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SEC. 728. No funds shall be used to pay salaries and 
expenses of the Department of Agriculture to carry out 
or administer a program authorized by section 2503 of 
Public Law 107–171, in excess of $50,000,000. 
SEC. 729. No funds shall be used to pay salaries and 
expenses of the Department of Agriculture to carry out 
or administer a ground and surface water conservation 
program authorized by section 2301 of Public Law 107– 
171, in excess of $51,000,000. 
SEC. 730. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to issue a final rule in furtherance of, 
or otherwise implement, the proposed rule on cost-sharing 
for animal and plant health emergency programs of the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service published on 
July 8, 2003 (Docket No. 02–062–1; 68 Fed. Reg. 
40541). 
SEC. 731. Funds made available under section 1240I 
and section 1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 in 
the current fiscal year shall remain available until ex-
pended to disburse obligations made in the current fiscal 
year, and are not available for new obligations. Funds 
made available under section 524(b) of the Federal Crop 
Insurance Act, 7 U.S.C. 1524(b), in fiscal years 2004, 
2005, and 2006 shall remain available until expended to 
disburse obligations made in fiscal years 2004, 2005, and 
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2006, respectively, and are not available for new obliga-
tions. 
SEC. 732. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, Rural Development shall provide grants from funds 
available for the Rural Community Advancement Program 
for the Ohio Livestock Expo Center in Springfield, Ohio, 
in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000. 
SEC. 733. No funds shall be used to pay salaries and 
expenses of the Department of Agriculture to carry out 
or administer an agricultural management assistance pro-
gram authorized by section 524 of the Federal Crop Insur-
ance Act, in excess of $6,000,000 (7 U.S.C. 1524). 
SEC. 734. 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 recertifi-
cation of rural status for each electric and telecommuni-
cations borrower for the Rural Electrification and Tele-
communication Loans program. 
SEC. 735. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 
law, none of the funds provided in this Act, may be used 
by an executive branch agency to produce any pre-
packaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution 
in the United States unless the story includes a clear noti-
fication within the text or audio of the prepackaged news 
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story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or 
funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 736. In addition to other amounts appropriated 
or otherwise made available by this Act, there is hereby 
appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture $15,600,000, 
of which not to exceed 5 percent may be available for ad-
ministrative expenses, to remain available until expended, 
to make specialty crop block grants under section 101 of 
the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (Public 
Law 108–465; 7 U.S.C. 1621 note). 
SEC. 737. No funds shall be used to pay salaries and 
expenses of the Department of Agriculture to carry out 
or 
administer 
a 
program 
authorized 
by 
section 
18(g)(6)(B)(i) of the Richard B. Russell National School 
Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769(g)(6)(B)(i)). 
SEC. 738. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, there is hereby appropriated $25,000,000, of which 
not to exceed 5 percent may be available for administrative 
expenses, to carry out section 18(g) of the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769(g) 
in each State and on Indian reservations. 
SEC. 739. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to study, complete a study of, or enter 
into a contract with a private party to carry out, without 
specific authorization in a subsequent Act of Congress, a 
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competitive sourcing activity of the Secretary of Agri-
culture, including support personnel of the Department of 
Agriculture, relating to rural development or farm loan 
programs. 
SEC. 740. Of the unobligated balances under section 
32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, $9,900,000 are hereby 
rescinded. 
SEC. 741. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay sala-
ries and expenses of personnel who implement or admin-
ister section 508(e)(3) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1508(e)(3)) or any regulation, bulletin, policy 
or agency guidance issued pursuant to section 508(e)(3) 
of such Act for the 2007 and the 2008 reinsurance years, 
except that funds are available to administer section 
508(e)(3) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act for policies 
in effect as of the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 742. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used— 
(1) to grant a waiver of a financial conflict of 
interest requirement pursuant to section 505(n)(4) 
of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for 
any voting member of an advisory committee or 
panel of the Food and Drug Administration; or 
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(2) to make a certification under section 
208(b)(3) of title 18, United States Code, for any 
such voting member. 
SEC. 743. Section 739 of the Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriation Act, 2001 (H.R. 5426 as enacted 
by Public Law 106–387, 115 Stat. 1549A–34) is amended 
by striking ‘‘2 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘3 percent’’. 
SEC. 744. Of the unobligated balances available in 
the High Energy Cost Grants account, $25,265,000 is 
hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 745. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, for the purposes of title V of the Housing Act of 1949 
(42 U.S.C. 1471 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall consider the City of Atascadero, California, the City 
of Paso Robles, California, the City of Freeport, Illinois, 
and Kitsap County (except the City of Bremerton), Wash-
ington, as meeting the requirements of a rural area con-
tained in section 520 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1490) until 
the receipt of the decennial Census in the year 2010. 
SEC. 746. Of the appropriations available for pay-
ments for the nutrition and family education program for 
low-income areas under section 3(d) of the Smith-Lever 
Act (7 U.S.C. 343(d)), if the payment allocation pursuant 
to section 1425(c) of the National Agricultural Research, 
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