants under section 379G of the Consolidated Farm 15
and Rural Development Act may only be provided to enti-16
ties that meet all of the eligibility criteria for a consortium 17
as established by this section. 18
For the cost of broadband loans, as authorized by 19
sections 601 and 602 of the Rural Electrification Act, 20
$2,037,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 21
That the cost of direct loans shall be as defined in section 22
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 23
For the cost to continue a broadband loan and grant 24
pilot program established by section 779 of division A of 25
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the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 1
115–141) under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as 2
amended (7 U.S.C. 901 et seq.), $269,385,000, to remain 3
available until expended, of which up to $10,385,000 shall 4
be for the purposes, and in the amounts, specified for this 5
account in the table titled ‘‘Community Project Funding’’ 6
in the report accompanying this Act: Provided, That the 7
Secretary may award grants described in section 601(a) 8
of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 9
U.S.C. 950bb(a)) for the purposes of carrying out such 10
pilot program: Provided further, That the cost of direct 11
loans shall be defined in section 502 of the Congressional 12
Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That at least 90 13
percent of the households to be served by a project receiv-14
ing a loan or grant under the pilot program shall be in 15
a rural area without sufficient access to broadband: Pro-16
vided further, That for purposes of such pilot program, 17
a rural area without sufficient access to broadband shall 18
be defined as twenty-five megabits per second downstream 19
and three megabits per second upstream: Provided further, 20
That to the extent possible, projects receiving funds pro-21
vided under the pilot program must build out service to 22
at least one hundred megabits per second downstream, 23
and twenty megabits per second upstream: Provided fur-24
ther, That an entity to which a loan or grant is made 25
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under the pilot program shall not use the loan or grant 1
to overbuild or duplicate broadband service in a service 2
area by any entity that has received a broadband loan 3
from the Rural Utilities Service unless such service is not 4
provided sufficient access to broadband at the minimum 5
service threshold: Provided further, That not more than 6
four percent of the funds made available in this paragraph 7
can be used for administrative costs to carry out the pilot 8
program and up to three percent of funds made available 9
in this paragraph may be available for technical assistance 10
and pre-development planning activities to support the 11
most rural communities: Provided further, That the Rural 12
Utilities Service is directed to expedite program delivery 13
methods that would implement this paragraph: Provided 14
further, That for purposes of this paragraph, the Secretary 15
shall adhere to the notice, reporting and service area as-16
sessment requirements set forth in section 701 of the 17
Rural Electrification Act (7 U.S.C. 950cc). 18
In addition, $30,000,000, to remain available until 19
expended, for the Community Connect Grant Program au-20
thorized by 7 U.S.C. 950bb–3. 21
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TITLE IV 1
DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS 2
O
FFICE OF THEUNDERSECRETARY FORFOOD, 3
N
UTRITION, ANDCONSUMERSERVICES 4
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 5
Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, 6
$800,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 7
Act to an agency in the Food, Nutrition and Consumer 8
Services mission area for salaries and expenses are avail-9
able to fund up to one administrative support staff for 10
the Office. 11
F
OOD ANDNUTRITIONSERVICE 12
CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 14
For necessary expenses to carry out the Richard B. 15
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et 16
seq.), except section 21, and the Child Nutrition Act of 17
1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.), except sections 17 and 18
21; $31,996,363,000 to remain available through Sep-19
tember 30, 2025, of which such sums as are made avail-20
able under section 14222(b)(1) of the Food, Conservation, 21
and Energy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–246), as 22
amended by this Act, shall be merged with and available 23
for the same time period and purposes as provided herein: 24
Provided, That of the total amount available, $18,004,000 25
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shall be available to carry out section 19 of the Child Nu-1
trition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.): Provided 2
further, That of the total amount available, $21,005,000 3
shall be available to carry out studies and evaluations and 4
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 5
That of the total amount available, $3,000,000 shall re-6
main available until expended to carry out section 18(g) 7
of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 8
U.S.C. 1769(g)): Provided further, That notwithstanding 9
section 18(g)(3)(C) of the Richard B. Russell National 10
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769(g)(3)(c)), the total 11
grant amount provided to a farm to school grant recipient 12
in fiscal year 2024 shall not exceed $500,000: Provided 13
further, That of the total amount available, $20,000,000 14
shall be available to provide competitive grants to State 15
agencies for subgrants to local educational agencies and 16
schools to purchase the equipment, with a value of greater 17
than $1,000, needed to serve healthier meals, improve food 18
safety, and to help support the establishment, mainte-19
nance, or expansion of the school breakfast program: Pro-20
vided further, That section 26(d) of the Richard B. Russell 21
National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769g(d)) is 22
amended in the first sentence by striking ‘‘2010 through 23
2024’’ and inserting ‘‘2010 through 2025’’: Provided fur-24
ther, That section 9(h)(3) of the Richard B. Russell Na-25
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tional School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(h)(3)) is amend-1
ed in the first sentence by striking ‘‘For fiscal year 2023’’ 2
and inserting ‘‘For fiscal year 2024’’: Provided further, 3
That section 9(h)(4) of the Richard B. Russell National 4
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(h)(4)) is amended in 5
the first sentence by striking ‘‘For fiscal year 2023’’ and 6
inserting ‘‘For fiscal year 2024’’. 7
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR 8
WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC) 9
For necessary expenses to carry out the special sup-10
plemental nutrition program as authorized by section 17 11
of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), 12
$6,000,000,000, to remain available through September 13
30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding section 14
17(h)(10) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 15
1786(h)(10)), up to $90,000,000 shall be used for 16
breastfeeding peer counselors and other related activities, 17
and up to $14,000,000 shall be used for infrastructure: 18
Provided further, That the Secretary shall use funds made 19
available under this heading to increase the amount of a 20
cash-value voucher to $11 for child participants, $13 for 21
pregnant and postpartum women, and $15 for fully and 22
partially breastfeeding women and adjusted for inflation 23
beginning in fiscal year 2025: Provided further, That none 24
of the funds provided in this account shall be available 25
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for the purchase of infant formula except in accordance 1
with the cost containment and competitive bidding re-2
quirements specified in section 17 of such Act: Provided 3
further, That none of the funds provided shall be available 4
for activities that are not fully reimbursed by other Fed-5
eral Government departments or agencies unless author-6
ized by section 17 of such Act: Provided further, That 7
upon termination of a federally mandated vendor morato-8
rium and subject to terms and conditions established by 9
the Secretary, the Secretary may waive the requirement 10
at 7 CFR 246.12(g)(6) at the request of a State agency. 11
SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 12
For necessary expenses to carry out the Food and 13
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), 14
$121,996,757,000, of which $3,000,000,000, to remain 15
available through September 30, 2026, shall be placed in 16
reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times 17
as may become necessary to carry out program operations: 18
Provided, That funds provided herein shall be expended 19
in accordance with section 16 of the Food and Nutrition 20
Act of 2008: Provided further, That of the funds made 21
available under this heading, $998,000 may be used to 22
provide nutrition education services to State agencies and 23
Federally Recognized Tribes participating in the Food 24
Distribution Program on Indian Reservations: Provided 25
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further, That of the funds made available under this head-1
ing, $3,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2
2025, shall be used to carry out section 4003(b) of Public 3
Law 115–334 relating to demonstration projects for tribal 4
organizations: Provided further, That of the funds made 5
available under this heading, $2,000,000 shall be used to 6
carry out section 4208 of Public law 115-334; Provided 7
further, That this appropriation shall be subject to any 8
work registration or workfare requirements as may be re-9
quired by law: Provided further, That funds made available 10
for Employment and Training under this heading shall re-11
main available through September 30, 2025: Provided fur-12
ther, That funds made available under this heading for 13
section 28(d)(1), section 4(b), and section 27(a) of the 14
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 shall remain available 15
through September 30, 2025: Provided further, That none 16
of the funds made available under this heading may be 17
obligated or expended in contravention of section 213A of 18
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1183A): 19
Provided further, That funds made available under this 20
heading may be used to enter into contracts and employ 21
staff to conduct studies, evaluations, or to conduct activi-22
ties related to program integrity provided that such activi-23
ties are authorized by the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008. 24
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COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 1
For necessary expenses to carry out disaster assist-2
ance and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program as 3
authorized by section 4(a) of the Agriculture and Con-4
sumer Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c note); the 5
Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983; special assist-6
ance for the nuclear affected islands, as authorized by sec-7
tion 103(f)(2) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-8
ments Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–188); and the Farm-9
ers’ Market Nutrition Program, as authorized by section 10
17(m) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, $472,563,000, 11
to remain available through September 30, 2025: Pro-12
vided, That none of these funds shall be available to reim-13
burse the Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities 14
donated to the program: Provided further, That notwith-15
standing any other provision of law, effective with funds 16
made available in fiscal year 2024 to support the Seniors 17
Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program, as authorized by 18
section 4402 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 19
Act of 2002, such funds shall remain available through 20
September 30, 2025: Provided further, That of the funds 21
made available under section 27(a) of the Food and Nutri-22
tion Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)), the Secretary may 23
use up to 20 percent for costs associated with the distribu-24
tion of commodities. 25
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NUTRITION PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION 1
For necessary administrative expenses of the Food 2
and Nutrition Service for carrying out any domestic nutri-3
tion assistance program, $136,861,000: Provided, That of 4
the funds provided herein, $2,000,000 shall be used for 5
the purposes of section 4404 of Public Law 107–171, as 6
amended by section 4401 of Public Law 110–246. 7
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TITLE V 1
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED 2
PROGRAMS 3
O
FFICE OF THEUNDERSECRETARY FORTRADE AND 4
F
OREIGNAGRICULTURALAFFAIRS 5
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 6
Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, 7
$875,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 8
Act to any agency in the Trade and Foreign Agricultural 9
Affairs mission area for salaries and expenses are avail-10
able to fund up to one administrative support staff for 11
the Office. 12
F
OREIGNAGRICULTURALSERVICE 13
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 14
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 15
For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural 16
Service, including not to exceed $250,000 for representa-17
tion allowances and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of 18
the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), 19
$237,330,000, of which no more than 6 percent shall re-20
main available until September 30, 2025, for overseas op-21
erations to include the payment of locally employed staff: 22
Provided, That the Service may utilize advances of funds, 23
or reimburse this appropriation for expenditures made on 24
behalf of Federal agencies, public and private organiza-25
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tions and institutions under agreements executed pursu-1
ant to the agricultural food production assistance pro-2
grams (7 U.S.C. 1737) and the foreign assistance pro-3
grams of the United States Agency for International De-4
velopment: Provided further, That funds made available 5
for middle-income country training programs, funds made 6
available for the Borlaug International Agricultural 7
Science and Technology Fellowship program, and up to 8
$2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricultural Service appropria-9
tion solely for the purpose of offsetting fluctuations in 10
international currency exchange rates, subject to docu-11
mentation by the Foreign Agricultural Service, shall re-12
main available until expended. 13
FOOD FOR PEACE TITLE II GRANTS 14
For expenses during the current fiscal year, not oth-15
erwise recoverable, and unrecovered prior years’ costs, in-16
cluding interest thereon, under the Food for Peace Act 17
(Public Law 83–480), for commodities supplied in connec-18
tion with dispositions abroad under title II of said Act, 19
$1,740,000,000, to remain available until expended. 20
MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION 21
AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM GRANTS 22
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 23
of section 3107 of the Farm Security and Rural Invest-24
ment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1), $240,000,000, to 25
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remain available until expended: Provided, That the Com-1
modity Credit Corporation is authorized to provide the 2
services, facilities, and authorities for the purpose of im-3
plementing such section, subject to reimbursement from 4
amounts provided herein: Provided further, That of the 5
amount made available under this heading, not more than 6
10 percent, but not less than $24,000,000, shall remain 7
available until expended to purchase agricultural commod-8
ities as described in subsection 3107(a)(2) of the Farm 9
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 10
1736o–1(a)(2)). 11
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION EXPORT (LOANS) 12
CREDIT GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 14
For administrative expenses to carry out the Com-15
modity Credit Corporation’s Export Guarantee Program, 16
GSM 102 and GSM 103, $6,063,000, to cover common 17
overhead expenses as permitted by section 11 of the Com-18
modity Credit Corporation Charter Act and in conformity 19
with the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, which shall 20
be paid to the appropriation for ‘‘Foreign Agricultural 21
Service, Salaries and Expenses’’. 22
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TITLE VI 1
RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG 2
ADMINISTRATION 3
D
EPARTMENT OFHEALTH ANDHUMANSERVICES 4
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION 5
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 6
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 7
For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Ad-8
ministration, including hire and purchase of passenger 9
motor vehicles; for payment of space rental and related 10
costs pursuant to Public Law 92–313 for programs and 11
activities of the Food and Drug Administration which are 12
included in this Act; for rental of special purpose space 13
in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; in addition to 14
amounts appropriated to the FDA Innovation Account, for 15
carrying out the activities described in section 1002(b)(4) 16
of the 21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114–255); for 17
miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement ac-18
tivities, authorized and approved by the Secretary and to 19
be accounted for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not 20
to exceed $25,000; and notwithstanding section 521 of 21
Public Law 107–188; $6,579,030,000: Provided, That of 22
the amount provided under this heading, $1,336,525,000 23
shall be derived from prescription drug user fees author-24
ized by 21 U.S.C. 379h, and shall be credited to this ac-25
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count and remain available until expended; $331,273,000 1
shall be derived from medical device user fees authorized 2
by 21 U.S.C. 379j, and shall be credited to this account 3
and remain available until expended; $594,150,000 shall 4
be derived from human generic drug user fees authorized 5
by 21 U.S.C. 379j–42, and shall be credited to this ac-6
count and remain available until expended; $42,432,000 7
shall be derived from biosimilar biological product user 8
fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–52, and shall be cred-9
ited to this account and remain available until expended; 10
$33,500,000 shall be derived from animal drug user fees 11
authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–12, and shall be credited 12
to this account and remain available until expended; 13
$25,000,000 shall be derived from generic new animal 14
drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–21, and shall 15
be credited to this account and remain available until ex-16
pended; $712,000,000 shall be derived from tobacco prod-17
uct user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 387s, and shall be 18
credited to this account and remain available until ex-19
pended: Provided further, That in addition to and notwith-20
standing any other provision under this heading, amounts 21
collected for prescription drug user fees, medical device 22
user fees, human generic drug user fees, biosimilar biologi-23
cal product user fees, animal drug user fees, and generic 24
new animal drug user fees that exceed the respective fiscal 25
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year 2024 limitations are appropriated and shall be cred-1
ited to this account and remain available until expended: 2
Provided further, That fees derived from prescription drug, 3
medical device, human generic drug, biosimilar biological 4
product, animal drug, and generic new animal drug as-5
sessments for fiscal year 2024, including any such fees 6
collected prior to fiscal year 2024 but credited for fiscal 7
year 2024, shall be subject to the fiscal year 2024 limita-8
tions: Provided further, That the Secretary may accept 9
payment during fiscal year 2024 of user fees specified 10
under this heading and authorized for fiscal year 2025, 11
prior to the due date for such fees, and that amounts of 12
such fees assessed for fiscal year 2025 for which the Sec-13
retary accepts payment in fiscal year 2024 shall not be 14
included in amounts under this heading: Provided further, 15
That none of these funds shall be used to develop, estab-16
lish, or operate any program of user fees authorized by 17
31 U.S.C. 9701: Provided further, That of the total 18
amount appropriated: (1) $1,190,536,000 shall be for the 19
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and related 20
field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs, of which 21
no less than $15,000,000 shall be used for inspections of 22
foreign seafood manufacturers and field examinations of 23
imported seafood; (2) $2,316,063,000 shall be for the 24
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and related 25
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field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs, of which 1
no less than $10,000,000 shall be for pilots to increase 2
unannounced foreign inspections and shall remain avail-3
able until expended; (3) $492,314,000 shall be for the 4
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and for re-5
lated field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; 6
(4) $283,678,000 shall be for the Center for Veterinary 7
Medicine and for related field activities in the Office of 8
Regulatory Affairs; (5) $739,854,000 shall be for the Cen-9
ter for Devices and Radiological Health and for related 10
field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (6) 11
$76,534,000 shall be for the National Center for Toxi-12
cological Research; (7) $677,165,000 shall be for the Cen-13
ter for Tobacco Products and for related field activities 14
in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (8) $214,304,000 shall 15
be for Rent and Related activities, of which $55,729,000 16
is for White Oak Consolidation, other than the amounts 17
paid to the General Services Administration for rent; (9) 18
$227,708,000 shall be for payments to the General Serv-19
ices Administration for rent; and (10) $360,874,000 shall 20
be for other activities, including the Office of the Commis-21
sioner of Food and Drugs, the Office of Food Policy and 22
Response, the Office of Operations, the Office of the Chief 23
Scientist, and central services for these offices: Provided 24
further, That not to exceed $25,000 of this amount shall 25
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be for official reception and representation expenses, not 1
otherwise provided for, as determined by the Commis-2
sioner: Provided further, That any transfer of funds pursu-3
ant to, and for the administration of, section 770(n) of 4
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 5
379dd(n)) shall only be from amounts made available 6
under this heading for other activities and shall not exceed 7
$2,000,000: Provided further, That of the amounts that 8
are made available under this heading for ‘‘other activi-9
ties’’, and that are not derived from user fees, $1,500,000 10
shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation 11
for ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services—Office 12
of Inspector General’’ for oversight of the programs and 13
operations of the Food and Drug Administration and shall 14
be in addition to funds otherwise made available for over-15
sight of the Food and Drug Administration: Provided fur-16
ther, That funds may be transferred from one specified 17
activity to another with the prior approval of the Commit-18
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 19
In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 20
42 U.S.C. 263b, export certification user fees authorized 21
by 21 U.S.C. 381, priority review user fees authorized by 22
21 U.S.C. 360n and 360ff, food and feed recall fees, food 23
reinspection fees, and voluntary qualified importer pro-24
gram fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–31, outsourcing 25
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facility fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–62, prescription 1
drug wholesale distributor licensing and inspection fees 2
authorized by 21 U.S.C. 353(e)(3), third-party logistics 3
provider licensing and inspection fees authorized by 21 4
U.S.C. 360eee–3(c)(1), third-party auditor fees authorized 5
by 21 U.S.C. 384d(c)(8), medical countermeasure priority 6
review voucher user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 360bbb– 7
4a, and fees relating to over-the-counter monograph drugs 8
authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–72 shall be credited to this 9
account, to remain available until expended. 10
FDA INNOVATION ACCOUNT , CURES ACT 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 12
For necessary expenses to carry out the purposes de-13
scribed under section 1002(b)(4) of the 21st Century 14
Cures Act, in addition to amounts available for such pur-15
poses under the heading ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’, 16
$50,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-17
vided, That amounts appropriated in this paragraph are 18
appropriated pursuant to section 1002(b)(3) of the 21st 19
Century Cures Act, are to be derived from amounts trans-20
ferred under section 1002(b)(2)(A) of such Act, and may 21
be transferred by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs 22
to the appropriation for ‘‘Department of Health and 23
Human Services Food and Drug Administration Salaries 24
and Expenses’’ solely for the purposes provided in such 25
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Act: Provided further, That upon a determination by the 1
Commissioner that funds transferred pursuant to the pre-2
vious proviso are not necessary for the purposes provided, 3
such amounts may be transferred back to the account: 4
Provided further, That such transfer authority is in addi-5
tion to any other transfer authority provided by law. 6
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 7
C
OMMODITYFUTURESTRADINGCOMMISSION 8
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 9
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 10
of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), in-11
cluding the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 12
and the rental of space (to include multiple year leases), 13
in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $345,000,000, 14
including not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and 15
representation expenses, and not to exceed $25,000 for the 16
expenses for consultations and meetings hosted by the 17
Commission with foreign governmental and other regu-18
latory officials, of which not less than $20,000,000 shall 19
remain available until September 30, 2025, and of which 20
not less than $4,218,000 shall be for expenses of the Of-21
fice of the Inspector General: Provided, That notwith-22
standing the limitations in 31 U.S.C. 1553, amounts pro-23
vided under this heading are available for the liquidation 24
of obligations equal to current year payments on leases 25
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entered into prior to the date of enactment of this Act: 1
Provided further, That for the purpose of recording and 2
liquidating any lease obligations that should have been re-3
corded and liquidated against accounts closed pursuant to 4
31 U.S.C. 1552, and consistent with the preceding pro-5
viso, such amounts shall be transferred to and recorded 6
in a no-year account in the Treasury, which has been es-7
tablished for the sole purpose of recording adjustments for 8
and liquidating such unpaid obligations. 9
F
ARMCREDITADMINISTRATION 10
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 11
Not to exceed $94,300,000 (from assessments col-12
lected from farm credit institutions, including the Federal 13
Agricultural Mortgage Corporation) shall be obligated 14
during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses 15
as authorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, That this 16
limitation shall not apply to expenses associated with re-17
ceiverships: Provided further, That the agency may exceed 18
this limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the 19
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-20
gress: Provided further, That the purposes of section 21
3.7(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Farm Credit Act of 1971 (12 U.S.C. 22
2128(b)(2)(A)(i)), the Farm Credit Administration may 23
exempt, an amount in its sole discretion, from the applica-24
tion of the limitation provided in that clause of export 25
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loans described in the clause guaranteed or insured in a 1
manner other than described in subclause (II) of the 2
clause. 3
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TITLE VII 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS AND TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
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EC. 701. The Secretary may use any appropriations 4
made available to the Department of Agriculture in this 5
Act to purchase new passenger motor vehicles, in addition 6
to specific appropriations for this purpose, so long as the 7
total number of vehicles purchased in fiscal year 2024 8
does not exceed the number of vehicles owned or leased 9
in fiscal year 2018: Provided, That, prior to purchasing 10
additional motor vehicles, the Secretary must determine 11
that such vehicles are necessary for transportation safety, 12
to reduce operational costs, and for the protection of life, 13
property, and public safety: Provided further, That the 14
Secretary may not increase the Department of Agri-15
culture’s fleet above the 2018 level unless the Secretary 16
notifies in writing, and receives approval from, the Com-17
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 18
within 30 days of the notification. 19
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EC. 702. Notwithstanding any other provision of 20
this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobli-21
gated balances of discretionary funds appropriated by this 22
Act or any other available unobligated discretionary bal-23
ances that are remaining available of the Department of 24
Agriculture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisi-25
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tion of property, plant and equipment and for the improve-1
ment, delivery, and implementation of Department finan-2
cial, and administrative information technology services, 3
and other support systems necessary for the delivery of 4
financial, administrative, and information technology serv-5
ices, including cloud adoption and migration, of primary 6
benefit to the agencies of the Department of Agriculture, 7
such transferred funds to remain available until expended: 8
Provided, That none of the funds made available by this 9
Act or any other Act shall be transferred to the Working 10
Capital Fund without the prior approval of the agency ad-11
ministrator: Provided further, That none of the funds 12
transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to this 13
section shall be available for obligation without written no-14
tification to and the prior approval of the Committees on 15
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: Provided fur-16
ther, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act or 17
made available to the Department’s Working Capital 18
Fund shall be available for obligation or expenditure to 19
make any changes to the Department’s National Finance 20
Center without written notification to and prior approval 21
of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 22
Congress as required by section 716 of this Act: Provided 23
further, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act 24
or made available to the Department’s Working Capital 25
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Fund shall be available for obligation or expenditure to 1
initiate, plan, develop, implement, or make any changes 2
to remove or relocate any systems, missions, personnel, or 3
functions of the offices of the Chief Financial Officer and 4
the Chief Information Officer, co-located with or from the 5
National Finance Center prior to written notification to 6
and prior approval of the Committee on Appropriations 7
of both Houses of Congress and in accordance with the 8
requirements of section 716 of this Act: Provided further, 9
That the National Finance Center Information Tech-10
nology Services Division personnel and data center man-11
agement responsibilities, and control of any functions, 12
missions, and systems for current and future human re-13
sources management and integrated personnel and payroll 14
systems (PPS) and functions provided by the Chief Finan-15
cial Officer and the Chief Information Officer shall remain 16
in the National Finance Center and under the manage-17
ment responsibility and administrative control of the Na-18
tional Finance Center: Provided further, That the Sec-19
retary of Agriculture and the offices of the Chief Financial 20
Officer shall actively market to existing and new Depart-21
ments and other government agencies National Finance 22
Center shared services including, but not limited to, pay-23
roll, financial management, and human capital shared 24
services and allow the National Finance Center to perform 25
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technology upgrades: Provided further, That of annual in-1
come amounts in the Working Capital Fund of the De-2
partment of Agriculture attributable to the amounts in ex-3
cess of the true costs of the shared services provided by 4
the National Finance Center and budgeted for the Na-5
tional Finance Center, the Secretary shall reserve not 6
more than 4 percent for the replacement or acquisition 7
of capital equipment, including equipment for the improve-8
ment, delivery, and implementation of financial, adminis-9
trative, and information technology services, and other 10
systems of the National Finance Center or to pay any un-11
foreseen, extraordinary cost of the National Finance Cen-12
ter: Provided further, That none of the amounts reserved 13
shall be available for obligation unless the Secretary sub-14
mits written notification of the obligation to the Commit-15
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: Pro-16
vided further, That the limitations on the obligation of 17
funds pending notification to Congressional Committees 18
shall not apply to any obligation that, as determined by 19
the Secretary, is necessary to respond to a declared state 20
of emergency that significantly impacts the operations of 21
the National Finance Center; or to evacuate employees of 22
the National Finance Center to a safe haven to continue 23
operations of the National Finance Center. 24
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SEC. 703. No part of any appropriation contained in 1
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 2
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 3
S
EC. 704. No funds appropriated by this Act may be 4
used to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative 5
agreements or similar arrangements between the United 6
States Department of Agriculture and nonprofit institu-7
tions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost of 8
the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative ar-9
rangements is to carry out programs of mutual interest 10
between the two parties. This does not preclude appro-11
priate payment of indirect costs on grants and contracts 12
with such institutions when such indirect costs are com-13
puted on a similar basis for all agencies for which appro-14
priations are provided in this Act. 15
S
EC. 705. Appropriations to the Department of Agri-16
culture for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made 17
available in the current fiscal year shall remain available 18
until expended to disburse obligations made in the current 19
fiscal year for the following accounts: the Rural Develop-20
ment Loan Fund program account, the Rural Electrifica-21
tion and Telecommunication Loans program account, and 22
the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account. 23
S
EC. 706. None of the funds made available to the 24
Department of Agriculture by this Act may be used to ac-25
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quire new information technology systems or significant 1
upgrades, as determined by the Office of the Chief Infor-2
mation Officer, without the approval of the Chief Informa-3
tion Officer and the concurrence of the Executive Informa-4
tion Technology Investment Review Board: Provided, That 5
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 6
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 7
Act may be transferred to the Office of the Chief Informa-8
tion Officer without written notification to and the prior 9
approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 10
Houses of Congress: Provided further, That notwith-11
standing section 11319 of title 40, United States Code, 12
none of the funds available to the Department of Agri-13
culture for information technology shall be obligated for 14
projects, contracts, or other agreements over $25,000 15
prior to receipt of written approval by the Chief Informa-16
tion Officer: Provided further, That the Chief Information 17
Officer may authorize an agency to obligate funds without 18
written approval from the Chief Information Officer for 19
projects, contracts, or other agreements up to $250,000 20
based upon the performance of an agency measured 21
against the performance plan requirements described in 22
the explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 113– 23
235. 24
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SEC. 707. Funds made available under section 524(b) 1
of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)) in 2
the current fiscal year shall remain available until ex-3
pended to disburse obligations made in the current fiscal 4
year. 5
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EC. 708. Notwithstanding any other provision of 6
law, any former Rural Utilities Service borrower that has 7
repaid or prepaid an insured, direct or guaranteed loan 8
under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, or any not- 9
for-profit utility that is eligible to receive an insured or 10
direct loan under such Act, shall be eligible for assistance 11
under section 313B(a) of such Act in the same manner 12
as a borrower under such Act. 13
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EC. 709. Except as otherwise specifically provided 14
by law, not more than $20,000,000 in unobligated bal-15
ances from appropriations made available for salaries and 16
expenses in this Act for the Farm Service Agency shall 17
remain available through September 30, 2025, for infor-18
mation technology expenses. 19
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EC. 710. None of the funds appropriated or other-20
wise made available by this Act may be used for first-class 21
travel by the employees of agencies funded by this Act in 22
contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 23
of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 24
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SEC. 711. In the case of each program established 1
or amended by the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 2
113–79) or by a successor to that Act, other than by title 3
I or subtitle A of title III of such Act, or programs for 4
which indefinite amounts were provided in that Act, that 5
is authorized or required to be carried out using funds 6
of the Commodity Credit Corporation— 7
(1) such funds shall be available for salaries 8
and related administrative expenses, including tech-9
nical assistance, associated with the implementation 10
of the program, without regard to the limitation on 11
the total amount of allotments and fund transfers 12
contained in section 11 of the Commodity Credit 13
Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714i); and 14
(2) the use of such funds for such purpose shall 15
not be considered to be a fund transfer or allotment 16
for purposes of applying the limitation on the total 17
amount of allotments and fund transfers contained 18
in such section. 19
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EC. 712. Of the funds made available by this Act, 20
not more than $2,900,000 shall be used to cover necessary 21
expenses of activities related to all advisory committees, 22
panels, commissions, and task forces of the Department 23
of Agriculture, except for panels used to comply with nego-24
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tiated rule makings and panels used to evaluate competi-1
tively awarded grants. 2
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EC. 713. (a) None of the funds made available in 3
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 4
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 5
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 6
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 7
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 8
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-9
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 10
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EC. 714. Notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 11
14222 of Public Law 110–246 (7 U.S.C. 612c–6; in this 12
section referred to as ‘‘section 14222’’), none of the funds 13
appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any 14
other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses 15
of personnel to carry out a program under section 32 of 16
the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c; in this section 17
referred to as ‘‘section 32’’) in excess of $1,573,666,000, 18
as follows: Child Nutrition Programs Entitlement Com-19
modities—$485,000,000; State Option Contracts— 20
$5,000,000; Removal of Defective Commodities— 21
$2,500,000; Administration of section 32 Commodity Pur-22
chases—$37,178,000: Provided, That none of the funds 23
made available in this Act or any other Act shall be used 24
for salaries and expenses to carry out in this fiscal year 25
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section 19(i)(1)(E) of the Richard B. Russell National 1
School Lunch Act, as amended, except in an amount that 2
excludes the transfer of $195,000,000 of the funds to be 3
transferred under subsection (c) of section 14222 of Pub-4
lic Law 110-246, until October 1, 2024: Provided further, 5
That $195,000,000 made available on October 1, 2024, 6
to carry out section 19(i)(1)(E) of the Richard B. Russell 7
National School Lunch Act, as amended, shall be excluded 8
from the limitation described in subsection (b)(2)(A)(x) of 9
section 14222 of Public Law 110-246 for fiscal year 2025: 10
Provided further, That, none of the funds appropriated or 11
otherwise made available by this or any other Act shall 12
be used during fiscal year 2024 to pay the salaries or ex-13
penses of any employee of the Department of Agriculture 14
to carry out clause (3) of section 32 of the Agricultural 15
Adjustment Act of 1935 (Public Law 74-320, 7 U.S.C. 16
612c, as amended), or subsections (a) through (g) of sec-17
tion 5 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act: 18
Provided further, That of the available unobligated bal-19
ances under (b)(2)(A)(x) for fiscal year 2024 of section 20
14222 of Public Law 110-246, $505,000,000 are re-21
scinded. 22
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EC. 715. None of the funds appropriated by this or 23
any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and ex-24
penses of personnel who prepare or submit appropriations 25
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language as part of the President’s budget submission to 1
the Congress for programs under the jurisdiction of the 2
Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural De-3
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 4
Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction 5
from the previous year due to user fees proposals that 6
have not been enacted into law prior to the submission 7
of the budget unless such budget submission identifies 8
which additional spending reductions should occur in the 9
event the user fees proposals are not enacted prior to the 10
date of the convening of a committee of conference for 11
the fiscal year 2024 appropriations Act. 12
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EC. 716. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 13
or provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agen-14
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation 15
or expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from 16
any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of 17
fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 18
available for obligation or expenditure through a re-19
programming, transfer of funds, or reimbursements as au-20
thorized by the Economy Act, or in the case of the Depart-21
ment of Agriculture, through use of the authority provided 22
by section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Or-23
ganic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) or section 8 of Public 24
Law 89–106 (7 U.S.C. 2263), that— 25
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(1) creates new programs; 1
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 2
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 3
for any project or activity for which funds have been 4
denied or restricted; 5
(4) relocates an office or employees; 6
(5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; 7
or 8
(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 9
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 10
unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 11
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-12
modity Futures Trading Commission (as the case may be) 13
notifies in writing and receives approval from the Commit-14
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 15
30 days in advance of the reprogramming of such funds 16
or the use of such authority. 17
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or pro-18
vided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies 19
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 20
expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from 21
any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of 22
fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 23
available for obligation or expenditure for activities, pro-24
grams, or projects through a reprogramming or use of the 25
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authorities referred to in subsection (a) involving funds 1
in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, 2
that— 3
(1) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-4
tivities; 5
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-6
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-7
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 8
(3) results from any general savings from a re-9
duction in personnel which would result in a change 10
in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-11
proved by Congress; 12
unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 13
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-14
modity Futures Trading Commission (as the case may be) 15
notifies in writing and receives approval from the Commit-16
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 17
30 days in advance of the reprogramming or transfer of 18
such funds or the use of such authority. 19
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 20
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-21
modity Futures Trading Commission shall notify in writ-22
ing and receive approval from the Committees on Appro-23
priations of both Houses of Congress before implementing 24
any program or activity not carried out during the pre-25
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vious fiscal year unless the program or activity is funded 1
by this Act or specifically funded by any other Act. 2
(d) None of the funds provided by this Act, or pro-3
vided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies 4
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 5
expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from 6
any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of 7
fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 8
available for— 9
(1) modifying major capital investments fund-10
ing levels, including information technology systems, 11
that involves increasing or decreasing funds in the 12
current fiscal year for the individual investment in 13
excess of $500,000 or 10 percent of the total cost, 14
whichever is less; 15
(2) realigning or reorganizing new, current, or 16
vacant positions or agency activities or functions to 17
establish a center, office, branch, or similar entity 18
with three or more personnel; or 19
(3) carrying out activities or functions that 20
were not described in the budget request; 21
unless the agencies funded by this Act notify, in writing, 22
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-23
gress at least 30 days in advance of using the funds for 24
these purposes. 25
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(e) As described in this section, no funds may be used 1
for any activities unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the 2
Secretary of Health and Human Services, or the Chair-3
man of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission re-4
ceives from the Committee on Appropriations of both 5
Houses of Congress written or electronic mail confirma-6
tion of receipt of the notification as required in this sec-7
tion. 8
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EC. 717. Notwithstanding section 310B(g)(5) of the 9
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 10
1932(g)(5)), the Secretary may assess a one-time fee for 11
any guaranteed business and industry loan in an amount 12
that does not exceed 3 percent of the guaranteed principal 13
portion of the loan. 14
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EC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or other-15
wise made available to the Department of Agriculture, the 16
Food and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures 17
Trading Commission, or the Farm Credit Administration 18
shall be used to transmit or otherwise make available re-19
ports, questions, or responses to questions that are a re-20
sult of information requested for the appropriations hear-21
ing process to any non-Department of Agriculture, non- 22
Department of Health and Human Services, non-Com-23
modity Futures Trading Commission, or non-Farm Credit 24
Administration employee. 25
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SEC. 719. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 1
law, none of the funds provided in this Act, may be used 2
by an executive branch agency to produce any pre-3
packaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution 4
in the United States unless the story includes a clear noti-5
fication within the text or audio of the prepackaged news 6
story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or 7
funded by that executive branch agency. 8
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EC. 720. No employee of the Department of Agri-9
culture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or 10
office funded by this Act or any other Act to any other 11
agency or office of the Department for more than 60 days 12
in a fiscal year unless the individual’s employing agency 13
or office is fully reimbursed by the receiving agency or 14
office for the salary and expenses of the employee for the 15
period of assignment. 16
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EC. 721. Not later than 30 days after the date of 17
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the 18
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, the 19
Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commis-20
sion, and the Chairman of the Farm Credit Administra-21
tion shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of 22
both Houses of Congress a detailed spending plan by pro-23
gram, project, and activity for all the funds made available 24
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under this Act including appropriated user fees, as defined 1
in the report accompanying this Act. 2
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EC. 722. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 3
made available to the Secretary of Agriculture in section 4
22002(a)(1) of Public Law 117-169, $500,000,000 are 5
hereby rescinded. 6
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EC. 723. For the purposes of determining eligibility 7
or level of program assistance for Rural Development pro-8
grams the Secretary shall not include incarcerated prison 9
populations. 10
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EC. 724. For loans and loan guarantees that do not 11
require budget authority and the program level has been 12
established in this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may 13
increase the program level for such loans and loan guaran-14
tees by not more than 25 percent: Provided, That prior 15
to the Secretary implementing such an increase, the Sec-16
retary notifies, in writing, the Committees on Appropria-17
tions of both Houses of Congress at least 15 days in ad-18
vance. 19
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EC. 725. None of the credit card refunds or rebates 20
transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to sec-21
tion 729 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 22
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropria-23
tions Act, 2002 (7 U.S.C. 2235a; Public Law 107–76) 24
shall be available for obligation without written notifica-25
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tion to, and the prior approval of, the Committees on Ap-1
propriations of both Houses of Congress: Provided, That 2
the refunds or rebates so transferred shall be available for 3
obligation only for the acquisition of property, plant and 4
equipment, including equipment for the improvement, de-5
livery, and implementation of Departmental financial 6
management, information technology, and other support 7
systems necessary for the delivery of financial, administra-8
tive, and information technology services, including cloud 9
adoption and migration, of primary benefit to the agencies 10
of the Department of Agriculture. 11
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EC. 726. For fiscal year 2024, the Secretary shall 12
establish a process under which an establishment that is 13
subject to examination and inspection under section 6 of 14
the Federal Meat Inspection Act solely due to the estab-15
lishment’s processing of domestic, wild caught, invasive 16
blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) solely for domestic con-17
sumption or use, may apply for a waiver of such examina-18
tion and inspection requirements if the establishment is 19
subject to inspection under the Seafood Hazard Analysis 20
Critical Control Points Program of the Food and Drug 21
Administration and the establishment attests that it ap-22
plies existing Seafood Hazard Critical Control Points Pro-23
gram for all species processed at the establishment. 24
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SEC. 727. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 2
‘‘variety’’ requirements of the final rule entitled ‘‘Enhanc-3
ing Retailer Standards in the Supplemental Nutrition As-4
sistance Program (SNAP)’’ published by the Department 5
of Agriculture in the Federal Register on December 15, 6
2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 90675) until the Secretary of Agri-7
culture amends the definition of the term ‘‘variety’’ as de-8
fined in section 278.1(b)(1)(ii)(C) of title 7, Code of Fed-9
eral Regulations, and ‘‘variety’’ as applied in the definition 10
of the term ‘‘staple food’’ as defined in section 271.2 of 11
title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, to increase the num-12
ber of items that qualify as acceptable varieties in each 13
staple food category so that the total number of such items 14
in each staple food category exceeds the number of such 15
items in each staple food category included in the final 16
rule as published on December 15, 2016: Provided, That 17
until the Secretary promulgates such regulatory amend-18
ments, the Secretary shall apply the requirements regard-19
ing acceptable varieties and breadth of stock to Supple-20
mental Nutrition Assistance Program retailers that were 21
in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of 22
the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79). 23
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EC. 728. Section 756 of division N of the Consoli-24
dated Appropriations Act, 2021 (7 U.S.C. 2254c), is 25
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amended by striking ‘‘each of fiscal years 2021 and 2022’’ 1
and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2021 and each fiscal year there-2
after’’. 3
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EC. 729. In carrying out subsection (h) of section 4
502 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472), the 5
Secretary of Agriculture shall have the same authority 6
with respect to loans guaranteed under such section and 7
eligible lenders for such loans as the Secretary has under 8
subsections (h) and (j) of section 538 of such Act (42 9
U.S.C. 1490p–2) with respect to loans guaranteed under 10
such section 538 and eligible lenders for such loans. 11
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EC. 730. None of the funds appropriated or other-12
wise made available by this Act shall be available for the 13
United States Department of Agriculture to propose, fi-14
nalize or implement any regulation that would promulgate 15
new user fees pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9701 after the date 16
of the enactment of this Act. 17
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EC. 731. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 18
made available for the supplemental nutrition program as 19
authorized by section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 20
1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), $500,000,000 are hereby re-21
scinded: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded 22
from amounts that were designated by the Congress as 23
an emergency requirement pursuant to a Concurrent Res-24
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olution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-1
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 2
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EC. 732. Notwithstanding any provision of law that 3
regulates the calculation and payment of overtime and hol-4
iday pay for FSIS inspectors, the Secretary may charge 5
establishments subject to the inspection requirements of 6
the Poultry Products Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 451 et 7
seq., the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 601 et 8
seq, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 1031 9
et seq., for the cost of inspection services provided outside 10
of an establishment’s approved inspection shifts, and for 11
inspection services provided on Federal holidays: Provided, 12
That any sums charged pursuant to this paragraph shall 13
be deemed as overtime pay or holiday pay under section 14
1001(d) of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public 15
Law 117–2, 135 Stat. 242): Provided further, That sums 16
received by the Secretary under this paragraph shall, in 17
addition to other available funds, remain available until 18
expended to the Secretary without further appropriation 19
for the purpose of funding all costs associated with FSIS 20
inspections. 21
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EC. 733. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 22
made available to the Secretary of Agriculture in section 23
9003(j)(1) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 24
Act of 2002, $1,000,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 25
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SEC. 734. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall— 1
(1) conduct audits in a manner that evaluates 2
the following factors in the country or region being 3
audited, as applicable— 4
(A) veterinary control and oversight; 5
(B) disease history and vaccination prac-6
tices; 7
(C) livestock demographics and 8
traceability; 9
(D) epidemiological separation from poten-10
tial sources of infection; 11
(E) surveillance practices; 12
(F) diagnostic laboratory capabilities; and 13
(G) emergency preparedness and response; 14
and 15
(2) promptly make publicly available the final 16
reports of any audits or reviews conducted pursuant 17
to subsection (1). 18
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner con-19
sistent with United States obligations under its inter-20
national trade agreements. 21
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EC. 735. (a)(1) No Federal funds made available for 22
this fiscal year for the rural water, waste water, waste dis-23
posal, and solid waste management programs authorized 24
by sections 306, 306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B of 25
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the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 1
U.S.C. 1926 et seq.) shall be used for a project for the 2
construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public 3
water or wastewater system unless all of the iron and steel 4
products used in the project are produced in the United 5
States. 6
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ 7
means the following products made primarily of iron or 8
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 9
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, 10
pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, rein-11
forced precast concrete, and construction materials. 12
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-13
egory of cases in which the Secretary of Agriculture (in 14
this section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee 15
of the Secretary finds that— 16
(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-17
sistent with the public interest; 18
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 19
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-20
able quantities or of a satisfactory quality; or 21
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products pro-22
duced in the United States will increase the cost of 23
the overall project by more than 25 percent. 24
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(c) If the Secretary or the designee receives a request 1
for a waiver under this section, the Secretary or the des-2
ignee shall make available to the public on an informal 3
basis a copy of the request and information available to 4
the Secretary or the designee concerning the request, and 5
shall allow for informal public input on the request for 6
at least 15 days prior to making a finding based on the 7
request. The Secretary or the designee shall make the re-8
quest and accompanying information available by elec-9
tronic means, including on the official public Internet Web 10
site of the Department. 11
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-12
sistent with United States obligations under international 13
agreements. 14
(e) The Secretary may retain up to 0.25 percent of 15
the funds appropriated in this Act for ‘‘Rural Utilities 16
Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Ac-17
count’’ for carrying out the provisions described in sub-18
section (a)(1) for management and oversight of the re-19
quirements of this section. 20
(f) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 21
project for which the engineering plans and specifications 22
include use of iron and steel products otherwise prohibited 23
by such subsection if the plans and specifications have re-24
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ceived required approvals from State agencies prior to the 1
date of enactment of this Act. 2
(g) For purposes of this section, the terms ‘‘United 3
States’’ and ‘‘State’’ shall include each of the several 4
States, the District of Columbia, and each Federally rec-5
ognized Indian Tribe. 6
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EC. 736. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 7
may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 8
congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 9
matters pending before Congress, other than to commu-10
nicate to Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 11
1913. 12
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EC. 737. None of the funds made available by this 13
or any other Act thereafter may be used to write, prepare, 14
or publish a proposed rule, final rule, or an interim final 15
rule in furtherance of, or otherwise to implement or en-16
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Transparency in Poultry 17
Grower Contracting and Tournaments,’’ published by the 18
Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on 19
June 8, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 34980 et seq.), the advance 20
notice of proposed rulemaking entitled ‘‘Poultry Growing 21
Tournament Systems: Fairness and Related Concerns,’’ 22
published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal 23
Register on June 8, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 34814) (also 24
identified in the White House Office of Management and 25
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Budget’s Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and De-1
regulatory Actions as ‘‘Poultry Growing Tournament Sys-2
tems: Fairness and Related Concerns—Harm to Competi-3
tion (AMS-FTPP-22-0046),’’ RIN 0581-AE18), the pro-4
posed rule entitled ‘‘Inclusive Competition and Market In-5
tegrity Under the Packers and Stockyards Act,’’ published 6
by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register 7
on October 3, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 60010 et seq.), the rule-8
making identified in the White House Office of Manage-9
ment and Budget’s Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Regu-10
latory and Deregulatory Actions as ‘‘Unfair Practices, 11
Undue Preferences, and Harm to Competition Under the 12
Packers and Stockyards Act (AMS-FTPP-21-0046),’’ 13
RIN 0581-AE04, or any subsequent substantially similar 14
rulemaking effort, except that funds may be used to, and 15
the Secretary of Agriculture shall, withdraw or rescind any 16
such proposed rules, advance notices of proposed rule-17
making, and any such rules that may have been finalized. 18
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EC. 738. None of the funds appropriated or other-19
wise made available to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 20
may be used to increase the number of positions in the 21
Department (measured on a full-time equivalent basis) for 22
which the primary duty station is located in the National 23
Capital Region unless otherwise specified in the report ac-24
companying this Act. 25
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(1) The term ‘‘National Capital Region’’ means 1
the District of Columbia; Montgomery and Prince 2
George’s Counties of Maryland; and Arlington, Fair-3
fax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties of Vir-4
ginia. 5
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EC. 739. (a) There is hereby appropriated 6
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the 7
Secretary of Agriculture to carry out no more than 5 pilot 8
projects, under the terms and conditions determined by 9
the Secretary for a period not to exceed 3 years and with-10
out increasing household benefit allotments as authorized 11
by section 8 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 12
U.S.C. 2017), that allow the use of supplemental nutrition 13
assistance program benefits to purchase only nutrient- 14
dense foods and beverages (as defined in the 2020-2025 15
Dietary Guidelines for Americans), of which 1 or more of 16
such projects shall be carried out before December 21, 17
2024. 18
(b) Not later than 6 months after the first pilot 19
project under subsection (a) begins, the Secretary shall 20
enter into a contract with the National Academies of 21
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to— 22
(1) evaluate the pilot project or projects carried 23
out under subsection (a); and 24
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(2) provide the results of such evaluation not 1
later than 18 months after the date of such con-2
tract. 3
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EC. 740. Of the total amounts made available by 4
this Act for direct loans and grants under the following 5
headings: ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insur-6
ance Fund Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service— 7
Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing 8
Service—Rural Housing Assistance Grants’’; ‘‘Rural 9
Housing Service—Rural Community Facilities Program 10
Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural 11
Business Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Coopera-12
tive Service—Rural Economic Development Loans Pro-13
gram Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service— 14
Rural Cooperative Development Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Busi-15
ness-Cooperative Service—Rural Microentrepreneur As-16
sistance Program’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water 17
and Waste Disposal Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities 18
Service—Rural Electrification and Telecommunications 19
Loans Program Account’’; and ‘‘Rural Utilities Service— 20
Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Pro-21
gram’’, to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 per-22
cent of the funds shall be allocated for assistance in per-23
sistent poverty counties under this section, including, not-24
withstanding any other provision regarding population 25
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limits, any county seat of such a persistent poverty county 1
that has a population that does not exceed the authorized 2
population limit by more than 10 percent: Provided, That 3
for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘persistent poverty 4
counties’’ means any county that has had 20 percent or 5
more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 6
years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial cen-7
suses, and 2007–2011 American Community Survey 5- 8
year average, or any territory or possession of the United 9
States: Provided further, That with respect to specific ac-10
tivities for which program levels have been made available 11
by this Act that are not supported by budget authority, 12
the requirements of this section shall be applied to such 13
program level. 14
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EC. 741. There is rescinded the unobligated bal-15
ances of amounts made available under section 1006 of 16
the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (7 U.S.C. 2279 17
note). 18
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EC. 742. None of the funds made available by this 19
Act may be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowl-20
edge receipt of a submission for an exemption for inves-21
tigational use of a drug or biological product under section 22
505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 23
U.S.C. 355(i)) or section 351(a)(3) of the Public Health 24
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)) in research in which 25
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a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to 1
include a heritable genetic modification. Any such submis-2
sion shall be deemed to have not been received by the Sec-3
retary, and the exemption may not go into effect. 4
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EC. 743. None of the funds made available by this 5
or any other Act may be used to enforce the final rule 6
promulgated by the Food and Drug Administration enti-7
tled ‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, 8
and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption,’’ and 9
published on November 27, 2015, with respect to the regu-10
lation of entities that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine 11
grapes, hops, pulse crops, or almonds. 12
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EC. 744. For school years 2023–2024 and 2024– 13
2025, none of the funds made available by this Act may 14
be used to implement or enforce the matter following the 15
first comma in the second sentence of footnote (c) of sec-16
tion 220.8(c) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, with 17
respect to the substitution of vegetables for fruits under 18
the school breakfast program established under section 4 19
of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773). 20
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EC. 745. None of the funds made available by this 21
Act or any other Act may be used— 22
(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Ag-23
ricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940), subtitle G 24
of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, or sec-25
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tion 10114 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 1
2018; or 2
(2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, 3
sale, or use of hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is 4
grown or cultivated in accordance with section 7606 5
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 or subtitle G of the 6
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, within or out-7
side the State in which the hemp is grown or cul-8
tivated. 9
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EC. 746. The Secretary of Agriculture may waive 10
the matching funds requirement under section 412(g) of 11
the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Re-12
form Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(g)). 13
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EC. 747. The Secretary, as part of the report on 14
foreign landholding required under the Agricultural For-15
eign Investment Disclosure Act (Public Law 95–460), 16
shall report to Congress on foreign investments in agricul-17
tural land in the United States, including the impact for-18
eign ownership has on family farms, rural communities, 19
and the domestic food supply: Provided, That within 2 20
years after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 21
establish a streamlined process for electronic submission 22
and retention of disclosures made under the Agricultural 23
Foreign Investment Disclosure Act, including an internet 24
database that contains disaggregated data from each dis-25
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closure submitted: Provided further,That all prior year dis-1
closures of foreign investments in agricultural land in the 2
United States are published in the database: Provided fur-3
ther, That the plan includes a process to ensure the protec-4
tion of personally identifiable information and that all dis-5
closures of foreign investments in agricultural land on the 6
USDA website be disaggregated by: (1) in any case in 7
which such foreign person is an individual, the citizenship 8
of such foreign person; and (2) in any case in which such 9
foreign person is not an individual or a government, the 10
nature of the legal entity holding the interest, the country 11
in which such foreign person is created or organized, and 12
the principal place of business of such foreign person. 13
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EC. 748. There is rescinded the unobligated bal-14
ances of amounts made available under section 22006 of 15
Public Law 117-169 (136 Stat. 2021). 16
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EC. 749. (a) After the effective date of any final rule 17
FDA publishes in connection with its proposed rule to up-18
date these requirements (87 Federal Register 59168, 19
issued on September 29, 2022), manufacturers may also 20
continue to comply with the previous requirements pro-21
mulgated by the FDA for the implied nutrient content 22
claim ‘‘healthy’’ through the ‘‘compliance date’’ FDA pro-23
vides in the final rule. 24
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(b) Any food product manufactured and labeled as 1
‘‘healthy’’ during the compliance period FDA provides in 2
that final rule shall not be directly or indirectly subject 3
to any state-law requirements that are not identical to ei-4
ther (i) the federal requirements for the implied nutrition 5
content claim ‘‘healthy’’ that were in effect as of the date 6
FDA issues the final rule, or (ii) the updated federal re-7
quirements that FDA promulgates in the final rule, as-8
suming the updated requirements go into effect during the 9
regulatory compliance period. 10
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EC. 750. Funds made available under title II of the 11
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be 12
used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate 13
monitoring and controls, as determined by the Adminis-14
trator, are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is 15
received by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by 16
food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inap-17
propriate purposes. 18
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EC. 751. None of the funds made available by this 19
Act may be used to procure raw or processed poultry prod-20
ucts imported into the United States from the People’s 21
Republic of China for use in the school lunch program 22
under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 23
(42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), the Child and Adult Care Food 24
Program under section 17 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1766), 25
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the Summer Food Service Program for Children under 1
section 13 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761), or the school 2
breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 3
(42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.). 4
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EC. 752. (a) Subject to subsection (c), none of the 5
funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, 6
issue, implement, administer, or enforce any rule, regula-7
tion, or order that, pursuant to any revisions to the whole 8
grain requirements under section 246.10 of title 7, Code 9
of Federal Regulations, required by such rule, regulation, 10
or order, would reduce the availability of WIC-eligible 11
breakfast cereals, including the rule entitled ‘‘Special Sup-12
plemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and 13
Children (WIC): Revisions to the WIC Food Packages’’ 14
published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal 15
Register on November 21, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 71090). 16
(b) The Secretary of Agriculture shall carry out a 17
study— 18
(1) on the revisions of such whole grain 19
requriements pursuant to such rule; and 20
(2) that is representative of all States. 21
(c) If the study required under subsection (b) dem-22
onstrates that such revisions will not limit consumption 23
due to marketplace availability or reduce the redemption 24
of WIC-authorized breakfast cereal, beginning on the date 25
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on which the Secretary publishes the results of such study, 1
the limitation under subsection (a) shall not apply. 2
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EC. 753. For school year 2024–2025, only a school 3
food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit 4
school food service account as of June 30, 2023, shall be 5
required to establish a price for paid lunches in accordance 6
with section 12(p) of the Richard B. Russell National 7
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760(p)). 8
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EC. 754. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be made available to support, directly or indi-10
rectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory 11
owned or controlled by the governments of the People’s 12
Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Re-13
public of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 14
the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Ven-15
ezuela under the regime of Nicola´s Maduro Moros, or any 16
other country determined by the Secretary of State to be 17
a foreign adversary. 18
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EC. 755. Any funds made available by this or any 19
other Act that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section 20
1668(g)(2) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 21
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5921(g)(2)), as amended, 22
shall be available for grants for biotechnology risk assess-23
ment research: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer 24
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such funds among appropriations of the Department of 1
Agriculture for purposes of making such grants. 2
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EC. 756. Notwithstanding any other provision of 3
law, no funds available to the Department of Agriculture 4
may be used to move any staff office or any agency from 5
the mission area in which it was located on August 1, 6
2018, to any other mission area or office within the De-7
partment in the absence of the enactment of specific legis-8
lation affirming such move. 9
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EC. 757. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to carry out any program, project, or 11
activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory 12
or any concept associated with Critical Race Theory. 13
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EC. 758. The Secretary, acting through the Chief 14
of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, may use 15
funds appropriated under this Act or any other Act for 16
the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program 17
and the Watershed Rehabilitation Program carried out 18
pursuant to the Watershed Protection and Flood Preven-19
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), and for the Emergency 20
Watershed Protection Program carried out pursuant to 21
section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 22
U.S.C. 2203) to provide technical services for such pro-23
grams pursuant to section 1252(a)(1) of the Food Secu-24
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rity Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3851(a)(1)), notwithstanding 1
subsection (c) of such section. 2
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EC. 759. In administering the pilot program estab-3
lished by section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Ap-4
propriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141), the Sec-5
retary of Agriculture may, for purposes of determining en-6
tities eligible to receive assistance, consider those commu-7
nities which are ‘‘Areas Rural in Character’’: Provided, 8
That not more than 10 percent of the funds made avail-9
able under the heading ‘‘Distance Learning, Telemedicine, 10
and Broadband Program’’ for the purposes of the pilot 11
program established by section 779 of Public Law 115– 12
141 may be used for this purpose. 13
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EC. 760. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-15
sonnel— 16
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the 17
Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 18
(2) to inspect horses under section 903 of the 19
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 20
1996 (7 U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or 21
(3) to implement or enforce section 352.19 of 22
title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor 23
regulation). 24
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SEC. 761. (a) The modifications made by the Food 1
and Drug Administration on January 3, 2023 to the risk 2
evaluation and mitigation strategy under section 505-1 of 3
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 4
355-1) for mifepristone are hereby nullified. 5
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may 6
be used to establish, implement, or enforce— 7
(1) any provision of a risk evaluation and miti-8
gation strategy under section 505-1 of the Federal 9
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 355-1) 10
for mifepristone that is substantially similar to any 11
of the modifications nullified by subsection (a); or 12
(2) any non-enforcement or enforcement discre-13
tion policy for any provision of a risk evaluation and 14
mitigation strategy under such section for 15
mifepristone. 16
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EC. 762. None of the funds appropriated or other-17
wise made available by this Act may be used by FDA to 18
develop, issue, promote, or advance any new guidelines or 19
regulations applicable to food manufacturers for popu-20
lation-wide sodium reduction actions until the issuance of 21
the 2025-2026 National Health and Nutrition Examina-22
tion Survey (NHANES) survey that will show consumer 23
sodium consumption after the completion of the short- 24
term sodium reduction targets. 25
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SEC. 763. Within 60 days of enactment of this Act 1
the Secretary shall provide to the Committees a plan for 2
expenditure that accelerates the continued implementation 3
and expansion of the Farmers.gov application and the En-4
terprise Data Analytics Platform and Toolset (EDAPT) 5
to enable USDA users to: (1) view their information, com-6
plete transactions, quickly review the status, and update 7
tabular customer information; (2) submit applications for 8
Farm Production and Conservation programs and receive 9
program payments for all USDA farm programs; (3) to 10
complete their own applications, including electronic sig-11
natures and submission, for all farm programs that re-12
quire direct application; (4) enable electronic income re-13
porting between USDA and IRS; and (5) transition acre-14
age reporting, farm records mapping, and farm records 15
information to Farmers.gov: Provided, That the Farm 16
Production and Conservation Business Center shall pro-17
vide a roadmap for systems to be decommissioned and 18
consolidated with Farmers.gov and EDAPT including, but 19
not limited to, the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and 20
Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs, the Dairy Margin 21
Coverage program, and the Farm Service Agency Emer-22
gency Relief Program. 23
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EC. 764. None of the funds appropriated or other-24
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 25
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to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Ex-1
ecutive Order 13985 of January 20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 2
7009, relating to advancing racial equity and support for 3
underserved communities through the Federal Govern-4
ment), or the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Equity 5
Action Plan in Support of Executive Order 13985, or any 6
Equity Action Plan created by the Food and Drug Admin-7
istration, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or 8
the Farm Credit Administration, or Executive Order 9
14035 of June 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 34593, relating 10
to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the Fed-11
eral workforce), or Executive Order 14091 of February 12
16, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 10825, relating to further advanc-13
ing racial equity and support for underserved communities 14
through the Federal Government), or to create or establish 15
an Office of the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. 16
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EC. 765. The Secretary of Agriculture shall take 17
such actions as may be necessary to prohibit the purchase 18
of agricultural land located in the United States by non- 19
resident aliens, foreign businesses, of any agent, trustee, 20
or fiduciary associated with Russia, North Korea, Iran, 21
or the Communist Party of China. 22
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EC. 766. Notwithstanding any other provision of 23
law, during the period beginning on the date of enactment 24
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of this Act and ending on the last day of school year 2024- 1
2025, the Secretary of Agriculture shall — 2
(1) allow flavored, low-fat fluid milk to be 3
served — 4
(A) under the school lunch program estab-5
lished under the Richard B. Russell National 6
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.); 7
(B) under the school breakfast program es-8
tablished under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 9
(42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.); 10
(C) as a competitive food available on cam-11
pus during the school day; and 12
(D) to children ages 5 years and older 13
under the child and adult care food program es-14
tablished under section 17 of the Richard B. 15
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 16
1766); and 17
(2) with respect to weekly sodium limitations to 18
meals and supplements served during such period 19
under the school lunch program established under 20
the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 21
(42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) — 22
(A) exclude sodium used for food safety 23
and functional purposes in cheese-making, as 24
determined by the Secretary in consultation 25
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with the Commissioner of the Food and Drug 1
Administration; and 2
(B) if a determination has not been made 3
under subparagraph (A), apply the Target 1 so-4
dium levels included in the final rule entitled 5
‘‘Nutrition Standards in the National School 6
Lunch and School Breakfast Programs’’ pub-7
lished by the Department of Agriculture in the 8
Federal Register on January 26, 2012 (77 Fed. 9
Reg. 4087). 10
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EC. 767. None of the funds made available by this 11
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-12
force any rule that would reduce the maximum monthly 13
allowance with respect to milk under section 246.10 of 14
title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on April 15
1, 2023), including the rule entitled ‘‘Special Supple-16
mental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Chil-17
dren (WIC): Revisions to the WIC Food Packages’’ pub-18
lished by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal 19
Register on November 21, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 71090). 20
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EC. 768. None of the funds provided by this Act 21
or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 22
United States derived by the collection of fees available 23
to the agencies funded by this Act, may be used by the 24
Secretary of Health and Human Services to finalize, issue, 25
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implement, administer, or enforce any rule, regulation, or 1
order setting a tobacco product standard that mandates 2
a maximum nicotine level for cigarettes. 3
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EC. 769. None of the funds provided by this Act, 4
or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 5
United States derived by the collection of fees available 6
to the agencies funded by this Act, may be used by the 7
Secretary of Health and Human Services to finalize, issue, 8
or implement any rule, regulation, notice of proposed rule-9
making, or order setting any tobacco product standard 10
that would prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in 11
cigarettes or prohibit characterizing flavors in all cigars 12
and their components and parts. 13
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EC. 770. In this fiscal year and each fiscal year 14
thereafter, and notwithstanding any other provision of 15
law, none of the funds made available by this or any other 16
Act may be used to implement section 3.7(f) of the Farm 17
Credit Act of 1971 in a manner inconsistent with section 18
343(a)(13) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-19
ment Act. 20
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EC. 771. (a) For an additional amount for the Office 21
of the Secretary, $2,000,000, to remain available until ex-22
pended, for the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out no 23
more than 10 pilot projects, under the terms and condi-24
tions determined by the Secretary for a period not to ex-25
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ceed 2 years, that award grants to an Indian tribe; a tribal 1
organization approved by an Indian tribe; a tribal edu-2
cational agency; a consortium of Indian tribes; or a part-3
nership between an Indian tribe and either a State edu-4
cational agency, a local educational agency, a tribal edu-5
cational agency, or the Bureau of Indian Education to op-6
erate and implement the school lunch program as author-7
ized by the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 8
(42 U.S.C. 1769), the summer food service program as 9
established under section 13 of the Richard B. Russell Na-10
tional School Lunch Act, the child and adult care food 11
program as established by section 17 of the Richard B. 12
Russell National School Lunch Act, or the school break-13
fast program established by the Child Nutrition Act of 14
1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773) in either a Bureau-funded school 15
(as defined in section 1141 of the Education Amendments 16
of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021)); a school (as defined in section 17
12(d) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 18
Act (42 U.S.C. 1760 (d)) on or near an Indian reserva-19
tion; or an early child care and education facility: Pro-20
vided, That to carry out this pilot program each grant 21
awarded shall be no less than $10,000 and no more than 22
$100,000 for each school year and shall not increase state 23
administrative costs or the amount of benefits provided 24
in any program: Provided further, That the term ‘‘Indian 25
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tribe’’ has the meaning given the term in section 4 of the 1
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 2
(25 U.S.C. 5304). 3
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a 4
pilot project grant recipient shall be reimbursed for meals 5
served under the school lunch program, the summer food 6
service program, and the child and adult care food pro-7
gram as if the recipient were a State under the Richard 8
B. Russell National School Lunch Act; and under the 9
school breakfast program as if the recipient were a State 10
educational agency. 11
(c) Not later than 1 year after the conclusion of the 12
pilot program, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a 13
report on the outcomes of the pilot program. 14
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EC. 772. None of the funds made available by this 15
Act may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, the Com-16
missioner of Food and Drugs, the Chairman of the Com-17
modity Futures Trading Commission, or the Chairman of 18
the Farm Credit Administration to fly or display a flag 19
over a facility of the Department of Agriculture, the Food 20
and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures Trad-21
ing Commission, or the Farm Credit Administration other 22
than the flag of the United States; the flag of a State, 23
territory, or the District of Columbia; the flag of an Indian 24
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Tribal Government; the official flag of a U.S. Department 1
or agency; or the POW/MIA flag. 2
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EC. 773. (a) In general.—Notwithstanding section 3
7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of title 4
28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 5
none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appro-6
priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 7
any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par-8
tially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in 9
accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral 10
conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, 11
a union of one man and one woman. 12
(b) Discriminatory action defined.—As used in sub-13
section (a), a discriminatory action means any action 14
taken by the Federal Government to— 15
(1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 16
of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as-17
sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-18
tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter-19
nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 20
in subsection (a); 21
(2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-22
poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 23
such person; 24
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(3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 1
exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 2
deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co-3
operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-4
cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 5
other similar position or status from or to such per-6
son; 7
(4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-8
erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 9
benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 10
admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 11
degree from an educational program, from or to 12
such person; or 13
(5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-14
erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle-15
ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in-16
stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 17
and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam-18
paigns from or to such person. 19
(c) Accreditation; Licensure; Certification.—The 20
Federal Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or 21
certified for purposes of Federal law any person that 22
would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respectively, for 23
such purposes but for a determination against such person 24
wholly or partially on the basis that the person speaks, 25
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or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief 1
or moral conviction described in subsection (a). 2
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EC. 774. None of the funds made available by this 3
Act may be used by the Food and Drug Administration 4
to issue, promote, or advance any new guideline or regula-5
tion applicable to food manufacturers for Listeria 6
monocytogenes (Lm) until the Food and Drug Adminis-7
tration, based on the available new science, incorporates 8
into the Compliance Policy Guide (CPG), Guidance for 9
FDA Staff, Sec. 555.320, a tolerance for Listeria 10
monocytogenes in low-risk foods, meaning foods that do 11
not support the growth of Listeria monocytogenes. 12
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EC. 775. The Secretary of Agriculture may not use 13
unobligated balances available under section 22002(a)(1) 14
of Public Law 117-169, after the application of the rescis-15
sion under section 722 of this Act, to award grants under 16
section 9007 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 17
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107). 18
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 19
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EC. 776. $0. 20
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural 21
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Re-22
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 23
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118
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CONGRESS
1
ST
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ESSION
H. R. 4368
[Report No. 118–124]
A BILL
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and
Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2024, and for other pur-
poses.
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UNE
27, 2023
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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