Funding for 17 additional USDA border inspectors at the San Diego ports of entry. Language authorizing funds for USDA to pay compensation to growers who were unable to harvest their crops due to San Diego fruit fly quarantine. Language authorizing the USDA to compensate growers who have lost crops due to Pierce's Disease. BARD was established as a cooperative program between Israelis and Americans and concentrates its research on a variety of agricultural issues, including irrigated agriculture, disease with fruit tree crops, and viticultural practices. Methyl Bromide is scheduled to be phased out by 2005.
Fruit flies threaten a variety of California agriculture products.
Language encouraging the National Resources Conservation Service to fund the agriculture drainage and manure removal project within the Chino Basin Dairy Preserve from funds made available from the Emergency Watershed Protection Program. Language encouraging the Department of Agriculture to give priority consideration for the grant of the Fresno Community Medical Center's Rural Outreach and Telemedicine Network, which makes health care more available to Fresno residents. Senator Feinstein requested the funding and related provisions as part of her role as a member of the Appropriations Committee. The legislation will be reconciled with the House version of the bill in Conference Committee in the coming weeks.