SEC. 745. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this Act shall be expended to violate 
Public Law 105–264. 
SEC. 746. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this 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 in excess of 
$51,000,000. 
SEC. 747. 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 on cost-sharing 
for animal and plant health emergency programs of the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service published on 
July 8, 2003 (Docket No. 02–062–1; 68 Fed. Reg. 
40541). 
SEC. 748. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to study, complete a study of, or enter 
into a contract with a private party to carry out, without 
specific authorization in a subsequent Act of Congress, a 
competitive sourcing activity of the Secretary of Agri-
culture, including support personnel of the Department of 
Agriculture, relating to rural development or farm loan 
programs. 
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SEC. 749. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
section 9010 of Public Law 107–171 in excess of 
$60,000,000. 
SEC. 750. Agencies and offices of the Department of 
Agriculture may utilize any available discretionary funds 
to cover the costs of preparing, or contracting for the 
preparation of, final agency decisions regarding com-
plaints of discrimination in employment or program activi-
ties arising within such agencies and offices. 
SEC. 751. Funds made available under section 1240I 
and section 1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 in 
fiscal year 2006 shall remain available until expended to 
cover obligations made in fiscal year 2006, and are not 
available for new obligations. 
SEC. 752. None of the funds made available under 
this Act shall be available to pay the administrative ex-
penses of a State agency that, after the date of enactment 
of this Act and prior to implementation of interim final 
regulations regarding vendor cost containment in accord-
ance with the provisions set forth in section 17(h)(11)(G) 
of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, authorizes any new 
for-profit vendor(s) to transact food instruments under 
the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, 
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Infants, and Children if it is expected that more than 50 
percent of the annual revenue of the vendor from the sale 
of food items will be derived from the sale of supplemental 
foods that are obtained with WIC food instruments, except 
that the Secretary may approve the authorization of such 
a vendor if the approval is necessary to assure participant 
access to program benefits or is in accordance with the 
provisions set forth in section 17(h)(11)(E) of the Child 
Nutrition Act of 1966. 
SEC. 753. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, for a grant to the Ohio 
Livestock Expo Center in Springfield, Ohio. 
SEC. 754. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
an Agricultural Management Assistance Program as au-
thorized by section 524 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act 
in excess of $6,000,000 (7 U.S.C. 1524). 
SEC. 755. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
a Biomass Research and Development Program in excess 
of $12,000,000, as authorized by Public Law 106–224 (7 
U.S.C. 7624 note). 
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SEC. 756. Notwithstanding 40 U.S.C. 524, 571, and 
572, the Secretary of Agriculture may sell the US Water 
Conservation Laboratory, Phoenix, Arizona, and credit the 
net proceeds of such sale as offsetting collections to its 
Agricultural Research Service Buildings and Facilities ac-
count. Such funds shall be available until September 30, 
2007 to be used to replace these facilities and to improve 
other USDA-owned facilities. 
SEC. 757. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be used for salaries and expenses to draft or implement 
any regulation or rule insofar as it would require recertifi-
cation of rural status for each electric and telecommuni-
cations borrower for the Rural Electrification and Tele-
communication Loans program. 
SEC. 758. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used for the imple-
mentation of Country of Origin Labeling for meat or meat 
products. 
SEC. 759. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, and until the receipt of the decennial Census in 
the year 2010, the Secretary of Agriculture shall con-
sider— 
(1) the City of Bridgeton, New Jersey, the City 
of Kinston, North Carolina, and the City of Ports-
mouth, Ohio as rural areas for the purposes of 
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Rural Housing Service Community Facilities Pro-
gram loans and grants; 
(2) the Township of Bloomington, Illinois (in-
cluding individuals and entities with projects within 
the Township) eligible for Rural Housing Service 
Community Facilities Programs loans and grants; 
and 
(3) the City of Lone Grove, Oklahoma (includ-
ing individuals and entities with projects within the 
city) eligible for Rural Housing Service Community 
Facilities Program loans and grants. 
SEC. 760. The Secretary of Agriculture shall use 
$10,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration, to remain available until expended, to com-
pensate commercial citrus and lime growers in the State 
of Florida for tree replacement and for lost production 
with respect to trees removed to control citrus canker, and 
with respect to certified citrus nursery stocks within the 
citrus canker quarantine areas, as determined by the Sec-
retary. For a grower to receive assistance for a tree under 
this section, the tree must have been removed after Sep-
tember 30, 2001. 
SEC. 761. The counties of Burlington and Camden, 
New Jersey (including individuals and entities with 
projects within these counties) shall be eligible for loans 
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