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508(d) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, are increased over com-
parable rates effective for the 1994 crop, or the insured yields
are decreased from comparable yields for the 1994 crop, or a com-
bination of both, by an amount or amounts sufficient to ensure
that an estimated loss ratio will not exceed 1.1 for the crop produced
on such farms during the 1995 crop year.
FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION FUND
For payments as authorized by section 508(b) of the Federal
Crop Insurance Act, as amended, $219,107,000, to remain available
until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b).
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUND
REIMBURSEMENT FOR NET REALIZED LOSSES
For fiscal year 1995, such sums as may be necessary to
reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for net realized losses
sustained, but not previously reimbursed (estimated to be
$15,500,000,000 in the President’s fiscal year 1995 Budget Request
(H. Doc. 103–179)), but not to exceed $15,500,000,000, pursuant
to section 2 of the Act of August 17, 1961, as amended (15 U.S.C.
713a–11).
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE
MANAGEMENT
For fiscal year 1995, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall
not expend more than $5,000,000 for expenses to comply with
the requirement of section 107(g) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended,
42 U.S.C. 9607(g), and section 6001 of the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6961: Provided, That
expenses shall be for operations and maintenance costs only and
that other hazardous waste management costs shall be paid for
by the USDA Hazardous Waste Management appropriation in this
Act.
DISASTER ASSISTANCE
Such sums as may be necessary from the Commodity Credit
Corporation shall be available, through July 15, 1995, to producers
under the same terms and conditions authorized in chapter 3,
subtitle B, title XXII of Public Law 101–624 for 1994 crops, includ-
ing aquaculture and excluding ornamental fish, affected by natural
disasters: Provided, That these funds shall be made available upon
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That such funds shall
also be available for payments to producers for 1995 through 1996
orchard crop losses, if the losses are due to freezing conditions
incurred between January 1, 1994 and March 31, 1994, and Federal
crop insurance is not available for affected orchard crop producers:
Provided further, That such funds shall also be available to fund
the costs of replanting, reseeding, or repairing damage to commer-
cial trees, including orchard and nursery inventory, as a result
of 1994 weather-related damages: Provided further, That the terms
and conditions of section 521, paragraphs (a) (3) and (4), paragraph
(b)(3), subparagraph (c)(2)(C), and subsections (d) and (e), as amend-
ed in section 201 of S. 2095 (as reported by the Committee on
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Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on June 22, 1994) shall apply
to all claims for assistance made under this paragraph: Provided
further, That such amounts and uses of funds made available under
this paragraph are designated by Congress as emergency require-
ments pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and that such funds
and uses shall be available only to the extent an official budget
request for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of
the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement
pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
TITLE II—CONSERVATION PROGRAMS
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR
NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Assist-
ant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment to administer
the laws enacted by the Congress for the Forest Service and the
Soil Conservation Service, $677,000.
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
CONSERVATION OPERATIONS
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of the
Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a–590f) including preparation
of conservation plans and establishment of measures to conserve
soil and water (including farm irrigation 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 agricultural related pollutants); operation of conservation
plant materials centers; classification and mapping of soil; dissemi-
nation of information; acquisition of lands by donation, exchange,
or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100; purchase and
erection or alteration or improvement of permanent and temporary
buildings; and operation and maintenance of aircraft, $556,062,000,
and the unobligated and uncommitted portion of the fiscal year
1994 appropriation for the Conservation Reserve Program shall
be transferred to this account, to remain available until expended
(7 U.S.C. 2209b); of which not less than $5,756,000 is for snow
survey and water forecasting and not less than $8,070,000 is for
operation and establishment of the plant materials centers: Pro-
vided, That except for $3,399,000 for improvements of the plant
materials centers, the cost of any permanent building purchased,
erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a
water supply or sanitary system and connecting the same to any
such building and with the exception of buildings acquired in
conjunction with land being purchased for other purposes, shall
not exceed $10,000, except for one building to be constructed at
a cost not to exceed $100,000 and eight buildings to be constructed
or improved at a cost not to exceed $50,000 per building and
except that alterations or improvements to other existing permanent
buildings costing $5,000 or more may be made in any fiscal year
in an amount not to exceed $2,000 per building: Provided further,
That when buildings or other structures are erected on non-Federal
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land that the right to use such land is obtained as provided in
7 U.S.C. 2250a: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation
may be expended for soil and water conservation operations under
the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a–590f) in demonstration
projects: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available
for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a)
of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225) and not to exceed
$25,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109:
Provided further, That qualified local engineers may be temporarily
employed at per diem rates to perform the technical planning
work of the Service.
RIVER BASIN SURVEYS AND INVESTIGATIONS
For necessary expenses to conduct research, investigation, and
surveys of watersheds of rivers and other waterways, in accordance
with section 6 of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention
Act approved August 4, 1954, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1006–1009),
$12,970,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available
for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a)
of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed
$60,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.
WATERSHED PLANNING
For necessary expenses for small watershed investigations and
planning, in accordance with the Watershed Protection and Flood
Prevention Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1001–1008), $10,546,000:
Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for employment
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic
Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $50,000 shall be
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.
WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS
For necessary expenses to carry out preventive measures,
including but not limited to research, engineering operations, meth-
ods of cultivation, the growing of vegetation, rehabilitation of exist-
ing works and changes in use of land, in accordance with the
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act approved August
4, 1954, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1001–1005, 1007–1009), the provi-
sions of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a–f), and in
accordance with the provisions of laws relating to the activities
of the Department, $70,000,000, to remain available until expended
(7 U.S.C. 2209b) (of which $10,000,000 shall be available for the
watersheds authorized under the Flood Control Act approved June
22, 1936 (33 U.S.C. 701, 16 U.S.C. 1006a), as amended and supple-
mented): Provided, That, for fiscal year 1995 only, not to exceed
10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available for
allocation to any one State: Provided further, That this appropria-
tion shall be available for employment pursuant to the second
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C.
2225), and not to exceed $200,000 shall be available for employment
under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That not to exceed
$1,000,000 of this appropriation is available to carry out the pur-
poses of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Public Law 93–
205), as amended, including cooperative efforts as contemplated
by that Act to relocate endangered or threatened species to other
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suitable habitats as may be necessary to expedite project
construction.
RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
For necessary expenses in planning and carrying out projects
for resource conservation and development and for sound land use
pursuant to the provisions of section 32(e) of title III of the
Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1010–
1011; 76 Stat. 607), the provisions of the Act of April 27, 1935
(16 U.S.C. 590a–f), and the provisions of the Agriculture and Food
Act of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3451–3461), $32,845,000, to remain available
until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209): Provided, That this appropriation
shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence
of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and
not to exceed $50,000 shall be available for employment under
5 U.S.C. 3109.
GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION PROGRAM
For necessary expenses to carry into effect a program of con-
servation in the Great Plains area, pursuant to section 16(b) of
the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as added by
the Act of August 7, 1956, as amended (16 U.S.C. 590p(b)),
$15,172,000, to remain available until expended (16 U.S.C.
590p(b)(7)).
AGRICULTURAL STABILIZATION AND CONSERVATION SERVICE
AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry into effect the program author-
ized in sections 7 to 15, 16(a), 16(f), and 17 of the Soil Conservation
and Domestic Allotment Act approved February 29, 1936, as
amended and supplemented (16 U.S.C. 590g–590o, 590p(a), 590p(f),
and 590q), and sections 1001–1004, 1006–1008, and 1010 of the
Agricultural Act of 1970, as added by the Agriculture and Consumer
Protection Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1501–1504, 1506–1508, and 1510),
and including not to exceed $15,000 for the preparation and display
of exhibits, including such displays at State, interstate, and inter-
national fairs within the United States, $100,000,000, to remain
available until expended (16 U.S.C. 590o), for agreements, excluding
administration but including technical assistance and related
expenses (16 U.S.C. 590o), except that no participant in the Agricul-
tural Conservation Program shall receive more than $3,500 per
year, except where the participants from two or more farms or
ranches join to carry out approved practices designed to conserve
or improve the agricultural resources of the community, or where
a participant has a long-term agreement, in which case the total
payment shall not exceed the annual payment limitation multiplied
by the number of years of the agreement: Provided, That no portion
of the funds for the current year’s program may be utilized to
provide financial or technical assistance for drainage on wetlands
now designated as Wetlands Types 3 (III) through 20 (XX) in
United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Circular
39, Wetlands of the United States, 1956: Provided further, That
such amounts shall be available for the purchase of seeds, fertilizers,