Commission is authorized to charge reasonable fees to
attendees of Commission sponsored educational events and
symposia to cover the Commission’s costs of providing
those events and symposia, and notwithstanding 31 U.S.C.
3302, said fees shall be credited to this account, to be
available without further appropriation.
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
Not to exceed $35,800,000 (from assessments col-
lected from farm credit institutions and from the Federal
Agricultural Mortgage 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 re-
ceiverships.
TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law,
appropriations and authorizations made for the Depart-
ment of Agriculture for the fiscal year 2000 under this
Act shall be available for the purchase, in addition to those
specifically provided for, of not to exceed 365 passenger
motor vehicles, of which 361 shall be for replacement only,
and for the hire of such vehicles.
SEC. 702. Funds in this Act available to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture shall be available for uniforms or al-
lowances therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–
5902).
SEC. 703. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropria-
tions of the Department of Agriculture in this Act for re-
search and service work authorized by the Acts of August
14, 1946, and July 28, 1954 (7 U.S.C. 427 and 1621–
1629), and by chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code,
shall be available for contracting in accordance with said
Acts and chapter.
SEC. 704. The cumulative total of transfers to the
Working Capital Fund for the purpose of accumulating
growth capital for data services and National Finance
Center operations shall not exceed $2,000,000: Provided,
That no funds in this Act appropriated to an agency of
the Department shall be transferred to the Working Cap-
ital Fund without the approval of the agency adminis-
trator.
SEC. 705. New obligational authority provided for the
following appropriation items in this Act shall remain
available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service, the contingency fund to
meet emergency conditions, fruit fly program, integrated
systems acquisition project, boll weevil program, up to 10
percent of the screwworm program, and up to $2,000,000
for costs associated with collocating regional offices; Farm
Service Agency, salaries and expenses funds made avail-
able to county committees; and Foreign Agricultural Serv-
ice, middle-income country training program.
New obligational authority for the Food Safety and
Inspection Service, field automation and information man-
agement project; funds appropriated for rental payments;
funds for the Native American Institutions Endowment
Fund in the Cooperative State Research, Education, and
Extension Service; and funds for the competitive research
grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), shall remain available until ex-
pended.
SEC. 706. 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. 707. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropria-
tions available to the Department of Agriculture in this
Act shall be available to provide appropriate orientation
and language training pursuant to Public Law 94–449.
SEC. 708. 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 institu-
tions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost of
the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative ar-
rangements is to carry out programs of mutual interest
between the two parties. This does not preclude appro-
priate payment of indirect costs on grants and contracts
with such institutions when such indirect costs are com-
puted on a similar basis for all agencies for which appro-
priations are provided in this Act.
SEC. 709. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, commodities acquired by the Department in con-
nection with Commodity Credit Corporation and section
32 price support operations may be used, as authorized
by law (15 U.S.C. 714c and 7 U.S.C. 612c), to provide
commodities to individuals in cases of hardship as deter-
mined by the Secretary of Agriculture.
SEC. 710. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit
Corporation to lease space for its own use or to lease space
on behalf of other agencies of the Department of Agri-
culture when such space will be jointly occupied.
SEC. 711. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to pay indirect costs charged against agricultural re-
search, education, or extension grant awards issued by the
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension
Service that exceed 19 percent of total Federal funds pro-
vided under each award: Provided, That notwithstanding
section 1462 of the National Agricultural Research, Ex-
tension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3310),
funds provided by this Act for grants awarded competi-
tively by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and
Extension Service shall be available to pay full allowable
indirect costs for each grant awarded under the Small
Business Innovation Development Act of 1982, Public
Law 97–219 (15 U.S.C. 638).
SEC. 712. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, all loan levels provided in this Act shall be consid-
ered estimates, not limitations.
SEC. 713. Appropriations for the Rural Housing In-
surance Fund Program Account for the cost of direct and
guaranteed loans made available in fiscal years 1994,
1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 shall remain available
until expended to cover obligations made in each of those
fiscal years respectively in accordance with 31 U.S.C.
1557.
SEC. 714. Appropriations to the Department of Agri-
culture for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made
available in fiscal year 2000 shall remain available until
expended to cover obligations made in fiscal year 2000 for
the following accounts: the rural development loan fund
program account; the Rural Telephone Bank program ac-
count; the rural electrification and telecommunications
loans program account; the Rural Housing Insurance
Fund Program Account; and the rural economic develop-
ment loans program account.
SEC. 715. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 2000 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated by this Act.
SEC. 716. Notwithstanding the Federal Grant and
Cooperative Agreement Act, marketing services of the Ag-
ricultural Marketing Service; Grain Inspection, Packers
and Stockyards Administration; the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service; and the food safety activities
of the Food Safety and Inspection Service may use cooper-
ative agreements to reflect a relationship between the Ag-
ricultural Marketing Service, the Grain Inspection, Pack-
ers and Stockyards Administration, the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service, or the Food Safety and Inspec-
tion Service and a State or Cooperator to carry out agri-
cultural 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. 717. Notwithstanding the Federal Grant and
Cooperative Agreement Act, the Natural Resources Con-
servation Service may enter into contracts, grants, or co-
operative agreements with a State agency or subdivision,
or a public or private organization, for the acquisition of
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 the prior approval of the Committee
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
SEC. 724. (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 2000, 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
or privatizes any functions or activities presently per-
formed by Federal employees; unless the Committee on
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are notified
fifteen 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 2000, 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 Committee on Appropriations of both Houses of
Congress are notified fifteen days in advance of such re-
programming of funds.
SEC. 725. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act or any other Act may be
used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry
out the Fund for Rural America Program, authorized by
section 793 of Public Law 104–127, with the exception
of funds made available under that section on January 1,
1997.
SEC. 726. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out an envi-
ronmental quality incentives program authorized by sec-
tions 334–341 of Public Law 104–127 in excess of
$174,000,000.
SEC. 727. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise available to the Department of Agriculture may be
used to administer the provision of contract payments to
a producer under the Agricultural Market Transition Act
(7 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.) for contract acreage on which wild
rice is planted unless the contract payment is reduced by
an acre for each contract acre planted to wild rice.
SEC. 728. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel to enroll in excess of
120,000 acres in the fiscal year 2000 wetlands reserve
program as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837.
SEC. 729. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out
the provisions of section 401 of Public Law 105–185, the
Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems.
SEC. 730. Notwithstanding section 381A of the Con-
solidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C.
2009), the definitions of rural areas for certain business
programs administered by the Rural Business-Cooperative
Service and the community facilities programs adminis-
tered by the Rural Housing Service shall be those provided
for in statute and regulations prior to the enactment of
Public Law 104–127.
SEC. 731. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to carry out
any commodity purchase program that would prohibit eli-
gibility or participation by farmer-owned cooperatives.
SEC. 732. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out a conserva-
tion farm option program, as authorized by section 335
of Public Law 104–127.
SEC. 733. 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, 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 additional 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 2001 appropriations Act.
SEC. 734. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to establish
an Office of Community Food Security or any similar of-
fice within the United States Department of Agriculture
without the prior approval of the Committee on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress.
SEC. 735. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used
to carry out the provisions of section 612 of Public Law
105–185, the National Swine Research Center.
SEC. 736. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out the emer-
gency food assistance program authorized by section 27(a)
of the Food Stamp Act (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)) if such pro-
gram exceeds $99,000,000.
(b) In addition to amounts otherwise appropriated or
made available by this Act, $1,000,000 is appropriated for
the purpose of providing Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland
Hunger Fellowships through the Congressional Hunger
Center, which is an organization described in subsection
(c)(3) of section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
and is exempt from taxation under subsection (a) of such
section.
SEC. 737. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
shall be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, de-
crees, or orders for the purpose of implementation, or in
preparation for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol
which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto,
Japan.
SEC. 738. After March 1, 2000, none of the funds
appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may
be used by the Secretary of Agriculture—
(1) to permit the importation of meat or meat
food products under subsections (a) and (f) of sec-
tion 20 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21
U.S.C. 620) from any foreign country in violation of
subsection (f) of such section; and
(2) to permit the importation of poultry or
poultry products under subsection (a) of section 17
of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C.
466) from any foreign country in violation of sub-
section (d) of such section.
SEC. 739. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be expended by an
entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the as-
sistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4
of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c; popu-
larly known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
SEC. 740. (a) PURCHASE
OF
AMERICAN-MADE
EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equip-
ment or products that may be purchased using financial
assistance provided using funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving such assistance should, in expending
the assistance, purchase only American-made equipment
and products.
(b) NOTICE
TO RECIPIENTS
OF ASSISTANCE.—In
providing financial assistance using funds appropriated or
otherwise made available by this Act, the Federal agency
providing the assistance shall provide to each recipient of
the assistance a notice describing the statement made in
subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 741. If it has been finally determined by a court
or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a
label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any in-
scription with the same meaning, to any product sold in
or shipped to the United States that is not made in the
United States, such person shall be ineligible to receive
any contract or subcontract made with funds appropriated
or otherwise made available by this Act, pursuant to the
debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures de-
scribed in section 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code
of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 742. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used by the Food
and Drug Administration for the testing, development, or
approval (including approval of production, manufac-
turing, or distribution) of any drug for the chemical in-
ducement of abortion.
SEC. 743. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, appropriations under this Art for the following
agencies and activities are hereby reduced to the following
respective amounts:
Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental
Payments:
Repairs, Renovation, and Construction, $0.
Cooperative State Research, Education, and
Extension Service:
Integrated Activities, $0.
Agricultural Research Service:
Buildings and Facilities, $0.
Rural Housing Service:
Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program
Account:
Administrative 
Expenses,
$375,879,000.
Food and Drug Administration:
Salaries and Expenses, $1,198,384,000.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000’’.
Passed the House of Representatives June 8, 1999.
Attest:
Clerk.