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provide technical services for such programs pursuant to section 
1252(a)(1) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3851(a)(1)), 
notwithstanding subsection (c) of such section. 
SEC. 747. In administering the pilot program established by 
section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2018 (Public Law 115–141), the Secretary of Agriculture may, for 
purposes of determining entities eligible to receive assistance, con-
sider those communities 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 estab-
lished by section 779 of Public Law 115–141 may be used for 
this purpose. 
SEC. 748. In addition to amounts otherwise made available 
by this Act and notwithstanding the last sentence of 16 U.S.C. 
1310, there is appropriated $2,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, to implement non-renewable agreements on eligible 
lands, including flooded agricultural lands, as determined by the 
Secretary, under the Water Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301–1311). 
SEC. 749. A bank referenced in 12 U.S.C. 2128 may make 
and participate in loans and commitments and provide technical 
and other financial assistance to cooperatives and any other public 
or private entity (except for the Federal Government) for the pur-
pose of installing, maintaining, expanding, improving, or operating 
facilities in a rural area as defined in 12 U.S.C. 2128(f) for the 
processing or disposal of waste from any source, provision of tele-
communication services, and producing electricity from any source 
for use or sale by the borrower. 
SEC. 750. The Secretary shall set aside for Rural Economic 
Area Partnership (REAP) Zones, until August 15, 2026, an amount 
of funds made available in title III under the headings of Rural 
Housing Insurance Fund Program Account, Mutual and Self-Help 
Housing Grants, Rural Housing Assistance Grants, Rural Commu-
nity Facilities Program Account, Rural Business Program Account, 
Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account, and Rural Water 
and Waste Disposal Program Account, equal to the amount obli-
gated in REAP Zones with respect to funds provided under such 
headings in the most recent fiscal year any such funds were obli-
gated under such headings for REAP Zones, excluding the funding 
provided through any Community Project Funding/Congressionally 
Directed Spending. 
SEC. 751. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, to carry out section 758 of division B 
of Public Law 118–42, in addition to amounts otherwise available 
for such purpose. 
SEC. 752. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used by the Food and Drug Administra-
tion (FDA) to issue or promote any new guidelines or regulations 
applicable to food manufacturers of low risk ready-to-eat (RTE) 
foods for Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) until the FDA considers 
the available new science in developing the Compliance Policy Guide 
(CPG), 
Guidance 
for 
FDA 
Staff, 
section 
555.320 
Listeria 
monocytogenes regarding Lm in low-risk foods, meaning foods that 
do not support the growth of Lm. 
SEC. 753. For necessary expenses associated with cotton 
classing activities pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 55, to include equipment 
and facility upgrades, and in addition to any other funds made
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available for this purpose, there is appropriated, $4,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That amounts 
made available in this section shall be treated as funds collected 
by fees authorized under March 4, 1923, ch. 288, section 5, 42 
Stat. 1518, as amended (7 U.S.C. 55). 
SEC. 754. For an additional amount for the Office of the Sec-
retary, $700,000, for the Office of Tribal Relations to cover costs 
incurred for the slaughtering, processing, and voluntary meat 
inspection fees, notwithstanding the Agricultural Marketing Act 
of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622 et seq.) and 9 CFR part 352, for bison 
owned by Tribal governments (as defined by the List Act of 1994 
(25 U.S.C. 5131)), Tribal entities (including Tribal organizations 
and corporations), and Tribal members that slaughter and process 
bison at establishments that receive USDA voluntary inspection 
or state inspection. 
SEC. 755. If services performed by APHIS employees are deter-
mined by the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspec-
tion Service to be in response to an animal disease or plant health 
emergency outbreak, any premium pay that is funded, either 
directly or through reimbursement, shall be exempted from the 
aggregate of basic pay and premium pay calculated under section 
5547(b)(1) and (2) of title 5, United States Code, and any other 
provision of law limiting the aggregate amount of premium pay 
payable on a biweekly or calendar year basis. 
SEC. 756. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel—
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the Federal Meat 
Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
(2) to inspect horses under section 903 of the Federal 
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 
1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or 
(3) to implement or enforce section 352.19 of title 9, Code 
of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation). 
SEC. 757. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, to carry out section 2103 of Public Law 
115–334: Provided, That the Secretary shall prioritize the wetland 
compliance needs of areas with significant numbers of individual 
wetlands, wetland acres, and conservation compliance requests. 
SEC. 758. There is appropriated $3,000,000 for the emergency 
and transitional pet shelter and housing assistance grant program 
established under section 12502(b) of the Agriculture Improvement 
Act of 2018 (34 U.S.C. 20127). 
SEC. 759. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering 
and Medicine (NASEM) were tasked with providing findings and 
recommendations on alcohol consumption for the purposes of inclu-
sion in the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans as required 
by section 772 of division A of the Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2023 (Public Law 117–328): Provided, That the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
only consider the findings and recommendations of the NASEM 
report in the development of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Ameri-
cans and further, both Secretaries shall ensure that the alcohol 
consumption recommendations in the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for 
Americans shall be based on the preponderance of scientific and 
medical knowledge consistent with section 5341 of title 7 of United 
States Code.
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SEC. 760. (a) Section 313B(a) of the Rural Electrification Act 
of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 940c–2(a)), shall be applied for fiscal year 2026 
and each fiscal year thereafter until the specified funding has 
been expended as if the following were inserted after the final 
period: ‘‘In addition, the Secretary shall use $9,465,000 of the funds 
available to carry out this section in fiscal year 2024 for an addi-
tional amount for the same purpose and under the same terms 
and conditions as the Rural Business Development Grants author-
ized by section 310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-
ment Act (7 U.S.C. 1932(c)) and shall use $9,953,000 of the funds 
available to carry out this section in fiscal year 2026 for an addi-
tional amount for the same purpose and under the same terms 
and conditions as the Rural Business Development Grants author-
ized by section 310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-
ment Act (7 U.S.C. 1932(c)).’’. 
(b) Section 780 of division B of Public Law 118–42 and such 
section as continued in effect as an authority and condition under 
section 1101(a)(1) of Public Law 119–4 shall no longer apply. 
SEC. 761. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
acceptable market name of any engineered animal approved prior 
to the effective date of the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure 
Standard (February 19, 2019) shall include the words ‘‘genetically 
engineered’’ prior to the existing acceptable market name. 
SEC. 762. For an additional amount for the Office of the Sec-
retary, $5,250,000, to remain available until expended, to continue 
the Institute for Rural Partnerships as established in section 778 
of Public Law 117–103: Provided, That the Institute for Rural 
Partnerships shall continue to dedicate resources to researching 
the causes and conditions of challenges facing rural areas, and 
develop community partnerships to address such challenges: Pro-
vided further, That administrative or other fees shall not exceed 
one percent: Provided further, That such partnership shall coordi-
nate and publish an annual report. 
SEC. 763. There is hereby appropriated $500,000 to carry out 
the duties of the working group established under section 770 
of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (Public Law 
116–6; 133 Stat. 89). 
SEC. 764. The agencies and offices of the Department of Agri-
culture may reimburse the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), 
out of the funds provided in this Act, for costs incurred by OGC 
in providing services to such agencies or offices under time-limited 
agreements entered into with such agencies and offices: Provided, 
That such transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer 
authority provided by law. 
SEC. 765. Section 363 of the Multifamily Mortgage Foreclosure 
Act of 1981 (12 U.S.C. 3702) is amended at paragraph (2)—
(1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following: 
‘‘(F) section 514 or 515 of the Housing Act of 1949 
(42 U.S.C. 1484, 1485).’’. 
SEC. 766. The last proviso in the second paragraph under 
the heading ‘‘Rural Community Facilities Program Account’’ in divi-
sion B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 
118–42) shall be amended to read as follows: ‘‘Provided further,
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That in addition to any other available funds, the Secretary may 
expend not more than $1,000,000 total, from the program funds 
made available under this heading, for administrative expenses 
for activities funded under this heading and in section 778(1).’’. 
SEC. 767. Of the unobligated balances from prior year appro-
priations made available for conservation activities under the 
heading ‘‘Natural Resources Conservation Service—Conservation 
Operations’’, $30,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concur-
rent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 768. Of the unobligated balances from prior year appro-
priations made available for the ‘‘National Institute of Food and 
Agriculture—Research and Education Activities’’, $22,000,000 are 
hereby rescinded: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded 
from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the 
budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985. 
SEC. 769. Of the unobligated balances from prior year appro-
priations made available under the heading ‘‘Distance Learning, 
Telemedicine, and Broadband Program’’ for the cost to continue 
a broadband loan and grant pilot program established by section 
779 of division A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 
(Public Law 115–141) under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, 
as amended (7 U.S.C. 901 et seq.), $20,000,000 are hereby rescinded: 
Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that 
were designated 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. 770. Of the unobligated balances from prior year appro-
priations made available in the ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, 
$78,000,000 are hereby permanently rescinded: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concur-
rent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 771. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Agriculture in this or any other Act may be used to close or 
consolidate the resources or locations of any existing Agricultural 
Research Service laboratories and facilities without prior notifica-
tion and approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress. 
SEC. 772. (a) Of the amounts made available in this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services—Food 
and Drug Administration—Salaries and Expenses’’ that are derived 
from tobacco product user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 387s, not 
less than $200,000,000 shall be used by the Commissioner of Food 
and Drugs for enforcement activities related to e-cigarettes, vapes, 
and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (in this section 
referred to as ‘‘ENDS’’), including activities under section 801(a) 
of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 381(a)): 
Provided, That not less than $2,000,000 of such amount shall be 
used to continue the activities of the Federal multi-agency task 
force led by the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland 
Security, and the FDA to further work to bring all available criminal