Us Congress Senate Bill SB2131 Latest Draft

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Calendar No. 111 
118THCONGRESS 
1
STSESSION S. 2131 
[Report No. 118–44] 
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2024, and for other purposes. 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE22, 2023 
Mr. H
EINRICH, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following 
original bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, 
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for 
other purposes. 
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
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tion, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep-1
tember 30, 2024, and for other purposes, namely: 2
TITLE I 3
AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS 4
P
ROCESSING, RESEARCH, ANDMARKETING 5
O
FFICE OF THESECRETARY 6
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 7
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 8
$65,067,000 of which not to exceed $7,432,000 shall be 9
available for the immediate Office of the Secretary; not 10
to exceed $1,396,000 shall be available for the Office of 11
Homeland Security; not to exceed $5,190,000 shall be 12
available for the Office of Tribal Relations, of which 13
$1,000,000 shall be to continue a Tribal Public Health 14
Resource Center at a land grant university with existing 15
indigenous public health expertise to expand current part-16
nerships and collaborative efforts with indigenous groups, 17
including but not limited to, tribal organizations and insti-18
tutions such as tribal colleges, tribal technical colleges, 19
tribal community colleges and tribal universities, to im-20
prove the delivery of culturally appropriate public health 21
services and functions in American Indian communities fo-22
cusing on indigenous food sovereignty; not to exceed 23
$9,280,000 shall be available for the Office of Partner-24
ships and Public Engagement, of which $1,500,000 shall 25
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be for 7 U.S.C. 2279(c)(5); not to exceed $28,422,000 1
shall be available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary 2
for Administration, of which $26,716,000 shall be avail-3
able for Departmental Administration to provide for nec-4
essary expenses for management support services to of-5
fices of the Department and for general administration, 6
security, repairs and alterations, and other miscellaneous 7
supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and nec-8
essary for the practical and efficient work of the Depart-9
ment: Provided, That funds made available by this Act to 10
an agency in the Administration mission area for salaries 11
and expenses are available to fund up to one administra-12
tive support staff for the Office; not to exceed $4,609,000 13
shall be available for the Office of Assistant Secretary for 14
Congressional Relations and Intergovernmental Affairs to 15
carry out the programs funded by this Act, including pro-16
grams involving intergovernmental affairs and liaison 17
within the executive branch; and not to exceed $8,738,000 18
shall be available for the Office of Communications: Pro-19
vided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is author-20
ized to transfer funds appropriated for any office of the 21
Office of the Secretary to any other office of the Office 22
of the Secretary: Provided further, That no appropriation 23
for any office shall be increased or decreased by more than 24
5 percent: Provided further, That not to exceed $22,000 25
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of the amount made available under this paragraph for 1
the immediate Office of the Secretary shall be available 2
for official reception and representation expenses, not oth-3
erwise provided for, as determined by the Secretary: Pro-4
vided further, That the amount made available under this 5
heading for Departmental Administration shall be reim-6
bursed from applicable appropriations in this Act for trav-7
el expenses incident to the holding of hearings as required 8
by 5 U.S.C. 551–558: Provided further, That funds made 9
available under this heading for the Office of the Assistant 10
Secretary for Congressional Relations and Intergovern-11
mental Affairs shall be transferred to agencies of the De-12
partment of Agriculture funded by this Act to maintain 13
personnel at the agency level: Provided further, That no 14
funds made available under this heading for the Office of 15
Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations may be 16
obligated after 30 days from the date of enactment of this 17
Act, unless the Secretary has notified the Committees on 18
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress on the alloca-19
tion of these funds by USDA agency: Provided further, 20
That during any 30 day notification period referenced in 21
section 716 of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 22
take no action to begin implementation of the action that 23
is subject to section 716 of this Act or make any public 24
announcement of such action in any form. 25
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EXECUTIVEOPERATIONS 1
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ECONOMIST 2
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief 3
Economist, $30,181,000, of which $10,000,000 shall be 4
for grants or cooperative agreements for policy research 5
under 7 U.S.C. 3155: Provided, That of the amounts made 6
available under this heading, $2,000,000 shall be for an 7
interdisciplinary center based at a land grant university 8
focused on agricultural policy relevant to the Midwest re-9
gion which will provide private entities, policymakers, and 10
the public with timely insights and targeted economic solu-11
tions: Provided further, That of the amounts made avail-12
able under this heading, $500,000 shall be available to 13
carry out section 224 of subtitle A of the Department of 14
Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6924), 15
as amended by section 12504 of Public Law 115–334. 16
OFFICE OF HEARINGS AND APPEALS 17
For necessary expenses of the Office of Hearings and 18
Appeals, $16,703,000. 19
OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS 20
For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and 21
Program Analysis, $14,967,000. 22
O
FFICE OF THECHIEFINFORMATIONOFFICER 23
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief In-24
formation Officer, $92,284,000, of which not less than 25
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$77,428,000 is for cybersecurity requirements of the de-1
partment. 2
O
FFICE OF THECHIEFFINANCIALOFFICER 3
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Fi-4
nancial Officer, $7,367,000. 5
O
FFICE OF THEASSISTANTSECRETARY FORCIVIL 6
R
IGHTS 7
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant 8
Secretary for Civil Rights, $1,466,000: Provided, That 9
funds made available by this Act to an agency in the Civil 10
Rights mission area for salaries and expenses are available 11
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the Of-12
fice. 13
O
FFICE OFCIVILRIGHTS 14
For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 15
$37,595,000. 16
A
GRICULTUREBUILDINGS ANDFACILITIES 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 18
For payment of space rental and related costs pursu-19
ant to Public Law 92–313, including authorities pursuant 20
to the 1984 delegation of authority from the Adminis-21
trator of General Services to the Department of Agri-22
culture under 40 U.S.C. 121, for programs and activities 23
of the Department which are included in this Act, and for 24
alterations and other actions needed for the Department 25
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and its agencies to consolidate unneeded space into con-1
figurations suitable for release to the Administrator of 2
General Services, and for the operation, maintenance, im-3
provement, and repair of Agriculture buildings and facili-4
ties, and for related costs, $36,081,000, to remain avail-5
able until expended. 6
H
AZARDOUSMATERIALSMANAGEMENT 7
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 8
For necessary expenses of the Department of Agri-9
culture, to comply with the Comprehensive Environmental 10
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 11
9601 et seq.) and the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 12
6901 et seq.), $6,586,000, to remain available until ex-13
pended: Provided, That appropriations and funds available 14
herein to the Department for Hazardous Materials Man-15
agement may be transferred to any agency of the Depart-16
ment for its use in meeting all requirements pursuant to 17
the above Acts on Federal and non-Federal lands. 18
O
FFICE OFSAFETY, SECURITY, ANDPROTECTION 19
For necessary expenses of the Office of Safety, Secu-20
rity, and Protection, $21,800,000. 21
O
FFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 22
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 23
General, including employment pursuant to the Inspector 24
General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–452; 5 U.S.C. App.), 25
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$111,561,000, including such sums as may be necessary 1
for contracting and other arrangements with public agen-2
cies and private persons pursuant to section 6(a)(9) of the 3
Inspector General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–452; 5 4
U.S.C. App.), and including not to exceed $125,000 for 5
certain confidential operational expenses, including the 6
payment of informants, to be expended under the direction 7
of the Inspector General pursuant to the Inspector Gen-8
eral Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–452; 5 U.S.C. App.) and 9
section 1337 of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 10
(Public Law 97–98). 11
O
FFICE OF THEGENERALCOUNSEL 12
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General 13
Counsel, $60,537,000. 14
O
FFICE OFETHICS 15
For necessary expenses of the Office of Ethics, 16
$5,556,000. 17
O
FFICE OF THEUNDERSECRETARY FORRESEARCH, 18
E
DUCATION, ANDECONOMICS 19
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 20
Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics, 21
$2,384,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 22
Act to an agency in the Research, Education, and Eco-23
nomics mission area for salaries and expenses are avail-24
able to fund up to one administrative support staff for 25
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the Office: Provided further, That of the amounts made 1
available under this heading, $1,000,000 shall be made 2
available for the Office of the Chief Scientist. 3
E
CONOMICRESEARCHSERVICE 4
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research 5
Service, $92,183,000. 6
N
ATIONALAGRICULTURALSTATISTICSSERVICE 7
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural 8
Statistics Service, $200,563,000, of which up to 9
$55,900,000 shall be available until expended for the Cen-10
sus of Agriculture: Provided, That amounts made available 11
for the Census of Agriculture may be used to conduct Cur-12
rent Industrial Report surveys subject to 7 U.S.C. 13
2204g(d) and (f). 14
A
GRICULTURALRESEARCHSERVICE 15
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 16
For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Research 17
Service and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, 18
or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, and 19
for land exchanges where the lands exchanged shall be of 20
equal value or shall be equalized by a payment of money 21
to the grantor which shall not exceed 25 percent of the 22
total value of the land or interests transferred out of Fed-23
eral ownership, $1,792,879,000: Provided, That appro-24
priations hereunder shall be available for the operation 25
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and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to 1
exceed one for replacement only: Provided further, That 2
appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 3
U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, alteration, and repair 4
of buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise pro-5
vided, the cost of constructing any one building shall not 6
exceed $500,000, except for headhouses or greenhouses 7
which shall each be limited to $1,800,000, except for 10 8
buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to 9
exceed $1,100,000 each, and except for four buildings to 10
be constructed at a cost not to exceed $5,000,000 each, 11
and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal 12
year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replace-13
ment value of the building or $500,000, whichever is 14
greater: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder 15
shall be available for entering into lease agreements at any 16
Agricultural Research Service location for the construction 17
of a research facility by a non-Federal entity for use by 18
the Agricultural Research Service and a condition of the 19
lease shall be that any facility shall be owned, operated, 20
and maintained by the non-Federal entity and shall be re-21
moved upon the expiration or termination of the lease 22
agreement: Provided further, That the limitations on alter-23
ations contained in this Act shall not apply to moderniza-24
tion or replacement of existing facilities at Beltsville, 25
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Maryland: Provided further, That appropriations here-1
under shall be available for granting easements at the 2
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Provided further, 3
That the foregoing limitations shall not apply to replace-4
ment of buildings needed to carry out the Act of April 5
24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That appro-6
priations hereunder shall be available for granting ease-7
ments at any Agricultural Research Service location for 8
the construction of a research facility by a non-Federal 9
entity for use by, and acceptable to, the Agricultural Re-10
search Service and a condition of the easements shall be 11
that upon completion the facility shall be accepted by the 12
Secretary, subject to the availability of funds herein, if the 13
Secretary finds that acceptance of the facility is in the 14
interest of the United States: Provided further, That funds 15
may be received from any State, other political subdivi-16
sion, organization, or individual for the purpose of estab-17
lishing or operating any research facility or research 18
project of the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized 19
by law. 20
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 21
For the acquisition of land, construction, repair, im-22
provement, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed 23
equipment or facilities as necessary to carry out the agri-24
cultural research programs of the Department of Agri-25
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culture, where not otherwise provided, $88,869,000 to re-1
main available until expended, of which $47,464,000 shall 2
be for the purposes, and in the amounts, specified for this 3
account in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed 4
Spending’’ in the report accompanying this Act. 5
N
ATIONALINSTITUTE OFFOOD ANDAGRICULTURE 6
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES 7
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for 8
cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and 9
for other expenses, $1,084,600,000 which shall be for the 10
purposes, and in the amounts, specified in the table titled 11
‘‘National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Research 12
and Education Activities’’ in the report accompanying this 13
Act: Provided, That funds for research grants for 1994 14
institutions, education grants for 1890 institutions, His-15
panic serving institutions education grants, capacity build-16
ing for non-land-grant colleges of agriculture, the agri-17
culture and food research initiative, veterinary medicine 18
loan repayment, multicultural scholars, graduate fellow-19
ship and institution challenge grants, grants management 20
systems, tribal colleges education equity grants, and schol-21
arships at 1890 institutions shall remain available until 22
expended: Provided further, That each institution eligible 23
to receive funds under the Evans-Allen program receives 24
no less than $1,000,000: Provided further, That funds for 25
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education grants for Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian- 1
serving institutions be made available to individual eligible 2
institutions or consortia of eligible institutions with funds 3
awarded equally to each of the States of Alaska and Ha-4
waii: Provided further, That funds for providing grants for 5
food and agricultural sciences for Alaska Native and Na-6
tive Hawaiian-Serving institutions and for Insular Areas 7
shall remain available until September 30, 2024: Provided 8
further, That funds for education grants for 1890 institu-9
tions shall be made available to institutions eligible to re-10
ceive funds under 7 U.S.C. 3221 and 3222: Provided fur-11
ther, That not more than 5 percent of the amounts made 12
available by this or any other Act to carry out the Agri-13
culture and Food Research Initiative under 7 U.S.C. 3157 14
may be retained by the Secretary of Agriculture to pay 15
administrative costs incurred by the Secretary in carrying 16
out that authority. 17
NATIVE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS ENDOWMENT FUND 18
For the Native American Institutions Endowment 19
Fund authorized by Public Law 103–382 (7 U.S.C. 301 20
note), $11,880,000, to remain available until expended. 21
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES 22
For payments to States, the District of Columbia, 23
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, the 24
Northern Marianas, and American Samoa, $567,410,000 25
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which shall be for the purposes, and in the amounts, speci-1
fied in the table titled ‘‘National Institute of Food and 2
Agriculture, Extension Activities’’ in the report accom-3
panying this Act: Provided, That funds for extension serv-4
ices at 1994 institutions and for facility improvements at 5
1890 institutions shall remain available until expended: 6
Provided further, That institutions eligible to receive funds 7
under 7 U.S.C. 3221 for cooperative extension receive no 8
less than $1,000,000: Provided further, That funds for co-9
operative extension under sections 3(b) and (c) of the 10
Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343(b) and (c)) and section 11
208(c) of Public Law 93–471 shall be available for retire-12
ment and employees’ compensation costs for extension 13
agents. 14
INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES 15
For the integrated research, education, and extension 16
grants programs, including necessary administrative ex-17
penses, $41,500,000, which shall be for the purposes, and 18
in the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘National In-19
stitute of Food and Agriculture, Integrated Activities’’ in 20
the report accompanying this Act: Provided, That funds 21
for the Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative shall re-22
main available until September 30, 2024: Provided further, 23
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, indirect 24
costs shall not be charged against any Extension Imple-25
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mentation Program Area grant awarded under the Crop 1
Protection/Pest Management Program (7 U.S.C. 7626). 2
O
FFICE OF THEUNDERSECRETARY FORMARKETING 3
ANDREGULATORYPROGRAMS 4
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 5
Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, 6
$1,617,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 7
Act to an agency in the Marketing and Regulatory Pro-8
grams mission area for salaries and expenses are available 9
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the Of-10
fice. 11
A
NIMAL ANDPLANTHEALTHINSPECTIONSERVICE 12
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 14
For necessary expenses of the Animal and Plant 15
Health Inspection Service, including up to $30,000 for 16
representation allowances and for expenses pursuant to 17
the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4085), 18
$1,185,967,000 of which up to $14,276,000 shall be for 19
the purposes, and in the amounts, specified for this ac-20
count in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spend-21
ing’’ in the report accompanying this Act; of which 22
$514,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 23
available for the control of outbreaks of insects, plant dis-24
eases, animal diseases and for control of pest animals and 25
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birds (‘‘contingency fund’’) to the extent necessary to meet 1
emergency conditions; of which $15,450,000, to remain 2
available until expended, shall be used for the cotton pests 3
program, including for cost share purposes or for debt re-4
tirement for active eradication zones; of which 5
$39,183,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 6
for Animal Health Technical Services; of which 7
$4,096,000 shall be for activities under the authority of 8
the Horse Protection Act of 1970, as amended (15 U.S.C. 9
1831); of which $64,930,000, to remain available until ex-10
pended, shall be used to support avian health; of which 11
$4,251,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 12
for information technology infrastructure; of which 13
$217,904,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 14
for specialty crop pests, of which $8,500,000, to remain 15
available until September 30, 2025, shall be for one-time 16
control and management and associated activities directly 17
related to the multiple-agency response to citrus greening; 18
of which, $13,986,000, to remain available until expended, 19
shall be for field crop and rangeland ecosystem pests; of 20
which $21,567,000, to remain available until expended, 21
shall be for zoonotic disease management; of which 22
$48,067,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 23
for emergency preparedness and response; of which 24
$62,562,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 25
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for tree and wood pests; of which $6,500,000, to remain 1
available until expended, shall be for the National Veteri-2
nary Stockpile; of which up to $1,500,000, to remain 3
available until expended, shall be for the scrapie program 4
for indemnities; of which $2,500,000, to remain available 5
until expended, shall be for the wildlife damage manage-6
ment program for aviation safety: Provided, That of 7
amounts available under this heading for wildlife services 8
methods development, $1,000,000 shall remain available 9
until expended: Provided further, That of amounts avail-10
able under this heading for the screwworm program, 11
$4,990,000 shall remain available until expended; of which 12
$24,527,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 13
used to carry out the science program and transition ac-14
tivities for the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility lo-15
cated in Manhattan, Kansas: Provided further, That no 16
funds shall be used to formulate or administer a brucel-17
losis eradication program for the current fiscal year that 18
does not require minimum matching by the States of at 19
least 40 percent: Provided further, That this appropriation 20
shall be available for the purchase, replacement, operation, 21
and maintenance of aircraft: Provided further, That in ad-22
dition, in emergencies which threaten any segment of the 23
agricultural production industry of the United States, the 24
Secretary may transfer from other appropriations or funds 25
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available to the agencies or corporations of the Depart-1
ment such sums as may be deemed necessary, to be avail-2
able only in such emergencies for the arrest and eradi-3
cation of contagious or infectious disease or pests of ani-4
mals, poultry, or plants, and for expenses in accordance 5
with sections 10411 and 10417 of the Animal Health Pro-6
tection Act (7 U.S.C. 8310 and 8316) and sections 431 7
and 442 of the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7751 and 8
7772), and any unexpended balances of funds transferred 9
for such emergency purposes in the preceding fiscal year 10
shall be merged with such transferred amounts: Provided 11
further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available 12
pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the repair and alter-13
ation of leased buildings and improvements, but unless 14
otherwise provided the cost of altering any one building 15
during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the 16
current replacement value of the building. 17
In fiscal year 2024, the agency is authorized to collect 18
fees to cover the total costs of providing technical assist-19
ance, goods, or services requested by States, other political 20
subdivisions, domestic and international organizations, 21
foreign governments, or individuals, provided that such 22
fees are structured such that any entity’s liability for such 23
fees is reasonably based on the technical assistance, goods, 24
or services provided to the entity by the agency, and such 25
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fees shall be reimbursed to this account, to remain avail-1
able until expended, without further appropriation, for 2
providing such assistance, goods, or services. 3
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 4
For plans, construction, repair, preventive mainte-5
nance, environmental support, improvement, extension, al-6
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities, as 7
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2250, and acquisition of land as 8
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2268a, $3,175,000, to remain 9
available until expended. 10
A
GRICULTURALMARKETINGSERVICE 11
MARKETING SERVICES 12
For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Marketing 13
Service, $229,891,000, of which $7,500,000 shall be avail-14
able for the purposes of section 12306 of Public Law 113– 15
79, and of which $1,000,000 shall be available for the pur-16
poses of section 779 of division A of Public Law 117– 17
103: Provided, That of the amounts made available under 18
this heading, $15,000,000, to remain available until ex-19
pended, shall be to carry out section 12513 of Public Law 20
115–334, of which $14,000,000 shall be for dairy business 21
innovation initiatives established in Public Law 116–6 and 22
the Secretary shall take measures to ensure an equal dis-23
tribution of funds between these three regional innovation 24
initiatives: Provided further, That this appropriation shall 25
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be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alter-1
ation and repair of buildings and improvements, but the 2
cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 3
shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement 4
value of the building. 5
Fees may be collected for the cost of standardization 6
activities, as established by regulation pursuant to law (31 7
U.S.C. 9701), except for the cost of activities relating to 8
the development or maintenance of grain standards under 9
the United States Grain Standards Act, 7 U.S.C. 71 et 10
seq. 11
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 12
Not to exceed $62,596,000 (from fees collected) shall 13
be obligated during the current fiscal year for administra-14
tive expenses: Provided, That if crop size is understated 15
and/or other uncontrollable events occur, the agency may 16
exceed this limitation by up to 10 percent with notification 17
to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 18
Congress. 19
FUNDS FOR STRENGTHENING MARKETS , INCOME, AND 20
SUPPLY (SECTION 32) 21
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 22
Funds available under section 32 of the Act of Au-23
gust 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), shall be used only for com-24
modity program expenses as authorized therein, and other 25
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related operating expenses, except for: (1) transfers to the 1
Department of Commerce as authorized by the Fish and 2
Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a et seq.); (2) trans-3
fers otherwise provided in this Act; and (3) not more than 4
$21,501,000 for formulation and administration of mar-5
keting agreements and orders pursuant to the Agricultural 6
Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 and the Agricultural 7
Act of 1961 (Public Law 87–128). 8
PAYMENTS TO STATES AND POSSESSIONS 9
For payments to departments of agriculture, bureaus 10
and departments of markets, and similar agencies for 11
marketing activities under section 204(b) of the Agricul-12
tural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623(b)), 13
$1,235,000. 14
LIMITATION ON INSPECTION AND WEIGHING SERVICES 15
EXPENSES 16
Not to exceed $55,000,000 (from fees collected) shall 17
be obligated during the current fiscal year for inspection 18
and weighing services: Provided, That if grain export ac-19
tivities require additional supervision and oversight, or 20
other uncontrollable factors occur, this limitation may be 21
exceeded by up to 10 percent with notification to the Com-22
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 23
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OFFICE OF THEUNDERSECRETARY FORFOODSAFETY 1
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 2
Secretary for Food Safety, $1,117,000: Provided, That 3
funds made available by this Act to an agency in the Food 4
Safety mission area for salaries and expenses are available 5
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the Of-6
fice. 7
F
OODSAFETY ANDINSPECTIONSERVICE 8
For necessary expenses to carry out services author-9
ized by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry 10
Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection 11
Act, including not to exceed $10,000 for representation 12
allowances and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the 13
Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), 14
$1,205,009,000; and in addition, $1,000,000 may be cred-15
ited to this account from fees collected for the cost of lab-16
oratory accreditation as authorized by section 1327 of the 17
Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 18
(7 U.S.C. 138f): Provided, That funds provided for the 19
Public Health Data Communication Infrastructure system 20
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 21
That no fewer than 148 full-time equivalent positions shall 22
be employed during fiscal year 2024 for purposes dedi-23
cated solely to inspections and enforcement related to the 24
Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (7 U.S.C. 1901 et 25
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seq.): Provided further, That the Food Safety and Inspec-1
tion Service shall continue implementation of section 2
11016 of Public Law 110–246 as further clarified by the 3
amendments made in section 12106 of Public Law 113– 4
79: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be 5
available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alter-6
ation and repair of buildings and improvements, but the 7
cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 8
shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement 9
value of the building. 10
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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
$1,727,000: 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, $249,684,000, of which 18
$1,000,000 shall be for the implementation of section 773 19
of Public Law 117–328: Provided, That $60,228,000 of 20
amounts appropriated for the current fiscal year pursuant 21
to section 1241(a) of the Farm Security and Rural Invest-22
ment Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841(a)) shall be transferred 23
to and merged with this account. 24
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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 offices, to remain available until expended: Pro-1
vided further, That, notwithstanding the preceding pro-2
viso, any funds made available to county offices in the cur-3
rent fiscal year that the Administrator of the Farm Serv-4
ice Agency deems to exceed or not meet the amount need-5
ed for the county offices may be transferred to or from 6
the Farm Service Agency for necessary expenses: Provided 7
further, That none of the funds available to the Farm 8
Service Agency shall be used to close Farm Service Agency 9
county offices: Provided further, That none of the funds 10
available to the Farm Service Agency shall be used to per-11
manently relocate county based employees that would re-12
sult in an office with two or fewer employees without prior 13
notification and approval of the Committees on Appropria-14
tions 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), $7,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary of Agri-19
culture may determine that United States territories and 20
Federally recognized Indian tribes are ‘‘States’’ for the 21
purposes of Subtitle A of such Act. 22
GRASSROOTS SOURCE WATER PROTECTION PROGRAM 23
For necessary expenses to carry out wellhead or 24
groundwater protection activities under section 1240O of 25
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the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb–2), 1
$7,500,000, to remain available until expended. 2
DAIRY INDEMNITY PROGRAM 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 4
For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity 5
payments to dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy 6
products under a dairy indemnity program, such sums as 7
may be necessary, to remain available until expended: Pro-8
vided, That such program is carried out by the Secretary 9
in the same manner as the dairy indemnity program de-10
scribed in the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 11
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropria-12
tions Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–387, 114 Stat. 1549A– 13
12). 14
GEOGRAPHICALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND 15
RANCHERS 16
For necessary expenses to carry out direct reimburse-17
ment payments to geographically disadvantaged farmers 18
and ranchers under section 1621 of the Food Conserva-19
tion, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8792), 20
$4,000,000, to remain available until expended. 21
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AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM 1
ACCOUNT 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-4
rect and guaranteed farm ownership (7 U.S.C. 1922 et 5
seq.) and operating (7 U.S.C. 1941 et seq.) loans, emer-6
gency loans (7 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.), Indian tribe land ac-7
quisition loans (25 U.S.C. 5136), boll weevil loans (7 8
U.S.C. 1989), guaranteed conservation loans (7 U.S.C. 9
1924 et seq.), relending program (7 U.S.C. 1936c), and 10
Indian highly fractionated land loans (25 U.S.C. 5136) 11
to be available from funds in the Agricultural Credit In-12
surance Fund, as follows: $3,500,000,000 for guaranteed 13
farm ownership loans and $3,100,000,000 for farm owner-14
ship direct loans; $2,118,491,000 for unsubsidized guar-15
anteed operating loans and $1,633,000,000 for direct op-16
erating loans; emergency loans, $37,667,000; Indian tribe 17
land acquisition loans, $20,000,000; guaranteed conserva-18
tion loans, $150,000,000; relending program, 19
$61,426,000; Indian highly fractionated land loans, 20
$5,000,000; and for boll weevil eradication program loans, 21
$60,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary shall deem the 22
pink bollworm to be a boll weevil for the purpose of boll 23
weevil eradication program loans. 24
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For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans and 1
grants, including the cost of modifying loans as defined 2
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 3
as follows: $3,507,000 for emergency loans, to remain 4
available until expended; and $27,598,000 for direct farm 5
operating loans, $1,483,000 for unsubsidized guaranteed 6
farm operating loans, $19,368,000 for the relending pro-7
gram, $1,577,000 for Indian highly fractionated land 8
loans, and $258,000 for boll weevil eradication program 9
loans. 10
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 11
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 12
$341,871,000: Provided, That of this amount, 13
$321,621,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the 14
appropriation for ‘‘Farm Service Agency, Salaries and Ex-15
penses’’. 16
Funds appropriated by this Act to the Agricultural 17
Credit Insurance Program Account for farm ownership, 18
operating and conservation direct loans and guaranteed 19
loans may be transferred among these programs: Pro-20
vided, That the Committees on Appropriations of both 21
Houses of Congress are notified at least 15 days in ad-22
vance of any transfer. 23
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RISKMANAGEMENTAGENCY 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the Risk Management 3
Agency, $66,870,000: Provided, That $1,000,000 of the 4
amount appropriated under this heading in this Act shall 5
be available for compliance and integrity activities re-6
quired under section 516(b)(2)(C) of the Federal Crop In-7
surance Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1516(b)(2)(C)), and shall 8
be in addition to amounts otherwise provided for such pur-9
pose: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000 shall 10
be available for official reception and representation ex-11
penses, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1506(i). 12
N
ATURALRESOURCESCONSERVATIONSERVICE 13
CONSERVATION OPERATIONS 14
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provi-15
sions of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a–f), 16
including preparation of conservation plans and establish-17
ment of measures to conserve soil and water (including 18
farm irrigation and land drainage and such special meas-19
ures for soil and water management as may be necessary 20
to prevent floods and the siltation of reservoirs and to con-21
trol agricultural related pollutants); operation of conserva-22
tion plant materials centers; classification and mapping of 23
soil; dissemination of information; acquisition of lands, 24
water, and interests therein for use in the plant materials 25
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program by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal 1
cost not to exceed $100 pursuant to the Act of August 2
3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 2268a); purchase and erection or alter-3
ation or improvement of permanent and temporary build-4
ings; and operation and maintenance of aircraft, 5
$922,151,000, to remain available until September 30, 6
2025: Provided, That appropriations hereunder shall be 7
available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for construction and 8
improvement of buildings and public improvements at 9
plant materials centers, except that the cost of alterations 10
and improvements to other buildings and other public im-11
provements shall not exceed $250,000: Provided further, 12
That when buildings or other structures are erected on 13
non-Federal land, that the right to use such land is ob-14
tained as provided in 7 U.S.C. 2250a. 15
WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS 16
For necessary expenses to carry out preventive meas-17
ures, including but not limited to surveys and investiga-18
tions, engineering operations, works of improvement, and 19
changes in use of land, in accordance with the Watershed 20
Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1001– 21
1005 and 1007–1009) and in accordance with the provi-22
sions of laws relating to the activities of the Department, 23
$90,405,000, to remain available until expended, of which 24
up to $20,405,000 shall be for the purposes, and in the 25
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amounts, specified for this account in the table titled 1
‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ in the report accom-2
panying this Act: Provided, That for funds provided by 3
this Act or any other prior Act, the limitation regarding 4
the size of the watershed or subwatershed exceeding two 5
hundred and fifty thousand acres in which such activities 6
can be undertaken shall only apply for activities under-7
taken for the primary purpose of flood prevention (includ-8
ing structural and land treatment measures): Provided 9
further, That of the amounts made available under this 10
heading, $5,000,000 shall be allocated to projects and ac-11
tivities that can commence promptly following enactment; 12
that address regional priorities for flood prevention, agri-13
cultural water management, inefficient irrigation systems, 14
fish and wildlife habitat, or watershed protection; or that 15
address authorized ongoing projects under the authorities 16
of section 13 of the Flood Control Act of December 22, 17
1944 (Public Law 78–534) with a primary purpose of wa-18
tershed protection by preventing floodwater damage and 19
stabilizing stream channels, tributaries, and banks to re-20
duce erosion and sediment transport: Provided further, 21
That of the amounts made available under this heading, 22
$10,000,000 shall be allocated to irrigation modernization 23
projects and activities located in Western states that in-24
crease fish or wildlife habitat, reduce drought impact, im-25
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prove water quality or instream flow, or provide off-chan-1
nel renewable energy production. 2
WATERSHED REHABILITATION PROGRAM 3
Under the authorities of section 14 of the Watershed 4
Protection and Flood Prevention Act, $2,000,000 is pro-5
vided. 6
CORPORATIONS 7
The following corporations and agencies are hereby 8
authorized to make expenditures, within the limits of 9
funds and borrowing authority available to each such cor-10
poration or agency and in accord with law, and to make 11
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year 12
limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government 13
Corporation Control Act as may be necessary in carrying 14
out the programs set forth in the budget for the current 15
fiscal year for such corporation or agency, except as here-16
inafter provided. 17
F
EDERALCROPINSURANCECORPORATIONFUND 18
For payments as authorized by section 516 of the 19
Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1516), such sums 20
as may be necessary, to remain available until expended. 21
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COMMODITYCREDITCORPORATIONFUND 1
REIMBURSEMENT FOR NET REALIZED LOSSES 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
For the current fiscal year, such sums as may be nec-4
essary to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for 5
net realized losses sustained, but not previously reim-6
bursed, pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 17, 7
1961 (15 U.S.C. 713a–11): Provided, That of the funds 8
available to the Commodity Credit Corporation under sec-9
tion 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act 10
(15 U.S.C. 714i) for the conduct of its business with the 11
Foreign Agricultural Service, up to $5,000,000 may be 12
transferred to and used by the Foreign Agricultural Serv-13
ice for information resource management activities of the 14
Foreign Agricultural Service that are not related to Com-15
modity Credit Corporation business: Provided further, 16
That the Secretary shall notify the Committees on Appro-17
priations of the House and Senate in writing 15 days prior 18
to the obligation or commitment of any emergency funds 19
from the Commodity Credit Corporation. 20
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT 21
(LIMITATION ON EXPENSES) 22
For the current fiscal year, the Commodity Credit 23
Corporation shall not expend more than $15,000,000 for 24
site investigation and cleanup expenses, and operations 25
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and maintenance expenses to comply with the requirement 1
of section 107(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental 2
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 3
9607(g)), and section 6001 of the Solid Waste Disposal 4
Act (42 U.S.C. 6961). 5
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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, $1,620,000: 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; $351,087,000: Provided, 18
That of the amount made available under this heading, 19
up to $3,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 20
2025, shall be for the Rural Partners Network activities 21
of the Department of Agriculture, and may be transferred 22
to other agencies of the Department for such purpose, con-23
sistent with the missions and authorities of such agencies: 24
Provided further, That of the amount made available 25
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under this heading, no less than $100,000,000, to remain 1
available until expended, shall be used for information 2
technology expenses: Provided further, That notwith-3
standing any other provision of law, funds appropriated 4
under this heading may be used for advertising and pro-5
motional activities that support Rural Development pro-6
grams: Provided further, That in addition to any other 7
funds appropriated for purposes authorized by section 8
502(i) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472(i)), 9
any amounts collected under such section, as amended by 10
this Act, will immediately be credited to this account and 11
will remain available until expended for such purposes. 12
R
URALHOUSINGSERVICE 13
RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT 14
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 15
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-16
rect and guaranteed loans as authorized by title V of the 17
Housing Act of 1949, to be available from funds in the 18
rural housing insurance fund, as follows: $850,000,000 19
shall be for direct loans, $7,500,000 shall be for a Single 20
Family Housing Relending demonstration program for 21
Native American Tribes; and $30,000,000,000, which 22
shall remain available until September 30, 2025 shall be 23
for unsubsidized guaranteed loans; $28,000,000 for sec-24
tion 504 housing repair loans; $60,000,000 for section 25
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515 rental housing; $400,000,000 for section 538 guaran-1
teed multi-family housing loans; $10,000,000 for credit 2
sales of single family housing acquired property; 3
$5,000,000 for section 523 self-help housing land develop-4
ment loans; and $5,000,000 for section 524 site develop-5
ment loans. 6
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including 7
the cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of 8
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: section 9
502 loans, $62,637,000 shall be for direct loans; Single 10
Family Housing Relending demonstration program for 11
Native American Tribes, $3,432,000; section 504 housing 12
repair loans, $4,858,000; section 523 self-help housing 13
land development loans, $637,000; section 524 site devel-14
opment loans, $477,000; and repair, rehabilitation, and 15
new construction of section 515 rental housing, 16
$20,988,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-17
vided, That to support the loan program level for section 18
538 guaranteed loans made available under this heading 19
the Secretary may charge or adjust any fees to cover the 20
projected cost of such loan guarantees pursuant to the 21
provisions of the Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 22
661 et seq.), and the interest on such loans may not be 23
subsidized: Provided further, That applicants in commu-24
nities that have a current rural area waiver under section 25
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541 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490q) shall 1
be treated as living in a rural area for purposes of section 2
502 guaranteed loans provided under this heading: Pro-3
vided further, That of the amounts available under this 4
paragraph for section 502 direct loans, no less than 5
$5,000,000 shall be available for direct loans for individ-6
uals whose homes will be built pursuant to a program 7
funded with a mutual and self-help housing grant author-8
ized by section 523 of the Housing Act of 1949 until June 9
1, 2024: Provided further, That the Secretary shall imple-10
ment provisions to provide incentives to nonprofit organi-11
zations and public housing authorities to facilitate the ac-12
quisition of Rural Housing Service (RHS) multifamily 13
housing properties by such nonprofit organizations and 14
public housing authorities that commit to keep such prop-15
erties in the RHS multifamily housing program for a pe-16
riod of time as determined by the Secretary, with such 17
incentives to include, but not be limited to, the following: 18
allow such nonprofit entities and public housing authori-19
ties to earn a Return on Investment on their own re-20
sources to include proceeds from low income housing tax 21
credit syndication, own contributions, grants, and devel-22
oper loans at favorable rates and terms, invested in a deal; 23
and allow reimbursement of organizational costs associ-24
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ated with owner’s oversight of asset referred to as ‘‘Asset 1
Management Fee’’ of up to $7,500 per property. 2
In addition, for the cost of direct loans and grants, 3
including the cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 4
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 5
$35,000,000, to remain available until expended, for a 6
demonstration program for the preservation and revital-7
ization of the sections 514, 515, and 516 multi-family 8
rental housing properties to restructure existing USDA 9
multi-family housing loans, as the Secretary deems appro-10
priate, expressly for the purposes of ensuring the project 11
has sufficient resources to preserve the project for the pur-12
pose of providing safe and affordable housing for low-in-13
come residents and farm laborers including reducing or 14
eliminating interest; deferring loan payments, subordi-15
nating, reducing or re-amortizing loan debt; and other fi-16
nancial assistance including advances, payments and in-17
centives (including the ability of owners to obtain reason-18
able returns on investment) required by the Secretary: 19
Provided, That the Secretary shall, as part of the preser-20
vation and revitalization agreement, obtain a restrictive 21
use agreement consistent with the terms of the restruc-22
turing. 23
In addition, for the cost of direct loans, grants, and 24
contracts, as authorized by sections 514 and 516 of the 25
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Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1484, 1486), 1
$18,703,000, to remain available until expended, for direct 2
farm labor housing loans and domestic farm labor housing 3
grants and contracts. 4
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 5
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 6
$412,254,000 shall be paid to the appropriation for 7
‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’. 8
RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 9
For rental assistance agreements entered into or re-10
newed pursuant to the authority under section 521(a)(2) 11
of the Housing Act of 1949 or agreements entered into 12
in lieu of debt forgiveness or payments for eligible house-13
holds as authorized by section 502(c)(5)(D) of the Hous-14
ing Act of 1949, $1,608,000,000, and in addition such 15
sums as may be necessary, as authorized by section 521(c) 16
of the Act, to liquidate debt incurred prior to fiscal year 17
1992 to carry out the rental assistance program under sec-18
tion 521(a)(2) of the Act: Provided, That amounts made 19
available under this heading shall be available for renewal 20
of rental assistance agreements for a maximum of 15,000 21
units where the Secretary determines that a maturing loan 22
for a project cannot reasonably be restructured with an-23
other USDA loan or modification and the project was op-24
erating with rental assistance under section 521 of the 25
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Housing Act of 1949: Provided further, That the Secretary 1
may enter into rental assistance contracts in maturing 2
properties with existing rental assistance agreements not-3
withstanding any provision of section 521 of the Housing 4
Act of 1949, for a term of at least 10 years but not more 5
than 20 years: Provided further, That any agreement to 6
enter into a rental assistance contract under section 521 7
of the Housing Act of 1949 for a maturing property shall 8
obligate the owner to continue to maintain the project as 9
decent, safe, and sanitary housing and to operate the de-10
velopment in accordance with the Housing Act of 1949, 11
except that initial rents shall be based on the budget-based 12
needs of the project: Provided further, That annual rent 13
adjustments shall be based on the lesser of (1) the budget- 14
based needs of the project, or (2) the operating cost ad-15
justment factor as a payment standard as provided under 16
section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform 17
and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note): 18
Provided further, That rental assistance agreements en-19
tered into or renewed during the current fiscal year shall 20
be funded for a one year period: Provided further, That 21
upon request by an owner under section 514 or 515 of 22
the Act, the Secretary may renew the rental assistance 23
agreement for a period of 20 years or until the term of 24
such loan has expired, subject to annual appropriations: 25
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Provided further, That rental assistance agreements en-1
tered into or renewed during the current fiscal year shall 2
be funded for a one-year period: Provided further, That 3
upon request by an owner of a project financed by an ex-4
isting loan under section 514 or 515 of the Act, the Sec-5
retary may renew the rental assistance agreement for a 6
period of 20 years or until the term of such loan has ex-7
pired, subject to annual appropriations: Provided further, 8
That any unexpended balances remaining at the end of 9
such one-year agreements may be transferred and used 10
for purposes of any debt reduction, maintenance, repair, 11
or rehabilitation of any existing projects; preservation; and 12
rental assistance activities authorized under title V of the 13
Act: Provided further, That rental assistance provided 14
under agreements entered into prior to fiscal year 2024 15
for a farm labor multi-family housing project financed 16
under section 514 or 516 of the Act may not be recaptured 17
for use in another project until such assistance has re-18
mained unused for a period of six consecutive months, if 19
such project has a waiting list of tenants seeking such as-20
sistance or the project has rental assistance eligible ten-21
ants who are not receiving such assistance: Provided fur-22
ther, That such recaptured rental assistance shall, to the 23
extent practicable, be applied to another farm labor multi- 24
family housing project financed under section 514 or 516 25
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of the Act: Provided further, That except as provided in 1
the tenth proviso under this heading and notwithstanding 2
any other provision of the Act, the Secretary may recap-3
ture rental assistance provided under agreements entered 4
into prior to fiscal year 2024 for a project that the Sec-5
retary determines no longer needs rental assistance and 6
use such recaptured funds for current needs. 7
RURAL HOUSING VOUCHER ACCOUNT 8
For the rural housing voucher program as authorized 9
under section 542 of the Housing Act of 1949, but not-10
withstanding subsection (b) of such section, $48,000,000, 11
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the 12
funds made available under this heading shall be available 13
for rural housing vouchers to any low-income household 14
(including those not receiving rental assistance) residing 15
in a property financed with a section 515 loan which has 16
been prepaid or otherwise paid off after September 30, 17
2005: Provided further, That the amount of such voucher 18
shall be the difference between comparable market rent 19
for the section 515 unit and the tenant paid rent for such 20
unit: Provided further, That funds made available for such 21
vouchers shall be subject to the availability of annual ap-22
propriations: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, 23
to the maximum extent practicable, administer such 24
vouchers with current regulations and administrative guid-25
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ance applicable to section 8 housing vouchers administered 1
by the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban 2
Development: Provided further, That in addition to any 3
other available funds, the Secretary may expend not more 4
than $1,000,000 total, from the program funds made 5
available under this heading, for administrative expenses 6
for activities funded under this heading. 7
MUTUAL AND SELF-HELP HOUSING GRANTS 8
For grants and contracts pursuant to section 9
523(b)(1)(A) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 10
1490c), $32,000,000, to remain available until expended. 11
RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS 12
For grants for very low-income housing repair and 13
rural housing preservation made by the Rural Housing 14
Service, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1474, and 1490m, 15
$48,000,000, to remain available until expended. 16
RURAL COMMUNITY FACILITIES PROGRAM ACCOUNT 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 18
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-19
rect and guaranteed loans as authorized by section 306 20
and described in section 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated 21
Farm and Rural Development Act, $2,800,000,000 for di-22
rect loans and $650,000,000 for guaranteed loans. 23
For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees and 24
grants, including the cost of modifying loans, as defined 25
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in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 1
for rural community facilities programs as authorized by 2
section 306 and described in section 381E(d)(1) of the 3
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, 4
$253,134,000, to remain available until expended, of 5
which up to $205,134,000 shall be for the purposes, and 6
in the amounts, specified for this account in the table ti-7
tled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ in the report ac-8
companying this Act: Provided, That $6,000,000 of the 9
amount appropriated under this heading shall be available 10
for a Rural Community Development Initiative: Provided 11
further, That such funds shall be used solely to develop 12
the capacity and ability of private, nonprofit community- 13
based housing and community development organizations, 14
low-income rural communities, and Federally Recognized 15
Native American Tribes to undertake projects to improve 16
housing, community facilities, community and economic 17
development projects in rural areas: Provided further, 18
That such funds shall be made available to qualified pri-19
vate, nonprofit and public intermediary organizations pro-20
posing to carry out a program of financial and technical 21
assistance: Provided further, That such intermediary orga-22
nizations shall provide matching funds from other sources, 23
including Federal funds for related activities, in an 24
amount not less than funds provided: Provided further, 25
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That any unobligated balances from prior year appropria-1
tions under this heading for the cost of direct loans, loan 2
guarantees and grants, including amounts deobligated or 3
cancelled, may be made available to cover the subsidy costs 4
for direct loans and or loan guarantees under this heading 5
in this fiscal year: Provided further, That no amounts may 6
be made available pursuant to the preceding proviso from 7
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an 8
emergency requirement pursuant to a Concurrent Resolu-9
tion on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-10
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or that were specified 11
in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ in 12
the report accompanying this Act: Provided further, That 13
$10,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this head-14
ing shall be available for community facilities grants to 15
tribal colleges, as authorized by section 306(a)(19) of such 16
Act: Provided further, That sections 381E–H and 381N 17
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act are 18
not applicable to the funds made available under this 19
heading. 20
R
URALBUSINESS—COOPERATIVESERVICE 21
RURAL BUSINESS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 22
For the cost of loan guarantees and grants, for the 23
rural business development programs authorized by sec-24
tion 310B and described in subsections (a), (c), (f) and 25
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(g) of section 310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 1
Development Act, $77,728,000, to remain available until 2
expended: Provided, That of the amount appropriated 3
under this heading, not to exceed $500,000 shall be made 4
available for one grant to a qualified national organization 5
to provide technical assistance for rural transportation in 6
order to promote economic development and $12,000,000 7
shall be for grants to the Delta Regional Authority (7 8
U.S.C. 2009aa et seq.), the Northern Border Regional 9
Commission (40 U.S.C. 15101 et seq.), the Southwest 10
Border Regional Commission (40 U.S.C. 15301 et seq.), 11
and the Appalachian Regional Commission (40 U.S.C. 12
14101 et seq.) for any Rural Community Advancement 13
Program purpose as described in section 381E(d) of the 14
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, of which 15
not more than 5 percent may be used for administrative 16
expenses: Provided further, That $4,000,000 of the 17
amount appropriated under this heading shall be for busi-18
ness grants to benefit Federally Recognized Native Amer-19
ican Tribes, including $250,000 for a grant to a qualified 20
national organization to provide technical assistance for 21
rural transportation in order to promote economic develop-22
ment: Provided further, That sections 381E–H and 381N 23
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act are 24
not applicable to funds made available under this heading. 25
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INTERMEDIARY RELENDING PROGRAM FUND ACCOUNT 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 2
For the principal amount of direct loans, as author-3
ized by the Intermediary Relending Program Fund Ac-4
count (7 U.S.C. 1936b), $18,889,000. 5
For the cost of direct loans, $5,733,000, as author-6
ized by the Intermediary Relending Program Fund Ac-7
count (7 U.S.C. 1936b), of which $573,000 shall be avail-8
able through June 30, 2024, for Federally Recognized Na-9
tive American Tribes; and of which $1,147,000 shall be 10
available through June 30, 2024, for Mississippi Delta Re-11
gion counties (as determined in accordance with Public 12
Law 100–460): Provided, That such costs, including the 13
cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 14
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 15
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 16
the direct loan programs, $4,468,000 shall be paid to the 17
appropriation for ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Ex-18
penses’’. 19
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS PROGRAM 20
ACCOUNT 21
For the principal amount of direct loans, as author-22
ized under section 313B(a) of the Rural Electrification 23
Act, for the purpose of promoting rural economic develop-24
ment and job creation projects, $75,000,000. 25
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The cost of grants authorized under section 313B(a) 1
of the Rural Electrification Act, for the purpose of pro-2
moting rural economic development and job creation 3
projects shall not exceed $15,000,000. 4
RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 5
For rural cooperative development grants authorized 6
under section 310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and 7
Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932), $28,300,000, of 8
which $3,500,000 shall be for cooperative agreements for 9
the appropriate technology transfer for rural areas pro-10
gram: Provided, That not to exceed $3,000,000 shall be 11
for grants for cooperative development centers, individual 12
cooperatives, or groups of cooperatives that serve socially 13
disadvantaged groups and a majority of the boards of di-14
rectors or governing boards of which are comprised of in-15
dividuals who are members of socially disadvantaged 16
groups; and of which $16,000,000, to remain available 17
until expended, shall be for value-added agricultural prod-18
uct market development grants, as authorized by section 19
210A of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, of which 20
$3,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 21
for Agriculture Innovation Centers authorized pursuant to 22
section 6402 of Public Law 107–171. 23
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RURAL MICROENTREPRENEUR ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 1
For the principal amount of direct loans as author-2
ized by section 379E of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 3
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008s), $20,000,000. 4
For the cost of loans and grants, $6,000,000 under 5
the same terms and conditions as authorized by section 6
379E of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 7
Act (7 U.S.C. 2008s). 8
RURAL ENERGY FOR AMERICA PROGRAM 9
For the principal amount of loan guarantees, under 10
the same terms and conditions as authorized by section 11
9007 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 12
2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107), $50,000,000. 13
HEALTHY FOOD FINANCING INITIATIVE 14
For the cost of loans and grants that is consistent 15
with section 243 of subtitle D of title II of the Department 16
of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 17
6953), as added by section 4206 of the Agricultural Act 18
of 2014, for necessary expenses of the Secretary to sup-19
port projects that provide access to healthy food in under-20
served areas, to create and preserve quality jobs, and to 21
revitalize low-income communities, $1,000,000, to remain 22
available until expended: Provided, That such costs of 23
loans, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be 24
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as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 1
of 1974. 2
R
URALUTILITIESSERVICE 3
RURAL WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL PROGRAM ACCOUNT 4
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 5
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-6
rect and guaranteed loans as authorized by section 306 7
and described in section 381E(d)(2) of the Consolidated 8
Farm and Rural Development Act, as follows: 9
$880,000,000 for direct loans; and $50,000,000 for guar-10
anteed loans. 11
For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees and 12
grants, including the cost of modifying loans, as defined 13
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 14
for rural water, waste water, waste disposal, and solid 15
waste management programs authorized by sections 306, 16
306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B and described in sec-17
tions 306C(a)(2), 306D, 306E, and 381E(d)(2) of the 18
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, 19
$671,560,000, to remain available until expended, of 20
which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for the 21
rural utilities program described in section 306(a)(2)(B) 22
of such Act, and of which not to exceed $5,000,000 shall 23
be available for the rural utilities program described in 24
section 306E of such Act: Provided, That not to exceed 25
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$10,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this head-1
ing shall be for grants authorized by section 306A(i)(2) 2
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act in 3
addition to funding authorized by section 306A(i)(1) of 4
such Act: Provided further, That $70,000,000 of the 5
amount appropriated under this heading shall be for loans 6
and grants including water and waste disposal systems 7
grants authorized by section 306C(a)(2)(B) and section 8
306D of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 9
Act, and Federally Recognized Native American Tribes 10
authorized by 306C(a)(1) of such Act, and the Depart-11
ment of Hawaiian Home Lands (of the State of Hawaii): 12
Provided further, That funding provided for section 306D 13
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 14
may be provided to a consortium formed pursuant to sec-15
tion 325 of Public Law 105–83: Provided further, That 16
not more than 2 percent of the funding provided for sec-17
tion 306D of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-18
ment Act may be used by the State of Alaska for training 19
and technical assistance programs and not more than 2 20
percent of the funding provided for section 306D of the 21
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act may be 22
used by a consortium formed pursuant to section 325 of 23
Public Law 105–83 for training and technical assistance 24
programs: Provided further, That not to exceed 25
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$37,500,000 of the amount appropriated under this head-1
ing shall be for technical assistance grants for rural water 2
and waste systems pursuant to section 306(a)(14) of such 3
Act, unless the Secretary makes a determination of ex-4
treme need, of which $8,500,000 shall be made available 5
for a grant to a qualified nonprofit multi-State regional 6
technical assistance organization, with experience in work-7
ing with small communities on water and waste water 8
problems, the principal purpose of such grant shall be to 9
assist rural communities with populations of 3,300 or less, 10
in improving the planning, financing, development, oper-11
ation, and management of water and waste water systems, 12
and of which not less than $800,000 shall be for a quali-13
fied national Native American organization to provide 14
technical assistance for rural water systems for tribal com-15
munities: Provided further, That not to exceed 16
$25,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this head-17
ing shall be for contracting with qualified national organi-18
zations for a circuit rider program to provide technical as-19
sistance for rural water systems: Provided further, That 20
not to exceed $4,000,000 of the amounts made available 21
under this heading shall be for solid waste management 22
grants: Provided further, That not to exceed $8,085,000 23
of the amounts appropriated under this heading shall be 24
available as the Secretary deems appropriate for water 25
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and waste direct one percent loans for distressed commu-1
nities: Provided further, That if the Secretary determines 2
that any portion of the amount made available for one per-3
cent loans is not needed for such loans, the Secretary may 4
use such amounts for grants authorized by section 5
306(a)(2) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-6
ment Act: Provided further, That if any funds made avail-7
able for the direct loan subsidy costs remain unobligated 8
after July 31, 2024, such unobligated balances may be 9
used for grant programs funded under this heading: Pro-10
vided further, That $10,000,000 of the amount appro-11
priated under this heading shall be transferred to, and 12
merged with, the Rural Utilities Service, High Energy 13
Cost Grants Account to provide grants authorized under 14
section 19 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 15
U.S.C. 918a): Provided further, That sections 381E–H 16
and 381N of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-17
ment Act are not applicable to the funds made available 18
under this heading. 19
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 20
LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 21
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 22
The principal amount of loans and loan guarantees 23
as authorized by sections 4, 305, 306, 313A, and 317 of 24
the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 904, 935, 25
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936, 940c–1, and 940g) shall be made as follows: guaran-1
teed rural electric loans made pursuant to section 306 of 2
that Act, $2,167,000,000; cost of money direct loans made 3
pursuant to sections 4, notwithstanding the one-eighth of 4
one percent in 4(c)(2), and 317, notwithstanding 317(c), 5
of that Act, $4,333,000,000; guaranteed underwriting 6
loans pursuant to section 313A of that Act, $900,000,000; 7
and for cost-of-money rural telecommunications loans 8
made pursuant to section 305(d)(2) of that Act, 9
$690,000,000: Provided, That up to $2,000,000,000 shall 10
be used for the construction, acquisition, design, engineer-11
ing or improvement of fossil-fueled electric generating 12
plants (whether new or existing) that utilize carbon sub-13
surface utilization and storage systems. 14
For the cost of direct loans as authorized by section 15
305(d)(2) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 16
U.S.C. 935(d)(2)), including the cost of modifying loans, 17
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 18
of 1974, cost of money rural telecommunications loans, 19
$7,176,000. 20
In addition, $10,734,000 to remain available until ex-21
pended, to carry out section 6407 of the Farm Security 22
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107a): Pro-23
vided, That the energy efficiency measures supported by 24
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the funding in this paragraph shall contribute in a demon-1
strable way to the reduction of greenhouse gases. 2
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 3
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 4
$33,270,000, which shall be paid to the appropriation for 5
‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’. 6
DISTANCE LEARNING, TELEMEDICINE, AND BROADBAND 7
PROGRAM 8
For grants for telemedicine and distance learning 9
services in rural areas, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa 10
et seq., $62,721,000, to remain available until expended, 11
of which up to $2,721,000 shall be for the purposes, and 12
in the amounts, specified for this account in the table ti-13
tled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ in the report ac-14
companying this Act: Provided, That $3,000,000 shall be 15
made available for grants authorized by section 379G of 16
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: Pro-17
vided further, That funding provided under this heading 18
for grants under section 379G of the Consolidated Farm 19
and Rural Development Act may only be provided to enti-20
ties that meet all of the eligibility criteria for a consortium 21
as established by this section. 22
For the cost to continue a broadband loan and grant 23
pilot program established by section 779 of division A of 24
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 25
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115–141) under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as 1
amended (7 U.S.C. 901 et seq.), $98,000,000, to remain 2
available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary 3
may award grants described in section 601(a) of the Rural 4
Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 U.S.C. 5
950bb(a)) for the purposes of carrying out such pilot pro-6
gram: Provided further, That the cost of direct loans shall 7
be defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 8
of 1974: Provided further, That at least 90 percent of the 9
households to be served by a project receiving a loan or 10
grant under the pilot program shall be in a rural area 11
without sufficient access to broadband: Provided further, 12
That for purposes of such pilot program, a rural area 13
without sufficient access to broadband shall be defined as 14
twenty-five megabits per second downstream and three 15
megabits per second upstream: Provided further, That to 16
the extent possible, projects receiving funds provided 17
under the pilot program must build out service to at least 18
one hundred megabits per second downstream, and twenty 19
megabits per second upstream: Provided further, That an 20
entity to which a loan or grant is made under the pilot 21
program shall not use the loan or grant to overbuild or 22
duplicate broadband service in a service area by any entity 23
that has received a broadband loan from the Rural Utili-24
ties Service unless such service is not provided sufficient 25
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access to broadband at the minimum service threshold: 1
Provided further, That not more than four percent of the 2
funds made available in this paragraph can be used for 3
administrative costs to carry out the pilot program and 4
up to three percent of funds made available in this para-5
graph may be available for technical assistance and pre- 6
development planning activities to support the most rural 7
communities: Provided further, That the Rural Utilities 8
Service is directed to expedite program delivery methods 9
that would implement this paragraph: Provided further, 10
That for purposes of this paragraph, the Secretary shall 11
adhere to the notice, reporting and service area assess-12
ment requirements set forth in section 701 of the Rural 13
Electrification Act (7 U.S.C. 950cc). 14
In addition, $35,000,000, to remain available until 15
expended, for the Community Connect Grant Program au-16
thorized by 7 U.S.C. 950bb–3. 17
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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
$1,376,000: 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; $32,032,897,000 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, $20,162,000 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, $21,876,000 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, $10,000,000 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 of the total amount available, 21
$2,000,000 shall remain available until expended to carry 22
out activities authorized under subsections (a)(2) and 23
(e)(2) of section 21 of the Richard B. Russell National 24
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769b–1(a)(2) and (e)(2)): 25
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Provided further, That section 26(d) of the Richard B. 1
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769g(d)) 2
is amended in the first sentence by striking ‘‘2010 through 3
2024’’ and inserting ‘‘2010 through 2025’’: Provided fur-4
ther, That section 9(h)(3) of the Richard B. Russell Na-5
tional School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(h)(3)) is amend-6
ed in the first sentence by striking ‘‘For fiscal year 2023’’ 7
and inserting ‘‘For fiscal year 2024’’: Provided further, 8
That section 9(h)(4) of the Richard B. Russell National 9
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(h)(4)) is amended in 10
the first sentence by striking ‘‘For fiscal year 2023’’ and 11
inserting ‘‘For fiscal year 2024’’. 12
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR 13
WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC) 14
For necessary expenses to carry out the special sup-15
plemental nutrition program as authorized by section 17 16
of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), 17
$6,300,000,000, to remain available through September 18
30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding section 19
17(h)(10) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 20
1786(h)(10)), not less than $90,000,000 shall be used for 21
breastfeeding peer counselors and other related activities, 22
and $14,000,000 shall be used for infrastructure: Pro-23
vided further, That the Secretary shall use funds made 24
available under this heading to increase the amount of a 25
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cash-value voucher for women and children participants 1
to an amount recommended by the National Academies 2
of Science, Engineering and Medicine and adjusted for in-3
flation: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 4
in this account shall be available for the purchase of infant 5
formula except in accordance with the cost containment 6
and competitive bidding requirements specified in section 7
17 of such Act: Provided further, That none of the funds 8
provided shall be available for activities that are not fully 9
reimbursed by other Federal Government departments or 10
agencies unless authorized by section 17 of such Act: Pro-11
vided further, That upon termination of a federally man-12
dated vendor moratorium and subject to terms and condi-13
tions established by the Secretary, the Secretary may 14
waive the requirement at 7 CFR 246.12(g)(6) at the re-15
quest of a State agency. 16
SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 17
For necessary expenses to carry out the Food and 18
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), 19
$122,141,239,000, of which $3,000,000,000, to remain 20
available through September 30, 2026, shall be placed in 21
reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times 22
as may become necessary to carry out program operations: 23
Provided, That funds provided herein shall be expended 24
in accordance with section 16 of the Food and Nutrition 25
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Act of 2008: Provided further, That of the funds made 1
available under this heading, $998,000 may be used to 2
provide nutrition education services to State agencies and 3
Federally Recognized Tribes participating in the Food 4
Distribution Program on Indian Reservations: Provided 5
further, That of the funds made available under this head-6
ing, $5,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 7
2025, shall be used to carry out section 4003(b) of Public 8
Law 115–334 relating to demonstration projects for tribal 9
organizations: Provided further, That of the funds made 10
available under this heading, $3,000,000 shall be used to 11
carry out section 4208 of Public Law 115-334: Provided 12
further, That this appropriation shall be subject to any 13
work registration or workfare requirements as may be re-14
quired by law: Provided further, That funds made available 15
for Employment and Training under this heading shall re-16
main available through September 30, 2025: Provided fur-17
ther, That funds made available under this heading for 18
section 28(d)(1), section 4(b), and section 27(a) of the 19
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 shall remain available 20
through September 30, 2025: Provided further, That none 21
of the funds made available under this heading may be 22
obligated or expended in contravention of section 213A of 23
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1183A): 24
Provided further, That funds made available under this 25
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heading may be used to enter into contracts and employ 1
staff to conduct studies, evaluations, or to conduct activi-2
ties related to program integrity provided that such activi-3
ties are authorized by the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008. 4
COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 5
For necessary expenses to carry out disaster assist-6
ance and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program as 7
authorized by section 4(a) of the Agriculture and Con-8
sumer Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c note); the 9
Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983; special assist-10
ance for the nuclear affected islands, as authorized by sec-11
tion 103(f)(2) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-12
ments Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–188); and the Farm-13
ers’ Market Nutrition Program, as authorized by section 14
17(m) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, $501,070,000, 15
to remain available through September 30, 2025: Pro-16
vided, That none of these funds shall be available to reim-17
burse the Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities 18
donated to the program: Provided further, That notwith-19
standing any other provision of law, effective with funds 20
made available in fiscal year 2024 to support the Seniors 21
Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program, as authorized by 22
section 4402 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 23
Act of 2002, such funds shall remain available through 24
September 30, 2025: Provided further, That of the funds 25
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made available under section 27(a) of the Food and Nutri-1
tion Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)), the Secretary may 2
use up to 20 percent for costs associated with the distribu-3
tion of commodities. 4
NUTRITION PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION 5
For necessary administrative expenses of the Food 6
and Nutrition Service for carrying out any domestic nutri-7
tion assistance program, $184,348,000: Provided, That of 8
the funds provided herein, $2,000,000 shall be used for 9
the purposes of section 4404 of Public Law 107–171, as 10
amended by section 4401 of Public Law 110–246. 11
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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
$932,000: 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
OFFICE OF CODEX ALIMENTARIUS 13
For necessary expenses of the Office of Codex 14
Alimentarius, $4,922,000, including not to exceed 15
$40,000 for official reception and representation expenses. 16
F
OREIGNAGRICULTURALSERVICE 17
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 18
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 19
For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural 20
Service, including not to exceed $250,000 for representa-21
tion allowances and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of 22
the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), 23
$237,330,000, of which no more than 6 percent shall re-24
main available until September 30, 2025, for overseas op-25
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erations to include the payment of locally employed staff: 1
Provided, That the Service may utilize advances of funds, 2
or reimburse this appropriation for expenditures made on 3
behalf of Federal agencies, public and private organiza-4
tions and institutions under agreements executed pursu-5
ant to the agricultural food production assistance pro-6
grams (7 U.S.C. 1737) and the foreign assistance pro-7
grams of the United States Agency for International De-8
velopment: Provided further, That funds made available 9
for middle-income country training programs, funds made 10
available for the Borlaug International Agricultural 11
Science and Technology Fellowship program, and up to 12
$2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricultural Service appropria-13
tion solely for the purpose of offsetting fluctuations in 14
international currency exchange rates, subject to docu-15
mentation by the Foreign Agricultural Service, shall re-16
main available until expended. 17
FOOD FOR PEACE TITLE II GRANTS 18
For expenses during the current fiscal year, not oth-19
erwise recoverable, and unrecovered prior years’ costs, in-20
cluding interest thereon, under the Food for Peace Act 21
(Public Law 83–480), for commodities supplied in connec-22
tion with dispositions abroad under title II of said Act, 23
$1,800,000,000, to remain available until expended. 24
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MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION 1
AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM GRANTS 2
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 3
of section 3107 of the Farm Security and Rural Invest-4
ment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1), $248,331,000, to 5
remain available until expended: Provided, That the Com-6
modity Credit Corporation is authorized to provide the 7
services, facilities, and authorities for the purpose of im-8
plementing such section, subject to reimbursement from 9
amounts provided herein: Provided further, That of the 10
amount made available under this heading, not more than 11
10 percent, but not less than $24,800,000, shall remain 12
available until expended to purchase agricultural commod-13
ities as described in subsection 3107(a)(2) of the Farm 14
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 15
1736o–1(a)(2)). 16
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION EXPORT (LOANS) 17
CREDIT GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 18
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 19
For administrative expenses to carry out the Com-20
modity Credit Corporation’s Export Guarantee Program, 21
GSM 102 and GSM 103, $6,063,000, to cover common 22
overhead expenses as permitted by section 11 of the Com-23
modity Credit Corporation Charter Act and in conformity 24
with the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, which shall 25
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be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 1
‘‘Foreign Agricultural Service, Salaries and Expenses’’. 2
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TITLE VI 1
RELATED AGENCY 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; $6,625,030,000: 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) $1,198,263,000 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) $2,326,206,000 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) $497,700,000 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) $286,633,000 shall be for the Center for Veterinary 7
Medicine and for related field activities in the Office of 8
Regulatory Affairs; (5) $739,543,000 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
$77,388,000 shall be for the National Center for Toxi-12
cological Research; (7) $679,965,000 shall be for the Cen-13
ter for Tobacco Products and for related field activities 14
in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (8) $217,357,000 shall 15
be for Rent and Related activities, of which $56,411,000 16
is for White Oak Consolidation, other than the amounts 17
paid to the General Services Administration for rent; (9) 18
$244,587,000 shall be for payments to the General Serv-19
ices Administration for rent; and (10) $357,388,000 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
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 11
For plans, construction, repair, improvement, exten-12
sion, alteration, demolition, and purchase of fixed equip-13
ment or facilities of or used by the Food and Drug Admin-14
istration, where not otherwise provided, $12,788,000, to 15
remain available until expended. 16
FDA INNOVATION ACCOUNT , CURES ACT 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 18
For necessary expenses to carry out the purposes de-19
scribed under section 1002(b)(4) of the 21st Century 20
Cures Act, in addition to amounts available for such pur-21
poses under the heading ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’, 22
$50,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-23
vided, That amounts appropriated in this paragraph are 24
appropriated pursuant to section 1002(b)(3) of the 21st 25
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Century Cures Act, are to be derived from amounts trans-1
ferred under section 1002(b)(2)(A) of such Act, and may 2
be transferred by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs 3
to the appropriation for ‘‘Department of Health and 4
Human Services Food and Drug Administration Salaries 5
and Expenses’’ solely for the purposes provided in such 6
Act: Provided further, That upon a determination by the 7
Commissioner that funds transferred pursuant to the pre-8
vious proviso are not necessary for the purposes provided, 9
such amounts may be transferred back to the account: 10
Provided further, That such transfer authority is in addi-11
tion to any other transfer authority provided by law. 12
INDEPENDENT AGENCY 13
F
ARMCREDITADMINISTRATION 14
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 15
Not to exceed $94,300,000 (from assessments col-16
lected from farm credit institutions, including the Federal 17
Agricultural Mortgage Corporation) shall be obligated 18
during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses 19
as authorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, That this 20
limitation shall not apply to expenses associated with re-21
ceiverships: Provided further, That the agency may exceed 22
this limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the 23
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-24
gress: Provided further, That the purposes of section 25
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3.7(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Farm Credit Act of 1971 (12 U.S.C. 1
2128(b)(2)(A)(i)), the Farm Credit Administration may 2
exempt, an amount in its sole discretion, from the applica-3
tion of the limitation provided in that clause of export 4
loans described in the clause guaranteed or insured in a 5
manner other than described in subclause (II) of the 6
clause. 7
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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
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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
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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
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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
(exclusive of carryover appropriations from prior fiscal 19
years), as follows: Child Nutrition Programs Entitlement 20
Commodities—$485,000,000; State Option Contracts— 21
$5,000,000; Removal of Defective Commodities— 22
$2,500,000; Administration of section 32 Commodity Pur-23
chases—$37,178,000: Provided, That, of the total funds 24
made available in the matter preceding this proviso that 25
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remain unobligated on October 1, 2024, such unobligated 1
balances shall carryover into fiscal year 2025 and shall 2
remain available until expended for any of the purposes 3
of section 32, except that any such carryover funds used 4
in accordance with clause (3) of section 32 may not exceed 5
$350,000,000 and may not be obligated until the Sec-6
retary of Agriculture provides written notification of the 7
expenditures to the Committees on Appropriations of both 8
Houses of Congress at least two weeks in advance: Pro-9
vided further, That, with the exception of any available 10
carryover funds authorized in any prior appropriations Act 11
to be used for the purposes of clause (3) of section 32, 12
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-13
able by this or any other Act shall be used to pay the 14
salaries or expenses of any employee of the Department 15
of Agriculture to carry out clause (3) of section 32. 16
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EC. 715. None of the funds appropriated by this or 17
any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and ex-18
penses of personnel who prepare or submit appropriations 19
language as part of the President’s budget submission to 20
the Congress for programs under the jurisdiction of the 21
Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural De-22
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 23
Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction 24
from the previous year due to user fees proposals that 25
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have not been enacted into law prior to the submission 1
of the budget unless such budget submission identifies 2
which additional spending reductions should occur in the 3
event the user fees proposals are not enacted prior to the 4
date of the convening of a committee of conference for 5
the fiscal year 2024 appropriations Act. 6
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EC. 716. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 7
or provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agen-8
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation 9
or expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from 10
any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of 11
fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 12
available for obligation or expenditure through a re-13
programming, transfer of funds, or reimbursements as au-14
thorized by the Economy Act, or in the case of the Depart-15
ment of Agriculture, through use of the authority provided 16
by section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Or-17
ganic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) or section 8 of Public 18
Law 89–106 (7 U.S.C. 2263), that— 19
(1) creates new programs; 20
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 21
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 22
for any project or activity for which funds have been 23
denied or restricted; 24
(4) relocates an office or employees; 25
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(5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; 1
or 2
(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 3
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 4
unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of 5
Health and Human Services (as the case may be) notifies 6
in writing and receives approval from the Committees on 7
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 8
days in advance of the reprogramming of such funds or 9
the use of such authority. 10
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or pro-11
vided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies 12
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 13
expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from 14
any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of 15
fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 16
available for obligation or expenditure for activities, pro-17
grams, or projects through a reprogramming or use of the 18
authorities referred to in subsection (a) involving funds 19
in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, 20
that— 21
(1) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-22
tivities; 23
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(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-1
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-2
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 3
(3) results from any general savings from a re-4
duction in personnel which would result in a change 5
in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-6
proved by Congress; 7
unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of 8
Health and Human Services (as the case may be) notifies 9
in writing and receives approval from the Committees on 10
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 11
days in advance of the reprogramming or transfer of such 12
funds or the use of such authority. 13
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of 14
Health and Human Services shall notify in writing and 15
receive approval from the Committees on Appropriations 16
of both Houses of Congress before implementing any pro-17
gram or activity not carried out during the previous fiscal 18
year unless the program or activity is funded by this Act 19
or specifically funded by any other Act. 20
(d) None of the funds provided by this Act, or pro-21
vided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies 22
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 23
expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from 24
any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of 25
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fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 1
available for— 2
(1) modifying major capital investments fund-3
ing levels, including information technology systems, 4
that involves increasing or decreasing funds in the 5
current fiscal year for the individual investment in 6
excess of $500,000 or 10 percent of the total cost, 7
whichever is less; 8
(2) realigning or reorganizing new, current, or 9
vacant positions or agency activities or functions to 10
establish a center, office, branch, or similar entity 11
with ten or more personnel; or 12
(3) carrying out activities or functions that 13
were not described in the budget request; 14
unless the agencies funded by this Act notify, in writing, 15
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-16
gress at least 30 days in advance of using the funds for 17
these purposes. 18
(e) As described in this section, no funds may be used 19
for any activities unless the Secretary of Agriculture or 20
the Secretary of Health and Human Services receives from 21
the Committee on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-22
gress written or electronic mail confirmation of receipt of 23
the notification as required in this section. 24
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SEC. 717. Notwithstanding section 310B(g)(5) of the 1
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2
1932(g)(5)), the Secretary may assess a one-time fee for 3
any guaranteed business and industry loan in an amount 4
that does not exceed 4 percent of the guaranteed principal 5
portion of the loan. 6
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EC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or other-7
wise made available to the Department of Agriculture, the 8
Food and Drug Administration or the Farm Credit Ad-9
ministration shall be used to transmit or otherwise make 10
available reports, questions, or responses to questions that 11
are a result of information requested for the appropria-12
tions hearing process to any non-Department of Agri-13
culture, non-Department of Health and Human Services, 14
or non-Farm Credit Administration employee. 15
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EC. 719. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 16
law, none of the funds provided in this Act, may be used 17
by an executive branch agency to produce any pre-18
packaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution 19
in the United States unless the story includes a clear noti-20
fication within the text or audio of the prepackaged news 21
story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or 22
funded by that executive branch agency. 23
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EC. 720. No employee of the Department of Agri-24
culture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or 25
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office funded by this Act or any other Act to any other 1
agency or office of the Department for more than 60 days 2
in a fiscal year unless the individual’s employing agency 3
or office is fully reimbursed by the receiving agency or 4
office for the salary and expenses of the employee for the 5
period of assignment. 6
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EC. 721. Not later than 30 days after the date of 7
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the 8
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and 9
the Chairman of the Farm Credit Administration shall 10
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of both 11
Houses of Congress a detailed spending plan by program, 12
project, and activity for all the funds made available under 13
this Act including appropriated user fees, as defined in 14
the report accompanying this Act. 15
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EC. 722. None of the funds made available by this 16
Act may be used to propose, promulgate, or implement 17
any rule, or take any other action with respect to, allowing 18
or requiring information intended for a prescribing health 19
care professional, in the case of a drug or biological prod-20
uct subject to section 503(b)(1) of the Federal Food, 21
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 353(b)(1)), to be dis-22
tributed to such professional electronically (in lieu of in 23
paper form) unless and until a Federal law is enacted to 24
allow or require such distribution. 25
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SEC. 723. For the purposes of determining eligibility 1
or level of program assistance for Rural Housing Service 2
programs the Secretary shall not include incarcerated 3
prison populations. 4
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EC. 724. For loans and loan guarantees that do not 5
require budget authority and the program level has been 6
established in this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may 7
increase the program level for such loans and loan guaran-8
tees by not more than 25 percent: Provided, That prior 9
to the Secretary implementing such an increase, the Sec-10
retary notifies, in writing, the Committees on Appropria-11
tions of both Houses of Congress at least 15 days in ad-12
vance. 13
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EC. 725. None of the credit card refunds or rebates 14
transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to sec-15
tion 729 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 16
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropria-17
tions Act, 2002 (7 U.S.C. 2235a; Public Law 107–76) 18
shall be available for obligation without written notifica-19
tion to, and the prior approval of, the Committees on Ap-20
propriations of both Houses of Congress: Provided, That 21
the refunds or rebates so transferred shall be available for 22
obligation only for the acquisition of property, plant and 23
equipment, including equipment for the improvement, de-24
livery, and implementation of Departmental financial 25
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management, information technology, and other support 1
systems necessary for the delivery of financial, administra-2
tive, and information technology services, including cloud 3
adoption and migration, of primary benefit to the agencies 4
of the Department of Agriculture. 5
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EC. 726. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 7
‘‘variety’’ requirements of the final rule entitled ‘‘Enhanc-8
ing Retailer Standards in the Supplemental Nutrition As-9
sistance Program (SNAP)’’ published by the Department 10
of Agriculture in the Federal Register on December 15, 11
2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 90675) until the Secretary of Agri-12
culture amends the definition of the term ‘‘variety’’ as de-13
fined in section 278.1(b)(1)(ii)(C) of title 7, Code of Fed-14
eral Regulations, and ‘‘variety’’ as applied in the definition 15
of the term ‘‘staple food’’ as defined in section 271.2 of 16
title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, to increase the num-17
ber of items that qualify as acceptable varieties in each 18
staple food category so that the total number of such items 19
in each staple food category exceeds the number of such 20
items in each staple food category included in the final 21
rule as published on December 15, 2016: Provided, That 22
until the Secretary promulgates such regulatory amend-23
ments, the Secretary shall apply the requirements regard-24
ing acceptable varieties and breadth of stock to Supple-25
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mental Nutrition Assistance Program retailers that were 1
in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of 2
the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79). 3
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EC. 727. 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. 728. 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. 729. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 18
made available for the Broadband Treasury Rate Loan 19
program, authorized in section 601 of the Rural Elec-20
trification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950bb), $9,156,000 are 21
hereby permanently cancelled: Provided, That no amounts 22
shall be cancelled from amounts that were designated by 23
the Congress as an emergency or disaster relief require-24
ment pursuant to the concurrent resolution on the budget 25
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or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 1
Act of 1985. 2
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EC. 730. 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. 731. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall— 22
(1) conduct audits in a manner that evaluates 23
the following factors in the country or region being 24
audited, as applicable— 25
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(A) veterinary control and oversight; 1
(B) disease history and vaccination prac-2
tices; 3
(C) livestock demographics and 4
traceability; 5
(D) epidemiological separation from poten-6
tial sources of infection; 7
(E) surveillance practices; 8
(F) diagnostic laboratory capabilities; and 9
(G) emergency preparedness and response; 10
and 11
(2) promptly make publicly available the final 12
reports of any audits or reviews conducted pursuant 13
to paragraph (1). 14
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner con-15
sistent with United States obligations under its inter-16
national trade agreements. 17
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EC. 732. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 18
made available in prior Acts for the rural housing voucher 19
program authorized by section 542 of the Housing Act of 20
1949, (42 U.S.C. 1471 et seq.), as amended, $3,000,000 21
are hereby permanently cancelled: Provided, That no 22
amounts shall be cancelled from amounts that were des-23
ignated by the Congress as an emergency or disaster relief 24
requirement pursuant to the concurrent resolution on the 25
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budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 1
Control Act of 1985. 2
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EC. 733. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 3
made available in prior Acts under the heading ‘‘Rural Co-4
operative Development Grants’’ for Agriculture Innovation 5
Centers authorized by section 6402 of the Farm Security 6
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1632b), as 7
amended, $8,000,000 are hereby permanently cancelled: 8
Provided, That no amounts shall be cancelled from 9
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an 10
emergency or disaster relief requirement pursuant to the 11
concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced 12
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 13
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EC. 734. (a)(1) No Federal funds made available for 14
this fiscal year for the rural water, waste water, waste dis-15
posal, and solid waste management programs authorized 16
by sections 306, 306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B of 17
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 18
U.S.C. 1926 et seq.) shall be used for a project for the 19
construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public 20
water or wastewater system unless all of the iron and steel 21
products used in the project are produced in the United 22
States. 23
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ 24
means the following products made primarily of iron or 25
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steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 1
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, 2
pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, rein-3
forced precast concrete, and construction materials. 4
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-5
egory of cases in which the Secretary of Agriculture (in 6
this section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee 7
of the Secretary finds that— 8
(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-9
sistent with the public interest; 10
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 11
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-12
able quantities or of a satisfactory quality; or 13
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products pro-14
duced in the United States will increase the cost of 15
the overall project by more than 25 percent. 16
(c) If the Secretary or the designee receives a request 17
for a waiver under this section, the Secretary or the des-18
ignee shall make available to the public on an informal 19
basis a copy of the request and information available to 20
the Secretary or the designee concerning the request, and 21
shall allow for informal public input on the request for 22
at least 15 days prior to making a finding based on the 23
request. The Secretary or the designee shall make the re-24
quest and accompanying information available by elec-25
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tronic means, including on the official public Internet Web 1
site of the Department. 2
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-3
sistent with United States obligations under international 4
agreements. 5
(e) The Secretary may retain up to 0.25 percent of 6
the funds appropriated in this Act for ‘‘Rural Utilities 7
Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Ac-8
count’’ for carrying out the provisions described in sub-9
section (a)(1) for management and oversight of the re-10
quirements of this section. 11
(f) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 12
project for which the engineering plans and specifications 13
include use of iron and steel products otherwise prohibited 14
by such subsection if the plans and specifications have re-15
ceived required approvals from State agencies prior to the 16
date of enactment of this Act. 17
(g) For purposes of this section, the terms ‘‘United 18
States’’ and ‘‘State’’ shall include each of the several 19
States, the District of Columbia, and each Federally rec-20
ognized Indian Tribe. 21
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EC. 735. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 22
may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 23
congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 24
matters pending before Congress, other than to commu-25
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nicate to Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 1
1913. 2
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EC. 736. Of the total amounts made available by 3
this Act for direct loans and grants under the following 4
headings: ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insur-5
ance Fund Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service— 6
Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing 7
Service—Rural Housing Assistance Grants’’; ‘‘Rural 8
Housing Service—Rural Community Facilities Program 9
Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural 10
Business Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Coopera-11
tive Service—Rural Economic Development Loans Pro-12
gram Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service— 13
Rural Cooperative Development Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Busi-14
ness-Cooperative Service—Rural Microentrepreneur As-15
sistance Program’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water 16
and Waste Disposal Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities 17
Service—Rural Electrification and Telecommunications 18
Loans Program Account’’; and ‘‘Rural Utilities Service— 19
Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Pro-20
gram’’, to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 per-21
cent of the funds shall be allocated for assistance in per-22
sistent poverty counties under this section, including, not-23
withstanding any other provision regarding population 24
limits, any county seat of such a persistent poverty county 25
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that has a population that does not exceed the authorized 1
population limit by more than 10 percent: Provided, That 2
for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘persistent poverty 3
counties’’ means any county that has had 20 percent or 4
more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 5
years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial cen-6
suses, and 2007–2011 American Community Survey 5- 7
year average, or any territory or possession of the United 8
States: Provided further, That with respect to specific ac-9
tivities for which program levels have been made available 10
by this Act that are not supported by budget authority, 11
the requirements of this section shall be applied to such 12
program level. 13
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EC. 737. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowl-15
edge receipt of a submission for an exemption for inves-16
tigational use of a drug or biological product under section 17
505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 18
U.S.C. 355(i)) or section 351(a)(3) of the Public Health 19
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)) in research in which 20
a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to 21
include a heritable genetic modification. Any such submis-22
sion shall be deemed to have not been received by the Sec-23
retary, and the exemption may not go into effect. 24
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SEC. 738. None of the funds made available by this 1
or any other Act may be used to enforce the final rule 2
promulgated by the Food and Drug Administration enti-3
tled ‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, 4
and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption’’, and 5
published on November 27, 2015, with respect to the regu-6
lation of entities that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine 7
grapes, hops, pulse crops, or almonds. 8
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EC. 739. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000, 9
to remain available until September 30, 2025, for a pilot 10
program for the National Institute of Food and Agri-11
culture to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for 12
programs and services to establish and enhance farming 13
and ranching opportunities for military veterans. 14
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EC. 740. For school years 2023–2024 and 2024– 15
2025, none of the funds made available by this Act may 16
be used to implement or enforce the matter following the 17
first comma in the second sentence of footnote (c) of sec-18
tion 220.8(c) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, with 19
respect to the substitution of vegetables for fruits under 20
the school breakfast program established under section 4 21
of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773). 22
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EC. 741. None of the funds made available by this 23
Act or any other Act may be used— 24
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(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Ag-1
ricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940), subtitle G 2
of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, or sec-3
tion 10114 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 4
2018; or 5
(2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, 6
sale, or use of hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is 7
grown or cultivated in accordance with section 7606 8
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 or subtitle G of the 9
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, within or out-10
side the State in which the hemp is grown or cul-11
tivated. 12
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EC. 742. The Secretary of Agriculture may waive 13
the matching funds requirement under section 412(g) of 14
the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Re-15
form Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(g)). 16
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EC. 743. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, 17
to remain available until expended, for a pilot program 18
for the Secretary to provide grants to qualified non-profit 19
organizations and public housing authorities to provide 20
technical assistance, including financial and legal services, 21
to RHS multi-family housing borrowers to facilitate the 22
acquisition of RHS multi-family housing properties in 23
areas where the Secretary determines a risk of loss of af-24
fordable housing, by non-profit housing organizations and 25
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public housing authorities as authorized by law that com-1
mit to keep such properties in the RHS multi-family hous-2
ing program for a period of time as determined by the 3
Secretary. 4
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EC. 744. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 5
made available in prior Acts under the heading ‘‘Rural 6
Housing Assistance Grants’’ for housing repair grants au-7
thorized by section 504 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 8
U.S.C. 1474), as amended, $30,000,000 are hereby per-9
manently cancelled: Provided, That no amounts shall be 10
cancelled from amounts that were designated by the Con-11
gress as an emergency or disaster relief requirement pur-12
suant to the concurrent resolution on the budget or the 13
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 14
1985. 15
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EC. 745. Of the unobligated balances of the amounts 16
made available for fiscal year 2022 for the ‘‘National In-17
stitute of Food and Agriculture—Research and Extension 18
Activities’’, $307,526,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, 19
That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that 20
were designated by the Congress as an emergency require-21
ment pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution on the Budget 22
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 23
Act of 1985. 24
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SEC. 746. Funds made available under title II of the 1
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be 2
used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate 3
monitoring and controls, as determined by the Adminis-4
trator, are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is 5
received by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by 6
food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inap-7
propriate purposes. 8
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EC. 747. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be used to procure raw or processed poultry prod-10
ucts imported into the United States from the People’s 11
Republic of China for use in the school lunch program 12
under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 13
(42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), the Child and Adult Care Food 14
Program under section 17 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1766), 15
the Summer Food Service Program for Children under 16
section 13 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761), or the school 17
breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 18
(42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.). 19
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EC. 748. For school year 2024–2025, only a school 20
food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit 21
school food service account as of June 30, 2023, shall be 22
required to establish a price for paid lunches in accordance 23
with section 12(p) of the Richard B. Russell National 24
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760(p)). 25
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SEC. 749. Any funds made available by this or any 1
other Act that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section 2
1668(g)(2) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 3
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5921(g)(2)), as amended, 4
shall be available for grants for biotechnology risk assess-5
ment research: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer 6
such funds among appropriations of the Department of 7
Agriculture for purposes of making such grants. 8
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EC. 750. Notwithstanding any other provision of 9
law, no funds available to the Department of Agriculture 10
may be used to move any staff office or any agency from 11
the mission area in which it was located on August 1, 12
2018, to any other mission area or office within the De-13
partment in the absence of the enactment of specific legis-14
lation affirming such move. 15
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EC. 751. The Secretary, acting through the Chief 16
of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, may use 17
funds appropriated under this Act or any other Act for 18
the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program 19
and the Watershed Rehabilitation Program carried out 20
pursuant to the Watershed Protection and Flood Preven-21
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), and for the Emergency 22
Watershed Protection Program carried out pursuant to 23
section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 24
U.S.C. 2203) to provide technical services for such pro-25
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grams pursuant to section 1252(a)(1) of the Food Secu-1
rity Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3851(a)(1)), notwithstanding 2
subsection (c) of such section. 3
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EC. 752. In administering the pilot program estab-4
lished by section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Ap-5
propriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141), the Sec-6
retary of Agriculture may, for purposes of determining en-7
tities eligible to receive assistance, consider those commu-8
nities which are ‘‘Areas Rural in Character’’: Provided, 9
That not more than 10 percent of the funds made avail-10
able under the heading ‘‘Distance Learning, Telemedicine, 11
and Broadband Program’’ for the purposes of the pilot 12
program established by section 779 of Public Law 115– 13
141 may be used for this purpose. 14
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EC. 753. In addition to amounts otherwise made 15
available by this Act and notwithstanding the last sentence 16
of 16 U.S.C. 1310, there is appropriated $2,000,000, to 17
remain available until expended, to implement non-renew-18
able agreements on eligible lands, including flooded agri-19
cultural lands, as determined by the Secretary, under the 20
Water Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301–1311). 21
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EC. 754. Out of amounts appropriated to the Food 22
and Drug Administration under title VI, the Secretary of 23
Health and Human Services, acting through the Commis-24
sioner of Food and Drugs, shall, not later than September 25
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30, 2024, and following the review required under Execu-1
tive Order No. 12866 (5 U.S.C. 601 note; relating to regu-2
latory planning and review), issue advice revising the ad-3
vice provided in the notice of availability entitled ‘‘Advice 4
About Eating Fish, From the Environmental Protection 5
Agency and Food and Drug Administration; Revised Fish 6
Advice; Availability’’ (82 Fed. Reg. 6571 (January 19, 7
2017)), in a manner that is consistent with nutrition 8
science recognized by the Food and Drug Administration 9
on the net effects of seafood consumption. 10
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EC. 755. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, 11
to remain available until expended, to carry out section 12
2103 of Public Law 115–334: Provided, That the Sec-13
retary shall prioritize the wetland compliance needs of 14
areas with significant numbers of individual wetlands, wet-15
land acres, and conservation compliance requests. 16
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EC. 756. Notwithstanding any other provision of 17
law, the acceptable market name of any engineered animal 18
approved prior to the effective date of the National Bio-19
engineered Food Disclosure Standard (February 19, 20
2019) shall include the words ‘‘genetically engineered’’ 21
prior to the existing acceptable market name. 22
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EC. 757. The Secretary shall set aside for Rural 23
Economic Area Partnership (REAP) Zones, until August 24
15, 2024, an amount of funds made available in title III 25
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under the headings of Rural Housing Insurance Fund 1
Program Account, Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants, 2
Rural Housing Assistance Grants, Rural Community Fa-3
cilities Program Account, Rural Business Program Ac-4
count, Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account, 5
and Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Account, 6
equal to the amount obligated in REAP Zones with re-7
spect to funds provided under such headings in the most 8
recent fiscal year any such funds were obligated under 9
such headings for REAP Zones, excluding the funding 10
provided through any Congressionally Directed Spending/ 11
Community Project Funding. 12
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EC. 758. There is hereby appropriated $500,000 to 13
carry out the duties of the working group established 14
under section 770 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, 15
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap-16
propriations Act, 2019 (Public Law 116–6; 133 Stat. 89). 17
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EC. 759. For an additional amount for the Office 18
of the Secretary, $9,000,000, to remain available until ex-19
pended, to continue the Institute for Rural Partnerships 20
as established in section 778 of Public Law 117–103: Pro-21
vided, That the Institute for Rural Partnerships shall con-22
tinue to dedicate resources to researching the causes and 23
conditions of challenges facing rural areas, and develop 24
community partnerships to address such challenges: Pro-25
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vided further, That administrative or other fees shall not 1
exceed one percent: Provided further, That such partner-2
ship shall coordinate and publish an annual report. 3
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EC. 760. Funds made available in the Consolidated 4
Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141) for the 5
‘‘Rural Community Facilities Program Account’’ under 6
section 306 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-7
ment Act, 7 U.S.C. 1926, for the principal amount of di-8
rect loans are to remain available through fiscal year 2028 9
for the liquidation of valid obligations incurred in fiscal 10
year 2018. 11
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EC. 761. Section 523 of the Housing Act of 1949 12
(42 U.S.C. 1490c) is amended in subsection (b)(1)(B) by 13
striking ‘‘two years’’ and inserting ‘‘five years’’. 14
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EC. 762. Section 524 of the Housing Act of 1949 15
(42 U.S.C. 1490d) is amended in subsection (a)(1) by 16
striking ‘‘two years’’ and inserting ‘‘five years’’. 17
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EC. 763. Section 592 of the Stewart B. McKinney 18
Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11408a) is amend-19
ed— 20
(1) in the section heading by striking ‘‘FMHA’’ 21
and inserting ‘‘USDA’’; 22
(2) in subsection (a), by, in the matter pre-23
ceding paragraph (1), striking ‘‘program and non-24
program’’; and 25
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(3) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 1
following: 2
‘‘(b) P
RIORITY.—The priority uses of inventory prop-3
erty under this section shall be given priority equal to or 4
higher than the disposition of such property in accordance 5
with priorities determined by the Secretary as necessary 6
to protect the best interests of the Federal Government.’’. 7
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EC. 764. Section 363 of the Multifamily Mortgage 8
Foreclosure Act of 1981 (12 U.S.C. 3702) is amended at 9
paragraph (10) by inserting after ‘‘Secretary of Housing 10
Urban Development’’ the following: ‘‘and the Secretary of 11
Agriculture’’. 12
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EC. 765. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000, 13
to remain available until September 30, 2025, for a Bison 14
Production and Marketing Grant Program that the Agri-15
cultural Marketing Service shall develop and maintain: 16
Provided, That this program shall be similar, as deter-17
mined by the Secretary, to the Sheep Production and Mar-18
keting Grant Program the Department of Agriculture cur-19
rently maintains pursuant to section 209(c) of the Agricul-20
tural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1627a(c)), and 21
shall prioritize grants to national non-profits and federally 22
chartered Tribal organizations that have expertise in bison 23
production or marketing. 24
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SEC. 766. Notwithstanding the Agricultural Mar-1
keting Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622 et seq.) and 9 CFR 2
part 352, the Committee provides an additional $700,000 3
to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service to cover 4
voluntary meat inspection fees for the slaughtering or 5
processing of bison/buffalo at Native American owned es-6
tablishments or establishments operating on tribal lands. 7
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EC. 767. Of the unobligated balances available to 8
the Department of Agriculture for the Rural Water Oper-9
ation Program under the heading ‘‘Natural Resources 10
Conservation Service—Watershed and Flood Prevention 11
Operations’’ from prior appropriations Acts, $20,000,000 12
is hereby rescinded: Provided, That no amounts may be 13
rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Con-14
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concur-15
rent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and 16
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 17
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EC. 768. If services performed by APHIS employees 18
are determined by the Administrator of the Animal and 19
Plant Health Inspection Service to be in response to an 20
animal disease outbreak, any premium pay that is funded, 21
either directly or through reimbursement, shall be exempt-22
ed from the aggregate of basic pay and premium pay cal-23
culated under section 5547 of title 5, United States Code, 24
and any other provision of law limiting the aggregate 25
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amount of premium pay payable on a biweekly or calendar 1
year basis: Provided, That this section shall take effect 2
as if enacted on January 1, 2023. 3
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EC. 769. None of the funds appropriated or other-4
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 5
by the Food Safety and Inspection Service to take any 6
action that would result in the permanent relocation, de-7
motion, or termination of any Supervisory Public Heath 8
Veterinarian (SPHV), solely as result of the creation of 9
the District Veterinary Medical Officer position, prior to 10
completing a 1010 package and cost-benefit analysis, and 11
briefing the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 12
of Congress. 13
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EC. 770. None of the funds appropriated or other-14
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 15
to purchase, deploy, or train third parties on the use of 16
M–44 sodium cyanide ejector devices (‘‘M–44s’’), includ-17
ing any components or parts, or sodium fluoroacetate 18
(‘‘Compound 1080’’), except for activities directly related 19
to the removal of M–44s that have been placed on Federal, 20
Tribal, State and private land. 21
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EC. 771. Notwithstanding section 521(a)(1)(B) of 22
the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490a(a)(1)(B)), for 23
loans made under section 502 (42 U.S.C. 1472), the Sec-24
retary of Agriculture may provide the borrower with as-25
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sistance in the form of credits so as to reduce the effective 1
interest rate to a rate not less than 2 per centum per 2
annum for such periods of time as the Secretary may de-3
termine for applicants described in section 521(a)(1)(A) 4
(42 U.S.C. 1490a(a)(1)(A)) if without such assistance 5
such applicants could not afford the dwelling or make pay-6
ments on the indebtedness of the rental or cooperative 7
housing. 8
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EC. 772. Any rule-making, notice or guidance of or 9
regarding USDA Proposed Rule (Child Nutrition Pro-10
grams: Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent With the 11
2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans; RIN 0584–AE88) 12
shall allow and provide meal reimbursement for (or ‘‘low 13
fat or fat free’’) flavored milk in National School Lunch 14
Program and School Breakfast Program for grades Kin-15
dergarten through 12th grade and in Child and Adult 16
Care Food Program for participants 5 years of age and 17
older, and for any other program complying with the meal 18
pattern requirements covered in such final rule. 19
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EC. 773. Weekly sodium limits that may be included 20
in any rule-making, notice or guidance of or regarding 21
USDA Proposed Rule (Child Nutrition Programs: Revi-22
sions to Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020 Dietary 23
Guidelines for Americans; RIN 0584–AE88) shall exclude 24
sodium used for food safety and functional purposes in 25
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cheese-making, as determined by the Secretary, in con-1
sultation with FDA. Sodium limits will not take effect 2
until the Secretary determines the amounts which shall 3
be excluded. 4
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EC. 774. Notwithstanding section 521(a)(1)(B) of 5
the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C 1490a(a)(1)(B)), for 6
loans made under section 502 (42 U.S.C. 1472), the Sec-7
retary of Agriculture may provide the borrower with as-8
sistance in the form of credits so as to reduce the effective 9
interest rate to a rate not less than 2 per centum per 10
annum for such periods of time as the Secretary may de-11
termine for applicants described in section 521(a)(1)(A) 12
(42 U.S.C. 1490a(a)(1)(A)) if without such assistance 13
such applicants could not afford the dwelling or make pay-14
ments on the indebtedness of the rental or cooperative 15
housing. 16
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EC. 775. Section 542(b)(2) of the Housing Act, (42 17
U.S.C. 1490r), is amended by striking ‘‘5,000’’ and insert-18
ing ‘‘10,000’’. 19
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EC. 776. None of the funds made available by this 20
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-21
sonnel— 22
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the 23
Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 24
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(2) to inspect horses under section 903 of the 1
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 2
1996 (7 U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or 3
(3) to implement or enforce section 352.19 of 4
title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor 5
regulation). 6
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-7
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 8
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 9
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118
TH
CONGRESS 
1
ST
S
ESSION
 
S. 2131 
[Report No. 118–44] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2024, and for other purposes. 
J
UNE
22, 2023 
Read twice and placed on the calendar 
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