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title C of title I of the 1990 Act to the National Service 
Trust upon determination that such transfer is necessary 
to support the activities of national service participants 
and after notice is transmitted to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate: 
Provided further, That amounts appropriated for or trans-
ferred to the National Service Trust may be invested under 
section 145(b) of the 1990 Act without regard to the require-
ment to apportion funds under 31 U.S.C. 1513(b). 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of administration as provided 
under section 501(a)(5) of the 1990 Act and under section 
504(a) of the 1973 Act, including payment of salaries, au-
thorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental 
of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, the employ-
ment of experts and consultants authorized under 5 U.S.C. 
3109, and not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and 
representation expenses, $83,737,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
$5,750,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. CNCS shall make any significant changes 
to program requirements, service delivery or policy only
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through public notice and comment rulemaking. For fiscal 
year 2020, during any grant selection process, an officer 
or employee of CNCS shall not knowingly disclose any cov-
ered grant selection information regarding such selection, 
directly or indirectly, to any person other than an officer 
or employee of CNCS that is authorized by CNCS to receive 
such information. 
SEC. 402. AmeriCorps programs receiving grants 
under the National Service Trust program shall meet an 
overall minimum share requirement of 24 percent for the 
first 3 years that they receive AmeriCorps funding, and 
thereafter shall meet the overall minimum share require-
ment as provided in section 2521.60 of title 45, Code of 
Federal Regulations, without regard to the operating costs 
match requirement in section 121(e) or the member support 
Federal share limitations in section 140 of the 1990 Act, 
and subject to partial waiver consistent with section 
2521.70 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 403. Donations made to CNCS under section 196 
of the 1990 Act for the purposes of financing programs and 
operations under titles I and II of the 1973 Act or subtitle 
B, C, D, or E of title I of the 1990 Act shall be used to 
supplement and not supplant current programs and oper-
ations.
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SEC. 404. In addition to the requirements in section 
146(a) of the 1990 Act, use of an educational award for 
the purpose described in section 148(a)(4) shall be limited 
to individuals who are veterans as defined under section 
101 of the Act. 
SEC. 405. For the purpose of carrying out section 
189D of the 1990 Act— 
(1) entities described in paragraph (a) of such 
section shall be considered ‘‘qualified entities’’ under 
section 3 of the National Child Protection Act of 1993 
(‘‘NCPA’’); 
(2) individuals described in such section shall be 
considered ‘‘volunteers’’ under section 3 of NCPA; and 
(3) State Commissions on National and Commu-
nity Service established pursuant to section 178 of the 
1990 Act, are authorized to receive criminal history 
record information, consistent with Public Law 92– 
544. 
SEC. 406. Notwithstanding sections 139(b), 146 and 
147 of the 1990 Act, an individual who successfully com-
pletes a term of service of not less than 1,200 hours during 
a period of not more than one year may receive a national 
service education award having a value of 70 percent of 
the value of a national service education award determined 
under section 147(a) of the Act.
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CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING 
For payment to the Corporation for Public Broad-
casting (‘‘CPB’’), as authorized by the Communications Act 
of 1934, an amount which shall be available within limita-
tions specified by that Act, for the fiscal year 2022, 
$465,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds made avail-
able to CPB by this Act shall be used to pay for receptions, 
parties, or similar forms of entertainment for Government 
officials or employees: Provided further, That none of the 
funds made available to CPB by this Act shall be available 
or used to aid or support any program or activity from 
which any person is excluded, or is denied benefits, or is 
discriminated against, on the basis of race, color, national 
origin, religion, or sex: Provided further, That none of the 
funds made available to CPB by this Act shall be used to 
apply any political test or qualification in selecting, ap-
pointing, promoting, or taking any other personnel action 
with respect to officers, agents, and employees of CPB. 
In addition, for the costs associated with replacing and 
upgrading the public broadcasting interconnection system 
and other technologies and services that create infrastruc-
ture and efficiencies within the public media system, 
$20,000,000.
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FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and 
Conciliation Service (‘‘Service’’) to carry out the functions 
vested in it by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; for expenses nec-
essary for the Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978; 
and for expenses necessary for the Service to carry out the 
functions vested in it by the Civil Service Reform Act, 
$47,200,000, including up to $900,000 to remain available 
through September 30, 2021, for activities authorized by the 
Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978: Provided, 
That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, fees charged, up to 
full-cost recovery, for special training activities and other 
conflict resolution services and technical assistance, includ-
ing those provided to foreign governments and international 
organizations, and for arbitration services shall be credited 
to and merged with this account, and shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That fees for arbitra-
tion services shall be available only for education, training, 
and professional development of the agency workforce: Pro-
vided further, That the Director of the Service is authorized 
to accept and use on behalf of the United States gifts of 
services and real, personal, or other property in the aid of 
any projects or functions within the Director’s jurisdiction.
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FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW 
COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine Safety 
and Health Review Commission, $17,184,000. 
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES 
OFFICE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS AND 
ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out the Museum and Library Services 
Act of 1996 and the National Museum of African American 
History and Culture Act, $252,000,000. 
MEDICAID AND CHIP PAYMENT AND ACCESS COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1900 of the 
Social Security Act, $8,780,000. 
MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1805 of the 
Social Security Act, $12,545,000, to be transferred to this 
appropriation from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 
Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance 
Trust Fund.
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NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Council on 
Disability as authorized by title IV of the Rehabilitation 
Act of 1973, $3,350,000. 
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Labor Rela-
tions Board to carry out the functions vested in it by the 
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and other laws, 
$274,224,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation 
shall be available to organize or assist in organizing agri-
cultural laborers or used in connection with investigations, 
hearings, directives, or orders concerning bargaining units 
composed of agricultural laborers as referred to in section 
2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935, and as amended by the 
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and as defined in 
section 3(f) of the Act of June 25, 1938, and including in 
said definition employees engaged in the maintenance and 
operation of ditches, canals, reservoirs, and waterways 
when maintained or operated on a mutual, nonprofit basis 
and at least 95 percent of the water stored or supplied there-
by is used for farming purposes.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 407. None of the funds provided by this Act or 
previous Acts making appropriations for the National 
Labor Relations Board may be used to issue any new ad-
ministrative directive or regulation that would provide em-
ployees any means of voting through any electronic means 
in an election to determine a representative for the purposes 
of collective bargaining. 
NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
the Railway Labor Act, including emergency boards ap-
pointed by the President, $14,050,000. 
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW 
COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety 
and Health Review Commission, $13,225,000. 
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 
DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT 
For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account, 
authorized under section 15(d) of the Railroad Retirement 
Act of 1974, $16,000,000, which shall include amounts be-
coming available in fiscal year 2020 pursuant to section 
224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 98–76; and in addition, an
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amount, not to exceed 2 percent of the amount provided 
herein, shall be available proportional to the amount by 
which the product of recipients and the average benefit re-
ceived exceeds the amount available for payment of vested 
dual benefits: Provided, That the total amount provided 
herein shall be credited in 12 approximately equal amounts 
on the first day of each month in the fiscal year. 
FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT 
ACCOUNTS 
For payment to the accounts established in the Treas-
ury for the payment of benefits under the Railroad Retire-
ment Act for interest earned on unnegotiated checks, 
$150,000, to remain available through September 30, 2021, 
which shall be the maximum amount available for payment 
pursuant to section 417 of Public Law 98–76. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for the Railroad Retirement 
Board (‘‘Board’’) for administration of the Railroad Retire-
ment Act and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, 
$123,500,000, to be derived in such amounts as determined 
by the Board from the railroad retirement accounts and 
from moneys credited to the railroad unemployment insur-
ance administration fund: Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 7(b)(9) of the Railroad Retirement Act this limita-
tion may be used to hire attorneys only through the excepted
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service: Provided further, That the previous proviso shall 
not change the status under Federal employment laws of 
any attorney hired by the Railroad Retirement Board prior 
to January 1, 2013: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 7(b)(9) of the Railroad Retirement Act, 
this limitation may be used to hire students attending 
qualifying educational institutions or individuals who have 
recently completed qualifying educational programs using 
current excepted hiring authorities established by the Office 
of 
Personnel 
Management: 
Provided 
further, 
That 
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
used to supplement, not supplant, existing resources devoted 
to operations and improvements for the Board’s Informa-
tion Technology Investment Initiatives. 
LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral for audit, investigatory and review activities, as au-
thorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, not more 
than $11,000,000, to be derived from the railroad retire-
ment accounts and railroad unemployment insurance ac-
count. 
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
PAYMENTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS 
For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors In-
surance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance
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Trust Fund, as provided under sections 201(m) and 
1131(b)(2) of the Social Security Act, $11,000,000. 
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM 
For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Secu-
rity Act, section 401 of Public Law 92–603, section 212 
of Public Law 93–66, as amended, and section 405 of Public 
Law 95–216, including payment to the Social Security 
trust funds for administrative expenses incurred pursuant 
to 
section 
201(g)(1) 
of 
the 
Social 
Security 
Act, 
$41,714,889,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That any portion of the funds provided to a State 
in the current fiscal year and not obligated by the State 
during that year shall be returned to the Treasury: Pro-
vided further, That not more than $101,000,000 shall be 
available for research and demonstrations under sections 
1110, 1115, and 1144 of the Social Security Act, and re-
main available through September 30, 2022. 
For making, after June 15 of the current fiscal year, 
benefit payments to individuals under title XVI of the So-
cial Security Act, for unanticipated costs incurred for the 
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary. 
For making benefit payments under title XVI of the 
Social Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2021, 
$19,900,000,000, to remain available until expended.
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LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including the hire of two pas-
senger motor vehicles, and not to exceed $20,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses, not more than 
$12,739,945,000 may be expended, as authorized by section 
201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, from any one or all 
of the trust funds referred to in such section: Provided, That 
not less than $2,500,000 shall be for the Social Security 
Advisory Board: Provided further, That $45,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended for information technology 
modernization, including related hardware and software 
infrastructure and equipment, and for administrative ex-
penses directly associated with information technology mod-
ernization: Provided further, That $100,000,000 shall re-
main available through September 30, 2021, for activities 
to address the disability hearings backlog within the Office 
of Hearings Operations: Provided further, That unobligated 
balances of funds provided under this paragraph at the end 
of fiscal year 2020 not needed for fiscal year 2020 shall 
remain available until expended to invest in the Social Se-
curity Administration information technology and tele-
communications hardware and software infrastructure, in-
cluding related equipment and non-payroll administrative 
expenses associated solely with this information technology 
and telecommunications infrastructure: Provided further,
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That the Commissioner of Social Security shall notify the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate prior to making unobligated balances 
available under the authority in the previous proviso: Pro-
vided further, That reimbursement to the trust funds under 
this heading for expenditures for official time for employees 
of the Social Security Administration pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 
7131, and for facilities or support services for labor organi-
zations pursuant to policies, regulations, or procedures re-
ferred to in section 7135(b) of such title shall be made by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, with interest, from amounts 
in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, as soon as 
possible after such expenditures are made. 
Of the total amount made available in the first para-
graph under this heading, not more than $1,582,000,000, 
to remain available through March 31, 2021, is for the costs 
associated with continuing disability reviews under titles 
II and XVI of the Social Security Act, including work-re-
lated continuing disability reviews to determine whether 
earnings derived from services demonstrate an individual’s 
ability to engage in substantial gainful activity, for the cost 
associated with conducting redeterminations of eligibility 
under title XVI of the Social Security Act, for the cost of 
co-operative disability investigation units, and for the cost 
associated with the prosecution of fraud in the programs
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and operations of the Social Security Administration by 
Special Assistant United States Attorneys: Provided, That, 
of such amount, $273,000,000 is provided to meet the terms 
of section 251(b)(2)(B)(ii)(III) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, and 
$1,309,000,000 is additional new budget authority specified 
for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(B) of such Act: Provided 
further, That, of the additional new budget authority de-
scribed in the preceding proviso, up to $10,000,000 may 
be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’, Social 
Security Administration, for the cost of jointly operated co- 
operative disability investigation units: Provided further, 
That such transfer authority is in addition to any other 
transfer authority provided by law: Provided further, That 
the Commissioner shall provide to the Congress (at the con-
clusion of the fiscal year) a report on the obligation and 
expenditure of these funds, similar to the reports that were 
required by section 103(d)(2) of Public Law 104–121 for 
fiscal years 1996 through 2002. 
In addition, $130,000,000 to be derived from adminis-
tration fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary payment 
collected pursuant to section 1616(d) of the Social Security 
Act or section 212(b)(3) of Public Law 93–66, which shall 
remain available until expended: Provided, That to the ex-
tent that the amounts collected pursuant to such sections
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in fiscal year 2020 exceed $130,000,000, the amounts shall 
be available in fiscal year 2021 only to the extent provided 
in advance in appropriations Acts. 
In addition, up to $1,000,000 to be derived from fees 
collected pursuant to section 303(c) of the Social Security 
Protection Act, which shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, $30,000,000, together with not to exceed 
$75,500,000, to be transferred and expended as authorized 
by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act from the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and 
the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund. 
In addition, an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the 
total provided in this appropriation may be transferred 
from the ‘‘Limitation on Administrative Expenses’’, Social 
Security Administration, to be merged with this account, 
to be available for the time and purposes for which this 
account is available: Provided, That notice of such transfers 
shall be transmitted promptly to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
at least 15 days in advance of any transfer.
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TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 501. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education are authorized to transfer 
unexpended balances of prior appropriations to accounts 
corresponding to current appropriations provided in this 
Act. Such transferred balances shall be used for the same 
purpose, and for the same periods of time, for which they 
were originally appropriated. 
SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 503. (a) No part of any appropriation contained 
in this Act or transferred pursuant to section 4002 of Public 
Law 111–148 shall be used, other than for normal and rec-
ognized executive-legislative relationships, for publicity or 
propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or 
use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, electronic 
communication, radio, television, or video presentation de-
signed to support or defeat the enactment of legislation be-
fore the Congress or any State or local legislature or legisla-
tive body, except in presentation to the Congress or any 
State or local legislature itself, or designed to support or 
defeat any proposed or pending regulation, administrative
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action, or order issued by the executive branch of any State 
or local government, except in presentation to the executive 
branch of any State or local government itself. 
(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act or transferred pursuant to section 4002 of Public Law 
111–148 shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any 
grant or contract recipient, or agent acting for such recipi-
ent, related to any activity designed to influence the enact-
ment of legislation, appropriations, regulation, administra-
tive action, or Executive order proposed or pending before 
the Congress or any State government, State legislature or 
local legislature or legislative body, other than for normal 
and recognized executive-legislative relationships or partici-
pation by an agency or officer of a State, local or tribal 
government in policymaking and administrative processes 
within the executive branch of that government. 
(c) The prohibitions in subsections (a) and (b) shall 
include any activity to advocate or promote any proposed, 
pending or future Federal, State or local tax increase, or 
any proposed, pending, or future requirement or restriction 
on any legal consumer product, including its sale or mar-
keting, including but not limited to the advocacy or pro-
motion of gun control. 
SEC. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education are 
authorized to make available not to exceed $28,000 and
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$20,000, respectively, from funds available for salaries and 
expenses under titles I and III, respectively, for official re-
ception and representation expenses; the Director of the 
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is authorized 
to make available for official reception and representation 
expenses not to exceed $5,000 from the funds available for 
‘‘Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Salaries and 
Expenses’’; and the Chairman of the National Mediation 
Board is authorized to make available for official reception 
and representation expenses not to exceed $5,000 from funds 
available for ‘‘National Mediation Board, Salaries and Ex-
penses’’. 
SEC. 505. When issuing statements, press releases, re-
quests for proposals, bid solicitations and other documents 
describing projects or programs funded in whole or in part 
with Federal money, all grantees receiving Federal funds 
included in this Act, including but not limited to State and 
local governments and recipients of Federal research grants, 
shall clearly state— 
(1) the percentage of the total costs of the pro-
gram or project which will be financed with Federal 
money; 
(2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the 
project or program; and
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(3) percentage and dollar amount of the total 
costs of the project or program that will be financed 
by non-governmental sources. 
SEC. 506. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 
Act, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds 
are appropriated in this Act, shall be expended for any 
abortion. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated in this Act, and 
none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are 
appropriated in this Act, shall be expended for health bene-
fits coverage that includes coverage of abortion. 
(c) The term ‘‘health benefits coverage’’ means the 
package of services covered by a managed care provider or 
organization pursuant to a contract or other arrangement. 
SEC. 507. (a) The limitations established in the pre-
ceding section shall not apply to an abortion— 
(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of 
rape or incest; or 
(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a 
physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, 
including a life-endangering physical condition 
caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that 
would, as certified by a physician, place the woman 
in danger of death unless an abortion is performed.
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(b) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed 
as prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, 
or private person of State, local, or private funds (other 
than a State’s or locality’s contribution of Medicaid match-
ing funds). 
(c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed 
as restricting the ability of any managed care provider 
from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a State or 
locality to contract separately with such a provider for such 
coverage with State funds (other than a State’s or locality’s 
contribution of Medicaid matching funds). 
(d)(1) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be made available to a Federal agency or program, 
or to a State or local government, if such agency, program, 
or government subjects any institutional or individual 
health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the 
health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide cov-
erage of, or refer for abortions. 
(2) In this subsection, the term ‘‘health care entity’’ 
includes an individual physician or other health care pro-
fessional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a 
health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, 
or any other kind of health care facility, organization, or 
plan.
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SEC. 508. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for— 
(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos 
for research purposes; or 
(2) research in which a human embryo or em-
bryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected 
to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed 
for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 
46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). 
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human em-
bryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected as 
a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the 
enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, par-
thenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more 
human gametes or human diploid cells. 
SEC. 509. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for any activity that promotes the legaliza-
tion of any drug or other substance included in schedule 
I of the schedules of controlled substances established under 
section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act except for nor-
mal and recognized executive-congressional communica-
tions. 
(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not apply 
when there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic
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advantage to the use of such drug or other substance or that 
federally sponsored clinical trials are being conducted to de-
termine therapeutic advantage. 
SEC. 510. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to promulgate or adopt any final standard 
under section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act providing 
for, or providing for the assignment of, a unique health 
identifier for an individual (except in an individual’s ca-
pacity as an employer or a health care provider), until leg-
islation is enacted specifically approving the standard. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be obligated or expended to enter into or renew 
a contract with an entity if— 
(1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with the 
United States and is subject to the requirement in 38 
U.S.C. 4212(d) regarding submission of an annual 
report to the Secretary of Labor concerning employ-
ment of certain veterans; and 
(2) such entity has not submitted a report as re-
quired by that section for the most recent year for 
which such requirement was applicable to such entity. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except pur-
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suant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided 
in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 
SEC. 513. None of the funds made available by this 
Act to carry out the Library Services and Technology Act 
may be made available to any library covered by paragraph 
(1) of section 224(f) of such Act, as amended by the Chil-
dren’s Internet Protection Act, unless such library has made 
the certifications required by paragraph (4) of such section. 
SEC. 514. (a) None of the funds provided under this 
Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the 
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2020, 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 of funds that— 
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(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 or renames offices; 
(6) reorganizes programs or activities; or
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(7) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are consulted 15 days in 
advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement of 
intent relating to such reprogramming, whichever occurs 
earlier, and are notified in writing 10 days in advance of 
such reprogramming. 
(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or pro-
vided under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies 
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 
expenditure in fiscal year 2020, or provided from any ac-
counts 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 of funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 per-
cent, whichever is less, that— 
(1) augments existing programs, projects (in-
cluding construction projects), or activities; 
(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
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in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-
proved by Congress; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are consulted 15 days in 
advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement of 
intent relating to such reprogramming, whichever occurs 
earlier, and are notified in writing 10 days in advance of 
such reprogramming. 
SEC. 515. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to request that a candidate for appoint-
ment to a Federal scientific advisory committee disclose the 
political affiliation or voting history of the candidate or 
the position that the candidate holds with respect to polit-
ical issues not directly related to and necessary for the work 
of the committee involved. 
(b) None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to disseminate information that is deliberately false 
or misleading. 
SEC. 516. Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, 
each department and related agency funded through this 
Act shall submit an operating plan that details at the pro-
gram, project, and activity level any funding allocations 
for fiscal year 2020 that are different than those specified 
in this Act, the accompanying detailed table in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
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ceding division A of this consolidated Act) or the fiscal year 
2020 budget request. 
SEC. 517. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education shall each prepare and 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report on the number 
and amount of contracts, grants, and cooperative agree-
ments exceeding $500,000, individually or in total for a 
particular project, activity, or programmatic initiative, in 
value and awarded by the Department on a non-competitive 
basis during each quarter of fiscal year 2020, but not to 
include grants awarded on a formula basis or directed by 
law. Such report shall include the name of the contractor 
or grantee, the amount of funding, the governmental pur-
pose, including a justification for issuing the award on a 
non-competitive basis. Such report shall be transmitted to 
the Committees within 30 days after the end of the quarter 
for which the report is submitted. 
SEC. 518. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall be expended or obligated by the Commissioner of So-
cial Security, for purposes of administering Social Security 
benefit payments under title II of the Social Security Act, 
to process any claim for credit for a quarter of coverage 
based on work performed under a social security account 
number that is not the claimant’s number and the perform-
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ance of such work under such number has formed the basis 
for a conviction of the claimant of a violation of section 
208(a)(6) or (7) of the Social Security Act. 
SEC. 519. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used by the Commissioner of Social Security or the 
Social Security Administration to pay the compensation of 
employees of the Social Security Administration to admin-
ister Social Security benefit payments, under any agree-
ment between the United States and Mexico establishing to-
talization arrangements between the social security system 
established by title II of the Social Security Act and the 
social security system of Mexico, which would not otherwise 
be payable but for such agreement. 
SEC. 520. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer net-
work unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, 
and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 521. None of the funds made available under this 
or any other Act, or any prior Appropriations Act, may 
be provided to the Association of Community Organizations
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for Reform Now (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidi-
aries, allied organizations, or successors. 
SEC. 522. For purposes of carrying out Executive 
Order 13589, Office of Management and Budget Memo-
randum M–12–12 dated May 11, 2012, and requirements 
contained in the annual appropriations bills relating to 
conference attendance and expenditures: 
(1) the operating divisions of HHS shall be con-
sidered independent agencies; and 
(2) attendance at and support for scientific con-
ferences shall be tabulated separately from and not 
included in agency totals. 
SEC. 523. Federal agencies funded under this Act shall 
clearly state within the text, audio, or video used for adver-
tising or educational purposes, including emails or Internet 
postings, that the communication is printed, published, or 
produced and disseminated at U.S. taxpayer expense. The 
funds used by a Federal agency to carry out this require-
ment shall be derived from amounts made available to the 
agency for advertising or other communications regarding 
the programs and activities of the agency. 
SEC. 524. (a) Federal agencies may use Federal discre-
tionary funds that are made available in this Act to carry 
out up to 10 Performance Partnership Pilots. Such Pilots 
shall be governed by the provisions of section 526 of division
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H of Public Law 113–76, except that in carrying out such 
Pilots section 526 shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Fiscal 
Year 2020’’ for ‘‘Fiscal Year 2014’’ in the title of subsection 
(b) and by substituting ‘‘September 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2018’’ each place it appears: Provided, That 
such pilots shall include communities that have experienced 
civil unrest. 
(b) In addition, Federal agencies may use Federal dis-
cretionary funds that are made available in this Act to par-
ticipate in Performance Partnership Pilots that are being 
carried out pursuant to the authority provided by section 
526 of division H of Public Law 113–76, section 524 of 
division G of Public Law 113–235, section 525 of division 
H of Public Law 114–113, section 525 of division H of Pub-
lic Law 115–31, and section 525 of division H of Public 
Law 115–141. 
(c) Pilot sites selected under authorities in this Act and 
prior appropriations Acts may be granted by relevant agen-
cies up to an additional 5 years to operate under such au-
thorities. 
SEC. 525. Not later than 30 days after the end of each 
calendar quarter, beginning with the first month of fiscal 
year 2020, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services and Education and the Social Security Adminis-
tration shall provide the Committees on Appropriations of
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the House of Representatives and Senate a report on the 
status of balances of appropriations: Provided, That for bal-
ances that are unobligated and uncommitted, committed, 
and obligated but unexpended, the monthly reports shall 
separately identify the amounts attributable to each source 
year of appropriation (beginning with fiscal year 2012, or, 
to the extent feasible, earlier fiscal years) from which bal-
ances were derived. 
SEC. 526. The Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, or Education shall provide to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate a comprehensive list of any new or competi-
tive grant award notifications, including supplements, 
issued at the discretion of such Departments not less than 
3 full business days before any entity selected to receive a 
grant award is announced by the Department or its offices 
(other than emergency response grants at any time of the 
year or for grant awards made during the last 10 business 
days of the fiscal year, or if applicable, of the program 
year). 
SEC. 527. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, no funds appropriated in this Act shall be used to pur-
chase sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection 
of any illegal drug: Provided, That such limitation does not 
apply to the use of funds for elements of a program other
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than making such purchases if the relevant State or local 
health department, in consultation with the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention, determines that the State or 
local jurisdiction, as applicable, is experiencing, or is at 
risk for, a significant increase in hepatitis infections or an 
HIV outbreak due to injection drug use, and such program 
is operating in accordance with State and local law. 
SEC. 528. Each department and related agency funded 
through this Act shall provide answers to questions sub-
mitted for the record by members of the Committee within 
45 business days after receipt. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 529. Of any available amounts appropriated 
under section 2104(a)(23) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1397dd) that are unobligated as of September 25, 
2020, $3,169,819,000 are hereby rescinded as of such date. 
SEC. 530. Of amounts deposited in the Child Enroll-
ment Contingency Fund prior to the beginning of fiscal 
year 2020 under section 2104(n)(2) of the Social Security 
Act and the income derived from investment of those funds 
pursuant 
to 
section 
2104(n)(2)(C) 
of 
that 
Act, 
$6,093,181,000 shall not be available for obligation in this 
fiscal year.
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This division may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020’’. 
DIVISION B—AGRICULTURE, RURAL DE-
VELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMIN-
ISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2020 
TITLE I 
AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS 
PROCESSING, RESEARCH, AND MARKETING 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 
$46,139,000, of which not to exceed $5,051,000 shall be 
available for the immediate Office of the Secretary; not to 
exceed $1,496,000 shall be available for the Office of Home-
land Security; not to exceed $6,211,000 shall be available 
for the Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement, of 
which $1,500,000 shall be for 7 U.S.C. 2279(c)(5); not to 
exceed $22,251,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
Assistant 
Secretary 
for 
Administration, 
of 
which 
$21,376,000 shall be available for Departmental Adminis-
tration to provide for necessary expenses for management 
support services to offices of the Department and for general 
administration, security, repairs and alterations, and other
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miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided 
for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the 
Department: Provided, That funds made available by this 
Act to an agency in the Administration mission area for 
salaries and expenses are available to fund up to one ad-
ministrative support staff for the Office; not to exceed 
$3,869,000 shall be available for the Office of Assistant Sec-
retary for Congressional Relations and Intergovernmental 
Affairs to carry out the programs funded by this Act, in-
cluding programs involving intergovernmental affairs and 
liaison within the executive branch; and not to exceed 
$7,261,000 shall be available for the Office of Communica-
tions: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture 
is authorized to transfer funds appropriated for any office 
of the Office of the Secretary to any other office of the Office 
of the Secretary: Provided further, That no appropriation 
for any office shall be increased or decreased by more than 
5 percent: Provided further, That not to exceed $22,000 of 
the amount made available under this paragraph for the 
immediate Office of the Secretary shall be available for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses, not otherwise 
provided for, as determined by the Secretary: Provided fur-
ther, That the amount made available under this heading 
for Departmental Administration shall be reimbursed from 
applicable appropriations in this Act for travel expenses in-
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cident to the holding of hearings as required by 5 U.S.C. 
551–558: Provided further, That funds made available 
under this heading for the Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Congressional Relations and Intergovernmental Affairs 
may be transferred to agencies of the Department of Agri-
culture funded by this Act to maintain personnel at the 
agency level: Provided further, That no funds made avail-
able under this heading for the Office of Assistant Secretary 
for Congressional Relations may be obligated after 30 days 
from the date of enactment of this Act, unless the Secretary 
has notified the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress on the allocation of these funds by 
USDA agency: Provided further, That of the funds made 
available under this heading, funding shall be made avail-
able to the Office of the Secretary to carry out the duties 
of the working group established under section 770 of the 
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 
(Public Law 116–6; 133 Stat. 89): Provided further, That 
during any 30 day notification period referenced in section 
716 of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services or the Chairman of the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, (as the case may 
be) shall take no action to begin implementation of the pro-
posal or make any public announcement in any form.
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EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS 
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ECONOMIST 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Econo-
mist, $24,013,000, of which $8,000,000 shall be for grants 
or cooperative agreements for policy research under 7 
U.S.C. 3155. 
OFFICE OF HEARINGS AND APPEALS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Hearings and 
Appeals, $15,222,000. 
OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Pro-
gram Analysis, $9,525,000. 
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Infor-
mation Officer, $66,580,000, of which not less than 
$56,000,000 is for cybersecurity requirements of the depart-
ment. 
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Finan-
cial Officer, $6,028,000. 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CIVIL 
RIGHTS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Civil Rights, $901,000: Provided, That funds 
made available by this Act to an agency in the Civil Rights
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mission area for salaries and expenses are available to fund 
up to one administrative support staff for the Office. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 
$24,206,000. 
AGRICULTURE BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
(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. 121, 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, $128,167,000, to remain available until expended. 
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 Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C.
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6901 et seq.), $4,503,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That appropriations and funds available 
herein to the Department for Hazardous Materials Manage-
ment 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. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral, including employment pursuant to the Inspector Gen-
eral Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–452; 5 U.S.C. App.), 
$98,208,000, including such sums as may be necessary for 
contracting and other arrangements with public agencies 
and private persons pursuant to section 6(a)(9) of the In-
spector General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–452; 5 U.S.C. 
App.), and including not to exceed $125,000 for certain con-
fidential operational expenses, including the payment of in-
formants, to be expended under the direction of the Inspec-
tor General pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978 
(Public Law 95–452; 5 U.S.C. App.) and section 1337 of 
the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (Public Law 97–98). 
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General 
Counsel, $45,146,000.
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OFFICE OF ETHICS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Ethics, 
$4,136,000. 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH, 
EDUCATION, AND ECONOMICS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Research, Education, and Economics, $800,000: 
Provided, That funds made available by this Act to an 
agency in the Research, Education, and Economics mission 
area for salaries and expenses are available to fund up to 
one administrative support staff for the Office. 
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Serv-
ice, $84,757,000. 
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural 
Statistics Service, $180,294,000, of which up to $45,300,000 
shall be available until expended for the Census of Agri-
culture: Provided, That amounts made available for the 
Census of Agriculture may be used to conduct Current In-
dustrial Report surveys subject to 7 U.S.C. 2204g(d) and 
(f).
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AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Research 
Service and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, 
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, 
$1,414,366,000, of which $13,100,000, to remain available 
until expended, shall be used for transition and equipment 
purchases for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility 
located in Manhattan, Kansas: Provided, That of the 
amounts available to the Agricultural Research Service for 
the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, no funds may 
be obligated above the amount provided for the facility in 
Public Law 116–6 until the Secretary of Agriculture sub-
mits to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress, and receives written or electronic notification 
of receipt from such Committees, a strategic plan as re-
quired in House Report 116–107: Provided further, That 
appropriations hereunder shall be available for the oper-
ation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not 
to exceed one for replacement only: Provided further, That 
appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7
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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 
$500,000, except for headhouses or greenhouses which shall 
each be limited to $1,800,000, except for 10 buildings to 
be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed 
$1,100,000 each, and except for two buildings to be con-
structed at a cost not to exceed $3,000,000 each, and the 
cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall 
not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value of 
the building or $500,000, whichever is greater: Provided 
further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available 
for entering into lease agreements at any Agricultural Re-
search Service location for the construction of a research 
facility by a non-Federal entity for use by the Agricultural 
Research Service and a condition of the lease shall be that 
any facility shall be owned, operated, and maintained by 
the non-Federal entity and shall be removed upon the expi-
ration or termination of the lease agreement: Provided fur-
ther, That the limitations on alterations contained in this 
Act shall not apply to modernization or replacement of ex-
isting facilities at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, 
That appropriations hereunder shall be available for grant-
ing easements at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Cen-
ter: Provided further, That the foregoing limitations shall
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not apply to replacement of buildings needed to carry out 
the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided fur-
ther, That appropriations hereunder shall be available for 
granting easements at any Agricultural Research Service 
location for the construction of a research facility by a non- 
Federal entity for use by, and acceptable to, the Agricul-
tural Research Service and a condition of the easements 
shall be that upon completion the facility shall be accepted 
by the Secretary, subject to the availability of funds herein, 
if the Secretary finds that acceptance of the facility is in 
the interest of the United States: Provided further, That 
funds may be received from any State, other political sub-
division, organization, or individual for the purpose of es-
tablishing or operating any research facility or research 
project of the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized 
by law. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For the acquisition of land, construction, repair, im-
provement, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed 
equipment or facilities as necessary to carry out the agricul-
tural research programs of the Department of Agriculture, 
where not otherwise provided, $192,700,000 to remain 
available until expended, of which $166,900,000 shall be al-
located for ARS facilities co-located with university part-
ners.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES 
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for 
cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and 
for other expenses, $962,864,000, which shall be for the pur-
poses, and in the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘Na-
tional Institute of Food and Agriculture, Research and 
Education Activities’’ in the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of 
this consolidated Act): Provided, That funds for research 
grants for 1994 institutions, education grants for 1890 in-
stitutions, capacity building for non-land-grant colleges of 
agriculture, the agriculture and food research initiative, 
veterinary medicine loan repayment, multicultural schol-
ars, graduate fellowship and institution challenge grants, 
and grants management systems shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That each institution eli-
gible to receive funds under the Evans-Allen program re-
ceives no less than $1,000,000: Provided further, That funds 
for education grants for Alaska Native and Native Hawai-
ian-serving institutions be made available to individual eli-
gible institutions or consortia of eligible institutions with 
funds awarded equally to each of the States of Alaska and 
Hawaii: Provided further, That funds for education grants 
for 1890 institutions shall be made available to institutions
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eligible to receive funds under 7 U.S.C. 3221 and 3222: Pro-
vided further, That not more than 5 percent of the amounts 
made available by this or any other Act to carry out the 
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative under 7 U.S.C. 
3157 may be retained by the Secretary of Agriculture to 
pay administrative costs incurred by the Secretary in car-
rying out that authority. 
NATIVE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS ENDOWMENT FUND 
For the Native American Institutions Endowment 
Fund authorized by Public Law 103–382 (7 U.S.C. 301 
note), $11,880,000, to remain available until expended. 
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES 
For payments to States, the District of Columbia, 
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, the 
Northern Marianas, and American Samoa, $526,557,000, 
which shall be for the purposes, and in the amounts, speci-
fied in the table titled ‘‘National Institute of Food and Agri-
culture, Extension Activities’’ in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A 
of this consolidated Act): Provided, That funds for facility 
improvements at 1890 institutions shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That institutions eligible 
to receive funds under 7 U.S.C. 3221 for cooperative exten-
sion receive no less than $1,000,000: Provided further, That 
funds for cooperative extension under sections 3(b) and (c)
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of the Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343(b) and (c)) and sec-
tion 208(c) of Public Law 93–471 shall be available for re-
tirement and employees’ compensation costs for extension 
agents. 
INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES 
For the integrated research, education, and extension 
grants programs, including necessary administrative ex-
penses, $38,000,000, which shall be for the purposes, and 
in the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘National Insti-
tute of Food and Agriculture, Integrated Activities’’ in the 
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided, 
That funds for the Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative 
shall remain available until September 30, 2021: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
indirect costs shall not be charged against any Extension 
Implementation Program Area grant awarded under the 
Crop Protection/Pest Management Program (7 U.S.C. 
7626). 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR MARKETING AND 
REGULATORY PROGRAMS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, $800,000: 
Provided, That funds made available by this Act to an 
agency in the Marketing and Regulatory Programs mission
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area for salaries and expenses are available to fund up to 
one administrative support staff for the Office. 
ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service, including up to $30,000 for rep-
resentation allowances and for expenses pursuant to the 
Foreign 
Service 
Act 
of 
1980 
(22 
U.S.C. 
4085), 
$1,042,711,000, of which $470,000, to remain available 
until expended, shall be available for the control of out-
breaks of insects, plant diseases, animal diseases and for 
control of pest animals and birds (‘‘contingency fund’’) to 
the extent necessary to meet emergency conditions; of which 
$11,520,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
used for the cotton pests program, including for cost share 
purposes or for debt retirement for active eradication zones; 
of which $37,857,000, to remain available until expended, 
shall be for Animal Health Technical Services; of which 
$1,000,000 shall be for activities under the authority of the 
Horse Protection Act of 1970, as amended (15 U.S.C. 1831); 
of which $62,840,000, to remain available until expended, 
shall be used to support avian health; of which $4,251,000, 
to remain available until expended, shall be for information 
technology infrastructure; of which $192,013,000, to remain
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available until expended, shall be for specialty crop pests; 
of which, $13,826,000, to remain available until expended, 
shall be for field crop and rangeland ecosystem pests; of 
which $16,523,000, to remain available until expended, 
shall be for zoonotic disease management; of which 
$40,966,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
for emergency preparedness and response; of which 
$60,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
for tree and wood pests; of which $5,725,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be for the National Veteri-
nary Stockpile; of which up to $1,500,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, shall be for the scrapie program for 
indemnities; of which $2,500,000, to remain available until 
expended, shall be for the wildlife damage management pro-
gram for aviation safety: Provided, That of amounts avail-
able under this heading for wildlife services methods devel-
opment, $1,000,000 shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That of amounts available under this 
heading for the screwworm program, $4,990,000 shall re-
main available until expended; of which $20,800,000, to re-
main available until expended, shall be used to carry out 
the science program and transition activities for the Na-
tional Bio and Agro-defense Facility located in Manhattan, 
Kansas: Provided further, That of the amounts available 
to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for the
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National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, no funds may be 
obligated above the amount provided for the facility in Pub-
lic Law 116–6 until the Secretary of Agriculture submits 
to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress, and receives written or electronic notification of re-
ceipt from such Committees, a strategic plan as required 
in House Report 116–107: Provided further, That no funds 
shall be used to formulate or administer a brucellosis eradi-
cation program for the current fiscal year that does not re-
quire minimum matching by the States of at least 40 per-
cent: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be 
available for the purchase, replacement, operation, and 
maintenance of aircraft: Provided further, That in addi-
tion, in emergencies which threaten any segment of the agri-
cultural production industry of the United States, the Sec-
retary may transfer from other appropriations or funds 
available to the agencies or corporations of the Department 
such sums as may be deemed necessary, to be available only 
in such emergencies for the arrest and eradication of con-
tagious or infectious disease or pests of animals, poultry, 
or plants, and for expenses in accordance with sections 
10411 and 10417 of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 
U.S.C. 8310 and 8316) and sections 431 and 442 of the 
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7751 and 7772), and any 
unexpended balances of funds transferred for such emer-
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gency purposes in the preceding fiscal year shall be merged 
with such transferred amounts: Provided further, That ap-
propriations hereunder shall be available pursuant to law 
(7 U.S.C. 2250) for the repair and alteration of leased 
buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided 
the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 
shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value 
of the building. 
In fiscal year 2020, the agency is authorized to collect 
fees to cover the total costs of providing technical assistance, 
goods, or services requested by States, other political sub-
divisions, domestic and international organizations, foreign 
governments, or individuals, provided that such fees are 
structured such that any entity’s liability for such fees is 
reasonably based on the technical assistance, goods, or serv-
ices provided to the entity by the agency, and such fees shall 
be reimbursed to this account, to remain available until ex-
pended, without further appropriation, for providing such 
assistance, goods, or services. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For plans, construction, repair, preventive mainte-
nance, environmental support, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities, as 
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2250, and acquisition of land as
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authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2268a, $3,175,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE 
MARKETING SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Marketing 
Service, $186,936,000, of which $6,000,000 shall be avail-
able for the purposes of section 12306 of Public Law 113– 
79: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available 
pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and re-
pair of buildings and improvements, but the cost of altering 
any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 
percent of the current replacement value of the building: 
Provided further, That up to $4,454,000 of this appropria-
tion may be used for United States Warehouse Act activities 
to supplement amounts made available by the United States 
Warehouse Act. 
Fees may be collected for the cost of standardization 
activities, as established by regulation pursuant to law (31 
U.S.C. 9701). 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $61,227,000 (from fees collected) shall be 
obligated during the current fiscal year for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That if crop size is understated and/ 
or other uncontrollable events occur, the agency may exceed
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this limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
FUNDS FOR STRENGTHENING MARKETS, INCOME, AND 
SUPPLY (SECTION 32) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
Funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 
24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), shall be used only for commodity 
program expenses as authorized therein, and other related 
operating expenses, except for: (1) transfers to the Depart-
ment of Commerce as authorized by the Fish and Wildlife 
Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a et seq.); (2) transfers otherwise 
provided in this Act; and (3) not more than $20,705,000 
for formulation and administration of marketing agree-
ments and orders pursuant to the Agricultural Marketing 
Agreement Act of 1937 and the Agricultural Act of 1961 
(Public Law 87–128). 
PAYMENTS TO STATES AND POSSESSIONS 
For payments to departments of agriculture, bureaus 
and departments of markets, and similar agencies for mar-
keting activities under section 204(b) of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623(b)), $1,235,000. 
LIMITATION ON INSPECTION AND WEIGHING SERVICES 
EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $55,000,000 (from fees collected) shall be 
obligated during the current fiscal year for inspection and
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weighing services: Provided, That if grain export activities 
require additional supervision and oversight, or other un-
controllable factors occur, this limitation may be exceeded 
by up to 10 percent with notification to the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD SAFETY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Food Safety, $800,000: Provided, That funds 
made available by this Act to an agency in the Food Safety 
mission area for salaries and expenses are available to fund 
up to one administrative support staff for the Office. 
FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE 
For necessary expenses to carry out services authorized 
by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products 
Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, in-
cluding not to exceed $10,000 for representation allowances 
and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved 
August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), $1,054,344,000; and in 
addition, $1,000,000 may be credited to this account from 
fees collected for the cost of laboratory accreditation as au-
thorized by section 1327 of the Food, Agriculture, Conserva-
tion and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 138f): Provided, That 
funds provided for the Public Health Data Communication 
Infrastructure system shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided further, That no fewer than 148 full-time
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equivalent positions shall be employed during fiscal year 
2020 for purposes dedicated solely to inspections and en-
forcement related to the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.): Provided further, That the Food 
Safety and Inspection Service shall continue implementa-
tion of section 11016 of Public Law 110–246 as further 
clarified by the amendments made in section 12106 of Pub-
lic Law 113–79: Provided further, That this appropriation 
shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the 
alteration and repair of buildings and improvements, but 
the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 
shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value 
of the building. 
TITLE II 
FARM PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION 
PROGRAMS 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FARM 
PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Farm Production and Conservation, $901,000: 
Provided, That funds made available by this Act to an 
agency in the Farm Production and Conservation mission 
area for salaries and expenses are available to fund up to 
one administrative support staff for the Office.
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FARM PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION BUSINESS 
CENTER 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Farm Production and 
Conservation Business Center, $203,877,000: Provided, 
That $60,228,000 of amounts appropriated for the current 
fiscal year pursuant to section 1241(a) of the Farm Secu-
rity and Rural Investment Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841(a)) 
shall be transferred to and merged with this account. 
FARM SERVICE AGENCY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Farm Service Agency, 
$1,122,837,000, of which not less than $35,000,000 shall be 
for the hiring of new employees to fill vacancies at Farm 
Service Agency county offices and farm loan officers and 
shall be available until September 30, 2021: Provided, That 
not more than 50 percent of the funding made available 
under this heading for information technology related to 
farm program delivery may be obligated until the Secretary 
submits to the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress, and receives written or electronic notifi-
cation of receipt from such Committees of, a plan for ex-
penditure that (1) identifies for each project/investment over
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$25,000 (a) the functional and performance capabilities to 
be delivered and the mission benefits to be realized, (b) the 
estimated lifecycle cost for the entirety of the project/invest-
ment, including estimates for development as well as main-
tenance and operations, and (c) key milestones to be met; 
(2) demonstrates that each project/investment is, (a) con-
sistent with the Farm Service Agency Information Tech-
nology Roadmap, (b) being managed in accordance with 
applicable lifecycle management policies and guidance, and 
(c) subject to the applicable Department’s capital planning 
and investment control requirements; and (3) has been re-
viewed by the Government Accountability Office and ap-
proved by the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress: Provided further, That the agency shall submit 
a report by the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020 
to the Committees on Appropriations and the Government 
Accountability Office, that identifies for each project/invest-
ment that is operational (a) current performance against 
key indicators of customer satisfaction, (b) current perform-
ance of service level agreements or other technical metrics, 
(c) current performance against a pre-established cost base-
line, (d) a detailed breakdown of current and planned 
spending on operational enhancements or upgrades, and (e) 
an assessment of whether the investment continues to meet 
business needs as intended as well as alternatives to the in-
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vestment: Provided further, That the Secretary is authorized 
to use the services, facilities, and authorities (but not the 
funds) of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make pro-
gram payments for all programs administered by the Agen-
cy: Provided further, That other funds made available to 
the Agency for authorized activities may be advanced to and 
merged with this account: Provided further, That funds 
made available to county committees shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That none of the funds 
available to the Farm Service Agency shall be used to close 
Farm Service Agency county offices: Provided further, That 
none of the funds available to the Farm Service Agency 
shall be used to permanently relocate county based employ-
ees that would result in an office with two or fewer employ-
ees without prior notification and approval of the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
STATE MEDIATION GRANTS 
For grants pursuant to section 502(b) of the Agricul-
tural Credit Act of 1987, as amended (7 U.S.C. 5101–5106), 
$5,545,000. 
GRASSROOTS SOURCE WATER PROTECTION PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out wellhead or 
groundwater protection activities under section 1240O of 
the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb–2), 
$6,500,000, to remain available until expended.
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DAIRY INDEMNITY PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity 
payments to dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy 
products under a dairy indemnity program, such sums as 
may be necessary, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That such program is carried out by the Secretary 
in the same manner as the dairy indemnity program de-
scribed in the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–387, 114 Stat. 1549A– 
12). 
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-
rect and guaranteed farm ownership (7 U.S.C. 1922 et seq.) 
and operating (7 U.S.C. 1941 et seq.) loans, emergency 
loans (7 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.), Indian tribe land acquisition 
loans (25 U.S.C. 5136), boll weevil loans (7 U.S.C. 1989), 
guaranteed conservation loans (7 U.S.C. 1924 et seq.), re-
lending program (7 U.S.C. 1936c), and Indian highly 
fractionated land loans (25 U.S.C. 5136) to be available 
from funds in the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, as 
follows: $2,750,000,000 for guaranteed farm ownership
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loans and $1,875,000,000 for farm ownership direct loans; 
$1,960,000,000 for unsubsidized guaranteed operating loans 
and $1,550,133,000 for direct operating loans; emergency 
loans, $37,668,000; Indian tribe land acquisition loans, 
$20,000,000; guaranteed conservation loans, $150,000,000; 
relending program, $18,215,000; Indian highly fractionated 
land loans, $10,000,000; and for boll weevil eradication 
program loans, $60,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall deem the pink bollworm to be a boll weevil for the 
purpose of boll weevil eradication program loans. 
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans and grants, 
including the cost of modifying loans as defined in section 
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: 
$58,440,000 for direct farm operating loans, $20,972,000 
for unsubsidized guaranteed farm operating loans, emer-
gency loans, $2,023,000; relending program, $5,000,000; In-
dian highly fractionated land loans, $2,745,000; and 
$60,000 for boll weevil eradication loans, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 
$317,068,000: Provided, That of this amount, $290,917,000 
shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation 
for ‘‘Farm Service Agency, Salaries and Expenses’’: Pro-
vided further, That of this amount $16,081,000 shall be
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transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
‘‘Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, Sal-
aries and Expenses’’. 
Funds appropriated by this Act to the Agricultural 
Credit Insurance Program Account for farm ownership, op-
erating and conservation direct loans and guaranteed loans 
may be transferred among these programs: Provided, That 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress are notified at least 15 days in advance of any trans-
fer. 
RISK MANAGEMENT AGENCY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Risk Management Agen-
cy, $58,361,000: Provided, That $2,000,000 shall be avail-
able for compliance and integrity activities required under 
section 516(b)(2)(C) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 
1938 (7 U.S.C. 1516(b)(2)(C)) in addition to other amounts 
provided: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000 shall 
be available for official reception and representation ex-
penses, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1506(i). 
NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE 
CONSERVATION OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions 
of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a–f), including 
preparation of conservation plans and establishment of
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measures to conserve soil and water (including farm irriga-
tion and land drainage and such special measures for soil 
and water management as may be necessary to prevent 
floods and the siltation of reservoirs and to control agricul-
tural related pollutants); operation of conservation plant 
materials centers; classification and mapping of soil; dis-
semination of information; acquisition of lands, water, and 
interests therein for use in the plant materials program by 
donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to 
exceed $100 pursuant to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 
2268a); purchase and erection or alteration or improvement 
of permanent and temporary buildings; and operation and 
maintenance of aircraft, $829,628,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2021: Provided, That appropriations 
hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for 
construction and improvement of buildings and public im-
provements at plant materials centers, except that the cost 
of alterations and improvements to other buildings and 
other public improvements shall not exceed $250,000: Pro-
vided further, That when buildings or other structures are 
erected on non-Federal land, that the right to use such land 
is obtained as provided in 7 U.S.C. 2250a: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amounts made available under this head-
ing, $5,600,000, shall remain available until expended for 
the authorities under 16 U.S.C. 1001–1005 and 1007–1009
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for authorized ongoing watershed projects with a primary 
purpose of providing water to rural communities. 
WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses to carry out preventive meas-
ures, including but not limited to surveys and investiga-
tions, engineering operations, works of improvement, and 
changes in use of land, in accordance with the Watershed 
Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1001–1005 
and 1007–1009) and in accordance with the provisions of 
laws relating to the activities of the Department, 
$175,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That for funds provided by this Act or any other 
prior Act, the limitation regarding the size of the watershed 
or subwatershed exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand 
acres in which such activities can be undertaken shall only 
apply for activities undertaken for the primary purpose of 
flood prevention (including structural and land treatment 
measures): Provided further, That of the amounts made 
available under this heading, $70,000,000 shall be allocated 
to projects and activities that can commence promptly fol-
lowing enactment; that address regional priorities for flood 
prevention, agricultural water management, inefficient ir-
rigation systems, fish and wildlife habitat, or watershed 
protection; or that address authorized ongoing projects 
under the authorities of section 13 of the Flood Control Act
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of December 22, 1944 (Public Law 78–534) with a primary 
purpose of watershed protection by preventing floodwater 
damage and stabilizing stream channels, tributaries, and 
banks to reduce erosion and sediment transport. 
WATERSHED REHABILITATION PROGRAM 
Under the authorities of section 14 of the Watershed 
Protection and Flood Prevention Act, $10,000,000 is pro-
vided: Provided, That of the amounts made available under 
this heading, $5,000,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for watershed rehabilitation projects in states with 
high-hazard dams and other watershed structures and that 
have recently incurred flooding events which caused fatali-
ties. 
CORPORATIONS 
The following corporations and agencies are hereby au-
thorized to make expenditures, within the limits of funds 
and borrowing authority available to each such corporation 
or agency and in accord with law, and to make contracts 
and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations 
as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation 
Control Act as may be necessary in carrying out the pro-
grams set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for 
such corporation or agency, except as hereinafter provided.
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FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION FUND 
For payments as authorized by section 516 of the Fed-
eral Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1516), such sums as may 
be necessary, to remain available until expended. 
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUND 
REIMBURSEMENT FOR NET REALIZED LOSSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For the current fiscal year, such sums as may be nec-
essary to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for 
net realized losses sustained, but not previously reimbursed, 
pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 17, 1961 (15 
U.S.C. 713a–11): Provided, That of the funds available to 
the Commodity Credit Corporation under section 11 of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 
714i) for the conduct of its business with the Foreign Agri-
cultural Service, up to $5,000,000 may be transferred to 
and used by the Foreign Agricultural Service for informa-
tion resource management activities of the Foreign Agricul-
tural Service that are not related to Commodity Credit Cor-
poration business. 
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT 
(LIMITATION ON EXPENSES) 
For the current fiscal year, the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration shall not expend more than $5,000,000 for site in-
vestigation and cleanup expenses, and operations and
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maintenance expenses to comply with the requirement of 
section 107(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 
9607(g)), and section 6001 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 
(42 U.S.C. 6961). 
TITLE III 
RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RURAL 
DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Rural Development, $800,000: Provided, That 
funds made available by this Act to an agency in the Rural 
Development mission area for salaries and expenses are 
available to fund up to one administrative support staff for 
the Office. 
RURAL DEVELOPMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for carrying out the adminis-
tration and implementation of Rural Development pro-
grams, including activities with institutions concerning the 
development and operation of agricultural cooperatives; and 
for cooperative agreements; $247,835,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appro-
priated under this heading may be used for advertising and
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promotional activities that support Rural Development 
programs: Provided further, That in addition to any other 
funds appropriated for purposes authorized by section 
502(i) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472(i)), any 
amounts collected under such section, as amended by this 
Act, will immediately be credited to this account and will 
remain available until expended for such purposes. 
RURAL HOUSING SERVICE 
RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-
rect and guaranteed loans as authorized by title V of the 
Housing Act of 1949, to be available from funds in the rural 
housing insurance fund, as follows: $1,000,000,000 shall be 
for direct loans and $24,000,000,000 shall be for unsub-
sidized guaranteed loans; $28,000,000 for section 504 hous-
ing repair loans; $40,000,000 for section 515 rental hous-
ing; $230,000,000 for section 538 guaranteed multi-family 
housing loans; $10,000,000 for credit sales of single family 
housing acquired property; $5,000,000 for section 523 self- 
help housing land development loans; and $5,000,000 for 
section 524 site development loans. 
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including 
the cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: section
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502 loans, $90,000,000 shall be for direct loans; section 504 
housing repair loans, $4,679,000; section 523 self-help hous-
ing land development loans, $577,000; section 524 site de-
velopment loans, $546,000; and repair, rehabilitation, and 
new 
construction 
of 
section 
515 
rental 
housing, 
$12,144,000: Provided, That to support the loan program 
level for section 538 guaranteed loans made available under 
this heading the Secretary may charge or adjust any fees 
to cover the projected cost of such loan guarantees pursuant 
to the provisions of the Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 
661 et seq.), and the interest on such loans may not be sub-
sidized: Provided further, That applicants in communities 
that have a current rural area waiver under section 541 
of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490q) shall be treat-
ed as living in a rural area for purposes of section 502 
guaranteed loans provided under this heading: Provided 
further, That of the amounts available under this para-
graph for section 502 direct loans, no less than $5,000,000 
shall be available for direct loans for individuals whose 
homes will be built pursuant to a program funded with a 
mutual and self-help housing grant authorized by section 
523 of the Housing Act of 1949 until June 1, 2020: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary shall implement provi-
sions to provide incentives to nonprofit organizations and 
public housing authorities to facilitate the acquisition of
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Rural Housing Service (RHS) multifamily housing prop-
erties by such nonprofit organizations and public housing 
authorities that commit to keep such properties in the RHS 
multifamily housing program for a period of time as deter-
mined by the Secretary, with such incentives to include, but 
not be limited to, the following: allow such nonprofit entities 
and public housing authorities to earn a Return on Invest-
ment on their own resources to include proceeds from low 
income housing tax credit syndication, own contributions, 
grants, and developer loans at favorable rates and terms, 
invested in a deal; and allow reimbursement of organiza-
tional costs associated with owner’s oversight of asset re-
ferred to as ‘‘Asset Management Fee’’ of up to $7,500 per 
property. 
In addition, for the cost of direct loans, grants, and 
contracts, as authorized by sections 514 and 516 of the 
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1484, 1486), $18,739,000, 
to remain available until expended, for direct farm labor 
housing loans and domestic farm labor housing grants and 
contracts: Provided, That any balances available for the 
Farm Labor Program Account shall be transferred to and 
merged with this account. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 
$412,254,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the
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appropriation for ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Ex-
penses’’. 
RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
For rental assistance agreements entered into or re-
newed pursuant to the authority under section 521(a)(2) 
of the Housing Act of 1949 or agreements entered into in 
lieu of debt forgiveness or payments for eligible households 
as authorized by section 502(c)(5)(D) of the Housing Act 
of 1949, $1,375,000,000, of which $40,000,000 shall be 
available until September 30, 2021; and in addition such 
sums as may be necessary, as authorized by section 521(c) 
of the Act, to liquidate debt incurred prior to fiscal year 
1992 to carry out the rental assistance program under sec-
tion 521(a)(2) of the Act: Provided, That rental assistance 
agreements entered into or renewed during the current fiscal 
year shall be funded for a one-year period: Provided further, 
That upon request by an owner of a project financed by 
an existing loan under section 514 or 515 of the Act, the 
Secretary may renew the rental assistance agreement for 
a period of 20 years or until the term of such loan has 
expired, subject to annual appropriations: Provided further, 
That any unexpended balances remaining at the end of such 
one-year agreements may be transferred and used for pur-
poses of any debt reduction; maintenance, repair, or reha-
bilitation of any existing projects; preservation; and rental
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assistance activities authorized under title V of the Act: Pro-
vided further, That rental assistance provided under agree-
ments entered into prior to fiscal year 2020 for a farm labor 
multi-family housing project financed under section 514 or 
516 of the Act may not be recaptured for use in another 
project until such assistance has remained unused for a pe-
riod of 12 consecutive months, if such project has a waiting 
list of tenants seeking such assistance or the project has 
rental assistance eligible tenants who are not receiving such 
assistance: Provided further, That such recaptured rental 
assistance shall, to the extent practicable, be applied to an-
other farm labor multi-family housing project financed 
under section 514 or 516 of the Act: Provided further, That 
except as provided in the fourth proviso under this heading 
and notwithstanding any other provision of the Act, the 
Secretary may recapture rental assistance provided under 
agreements entered into prior to fiscal year 2020 for a 
project that the Secretary determines no longer needs rental 
assistance and use such recaptured funds for current needs. 
MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING REVITALIZATION PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
For the rural housing voucher program as authorized 
under section 542 of the Housing Act of 1949, but notwith-
standing subsection (b) of such section, and for additional 
costs to conduct a demonstration program for the preserva-
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tion and revitalization of multi-family rental housing prop-
erties described in this paragraph, $60,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the funds made 
available under this heading, $32,000,000, shall be avail-
able for rural housing vouchers to any low-income household 
(including those not receiving rental assistance) residing in 
a property financed with a section 515 loan which has been 
prepaid after September 30, 2005: Provided further, That 
the amount of such voucher shall be the difference between 
comparable market rent for the section 515 unit and the 
tenant paid rent for such unit: Provided further, That funds 
made available for such vouchers shall be subject to the 
availability of annual appropriations: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, administer such vouchers with current regulations 
and administrative guidance applicable to section 8 hous-
ing vouchers administered by the Secretary of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development: Provided fur-
ther, That if the Secretary determines that the amount 
made available for vouchers in this or any other Act is not 
needed for vouchers, the Secretary may use such funds for 
the demonstration program for the preservation and revital-
ization of multi-family rental housing properties described 
in this paragraph: Provided further, That of the funds made 
available under this heading, $28,000,000 shall be available
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for a demonstration program for the preservation and revi-
talization of the sections 514, 515, and 516 multi-family 
rental housing properties to restructure existing USDA 
multi-family housing loans, as the Secretary deems appro-
priate, expressly for the purposes of ensuring the project has 
sufficient resources to preserve the project for the purpose 
of providing safe and affordable housing for low-income 
residents and farm laborers including reducing or elimi-
nating interest; deferring loan payments, subordinating, re-
ducing or reamortizing loan debt; and other financial as-
sistance including advances, payments and incentives (in-
cluding the ability of owners to obtain reasonable returns 
on investment) required by the Secretary: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall as part of the preservation and 
revitalization agreement obtain a restrictive use agreement 
consistent with the terms of the restructuring: Provided fur-
ther, That if the Secretary determines that additional funds 
for vouchers described in this paragraph are needed, funds 
for the preservation and revitalization demonstration pro-
gram may be used for such vouchers: Provided further, That 
if Congress enacts legislation to permanently authorize a 
multi-family rental housing loan restructuring program 
similar to the demonstration program described herein, the 
Secretary may use funds made available for the demonstra-
tion program under this heading to carry out such legisla-
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tion with the prior approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress: Provided further, That 
in addition to any other available funds, the Secretary may 
expend not more than $1,000,000 total, from the program 
funds made available under this heading, for administra-
tive expenses for activities funded under this heading. 
MUTUAL AND SELF-HELP HOUSING GRANTS 
For grants and contracts pursuant to section 
523(b)(1)(A) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490c), 
$31,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For grants for very low-income housing repair and 
rural housing preservation made by the Rural Housing 
Service, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1474, and 1490m, 
$45,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
RURAL COMMUNITY FACILITIES PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-
rect and guaranteed loans as authorized by section 306 and 
described in section 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated Farm 
and Rural Development Act, $2,800,000,000 for direct loans 
and $500,000,000 for guaranteed loans. 
For the cost of grants for rural community facilities 
programs as authorized by section 306 and described in sec-
tion 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Devel-
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opment Act, $49,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That $6,000,000 of the amount appro-
priated under this heading shall be available for a Rural 
Community Development Initiative: Provided further, That 
such funds shall be used solely to develop the capacity and 
ability of private, nonprofit community-based housing and 
community development organizations, low-income rural 
communities, and Federally Recognized Native American 
Tribes to undertake projects to improve housing, community 
facilities, community and economic development projects in 
rural areas: Provided further, That such funds shall be 
made available to qualified private, nonprofit and public 
intermediary organizations proposing to carry out a pro-
gram of financial and technical assistance: Provided fur-
ther, That such intermediary organizations shall provide 
matching funds from other sources, including Federal funds 
for related activities, in an amount not less than funds pro-
vided: Provided further, That $6,000,000 of the amount ap-
propriated under this heading shall be to provide grants 
for facilities in rural communities with extreme unemploy-
ment and severe economic depression (Public Law 106– 
387), with up to 5 percent for administration and capacity 
building in the State rural development offices: Provided 
further, That $5,000,000 of the amount appropriated under 
this heading shall be available for community facilities
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grants to tribal colleges, as authorized by section 306(a)(19) 
of such Act: Provided further, That sections 381E–H and 
381N of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
are not applicable to the funds made available under this 
heading. 
RURAL BUSINESS—COOPERATIVE SERVICE 
RURAL BUSINESS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of loan guarantees and grants, for the 
rural business development programs authorized by section 
310B and described in subsections (a), (c), (f) and (g) of 
section 310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-
ment Act, $66,500,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That of the amount appropriated under this 
heading, not to exceed $500,000 shall be made available for 
one grant to a qualified national organization to provide 
technical assistance for rural transportation in order to 
promote economic development and $9,000,000 shall be for 
grants to the Delta Regional Authority (7 U.S.C. 2009aa 
et seq.), the Northern Border Regional Commission (40 
U.S.C. 15101 et seq.), and the Appalachian Regional Com-
mission (40 U.S.C. 14101 et seq.) for any Rural Commu-
nity Advancement Program purpose as described in section 
381E(d) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
Act, of which not more than 5 percent may be used for ad-
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ministrative expenses: Provided further, That $4,000,000 of 
the amount appropriated under this heading shall be for 
business grants to benefit Federally Recognized Native 
American Tribes, including $250,000 for a grant to a quali-
fied national organization to provide technical assistance 
for rural transportation in order to promote economic de-
velopment: Provided further, That sections 381E–H and 
381N of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
are not applicable to funds made available under this head-
ing. 
INTERMEDIARY RELENDING PROGRAM FUND ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized 
by the Intermediary Relending Program Fund Account (7 
U.S.C. 1936b), $18,889,000. 
For the cost of direct loans, $5,219,000, as authorized 
by the Intermediary Relending Program Fund Account (7 
U.S.C. 1936b), of which $557,000 shall be available through 
June 30, 2020, for Federally Recognized Native American 
Tribes; and of which $1,072,000 shall be available through 
June 30, 2020, for Mississippi Delta Region counties (as 
determined in accordance with Public Law 100–460): Pro-
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying such 
loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974.
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In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct loan programs, $4,468,000 shall be transferred 
to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Rural Develop-
ment, Salaries and Expenses’’. 
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized 
under section 313B(a) of the Rural Electrification Act, for 
the purpose of promoting rural economic development and 
job creation projects, $50,000,000. 
The cost of grants authorized under section 313B(a) 
of the Rural Electrification Act, for the purpose of pro-
moting rural economic development and job creation 
projects shall not exceed $10,000,000. 
RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 
For rural cooperative development grants authorized 
under section 310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932), $26,600,000, of which 
$2,800,000 shall be for cooperative agreements for the ap-
propriate technology transfer for rural areas program: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $3,000,000 shall be for grants for 
cooperative development centers, individual cooperatives, or 
groups of cooperatives that serve socially disadvantaged 
groups and a majority of the boards of directors or gov-
erning boards of which are comprised of individuals who
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RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE 
RURAL WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees and grants 
for rural water, waste water, waste disposal, and solid 
waste management programs authorized by sections 306, 
306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B and described in sec-
tions 306C(a)(2), 306D, 306E, and 381E(d)(2) of the Con-
solidated Farm and Rural Development Act, $659,480,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$1,000,000 shall be available for the rural utilities program 
described in section 306(a)(2)(B) of such Act, and of which 
not to exceed $5,000,000 shall be available for the rural util-
ities program described in section 306E of such Act: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $15,000,000 of the amount appro-
priated under this heading shall be for grants authorized 
by section 306A(i)(2) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act in addition to funding authorized by sec-
tion 306A(i)(1) of such Act: Provided further, That 
$68,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this heading 
shall be for loans and grants including water and waste 
disposal 
systems 
grants 
authorized 
by 
section 
306C(a)(2)(B) and section 306D of the Consolidated Farm 
and Rural Development Act, and Federally Recognized Na-
tive American Tribes authorized by 306C(a)(1) of such Act:
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Provided further, That funding provided for section 306D 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act may 
be provided to a consortium formed pursuant to section 325 
of Public Law 105–83: Provided further, That not more 
than 2 percent of the funding provided for section 306D 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act may 
be used by the State of Alaska for training and technical 
assistance programs and not more than 2 percent of the 
funding provided for section 306D of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act may be used by a consor-
tium formed pursuant to section 325 of Public Law 105– 
83 for training and technical assistance programs: Pro-
vided further, That not to exceed $30,000,000 of the amount 
appropriated under this heading shall be for technical as-
sistance grants for rural water and waste systems pursuant 
to section 306(a)(14) of such Act, unless the Secretary 
makes a determination of extreme need, of which $8,000,000 
shall be made available for a grant to a qualified nonprofit 
multi-State regional technical assistance organization, with 
experience in working with small communities on water 
and waste water problems, the principal purpose of such 
grant shall be to assist rural communities with populations 
of 3,300 or less, in improving the planning, financing, de-
velopment, operation, and management of water and waste 
water systems, and of which not less than $800,000 shall
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be for a qualified national Native American organization 
to provide technical assistance for rural water systems for 
tribal communities: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$19,570,000 of the amount appropriated under this heading 
shall be for contracting with qualified national organiza-
tions for a circuit rider program to provide technical assist-
ance for rural water systems: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $4,000,000 shall be for solid waste management 
grants: Provided further, That $10,000,000 of the amount 
appropriated under this heading shall be transferred to, and 
merged with, the Rural Utilities Service, High Energy Cost 
Grants Account to provide grants authorized under section 
19 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 918a): 
Provided further, That any prior year balances for high- 
energy cost grants authorized by section 19 of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 918a) shall be trans-
ferred to and merged with the Rural Utilities Service, High 
Energy Cost Grants Account: Provided further, That sec-
tions 381E–H and 381N of the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act are not applicable to the funds 
made available under this heading.
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RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
The principal amount of direct and guaranteed loans 
as authorized by sections 305, 306, and 317 of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935, 936, and 940g) 
shall be made as follows: loans made pursuant to sections 
305, 306, and 317, notwithstanding 317(c), of that Act, 
rural electric, $5,500,000,000; guaranteed underwriting 
loans pursuant to section 313A of that Act, $750,000,000; 
5 percent rural telecommunications loans, cost of money 
rural telecommunications loans, and for loans made pursu-
ant to section 306 of that Act, rural telecommunications 
loans, $690,000,000: Provided, That up to $2,000,000,000 
shall be used for the construction, acquisition, design and 
engineering or improvement of fossil-fueled electric gener-
ating plants (whether new or existing) that utilize carbon 
subsurface utilization and storage systems. 
For the cost of direct loans as authorized by section 
305 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935), 
including the cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, cost of money 
rural telecommunications loans, $3,795,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs,
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$33,270,000, which shall be transferred to and merged with 
the appropriation for ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and 
Expenses’’. 
DISTANCE LEARNING, TELEMEDICINE, AND BROADBAND 
PROGRAM 
For the principal amount of broadband telecommuni-
cation loans, $11,179,000. 
For grants for telemedicine and distance learning serv-
ices in rural areas, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa et 
seq., $50,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That $3,000,000 shall be made available for grants 
authorized by 379G of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act: Provided further, That funding provided 
under this heading for grants under 379G of the Consoli-
dated Farm and Rural Development Act may only be pro-
vided to entities that meet all of the eligibility criteria for 
a consortium as established by this section. 
For the cost of broadband loans, as authorized by sec-
tion 601 of the Rural Electrification Act, $2,000,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That the cost of 
direct loans shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974. 
In addition, $35,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, for a grant program to finance broadband trans-
mission in rural areas eligible for Distance Learning and
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Telemedicine Program benefits authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
950aaa et seq. 
TITLE IV 
DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD, 
NUTRITION, AND CONSUMER SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, 
$800,000: Provided, That funds made available by this Act 
to an agency in the Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services 
mission area for salaries and expenses are available to fund 
up to one administrative support staff for the Office. 
FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE 
CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), 
except section 21, and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 
U.S.C. 1771 et seq.), except sections 17 and 21; 
$23,615,098,000 to remain available through September 30, 
2021, of which such sums as are made available under sec-
tion 14222(b)(1) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
of 2008 (Public Law 110–246), as amended by this Act, 
shall be merged with and available for the same time period 
and purposes as provided herein: Provided, That of the total
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amount available, $18,004,000 shall be available to carry 
out section 19 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1771 et seq.): Provided further, That of the total amount 
available, $14,999,000 shall be available to carry out stud-
ies and evaluations and shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided further, That of the total amount avail-
able, $30,000,000 shall be available to provide competitive 
grants to State agencies for subgrants to local educational 
agencies and schools to purchase the equipment, with a 
value of greater than $1,000, needed to serve healthier 
meals, improve food safety, and to help support the estab-
lishment, maintenance, or expansion of the school breakfast 
program: Provided further, That of the total amount avail-
able, $35,000,000 shall remain available until expended to 
carry out section 749(g) of the Agriculture Appropriations 
Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–80): Provided further, That 
section 26(d) of the Richard B. Russell National School 
Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769g(d)) is amended in the first 
sentence by striking ‘‘2010 through 2019’’ and inserting 
‘‘2010 through 2021’’: Provided further, That section 
9(h)(3) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(h)(3)) is amended in the first sentence 
by striking ‘‘For fiscal year 2019’’ and inserting ‘‘For fiscal 
year 2020’’: Provided further, That section 9(h)(4) of the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C.
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1758(h)(4)) is amended in the first sentence by striking 
‘‘For fiscal year 2019’’ and inserting ‘‘For fiscal year 
2020’’. 
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR 
WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the special supple-
mental nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of 
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), 
$6,000,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 
2021: Provided, That notwithstanding section 17(h)(10) of 
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(h)(10)), 
not less than $90,000,000 shall be used for breastfeeding 
peer 
counselors 
and 
other 
related 
activities, 
and 
$14,000,000 shall be used for infrastructure: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds provided in this account shall 
be available for the purchase of infant formula except in 
accordance with the cost containment and competitive bid-
ding requirements specified in section 17 of such Act: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds provided shall be 
available for activities that are not fully reimbursed by 
other Federal Government departments or agencies unless 
authorized by section 17 of such Act: Provided further, That 
upon termination of a federally mandated vendor morato-
rium and subject to terms and conditions established by the
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Secretary, the Secretary may waive the requirement at 7 
CFR 246.12(g)(6) at the request of a State agency. 
SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Food and Nu-
trition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), $67,886,285,000, 
of which $3,000,000,000, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2022, shall be placed in reserve for use only in 
such amounts and at such times as may become necessary 
to carry out program operations: Provided, That funds pro-
vided herein shall be expended in accordance with section 
16 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008: Provided further, 
That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$998,000 may be used to provide nutrition education serv-
ices to State agencies and Federally Recognized Tribes par-
ticipating in the Food Distribution Program on Indian 
Reservations: Provided further, That this appropriation 
shall be subject to any work registration or workfare re-
quirements as may be required by law: Provided further, 
That funds made available for Employment and Training 
under this heading shall remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2021: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able under this heading for section 28(d)(1), section 4(b), 
and section 27(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
shall remain available through September 30, 2021: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds made available under
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this heading may be obligated or expended in contravention 
of section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1183A): Provided further, That funds made avail-
able under this heading may be used to enter into contracts 
and employ staff to conduct studies, evaluations, or to con-
duct activities related to program integrity provided that 
such activities are authorized by the Food and Nutrition 
Act of 2008. 
COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out disaster assistance 
and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program as au-
thorized by section 4(a) of the Agriculture and Consumer 
Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c note); the Emergency 
Food Assistance Act of 1983; special assistance for the nu-
clear affected islands, as authorized by section 103(f)(2) of 
the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 
(Public Law 108–188); and the Farmers’ Market Nutrition 
Program, as authorized by section 17(m) of the Child Nutri-
tion Act of 1966, $344,248,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2021: Provided, That none of these funds 
shall be available to reimburse the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration for commodities donated to the program: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
effective with funds made available in fiscal year 2020 to 
support the Seniors Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program,
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as authorized by section 4402 of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002, such funds shall remain 
available through September 30, 2021: Provided further, 
That of the funds made available under section 27(a) of 
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)), 
the Secretary may use up to 20 percent for costs associated 
with the distribution of commodities. 
NUTRITION PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary administrative expenses of the Food and 
Nutrition Service for carrying out any domestic nutrition 
assistance program, $155,891,000: Provided, That of the 
funds provided herein, $2,000,000 shall be used for the pur-
poses of section 4404 of Public Law 107–171, as amended 
by section 4401 of Public Law 110–246. 
TITLE V 
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, 
$875,000: Provided, That funds made available by this Act 
to any agency in the Trade and Foreign Agricultural Af-
fairs mission area for salaries and expenses are available 
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the Office.
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OFFICE OF CODEX ALIMENTARIUS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Codex 
Alimentarius, $4,775,000, including not to exceed $40,000 
for official reception and representation expenses. 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural 
Service, including not to exceed $250,000 for representation 
allowances and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the 
Act 
approved 
August 
3, 
1956 
(7 
U.S.C. 
1766), 
$215,513,000, of which no more than 6 percent shall remain 
available until September 30, 2021, for overseas operations 
to include the payment of locally employed staff: Provided, 
That the Service may utilize advances of funds, or reim-
burse this appropriation for expenditures made on behalf 
of Federal agencies, public and private organizations and 
institutions under agreements executed pursuant to the ag-
ricultural food production assistance programs (7 U.S.C. 
1737) and the foreign assistance programs of the United 
States Agency for International Development: Provided fur-
ther, That funds made available for middle-income country 
training programs, funds made available for the Borlaug 
International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellow-
ship program, and up to $2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricul-
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tural Service appropriation solely for the purpose of offset-
ting fluctuations in international currency exchange rates, 
subject to documentation by the Foreign Agricultural Serv-
ice, shall remain available until expended. 
FOOD FOR PEACE TITLE I DIRECT CREDIT AND FOOD FOR 
PROGRESS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For administrative expenses to carry out the credit 
program of title I, Food for Peace Act (Public Law 83– 
480) and the Food for Progress Act of 1985, $142,000, shall 
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
‘‘Farm Service Agency, Salaries and Expenses’’. 
FOOD FOR PEACE TITLE II GRANTS 
For expenses during the current fiscal year, not other-
wise recoverable, and unrecovered prior years’ costs, includ-
ing interest thereon, under the Food for Peace Act (Public 
Law 83–480), for commodities supplied in connection with 
dispositions 
abroad 
under 
title 
II 
of 
said 
Act, 
$1,725,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION 
AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM GRANTS 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
section 3107 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1), $220,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the Commodity
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Credit Corporation is authorized to provide the services, fa-
cilities, and authorities for the purpose of implementing 
such section, subject to reimbursement from amounts pro-
vided herein: Provided further, That of the amount made 
available under this heading, not more than 10 percent, but 
not less than $20,000,000, shall remain available until ex-
pended to purchase agricultural commodities as described 
in subsection 3107(a)(2) of the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1(a)(2)). 
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION EXPORT (LOANS) 
CREDIT GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For administrative expenses to carry out the Com-
modity Credit Corporation’s Export Guarantee Program, 
GSM 102 and GSM 103, $6,381,000, to cover common over-
head expenses as permitted by section 11 of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation Charter Act and in conformity with the 
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, of which $6,063,000 
shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation 
for ‘‘Foreign Agricultural Service, Salaries and Expenses’’, 
and of which $318,000 shall be transferred to and merged 
with the appropriation for ‘‘Farm Service Agency, Salaries 
and Expenses’’.
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TITLE VI 
RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG 
ADMINISTRATION 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, including hire and purchase of passenger motor ve-
hicles; for payment of space rental and related costs pursu-
ant to Public Law 92–313 for programs and activities of 
the Food and Drug Administration which are included in 
this Act; for rental of special purpose space in the District 
of Columbia or elsewhere; in addition to amounts appro-
priated to the FDA Innovation Account, for carrying out 
the activities described in section 1002(b)(4) of the 21st 
Century Cures Act (Public Law 114–255); for miscellaneous 
and emergency expenses of enforcement activities, author-
ized and approved by the Secretary and to be accounted 
for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not to exceed 
$25,000; and notwithstanding section 521 of Public Law 
107–188; $5,772,442,000: Provided, That of the amount 
provided under this heading, $1,074,714,000 shall be de-
rived from prescription drug user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 379h, and shall be credited to this account and re-
main available until expended; $220,142,000 shall be de-
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rived from medical device user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
379j, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended; $513,223,000 shall be derived 
from human generic drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
379j–42, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended; $41,923,000 shall be derived from 
biosimilar biological product user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 379j–52, and shall be credited to this account and 
remain available until expended; $30,611,000 shall be de-
rived from animal drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
379j–12, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended; $20,151,000 shall be derived from 
generic new animal drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
379j–21, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended; $712,000,000 shall be derived 
from tobacco product user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
387s, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That in addi-
tion to and notwithstanding any other provision under this 
heading, amounts collected for prescription drug user fees, 
medical device user fees, human generic drug user fees, bio-
similar biological product user fees, animal drug user fees, 
and generic new animal drug user fees that exceed the re-
spective fiscal year 2020 limitations are appropriated and 
shall be credited to this account and remain available until
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expended: Provided further, That fees derived from prescrip-
tion drug, medical device, human generic drug, biosimilar 
biological product, animal drug, and generic new animal 
drug assessments for fiscal year 2020, including any such 
fees collected prior to fiscal year 2020 but credited for fiscal 
year 2020, shall be subject to the fiscal year 2020 limita-
tions: Provided further, That the Secretary may accept pay-
ment during fiscal year 2020 of user fees specified under 
this heading and authorized for fiscal year 2021, prior to 
the due date for such fees, and that amounts of such fees 
assessed for fiscal year 2021 for which the Secretary accepts 
payment in fiscal year 2020 shall not be included in 
amounts under this heading: Provided further, That none 
of these funds shall be used to develop, establish, or operate 
any program of user fees authorized by 31 U.S.C. 9701: 
Provided further, That of the total amount appropriated: 
(1) $1,088,881,000 shall be for the Center for Food Safety 
and Applied Nutrition and related field activities in the 
Office of Regulatory Affairs, of which no less than 
$15,000,000 shall be used for inspections of foreign seafood 
manufacturers and field examinations of imported seafood; 
(2) $1,972,093,000 shall be for the Center for Drug Evalua-
tion and Research and related field activities in the Office 
of Regulatory Affairs; (3) $419,302,000 shall be for the Cen-
ter for Biologics Evaluation and Research and for related
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field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (4) 
$237,741,000 shall be for the Center for Veterinary Medicine 
and for related field activities in the Office of Regulatory 
Affairs; (5) $581,761,000 shall be for the Center for Devices 
and Radiological Health and for related field activities in 
the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (6) $66,712,000 shall be 
for the National Center for Toxicological Research; (7) 
$661,739,000 shall be for the Center for Tobacco Products 
and for related field activities in the Office of Regulatory 
Affairs; (8) $186,399,000 shall be for Rent and Related ac-
tivities, of which $53,913,000 is for White Oak Consolida-
tion, other than the amounts paid to the General Services 
Administration for rent; (9) $239,717,000 shall be for pay-
ments to the General Services Administration for rent; and 
(10) $318,097,000 shall be for other activities, including the 
Office of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, the Office 
of Foods and Veterinary Medicine, the Office of Medical and 
Tobacco Products, the Office of Global and Regulatory Pol-
icy, the Office of Operations, the Office of the Chief Sci-
entist, and central services for these offices: Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed $25,000 of this amount shall be 
for official reception and representation expenses, not other-
wise provided for, as determined by the Commissioner: Pro-
vided further, That any transfer of funds pursuant to sec-
tion 770(n) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
248 
(21 U.S.C. 379dd(n)) shall only be from amounts made 
available under this heading for other activities: Provided 
further, That of the amounts that are made available under 
this heading for ‘‘other activities’’, and that are not derived 
from user fees, $1,500,000 shall be transferred to and 
merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Department of Health 
and Human Services—Office of Inspector General’’ for 
oversight of the programs and operations of the Food and 
Drug Administration and shall be in addition to funds oth-
erwise made available for oversight of the Food and Drug 
Administration: Provided further, That funds may be 
transferred from one specified activity to another with the 
prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress. 
In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 42 
U.S.C. 263b, export certification user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 381, priority review user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 360n and 360ff, food and feed recall fees, food rein-
spection fees, and voluntary qualified importer program 
fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–31, outsourcing facility 
fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–62, prescription drug 
wholesale distributor licensing and inspection fees author-
ized by 21 U.S.C. 353(e)(3), third-party logistics provider 
licensing and inspection fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
360eee–3(c)(1), third-party auditor fees authorized by 21
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U.S.C. 384d(c)(8), and medical countermeasure priority re-
view voucher user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 360bbb–4a, 
and, contingent upon the enactment of the Over-the-Counter 
Monograph User Fee Act of 2019, fees relating to over-the- 
counter monograph drugs authorized by part 10 of sub-
chapter C of Chapter VII of the Federal Food, Drug and 
Cosmetic Act shall be credited to this account, to remain 
available until expended. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For plans, construction, repair, improvement, exten-
sion, alteration, demolition, and purchase of fixed equip-
ment or facilities of or used by the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, where not otherwise provided, $11,788,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
FDA INNOVATION ACCOUNT, CURES ACT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the purposes de-
scribed under section 1002(b)(4) of the 21st Century Cures 
Act, in addition to amounts available for such purposes 
under the heading ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’, $75,000,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
amounts appropriated in this paragraph are appropriated 
pursuant to section 1002(b)(3) of the 21st Century Cures 
Act, are to be derived from amounts transferred under sec-
tion 1002(b)(2)(A) of such Act, and may be transferred by
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the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to the appropriation 
for ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services Food and 
Drug Administration Salaries and Expenses’’ solely for the 
purposes provided in such Act: Provided further, That upon 
a determination by the Commissioner that funds trans-
ferred pursuant to the previous proviso are not necessary 
for the purposes provided, such amounts may be transferred 
back to the account: Provided further, That such transfer 
authority is in addition to any other transfer authority 
provided by law. 
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), including 
the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, and the 
rental of space (to include multiple year leases), in the Dis-
trict of Columbia and elsewhere, $284,000,000, including 
not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representa-
tion expenses, and not to exceed $25,000 for the expenses 
for consultations and meetings hosted by the Commission 
with foreign governmental and other regulatory officials, of 
which not less than $20,000,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2021, and of which not less than 
$3,200,000 shall be for expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
General: Provided, That notwithstanding the limitations in
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31 U.S.C. 1553, amounts provided under this heading are 
available for the liquidation of obligations equal to current 
year payments on leases entered into prior to the date of 
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That for the pur-
pose of recording and liquidating any lease obligations that 
should have been recorded and liquidated against accounts 
closed pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1552, and consistent with the 
preceding proviso, such amounts shall be transferred to and 
recorded in a no-year account in the Treasury, which has 
been established for the sole purpose of recording adjust-
ments for and liquidating such unpaid obligations. 
In addition, for move, replication, and related costs 
associated with replacement leases for the Commission’s fa-
cilities, not to exceed $31,000,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $77,000,000 (from assessments collected 
from farm credit institutions, including the Federal Agri-
cultural Mortgage Corporation) shall be obligated during 
the current fiscal year for administrative expenses as au-
thorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, That this limita-
tion shall not apply to expenses associated with receiver-
ships: Provided further, That the agency may exceed this 
limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the Com-
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mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: Pro-
vided further, That the purposes of section 3.7(b)(2)(A)(i) 
of 
the 
Farm 
Credit 
Act 
of 
1971 
(12 
U.S.C. 
2128(b)(2)(A)(i)), the Farm Credit Administration may ex-
empt, an amount in its sole discretion, from the application 
of the limitation provided in that clause of export loans 
described in the clause guaranteed or insured in a manner 
other than described in subclause (II) of the clause. 
TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS AND TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 701. The Secretary may use any appropriations 
made available to the Department of Agriculture in this 
Act to purchase new passenger motor vehicles, in addition 
to specific appropriations for this purpose, so long as the 
total number of vehicles purchased in fiscal year 2020 does 
not exceed the number of vehicles owned or leased in fiscal 
year 2018: Provided, That, prior to purchasing additional 
motor vehicles, the Secretary must determine that such vehi-
cles are necessary for transportation safety, to reduce oper-
ational costs, and for the protection of life, property, and 
public safety: Provided further, That the Secretary may not 
increase the Department of Agriculture’s fleet above the 
2018 level unless the Secretary notifies in writing, and re-
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ceives approval from, the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress within 30 days of the notification. 
SEC. 702. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobligated 
balances of discretionary funds appropriated by this Act 
or any other available unobligated discretionary balances 
that are remaining available of the Department of Agri-
culture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition of 
plant and capital equipment necessary for the delivery of 
financial, administrative, and information technology serv-
ices of primary benefit to the agencies of the Department 
of Agriculture, such transferred funds to remain 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 further, That none 
of the funds transferred to the Working Capital Fund pur-
suant to this section shall be available for obligation with-
out 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 expendi-
ture to make any changes to the Department’s National Fi-
nance Center without written notification to and prior ap-
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proval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress as required by section 716 of this Act: 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 ini-
tiate, plan, develop, implement, or make any changes to re-
move or relocate any systems, missions, or functions of the 
offices of the Chief Financial Officer or any personnel from 
the National Finance Center prior to written notification 
to and prior approval of the Committee on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress and in accordance with the re-
quirements of section 716 of this Act: Provided further, That 
the Secretary of Agriculture and the offices of the Chief Fi-
nancial Officer shall actively market to existing and new 
Departments and other government agencies National Fi-
nance Center shared services including, but not limited to, 
payroll, financial management, and human capital shared 
services and allow the National Finance Center to perform 
technology upgrades: Provided further, That of annual in-
come amounts in the Working Capital Fund of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture attributable to the amounts in excess 
of the true costs of the shared services provided by the Na-
tional Finance Center and budgeted for the National Fi-
nance Center, the Secretary shall reserve not more than 4 
percent for the replacement or acquisition of capital equip-
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ment, including equipment for the improvement, delivery, 
and implementation of financial, administrative, and in-
formation technology services, and other systems of the Na-
tional Finance Center or to pay any unforeseen, extraor-
dinary cost of the National Finance Center: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the amounts reserved shall be available 
for obligation unless the Secretary submits written notifica-
tion of the obligation to the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress: Provided further, That the limi-
tations on the obligation of funds pending notification to 
Congressional Committees shall not apply to any obligation 
that, as determined by the Secretary, is necessary to re-
spond to a declared state of emergency that significantly 
impacts the operations of the National Finance Center; or 
to evacuate employees of the National Finance Center to 
a safe haven to continue operations 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. 
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
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agreement when the purpose of such cooperative arrange-
ments is to carry out programs of mutual interest between 
the two parties. This does not preclude appropriate pay-
ment of indirect costs on grants and contracts with such 
institutions when such indirect costs are computed on a 
similar basis for all agencies for which appropriations 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 De-
partment of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire 
new information technology systems or significant up-
grades, as determined by the Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, without the approval of the Chief Information Offi-
cer and the concurrence of the Executive Information Tech-
nology Investment Review Board: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, none of the funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be 
transferred to the Office of the Chief Information Officer
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without written notification to and the prior approval of 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 
11319 of title 40, United States Code, none of the funds 
available to the Department of Agriculture for information 
technology shall be obligated for projects, contracts, or other 
agreements over $25,000 prior to receipt of written ap-
proval by the Chief Information Officer: Provided further, 
That the Chief Information Officer may authorize an agen-
cy to obligate funds without written approval from the 
Chief Information Officer for projects, contracts, or other 
agreements up to $250,000 based upon the performance of 
an agency measured against the performance plan require-
ments described in the explanatory statement accom-
panying Public Law 113–235. 
SEC. 707. Funds made available under section 524(b) 
of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)) in 
the current fiscal year shall remain available until ex-
pended 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 Elec-
trification Act of 1936, or any not-for-profit utility that 
is eligible to receive an insured or direct loan under such
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Act, shall be eligible for assistance under section 313B(a) 
of such Act in the same manner as a borrower under such 
Act. 
SEC. 709. (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law, not more than $20,000,000 in unobligated balances 
from appropriations made available for salaries and ex-
penses in this Act for the Farm Service Agency shall remain 
available through September 30, 2021, for information tech-
nology expenses. 
(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, 
not more than $20,000,000 in unobligated balances from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses in 
this Act for the Rural Development mission area shall re-
main available through September 30, 2021, for informa-
tion technology expenses. 
SEC. 710. 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 con-
travention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of 
title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 711. In the case of each program established or 
amended by the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113– 
79) or by a successor to that Act, 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-
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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 technical 
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. 712. Of the funds made available by this Act, not 
more than $2,900,000 shall be used to cover necessary ex-
penses of activities related to all advisory committees, pan-
els, commissions, and task forces of the Department of Agri-
culture, except for panels used to comply with negotiated 
rule makings and panels used to evaluate competitively 
awarded grants. 
SEC. 713. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer net-
work unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, 
and exchanging of pornography.
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(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal 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 re-
ferred to as ‘‘section 32’’) in excess of $1,331,725,000 (exclu-
sive of carryover appropriations from prior fiscal years), 
as follows: Child Nutrition Programs Entitlement Commod-
ities—$485,000,000; State Option Contracts—$5,000,000; 
Removal of Defective Commodities—$2,500,000; Adminis-
tration of Section 32 Commodity Purchases—$35,853,000: 
Provided, That of the total funds made available in the mat-
ter preceding this proviso that remain unobligated on Octo-
ber 1, 2020, such unobligated balances shall carryover into 
fiscal year 2021 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 sec-
tion 32 may not exceed $350,000,000 and may not be obli-
gated until the Secretary of Agriculture provides written
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notification of the expenditures to the Committees on Ap-
propriations 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 ap-
propriations 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 Depart-
ment 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 lan-
guage as part of the President’s budget submission to the 
Congress for programs under the jurisdiction of the Appro-
priations Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural Develop-
ment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agen-
cies 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 spend-
ing reductions should occur in the event the user fees pro-
posals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening 
of a committee of conference for the fiscal year 2021 appro-
priations Act.
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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 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 avail-
able for obligation or expenditure through a reprogram-
ming, transfer of funds, or reimbursements as authorized 
by the Economy Act, or in the case of the Department of 
Agriculture, through use of the authority provided by sec-
tion 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; 
(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 Chairman of the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services (as the case may be) notifies
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in writing and receives approval from 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 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 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 Agriculture, the Chairman of the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or the Secretary
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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 reprogramming or transfer of such funds 
or the use of such authority. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Chairman of the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 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 spe-
cifically 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;
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(2) realigning or reorganizing new, current, or 
vacant positions 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 by this Act notify, in writing, 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress 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, the 
Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 
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 
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 por-
tion of the loan. 
SEC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the Department of Agriculture, the Food
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and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission, or the Farm Credit Administration shall be 
used to transmit or otherwise make available reports, ques-
tions, or responses to questions that are a result of informa-
tion requested for the appropriations hearing process to any 
non-Department of Agriculture, non-Department of Health 
and Human Services, non-Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission, 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 prepackaged news story that the 
prepackaged news story was prepared or funded by that ex-
ecutive branch agency. 
SEC. 720. 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 60 days in a 
fiscal year unless the individual’s employing agency or of-
fice is fully reimbursed by the receiving agency or office 
for the salary and expenses of the employee for the period 
of assignment.
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SEC. 721. For the purposes of determining eligibility 
or level of program assistance for Rural Development pro-
grams the Secretary shall not include incarcerated prison 
populations. 
SEC. 722. Not later than 30 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Com-
missioner of the Food and Drug Administration, the Chair-
man of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and 
the Chairman of the Farm Credit Administration shall sub-
mit to the Committees on Appropriations 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 ex-
planatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated 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), $1,000,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 724. The Secretary shall continue an inter-
mediary loan packaging program based on the pilot pro-
gram in effect for fiscal year 2013 for packaging and re-
viewing section 502 single family direct loans. The Sec-
retary shall continue agreements with current intermediary 
organizations and with additional qualified intermediary
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organizations. The Secretary shall work with these organi-
zations 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 sec-
tion 502 loans an amount necessary to support the work 
of such intermediaries 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 guaran-
tees 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 sec-
tion 729 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions 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 Appropria-
tions 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 nec-
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essary for the delivery of financial, administrative, and in-
formation technology services, including cloud adoption and 
migration, of primary benefit to the agencies of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture. 
SEC. 727. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
‘‘variety’’ requirements of the final rule entitled ‘‘Enhanc-
ing Retailer Standards in the Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program (SNAP)’’ published 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 Regulations, 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 De-
cember 15, 2016: Provided, That until the Secretary pro-
mulgates such regulatory amendments, the Secretary shall 
apply the requirements regarding acceptable varieties and 
breadth of stock to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro-
gram retailers that were in effect on the day before the date
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of the enactment of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public 
Law 113–79). 
SEC. 728. 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 under such section and eligible lenders 
for such loans as the Secretary 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 eli-
gible lenders for such loans. 
SEC. 729. 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 re-
quire such distribution. 
SEC. 730. 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 preventive control requirements of
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the current good manufacturing practice, hazard analysis, 
and risk-based preventive controls for food for animals rule 
with respect to the regulation of the production, distribu-
tion, sale, or receipt of dried spent grain byproducts of the 
alcoholic beverage production process. 
SEC. 731. 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, 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 inap-
propriate purposes. 
SEC. 732. There is hereby appropriated $12,000,000, 
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): Provided, That the Secretary may 
allow eligible entities, or comparable entities that provide 
energy efficiency services using their own billing mecha-
nism to offer loans to customers in any part of their service 
territory and to offer loans to replace a manufactured hous-
ing unit with another manufactured housing unit, if re-
placement would be more cost effective in saving energy. 
SEC. 733. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall—
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(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 prac-
tices; 
(C) livestock demographics and traceability; 
(D) epidemiological separation from poten-
tial 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 con-
sistent with United States obligations under its inter-
national trade agreements. 
SEC. 734. No food that bears or contains partially hy-
drogenated 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 consid-
ered to be adulterated within the meaning of subsection 
(a)(1) or (a)(2)(C)(i) of section 402 of the Federal Food,
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Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 342(a)) because such 
food contains such partially hydrogenated oils until the ap-
plicable compliance dates specified by FDA in the Federal 
Register on May 21, 2018 (83 Fed. Reg. 23358 et seq.). 
SEC. 735. 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. 736. (a)(1) No Federal funds made available for 
this fiscal year for the rural water, waste water, waste dis-
posal, 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 construction materials.
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(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory 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 avail-
able 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 over-
all 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 Sec-
retary 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 De-
partment.
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(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 require-
ments 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 recognized In-
dian tribe. 
SEC. 737. 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. 738. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to procure raw or processed poultry prod-
ucts imported into the United States from the People’s Re-
public 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 Pro-
gram 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. 739. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
sonnel— 
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the Fed-
eral 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. 740. Of the total amounts made available by this 
Act for direct loans and grants in section 732 and in the 
following headings: ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Hous-
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ing 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 
Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service— 
Rural Business Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Coop-
erative Service—Rural Economic Development Loans Pro-
gram Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service— 
Rural Cooperative Development Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities 
Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Ac-
count’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Electrification 
and Telecommunications Loans Program Account’’; and 
‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Distance Learning, Telemedi-
cine, and Broadband Program’’, to the maximum extent 
feasible, at least 10 percent of the funds shall be allocated 
for assistance in persistent poverty counties under this sec-
tion, including, notwithstanding any other provision re-
garding population limits, any county seat of such a per-
sistent poverty county that has a population that does not 
exceed the authorized population limit by more than 10 per-
cent: 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 measured by the 1990 and 2000 
decennial censuses, and 2007–2011 American Community
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Survey 5-year average, or any territory or possession of the 
United States: Provided further, That with respect to spe-
cific activities for which program levels have been made 
available by this Act that are not supported by budget au-
thority, the requirements of this section shall be applied to 
such program level. 
SEC. 741. (a) No funds shall be used to finalize the 
proposed rule entitled ‘‘Eligibility of the People’s Republic 
of China (PRC) to Export to the United States Poultry 
Products from Birds Slaughtered in the PRC’’ published 
in the Federal Register by the Department 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 applica-
ble requirements for poultry products in interstate 
commerce in the United States; 
(3) conduct periodic verification reviews and au-
dits of any such plants in the PRC intending to ex-
port into the United States processed poultry prod-
ucts;
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(4) conduct re-inspection of such poultry prod-
ucts at United States ports-of-entry to check the gen-
eral condition of such products, for the proper certifi-
cation and labeling of such products, and for any 
damage to such products that may have occurred dur-
ing 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 standards, including examina-
tions 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 con-
sistent with obligations of the United States under any 
trade agreement to which the United States is a party. 
SEC. 742. In addition to any other funds made avail-
able in this Act or any other Act, there is appropriated 
$9,000,000 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. 743. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2021, for the cost of 
loans and grants that is consistent with section 4206 of the
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Agricultural Act of 2014, for necessary expenses of the Sec-
retary 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. 744. For an additional amount for ‘‘Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service—Salaries and Expenses’’, 
$8,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, 
for one-time control and management and associated activi-
ties directly related to the multiple-agency response to citrus 
greening. 
SEC. 745. 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 investiga-
tional 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 in-
clude a heritable genetic modification. Any such submission 
shall be deemed to have not been received by the Secretary, 
and the exemption may not go into effect. 
SEC. 746. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to enforce the final rule pro-
mulgated by the Food and Drug Administration entitled 
‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and
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Holding of Produce for Human Consumption,’’ and pub-
lished on November 27, 2015, with respect to the regulation 
of entities that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine grapes, 
hops, pulse crops, or almonds. 
SEC. 747. For school year 2020–2021, only a school 
food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit 
school food service account as of December 31, 2019, shall 
be required to establish a price for paid lunches in accord-
ance with Section 12(p) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act, 42 U.S.C. 1760(p). 
SEC. 748. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2021, for a pilot pro-
gram 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. 749. For school years 2019–2020 and 2020–2021, 
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 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).
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SEC. 750. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used— 
(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Agri-
cultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940), subtitle G of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, or section 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 subsection sec-
tion 7606 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 or Subtitle 
G of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, within 
or outside the State in which the hemp is grown or 
cultivated. 
SEC. 751. Out of amounts appropriated to the Food 
and Drug Administration under title VI, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, acting through the Commis-
sioner of Food and Drugs, shall, not later than July 1, 
2020, and following the review required under Executive 
Order No. 12866 (5 U.S.C. 601 note; relating to regulatory 
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 recog-
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nized by the Food and Drug Administration on the net ef-
fects of seafood consumption. 
SEC. 752. In addition to any funds made available 
in this Act or any other Act, there is hereby appropriated 
$6,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, 
for grants from the National Institute of Food and Agri-
culture to the 1890 Institutions to support the Centers of 
Excellence. 
SEC. 753. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 for 
the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a pilot program 
that assists rural hospitals to improve long-term operations 
and financial health by providing technical assistance 
through analysis of current hospital management practices. 
SEC. 754. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for grants under section 
12502 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 755. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000 to 
carry out section 1621 of Public Law 110–246. 
SEC. 756. Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
issue a final rule based on the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Na-
tional Organic Program; Origin of Livestock,’’ published in 
the Federal Register on April 28, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 
23455): Provided, That the final rule shall incorporate pub-
lic comments submitted in response to the proposed rule.
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SEC. 757. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2021, to carry out 
section 4003(b) of Public Law 115–334 relating to dem-
onstration projects for Tribal Organizations. 
SEC. 758. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 for 
the Secretary to carry out a pilot program that provides 
forestry inventory analysis, forest management and eco-
nomic outcomes modelling for certain currently enrolled 
Conservation Reserve Program participants. 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 wild-
life habitats, that also have experience in conducting accu-
rate forest inventory analysis through the use of advanced, 
cost-effective technology. The Secretary shall focus the anal-
ysis 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 bottom-
land hardwood tree species including CP03, CP03A, CP11, 
CP22, CP31 and CP40. 
SEC. 759. 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 re-
main available until expended, to implement non-renewable 
agreements on eligible lands, including flooded agricultural
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lands, as determined by the Secretary, under the Water 
Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301–1311). 
SEC. 760. The Secretary shall set aside for Rural Eco-
nomic Area Partnership (REAP) Zones, until August 15, 
2020, 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 Community 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 obligated in REAP Zones with respect to funds 
provided under such headings in the most recent fiscal year 
any such funds were obligated under such headings for 
REAP Zones. 
SEC. 761. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 to 
carry out section 3307 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 762. The Secretary of Agriculture may waive the 
matching funds requirement under Section 412(g) of the 
Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform 
Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(g)). 
SEC. 763. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2021, to carry out 
section 23 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1793), of which $1,000,000 shall be for grants under such
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section to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States 
Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. 
SEC. 764. 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 orga-
nizations and public housing authorities to provide tech-
nical assistance, including financial and legal services, to 
RHS multi-family housing borrowers to facilitate the ac-
quisition 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 properties in the RHS multi-family housing pro-
gram for a period of time as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 765. Section 2 of the Rural Electrification Act 
of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 902) is amended in subsection (a) by 
striking ‘‘made by the Secretary’’ and inserting ‘‘made or 
guaranteed by the Secretary’’. 
SEC. 766. The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility 
shall be transferred without reimbursement from the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security to the Secretary of Agri-
culture. 
SEC. 767. Any funds made available by this or any 
other Act that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section
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1668(g)(2) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5921(g)(2)), as amended, shall 
be available for grants for biotechnology risk assessment re-
search: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer such 
funds to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture. 
SEC. 768. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to 
carry out section 222 of Subtitle A of the Department of 
Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6923) as 
amended by section 12302 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 769. There is hereby appropriated $400,000 to 
carry out section 224 of Subtitle A of the Department of 
Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6924) as 
amended by section 12504 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 770. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2021, to carry out 
section 4208 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 771. There is hereby appropriated $400,000 to 
carry out section 1672(g)(4)(B) of the Food, Agriculture, 
Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
5925(g)(4(B)) as amended by section 7209 of Public Law 
115–334. 
SEC. 772. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to 
carry out section 12301 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 773. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to 
carry out section 1450 of the National Agricultural Re-
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search, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3222e) as amended by section 7120 of Public Law 
115–334. 
SEC. 774. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 to 
carry out section 1671 of the Food, Agriculture, Conserva-
tion, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5924) as amended 
by section 7208 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 775. 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 ex-
ceed 120 days beyond the established period provided under 
the Program in order to protect public health. 
SEC. 776. There is hereby appropriated $6,000,000 for 
the purposes described in the paragraph entitled ‘‘Nutrition 
Assistance Program (NAP) Study’’ under the Supplemental 
Nutrition Assistance Program included in House Report 
116–107, of which $4,000,000 shall be for the Secretary to 
update the Feasibility Report, and of which $2,000,000 
shall be for Puerto Rico for technology requirements: Pro-
vided, That the reports detailed in House Report 116-107 
shall be due not later than December 31, 2020.
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SEC. 777. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to 
remain available until September 30, 2021, to carry out 
section 4206 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 778. There is hereby appropriated $20,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, to carry out section 
12513 of Public Law 115–334: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall take measures to ensure an equal distribution of funds 
between the three regional innovation initiatives. 
SEC. 779. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2021, to carry out 
section 2103 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 780. There is hereby appropriated $20,000,000, 
for an additional amount for ‘‘Department of Health and 
Human Services—Food and Drug Administration—Build-
ings and Facilities’’ to remain available until expended and 
in addition to amounts otherwise made available for such 
purposes, for necessary expenses of plans, construction, re-
pair, improvement, extension, alteration, demolition and 
purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of or used by FDA 
for seafood safety. 
SEC. 781. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to 
remain available until September 30, 2021, to carry out 
section 6424 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 782. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 
made available to carry out section 749 of Division A of
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Public Law 115–31 and section 739 of Division A of Public 
Law 115–141, $15,073,000 are rescinded. 
SEC. 783. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act, there is hereby appro-
priated $5,000,000, to remain available until expended, to 
the Secretary for a pilot program to provide grants to a 
regional consortium to fund technical assistance and con-
struction of regional wastewater systems for historically im-
poverished communities that have had difficulty in install-
ing traditional wastewater treatment systems due to soil 
conditions. 
SEC. 784. Section 9(i)(2) of the Food and Nutrition 
Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2018(i)(2)) is amended by striking 
‘‘for a period’’ and all that follows through ‘‘2018’’ and in-
serting ‘‘prior to December 31, 2020’’. 
SEC. 785. Not later than 60 days after enactment of 
this Act, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration shall issue a request for information to determine 
the next steps that will address the recent pulmonary ill-
nesses reported to be associated with the use of e-cigarettes 
and vaping products. As part of such request for informa-
tion, the Commissioner shall request public comment on 
product design and how to prevent consumers from modi-
fying or adding any substances to these products that are 
not intended by the manufacturer: Provided, That the Food
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and Drug Administration shall provide an update to the 
Committee on Appropriations on a quarterly basis. 
SEC. 786. (a) In the matter preceding the first proviso 
under the heading ‘‘Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 
Program’’ in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 
(Public Law 115–141), strike ‘‘December 31, 2019’’ and in-
sert ‘‘September 30, 2020’’. 
(b) In the matter preceding the first proviso under the 
heading ‘‘Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’’ in 
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (Public Law 
116–6), strike ‘‘December 31, 2020’’ and insert ‘‘September 
30, 2021’’. 
SEC. 
787. 
(a) 
There 
is 
hereby 
appropriated 
$300,000,000, to remain available until expended, for an 
additional amount for section 779 of Public Law 115–141. 
(b) Section 313(b) of the Rural Electrification Act of 
1936, as amended (7 U.S.C. 940c(b)), shall be applied for 
fiscal year 2020 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 ad-
dition, the Secretary shall use $425,000,000 of funds avail-
able 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 section 779 of 
Public Law 115–141 and shall use $255,000,000 of funds
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available in this subaccount in fiscal year 2020 for an addi-
tional amount for the same purpose and under the same 
terms and conditions as funds appropriated by section 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.’’. 
(c) Section 762(b) of division B of Public Law 116– 
6 shall no longer apply. 
SEC. 788. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law: 
(a) within 60 calendar days, restore on its website the 
searchable database and its contents that were available on 
January 30, 2017, and all content generated since that 
date; and 
(b) hereafter, make publicly available via searchable 
database, in their entirety without redactions except signa-
tures, the following records after enactment of this Act for 
a subsequent period of three years: 
(1) all final Animal Welfare Act inspection re-
ports, including all reports documenting all Animal 
Welfare Act non-compliances observed by USDA offi-
cials and all animal inventories; 
(2) all final Animal Welfare Act and Horse Pro-
tection Act enforcement records;
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(3) all reports or other materials documenting 
any non-compliances observed by USDA officials; and 
(4) within six months of receipt by the agency, 
all final Animal Welfare Act research facility annual 
reports, including their attachments with appropriate 
redactions made for confidential business information 
that USDA could withhold under FOIA Exemption 4. 
SEC. 789. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no funds available to the Department of Agriculture may 
be used to move any agency from the mission area in which 
it was located on August 1, 2018, to any other mission area 
or office within the Department in the absence of the enact-
ment of specific legislation affirming such move. 
SEC. 790. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the acceptable market name of any engineered animal ap-
proved prior to the effective date of the National Bioengi-
neered Food Disclosure Standard (February 19, 2019) shall 
include the words ‘‘genetically engineered’’ prior to the ex-
isting acceptable market name. 
SEC. 791. (a) The remaining unobligated balances of 
funds made available under the heading ‘‘Department of 
Agriculture—Agricultural Programs—Processing, Research 
and Marketing—Office of the Secretary’’ in the Bipartisan 
Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–123) are hereby re-
scinded: Provided, That the amounts rescinded pursuant to
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this subsection that were previously designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to that section of 
that Act. 
(b) In addition to amounts otherwise made available 
by this Act for ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Agricultural 
Programs—Processing, Research and Marketing—Office of 
the Secretary’’, there is appropriated for an additional 
amount for fiscal year 2020, to remain available until De-
cember 30, 2021, an amount equal to the unobligated bal-
ances rescinded pursuant to subsection (a), for the same 
purposes and under the same authorities and conditions as 
the funds made available under the heading ‘‘Department 
of Agriculture—Agricultural Programs—Processing, Re-
search and Marketing—Office of the Secretary’’ in the Ad-
ditional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief 
Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–20), as amended by this sec-
tion: Provided, That, in addition to the purposes specified 
in the matter preceding the first proviso under the heading 
‘‘Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Programs— 
Processing, Research and Marketing—Office of the Sec-
retary’’ in the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for 
Disaster Relief Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–20), as
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amended by this section, such amounts shall also be avail-
able for quality losses of crops, drought, and excessive mois-
ture: Provided further, That losses due to drought shall only 
be eligible under this subsection if any area within the 
county in which the loss occurs was rated by the U.S. 
Drought Monitor as having a D3 (Extreme Drought) or 
higher level of drought intensity during the applicable cal-
endar years: Provided further, That the Secretary may use 
the amounts provided under this subsection, under the same 
authorities and conditions as the funds made available 
under the heading ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Agricul-
tural Programs—Processing, Research and Marketing—Of-
fice of the Secretary’’ in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–123), to continue to pay for losses due 
to Tropical Storm Cindy, and peaches and blueberries due 
to freeze in 2017 and blueberry productivity losses in 2018: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall use the amounts 
provided under this subsection, under the same authorities 
and conditions as the funds made available under the head-
ing ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Programs— 
Processing, Research and Marketing—Office of the Sec-
retary’’ in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 
115–123), to make payments for vine losses that were eligi-
ble for, but did not receive, payments under that heading 
in that Act: Provided further, That such amount is des-
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ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
(c) Title I of the Additional Supplemental Appropria-
tions for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (Public Law 116–20), 
as amended by section 116 of the Continuing Appropria-
tions Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–59), is further amended 
in the first proviso under the heading ‘‘Department of Agri-
culture—Agricultural Programs—Processing, Research and 
Marketing—Office of the Secretary’’ by striking ‘‘may pro-
vide’’ and inserting ‘‘, in addition to the amount announced 
on November 8, 2019, shall provide not less than 
$400,000,000 in’’ , and by adding the following before the 
final proviso under that heading: ‘‘Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall pay all sugar beet losses in 2018 and 
2019 through cooperative processors (to be paid to producer 
members as determined by such processors) using the addi-
tional coverage level described in section 508(e)(2)(E) of the 
Federal 
Crop 
Insurance 
Act 
of 
1938 
(7 
U.S.C. 
1508(e)(2)(E)) for purposes of determining the Wildfire 
Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus factor (as defined in 
section 760.1502 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or 
successor 
regulations):’’: 
Provided, 
That 
amounts 
repurposed pursuant to this subsection that were previously 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
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pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985. 
(d) No later than December 31, 2020, the remaining 
unobligated balances of funds made available under the 
heading ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Pro-
grams—Processing, Research and Marketing—Office of the 
Secretary’’ in the Additional Supplemental Appropriations 
for Disaster Relief Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–20) are 
hereby permanently rescinded, and an amount of addi-
tional new budget authority equivalent to the amount re-
scinded is hereby appropriated, to remain available until 
December 30, 2021, in addition to other funds as may be 
available for such purposes, for the same purposes and 
under the same authorities and conditions as the funds 
made available in subsection (b): Provided, That the 
amounts rescinded pursuant to this subsection that were 
previously designated by the Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
are designated by the Congress as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to that section of that Act: Provided further, 
That the amount of additional new budget authority made
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available pursuant to this subsection is designated by the 
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 792. For an additional amount for ‘‘Department 
of Health and Human Services—Office of the Secretary— 
Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund’’ for 
purchase of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics for the 
prevention and treatment of Ebola, $535,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2024: Provided, That prod-
ucts purchased with funds provided under this section may, 
at the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, be deposited in the Strategic National Stockpile 
under section 319F–2 of the PHS Act: Provided further, 
That sections 319C–1(h)(3) and 319C–2(h) of the PHS Act 
shall not apply to funds provided under this section: Pro-
vided further, That funds provided under this section may 
be used for the purposes specified in this section or author-
ized under section 319F–4 of the PHS Act: Provided fur-
ther, That such amount is designated by the Congress as 
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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This division may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020’’. 
DIVISION C—ENERGY AND WATER DEVEL-
OPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES AP-
PROPRIATIONS ACT, 2020 
TITLE I 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL 
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL 
The following appropriations shall be expended under 
the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the super-
vision of the Chief of Engineers for authorized civil func-
tions of the Department of the Army pertaining to river 
and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore pro-
tection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related efforts. 
INVESTIGATIONS 
For expenses necessary where authorized by law for the 
collection and study of basic information pertaining to 
river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore 
protection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related needs; 
for surveys and detailed studies, and plans and specifica-
tions of proposed river and harbor, flood and storm damage 
reduction, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restora-
tion projects, and related efforts prior to construction; for
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restudy of authorized projects; and for miscellaneous inves-
tigations, and, when authorized by law, surveys and de-
tailed studies, and plans and specifications of projects prior 
to construction, $151,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the Secretary shall initiate six new 
study starts during fiscal year 2020: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall not deviate from the new starts proposed 
in the work plan, once the plan has been submitted to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For expenses necessary for the construction of river 
and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore pro-
tection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related projects 
authorized by law; for conducting detailed studies, and 
plans and specifications, of such projects (including those 
involving participation by States, local governments, or 
private groups) authorized or made eligible for selection by 
law (but such detailed studies, and plans and specifications, 
shall not constitute a commitment of the Government to 
construction); $2,681,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended; of which such sums as are necessary to cover the 
Federal share of construction costs for facilities under the 
Dredged Material Disposal Facilities program shall be de-
rived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund as author-
ized by Public Law 104–303; and of which such sums as
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are necessary to cover one-half of the costs of construction, 
replacement, rehabilitation, and expansion of inland water-
ways projects, except for Chickamauga Lock, Tennessee 
River, Tennessee, which shall be 35 percent during the fiscal 
year covered by this Act, shall be derived from the Inland 
Waterways Trust Fund, except as otherwise specifically 
provided for in law: Provided, That the Secretary shall ini-
tiate six new construction starts during fiscal year 2020: 
Provided further, That for new construction projects, project 
cost sharing agreements shall be executed as soon as prac-
ticable but no later than December 31, 2020: Provided fur-
ther, That no allocation for a new start shall be considered 
final and no work allowance shall be made until the Sec-
retary provides to the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress an out-year funding scenario dem-
onstrating the affordability of the selected new starts and 
the impacts on other projects: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may not deviate from the new starts proposed in 
the work plan, once the plan has been submitted to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES 
For expenses necessary for flood damage reduction 
projects and related efforts in the Mississippi River alluvial 
valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as authorized by 
law, $375,000,000, to remain available until expended, of
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which such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal share 
of eligible operation and maintenance costs for inland har-
bors shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust 
Fund. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, 
and care of existing river and harbor, flood and storm dam-
age reduction, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related 
projects authorized by law; providing security for infra-
structure owned or operated by the Corps, including admin-
istrative buildings and laboratories; maintaining harbor 
channels provided by a State, municipality, or other public 
agency that serve essential navigation needs of general com-
merce, where authorized by law; surveying and charting 
northern and northwestern lakes and connecting waters; 
clearing and straightening channels; and removing obstruc-
tions to navigation, $3,790,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which such sums as are necessary to cover 
the Federal share of eligible operation and maintenance 
costs for coastal harbors and channels, and for inland har-
bors shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust 
Fund; of which such sums as become available from the spe-
cial account for the Corps of Engineers established by the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 shall be 
derived from that account for resource protection, research,
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interpretation, and maintenance activities related to re-
source protection in the areas at which outdoor recreation 
is available; and of which such sums as become available 
from fees collected under section 217 of Public Law 104– 
303 shall be used to cover the cost of operation and mainte-
nance of the dredged material disposal facilities for which 
such fees have been collected: Provided, That 1 percent of 
the total amount of funds provided for each of the programs, 
projects, or activities funded under this heading shall not 
be allocated to a field operating activity prior to the begin-
ning of the fourth quarter of the fiscal year and shall be 
available for use by the Chief of Engineers to fund such 
emergency activities as the Chief of Engineers determines 
to be necessary and appropriate, and that the Chief of Engi-
neers shall allocate during the fourth quarter any remain-
ing funds which have not been used for emergency activities 
proportionally in accordance with the amounts provided for 
the programs, projects, or activities. 
REGULATORY PROGRAM 
For expenses necessary for administration of laws per-
taining to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands, 
$210,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2021.