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(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs
(3) and (4), respectively; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new para-
graph:
‘‘(2)(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all poultry,
or parts or products of poultry, capable of use as human food
offered for importation into the United States from Canada and
Mexico shall—
‘‘(i) comply with paragraph (1); or
‘‘(ii)(I) be subject to inspection, sanitary, quality, species
verification, and residue standards that are equivalent to
United States standards; and
‘‘(II) have been processed in facilities and under conditions
that meet standards that are equivalent to United States stand-
ards.
‘‘(B) The Secretary may treat as equivalent to a United States
standard a standard of Canada or Mexico described in subparagraph
(A)(ii) if the exporting country provides the Secretary with scientific
evidence or other information, in accordance with risk assessment
methodologies agreed to by the Secretary and the exporting country,
to demonstrate that the standard of the exporting country achieves
the level of protection that the Secretary considers appropriate.
‘‘(C) The Secretary may—
‘‘(i) determine, on a scientific basis, that the standard of
the exporting country does not achieve the level of protection
that the Secretary considers appropriate; and
‘‘(ii) provide the basis for the determination in writing
to the exporting country on request.’’.
(f) FEDERAL MEAT INSPECTION ACT.—Section 20(e) of the Fed-
eral Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 620(e)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘not be limited to—’’ and inserting ‘‘not
be limited to the following:’’;
(2) by striking paragraph (1);
(3) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (6) as para-
graphs (3) through (7), respectively;
(4) by inserting after ‘‘not be limited to the following:’’
(as amended by paragraph (1)) the following new paragraphs:
‘‘(1)(A) Subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C), a certification
by the Secretary that foreign plants in Canada and Mexico
that export carcasses or meat or meat products referred to
in subsection (a) have complied with paragraph (2) or with
requirements that are equivalent to United States requirements
with regard to all inspection and building construction stand-
ards, and all other provisions of this Act and regulations issued
under this Act.
‘‘(B) Subject to subparagraph (C), the Secretary may treat
as equivalent to a United States requirement a requirement
described in subparagraph (A) if the exporting country provides
the Secretary with scientific evidence or other information,
in accordance with risk assessment methodologies agreed to
by the Secretary and the exporting country, to demonstrate
that the requirement or standard of the exporting country
achieves the level of protection that the Secretary considers
appropriate.
‘‘(C) The Secretary may—
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‘‘(i) determine, on a scientific basis, that a requirement
of an exporting country does not achieve the level of protec-
tion that the Secretary considers appropriate; and
‘‘(ii) provide the basis for the determination to the
exporting country in writing on request.
‘‘(2) A certification by the Secretary that, except as provided
in paragraph (1), foreign plants that export carcasses or meat
or meat products referred to in subsection (a) have complied
with requirements that are at least equal to all inspection
and building construction standards and all other provisions
of this Act and regulations issued under this Act.’’;
(5) in paragraphs (3) through (7) (as redesignated by para-
graph (3)), by striking ‘‘the’’ the first place it appears in each
paragraph and inserting ‘‘The’’;
(6) in paragraphs (3) through (5) (as so redesignated), by
striking the semicolon at the end of each paragraph and insert-
ing a period; and
(7) in paragraph (6) (as so redesignated), by striking
‘‘; and’’ at the end and inserting a period.
(g) PEANUT BUTTER AND PEANUT PASTE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in paragraph (2), all
peanut butter and peanut paste in the United States domestic
market shall be processed from peanuts that meet the quality
standards established for peanuts under Marketing Agreement
No. 146.
(2) IMPORTS.—Peanut butter and peanut paste imported
into the United States shall comply with paragraph (1) or
with sanitary measures that achieve at least the same level
of sanitary protection.
(h) ANIMAL HEALTH BIOCONTAINMENT FACILITY.—
(1) GRANT
FOR
CONSTRUCTION.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture shall make a grant to a land grant college or university
described in paragraph (2) for the construction of a facility
at the college or university for the conduct of research in
animal health, disease-transmitting insects, and toxic chemicals
that requires the use of biocontainment facilities and equip-
ment. The facility to be constructed with the grant shall be
known 
as 
the 
‘‘Southwest 
Regional 
Animal 
Health
Biocontainment Facility’’.
(2) GRANT RECIPIENT DESCRIBED.—To be eligible for the
grant under paragraph (1), a land grant college or university
must be—
(A) located in a State adjacent to the international
border with Mexico; and
(B) determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to have
an established program in animal health research and
education and to have a collaborative relationship with
one or more colleges of veterinary medicine or universities
located in Mexico.
(3) ACTIVITIES OF THE FACILITY.—The facility constructed
using the grant made under paragraph (1) shall be used for
conducting the following activities:
(A) The biocontainment facility shall offer the ability
to organize multidisciplinary international teams working
on basic and applied research on diagnostic method devel-
opment and disease control strategies, including develop-
ment of vaccines.
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(B) The biocontainment facility shall support research
that will improve the scientific basis for regulatory activi-
ties, decreasing the need for new regulatory programs and
enhancing international trade.
(C) The biocontainment facility shall allow academic
institutions, governmental agencies, and the private sector
to conduct research in basic and applied research biology,
epidemiology, pathogenesis, host response, and diagnostic
methods, on disease agents that threaten the livestock
industries of the United States and Mexico.
(D) The biocontainment facility may be used to support
research involving food safety, toxicology, environmental
pollutants, radioisotopes, recombinant microorganisms, and
selected naturally resistant or transgenic animals.
(4) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are author-
ized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as
are necessary to carry out this subsection.
(i) REPORTS
ON INSPECTION
OF IMPORTED MEAT, POULTRY,
OTHER FOODS, ANIMALS, AND PLANTS.—
(1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this subsection:
(A) IMPORTS.—The term ‘‘imports’’ means any meat,
poultry, other food, animal, or plant that is imported into
the United States in commercially significant quantities.
(B) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Sec-
retary of Agriculture.
(2) IN GENERAL.—In consultation with representatives of
other appropriate agencies, the Secretary shall prepare an
annual report on the impact of the Agreement on the inspection
of imports.
(3) CONTENTS OF REPORTS.—The report required under this
subsection shall, to the maximum extent practicable, include
a description of—
(A) the quantity or, with respect to the Customs Serv-
ice, the number of shipments, of imports from a NAFTA
country that are inspected at the borders of the United
States with Canada and Mexico during the prior year;
(B) any change in the level or types of inspections
of imports in each NAFTA country during the prior year;
(C) in any case in which the Secretary has determined
that the inspection system of another NAFTA country is
equivalent to the inspection system of the United States,
the reasons supporting the determination of the Secretary;
(D) the incidence of violations of inspection require-
ments by imports from NAFTA countries during the prior
year—
(i) at the borders of the United States with Mexico
or Canada; or
(ii) at the last point of inspection in a NAFTA
country prior to shipment to the United States if the
agency accepts inspection in that country;
(E) the incidence of violations of inspection require-
ments of imports to the United States from Mexico or
Canada prior to the implementation of the Agreement;
(F) any additional cost associated with maintaining
an adequate inspection system of imports as a result of
the implementation of the Agreement;
(G) any incidence of transshipment of imports—
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(i) that originate in a country other than a NAFTA
country;
(ii) that are shipped to the United States through
a NAFTA country during the prior year; and
(iii) that are incorrectly represented by the
importer to qualify for preferential treatment under
the Agreement;
(H) the quantity and results of any monitoring by
the United States of equivalent inspection systems of
imports in other NAFTA countries during the prior year;
(I) the use by other NAFTA countries of sanitary and
phytosanitary measures (as defined in the Agreement) to
limit exports of United States meat, poultry, other foods,
animals, and plants to the countries during the prior year;
and
(J) any other information the Secretary determines
to be appropriate.
(4) FREQUENCY OF REPORTS.—The Secretary shall submit—
(A) the initial report required under this subsection
not later than January 31, 1995; and
(B) an annual report required under this subsection
not later than 1 year after the date of the submission
of the initial report and the end of each 1-year period
thereafter through calendar year 2004.
(5) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—The Secretary shall prepare
and submit the report required under this subsection to the
Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the
Senate.
Subtitle F—Corporate Average Fuel
Economy
SEC. 371. CORPORATE AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY.
(a) IN
GENERAL.—Section 503(b)(2) of the Motor Vehicle
Information and Cost Savings Act (15 U.S.C. 2003(b)(2)) is amended
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(G)(i) In accordance with the schedule set out in clause
(ii), an automobile shall be considered domestically manufac-
tured in a model year if at least 75 percent of the cost to
the manufacturer of the automobile is attributable to value
added in the United States, Canada, or Mexico, unless the
assembly of the automobile is completed in Canada or Mexico
and the automobile is not imported into the United States
prior to the expiration of 30 days following the end of that
model year.
‘‘(ii) Clause (i) shall apply to all automobiles manufactured
by a manufacturer and sold in the United States, wherever
assembled, in accordance with the following schedule:
‘‘(I) With respect to a manufacturer that initiated the
assembly of automobiles in Mexico before model year 1992,
the manufacturer may elect, at any time between January
1, 1997, and January 1, 2004, to have clause (i) apply
to all automobiles it manufactures, beginning with the
model year commencing after the date of such election.
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(i) IN GENERAL.—If, after the Trade Representative
has submitted the final candidate lists to the appro-
priate Congressional Committees under subparagraph
(A) for a calendar year and before July 1 of such
calendar year, the Trade Representative determines
that additional individuals need to be added to a final
candidate list, the Trade Representative shall—
(I) request the interagency group established
under paragraph (2)(A) to prepare a list of individ-
uals who are qualified to be added to such can-
didate list;
(II) select individuals from the list prepared
by 
the 
interagency 
group 
under 
paragraph
(2)(B)(ii) to be included in a proposed amendment
to such final candidate list; and
(III) by no later than July 1 of such calendar
year, submit to the appropriate Congressional
Committees the proposed amendments to such
final candidate list developed by the Trade Rep-
resentative under subclause (II), along with the
information described in paragraph (3)(B)(ii).
(ii) CONSULTATION WITH CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT-
TEES.—Upon submission of a proposed amendment
under clause (i)(III) to the appropriate Congressional
Committees, the Trade Representative shall consult
with the appropriate Congressional Committees with
regard to the individuals included in the proposed
amendment.
(iii) ADJUSTMENT OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT.—The
Trade Representative may add and delete individuals
from any proposed amendment submitted under clause
(i)(III) after consulting with the appropriate Congres-
sional Committees with regard to the additions and
deletions. The Trade Representative shall provide to
the appropriate Congressional Committees written
notice of any addition or deletion of an individual from
the proposed amendment.
(iv) FINAL AMENDMENT.—
(I) IN GENERAL.—If the Trade Representative
submits under clause (i)(III) in any calendar year
a proposed amendment to a final candidate list,
the Trade Representative shall, no later than
September 30 of such calendar year, submit to
the appropriate Congressional Committees the
final form of such amendment. On October 1 of
such calendar year, such amendment shall take
effect and, subject to subclause (II), the individuals
included in the final form of such amendment shall
be added to the final candidate list.
(II) INCLUSION OF INDIVIDUALS.—An individual
may be included in the final form of an amendment
submitted under subclause (I) only if such individ-
ual was included in the proposed form of such
amendment or if written notice of the addition
of such individual to the proposed form of such
amendment was submitted to the appropriate
Congressional Committees at least 15 days before
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