SEC. 702. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobli-
gated balances of discretionary funds appropriated by this 
Act or any other available unobligated discretionary bal-
ances that are remaining available of the Department of 
Agriculture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisi-
tion of plant and capital equipment necessary for the deliv-
ery of financial, administrative, and information tech-
nology services of primary benefit to the agencies of the 
Department of Agriculture, such transferred funds to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That none of the 
funds made available by this Act or any other Act shall 
be transferred to the Working Capital Fund without the 
prior approval of the agency administrator: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds transferred to the Working 
Capital Fund pursuant to this section shall be available 
for obligation without written notification to and the prior 
approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated by this Act or made available to the 
Department’s Working Capital Fund shall be available for 
obligation or expenditure to make any changes to the De-
partment’s National Finance Center without written noti-
fication to and prior approval of the Committees on Ap-
propriations of both Houses of Congress as required by 
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section 721 of this Act: Provided further, That of annual 
income amounts in the Working Capital Fund of the De-
partment of Agriculture allocated for the National Fi-
nance Center, the Secretary may reserve not more than 
4 percent for the replacement or acquisition of capital 
equipment, including equipment for the improvement and 
implementation of a financial management plan, informa-
tion technology, and other systems of the National Fi-
nance Center or to pay any unforeseen, extraordinary cost 
of the National Finance Center: Provided further, That 
none of the amounts reserved shall be available for obliga-
tion unless the Secretary submits written notification of 
the obligation to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided fur-
ther, That the limitation on the obligation of funds pend-
ing notification to Congressional Committees shall not 
apply to any obligation that, as determined by the Sec-
retary, is necessary to respond to a declared state of emer-
gency that significantly impacts the operations of the Na-
tional Finance Center; or to evacuate employees of the Na-
tional Finance Center to a safe haven to continue oper-
ations of the National Finance Center. 
SEC. 703. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
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SEC. 704. No funds appropriated by this Act may be 
used to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative 
agreements or similar arrangements between the United 
States Department of Agriculture and nonprofit institu-
tions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost of 
the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative ar-
rangements is to carry out programs of mutual interest 
between the two parties. This does not preclude appro-
priate payment of indirect costs on grants and contracts 
with such institutions when such indirect costs are com-
puted on a similar basis for all agencies for which appro-
priations are provided in this Act. 
SEC. 705. Appropriations to the Department of Agri-
culture for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made 
available in the current fiscal year shall remain available 
until expended to disburse obligations made in the current 
fiscal year for the following accounts: the Rural Develop-
ment Loan Fund program account, the Rural Electrifica-
tion and Telecommunication Loans program account, and 
the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account. 
SEC. 706. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Agriculture by this Act may be used to ac-
quire new information technology systems or significant 
upgrades, as determined by the Office of the Chief Infor-
mation Officer, without the approval of the Chief Informa-
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tion Officer and the concurrence of the Executive Informa-
tion Technology Investment Review Board: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
Act may be transferred to the Office of the Chief Informa-
tion Officer without written notification to and the prior 
approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress: Provided further, That none of the 
funds available to the Department of Agriculture for infor-
mation technology shall be obligated for projects over 
$25,000 prior to receipt of written approval by the Chief 
Information Officer. 
SEC. 707. Funds made available under section 1240I 
and section 1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 and 
section 524(b) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
U.S.C. 1524(b)) in the current fiscal year shall remain 
available until expended to disburse obligations made in 
the current fiscal year. 
SEC. 708. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, any former RUS borrower that has repaid or prepaid 
an insured, direct or guaranteed loan under the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936, or any not-for-profit utility 
that is eligible to receive an insured or direct loan under 
such Act, shall be eligible for assistance under section 
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313(b)(2)(B) of such Act in the same manner as a bor-
rower under such Act. 
SEC. 709. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, for the purposes of a grant under section 412 of the 
Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform 
Act of 1998, none of the funds in this or any other Act 
may be used to prohibit the provision of in-kind support 
from non-Federal sources under section 412(e)(3) of such 
Act in the form of unrecovered indirect costs not otherwise 
charged against the grant, consistent with the indirect 
rate of cost approved for a recipient. 
SEC. 710. Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law, unobligated balances remaining available at the 
end of the fiscal year from appropriations made available 
for salaries and expenses in this Act for the Farm Service 
Agency and the Rural Development mission area, shall re-
main available through September 30, 2015, for informa-
tion technology expenses. 
SEC. 711. The Secretary of Agriculture may author-
ize a State agency to use funds provided in this Act to 
exceed the maximum amount of liquid infant formula 
specified in 7 CFR 246.10 when issuing liquid infant for-
mula to participants. 
SEC. 712. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for first-class 
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travel by the employees of agencies funded by this Act in 
contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 
of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 713. In the case of each program established 
or amended by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
of 2008 (Public Law 110–246), other than by title I or 
subtitle A of title III of such Act or programs for which 
indefinite amounts were provided in that Act, that is au-
thorized or required to be carried out using funds of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation— 
(1) such funds shall be available for salaries 
and related administrative expenses, including tech-
nical assistance, associated with the implementation 
of the program, without regard to the limitation on 
the total amount of allotments and fund transfers 
contained in section 11 of the Commodity Credit 
Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714i); and 
(2) the use of such funds for such purpose shall 
not be considered to be a fund transfer or allotment 
for purposes of applying the limitation on the total 
amount of allotments and fund transfers contained 
in such section. 
SEC. 714. None of the funds made available in fiscal 
year 2014 or preceding fiscal years for programs author-
ized under the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) 
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in excess of $20,000,000 shall be used to reimburse the 
Commodity Credit Corporation for the release of eligible 
commodities under section 302(f)(2)(A) of the Bill Emer-
son Humanitarian Trust Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f–1): Pro-
vided, That any such funds made available to reimburse 
the Commodity Credit Corporation shall only be used pur-
suant to section 302(b)(2)(B)(i) of the Bill Emerson Hu-
manitarian Trust Act. 
SEC. 715. Of the funds made available by this Act, 
not more than $1,800,000 shall be used to cover necessary 
expenses of activities related to all advisory committees, 
panels, commissions, and task forces of the Department 
of Agriculture, except for panels used to comply with nego-
tiated rule makings and panels used to evaluate competi-
tively awarded grants. 
SEC. 716. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to pay indirect costs charged against any agricultural 
research, education, or extension grant awards issued by 
the National Institute of Food and Agriculture that exceed 
30 percent of total Federal funds provided under each 
award: Provided, That notwithstanding section 1462 of 
the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3310), funds pro-
vided by this Act for grants awarded competitively by the 
National Institute of Food and Agriculture shall be avail-
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able to pay full allowable indirect costs for each grant 
awarded under section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 638). 
SEC. 717. Section 16(h)(1)(A) of the Food and Nu-
trition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025(h)(1)(A)), is amended 
by inserting ‘‘and fiscal year 2014’’ after ‘‘2013’’. 
SEC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
the following: 
(1) The Watershed Rehabilitation program au-
thorized by section 14(h)(1) of the Watershed Pro-
tection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 
1012(h)(1)); 
(2) The Environmental Quality Incentives Pro-
gram as authorized by sections 1240–1240H of the 
Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa– 
3839aa–8) in excess of $1,350,000,000; 
(3) The Farmland Protection Program as au-
thorized by section 1238I of the Food Security Act 
of 
1985 
(16 
U.S.C. 
3838i) 
in 
excess 
of 
$150,000,000; 
(4) The Wetlands Reserve Program authorized 
by sections 1237–1237F of the Food Security Act of 
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1985 (16 U.S.C. 3837–3837f) to enroll in excess of 
71,104 acres in fiscal year 2014; 
(5) The Wildlife Habitat Incentives Act author-
ized by section 1240N of the Food Security Act of 
1985 
(16 
U.S.C. 
3839bb–1)) 
in 
excess 
of 
$45,000,000; and 
(6) Agricultural Management Assistance Pro-
gram as authorized by section 524 of the Federal 
Crop Insurance Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1524) in 
excess of $2,500,000 for the Natural Resources Con-
servation Service. 
SEC. 719. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
a program under subsection (b)(2)(A)(vi) of section 14222 
of Public Law 110–246 in excess of $861,000,000, as fol-
lows: Child Nutrition Programs Entitlement Commod-
ities—$465,000,000; 
State 
Option 
Contracts— 
$5,000,000; 
Removal 
of 
Defective 
Commodities— 
$2,500,000: Provided, That none of the funds made avail-
able in this Act or any other Act shall be used for salaries 
and expenses to carry out in this fiscal year section 
19(i)(1)(E) of the Richard B. Russell National School 
Lunch Act, as amended, except in an amount that ex-
cludes the transfer of $119,000,000 of the funds to be 
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transferred under subsection (c) of section 14222 of Pub-
lic Law 110–246, until October 1, 2014: Provided further, 
That $119,000,000 made available on October 1, 2014, 
to carry out section 19(i)(1)(E) of the Richard B. Russell 
National School Lunch Act, as amended, shall be excluded 
from the limitation described in subsection (b)(2)(A)(vii) 
of section 14222 of Public Law 110–246: Provided further, 
That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay 
the salaries or expenses of any employee of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture or officer of the Commodity Credit 
Corporation to carry out clause 3 of section 32 of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act of 1935 (Public Law 74–320, 7 
U.S.C. 612c, as amended), or for any surplus removal ac-
tivities or price support activities under section 5 of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act: Provided fur-
ther, That of the available unobligated balances under 
(b)(2)(A)(vi) of section 14222 of Public Law 110–246, 
$206,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 720. None of the funds appropriated by this or 
any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and ex-
penses of personnel who prepare or submit appropriations 
language as part of the President’s Budget submission to 
the Congress of the United States for programs under the 
jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agri-
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culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies that assumes revenues or re-
flects a reduction from the previous year due to user fees 
proposals that have not been enacted into law prior to the 
submission of the Budget unless such Budget submission 
identifies which additional spending reductions should 
occur in the event the user fees proposals are not enacted 
prior to the date of the convening of a committee of con-
ference for the fiscal year 2015 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 721. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 
or provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation 
or expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from 
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming, transfer of funds, or reim-
bursements as authorized by the Economy Act, or in the 
case of the Department of Agriculture, through use of the 
authority provided by section 702(b) of the Department 
of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) or 
section 8 of Public Law 89–106 (7 U.S.C. 2263), that— 
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
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(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 
for any project or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted; 
(4) relocates an office or employees; 
(5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; 
or 
(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission (as the case may be) 
notifies, in writing, the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance of 
the reprogramming of such funds or the use of such au-
thority. 
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or pro-
vided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies 
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 
expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from 
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogram-
ming or use of the authorities referred to in subsection 
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(a) involving funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, 
whichever is less, that— 
(1) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities; 
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 
(3) results from any general savings from a re-
duction in personnel which would result in a change 
in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-
proved by Congress; unless the Secretary of Agri-
culture, the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices, or the Chairman of the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission (as the case may be) notifies, 
in writing, the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance 
of the reprogramming or transfer of such funds or 
the use of such authority. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission shall notify in writ-
ing the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress before implementing any program or activity not 
carried out during the previous fiscal year unless the pro-
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gram or activity is funded by this Act or specifically fund-
ed by any other Act. 
(d) As described in this section, no funds may be used 
for any activities unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services or the Chairman 
of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission receives 
from the Committee on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress written or electronic mail confirmation of receipt 
of the notification as required in this section. 
SEC. 722. Notwithstanding section 310B(g)(5) of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
1932(g)(5)), the Secretary may assess a one-time fee for 
any guaranteed business and industry loan in an amount 
that does not exceed 3 percent of the guaranteed principal 
portion of the loan. 
SEC. 723. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of Agriculture, the 
Food and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission, and the Farm Credit Administra-
tion shall be used to transmit or otherwise make available 
to any non-Department of Agriculture or non-Department 
of Health and Human Services employee questions or re-
sponses to questions that are a result of information re-
quested for the appropriations hearing process. 
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SEC. 724. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 
law, none of the funds provided in this Act, may be used 
by an executive branch agency to produce any pre-
packaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution 
in the United States unless the story includes a clear noti-
fication within the text or audio of the prepackaged news 
story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or 
funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 725. No employee of the Department of Agri-
culture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or 
office funded by this Act or any other Act to any other 
agency or office of the Department for more than 30 days 
unless the individual’s employing agency or office is fully 
reimbursed by the receiving agency or office for the salary 
and expenses of the employee for the period of assignment. 
SEC. 726. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of per-
sonnel who provide nonrecourse marketing assistance 
loans for mohair under section 1201 of the Food, Con-
servation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8731). 
SEC. 727. Of the unobligated balances in the Natural 
Resources Conservation Service, Resource Conservation 
and Development Account, $2,017,000 are hereby perma-
nently cancelled: Provided, That no amounts may be can-
celled from amounts that were designated by the Congress 
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as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent 
Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
SEC. 728. Not later than 30 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the 
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, the 
Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commis-
sion, and the Chairman of the Farm Credit Administra-
tion shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate a detailed 
spending plan by program, project, and activity for the 
funds made available under this Act. 
SEC. 729. Of the unobligated balances available to 
the Department of Agriculture under the account ‘‘Agri-
culture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments’’, 
$30,000,000 are rescinded: Provided, That no amount 
may be rescinded from funds made available for payments 
to the General Services Administration for rent and funds 
made available for payments to the Department of Home-
land Security for building security activities. 
SEC. 730. Funds made available under title II of the 
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be 
used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate 
monitoring and controls, as determined by the Adminis-
trator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, 
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are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is received 
by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by food 
shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inappro-
priate purposes. 
SEC. 731. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the requirements pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 1736f(e)(1) 
may be waived for any amounts higher than those speci-
fied under this authority for fiscal year 2009. 
SEC. 732. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2014 rental payments to the General Services Admin-
istration for programs funded by this Act shall be ab-
sorbed within the discretionary levels appropriated in this 
Act: Provided, That the Secretary may use unobligated 
prior year balances of an agency or office that are no 
longer available for new obligation to cover shortfalls in-
curred in prior year rental payments for such agency or 
office: Provided further, That the Secretary is authorized 
to transfer funds from a Departmental agency to this ac-
count to recover the full cost of the space and security 
expenses of that agency that are funded by this account 
when the actual costs exceed the agency estimate which 
will be available for the activities and payments described 
herein. 
SEC. 733. Of the unobligated balance of funds avail-
able to the Department of Agriculture for the cost of sec-
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tion 502 single family housing guaranteed loans for fiscal 
years 2007 through 2010 under the heading ‘‘Rural De-
velopment Programs – Rural Housing Service – Rural 
Housing Insurance Fund Program Account’’ in prior ap-
propriations Acts, $1,314,734 is rescinded. 
SEC. 734. Of the unobligated balances provided pur-
suant to section 9005(g)(1) of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8105(g)(1)), 
$41,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 735. The Secretary shall expand the pilot pro-
gram currently in effect for packaging section 502 single 
family direct loans and not later than 90 days after enact-
ment of this Act enter into Memorandums of Under-
standing with not less than 5 qualified intermediary orga-
nizations to work in coordination with the Secretary to 
increase the effectiveness of the section 502 single family 
direct loan program in States and communities currently 
not served under the existing pilot program. 
SEC. 736. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
section 307(b) of division C of the Omnibus Consolidated 
and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 
(Public Law 105-277; 112 Stat. 2681-640) in excess of 
$4,000,000. 
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SEC. 737. Of the unobligated balances provided pur-
suant to section 9003(h)(1) of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8103(h)(1)), 
$40,694,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 738. Of the unobligated balances made available 
under section 231(b)(7)(A) of the Agricultural Risk Pro-
tection Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note; Public Law 106- 
224), $15,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 739. For loans and loan guarantees that do not 
require budget authority and the program level has been 
established in this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may 
increase the program level for such loans and loan guaran-
tees by not more than 25 percent: Provided, That prior 
to the Secretary implementing such an increase, the Sec-
retary notifies, in writing, the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress at least 15 days in ad-
vance. 
SEC. 740. (a)(1) Of the funds made available in title 
I under the item ‘‘Agricultural Programs-Production, 
Processing and Marketing-Office of the Secretary’’, 
$1,000,000 shall be available to conduct an assessment 
of the existing (as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act) and prospective scope of domestic hunger and food 
insecurity in accordance with this section. 
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(2) The Secretary of Agriculture shall select, through 
a competitive process, and enter into an agreement with 
an independent, private-sector entity that is an organiza-
tion described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under section 501(a) 
of such Code, that has recognized credentials and exper-
tise in domestic hunger affairs to— 
(A) conduct the assessment required under sub-
section (a); and 
(B) provide technical expertise to the National 
Commission on Hunger established under subsection 
(b). 
(3) Not later than 180 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the entity selected in accordance with 
paragraph (2) shall submit to the President and Congress 
and make publicly available a report containing the assess-
ment required under this subsection and any policy rec-
ommendations that such entity considers appropriate. 
(b)(1) There is established a commission to be known 
as the ‘‘National Commission on Hunger’’ (in this section 
referred to as the ‘‘Commission’’). 
(2) The Commission shall— 
(A) provide policy recommendations to Congress 
and the Secretary to more effectively use existing (as 
of the date of the enactment of this Act) programs 
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and funds of the Department of Agriculture to com-
bat domestic hunger and food insecurity; and 
(B) develop innovative recommendations to en-
courage public-private partnerships, faith-based sec-
tor engagement, and community initiatives to reduce 
the need for government nutrition assistance pro-
grams, while protecting the safety net for the most 
vulnerable members of society. 
(3) The Commission shall be composed of 10 mem-
bers, of whom— 
(A) 3 members shall be appointed by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives; 
(B) 2 members shall be appointed by the minor-
ity leader of the House of Representatives; 
(C) 3 members shall be appointed by the major-
ity leader of the Senate; and 
(D) 2 members shall be appointed by the mi-
nority leader of the Senate. 
SEC. 741. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to eliminate or reduce funding for a pro-
gram, project or activity as proposed in the President’s 
budget request for a fiscal year until such proposed change 
is subsequently enacted in an appropriation Act, or unless 
such change is made pursuant to the reprogramming or 
transfer provisions of this Act. 
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SEC. 742. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to write, prepare, or publish 
a final rule or an interim final rule in furtherance of, or 
otherwise to implement, ‘‘Implementation of Regulations 
Required Under Title XI, of the Food, Conservation and 
Energy Act of 2008; Conduct in Violation of the Act’’ (75 
Fed. Reg. 35338 (June 22, 2010)) unless the combined 
annual cost to the economy of such rules does not exceed 
$100,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to publish 
a final or interim final rule in furtherance of, or to other-
wise implement, proposed sections 201.2(l), 201.2(t), 
201.2(u), 201.3(c), 201.210, 201.211, 201.213, or 
201.214 of ‘‘Implementation of Regulations Required 
Under Title XI of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act 
of 2008; Conduct in Violation of the Act’’ (75 Fed. Reg. 
35338 (June 22, 2010)). 
SEC. 743. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to exclude or restrict the eligibility of 
any variety of fresh, whole, or cut vegetables, except for 
vegetables with added sugars, fats, or oils, from being pro-
vided as supplemental foods under the special supple-
mental nutrition program for women, infants, and children 
under section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 
U.S.C. 1786). 
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SEC. 744. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to pay more than 75 percent of the 
salary of any senior Department of Agriculture official 
during the period beginning on July 1, 2014, and ending 
on September 30, 2014, unless as of July 1, 2014, the 
percentage of improper payments for the school lunch pro-
gram under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and the school breakfast pro-
gram under section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 
(42 U.S.C. 1773) has been reduced by at least 25 percent. 
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘senior De-
partment of Agriculture official’’ means the Secretary of 
Agriculture, the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, and any 
Under Secretary, Assistant Secretary or Administrator of 
the Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Serv-
ice. 
SEC. 745. No State is eligible to receive any of the 
funds provided by this Act unless it is in full compliance 
with section 6 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2015). Further, none of the funds provided by this 
Act may be used to promote WIC or SNAP benefits to 
individuals who are ineligible to receive benefits pursuant 
to section 6 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2015). 
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SEC. 746. It is the sense of Congress that Congress 
should not pass any legislation which authorizes spending 
cuts that would increase hunger in the United States. 
SEC. 747. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to reclassify, for purposes of title V of 
the Housing Act of 1949 and as a result of data received 
from or after the 2010 decennial census, any area classi-
fied as ‘‘rural’’ or a ‘‘rural area’’ as of June 1, 2013. 
SEC. 748. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to promulgate rules, regulations, orders, 
interpretive guidance, or general statements of policy re-
garding the extraterritorial application of the swaps provi-
sions of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1) pursu-
ant to section 722(d) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Re-
form and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5301) un-
less the rules, regulations, orders, interpretive guidance, 
or general statements of policy are subject to the notice 
and comment procedures of section 553 of title 5, United 
States Code, and are promulgated jointly by the Securities 
and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission. 
SEC. 749. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
sonnel to— 
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(1) inspect horses under section 3 of the Fed-
eral Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
(2) inspect horses under section 903 of the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
1996 (7 U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or 
(3) implement or enforce section 352.19 of title 
9, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 750. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 82 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2410 
[Report No. 113–116] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2014, and for other pur-
poses. 
JUNE 18, 2013 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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