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vanced notices of proposed rulemaking, and any such rules 
that may have been finalized, and discontinue and provide 
notice of closure to affected parties of any investigations 
or enforcement activities pending under said rules. 
SEC. 730. Notwithstanding any provision of law that 
regulates the calculation and payment of overtime and hol-
iday pay for FSIS inspectors, the Secretary may charge 
establishments subject to the inspection requirements of 
the Poultry Products Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 451 et 
seq., the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 601 et 
seq, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 1031 
et seq., for the cost of inspection services provided outside 
of an establishment’s approved inspection shifts, and for 
inspection services provided on Federal holidays: Provided, 
That any sums charged pursuant to this paragraph shall 
be deemed as overtime pay or holiday pay under section 
1001(d) of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public 
Law 117–2, 135 Stat. 242): Provided further, That sums 
received by the Secretary under this paragraph shall, in 
addition to other available funds, remain available until 
expended to the Secretary without further appropriation 
for the purpose of funding all costs associated with FSIS 
inspections. 
SEC. 731. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall— 
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(1) conduct audits in a manner that evaluates 
the following factors in the country or region being 
audited, as applicable— 
(A) veterinary control and oversight; 
(B) disease history and vaccination prac-
tices; 
(C) 
livestock 
demographics 
and 
traceability; 
(D) epidemiological separation from poten-
tial sources of infection; 
(E) surveillance practices; 
(F) diagnostic laboratory capabilities; and 
(G) emergency preparedness and response; 
and 
(2) promptly make publicly available the final 
reports of any audits or reviews conducted pursuant 
to paragraph (1). 
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under its inter-
national trade agreements. 
SEC. 732. A bank referenced in 12 U.S.C. 2128 may 
make and participate in loans and commitments and pro-
vide technical and other financial assistance to coopera-
tives and any other public or private entity (except for the 
federal government) for the purpose of installing, main-
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taining, expanding, improving, or operating facilities in a 
rural area as defined in 12 U.S.C. 2128(f) for the proc-
essing or disposal of waste from any source, provision of 
telecommunication services, and producing electricity from 
any source for use or sale by the borrower. 
SEC. 733. None of the funds made available by this 
Act, 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, may be used by the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to finalize, issue, 
or implement any rule, regulation, notice of proposed rule-
making, or order setting any tobacco product standard 
that would: 1) prohibit menthol in cigarettes or prohibit 
characterizing flavors in all cigars and their components 
and parts; or 2) mandate a maximum nicotine level for 
cigarettes, until the FDA: 
(1) updates its ‘‘Guidance for Industry on its 
Enforcement Priorities’’ published in January 2020 
and updated in April 2020, to expand its prioritized 
enforcement to flavored disposable ENDS products 
in addition to cartridge-based products (on pages 
10-11 and 18) and to define ‘‘disposable ENDS 
product’’ on page 9; 
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(2) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) issues 
a final rule requiring Foreign Manufacturer Reg-
istration (RIN #0910-AH59); 
(3) FDA coordinates with Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) and U.S. Postal Service (USPS) 
to prevent importation of any deemed product unless 
the product is on a list FDA prepares and transmits 
to CBP consisting of (a) products with MGOs, (b) 
products that received MDOs but that have been 
and remain stayed by the Secretary or through court 
order, rescinded by the Secretary, or vacated by a 
court, and (c) products with PMTAs pending review 
since on or before September 9, 2020, and further 
that FDA requires that no such product may be im-
ported without the manufacturer or importer identi-
fying the PMTA or STN number associated with the 
product; 
(4) Publicly disclose the authorized list to man-
ufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, with instruc-
tions to cease the distribution, sale, and/or mar-
keting of any deemed product not on the list; 
(5) Issue Import Alerts to help address the im-
portation of tobacco products that appear to be in 
violation of applicable laws; and 
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(6) Submit a quarterly written report to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
Senate on the progress the Center for Tobacco Prod-
ucts is making in removing all non-compliant nico-
tine products from the market. 
SEC. 734. (a)(1) No Federal funds made available for 
this fiscal year for the rural water, waste water, waste dis-
posal, and solid waste management programs authorized 
by sections 306, 306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B of 
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 
U.S.C. 1926 et seq.) shall be used for a project for the 
construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public 
water or wastewater system unless all of the iron and steel 
products used in the project are produced in the United 
States. 
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ 
means the following products made primarily of iron or 
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, 
pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, rein-
forced precast concrete, and construction materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory of cases in which the Secretary of Agriculture (in 
this section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee 
of the Secretary finds that— 
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(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-
sistent with the public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-
able quantities or of a satisfactory quality; or 
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products pro-
duced in the United States will increase the cost of 
the overall project by more than 25 percent. 
(c) If the Secretary or the designee receives a request 
for a waiver under this section, the Secretary or the des-
ignee shall make available to the public on an informal 
basis a copy of the request and information available to 
the Secretary or the designee concerning the request, and 
shall allow for informal public input on the request for 
at least 15 days prior to making a finding based on the 
request. The Secretary or the designee shall make the re-
quest and accompanying information available by elec-
tronic means, including on the official public Internet Web 
site of the Department. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under international 
agreements. 
(e) The Secretary may retain up to 0.25 percent of 
the funds appropriated in this Act for ‘‘Rural Utilities 
Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Ac-
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count’’ for carrying out the provisions described in sub-
section (a)(1) for management and oversight of the re-
quirements of this section. 
(f) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 
project for which the engineering plans and specifications 
include use of iron and steel products otherwise prohibited 
by such subsection if the plans and specifications have re-
ceived required approvals from State agencies prior to the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(g) For purposes of this section, the terms ‘‘United 
States’’ and ‘‘State’’ shall include each of the several 
States, the District of Columbia, and each Federally rec-
ognized Indian Tribe. 
SEC. 735. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 
congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 
matters pending before Congress, other than to commu-
nicate to Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 
1913. 
SEC. 736. Of the total amounts made available by 
this Act for direct loans and grants under the following 
headings: ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insur-
ance Fund Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service— 
Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing 
Service—Rural Housing Assistance Grants’’; ‘‘Rural 
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Housing Service—Rural Community Facilities Program 
Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural 
Business Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Coopera-
tive Service—Rural Economic Development Loans Pro-
gram Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service— 
Rural Cooperative Development Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Busi-
ness-Cooperative Service—Rural Microentrepreneur As-
sistance Program’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water 
and Waste Disposal Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities 
Service—Rural Electrification and Telecommunications 
Loans Program Account’’; and ‘‘Rural Utilities Service— 
Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Pro-
gram’’, to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 per-
cent of the funds shall be allocated for assistance in per-
sistent poverty counties under this section, including, not-
withstanding any other provision regarding population 
limits, any county seat of such a persistent poverty county 
that has a population that does not exceed the authorized 
population limit by more than 10 percent: Provided, That 
for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘persistent poverty 
counties’’ means any county that has had 20 percent or 
more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 
years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial cen-
suses, and 2007–2011 American Community Survey 5- 
year average, or any territory or possession of the United 
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States: Provided further, That with respect to specific ac-
tivities for which program levels have been made available 
by this Act that are not supported by budget authority, 
the requirements of this section shall be applied to such 
program level. 
SEC. 737. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowl-
edge receipt of a submission for an exemption for inves-
tigational use of a drug or biological product under section 
505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 
U.S.C. 355(i)) or section 351(a)(3) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)) in research in which 
a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to 
include a heritable genetic modification. Any such submis-
sion shall be deemed to have not been received by the Sec-
retary, and the exemption may not go into effect. 
SEC. 738. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to enforce the final rule 
promulgated by the Food and Drug Administration enti-
tled ‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, 
and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption’’, and 
published on November 27, 2015, and the proposed rule 
issued by the Food and Drug Administration entitled 
‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and 
Holding Produce for Human Consumption Related to Ag-
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ricultural Water’’ (86 Fed. Reg. 69120 and 87 Fed. Reg. 
42973), with respect to the regulation of entities that 
grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine grapes, hops, pulse 
crops, or almonds. 
SEC. 739. For school years 2024–2025 and 2025– 
2026, none of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to restrict or limit the substitution of any vege-
table subgroup for fruits under the school breakfast pro-
gram established under section 4 of the Child Nutrition 
Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773). 
SEC. 740. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used— 
(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Ag-
ricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940), subtitle G 
of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, or sec-
tion 10114 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 
2018; or 
(2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, 
sale, or use of hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is 
grown or cultivated in accordance with section 7606 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 or subtitle G of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, within or out-
side the State in which the hemp is grown or cul-
tivated. 
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SEC. 741. The Secretary of Agriculture may waive 
the matching funds requirement under section 412(g) of 
the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Re-
form Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(g)). 
SEC. 742. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any 
rule that would reduce the maximum monthly allowance 
with respect to milk under section 246.10 of title 7, Code 
of Federal Regulations (as in effect on April 1, 2023), in-
cluding the rule entitled ‘‘Special Supplemental Nutrition 
Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Revi-
sions to the WIC Food Packages’’ published by the De-
partment of Agriculture in the Federal Register on April 
18, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 28488). 
SEC. 743. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to impose updated minimum efficiency 
standards for new housing financed by the Department 
of Agriculture as part of carrying out the notice entitled 
‘‘Final Determination: Energy Efficiency Standards for 
New Construction of HUD and USDA Financed Hous-
ing’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 33112). 
SEC. 744. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out any program, project, or 
activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory 
or any concept associated with Critical Race Theory. 
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SEC. 745. (a) After the effective date of any final rule 
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes in 
connection with its proposed rule to update these require-
ments (87 Federal Register 59168, issued on September 
29, 2022), manufacturers may also continue to comply 
with the previous requirements promulgated by the FDA 
for the implied nutrient content claim ‘‘healthy’’ through 
the ‘‘compliance date’’ FDA provides in the final rule. 
(b) Any food product manufactured and labeled as 
‘‘healthy’’ during the compliance period FDA provides in 
that final rule shall not be directly or indirectly subject 
to any state-law requirements that are not identical to ei-
ther (i) the Federal requirements for the implied nutrition 
content claim ‘‘healthy’’ that were in effect as of the date 
FDA issues the final rule, or (ii) the updated Federal re-
quirements that FDA promulgates in the final rule, as-
suming the updated requirements go into effect during the 
regulatory compliance period. 
SEC. 746. Funds made available under title II of the 
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be 
used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate 
monitoring and controls, as determined by the Adminis-
trator, are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is 
received by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by 
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food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inap-
propriate purposes. 
SEC. 747. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to procure raw or processed poultry prod-
ucts or seafood imported into the United States from the 
People’s Republic of China for use in the school lunch pro-
gram under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), the Child and Adult Care 
Food Program under section 17 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1766), the Summer Food Service Program for Children 
under section 13 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761), or the 
school breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act 
of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.). 
SEC. 748. For school year 2025–2026, only a school 
food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit 
school food service account as of June 30, 2024, shall be 
required to establish a price for paid lunches in accordance 
with section 12(p) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760(p)). 
SEC. 749. Any funds made available by this or any 
other Act that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section 
1668(g)(2) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5921(g)(2)), as amended, 
shall be available for grants for biotechnology risk assess-
ment research: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer 
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such funds among appropriations of the Department of 
Agriculture for purposes of making such grants. 
SEC. 750. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no funds available to the Department of Agriculture 
may be used to move any staff office or any agency from 
the mission area in which it was located on August 1, 
2018, to any other mission area or office within the De-
partment in the absence of the enactment of specific legis-
lation affirming such move. 
SEC. 751. The Secretary, acting through the Chief 
of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, may use 
funds appropriated under this Act or any other Act for 
the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program 
and the Watershed Rehabilitation Program carried out 
pursuant to the Watershed Protection and Flood Preven-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), and for the Emergency 
Watershed Protection Program carried out pursuant to 
section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 
U.S.C. 2203) to provide technical services for such pro-
grams pursuant to section 1252(a)(1) of the Food Secu-
rity Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3851(a)(1)), notwithstanding 
subsection (c) of such section. 
SEC. 752. In administering the pilot program estab-
lished by section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Ap-
propriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141), the Sec-
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retary of Agriculture may, for purposes of determining en-
tities eligible to receive assistance, consider those commu-
nities which are ‘‘Areas Rural in Character’’: Provided, 
That not more than 10 percent of the funds made avail-
able under the heading ‘‘Distance Learning, Telemedicine, 
and Broadband Program’’ for the purposes of the pilot 
program established by section 779 of Public Law 115– 
141 may be used for this purpose. 
SEC. 753. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, the Com-
missioner of Food and Drugs, the Chairman of the Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission, or the Chairman of 
the Farm Credit Administration to fly or display a flag 
over a facility of the Department of Agriculture, the Food 
and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures Trad-
ing Commission, or the Farm Credit Administration other 
than the flag of the United States; the flag of a State, 
territory, the District of Columbia; the flag of an Indian 
Tribal Government; the official flag of a U.S. Department 
or agency; or the Prisoners of War/Missing in Action flag. 
SEC. 754. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 
made available to carry out section 749(g) of the Agricul-
tural Appropriations Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-80), 
$40,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
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ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
SEC. 755. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 
to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Ex-
ecutive Order 13985 of January 20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 
7009, relating to advancing racial equity and support for 
underserved communities through the Federal Govern-
ment), or the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Equity 
Action Plan in Support of Executive Order 13985, or any 
Equity Action Plan created by the Food and Drug Admin-
istration, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or 
the Farm Credit Administration, or Executive Order 
14035 of June 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 34593, relating 
to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the Fed-
eral workforce), or Executive Order 14091 of February 
16, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 10825, relating to further advanc-
ing racial equity and support for underserved communities 
through the Federal Government), or to create or establish 
an Office of the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. 
SEC. 756. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used by the Food 
and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue or promote any 
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