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may be transferred from one specified activity to another with 
the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress. 
In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 42 U.S.C. 
263b, export certification user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 381, 
and priority review user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 360n may 
be credited to this account, to remain available until expended. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For plans, construction, repair, improvement, extension, alter-
ation, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of or used 
by the Food and Drug Administration, where not otherwise pro-
vided, $12,433,000, to remain available until expended. 
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Com-
modity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), including the purchase 
and hire of passenger motor vehicles, and the rental of space (to 
include multiple year leases) in the District of Columbia and else-
where, $168,800,000, including not to exceed $3,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses, and not to exceed $25,000 
for the expenses for consultations and meetings hosted by the 
Commission with foreign governmental and other regulatory offi-
cials: Provided, That $8,200,000 of the total amount appropriated 
under this heading shall not be available for obligation until the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission submits an expenditure 
plan for fiscal year 2010 to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $54,500,000 (from assessments collected from 
farm credit institutions, including the Federal Agricultural Mort-
gage Corporation) shall be obligated during the current fiscal year 
for administrative expenses as authorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249: 
Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to expenses associated 
with receiverships. 
TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS AND TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, appropria-
tions and authorizations made for the Department of Agriculture 
for the current fiscal year under this Act shall be available for 
the purchase, in addition to those specifically provided for, of not 
to exceed 204 passenger motor vehicles, of which 170 shall be 
for replacement only, and for the hire of such vehicles. 
SEC. 702. Section 10101 of division B of the Consolidated Secu-
rity, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009,
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(Public Law 110–329) is amended in subsection (b) by inserting 
at the end the following: ‘‘In carrying out this section, the Secretary 
may transfer funds into existing or new accounts as determined 
by the Secretary.’’. 
SEC. 703. The Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobligated 
balances of discretionary funds appropriated by this Act or other 
available unobligated discretionary balances of the Department of 
Agriculture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition of 
plant and capital equipment necessary for the delivery of financial, 
administrative, and information technology services of primary ben-
efit to the agencies of the Department of Agriculture: Provided, 
That none of the funds made available by this Act or any other 
Act shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund without 
the prior approval of the agency administrator: Provided further, 
That none of the funds transferred to the Working Capital Fund 
pursuant to this section shall be available for obligation without 
the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated by this Act or made available to the Department’s Working 
Capital Fund shall be available for obligation or expenditure to 
make any changes to the Department’s National Finance Center 
without prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress as required by section 712 of this Act: 
Provided further, That of annual income amounts in the Working 
Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture allocated for the 
National Finance Center, the Secretary may reserve not more than 
4 percent for the replacement or acquisition of capital equipment, 
including equipment for the improvement and implementation of 
a financial management plan, information technology, and other 
systems of the National Finance Center or to pay any unforeseen, 
extraordinary cost of the National Finance Center: Provided further, 
That none of the amounts reserved shall be available for obligation 
unless the Secretary submits notification of the obligation to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate: Provided further, That the limitation on the obligation 
of funds pending notification to Congressional Committees shall 
not apply to any obligation that, as determined by the Secretary, 
is necessary to respond to a declared state of emergency that 
significantly impacts the operations of the National Finance Center; 
or to evacuate employees of the National Finance Center to a 
safe haven to continue operations of the National Finance Center. 
SEC. 704. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year 
unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 705. No funds appropriated by this Act may be used 
to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative agreements 
or similar arrangements between the United States Department 
of Agriculture and nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 percent 
of the total direct cost of the agreement when the purpose of 
such cooperative arrangements is to carry out programs of mutual 
interest between the two parties. This does not preclude appropriate 
payment of indirect costs on grants and contracts with such institu-
tions when such indirect costs are computed on a similar basis 
for all agencies for which appropriations are provided in this Act. 
SEC. 706. Appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for 
the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made available in the 
current fiscal year shall remain available until expended to disburse
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obligations made in the current fiscal year for the following 
accounts: the Rural Development Loan Fund program account, the 
Rural Electrification and Telecommunication Loans program 
account, and the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account. 
SEC. 707. Of the funds made available by this Act, not more 
than $1,800,000 shall be used to cover necessary expenses of activi-
ties related to all advisory committees, panels, commissions, and 
task forces of the Department of Agriculture, except for panels 
used to comply with negotiated rule makings and panels used 
to evaluate competitively awarded grants. 
SEC. 708. 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 Poultry Products Inspection 
Act (21 U.S.C. 471). 
SEC. 709. No employee of the Department of Agriculture may 
be detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by this 
Act or any other Act to any other agency or office of the Department 
for more than 30 days unless the individual’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 assign-
ment. 
SEC. 710. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of Agriculture or the Food and Drug 
Administration shall be used to transmit or otherwise make avail-
able to any non-Department of Agriculture or non-Department of 
Health and Human Services employee questions or responses to 
questions that are a result of information requested for the appro-
priations hearing process. 
SEC. 711. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire new information 
technology systems or significant upgrades, as determined by the 
Office of the Chief Information Officer, without the approval of 
the Chief Information Officer and the concurrence of the Executive 
Information 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 trans-
ferred to the Office of the Chief Information Officer without the 
prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress: Provided further, That none of the funds available 
to the Department of Agriculture for information technology shall 
be obligated for projects over $25,000 prior to receipt of written 
approval by the Chief Information Officer. 
SEC. 712. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 
by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this 
Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the cur-
rent fiscal year, 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) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or
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(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities 
presently performed by Federal employees; unless the Commit-
tees 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 provided by 
previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act 
that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current 
fiscal year, 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 for activities, programs, or projects through a re-
programming 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 pro-
gram, 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 programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress are notified 15 days in advance of such reprogramming of 
funds. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, or the Chairman of the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission shall notify the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress before implementing 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. 713. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel 
who prepare or submit appropriations language as part of the 
President’s Budget submission to the Congress of the United States 
for programs under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Sub-
committees on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies that assumes revenues or 
reflects a reduction from the previous year due to user fees proposals 
that have not been enacted into law prior to the submission of 
the Budget unless such Budget submission identifies which addi-
tional spending reductions should occur in the event the user fees 
proposals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening of 
a committee of conference for the fiscal year 2011 appropriations 
Act. 
SEC. 714. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used to close or relocate a Rural Development 
office unless or until the Secretary of Agriculture determines the 
cost effectiveness and/or enhancement of program delivery: Pro-
vided, That not later than 120 days before the date of the proposed 
closure or relocation, the Secretary notifies the Committees on 
Appropriation of the House and Senate, and the members of Con-
gress from the State in which the office is located of the proposed 
closure or relocation and provides a report that describes the jus-
tifications for such closures and relocations. 
SEC. 715. None of the funds made available to the Food and 
Drug Administration by this Act shall be used to close or relocate, 
or to plan to close or relocate, the Food and Drug Administration 
Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis in St. Louis, Missouri, outside 
the city or county limits of St. Louis, Missouri.