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or restore sustainable livelihoods among individuals 
in the communities, particularly individuals caring 
for orphaned children. 
SEC. 725. In addition to amounts otherwise appro-
priated or made available by this Act, $2,981,000 is appro-
priated for the purpose of providing Bill Emerson and 
Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships through the Congres-
sional Hunger Center. 
SEC. 726. Notwithstanding section 412 of the Agricul-
tural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 
U.S.C. 1736f), any balances available to carry out title III 
of such Act as of the date of enactment of this Act, and 
any recoveries and reimbursements that become available 
to carry out title III of such Act, may be used to carry 
out title II of such Act. 
SEC. 727. Section 375(e)(6)(B) of the Consolidated 
Farm 
and 
Rural 
Development 
Act 
(7 
U.S.C. 
2008j(e)(6)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘$26,499,000’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$26,998,000’’. 
SEC. 728. 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-
suant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided 
in, this Act or any other appropriation Act.
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SEC. 729. 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. 730. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
of the funds made available in this Act for competitive re-
search grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), the Secretary may use up 
to 20 percent of the amount provided to carry out a com-
petitive grants program under the same terms and condi-
tions as those provided in section 401 of the Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 
(7 U.S.C. 7621), including requests for proposals for grants 
for critical emerging issues described in section 401(c)(1) 
of that Act for which the Secretary has not issued requests 
for proposals for grants in fiscal year 2002 or 2003. 
SEC. 731. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide 
financial and technical assistance through the Watershed 
and Flood Prevention Operations program to carry out the 
Upper Tygart Valley Watershed project, West Virginia: 
Provided, That the Natural Resources Conservation Service 
is authorized to provide 100 percent of the engineering as-
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sistance and 75 percent cost share for installation of the 
water supply component of this project. 
SEC. 732. Agencies and offices of the Department of 
Agriculture may utilize any unobligated salaries and ex-
penses funds to reimburse the Office of the General Counsel 
for salaries and expenses of personnel, and for other related 
expenses, incurred in representing such agencies and offices 
in the resolution of complaints by employees or applicants 
for employment, and in cases and other matters pending 
before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
the Federal Labor Relations Authority, or the Merit Sys-
tems Protection Board with the prior approval of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
SEC. 733. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this Act or any other Act may be used to pay 
the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out section 
14(h)(1) of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1012(h)(1)). 
SEC. 734. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this Act, or any other Act, may be used to pay 
the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out subtitle 
I of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 
U.S.C. 2009dd through dd–7). 
SEC. 735. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this Act or any other Act may be used to pay
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the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out section 
6405 of Public Law 107–171 (7 U.S.C. 2655). 
SEC. 736. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Natural Resources Conservation Service may provide fi-
nancial and technical assistance through the Watershed and 
Flood Prevention Operations program for the Kuhn Bayou 
and Ditch 26 Improvement projects in Arkansas, the 
Matanuska River erosion control project in Alaska, the 
DuPage County Sawmill Creek Watershed project in Illi-
nois, and the Coal Creek project in Utah, and four flood 
control structures in Marmaton, Kansas. 
SEC. 737. None of the funds made available in fiscal 
year 2004 or preceding fiscal years for programs authorized 
under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance 
Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) in excess of $20,000,000 
shall be used to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion for the release of eligible commodities under section 
302(f)(2)(A) of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1736f–1): Provided, That any such funds made 
available to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation 
shall only be used pursuant to section 302(b)(2)(B)(i) of 
the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act. 
SEC. 738. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Natural Resources Conservation Service may provide
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from appropriated funds financial and technical assistance 
to the Dry Creek project, Utah. 
SEC. 739. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized 
to permit employees of the United States Department of Ag-
riculture to carry and use firearms for personal protection 
while conducting field work in remote locations in the per-
formance of their official duties. 
SEC. 740. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries 
and expenses of personnel to carry out the provisions of sec-
tions 7404(a)(1) and 7404(c)(1) of Public Law 107–171. 
SEC. 741. Of the funds made available under section 
27(a) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et 
seq.), the Secretary may use up to $10,000,000 for costs as-
sociated with the distribution of commodities. 
SEC. 742. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to enroll in 
excess of 189,144 acres in the calendar year 2004 wetlands 
reserve program as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837. 
SEC. 743. (a) Notwithstanding subsections (c) and 
(e)(2) of section 313A of the Rural Electrification Act (7 
U.S.C. 940c(c) and (e)(2)) in implementing section 313A 
of that Act, the Secretary shall, with the consent of the lend-
er, structure the schedule for payment of the annual fee,
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not to exceed an average of 30 basis points per year for 
the term of the loan, to ensure that sufficient funds are 
available to pay the subsidy costs for note guarantees under 
that section; and 
(b) The Secretary shall publish a proposed rule to 
carry out section 313A of the Rural Electrification Act of 
1936 within 60 days of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 744. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
a ground and surface water conservation program author-
ized by section 2301 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm Se-
curity and Rural Investment Act of 2002, in excess of 
$51,000,000. 
SEC. 745. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
section 2502 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002, in excess of $42,000,000. 
SEC. 746. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
section 2503 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002, in excess of 
$112,044,000.
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SEC. 747. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000 to 
carry out section 6028 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm 
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002: Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 383B(g)(1) of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2009bb–
1(g)(1)), the Federal share of the administrative expenses 
of the Northern Great Plains Regional Authority for fiscal 
year 2004 shall be 100 percent. 
SEC. 748. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this Act or any other Act may be used to pay 
the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out section 
6029 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act of 2002: Provided, That this section shall 
not apply to activities related to the promulgation of regu-
lations or the receipt and review of applications for the 
Rural Business Investment Program. 
SEC. 749. ACCESS TO BROADBAND TELECOMMUNI-
CATIONS SERVICES IN RURAL AREAS. None of the funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made available by this or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of per-
sonnel to expend the $20,000,000 made available by section 
601(j)(1)(A) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 
U.S.C. 950bb(j)(1)(A)) for fiscal year 2004. 
SEC. 750. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act or any other Act shall be used
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to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
section 9006 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002. 
SEC. 751. Agencies and offices of the Department of 
Agriculture may utilize any available discretionary funds 
to cover the costs of preparing, or contracting for the prepa-
ration of, final agency decisions regarding complaints of 
discrimination in employment or program activities aris-
ing within such agencies and offices. 
SEC. 752. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
for any fiscal year, in the case of a high cost isolated rural 
area that is not connected to a road system in Alaska, the 
maximum level for the single family housing assistance 
shall be 150 percent of the average income level in the met-
ropolitan areas of the State and 115 percent of all other 
eligible areas of the State. 
SEC. 753. Any unobligated balances in the Alternative 
Agricultural Research and Commercialization Revolving 
Fund are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 754. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for the Denali Commis-
sion to address deficiencies in solid waste disposal sites 
which threaten to contaminate rural drinking water sup-
plies.
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SEC. 755. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary shall consider the City of Vicksburg, Mis-
sissippi; the City of Aberdeen, South Dakota; and the City 
of Starkville, Mississippi as meeting the requirements of a 
rural area contained in section 520 of the Housing Act of 
1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490) until receipt of the decennial Census 
for the year 2010. 
SEC. 756. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary shall consider the City of Berlin, New Hamp-
shire; the City of Guymon, Oklahoma; the City of Shawnee, 
Oklahoma; and the City of Altus, Oklahoma, to be eligible 
for loans and grants provided through the Rural Commu-
nity Advancement Program until receipt of the decennial 
Census in the year 2010. 
SEC. 757. None of the funds made available in this 
Act or any other Act may be used to study or enter into 
a contract with a private party to carry out, without spe-
cific authorization in a subsequent Act of Congress, a com-
petitive sourcing activity of the Secretary of Agriculture, 
including support personnel of the Department of Agri-
culture, relating to rural development or farm loan pro-
grams, animal disease research, or grant review or manage-
ment activities.
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SEC. 758. Section 501(b)(5)(B) of the Housing Act of 
1949 (42 U.S.C. 1471(b)(5)(B) is amended by striking ‘‘for 
fiscal years 2002 and 2003,’’. 
SEC. 759. AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE. 
Section 524(b)(4)(B) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
U.S.C. 1542(b)(4)(B)) is amended—
(1) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘clause (ii)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘clauses (ii) and (iii)’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iii) CERTAIN USES.—Of the amounts 
made available to carry out this subsection 
for each fiscal year, the Commodity Credit 
Corporation shall use not less than—
‘‘(I) $15,000,000 to carry out sub-
paragraphs (A), (B), and (C) of para-
graph (2) through the Natural Re-
sources Conservation Service; and 
‘‘(II) $2,000,000 to provide or-
ganic certification cost share assistance 
through the Agricultural Marketing 
Service.’’. 
SEC. 760. TRAVEL RELATING TO COMMERCIAL SALES 
OF AGRICULTURAL AND MEDICAL GOODS. Section 910(a) 
of the Trade Sanctions Reform And Export Enhancement
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Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7209(a)) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION OF TRAVEL RELATING TO COM-
MERCIAL
SALES
OF
AGRICULTURAL
AND
MEDICAL 
GOODS.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate 
regulations under which the travel-related transactions list-
ed in paragraph (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of 
Federal Regulations, are authorized by general license for 
travel to, from, or within Cuba for the purpose of confer-
ring, exhibiting, marketing, planning, sales negotiation, de-
livery, expediting, facilitating, or servicing commercial ex-
port sale of agricultural and medical goods pursuant to the 
provisions of this title.’’. 
SEC. 761. PROTECTION OF DOWNED ANIMALS. None 
of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by 
this Act to pay the salaries or expenses of employees or 
agents of the Department of Agriculture may be used to ap-
prove for human consumption under the Federal Meat In-
spection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) any cattle, sheep, swine, 
goats, horses, mules, or other equines that are unable to 
stand or walk unassisted at an establishment subject to in-
spection at the point of examination and inspection, as re-
quired by section 3(a) of that Act (21 U.S.C. 603(a)). 
SEC. 762. PROHIBITION OF ENERGY MARKET MANIPU-
LATION. (a) PROHIBITION.—Part II of the Federal Power
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Act (16 U.S.C. 824 et seq.) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 215. PROHIBITION OF MARKET MANIPULATION. 
‘‘It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indi-
rectly, to use or employ, in connection with the purchase 
or sale of electric energy or the purchase or sale of trans-
mission services subject to the jurisdiction of the Commis-
sion, any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance 
in contravention of such regulations as the Commission 
may promulgate as appropriate in the public interest or 
for the protection of electric ratepayers.’’. 
(b) RATES RESULTING FROM MARKET MANIPULA-
TION.—Section 205(a) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 
824d(a)) is amended by inserting after ‘‘not just and rea-
sonable’’ the following: ‘‘or that result from a manipulative 
or deceptive device or contrivance’’. 
SEC. 763. Hereafter, no funds provided in this or any 
other Act shall be available to the Secretary of Agriculture 
acting through the Foreign Agricultural Service to promote 
the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products. 
SEC. 764. IN GENERAL.—Section 3(o)(4) of the Food 
Stamp Act of 1977, as amended (7 U.S.C. 2012(o)(4), is 
amended by inserting before the period at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, and except that on October 1, 2003, in the case 
of households residing in Alaska and Hawaii the Secretary
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may not reduce the cost of such diet in effect on September 
30, 2002’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall be effective beginning on September 30, 
2003. 
SEC. 765. MODIFICATION OF BOUNDARIES OF AROOS-
TOOK
COUNTY
AND
GRIGGS-STEELE
EMPOWERMENT 
ZONES. (a) AROOSTOOK COUNTY EMPOWERMENT ZONE.—
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Aroostook 
County empowerment zone shall include for the period such 
empowerment zone remains designated, in addition to the 
area designated as of the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the remaining area of the county not included in such des-
ignation. 
(b) GRIGGS-STEELE EMPOWERMENT ZONE.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the Griggs-Steele em-
powerment zone shall include for the period such empower-
ment zone remains designated, in addition to the area des-
ignated as of the date of the enactment of this Act, the re-
maining area of Griggs County not included in such des-
ignation. 
SEC. 766. COST-SHARING FOR ANIMAL AND PLANT 
HEALTH EMERGENCY PROGRAMS. None of the funds made 
available by this Act may be used to issue a final rule in 
furtherance of, or otherwise implement, the proposed rule
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on cost-sharing for animal and plant health emergency pro-
grams of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
published on July 8, 2003 (Docket No. 02–062–1; 68 Fed. 
Reg. 40541). 
SEC. 767. Section 601(b)(2) of the Rural Electrifica-
tion Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950bb(b)(2)) is amended to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE RURAL COMMUNITY.—The term 
‘eligible rural community’ means any area of the 
United States that is not contained in an incor-
porated city or town with a population in excess of 
20,000 inhabitants.’’. 
SEC. 768. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
for all activities under programs of the Rural Development 
Mission Area within the County of Honolulu, Hawaii, the 
Secretary may designate any portion of the county as a 
rural area or eligible rural community that the Secretary 
determines is not urban in character. 
SEC. 769. The first sentence of section 306(g)(1) of the 
National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1721(g)(1)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or title V of the Housing Act of 
1949’’; and 
(2) by inserting after ‘‘1944’’ the following: ‘‘, 
title V of the Housing Act of 1949,’’.
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SEC. 770. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Con-
solidated Farm and Rural Development Act (including the 
associated regulations) governing the Community Facilities 
Program, the Secretary shall allow all Community Facility 
Program facility borrowers and grantees to enter into con-
tracts with not-for-profit third parties for services con-
sistent with the requirements of the Program, grant, and/
or loan: Provided, That the contracts protect the interests 
of the Government regarding cost, liability, maintenance, 
and administrative fees. 
SEC. 771. EQIP PAYMENT LIMIT. None of the funds 
made available under this Act or any other Act shall be 
used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry 
out chapter 4 of subtitle D of the Food Security Act of 1985 
(16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) to make payments to an indi-
vidual, entity, or agricultural operation, directly or indi-
rectly, in excess of an aggregate of $300,000 for all contracts 
entered into by the individual, entity, or agricultural oper-
ation during the period of fiscal years 2002 through 2007. 
SEC. 772. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of Agriculture may use appropriations avail-
able to the Secretary for activities authorized under sections 
426–426c of title 7, United States Code, under this or any 
other Act, to enter into cooperative agreements, with a 
State, political subdivision, or agency thereof, a public or
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private agency, organization, or any other person, to lease 
aircraft if the Secretary determines that the objectives of 
the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual interest of the parties 
to the agreement in carrying out the programs administered 
by the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife 
Service; and (2) all parties will contribute resources to the 
accomplishment of these objectives; award of a cooperative 
agreement authorized by the Secretary may be made for an 
initial term not to exceed 5 years. 
SEC. 773. CITRUS CANKER ASSISTANCE. Section 211 
of the Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003 (117 Stat. 545) 
is amended—
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ‘‘TREE 
REPLACEMENT AND’’ after ‘‘FOR’’; and 
(2) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘tree replace-
ment and’’ after ‘‘Florida for’’. 
SEC. 774. RURAL ELECTRIFICATION. For fiscal year 
2004, the Secretary of Agriculture may use any unobligated 
carryover funds made available for any program adminis-
tered by the Rural Utilities Service (not including funds 
made available under the heading ‘‘RURAL COMMUNITY AD-
VANCEMENT PROGRAM’’ in any Act of appropriation) to 
carry out section 315 of the Rural Electrification Act of 
1936 (7 U.S.C. 940e).
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SEC. 775. The Commissioner of the Food and Drug 
Administration shall provide no less than $250,000, from 
within funds appropriated or otherwise made available in 
this Act for the Food and Drug Administration, to process 
comments submitted in response to Docket No. 95N–0304 
published in the Federal Register on March 5, 2003 (68FR 
10417): Provided further, That the Commissioner should ex-
pedite and complete review of available scientific evidence 
of ephedra’s pharmacology and mechanism of action. 
SEC. 776. WORKLOAD ANALYSIS OF FARM SERVICE 
AGENCY. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to pay more than 1⁄2 of the salary of the Under 
Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services after 
January 31, 2004, unless and until the Secretary of Agri-
culture provides to the Committee on Agriculture of House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nu-
trition, and Forestry of the Senate a workload analysis of 
employees of the Farm Service Agency for each of fiscal 
years 2001, 2002, and 2003 (including an analysis of the 
number of workload items and required man-years, by 
State). 
SEC. 777. SUN GRANT RESEARCH INITIATIVE. (a) 
SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the ‘‘Sun 
Grant Research Initiative Act of 2003’’.
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(b) RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATIONAL PRO-
GRAMS ON BIOBASED ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND PROD-
UCTS.—Title IX of the Farm Security and Rural Invest-
ment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8101 et seq.) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 9011. RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATIONAL 
PROGRAMS ON BIOBASED ENERGY TECH-
NOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the programs estab-
lished under this section are—
‘‘(1) to enhance national energy security through 
the development, distribution, and implementation of 
biobased energy technologies; 
‘‘(2) to promote diversification in, and the envi-
ronmental sustainability of, agricultural production 
in the United States through biobased energy and 
product technologies; 
‘‘(3) to promote economic diversification in rural 
areas of the United States through biobased energy 
and product technologies; and 
‘‘(4) to enhance the efficiency of bioenergy and 
biomass research and development programs through 
improved coordination and collaboration between the 
Department of Agriculture, the Department of En-
ergy, and the land-grant colleges and universities.