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SEC. 726. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out a con-
servation farm option program in excess of $2,000,000 au-
thorized by section 335 of Public Law 104–127.
SEC. 727. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to pay the salaries of employees of the
Department of Agriculture who make payments pursuant
to a production flexibility contract entered into under sec-
tion 111 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Re-
form Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–127; 7 U.S.C. 7211)
when it is made known to the Federal official having au-
thority to obligate or expend such funds that the land cov-
ered by that production flexibility contract is not being
used for the production of an agricultural commodity or
is not devoted to a conserving use, unless it is also made
known to that Federal official that the lack of agricultural
production or the lack of a conserving use is a consequence
of drought, flood, or other natural disaster used for an
agricultural or related activity, including conserving use,
as determined by the Secretary.
SEC. 728. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to extend
any existing or expiring contract in the Conservation Re-
serve Program authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3831–3845.
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SEC. 729. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to maintain the price of raw cane sugar
(as reported for an appropriate preceding month for appli-
cable sugar futures contracts of the Coffee, Sugar, and
Cocoa Exchange, New York) at more than 1171⁄2 percent
of the statutory loan rate under section 158 of the Federal
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act (title 1 of Pub-
lic Law 104–127).
SEC. 730. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to carry out the provisions of section 918
of Public Law 104–127, the Federal Agriculture Improve-
ment and Reform Act.
SEC. 731. (a) IN GENERAL.—Any owner on the date
of enactment of this Act of the right to market a non-
steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that—
(1) contains a patented active agent;
(2) has been reviewed by the Federal Food and
Drug Administration for a period of more than 96
months as a new drug application; and
(3) was approved as safe and effective by the
Federal Food and Drug Administration on January
31, 1991, shall be entitled, for the 2-year period be-
ginning on February 28, 1997, to exclude others
from making, using, offering for sale, selling, or im-
porting into the United States such active agent, in
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accordance with section 154(a)(1) of title 35, United
States Code.
(b) INFRINGEMENT.—Section 271 of title 35, United
States Code shall apply to the infringement of the entitle-
ment provide under subsection (a).
(c) NOTIFICATION.—Not later than 30 days after the
date of the enactment of this section, any owner granted
an entitlement under subsection (a) shall notify the Com-
missioner of Patents and Trademarks and the Secretary
for Health and Human Services of such entitlement. Not
later than 7 days after the receipt of such notice, the Com-
mission and the Secretary shall publish an appropriate no-
tice of the receipt of such notice.
SEC. 732. Funds Hereafter, funds appropriated to the
Department of Agriculture may be used for incidental ex-
penses such as transportation, uniforms, lodging, and sub-
sistence for volunteers serving under the authority of 7
U.S.C. 2272, when such volunteers are engaged in the
work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture; and for pro-
motional items of nominal value relating to the U.S. De-
partment of Agriculture Volunteer Programs.
SEC. 733. It is the sense of Congress that, not later
than the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
of Agriculture should—
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(1) release a detailed plan for compensating
wheat farmers and handlers adversely affected by
the karnal bunt quarantine in Riverside and Impe-
rial Counties of California, which should include—
(A) an explanation of the factors to be
used to determine the compensation amount for
wheat farmers and handlers, including how con-
tract and spot market prices will be handled;
and
(B) compensation for farmers who have
crops positive for karnal bunt and compensation
for farmers who have crops which are negative
for karnal bunt, but which cannot go to market
due to the lack of Department action on match-
ing restrictions on the negative wheat with the
latest risk assessments; and
(2) review the risk assessments developed by
the University of California at Riverside and submit
a report to Congress describing how these risk as-
sessments will impact the Department of Agriculture
policy on the quarantine area for the 1997 wheat
crop.
SEC. 734. Not to exceed 10 percent of the amounts ap-
propriated or otherwise made available by this Act for the
Rural Housing Assistance Program, the Rural Business-Co-
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operative Assistance Program, and the Rural Utilities As-
sistance Program may be transferred between these pro-
grams for authorized purposes.
SEC. 735. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available to the Department of Agriculture by this
Act may be used to detail or assign an individual from
an agency or office funded in this Act to any other agency
or office for more than 60 days, unless the Secretary pro-
vides notification to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations that an employee detail or assignment in
excess of 60 days is required.
SEC. 736. Section 747(e) of the Federal Agriculture
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 is amended by insert-
ing, ‘‘effective October 1, 1996’’ following ‘‘The Secretary
shall make grants’’ in Section 747(e)(2).
SEC. 737. LABELING OF RAW POULTRY PRODUCTS.—
(a) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or
otherwise made available by this Act may be used to
implement or enforce the final rule related to the la-
beling of raw poultry products promulgated by the
Food Safety and Inspection Service on August 25,
1995 (60 Fed. Reg. 44395), and the final rule shall
not be effective during fiscal year 1997.
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(b) FINAL RULE.—Not later than 90 days after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Ag-
riculture shall issue a revised final rule related to the
labeling of raw poultry products that—
(1) maintains the standard that the term
‘‘fresh’’ may be used only for raw poultry prod-
ucts the internal core temperature of which has
not fallen below 26° Fahrenheit;
(2) deletes the requirement that poultry
products the internal core temperature of which
has ever been less than 26° Fahrenheit, but more
than 0° Fahrenheit, be labeled as ‘‘hard chilled’’
or ‘‘previously hard chilled’’, except that—
(A) the products shall be prohibited
under the rule from being labeled as ‘‘fresh’’
but shall not be required to bear any spe-
cific alternative labeling; and
(B) nothing in this section shall be in-
terpreted as modifying the requirements for
labeling of all poultry products the internal
core temperature of which has ever fallen to
0° Fahrenheit as ‘‘frozen’’;
(3) provides for a tolerance from the 26°
Fahrenheit standard established by the rule of—