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(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds nec-
essary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement agency 
or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, prosecution, 
or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 714. Notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 14222 of 
Public Law 110–246 (7 U.S.C. 612c–6; in this section referred to 
as ‘‘section 14222’’), none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
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 section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c; 
in this section referred to as ‘‘section 32’’) in excess of $1,299,600,000 
(exclusive of carryover appropriations from prior fiscal years), as 
follows: Child Nutrition Programs Entitlement Commodities— 
$485,000,000; State Option Contracts— $5,000,000; Removal of 
Defective Commodities— $2,500,000; Administration of Section 32 
Commodity Purchases—$35,853,000: Provided, That of the total 
funds made available in the matter preceding this proviso that 
remain unobligated on October 1, 2019, such unobligated balances 
shall carryover into fiscal year 2020 and shall remain available 
until expended for any of the purposes of section 32, except that 
any such carryover funds used in accordance with clause (3) of 
section 32 may not exceed $350,000,000 and may not be obligated 
until the Secretary of Agriculture provides written notification of 
the expenditures to the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress at least two weeks in advance: Provided further, 
That, with the exception of any available carryover funds authorized 
in any prior appropriations Act to be used for the purposes of 
clause (3) of section 32, 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 Department of 
Agriculture to carry out clause (3) of section 32. 
SEC. 715. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel 
who prepare or submit appropriations language as part of the 
President’s budget submission to the Congress for programs under 
the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects 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 conference for 
the fiscal year 2020 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 716. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 
by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this 
Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the cur-
rent fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury 
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 reimbursements as author-
ized 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, or the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services (as the case may be) notifies in writing and 
receives approval from the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance of the reprogram-
ming of such funds or the use of such authority. 
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 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 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 reprogramming or use of the 
authorities referred to in subsection (a) involving funds in excess 
of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that— 
(1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities; 
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any existing program, 
project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent 
as approved by Congress; or 
(3) results from any general savings from a reduction in 
personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, 
activities, or projects as approved by Congress; unless the Sec-
retary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services (as the case may be) notifies in writing and receives 
approval from the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance of the re-
programming or transfer of such funds or the use of such 
authority. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services shall notify in writing and receive approval 
from 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 program or activity is funded 
by this Act or specifically funded by any other Act. 
(d) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 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 derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this 
Act, shall be available for— 
(1) modifying major capital investments funding levels, 
including information technology systems, that involves 
increasing or decreasing funds in the current fiscal year for 
the individual investment in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent 
of the total cost, whichever is less; 
(2) realigning or reorganizing new, current, or vacant posi-
tions or agency activities or functions to establish a center, 
office, branch, or similar entity with five or more personnel; 
or 
(3) carrying out activities or functions that were not 
described in the budget request; unless the agencies funded
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by this Act notify, in writing, the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance of 
using the funds for these purposes. 
(e) As described in this section, no funds may be used for 
any activities unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services 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. 717. Notwithstanding section 310B(g)(5) of the Consoli-
dated 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. 718. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug 
Administration, or the Farm Credit Administration shall be used 
to transmit or otherwise make available reports, questions, or 
responses to questions that are a result of information requested 
for the appropriations hearing process to any non-Department of 
Agriculture, non-Department of Health and Human Services, or 
non-Farm Credit Administration employee. 
SEC. 719. 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 prepackaged news story intended 
for broadcast or distribution in the United States unless the story 
includes a clear notification within the text or audio of the pre-
packaged news story that the prepackaged news story was prepared 
or funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 720. No employee of the Department of Agriculture 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 60 days in a fiscal year 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. 721. For the purposes of determining eligibility or level 
of program assistance for Rural Development programs the Sec-
retary shall not include incarcerated prison populations. 
SEC. 722. 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, and the Chairman of the Farm 
Credit Administration shall submit to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress a detailed spending plan by 
program, project, and activity for all the funds made available 
under this Act including appropriated user fees, as defined in the 
joint explanatory statement accompanying this Act. 
SEC. 723. Of the unobligated balances from amounts made 
available for the supplemental nutrition program as authorized 
by section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), 
$500,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 724. The Secretary shall continue an intermediary loan 
packaging program based on the pilot program in effect for fiscal 
year 2013 for packaging and reviewing section 502 single family 
direct loans. The Secretary shall continue agreements with current 
intermediary organizations and with additional qualified inter-
mediary organizations. The Secretary shall work with these
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organizations to increase effectiveness of the section 502 single 
family direct loan program in rural communities and shall set 
aside and make available from the national reserve section 502 
loans an amount necessary to support the work of such inter-
mediaries and provide a priority for review of such loans. 
SEC. 725. 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 guarantees by not more than 25 
percent: Provided, That prior to the Secretary implementing such 
an increase, the Secretary notifies, in writing, the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 15 days 
in advance. 
SEC. 726. None of the credit card refunds or rebates transferred 
to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to section 729 of the Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 (7 U.S.C. 2235a; Public 
Law 107–76) shall be available for obligation without written 
notification to, and the prior approval of, the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress: Provided, That the refunds 
or rebates so transferred shall be available for obligation only 
for the acquisition of plant and capital equipment necessary for 
the delivery of financial, administrative, and information technology 
services of primary benefit to the agencies of the Department of 
Agriculture. 
SEC. 727. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to implement, administer, or enforce the ‘‘variety’’ require-
ments of the final rule entitled ‘‘Enhancing Retailer Standards 
in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)’’ pub-
lished by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register 
on December 15, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 90675) until the Secretary 
of Agriculture amends the definition of the term ‘‘variety’’ as de 
fined in section 278.1(b)(1)(ii)(C) of title 7, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, and ‘‘variety’’ as applied in the definition of the term ‘‘staple 
food’’ as defined in section 271.2 of title 7, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, to increase the number of items that qualify as acceptable 
varieties in each staple food category so that the total number 
of such items in each staple food category exceeds the number 
of such items in each staple food category included in the final 
rule as published on December 15, 2016: Provided, That until 
the Secretary promulgates such regulatory amendments, the Sec-
retary shall apply the requirements regarding acceptable varieties 
and breadth of stock to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program 
retailers that were in effect on the day before the date of the 
enactment of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79). 
SEC. 728. None of the funds made available by this Act or 
any other Act may be used— 
(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940); or 
(2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, sale, or use 
of industrial hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is grown or 
cultivated in accordance with subsection section 7606 of the 
Agricultural Act of 2014, within or outside the State in which 
the industrial hemp is grown or cultivated. 
SEC. 729. In carrying out subsection (h) of section 502 of the 
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472), the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall have the same authority with respect to loans guaranteed
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under such section and eligible lenders for such loans as the Sec-
retary has under subsections (h) and (j) of section 538 of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1490p–2) with respect to loans guaranteed under 
such section 538 and eligible lenders for such loans. 
SEC. 730. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to propose, promulgate, or implement any rule, or take 
any other action with respect to, allowing or requiring information 
intended for a prescribing health care professional, in the case 
of a drug or biological product subject to section 503(b)(1) of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 353(b)(1)), to 
be distributed to such professional electronically (in lieu of in paper 
form) unless and until a Federal law is enacted to allow or require 
such distribution. 
SEC. 731. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowledge receipt of 
a submission for an exemption for investigational use of a drug 
or biological product under section 505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 355(i)) or section 351(a)(3) of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)) in research in which 
a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include 
a heritable genetic modification. Any such submission shall be 
deemed to have not been received by the Secretary, and the exemp-
tion may not go into effect. 
SEC. 732. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used to carry out the final rule promulgated 
by the Food and Drug Administration and put into effect November 
16, 2015, in regards to the hazard analysis and risk-based preven-
tive control requirements of the current good manufacturing prac-
tice, hazard analysis, and risk-based preventive controls for food 
for animals rule with respect to the regulation of the production, 
distribution, sale, or receipt of dried spent grain byproducts of 
the alcoholic beverage production process. 
SEC. 733. 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 Administrator, 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 inappropriate purposes. 
SEC. 734. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Food 
and Nutrition Service, to commence any new research and evalua-
tion projects until the Secretary submits to the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress a research and evalua-
tion plan for fiscal year 2019, prepared in coordination with the 
Research, Education, and Economics mission area of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, and a period of 30 days beginning on the 
date of the submission of the plan expires to permit Congressional 
review of the plan. 
SEC. 735. There is hereby appropriated $10,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, to carry out section 6407 of the Farm 
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107a): Pro-
vided, That the Secretary may allow eligible entities, or comparable 
entities that provide energy efficiency services using their own 
billing mechanism to offer loans to customers in any part of their 
service territory and to offer loans to replace a manufactured
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housing unit with another manufactured housing unit, if replace-
ment would be more cost effective in saving energy. 
SEC. 736. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall— 
(1) conduct audits in a manner that evaluates the following 
factors in the country or region being audited, as applicable— 
(A) veterinary control and oversight; 
(B) disease history and vaccination practices; 
(C) livestock demographics and traceability; 
(D) epidemiological separation from potential sources 
of infection; 
(E) surveillance practices; 
(F) diagnostic laboratory capabilities; and 
(G) emergency preparedness and response; and 
(2) promptly make publicly available the final reports of 
any audits or reviews conducted pursuant to subsection (1). 
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with 
United States obligations under its international trade agreements. 
SEC. 737. No food that bears or contains partially hydrogenated 
oils (as defined in the order published by the Food and Drug 
Administration in the Federal Register on June 17, 2015 (80 Fed. 
Reg. 34650 et seq.)) shall be considered to be adulterated within 
the meaning of subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2)(C)(i) of section 402 of 
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 342(a)) because 
such food contains such partially hydrogenated oils until the 
applicable compliance dates specified by FDA in the Federal Reg-
ister on May 21, 2018 (83 Fed. Reg. 23358 et seq.). 
SEC. 738. For fiscal years 2019 through 2025, the Administra-
tors of the Agricultural Research Service and the Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service may make not to exceed 50 appointments 
in any fiscal year for employees of such agencies at the National 
Bio- and Agro-defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas: Pro-
vided, That such appointments may be made in the manner pro-
vided by 7 U.S.C. 7657(b)(4)(A)(i–v): Provided further, That such 
appointments may be made at a rate of basic pay that exceeds 
the rate payable for such positions under the General Schedule 
or other applicable schedule, as appropriate, but may not be more 
than the rate payable for a position at level I of the Executive 
Schedule, unless the rate is approved by the President under section 
5377(d)(2) of title 5. 
SEC. 739. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 for the Sec-
retary to carry out a pilot program that provides forestry inventory 
analysis, forest management and economic outcomes modelling for 
certain currently enrolled Conservation Reserve Program partici-
pants. The Secretary shall allow the Commodity Credit Corporation 
to enter into agreements with and provide grants to qualified non- 
profit organizations dedicated to conservation, forestry and wildlife 
habitats, that also have experience in conducting accurate forest 
inventory analysis through the use of advanced, cost-effective tech-
nology. The Secretary shall focus the analysis on lands enrolled 
for at least eight years and located in areas with a substantial 
concentration of acres enrolled under conservation practices devoted 
to multiple bottomland hardwood tree species including CP03, 
CP03A, CP11, CP22, CP31 and CP40. 
SEC. 740. In addition to amounts otherwise made available 
by this Act and notwithstanding the last sentence of 16 U.S.C. 
1310, there is appropriated $4,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, to implement non-renewable agreements on eligible
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lands, including flooded agricultural lands, as determined by the 
Secretary, under the Water Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301–1311). 
SEC. 741. There is hereby appropriated $1,996,000 to carry 
out section 1621 of Public Law 110–246. 
SEC. 742. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to carry out any activities or incur any expense related 
to the issuance of licenses under section 3 of the Animal Welfare 
Act (7 U.S.C. 2133), or the renewal of such licenses, to class B 
dealers who sell dogs and cats for use in research, experiments, 
teaching, or testing. 
SEC. 743. There is appropriated $6,000,000 to the Commodity 
Credit Corporation, in addition to amounts otherwise made avail-
able, for section 1110(f)(3) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 
U.S.C. 1736o(f)(3)). 
SEC. 744. (a)(1) No Federal funds made available for this fiscal 
year for the rural water, waste water, waste disposal, and solid 
waste management programs authorized by sections 306, 306A, 
306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926 et seq.) shall be used for a project 
for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public 
water or wastewater system unless all of the iron and steel products 
used in the project are produced in the United States. 
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ means 
the following products made primarily of iron or steel: lined or 
unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers and other municipal 
castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe clamps and restraints, 
valves, structural steel, reinforced precast concrete, and construc-
tion materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or category 
of cases in which the Secretary of Agriculture (in this section 
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee of the Secretary 
finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent with the 
public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in the United 
States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities or of 
a satisfactory quality; or 
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced in the 
United States will increase the cost of the overall project by 
more than 25 percent. 
(c) If the Secretary or the designee receives a request for 
a waiver under this section, the Secretary or the designee shall 
make available to the public on an informal basis a copy of the 
request and information available to the Secretary or the designee 
concerning the request, and shall allow for informal public input 
on the request for at least 15 days prior to making a finding 
based on the request. The Secretary or the designee shall make 
the request and accompanying information available by electronic 
means, including on the official public Internet Web site of the 
Department. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with 
United States obligations under international agreements. 
(e) The Secretary may retain up to 0.25 percent of the funds 
appropriated in this Act for ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water 
and Waste Disposal Program Account’’ for carrying out the provi-
sions described in subsection (a)(1) for management and oversight 
of the requirements of this section.
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(f) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a project 
for which the engineering plans and specifications include use of 
iron and steel products otherwise prohibited by such subsection 
if the plans and specifications have received required approvals 
from State agencies prior to the date of enactment of this Act. 
(g) For purposes of this section, the terms ‘‘United States’’ 
and ‘‘State’’ shall include each of the several States, the District 
of Columbia, and each federally recognized Indian tribe. 
SEC. 745. The Secretary shall set aside for Rural Economic 
Area Partnership (REAP) Zones, until August 15, 2019, an amount 
of funds made available in title III under the headings of Rural 
Housing Insurance Fund Program Account, Mutual and Self-Help 
Housing Grants, Rural Housing Assistance Grants, Rural Commu-
nity Facilities Program Account, Rural Business Program Account, 
Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account, and Rural Water 
and Waste Disposal Program Account, equal to the amount obli-
gated in REAP Zones with respect to funds provided under such 
headings in the most recent fiscal year any such funds were obli-
gated under such headings for REAP Zones. 
SEC. 746. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, for a pilot program for the Secretary 
to provide grants to qualified non-profit organizations and public 
housing authorities to provide technical assistance, including finan-
cial and legal services, to RHS multi-family housing borrowers 
to facilitate the acquisition of RHS multi-family housing properties 
in areas where the Secretary determines a risk of loss of affordable 
housing, by non-profit housing organizations and public housing 
authorities as authorized by law that commit to keep such prop-
erties in the RHS multi-family housing program for a period of 
time as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 747. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional 
action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before 
Congress, other than to communicate to Members of Congress as 
described in 18 U.S.C. 1913. 
SEC. 748. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this 
section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall carry out a pilot program during 
fiscal year 2019 with respect to the 2018 crop year for county- 
level agriculture risk coverage payments under section 1117(b)(1) 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017(b)(1)), that provides 
all or some of the State Farm Service Agency offices in each State 
the opportunity to provide agricultural producers in the State a 
supplemental payment described in subsection (c) based on the 
alternate calculation method described in subsection (b) for 1 or 
more counties in a State if the office for that State determines 
that the alternate calculation method is necessary to ensure that, 
to the maximum extent practicable, there are not significant yield 
calculation disparities between comparable counties in the State. 
(b) The alternate calculation method referred to in subsection 
(a) is a method of calculating the actual yield for the 2018 crop 
year for county-level agriculture risk coverage payments under sec-
tion 1117(b)(1) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017(b)(1)), 
under which— 
(1) county data of the National Agricultural Statistics 
Service (referred to in this section as ‘‘NASS data’’) is used 
for the calculations;
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(2) if there is insufficient NASS data for a county (as 
determined under standards of the Secretary in effect as of 
the date of enactment of this Act) or the available NASS data 
produces a substantially disparate result, the calculation of 
the county yield is determined using comparable contiguous 
county NASS data as determined by the Farm Service Agency 
office in the applicable State; and 
(3) if there is insufficient NASS data for a comparable 
contiguous county (as determined under standards of the Sec-
retary in effect as of the date of enactment of this Act), the 
calculation of the county yield is determined using reliable 
yield data from other sources, such as Risk Management Agency 
data, National Agricultural Statistics Service district data, 
National Agricultural Statistics Service State yield data, or 
other data as determined by the Farm Service Agency office 
in the applicable State. 
(c)(1) A supplemental payment made under the pilot program 
established under this section may be made to an agricultural 
producer who is subject to the alternate calculation method 
described in subsection (b) if that agricultural producer would other-
wise receive a county-level agriculture risk coverage payment for 
the 2018 crop year in an amount that is less than the payment 
that the agricultural producer would receive under the alternate 
calculation method. 
(2) The amount of a supplemental payment to an agricultural 
producer under this section may not exceed the difference between— 
(A) the payment that the agricultural producer would have 
received without the alternate calculation method described 
in subsection (b); and 
(B) the payment that the agricultural producer would 
receive using the alternate calculation method. 
(d)(1) There is appropriated to the Secretary, out of funds 
of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $5,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2020, to carry out the pilot program 
described in this section. 
(2) Of the funds appropriated, the Secretary shall use not 
more than $5,000,000 to carry out the pilot program described 
in this section. 
(e)(1) To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall 
select States to participate in the pilot program under this section 
so the cost of the pilot program equals the amount provided under 
subsection (d). 
(2) To the extent that the cost of the pilot program exceeds 
the amount made available, the Secretary shall reduce all payments 
under the pilot program on a pro rata basis. 
(f) Nothing in this section affects the calculation of actual 
yield for purposes of county-level agriculture risk coverage payments 
under section 1117(b)(1) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 
9017(b)(1)) other than payments made in accordance with the pilot 
program under this section. 
(g) A calculation of actual yield made using the alternate cal-
culation method described in subsection (b) shall not be used as 
a basis for any agriculture risk coverage payment determinations 
under section 1117 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017) 
other than for purposes of the pilot program under this section. 
SEC. 749. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to procure raw or processed poultry products imported
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into the United States from the People’s Republic of China for 
use in the school lunch program under the Richard B. Russell 
National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), the Child 
and Adult Care Food Program under section 17 of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 1766), the Summer Food Service Program for Children under 
section 13 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761), or the school breakfast 
program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 
et seq.). 
SEC. 750. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel— 
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the Federal Meat 
Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
(2) to 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) to implement or enforce section 352.19 of title 9, Code 
of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation). 
SEC. 751. In response to an eligible community where the 
drinking water supplies are inadequate due to a natural disaster, 
as determined by the Secretary, including drought or severe 
weather, the Secretary may provide potable water through the 
Emergency Community Water Assistance Grant Program for an 
additional period of time not to exceed 120 days beyond the estab-
lished period provided under the Program in order to protect public 
health. 
SEC. 752. Of the total amounts made available by this Act 
for direct loans and grants in the following headings: ‘‘Rural 
Housing 
Service—Rural 
Housing 
Insurance 
Fund 
Program 
Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Mutual and Self-Help Housing 
Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Assistance 
Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Community Facilities Pro-
gram Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Busi-
ness Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service— 
Rural Economic Development Loans Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural 
Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Cooperative Development 
Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal 
Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Electrification 
and Telecommunications Loans Program Account’’; and ‘‘Rural Utili-
ties Service—Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Pro-
gram’’, to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 percent of 
the funds shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty 
counties under this section, including, notwithstanding any other 
provision regarding population limits, any county seat of such a 
persistent poverty county that has a population that does not exceed 
the authorized population limit by more than 10 percent: Provided, 
That for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘persistent poverty 
counties’’ means any county that has had 20 percent or more 
of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as meas-
ured by the 1980, 1990, and 2000 decennial censuses, and 2007– 
2011 American Community Survey 5-year average: Provided fur-
ther, That with respect to specific activities for which program 
levels have been made available by this Act that are not supported 
by budget authority, the requirements of this section shall be 
applied to such program level. 
SEC. 753. (a) No funds shall be used to finalize the proposed 
rule entitled ‘‘Eligibility of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
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to Export to the United States Poultry Products from Birds Slaugh-
tered in the PRC’’ published in the Federal Register by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture on June 16, 2017 (82 Fed. Reg. 27625), unless 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall— 
(1) ensure that the poultry slaughter inspection system 
for the PRC is equivalent to that of the United States; 
(2) ensure that, before any poultry products can enter 
the United States from any such poultry plant, such poultry 
products comply with all other applicable requirements for 
poultry products in interstate commerce in the United States; 
(3) conduct periodic verification reviews and audits of any 
such plants in the PRC intending to export into the United 
States processed poultry products; 
(4) conduct re-inspection of such poultry products at United 
States ports-of-entry to check the general condition of such 
products, for the proper certification and labeling of such prod-
ucts, and for any damage to such products that may have 
occurred during transportation; and 
(5) ensure that shipments of any such poultry products 
selected to enter the United States are subject to additional 
re-inspection procedures at appropriate levels to verify that 
the products comply with relevant Federal regulations or stand-
ards, including examinations for product defects and laboratory 
analyses to detect harmful chemical residues or pathogen 
testing appropriate for the products involved. 
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with 
obligations of the United States under any trade agreement to 
which the United States is a party. 
SEC. 754. In addition to any other funds made available in 
this Act or any other Act, there is appropriated $5,000,000 to 
carry out section 18(g)(8) of the Richard B. Russell National School 
Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769(g)), to remain available until expended. 
SEC. 755. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used by the Food and Drug Administration to develop, issue, 
promote, or advance any regulations applicable to food manufactur-
ers for population-wide sodium reduction actions or to develop, 
issue, promote or advance final guidance applicable to food manufac-
turers for long term population-wide sodium reduction actions until 
the date on which a dietary reference intake report with respect 
to sodium is completed. 
SEC. 756. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2020, for the cost of loans and grants 
that is consistent with section 4206 of the Agricultural Act of 
2014, for necessary expenses of the Secretary to support projects 
that provide access to healthy food in underserved areas, to create 
and preserve quality jobs, and to revitalize low-income communities. 
SEC. 757. For an additional amount for ‘‘Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service—Salaries and Expenses’’, $8,500,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2020, for one-time control 
and management and associated activities directly related to the 
multiple-agency response to citrus greening. 
SEC. 758. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used to enforce the final rule promulgated by 
the Food and Drug Administration entitled ‘‘Standards for the 
Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human 
Consumption,’’ and published on November 27, 2015, with respect 
to the regulation of the production, distribution, sale, or receipt
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of grape varietals that are grown, harvested and used solely for 
wine and receive commercial processing that adequately reduces 
the presence of microorganisms of public health significance. 
SEC. 759. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to revoke an exception made— 
(1) pursuant to the final rule of the Department of Agri-
culture entitled ‘‘Exceptions to Geographic Areas for Official 
Agencies Under the USGSA’’ (68 Fed. Reg. 19137 (April 18, 
2003)); and 
(2) on a date before April 14, 2017. 
SEC. 760. For school year 2019–2020, only a school food 
authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit school food 
service account as of December 31, 2018, shall be required to 
establish a price for paid lunches in accordance with Section 12(p) 
of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, 42 U.S.C. 
1760(p). 
SEC. 761. There is hereby appropriated $16,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, for an additional amount for telemedicine 
and distance learning services in rural areas, as authorized by 
7 U.S.C. 950aaa et seq., to help address the opioid epidemic in 
rural America. 
SEC. 762. (a) There is hereby appropriated $125,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for an additional amount for Sec. 
779 of Public Law 115–141. 
(b) Section 313 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as 
amended (7 U.S.C. 940c), shall be applied for fiscal year 2019 
and each fiscal year thereafter until the specified funding has 
been expended as if the following were inserted after the final 
period in subsection (b)(2): ‘‘In addition, the Secretary shall use 
$425,000,000 of funds available in this subaccount in fiscal year 
2019 for an additional amount for the same purpose and under 
the same terms and conditions as funds appropriated by Sec. 779 
of Public Law 115–141.’’: Provided, That any use of such funds 
shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 716 
of this Act. 
SEC. 763. For an additional amount for the cost of direct loans 
and grants made under the ‘‘Rural Water and Waste Disposal 
Program Account’’, $75,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
SEC. 764. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2020, for a pilot program for the 
National Institute of Food and Agriculture to provide grants to 
nonprofit organizations for programs and services to establish and 
enhance farming and ranching opportunities for military veterans. 
SEC. 765. Not later than September 30, 2019, the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services shall finalize the draft guidance 
for industry entitled ‘‘Bacterial Risk Control Strategies for Blood 
Collection Establishments and Transfusion Services to Enhance 
the Safety and Availability of Platelets for Transfusion’’ issued 
by the Food and Drug Administration in March of 2016. 
SEC. 766. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this section, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit 
a report to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress that includes a summary of the process used in estab-
lishing the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans published 
pursuant to section 301 of the National Nutrition Monitoring and 
Related Research Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5341) and an explanation 
with respect to the decision to incorporate or exclude in such Dietary
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Guidelines for Americans recommendations from the report by the 
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine entitled 
‘‘Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines 
for Americans’’ and issued September, 2017. 
SEC. 767. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be used to implement, administer, or enforce the requirement in 
the final rule entitled ‘‘Food Labeling: Revision of the Nutrition 
and Supplement Facts Labels’’, published in the Federal Register 
on May 27, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 33742), that any single ingredient 
sugar, honey, agave, or syrup (including maple syrup) that is pack-
aged and offered for sale as a single ingredient food bear the 
declaration ‘‘Includes ‘X’g Added Sugars’’. 
SEC. 768. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to implement or enforce the matter following the first 
comma in the second sentence of footnote (c) of section 220.8(c) 
of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, with respect to the substi-
tution of vegetables for fruits under the school breakfast program 
established under section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 
(42 U.S.C. 1773). 
SEC. 769. The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide to any 
State or county impacted by a volcanic eruption covered by a 
major disaster declared by the President in calendar year 2018 
in accordance with section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170) technical 
assistance— 
(1) to assess damage to agricultural production and rural 
infrastructure; and 
(2) to develop recovery plans for impacted farmers, 
ranchers, and rural communities. 
SEC. 770. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture, in coordination 
with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, shall establish a working group (referred to in 
this section as the ‘‘working group’’)— 
(1) to study how mangroves, kelp forests, tidal marshes, 
and seagrass meadows could help deacidify the oceans; 
(2) to study emerging ocean farming practices that use 
kelp and seagrass to deacidify the oceans while providing feed-
stock for agriculture and other commercial and industrial 
inputs; and 
(3) to coordinate and conduct research to develop and 
enhance pilot-scale research for farming of kelp and seagrass 
in order— 
(A) to deacidify ocean environments; 
(B) to produce a feedstock for agriculture; and 
(C) to develop other scalable commercial applications 
for kelp, seagrass, or products derived from kelp or 
seagrass. 
(b) The working group shall include— 
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture; 
(2) the Administrator of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration; 
(3) representatives of any relevant offices within the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and 
(4) the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency 
and Renewable Energy.
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(c) Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the working group shall submit to Congress a report that 
includes— 
(1) the findings of the research described in subsection 
(a); 
(2) the results of the pilot-scale research described in sub-
section (a)(3); and 
(3) any policy recommendations based on those findings 
and results. 
SEC. 771. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to Congress 
a report describing the ways in which conservation programs 
administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service may 
be better used for the conservation of ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) 
and any action taken by the Chief of the Natural Resources Con-
servation Service relating to the conservation of ocelots. 
SEC. 772. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Rural Housing Service of the Department of Agri-
culture shall submit to Congress a report including— 
(1) a description of— 
(A) the number of properties assisted under title V 
of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1471 et seq.) that 
are reaching the end of their loan term; 
(B) the location of each property described in subpara-
graph (A); 
(C) the number of units in each property described 
in subparagraph (A); and 
(D) the date on which each the loan for each property 
described in subparagraph (A) is expected to reach matu-
rity; 
(2) the strategy of the Rural Housing Service to preserve 
the long-term affordability of the properties described in para-
graph (1)(A) when the loan matures; and 
(3) a description of the resources and tools that the Rural 
Housing Service needs from Congress in order to preserve 
the long-term affordability of the properties described in para-
graph (1) (A). 
SEC. 773. Out of amounts appropriated to the Food and Drug 
Administration under title VI, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, 
shall, not later than July 1, 2019, and following the review required 
under Executive Order 12866 (5 U.S.C. 601 note; relating to regu-
latory planning and review), issue advice revising the advice pro-
vided in the notice of availability entitled ‘‘Advice About Eating 
Fish, From the Environmental Protection Agency and Food and 
Drug Administration; Revised Fish Advice; Availability’’ (82 Fed. 
Reg. 6571 (January 19, 2017)), in a manner that is consistent 
with nutrition science recognized by the Food and Drug Administra-
tion on the net effects of seafood consumption. 
SEC. 774. In addition to any funds made available in this 
Act or any other Act, there is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2020, for grants from 
the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to the 1890 Institu-
tions to support the Centers of Excellence. 
SEC. 775. Section 6(e)(1)(B) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1755(e)(1)(B)) is amended by striking 
‘‘September 30, 2020’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2018’’.