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Food Safety and Inspection Service hereafter may use co-
operative agreements to reflect a relationship between the
Agricultural Marketing Service; the Grain Inspection,
Packers and Stockyards Administration; the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service; or the Food Safety and
Inspection Service and a state or cooperator to carry out
agricultural marketing programs, to carry out programs
to protect the nation’s animal and plant resources, or to
carry out educational programs or special studies to im-
prove the safety of the nation’s food supply.
SEC. 714. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to retire more than 5 percent of the Class A stock of the
Rural Telephone Bank or to maintain any account or sub-
account within the accounting records of the Rural Tele-
phone Bank the creation of which has not specifically been
authorized by statute: Provided, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or
otherwise made available in this Act may be used to trans-
fer to the Treasury or to the Federal Financing Bank any
unobligated balance of the Rural Telephone Bank tele-
phone liquidating account which is in excess of current
requirements and such balance shall receive interest as set
forth for financial accounts in section 505(c) of the Fed-
eral Credit Reform Act of 1990.
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SEC. 715. Of the funds made available by this Act,
not more than $1,800,000 shall be used to cover necessary
expenses of activities related to all advisory committees,
panels, commissions, and task forces of the Department
of Agriculture, except for panels used to comply with nego-
tiated rule makings and panels used to evaluate competi-
tively awarded grants.
SEC. 716. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
may be used to carry out section 410 of the Federal Meat
Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 679a) or section 30 of the Poul-
try Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 471).
SEC. 717. No employee of the Department of Agri-
culture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or
office funded by this Act to any other agency or office
of the Department for more than 30 days unless the indi-
vidual’s employing agency or office is fully reimbursed by
the receiving agency or office for the salary and expenses
of the employee for the period of assignment.
SEC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of Agriculture
shall be used to transmit or otherwise make available to
any non-Department of Agriculture employee questions or
responses to questions that are a result of information re-
quested for the appropriations hearing process.
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SEC. 719. None of the funds made available to the
Department of Agriculture by this Act may be used to ac-
quire new information technology systems or significant
upgrades, as determined by the Office of the Chief Infor-
mation Officer, without the approval of the Chief Informa-
tion Officer and the concurrence of the Executive Informa-
tion Technology Investment Review Board: Provided, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this
Act may be transferred to the Office of the Chief Informa-
tion Officer without prior notification of the Committees
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
SEC. 720. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act,
or provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation
or expenditure in fiscal year 2003, or provided from any
accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by
the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure
through a reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new
programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity;
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any
project or activity for which funds have been denied or
restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorga-
nizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out
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or privatizes any functions or activities presently per-
formed by Federal employees; unless the Committees on
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are notified
15 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds.
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or pro-
vided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or
expenditure in fiscal year 2003, or provided from any ac-
counts in the Treasury of the United States derived by
the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure
for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogram-
ming of funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs,
projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding
for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers
of personnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or
(3) results from any general savings from a reduction in
personnel which would result in a change in existing pro-
grams, activities, or projects as approved by Congress; un-
less the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of
Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such re-
programming of funds.
(c) Agencies shall notify the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress before implementing
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a program or activity not carried out during the previous
fiscal year unless the program or activity is funded by this
Act or specifically funded by any other Act.
SEC. 721. With the exception of funds needed to ad-
minister and conduct oversight of grants awarded and ob-
ligations incurred prior to November 28, 2001, none of
the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this
or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries and ex-
penses of personnel to carry out the provisions of section
401 of Public Law 105–185, the Initiative for Future Ag-
riculture and Food Systems (7 U.S.C. 7621).
SEC. 722. None of the funds made available to the
Food and Drug Administration by this Act shall be used
to reduce the Detroit, Michigan, Food and Drug Adminis-
tration District Office below the operating and full-time
equivalent staffing level of July 31, 2000; or to change
the Detroit District Office to a station, residence post or
similarly modified office; or to reassign residence posts as-
signed to the Detroit District Office: Provided, That this
section shall not apply to Food and Drug Administration
field laboratory facilities or operations currently located
in Detroit, Michigan, except that field laboratory per-
sonnel shall be assigned to locations in the general vicinity
of Detroit, Michigan, pursuant to cooperative agreements
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between the Food and Drug Administration and other lab-
oratory facilities associated with the State of Michigan.
SEC. 723. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and
expenses of personnel who prepare or submit appropria-
tions language as part of the President’s Budget submis-
sion to the Congress of the United States for programs
under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommit-
tees on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies that assumes reve-
nues or reflects a reduction from the previous year due
to user fee proposals that have not been enacted into law
prior to the submission of the Budget unless such Budget
submission identifies which additional spending reductions
should occur in the event the user fee proposals are not
enacted prior to the date of the convening of a committee
of conference for the fiscal year 2004 appropriations Act.
SEC. 724. None of the funds made available by this
Act or any other Act may be used to close or relocate a
state Rural Development office unless or until cost effec-
tiveness and enhancement of program delivery have been
determined.
SEC. 725. Of any shipments of commodities made
pursuant to section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949
(7 U.S.C. 1431(b)), the Secretary of Agriculture shall, to