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ations program to carry out the East Locust Creek 
Watershed Plan Revision in Missouri; and 
(B) the Natural Resources Conservation Service 
is authorized to provide 100 percent of the engineer-
ing assistance and 75 percent cost share for construc-
tion cost of the project; and 
(5) any former RUS borrower that has repaid or 
prepaid an insured, direct or guaranteed loan under 
the Rural Electrification Act, or any not-for-profit 
utility that is eligible to receive an insured or direct 
loan under such Act, shall be eligible for assistance 
under Section 313(b)(2)(B) of such Act in the same 
manner as a borrower under such Act. 
SEC. 753. Hereafter, notwithstanding the provisions of 
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (in-
cluding the associated regulations) governing the Commu-
nity Facilities Program, the Secretary may allow all Com-
munity Facility Program facility borrowers and grantees 
to enter into contracts with not-for-profit third parties for 
services consistent with the requirements of the Program, 
grant, and/or loan: Provided, That the contracts protect the 
interests of the Government regarding cost, liability, main-
tenance, and administrative fees. 
SEC. 754. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to
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make funding and other assistance available through the 
emergency watershed protection program under section 403 
of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203) to 
repair and prevent damage to non-Federal land in water-
sheds that have been impaired by fires initiated by the Fed-
eral Government and shall waive cost sharing requirements 
for the funding and assistance. 
SEC. 755. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be used for salaries and expenses to carry out any regula-
tion or rule insofar as it would make ineligible for enroll-
ment in the conservation reserve program established under 
subchapter B of chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the 
Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831 et seq.) land 
that is planted to hardwood trees as of the date of enactment 
of this Act and was enrolled in the conservation reserve pro-
gram under a contract that expired prior to calendar year 
2002. 
SEC. 756. None of the funds made available under this 
Act shall be available to pay the administrative expenses 
of a State agency that, after the date of enactment of this 
Act, authorizes any new for-profit vendor(s) to transact food 
instruments under the Special Supplemental Nutrition 
Program for Women, Infants, and Children if it is expected 
that more than 50 percent of the annual revenue of the ven-
dor from the sale of food items will be derived from the sale
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of supplemental foods that are obtained with WIC food in-
struments, except that the Secretary may approve the au-
thorization of such a vendor if the approval is necessary 
to assure participant access to program benefits. 
SEC. 757. The Secretary of Agriculture may use any 
unobligated carryover funds made available for any pro-
gram administered by the Rural Utilities Service (not in-
cluding funds made available under the heading ‘‘Rural 
Community Advancement Program’’ in any Act of appro-
priation) to carry out section 315 of the Rural Electrifica-
tion Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 940e). 
SEC. 758. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, to carry out provisions 
of section 751 of division A of Public Law 108–7. 
SEC. 759. There is hereby appropriated $500,000 for 
a grant to Alaska Village Initiatives for the purpose of ad-
ministering a private lands wildlife management program 
in Alaska. 
SEC. 760. There is hereby appropriated $2,250,000, to 
remain available until expended, for a grant to the Wis-
consin Federation of Cooperatives for pilot Wisconsin-Min-
nesota health care cooperative purchasing alliances. 
SEC. 761. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, effective with funds made available in fiscal 
year 2004 to States administering the Child and Adult Care
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Food Program, for the purpose of conducting audits of par-
ticipating institutions, funds identified by the Secretary as 
having been unused during the initial fiscal year of avail-
ability may be recovered and reallocated by the Secretary: 
Provided, That States may use the reallocated funds until 
expended for the purpose of conducting audits of partici-
pating institutions. 
SEC. 762. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized 
and directed to quitclaim to the City of Elkhart, Kansas, 
all rights, title and interests of the United States in that 
tract of land comprising 151.7 acres, more or less, located 
in Morton County, Kansas, and more specifically described 
in a deed dated March 11, 1958, from the United States 
of America to the City of Elkhart, State of Kansas, and 
filed of record April 4, 1958 at Book 34 at Page 520 in 
the office of the Register of Deeds of Morton County, Kansas. 
SEC. 763. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to 
carry out the Healthy Forests Reserve Program authorized 
under Title V of Public Law 108–148 (16 U.S.C. 6571– 
6578). 
SEC. 764. 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 recertification 
of rural status for each electric and telecommunications bor-
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rower for the Rural Electrification and Telecommunication 
Loans program. 
SEC. 765. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
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). 
SEC. 766. The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 is 
amended by inserting after section 315 (7 U.S.C. 940e) the 
following: 
‘‘SEC. 316. EXTENSION
OF PERIOD
OF EXISTING 
GUARANTEE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the limitations in this 
section and the provisions of the Federal Credit Reform Act 
of 1990, as amended, a borrower of a loan made by the 
Federal Financing Bank and guaranteed under this Act 
may request an extension of the final maturity of the out-
standing principal balance of such loan or any loan ad-
vance thereunder. If the Secretary and the Federal Financ-
ing Bank approve such an extension, then the period of the 
existing guarantee shall also be considered extended. 
‘‘(b) LIMITATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) FEASIBILITY
AND
SECURITY.—Extensions 
under this section shall not be made unless the Sec-