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ice and a state or cooperator to carry out agricultural mar-
keting programs, to carry out programs to protect the na-
tion’s animal and plant resources, or to carry out edu-
cational programs or special studies to improve the safety
of the nation’s food supply.
SEC. 714. 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 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. 715. Of the funds made available by this Act, not
more than $1,800,000 shall be used to cover necessary ex-
penses of activities related to all advisory committees, pan-
els, commissions, and task forces of the Department of Agri-
culture, except for panels used to comply with negotiated
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rule makings and panels used to evaluate competitively
awarded grants.
SEC. 716. 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. 717. No employee of the Department of Agri-
culture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or office
funded by this Act to any other agency or office of the De-
partment for more than 30 days unless the individual’s em-
ploying agency or office is fully reimbursed by the receiving
agency or office for the salary and expenses of the employee
for the period of assignment.
SEC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available to the Department of Agriculture shall be
used to transmit or otherwise make available to any non-
Department of Agriculture employee questions or responses
to questions that are a result of information requested for
the appropriations hearing process.
SEC. 719. None of the funds made available to the De-
partment of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire
new information technology systems or significant up-
grades, as determined by the Office of the Chief Information
Officer, without the approval of the Chief Information Offi-
cer and the concurrence of the Executive Information Tech-
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nology Investment Review Board: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, none of the funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be
transferred to the Office of the Chief Information Officer
without the prior approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress.
SEC. 720. (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 fiscal year 2003, 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 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 (6) contracts out or privatizes any functions
or activities presently performed by Federal employees; un-
less the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of
Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such re-
programming of funds.
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided
by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by
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this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure
in fiscal year 2003, 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, pro-
grams, or projects through a reprogramming of funds in
excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that: (1)
augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) re-
duces 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 programs, activities, or projects as
approved by Congress; unless the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in
advance of such reprogramming of funds.
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture shall notify the Com-
mittees 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. 721. With the exception of funds needed to ad-
minister and conduct oversight of grants awarded and obli-
gations incurred in prior fiscal years, none of the funds
appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any
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other Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of
personnel to carry out the provisions of section 401 of Pub-
lic Law 105–185, the Initiative for Future Agriculture and
Food Systems (7 U.S.C. 7621).
SEC. 722. None of the funds made available to the Food
and Drug Administration by this Act shall be used to re-
duce the Detroit, Michigan, Food and Drug Administration
District Office below the operating and full-time equivalent
staffing level of July 31, 1999; or to change the Detroit Dis-
trict Office to a station, residence post or similarly modified
office; or to reassign residence posts assigned to the Detroit
District Office: Provided, That this section shall not apply
to Food and Drug Administration field laboratory facilities
or operations currently located in Detroit, Michigan, except
that field laboratory personnel shall be assigned to locations
in the general vicinity of Detroit, Michigan, pursuant to
cooperative agreements between the Food and Drug Admin-
istration and other laboratory facilities associated with the
State of Michigan.
SEC. 723. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and ex-
penses 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 Subcommittees on Agri-
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culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects
a reduction from the previous year due to user fees pro-
posals that have not been enacted into law prior to the sub-
mission of the Budget unless such Budget submission identi-
fies 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 2004 appropriations Act.
SEC. 724. None of the funds made available by this
Act or any other Act may be used to close or relocate a
state Rural Development office unless or until cost effective-
ness and enhancement of program delivery have been deter-
mined.
SEC. 725. Of any shipments of commodities made pur-
suant to section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7
U.S.C. 1431(b)), the Secretary of Agriculture shall, to the
extent practicable, direct that tonnage equal in value to not
more than $25,000,000 shall be made available to foreign
countries to assist in mitigating the effects of the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome on communities, including the provision of—
(1) agricultural commodities to—
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(A) individuals with Human Immuno-
deficiency Virus or Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome in the communities; and
(B) households in the communities, particu-
larly individuals caring for orphaned children;
and
(2) agricultural commodities monetized to pro-
vide other assistance (including assistance under
microcredit and microenterprise programs) to create
or restore sustainable livelihoods among individuals
in the communities, particularly individuals caring
for orphaned children.
SEC. 726. In addition to amounts otherwise appro-
priated or made available by this Act, $2,496,000 is appro-
priated for the purpose of providing Bill Emerson and
Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships, as authorized by sec-
tion 4404 of Public Law 107–71 (2 U.S.C. 1161).
SEC. 727. Notwithstanding section 412 of the Agricul-
tural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7
U.S.C. 1736f), any balances available to carry out title III
of such Act as of the date of enactment of this Act, and
any recoveries and reimbursements that become available
to carry out title III of such Act, may be used to carry
out title II of such Act.
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SEC. 728. Of the funds made available under section
27(a) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et
seq.), the Secretary may use up to $5,000,000 for adminis-
trative costs associated with the distribution of commod-
ities.
SEC. 729. 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.
SEC. 730. No funds appropriated or otherwise made
available under this Act shall be made available to any per-
son or entity that has been convicted of violating the Act
of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c; popularly known as
the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
SEC. 731. Section 17(a)(2)(B) of the Richard B. Rus-
sell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766(a)(2)(B))
is amended by striking ‘‘2002’’ and inserting ‘‘2003’’.
SEC. 732. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the City of Dunkirk, New York, shall be eligible for grants
and loans provided through the Rural Community Ad-
vancement Program.
SEC. 733. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
of funds appropriated under the Rural Housing Assistance
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Grant account, $4,000,000 shall be for demonstration hous-
ing grants for agriculture processing workers in the State
of Wisconsin.
SEC. 734. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide
financial and technical assistance for projects in the Em-
barras River Basin, Lake County Watersheds, and DuPage
County, Illinois, from funds made available for Watershed
and Flood Prevention Operations by Public Law 107–76.
SEC. 735. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
of the funds made available in this Act for competitive re-
search grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), the Secretary may use up
to 20 percent of the amount provided to carry out a com-
petitive grants program under the same terms and condi-
tions as those provided in section 401 of the Agricultural
Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998
(7 U.S.C. 7621).
SEC. 736. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide
financial and technical assistance through the Watershed
and Flood Prevention Operations program to carry out the
Upper Tygart Valley Watershed project, West Virginia:
Provided, That the Natural Resources Conservation Service
is authorized to provide 100 percent of the engineering as-
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sistance and 75 percent cost share for installation of the
water supply component of this project.
SEC. 737. Agencies and offices of the Department of
Agriculture may utilize any unobligated salaries and ex-
penses funds to reimburse the Office of the General Counsel
for salaries and expenses of personnel, and for other related
expenses, incurred in representing such agencies and offices
in the resolution of complaints by employees or applicants
for employment, and in cases and other matters pending
before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
the Federal Labor Relations Authority, or the Merit Sys-
tems Protection Board with the prior approval of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
SEC. 738. None of the funds appropriated or made
available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries and
expenses of personnel to carry out section 14(h)(1) of the
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C.
1012(h)(1)).
SEC. 739. None of the funds appropriated or made
available by this Act, or any other Act, may be used to pay
the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out subtitle
I of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7
U.S.C. 2009dd through dd–7).
SEC. 740. None of the funds appropriated or made
available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries and
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expenses of personnel to carry out section 6405 of Public
Law 107–171 (7 U.S.C. 2655).
SEC. 741. None of the funds appropriated or made
available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries and
expenses of personnel to carry out section 9010 of Public
Law 107–171 that exceed 77 percent of the payment that
would otherwise be paid to eligible producers (7 U.S.C.
8108).
SEC. 742. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Natural Resources Conservation Service may provide fi-
nancial and technical assistance through the Watershed and
Flood Prevention Operations program for the Kuhn Bayou
(Point Remove) project in Arkansas.
SEC. 743. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Natural Resources Conservation Service may provide fi-
nancial and technical assistance through the Watershed and
Flood Prevention Operations program for the Matanuska
River erosion control project in Alaska.
SEC. 744. FOOD FOR PROGRESS. The Food for Progress
Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1736o) is amended—
(1) in subsections (c) and (g), by striking ‘‘may’’
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘shall’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(o) PRIVATE
VOLUNTARY
ORGANIZATIONS
AND
OTHER PRIVATE ENTITIES.—In entering into agreements
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described in subsection (c), the President (acting through
the Secretary)—
‘‘(1) shall enter into agreements with eligible en-
tities described in subparagraphs (C) and (F) of sub-
section (b)(5); and
‘‘(2) shall not discriminate against such eligible
entities.’’.
SEC. 745. Of the unobligated balances of funds made
available under the Cooperative State Research, Education,
and Extension Service, Buildings and Facilities appropria-
tion in Public Law 104–180, $795,400 are hereby re-
scinded.
SEC. 746. None of the funds made available in fiscal
year 2003 or preceding fiscal years for programs authorized
under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance
Act of 1954 [7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.] in excess of $20,000,000
shall be used to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion for the release of eligible commodities under section
302(f)(2)(A) of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act
[7 U.S.C. 1736f–1]: Provided, That any such funds made
available to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation
shall only be used pursuant to section 302(b)(2)(B)(i) of
the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act.
SEC. 747. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Natural Resources Conservation Service may provide fi-