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‘‘(C) COMBAT
PAY.—For the purpose of determining 
income eligibility under this section, a State agency shall 
exclude from income any additional payment under chapter 
5 of title 37, United States Code, or otherwise designated 
by the Secretary to be appropriate for exclusion under 
this subparagraph, that is received by or from a member 
of the United States Armed Forces deployed to a designated 
combat zone, if the additional pay— 
‘‘(i) is the result of deployment to or service in 
a combat zone; and 
‘‘(ii) was not received immediately prior to serving 
in a combat zone.’’. 
SEC. 735. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 for the grant 
program for the purpose of obtaining and adding to an anhydrous 
ammonia fertilizer nurse tank a substance to reduce the amount 
of methamphetamine that can be produced from any anhydrous 
ammonia removed from the nurse tank as authorized by section 
14203 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (21 
U.S.C. 864a). 
SEC. 736. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used for first-class 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 Regula-
tions. 
SEC. 737. Agencies with jurisdiction for carrying out inter-
national food assistance programs under the jurisdiction of this 
Act, including title II of the Food for Peace Act and the McGovern- 
Dole International Food for Education Program, shall— 
(1) provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House and the Senate no later than May 1, 2010, the following: 
(A) estimates on cost-savings and programmatic effi-
ciencies that would result from increased use of pre-posi-
tioning of food aid commodities and processes to ensure 
such cargoes are appropriately maintained to prevent spoil-
age; 
(B) estimates on cost-savings and programmatic effi-
ciencies that would result from the use of longer-term 
commodity procurement contracts, the proportional dis-
tribution of commodity purchases throughout the fiscal 
year, longer-term shipping contracts, contracts which 
include shared-risk principles, and adoptions of other 
commercially acceptable contracting practices; 
(C) estimates on costs of domestic procurement of 
commodities, domestic inland transportation of food aid 
commodities, domestic storage (including loading and 
unloading), 
foreign 
storage 
(including 
loading 
and 
unloading), foreign inland transportation, and ocean freight 
(including ocean freight as adjusted by the ocean freight 
differential reimbursement provided by the Secretary of 
Transportation), and costs relating to allocation and dis-
tribution of commodities in recipient countries; 
(D) information on the frequency of delays in trans-
porting food aid commodities, the cause or purpose of any 
delays (including how those delays are tracked, monitored 
and resolved), missed schedules by carriers and non-car-
riers (and resulting program costs due to such delays, 
including impacts to program beneficiaries);
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(E) information on the methodologies to improve inter-
agency coordination between host governments, the World 
Food Program, and non-governmental organization to 
develop more consistent estimates of food aid needs and 
the number of intended recipients to appropriately inform 
the purchases of commodities and in order to appropriately 
plan for commodity procurement for food aid programs; 
(2) provide the matter described under subsection (1) of 
this section in the form of a consensus report under the signa-
tures of the Secretaries of Agriculture, State, and Transpor-
tation; and 
(3) estimates and cost savings analysis for this section 
shall be derived from periods representative of normal program 
operations. 
SEC. 738. There is hereby appropriated $250,000, to remain 
available until expended, for a grant to the Kansas Farm Bureau 
Foundation for work-force development initiatives to address out- 
migration in rural areas. 
SEC. 739. There is hereby appropriated $800,000 to the Farm 
Service Agency to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate the 
use of new technologies that increase the rate of growth of re- 
forested hardwood trees on private non-industrial forests lands, 
enrolling lands on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico that were damaged 
by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 
SEC. 740. (a) The Commissioner of Food and Drugs shall estab-
lish within the Food and Drug Administration a review group 
which shall recommend to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs 
appropriate preclinical, trial design, and regulatory paradigms and 
optimal solutions for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of 
rare diseases: Provided, That the Commissioner of Food and Drugs 
shall appoint individuals employed by the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration to serve on the review group: Provided further, That mem-
bers of the review group shall have specific expertise relating to 
the development of articles for use in the prevention, diagnosis, 
or treatment of rare diseases, including specific expertise in devel-
oping or carrying out clinical trials. 
(b) The Commissioner of Food and Drugs shall establish within 
the Food and Drug Administration a review group which shall 
recommend to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs appropriate 
preclinical, trial design, and regulatory paradigms and optimal solu-
tions for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of neglected 
diseases of the developing world: Provided, That the Commissioner 
of Food and Drugs shall appoint individuals employed by the Food 
and Drug Administration to serve on the review group: Provided 
further, That members of the review group shall have specific 
expertise relating to the development of articles for use in the 
prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of neglected diseases of the 
developing world, including specific expertise in developing or car-
rying out clinical trials: Provided further, That for the purposes 
of this section the term ‘‘neglected disease of the developing world’’ 
means a tropical disease, as defined in section 524(a)(3) of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360n(a)(3)). 
(c) The Commissioner of Food and Drugs shall— 
(1) submit, not later than 1 year after the date of the 
establishment of review groups under subsections (a) and (b),
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a report to Congress that describes both the findings and rec-
ommendations made by the review groups under subsections 
(a) and (b); 
(2) issue, not later than 180 days after submission of the 
report to Congress under paragraph (1), guidance based on 
such recommendations for articles for use in the prevention, 
diagnosis, and treatment of rare diseases and for such uses 
in neglected diseases of the developing world; and 
(3) develop, not later than 180 days after submission of 
the report to Congress under paragraph (1), internal review 
standards based on such recommendations for articles for use 
in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of rare diseases 
and for such uses in neglected diseases of the developing world. 
SEC. 741. There is hereby appropriated $2,600,000 to carry 
out section 1621 of Public Law 110–246 and $3,000,000 to carry 
out section 1613 of Public Law 110–246. 
SEC. 742. Of the unobligated balances provided pursuant to 
section 16(h)(1)(A) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, 
$11,000,000 is hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 743. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to promulgate or implement a poultry products inspec-
tion rule allowing processed poultry or processed poultry products 
to be imported into the United States from the People’s Republic 
of China unless the Secretary of Agriculture formally notifies Con-
gress that the Department will— 
(1) not provide any preferential consideration to any 
application by the People’s Republic of China for authorization 
to export poultry or poultry products to the United States; 
(2) conduct audits of inspection systems and on-site reviews 
of slaughter and processing facilities, laboratories and other 
control operations before any Chinese facilities are certified 
as eligible to ship poultry or poultry products to the United 
States and, in subsequent years, to conduct such audits and 
reviews at least once annually or more frequently as the Sec-
retary determines necessary; 
(3) implement a significantly increased level of port of 
entry re-inspection; 
(4) establish and conduct a formal and expeditious informa-
tion sharing program with other countries importing processed 
poultry or processed poultry products from China that have 
conducted audits and plant inspections; 
(5) report to the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations within 120 days of the date of enactment of this 
Act, and every 180 days thereafter for an indefinite period, 
with respect to the promulgation or implementation of any 
poultry products inspection rule authorizing the People’s 
Republic of China to export poultry or poultry products to 
the United States, including— 
(A) actions taken or to be taken by the Secretary, 
including new audits and on-site reviews, to implement 
any poultry products inspection rule authorizing the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China to export processed poultry or proc-
essed poultry products to the United States; 
(B) actions taken or to be taken by the Secretary, 
including new audits and on-site reviews, to determine 
whether the poultry inspection system of the People’s
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Republic of China achieves a level of sanitary protection 
equivalent to that achieved under United States standards; 
(C) actions taken or to be taken by the Secretary 
to determine whether the administration and enforcement 
of the poultry and poultry products inspection system of 
the People’s Republic of China ensures that it achieves 
a level of sanitary protection equivalent to that achieved 
under United States standards; 
(D) the level of port of entry re-inspections to be con-
ducted on processed poultry and processed poultry products 
offered for importation into the United States from the 
People’s Republic of China; and 
(E) a work plan incorporating any understandings or 
agreements between FSIS and relevant authorities of the 
People’s Republic of China with respect to carrying out 
the Secretary’s assessment of the equivalency of the poultry 
products inspection system of the People’s Republic of 
China; 
(6) make publicly available, no later than 30 days from 
the date they are finalized, the reports of any new audits 
and on-site reviews conducted by the Secretary, and, in addi-
tion, when such audit or review is being conducted to determine 
whether the People’s Republic of China’s poultry inspection 
system achieves a level of sanitary protection equivalent to 
that achieved under United States standards, to make the 
final report of such audit or review publicly available no later 
than 30 days prior to the publication of any notice of proposed 
rulemaking for such determination; and 
(7) make publicly available a list of facilities in the People’s 
Republic of China certified to export poultry or poultry products 
to the United States and to notify the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations if the number of facilities cer-
tified by the People’s Republic of China exceeds ten. 
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used to promulgate any proposed or final rule allowing the importa-
tion into the United States of poultry slaughtered or poultry prod-
ucts produced from poultry slaughtered in the People’s Republic 
of China unless such rule is promulgated in accordance with the 
procedures for significant rules specified in Executive Order 12866. 
(c) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with 
United States obligations under its international trade agreements. 
SEC. 744. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to— 
(1) inspect horses under section 3 of the Federal Meat 
Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
(2) inspect horses under section 903 of the Federal Agri-
culture 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. 
SEC. 745. (a) Section 531(g)(7)(F) of the Federal Crop Insurance 
Act (7 U.S.C. 1531(g)(7)(F)) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting 
‘‘(including multiyear assistance)’’ after ‘‘assistance’’; and 
(2) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘or multiyear production 
losses’’ after ‘‘a production loss’’.