(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent 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 Ac-
count’’ for carrying out the provisions described in sub-
section (a)(1) for management and oversight of the re-
quirements of this section. 
(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 re-
ceived 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 rec-
ognized Indian tribe. 
SEC. 735. 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 commu-
nicate to Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 
1913. 
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SEC. 736. Of the total amounts made available by 
this Act for direct loans and grants under the following 
headings: ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insur-
ance 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 Program 
Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural 
Business Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Coopera-
tive Service—Rural Economic Development Loans Pro-
gram Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service— 
Rural Cooperative Development Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Busi-
ness-Cooperative Service—Rural Microentrepreneur As-
sistance Program’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water 
and Waste Disposal Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities 
Service—Rural Electrification and Telecommunications 
Loans Program Account’’; and ‘‘Rural Utilities Service— 
Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Pro-
gram’’, to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 per-
cent of the funds shall be allocated for assistance in per-
sistent poverty counties under this section, including, not-
withstanding 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 
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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 measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial cen-
suses, and 2007–2011 American Community Survey 5- 
year average, or any territory or possession of the United 
States: Provided further, That with respect to specific ac-
tivities 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. 737. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowl-
edge receipt of a submission for an exemption for inves-
tigational 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 submis-
sion shall be deemed to have not been received by the Sec-
retary, and the exemption may not go into effect. 
SEC. 738. 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 enti-
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tled ‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, 
and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption,’’ and 
published on November 27, 2015, with respect to the regu-
lation of entities that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine 
grapes, hops, pulse crops, or almonds. 
SEC. 739. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2023, for a pilot 
program for the National Institute of Food and Agri-
culture to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for 
programs and services to establish and enhance farming 
and ranching opportunities for military veterans. 
SEC. 740. For school year 2022–2023, none of the 
funds made available by this Act may be used to imple-
ment 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 
substitution 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. 741. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used— 
(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Ag-
ricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940), subtitle G 
of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, or sec-
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tion 10114 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 
2018; or 
(2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, 
sale, or use of hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is 
grown or cultivated in accordance with section 7606 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940) or 
Subtitle G of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 
1946, within or outside the State in which the indus-
trial hemp is grown or cultivated. 
SEC. 742. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, for grants under sec-
tion 12502 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 743. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000 
to carry out section 1621 of Public Law 110–246. 
SEC. 744. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 
to carry out section 3307 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 745. The Secretary of Agriculture may waive 
the matching funds requirement under Section 412(g) of 
the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Re-
form Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(g)). 
SEC. 746. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, 
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 financial and legal services, 
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