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FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $46,000,000 (from assessments collected from 
farm credit institutions and from the Federal Agricultural Mortgage 
Corporation) shall be obligated during the current fiscal year for 
administrative expenses as authorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249: Pro-
vided, That this limitation shall not apply to expenses associated 
with receiverships. 
TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS AND TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, appropria-
tions and authorizations made for the Department of Agriculture 
for the current fiscal year under this Act shall be available for 
the purchase, in addition to those specifically provided for, of not 
to exceed 182 passenger motor vehicles, of which 142 shall be 
for replacement only, and for the hire of such vehicles. 
SEC. 702. New obligational authority provided for the following 
appropriation items in this Act shall remain available until 
expended: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the contin-
gency fund to meet emergency conditions, information technology 
infrastructure, fruit fly program, emerging plant pests, cotton pests 
program, avian influenza programs, grasshopper program, up to 
$9,750,000 in animal health monitoring and surveillance for the 
animal identification system, up to $1,500,000 in the scrapie pro-
gram for indemnities, up to $3,000,000 in the emergency manage-
ment systems program for the vaccine bank, up to $1,000,000 
for wildlife services methods development, up to $1,000,000 of the 
wildlife services operations program for aviation safety, and up 
to 25 percent of the screwworm program; Food Safety and Inspection 
Service, Public Health Data Communication Infrastructure System; 
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, 
funds for competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), funds for 
the Research, Education, and Economics Information System, and 
funds for the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund; Farm 
Service Agency, salaries and expenses funds made available to 
county committees; Foreign Agricultural Service, middle-income 
country training program, and up to $2,000,000 of the Foreign 
Agricultural Service appropriation solely for the purpose of offset-
ting fluctuations in international currency exchange rates, subject 
to documentation by the Foreign Agricultural Service. 
SEC. 703. The Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobligated 
balances of discretionary funds appropriated by this Act or other 
available unobligated discretionary balances of the Department of 
Agriculture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition of 
plant and capital equipment necessary for the financial manage-
ment modernization initiative and the delivery of financial, adminis-
trative, and information technology services of primary benefit to 
the agencies of the Department of Agriculture: 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
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of the funds transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant 
to this section shall be available for obligation without 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 expenditure to make any 
changes to the Department’s National Finance Center without prior 
approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress as required by section 713 of this Act. 
SEC. 704. 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. 705. 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 institutions in excess of 10 percent 
of the total direct cost of the agreement when the purpose of 
such cooperative arrangements is to carry out programs of mutual 
interest between the two parties. This does not preclude appropriate 
payment of indirect costs on grants and contracts with such institu-
tions when such indirect costs are computed on a similar basis 
for all agencies for which appropriations are provided in this Act. 
SEC. 706. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
to pay indirect costs charged against competitive agricultural 
research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the 
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service that 
exceed 20 percent of total Federal funds provided under each award: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 1462 of the National Agri-
cultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3310), funds provided by this Act for grants awarded 
competitively by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
Extension Service shall be available to pay full allowable indirect 
costs for each grant awarded under section 9 of the Small Business 
Act (15 U.S.C. 638). 
SEC. 707. Appropriations to the Department of Agriculture 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 Development Loan Fund program account, the 
Rural Electrification and Telecommunication Loans program 
account, and the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account. 
SEC. 708. Of the funds made available by this Act, not more 
than $1,800,000 shall be used to cover necessary expenses of activi-
ties related to all advisory committees, panels, commissions, and 
task forces of the Department of Agriculture, except for panels 
used to comply with negotiated rule makings and panels used 
to evaluate competitively awarded grants. 
SEC. 709. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be used to carry out section 410 of the Federal Meat Inspection 
Act (21 U.S.C. 679a) or section 30 of the Poultry Products Inspection 
Act (21 U.S.C. 471). 
SEC. 710. No employee of the Department of Agriculture may 
be detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by this 
Act to any other agency or office of the Department for more 
than 30 days 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.
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SEC. 711. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of Agriculture or the Food and Drug 
Administration shall be used to transmit or otherwise make avail-
able to any non-Department of Agriculture or non-Department of 
Health and Human Services employee questions or responses to 
questions that are a result of information requested for the appro-
priations hearing process. 
SEC. 712. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire new information 
technology systems or significant upgrades, as determined by the 
Office of the Chief Information Officer, without the approval of 
the Chief Information Officer and the concurrence of the Executive 
Information Technology Investment Review Board: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be trans-
ferred to the Office of the Chief Information Officer without the 
prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress: Provided further, That none of the funds available 
to the Department of Agriculture for information technology shall 
be obligated for projects over $25,000 prior to receipt of written 
approval by the Chief Information Officer. 
SEC. 713. (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 cur-
rent fiscal year, 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 which— 
(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 Commit-
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are notified 
15 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds. 
(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 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 for activities, programs, or projects through a re-
programming of funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, which- 
ever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or 
activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any existing pro-
gram, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent 
as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general savings 
from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change 
in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress are notified 15 days in advance of such reprogramming of 
funds.
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(c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, or the Chairman of the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission shall notify the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress before implementing a program or 
activity not carried out during the previous fiscal year unless the 
program or activity is funded by this Act or specifically funded 
by any other Act. 
SEC. 714. 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 language as part of the 
President’s Budget submission to the Congress of the United States 
for programs under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Sub-
committees on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies 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 addi-
tional spending reductions should occur in the event the user fees 
proposals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening of 
a committee of conference for the fiscal year 2009 appropriations 
Act. 
SEC. 715. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide financial and 
technical assistance— 
(1) from funds available for the Watershed and Flood 
Prevention Operations program for the Pocasset River Flood-
plain Management Project in the State of Rhode Island; 
(2) through the Watershed and Flood Prevention Oper-
ations program to carry out the East Locust Creek Watershed 
Plan Revision in Missouri, including up to 100 percent of the 
engineering assistance and 75 percent cost share for construc-
tion cost of site RW1; 
(3) through the Watershed Flood Prevention Operations 
program to carry out the Little Otter Creek Watershed project. 
The sponsoring local organization may obtain land rights by 
perpetual easements; and 
(4) through the Watershed and Flood Prevention Oper-
ations program to the McDowell Grove Dam Flood Plain/Wet-
lands Restoration Project in DuPage County, Illinois. 
SEC. 716. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used to close or relocate a Rural Development 
office unless or until the Secretary of Agriculture determines the 
cost effectiveness and/or enhancement of program delivery: Pro-
vided, That not later than 60 days before the date of the proposed 
closure or relocation, the Secretary notifies the Committees on 
Appropriation of the House and Senate, and the members of Con-
gress from the State in which the office is located of the proposed 
closure or relocation and provides a report that describes the jus-
tifications for such closures and relocations. 
SEC. 717. None of the funds made available to the Food and 
Drug Administration by this Act shall be used to close or relocate, 
or to plan to close or relocate, the Food and Drug Administration 
Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis in St. Louis, Missouri, outside 
the city or county limits of St. Louis, Missouri. 
SEC. 718. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the 
funds made available in this Act for competitive research grants 
(7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), the Secretary may use up to 26 percent of