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and grants under the Rural Community Advancement 
Program for fiscal year 2006 to the same extent they were 
eligible for such assistance during the fiscal year 2005 
under section 106 of Chapter 1 of Division B of Public 
Law 108–324 (188 Stat. 1236). 
SEC. 762. Of the unobligated balances available in 
the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, 
Infants, and Children reserve account, $32,000,000 is 
hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 763. None of the funds provided by this Act 
shall be used to pay salaries and expenses and other costs 
associated with implementing or administering section 
508(e)(3) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
1501 et seq.) for the 2006 reinsurance year. 
SEC. 764. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act for the Food and Drug 
Administration may be used under section 801 of the Fed-
eral Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prevent an indi-
vidual not in the business of importing a prescription drug 
within the meaning of section 801(g) of such Act, whole-
salers, or pharmacists from importing a prescription drug 
which complies with sections 501, 502, and 505. 
SEC. 765. 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-
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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. 766. In addition to other amounts appropriated 
or otherwise made available by this Act, there is hereby 
appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture $7,000,000, 
of which not to exceed 5 percent may be available for ad-
ministrative expenses, to remain available until expended, 
to make specialty crop block grants under section 101 of 
the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (Public 
Law 108–465; 7 U.S.C. 1621 note). 
SEC. 767. It is the sense of Congress that the Sec-
retary of Agriculture should use the transfer authority 
provided by section 442 of the Plant Protection Act (7 
U.S.C. 7772) to implement the strategic plan developed 
by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for 
the eradication of Emerald Ash Borer in the States of 
Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. 
SEC. 768. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used— 
(1) to grant a waiver of a financial conflict of 
interest requirement pursuant to section 505(n)(4) 
of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for
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any voting member of an advisory committee or 
panel of the Food and Drug Administration; or 
(2)
to
make
a
certification
under
section 
208(b)(3) of title 18, United States Code, for any 
such voting member. 
SEC. 769. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
sonnel to inspect horses under section 3 of the Federal 
Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603) or under the guide-
lines issued under section 903 the Federal Agriculture Im-
provement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 1901 note; 
Public Law 104–127). 
SEC. 770. None of the funds made available by this 
Act to the Secretary of Agriculture may be used, after De-
cember 31, 2005, to purchase chickens, including chicken 
products, under the Richard B. Russell National School 
Lunch Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, unless the 
Secretary shall take into account whether such purchases 
are in compliance with standards relating to the whole-
someness of food for human consumption, pursuant to sec-
tion 14(d) of the Richard B. Russell National School 
Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1762a(d)). 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006’’.
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That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for Ag-
riculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year end-
ing September 30, 2006, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS 
PRODUCTION, PROCESSING AND MARKETING 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary 
of Agriculture, $5,127,000: Provided, That not to exceed 
$11,000 of this amount shall be available for official recep-
tion and representation expenses, not otherwise provided 
for, as determined by the Secretary. 
EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS 
CHIEF ECONOMIST 
For necessary expenses of the Chief Economist, includ-
ing economic analysis, risk assessment, cost-benefit anal-
ysis, energy and new uses, and the functions of the World 
Agricultural Outlook Board, as authorized by the Agricul-
tural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), $10,539,000. 
NATIONAL APPEALS DIVISION 
For necessary expenses of the National Appeals Divi-
sion, $14,524,000.
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OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Pro-
gram Analysis, $8,298,000. 
HOMELAND SECURITY STAFF 
For necessary expenses of the Homeland Security 
Staff, $1,166,000. 
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Infor-
mation Officer, $16,726,000. 
COMMON COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT 
For necessary expenses to acquire a Common Com-
puting Environment for the Natural Resources Conserva-
tion Service, the Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service, 
and Rural Development mission areas for information tech-
nology, systems, and services, $128,072,000, to remain 
available until expended, for the capital asset acquisition 
of shared information technology systems, including services 
as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 6915–16 and 40 U.S.C. 1421– 
28: Provided, That obligation of these funds shall be con-
sistent with the Department of Agriculture Service Center 
Modernization Plan of the county-based agencies, and shall 
be with the concurrence of the Department’s Chief Informa-
tion Officer. 
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Finan-
cial Officer, $5,874,000: Provided, That the Chief Financial
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Officer shall actively market and expand cross-servicing ac-
tivities of the National Finance Center: Provided further, 
That no funds made available by this appropriation may 
be obligated for FAIR Act or Circular A–76 activities until 
the Secretary has submitted to the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress and the Committee on 
Government Reform of the House of Representatives a re-
port on the Department’s contracting out policies, including 
agency budgets for contracting out. 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CIVIL 
RIGHTS 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, $821,000. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 
$20,109,000. 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR 
ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Administration, $676,000.
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AGRICULTURE BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES AND RENTAL 
PAYMENTS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For payment of space rental and related costs pursu-
ant to Public Law 92–313, including authorities pursuant 
to the 1984 delegation of authority from the Administrator 
of General Services to the Department of Agriculture under 
40 U.S.C. 486, for programs and activities of the Depart-
ment which are included in this Act, and for alterations 
and other actions needed for the Department and its agen-
cies to consolidate unneeded space into configurations suit-
able for release to the Administrator of General Services, 
and for the operation, maintenance, improvement, and re-
pair of Agriculture buildings and facilities, and for related 
costs, $187,734,000, to remain available until expended, as 
follows: for payments to the General Services Administra-
tion and the Department of Homeland Security for build-
ing security, $147,734,000, and for buildings operations 
and maintenance, $40,000,000: Provided, That amounts 
which are made available for space rental and related costs 
for the Department of Agriculture in this Act may be trans-
ferred between such appropriations to cover the costs of ad-
ditional, new, or replacement space 15 days after notice 
thereof is transmitted to the Appropriations Committees of 
both Houses of Congress.
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HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Department of Agri-
culture, to comply with the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 
9601 et seq.) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery 
Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), $12,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That appropriations and 
funds available herein to the Department for Hazardous 
Materials Management may be transferred to any agency 
of the Department for its use in meeting all requirements 
pursuant to the above Acts on Federal and non-Federal 
lands. 
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For Departmental Administration, $23,103,000, to 
provide for necessary expenses for management support 
services to offices of the Department and for general admin-
istration, security, repairs and alterations, and other mis-
cellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for 
and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the 
Department: Provided, That this appropriation shall be re-
imbursed from applicable appropriations in this Act for 
travel expenses incident to the holding of hearings as re-
quired by 5 U.S.C. 551–558.
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OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR 
CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations to carry out 
the programs funded by this Act, including programs in-
volving intergovernmental affairs and liaison within the ex-
ecutive branch, $3,846,000: Provided, That these funds may 
be transferred to agencies of the Department of Agriculture 
funded by this Act to maintain personnel at the agency 
level: Provided further, That no funds made available by 
this appropriation may be obligated after 30 days from the 
date of enactment of this Act, unless the Secretary has noti-
fied the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress on the allocation of these funds by USDA agency: 
Provided further, That no other funds appropriated to the 
Department by this Act shall be available to the Depart-
ment for support of activities of congressional relations. 
OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS 
For necessary expenses to carry out services relating 
to the coordination of programs involving public affairs, 
for the dissemination of agricultural information, and the 
coordination of information, work, and programs author-
ized by Congress in the Department, $9,509,000: Provided,
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That not to exceed $2,000,000 may be used for farmers’ bul-
letins. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
General, including employment pursuant to the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, $81,045,000, including such sums as 
may be necessary for contracting and other arrangements 
with public agencies and private persons pursuant to sec-
tion 6(a)(9) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, and in-
cluding not to exceed $125,000 for certain confidential oper-
ational expenses, including the payment of informants, to 
be expended under the direction of the Inspector General 
pursuant to Public Law 95–452 and section 1337 of Public 
Law 97–98. 
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General 
Counsel, $40,263,000. 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH, 
EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics 
to administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Eco-
nomic Research Service, the National Agricultural Statis-
tics Service, the Agricultural Research Service, and the Co-
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operative State Research, Education, and Extension Serv-
ice, $598,000. 
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Serv-
ice in conducting economic research and analysis, as au-
thorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 
U.S.C. 1621–1627) and other laws, $78,549,000. 
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural 
Statistics Service in conducting statistical reporting and 
service work, including crop and livestock estimates, statis-
tical coordination and improvements, marketing surveys, 
and the Census of Agriculture, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
1621–1627 and 2204g, and other laws, $145,159,000, of 
which up to $29,115,000 shall be available until expended 
for the Census of Agriculture. 
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Re-
search Service to perform agricultural research and dem-
onstration relating to production, utilization, marketing, 
and distribution (not otherwise provided for); home econom-
ics or nutrition and consumer use including the acquisition, 
preservation, and dissemination of agricultural informa-
tion; and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange,
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or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, and for 
land exchanges where the lands exchanged shall be of equal 
value or shall be equalized by a payment of money to the 
grantor which shall not exceed 25 percent of the total value 
of the land or interests transferred out of Federal ownership, 
$1,109,981,000: Provided, That appropriations hereunder 
shall be available for the operation and maintenance of air-
craft and the purchase of not to exceed one for replacement 
only: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall 
be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, 
alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements, but 
unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any one 
building shall not exceed $375,000, except for headhouses 
or greenhouses which shall each be limited to $1,200,000, 
and except for 10 buildings to be constructed or improved 
at a cost not to exceed $750,000 each, and the cost of alter-
ing any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 
10 percent of the current replacement value of the building 
or $375,000, whichever is greater: Provided further, That 
the limitations on alterations contained in this Act shall 
not apply to modernization or replacement of existing fa-
cilities at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, That ap-
propriations hereunder shall be available for granting ease-
ments at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Pro-
vided further, That the foregoing limitations shall not apply