Calendar No. 146
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H.R. 2493
[Report No. 103–102]
AN ACT
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and
Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1994, and for other pur-
poses.
JULY 1 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on
Appropriations
JULY 20 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993
Reported with amendments
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Calendar No. 146
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2493
[Report No. 103–102]
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 1 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations
JULY 20 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993
Reported by Mr. BUMPERS, with amendments
[Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
AN ACT
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development,
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for Ag-
riculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year
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ending September 30, 1994, and for other purposes,
namely:
TITLE I—AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND MARKETING
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary
of Agriculture, and not to exceed $50,000 for employment
under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $2,320,000 $2,295,000: Provided,
That not to exceed $8,000 of this amount shall be avail-
able for official reception and representation expenses, not
otherwise provided for, as determined by the Secretary:
Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer salaries
and expenses funds in this Act sufficient to finance a total
of not to exceed 35 staff years between agencies of the
Department of Agriculture to meet workload require-
ments.
OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY SECRETARY
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture, including not to exceed $25,000
for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $553,000 $546,000:
Provided, That not to exceed $3,000 of this amount shall
be available for official reception and representation ex-
penses, not otherwise provided for, as determined by the
Deputy Secretary.
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OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS
For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and
Program Analysis, including employment pursuant to the
second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of
1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $5,000 is
for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $5,954,000
$5,781,000.
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR
ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Administration to carry out the programs
funded in this Act, $808,000 $798,000.
RENTAL PAYMENTS (USDA)
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For payment of space rental and related costs pursu-
ant to Public Law 92–313 for programs and activities of
the Department of Agriculture which are included in this
Act, $135,503,000, of which $30,804,000 shall be re-
tained by the Department of Agriculture for the operation,
maintenance, and repair of Agriculture buildings and for
non-recurring repairs as determined by the Department
of Agriculture, and an additional $19,700,000 shall be re-
tained by the Department of Agriculture for renovation
and repair of facilities at the Beltsville Agricultural Re-
search Center: Provided, That in the event an agency with-
in the Department of Agriculture should require modifica-
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tion of space needs, the Secretary of Agriculture may
transfer a share of that agency’s appropriation made
available by this Act to this appropriation, or may transfer
a share of this appropriation to that agency’s appropria-
tion, but such transfers shall not exceed 5 per centum of
the funds made available for space rental and related costs
to or from this account.
ADVISORY COMMITTEES (USDA)
For necessary expenses for activities of advisory com-
mittees of the Department of Agriculture which are in-
cluded in this Act, $940,000: Provided, That no other
funds appropriated to the Department of Agriculture in
this Act shall be available to the Department of Agri-
culture for support of activities of advisory committees.
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Department of Agri-
culture, to comply with the requirement of section 107g
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C.
9607g, and section 6001 of the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6961,
$15,802,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That appropriations and funds available herein to
the Department of Agriculture for hazardous waste man-
agement may be transferred to any agency of the Depart-
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ment for its use in meeting all requirements pursuant to
the above Acts on Federal and non-Federal lands.
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For Personnel, Finance and Management, Oper-
ations, Information Resources Management, Advocacy and
Enterprise, Administrative Law Judges and Judicial Offi-
cer, and Emergency Programs, $26,301,000 $25,960,000,
for Departmental Administration to provide for necessary
expenses for management support services to offices of the
Department of Agriculture and for general administration
and emergency preparedness of the Department of Agri-
culture, repairs and alterations, and other miscellaneous
supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and nec-
essary for the practical and efficient work of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, including employment pursuant to
the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act
of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $10,000
is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That
this appropriation shall be reimbursed from applicable ap-
propriations in this Act for travel expenses incident to the
holding of hearings as required by 5 U.S.C. 551–558.
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OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR
CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Congressional Relations to carry out the pro-
grams funded in this Act, $1,333,000 $1,317,000.
OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
For necessary expenses to carry on services relating
to the coordination of programs involving public affairs,
and for the dissemination of agricultural information and
the coordination of information, work and programs au-
thorized by Congress in the Department, $8,629,000
$8,510,000, including employment pursuant to the second
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7
U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $10,000 shall be
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not
to exceed $2,000,000 may be used for farmers’ bulletins:
Provided, That none of the funds in this Act hereafter,
none of the funds available to the Department of Agriculture
may be used to produce part 2 of the annual report of
the Secretary (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture).
INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
For necessary expenses for programs involving inter-
governmental affairs and liaison within the executive
branch, $478,000 $472,000.
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OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector
General, including employment pursuant to the second
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7
U.S.C. 2225), and the Inspector General Act of 1978, as
amended, $65,932,000 $65,127,000, including such sums
as may be necessary for contracting and other arrange-
ments with public agencies and private persons pursuant
to section 6(a)(8) of the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, and including a sum not to exceed $50,000
for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; and including a sum
not to exceed $95,000 for certain confidential operational
expenses including the payment of informants, to be ex-
pended under the direction of the Inspector General pur-
suant to Public Law 95–452 and section 1337 of Public
Law 97–98.
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General
Counsel, $26,149,000 $25,835,000.
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMICS
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Economics to carry out the programs funded
in this Act, $589,000 $582,000.
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ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research
Service in conducting economic research and service relat-
ing to agricultural production, marketing, and distribu-
tion, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of
1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627) and other laws, including eco-
nomics of marketing; analyses relating to farm prices, in-
come and population, and demand for farm products, use
of resources in agriculture, adjustments, costs and returns
in farming, and farm finance; research relating to the eco-
nomic and marketing aspects of farmer cooperatives; and
for analysis of supply and demand for farm products in
foreign countries and their effect on prospects for United
States exports, progress in economic development and its
relation to sales of farm products, assembly and analysis
of agricultural trade statistics and analysis of inter-
national financial and monetary programs and policies as
they affect the competitive position of United States farm
products, $57,702,000 $51,219,000; of which $500,000
shall be available for investigation, determination, and
finding as to the effect upon the production of food and
upon the agricultural economy of any proposed action af-
fecting such subject matter pending before the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency for presen-
tation, in the public interest, before said Administrator,
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other agencies or before the courts: Provided, That this
appropriation shall be available to continue to gather sta-
tistics and conduct a special study on the price spread be-
tween the farmer and the consumer: Provided further,
That this appropriation shall be available for employment
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225): Provided further,
That this appropriation shall be available for analysis of
statistics and related facts on foreign production and full
and complete information on methods used by other coun-
tries to move farm commodities in world trade on a com-
petitive basis.
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural
Statistics Service in conducting statistical reporting and
service work, including crop and livestock estimates, sta-
tistical coordination and improvements, and marketing
surveys, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act
of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627) and other laws,
$82,069,000 $81,458,000: Provided, That this appropria-
tion shall be available for employment pursuant to the sec-
ond sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944
(7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $40,000 shall be avail-
able for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.
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WORLD AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK BOARD
For necessary expenses of the World Agricultural
Outlook Board to coordinate and review all commodity
and aggregate agricultural and food data used to develop
outlook and situation material within the Department of
Agriculture, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing
Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), $2,582,000 $2,550,000:
Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225).
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SCIENCE
AND EDUCATION
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education to ad-
minister the laws enacted by the Congress for the Agricul-
tural Research Service, Cooperative State Research Serv-
ice, Extension Service, and National Agricultural Library,
$569,000 $562,000.
ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND
COMMERCIALIZATION
For necessary expenses to carry out the Alternative
Agricultural Research and Commercialization Act of 1990
(7 U.S.C. 5901–5908), $7,250,000 $12,000,000 is appro-
priated to the Alternative Agricultural Research and Com-
mercialization Revolving Fund.
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AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Re-
search Service to perform agricultural research and dem-
onstration relating to production, utilization, marketing,
and distribution (not otherwise provided for), home eco-
nomics or nutrition and consumer use, and for acquisition
of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal
cost not to exceed $100, $688,805,000 $680,165,000: Pro-
vided, That appropriations hereunder shall be available for
temporary employment pursuant to the second sentence
of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C.
2225), and not to exceed $115,000 shall be available for
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That
appropriations hereunder hereafter, appropriations avail-
able to the Department of Agriculture can be used to pro-
vide financial assistance to the organizers of national and
international conferences, if such conferences are in sup-
port of agency programs: Provided further, That appro-
priations hereunder shall be available for the operation
and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to
exceed one for replacement only: Provided further, That
appropriations hereunder shall be available to conduct
marketing research: Provided further, That appropriations
hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250
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for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings
and improvements, but unless otherwise provided the cost
of constructing any one building shall not exceed
$250,000, except for headhouses or greenhouses which
shall each be limited to $1,000,000, and except for ten
buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to
exceed $500,000 each, and the cost of altering any one
building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per cen-
tum of the current replacement value of the building or
$250,000, whichever is greater: Provided further, That the
limitations on alterations contained in this Act shall not
apply to modernization or replacement of existing facilities
at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, That the fore-
going limitations shall not apply to replacement of build-
ings needed to carry out the Act of April 24, 1948 (21
U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That the foregoing limita-
tions shall not apply to the purchase of land or the con-
struction of facilities as may be necessary for the reloca-
tion of the United States Horticultural Crops Research
Laboratory at Fresno to Parlier, California, and the relo-
cation of the laboratories at Behoust, France and Rome,
Italy to Montpelier, France, including the sale or exchange
at fair market value of existing land and facilities at Fres-
no, California and Behoust, France; and the Agricultural
Research Service may lease such existing land and facili-
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ties from the purchasers until completion of the replace-
ment facilities and the foregoing limitations shall not
apply to the purchase of land at Weslaco, Texas: Provided
further, That not to exceed $190,000 of this appropriation
may be transferred to and merged with the appropriation
for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and
Education for the scientific review of international issues
involving agricultural chemicals and food additives: Pro-
vided further, That funds may be received from any State,
other political subdivision, organization, or individual for
the purpose of establishing or operating any research facil-
ity or research project of the Agricultural Research Serv-
ice, as authorized by law.
Special fund: To provide for additional labor,
subprofessional, and junior scientific help to be employed
under contracts and cooperative agreements to strengthen
the work at Federal research installations in the field,
$2,500,000.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improve-
ment, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equip-
ment or facilities as necessary to carry out the agricultural
research programs of the Department of Agriculture,
where not otherwise provided, $29,387,000 $29,888,000,
to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Pro-