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SEC. 758. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to
remain available until expended, to carry out provisions
of section 751 of division A of Public Law 108–7.
SEC. 759. There is hereby appropriated $500,000 for
a grant to Alaska Village Initiatives for the purpose of ad-
ministering a private lands wildlife management program
in Alaska.
SEC. 760. There is hereby appropriated $2,250,000, to
remain available until expended, for a grant to the Wis-
consin Federation of Cooperatives for pilot Wisconsin-Min-
nesota health care cooperative purchasing alliances.
SEC. 761. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, effective with funds made available in fiscal
year 2004 to States administering the Child and Adult Care
Food Program, for the purpose of conducting audits of par-
ticipating institutions, funds identified by the Secretary as
having been unused during the initial fiscal year of avail-
ability may be recovered and reallocated by the Secretary:
Provided, That States may use the reallocated funds until
expended for the purpose of conducting audits of partici-
pating institutions.
SEC. 762. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized
and directed to quitclaim to the City of Elkhart, Kansas,
all rights, title and interests of the United States in that
tract of land comprising 151.7 acres, more or less, located
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in Morton County, Kansas, and more specifically described
in a deed dated March 11, 1958, from the United States
of America to the City of Elkhart, State of Kansas, and
filed of record April 4, 1958 at Book 34 at Page 520 in
the office of the Register of Deeds of Morton County, Kansas.
SEC. 763. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to
carry out the Healthy Forests Reserve Program authorized
under Title V of Public Law 108–148 (16 U.S.C. 6571–
6578).
SEC. 764. 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 recertification
of rural status for each electric and telecommunications bor-
rower for the Rural Electrification and Telecommunication
Loans program.
SEC. 765. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this or any other Act shall be used to
pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out a
Biomass Research and Development Program in excess of
$12,000,000, as authorized by Public Law 106–224 (7
U.S.C. 7624 note).
SEC. 766. The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 is
amended by inserting after section 315 (7 U.S.C. 940e) the
following:
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‘‘SEC. 316. EXTENSION
OF PERIOD
OF EXISTING
GUARANTEE.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the limitations in this
section and the provisions of the Federal Credit Reform Act
of 1990, as amended, a borrower of a loan made by the
Federal Financing Bank and guaranteed under this Act
may request an extension of the final maturity of the out-
standing principal balance of such loan or any loan ad-
vance thereunder. If the Secretary and the Federal Financ-
ing Bank approve such an extension, then the period of the
existing guarantee shall also be considered extended.
‘‘(b) LIMITATIONS.—
‘‘(1) FEASIBILITY
AND
SECURITY.—Extensions
under this section shall not be made unless the Sec-
retary first finds and certifies that, after giving effect
to the extension, in his judgment the security for all
loans to the borrower made or guaranteed under this
Act is reasonably adequate and that all such loans
will be repaid within the time agreed.
‘‘(2) EXTENSION OF USEFUL LIFE OR COLLAT-
ERAL.—Extensions under this section shall not be
granted unless the borrower first submits with its re-
quest either—
‘‘(A) evidence satisfactory to the Secretary
that a Federal or State agency with jurisdiction
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and expertise has made an official determina-
tion, such as through a licensing proceeding, ex-
tending the useful life of a generating plant or
transmission line pledged as collateral to or be-
yond the new final maturity date being requested
by the borrower, or
‘‘(B) a certificate from an independent li-
censed engineer concluding, on the basis of a
thorough engineering analysis satisfactory to the
Secretary, that the useful life of the generating
plant or transmission line pledged as collateral
extends to or beyond the new final maturity date
being requested by the borrower.
‘‘(3) AMOUNT ELIGIBLE FOR EXTENSION.—Ex-
tensions under this section shall not be granted if the
principal balance extended exceeds the appraised
value of the generating plant or transmission line re-
ferred to in subsection paragraph (2).
‘‘(4) PERIOD OF EXTENSION.—Extensions under
this section shall in no case result in a final maturity
greater than 55 years from the time of original dis-
bursement and shall in no case result in a final ma-
turity greater than the useful life of the plant.
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‘‘(5) 
NUMBER
OF
EXTENSIONS.—Extensions
under this section shall not be granted more than once
per loan advance.
‘‘(c) FEES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A borrower that receives an
extension under this section shall pay a fee to the Sec-
retary which shall be credited to the Rural Elec-
trification and Telecommunications Loans Program
account. Such fees shall remain available without fis-
cal year limitation to pay the modification costs for
extensions.
‘‘(2) AMOUNT.—The amount of the fee paid shall
be equal to the modification cost, calculated in ac-
cordance with section 502 of the Federal Credit Re-
form Act of 1990, as amended, of such extension.
‘‘(3) PAYMENT.—The borrower shall pay the fee
required under this section at the time the existing
guarantee is extended by making a payment in the
amount of the required fee.’’.
SEC. 767. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
none of the funds provided for in this or any other Act may
be used in this and each fiscal year hereafter for the review,
clearance, or approval for sale in the United States of any
contact lens unless the manufacturer certifies that it makes
any contact lens it produces, markets, distributes, or sells
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available in a commercially reasonable and non-discrimi-
natory manner directly to and generally within all alter-
native channels of distribution: Provided, That for the pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘manufacturer’ includes the
manufacturer and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, suc-
cessors and assigns, and ‘alternative channels of distribu-
tion’ means any mail order company, Internet retailer,
pharmacy, buying club, department store, mass merchan-
dise outlet or other appropriate distribution alternative
without regard to whether it is associated with a prescriber:
Provided further, That nothing in this section shall be inter-
preted as waiving any obligation of a seller under 15 U.S.C.
7603: Provided further, That to facilitate compliance with
this section, 15 U.S.C. 7605 is amended by inserting after
the period: ‘‘A manufacturer shall make any contact lens
it produces, markets, distributes or sells available in a com-
mercially reasonable and non-discriminatory manner di-
rectly to and generally within all alternative channels of
distribution; provided that, for the purposes of this section,
the term ‘alternative channels of distribution’ means any
mail order company, Internet retailer, pharmacy, buying
club, department store, mass merchandise outlet or other
appropriate distribution alternative without regard to
whether it is associated with a prescriber; the term ‘manu-
facturer’ includes the manufacturer and its parents, sub-
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sidiaries, affiliates, successors and assigns; and any rule
prescribed under this section shall take effect not later than
60 days after the date of enactment.’’
SEC. 768. (a) IN GENERAL.—Hereafter, the Secretary
of Health and Human Services, on behalf of the United
States may, whenever the Secretary deems desirable, relin-
quish to the State of Arkansas all or part of the jurisdiction
of the United States over the lands and properties encom-
passing the Jefferson Labs campus in the State of Arkansas
that are under the supervision or control of the Secretary.
(b) TERMS.—Relinquishment of jurisdiction under
this section may be accomplished, under terms and condi-
tions that the Secretary deems advisable,
(1) by filing with the Governor of the State of
Arkansas a notice of relinquishment to take effect
upon acceptance thereof; or
(2) as the laws of such State may otherwise pro-
vide.
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘Jefferson
Labs campus’’ means the lands and properties of the Na-
tional Center for Toxicological Research and the Arkansas
Regional Laboratory.
SEC. 769. Section 204(b)(3)(A) of the Child Nutrition
and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 (118 Stat. 781; 42
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U.S.C. 1751 note) is amended by striking ‘‘July 1, 2006’’
and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2005’’.
SEC. 770. (a) Section 18(f)(1)(B) of the Richard B.
Russell 
National 
School 
Lunch 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C.
1769(f)(1)(B)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘April 2004’’ and inserting
‘‘June 2005’’; and
(2) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘66.67’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘75’’.
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) take effect
on January 1, 2006.
SEC. 771. There is hereby appropriated $1,250,000 to
the National Agricultural Imagery Program to acquire one
meter natural color digital ortho-imagery of the entire state
of Utah.
SEC. 772. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
for eligibility to participate in the Environmental Quality
Incentives Program (EQIP), a producer is deemed to have
an interest in a farming or ranching operation whether the
source of income for that operation is derived from crops
or livestock owned by that producer, or owned by another
and raised by that producer.
SEC. 773. 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, except in the event of liquidation
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or dissolution of the telephone bank during fiscal year 2006,
pursuant to section 411 of the Rural Electrification Act of
1936, as amended, 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 telephone
liquidating account which is in excess of current require-
ments and such balance shall receive interest as set forth
for financial accounts in section 505(c) of the Federal Cred-
it Reform Act of 1990.
SEC. 774. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000 to
carry out Section 120 of Public Law 108–265 in Utah and
Wisconsin.
SEC. 775. There is hereby appropriated $700,000 to
provide administrative support for a world food hunger or-
ganization: Provided, That none of the funds may be used
for a monetary award to an individual.
SEC. 776. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Secretary of Agriculture may consider the Municipality
of Carolina, Puerto Rico, as meeting the eligibility require-
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ments for loans and grants programs in the Rural Develop-
ment mission area.
SEC. 777. It is the sense of the Senate that the United
States Government should not permit the importation into
the United States of beef from Japan until the Government
of Japan takes appropriate actions to permit the importa-
tion into Japan of beef from the United States.
SEC. 778. None of the funds made available under this
Act shall be used by the Secretary of Agriculture for the
purpose of developing a final rule relating to the proposed
rule entitled ‘‘Importation of Whole Cuts of Boneless Beef
from Japan’’, dated August 18, 2005 (70 Fed. Reg. 48494),
to allow the importation of beef from Japan, unless the
President certifies to Congress that Japan has granted open
access to Japanese markets for beef and beef products pro-
duced in the United States.
SEC. 779. (a) Section 8c(5) of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c(5)), reenacted with amendments
by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(M) MINIMUM
MILK
PRICES
FOR
HAN-
DLERS.—
‘‘(i) APPLICATION OF MINIMUM PRICE
REQUIREMENTS.—Notwithstanding 
any
other provision of this section, a milk han-
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dler described in clause (ii) shall be subject
to all of the minimum and uniform price
requirements of a Federal milk marketing
order issued pursuant to this section appli-
cable to the county in which the plant of the
handler is located, at Federal order class
prices, if the handler has packaged fluid
milk product route dispositions, or sales of
packaged fluid milk products to other
plants, in a marketing area located in a
State that requires handlers to pay min-
imum prices for raw milk purchases.
‘‘(ii) COVERED MILK HANDLERS.—Ex-
cept as provided in clause (iv), clause (i)
applies to a handler of Class I milk prod-
ucts (including a producer-handler or pro-
ducer operating as a handler) that—
‘‘(I) operates a plant that is lo-
cated within the boundaries of a Fed-
eral order milk marketing area (as
those boundaries are in effect on the
date of enactment of this subpara-
graph);
‘‘(II) has packaged fluid milk
product route dispositions, or sales of