Houses of Congress written or electronic mail confirma-
tion of receipt of the notification as required in this sec-
tion. 
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 
portion of the loan. 
SEC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of Agriculture, the 
Food and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission, or the Farm Credit Administration 
shall be used to transmit or otherwise make available re-
ports, questions, or responses to questions that are a re-
sult of information requested for the appropriations hear-
ing process to any non-Department of Agriculture, non- 
Department of Health and Human Services, non-Com-
modity 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 pre-
packaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution 
in the United States unless the story includes a clear noti-
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fication within the text or audio of the prepackaged news 
story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or 
funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 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 office is fully reimbursed by the receiving agency or 
office for the salary and expenses of the employee for the 
period of assignment. 
SEC. 721. (a) Not later than 30 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the 
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, the 
Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commis-
sion, and the Chairman of the Farm Credit Administra-
tion shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate a detailed 
obligation plan delineated by program, project, and activ-
ity, as defined in the report accompanying this Act, for 
all amounts made available by this Act and prior appro-
priations Acts that remain available for obligation, includ-
ing appropriated user fees and loan authorizations. 
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(b) Such obligation plan shall serve as the baseline 
for reprogramming notifications for the purposes of sec-
tion 716 of this Act. 
(c) Such plan shall include breakdowns of estimated 
obligations for each such program, project, or activity 
by— 
(1) fiscal quarter; 
(2) source appropriation; and 
(3) the number of full-time equivalent positions 
supported. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available by this Act or previous appro-
priations Acts to the agencies funded in this Act that re-
main available for obligation or expenditure shall be avail-
able for transfer or reprogramming except pursuant to 
section 716 of this Act. 
(RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 722. 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), $100,000,000 are hereby re-
scinded: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded 
from amounts that were designated by the Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to a Concurrent Res-
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olution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 723. For the purposes of determining eligibility 
or level of program assistance for Rural Housing Service 
programs the Secretary shall not include incarcerated 
prison populations. 
SEC. 724. 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 Sec-
retary notifies, in writing, the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress at least 15 days in ad-
vance. 
SEC. 725. 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 notifica-
tion to, and the prior approval of, the Committees on Ap-
propriations of both Houses of Congress: Provided, That 
the refunds or rebates so transferred shall be available for 
obligation only for the acquisition of property, plant and 
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equipment, including equipment for the improvement, de-
livery, and implementation of Departmental financial 
management, information technology, and other support 
systems necessary for the delivery of financial, administra-
tive, and information technology services, including cloud 
adoption and migration, of primary benefit to the agencies 
of the Department of Agriculture. 
SEC. 726. 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 Agri-
culture amends the definition of the term ‘‘variety’’ as de-
fined in section 278.1(b)(1)(ii)(C) of title 7, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations, 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 num-
ber of items that qualify as acceptable varieties in each 
staple food category so that the total number of such items 
in each staple food category exceeds the number of such 
items in each staple food category included in the final 
rule as published on December 15, 2016: Provided, That 
until the Secretary promulgates such regulatory amend-
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ments, the Secretary shall apply the requirements regard-
ing acceptable varieties and breadth of stock to Supple-
mental Nutrition Assistance Program retailers that were 
in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of 
the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79). 
SEC. 727. 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 eligible lenders for such loans. 
SEC. 728. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be available for the 
United States Department of Agriculture to propose, fi-
nalize or implement any regulation that would promulgate 
new user fees pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9701 after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 729. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act thereafter may be used to write, prepare, 
or publish a proposed rule, final rule, or an interim final 
rule in furtherance of, or otherwise to implement or en-
force the final rule entitled ‘‘Transparency in Poultry 
Grower Contracting and Tournaments,’’ published by the 
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Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on No-
vember 28, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 83210 et seq.), the final 
rule entitled ‘‘Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity 
Under the Packers and Stockyards Act,’’ published by the 
Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on 
March 6, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 16092 et seq.), the final 
rule entitled ‘‘Poultry Grower Payment Systems and Cap-
ital Improvement Systems,’’ published by the Department 
of Agriculture in the Federal Register on January 16, 
2025 (90 Fed. Reg. 5146 et seq.), the proposed rule enti-
tled ‘‘Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Mar-
kets,’’ published by the Department of Agriculture in the 
Federal Register on June 28, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 53886 
et seq.), or any subsequent substantially similar rule-
making effort, except that funds may be used to, and the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall, withdraw or rescind any 
such proposed rules, advanced notices of proposed rule-
making, and any such rules that may have been finalized, 
and discontinue and provide notice of closure to affected 
parties of any investigations or enforcement activities 
pending under said rules. 
SEC. 730. Notwithstanding any provision of law that 
regulates the calculation and payment of overtime and hol-
iday pay for FSIS inspectors, the Secretary may charge 
establishments subject to the inspection requirements of 
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the Poultry Products Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 451 et 
seq., the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 601 et 
seq, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 1031 
et seq., for the cost of inspection services provided outside 
of an establishment’s approved inspection shifts, and for 
inspection services provided on Federal holidays: Provided, 
That any sums charged pursuant to this paragraph shall 
be deemed as overtime pay or holiday pay under section 
1001(d) of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public 
Law 117–2, 135 Stat. 242): Provided further, That sums 
received by the Secretary under this paragraph shall, in 
addition to other available funds, remain available until 
expended to the Secretary without further appropriation 
for the purpose of funding all costs associated with FSIS 
inspections. 
SEC. 731. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall— 
(1) conduct audits in a manner that evaluates 
the following factors in the country or region being 
audited, as applicable— 
(A) veterinary control and oversight; 
(B) disease history and vaccination prac-
tices; 
(C) 
livestock 
demographics 
and 
traceability; 
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100 
(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 paragraph (1). 
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under its inter-
national trade agreements. 
SEC. 732. A bank referenced in 12 U.S.C. 2128 may 
make and participate in loans and commitments and pro-
vide technical and other financial assistance to coopera-
tives and any other public or private entity (except for the 
federal government) for the purpose of installing, main-
taining, expanding, improving, or operating facilities in a 
rural area as defined in 12 U.S.C. 2128(f) for the proc-
essing or disposal of waste from any source, provision of 
telecommunication services, and producing electricity from 
any source for use or sale by the borrower. 
SEC. 733. Out of the funds provided by this Act to 
the Food and Drug Administration (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘FDA’’), or provided from any accounts 
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101 
in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available 
to the agencies funded by this Act, not less than 
$200,000,000 shall be used by the Commissioner of Food 
and Drugs for enforcement activities related to e-ciga-
rettes, vapes, and other electronic nicotine delivery sys-
tems (in this section referred to as ‘‘ENDS’’), including— 
(1) updating the FDA document titled ‘‘En-
forcement Priorities for Electronic Nicotine Delivery 
System (ENDS) and Other Deemed Products on the 
Market Without Premarket Authorization’’, pub-
lished in January 2020 and updated on April 13, 
2020— 
(A) to expand FDA’s prioritized enforce-
ment to flavored disposable ENDS products in 
addition to cartridge-based products; and 
(B) to define the term ‘‘disposable ENDS 
product’’; 
(2) preparing and making publicly available on 
the FDA website a list of products, to be updated 
monthly, that have— 
(A) received marketing granted orders pur-
suant to section 910(c)(1)(A)(i) of the Federal 
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 4 
387j(c)(1)(A)(i)); 
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