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SEC. 734. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to carry out the final rule 
promulgated by the Food and Drug Administration and 
put into effect November 16, 2015, in regards to the haz-
ard analysis and risk-based preventive control require-
ments of the current good manufacturing practice, hazard 
analysis, and risk-based preventive controls for food for 
animals rule with respect to the regulation of the produc-
tion, distribution, sale, or receipt of dried spent grain by-
products of the alcoholic beverage production process. 
SEC. 735. Hereafter, notwithstanding 5 U.S.C.5315, 
the Administrator for Rural Utilities Service, U.S. De-
partment of Agriculture, shall receive basic pay at a rate 
not to exceed the maximum amount of compensation pay-
able to a member of the Senior Executive Service under 
subsection (b) of section 5382 of title 5 United States 
Code, except that the certification requirement in that 
subsection shall not apply to the compensation of the Ad-
ministrator. 
SEC. 736. Funds made available under title II of the 
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be 
used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate 
monitoring and controls, as determined by the Adminis-
trator, are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is 
received by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by 
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food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inap-
propriate purposes. 
SEC. 737. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, acting 
through the Food and Nutrition Service, to commence any 
new research and evaluation projects until the Secretary 
submits to the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress a research and evaluation plan for fis-
cal year 2019, prepared in coordination with the Research, 
Education, and Economics mission area of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, and a period of 30 days beginning 
on the date of the submission of the plan expires to permit 
Congressional review of the plan. 
SEC. 738. There is hereby appropriated $10,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, to carry out section 
6407 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107a): Provided, That the Secretary may 
allow eligible entities, or comparable entities that provide 
energy efficiency services using their own billing mecha-
nism to offer loans to customers in any part of their serv-
ice territory and to offer loans to replace a manufactured 
housing unit with another manufactured housing unit, if 
replacement would be more cost effective in saving energy. 
SEC. 739. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall— 
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(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. 740. No food that bears or contains partially 
hydrogenated oils (as defined in the order published by 
the Food and Drug Administration in the Federal Reg-
ister on June 17, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 34650 et seq.)) shall 
be considered to be adulterated within the meaning of sub-
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section (a)(1) or (a)(2)(C)(i) of section 402 of the Federal 
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 342(a)) because 
such food contains such partially hydrogenated oils until 
the applicable compliance dates specified by FDA in the 
Federal Register on May 21, 2018 (83 Fed. Reg. 23358 
et seq.). 
SEC. 741. For fiscal years 2019 through 2025, the 
Administrators of the Agricultural Research Service and 
the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service may 
make not to exceed 50 appointments in any fiscal year 
for employees of such agencies at the National Bio- and 
Agro-defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas: 
Provided, That such appointments may be made in the 
manner provided by 7 U.S.C. 7657(b)(4)(A)(i–v): Pro-
vided further, That such appointments may be made at 
a rate of basic pay that exceeds the rate payable for such 
positions under the General Schedule or other applicable 
schedule, as appropriate, but may not be more than the 
rate payable for a position at level I of the Executive 
Schedule, unless the rate is approved by the President 
under section 5377(d)(2) of title 5. 
SEC. 742. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 
for the Secretary to carry out a pilot program that pro-
vides forestry inventory analysis, forest management and 
economic outcomes modelling for certain currently en-
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rolled Conservation Reserve Program participants. The 
Secretary shall allow the Commodity Credit Corporation 
to enter into agreements with and provide grants to quali-
fied non-profit organizations dedicated to conservation, 
forestry and wildlife habitats, that also have experience in 
conducting accurate forest inventory analysis through the 
use of advanced, cost-effective technology. The Secretary 
shall focus the analysis on lands enrolled for at least eight 
years and located in areas with a substantial concentration 
of acres enrolled under conservation practices devoted to 
multiple bottomland hardwood tree species including 
CP03, CP03A, CP11, CP22, CP31 and CP40. 
SEC. 743. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available by this Act and notwithstanding the last sentence 
of 16 U.S.C. 1310, there is appropriated $4,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, to implement non-renew-
able agreements on eligible lands, including flooded agri-
cultural lands, as determined by the Secretary, under the 
Water Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301–1311). 
SEC. 744. There is hereby appropriated $1,996,000 
to carry out section 1621 of Public Law 110–246. 
SEC. 745. 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 re-
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newal of such licenses, to class B dealers who sell dogs 
and cats for use in research, experiments, teaching, or 
testing. 
SEC. 746. There is appropriated $6,000,000 to the 
Commodity Credit Corporation, in addition to amounts 
otherwise made available, for section 1110(f)(3) of the 
Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1736o(f)(3)). 
SEC. 747. (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, rein-
forced 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 
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this section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee 
of the Secretary finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-
sistent 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 pro-
duced in the United States will increase the cost of 
the overall 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 des-
ignee shall make available to the public on an informal 
basis a copy of the request and information available to 
the Secretary 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 re-
quest and accompanying information available by elec-
tronic means, including on the official public Internet Web 
site of the Department. 
(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 re-
quirements 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 recog-
nized Indian tribe. 
SEC. 748. The Secretary shall set aside for Rural 
Economic Area Partnership (REAP) Zones, until August 
15, 2019, an amount of funds made available in title III 
under the headings of Rural Housing Insurance Fund 
Program Account, Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants, 
Rural Housing Assistance Grants, Rural Community Fa-
cilities Program Account, Rural Business Program Ac-
count, Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account, 
and Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Account, 
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equal to the amount obligated in REAP Zones with re-
spect to funds provided under such headings in the most 
recent fiscal year any such funds were obligated under 
such headings for REAP Zones. 
SEC. 749. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, for a pilot program 
for the Secretary to provide grants to qualified non-profit 
organizations and public housing authorities to provide 
technical assistance, including financial and legal services, 
to RHS multi-family housing borrowers to facilitate the 
acquisition of RHS multi-family housing properties in 
areas where the Secretary determines a risk of loss of af-
fordable housing, by non-profit housing organizations and 
public housing authorities as authorized by law that com-
mit to keep such properties in the RHS multi-family hous-
ing program for a period of time as determined by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 750. 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. 751. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture (referred 
to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall carry out a 
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pilot program during fiscal year 2019 with respect to the 
2018 crop year for county-level agriculture risk coverage 
payments under section 1117(b)(1) of the Agricultural Act 
of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017(b)(1)), that provides all or some 
of the State Farm Service Agency offices in each State 
the opportunity to provide agricultural producers in the 
State a supplemental payment described in subsection (c) 
based on the alternate calculation method described in 
subsection (b) for 1 or more counties in a State if the 
office for that State determines that the alternate calcula-
tion method is necessary to ensure that, to the maximum 
extent practicable, there are not significant yield calcula-
tion disparities between comparable counties in the State. 
(b) The alternate calculation method referred to in 
subsection (a) is a method of calculating the actual yield 
for the 2018 crop year for county-level agriculture risk 
coverage payments under section 1117(b)(1) of the Agri-
cultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017(b)(1)), under 
which— 
(1) county data of the National Agricultural 
Statistics Service (referred to in this section as 
‘‘NASS data’’) is used for the calculations; 
(2) if there is insufficient NASS data for a 
county (as determined under standards of the Sec-
retary in effect as of the date of enactment of this 
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