(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; 
(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 subsection (1). 
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under its inter-
national trade agreements. 
SEC. 732. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement section 3.7(f) of the Farm 
Credit Act of 1971 in a manner inconsistent with section 
343(a)(13) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-
ment Act. 
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SEC. 733. In this fiscal year and thereafter, and not-
withstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds 
made available by this Act may be used to carry out any 
activities or incur any expense related to the issuance of 
licenses under section 3 of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 
2133), or the renewal of such licenses, to class B dealers 
who sell Random Source dogs and cats for use in research, 
experiments, teaching, or testing. 
SEC. 734. (a)(1) No Federal funds made available for 
this fiscal year for the rural water, waste water, waste dis-
posal, and solid waste management programs authorized by 
sections 306, 306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
1926 et seq.) shall be used for a project for the construction, 
alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public water or 
wastewater system unless all of the iron and steel products 
used in the project are produced in the United States. 
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ 
means the following products made primarily of iron or 
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe 
clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, reinforced 
precast concrete, and construction materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory of cases in which the Secretary of Agriculture (in this 
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section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee of 
the Secretary finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent 
with the public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-
able quantities or of a satisfactory quality; or 
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced 
in the United States will increase the cost of the over-
all project by more than 25 percent. 
(c) If the Secretary or the designee receives a request 
for a waiver under this section, the Secretary or the designee 
shall make available to the public on an informal basis a 
copy of the request and information available to the Sec-
retary or the designee concerning the request, and shall 
allow for informal public input on the request for at least 
15 days prior to making a finding based on the request. 
The Secretary or the designee shall make the request and 
accompanying information available by electronic means, 
including on the official public Internet Web site of the De-
partment. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under international 
agreements. 
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(e) The Secretary may retain up to 0.25 percent of 
the funds appropriated in this Act for ‘‘Rural Utilities 
Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Ac-
count’’ for carrying out the provisions described in sub-
section (a)(1) for management and oversight of the require-
ments of this section. 
(f) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 
project for which the engineering plans and specifications 
include use of iron and steel products otherwise prohibited 
by such subsection if the plans and specifications have re-
ceived required approvals from State agencies prior to the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(g) For purposes of this section, the terms ‘‘United 
States’’ and ‘‘State’’ shall include each of the several States, 
the District of Columbia, and each Federally recognized In-
dian Tribe. 
SEC. 735. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 
congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 
matters pending before Congress, other than to commu-
nicate to Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 
1913. 
SEC. 736. Of the total amounts made available by this 
Act for direct loans and grants under the following head-
ings: ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insurance 
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Fund Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Mu-
tual and Self-Help Housing Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing 
Service—Rural Housing Assistance Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Hous-
ing Service—Rural Community Facilities Program Ac-
count’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Busi-
ness Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Serv-
ice—Rural Economic Development Loans Program Ac-
count’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Coop-
erative Development Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative 
Service—Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program’’; 
‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal 
Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Elec-
trification and Telecommunications Loans Program Ac-
count’’; and ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Distance Learning, 
Telemedicine, and Broadband Program’’, to the maximum 
extent feasible, at least 10 percent of the funds shall be allo-
cated for assistance in persistent poverty counties under 
this section, including, notwithstanding any other provision 
regarding population limits, any county seat of such a per-
sistent poverty county that has a population that does not 
exceed the authorized population limit by more than 10 per-
cent: Provided, That for purposes of this section, the term 
‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any county that has 
had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty 
over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 
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