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dle-Income Country Training Program; higher education
graduate fellowships grants under section 1417(b)(6) of
the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and
Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended (7 U.S.C.
3152(b)(6)); and capacity building grants to colleges eligi-
ble to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890,
including Tuskegee University.
New obligational authority for the Boll Weevil Pro-
gram; up to 10 per centum of the Screwworm Program
of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; funds
appropriated for Rental Payments; and higher education
minority scholars programs under section 1417(b)(5) of
the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and
Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended (7 U.S.C.
3152(b)(5)) shall remain available until expended.
SEC. 706. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 707. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropria-
tions available to the Department of Agriculture in this
Act shall be available to provide appropriate orientation
and language training pursuant to Public Law 94–449.
SEC. 708. No funds appropriated by this Act may be
used to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative
agreements or similar arrangements between the United
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States Department of Agriculture and nonprofit institu-
tions in excess of 10 per centum of the total direct cost
of the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative
arrangements is to carry out programs of mutual interest
between the two parties. This does not preclude appro-
priate payment of indirect costs on grants and contracts
with such institutions when such indirect costs are com-
puted on a similar basis for all agencies for which appro-
priations are provided in this Act.
SEC. 709. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, commodities acquired by the Department in con-
nection with Commodity Credit Corporation and section
32 price support operations may be used, as authorized
by law (15 U.S.C. 714c and 7 U.S.C. 612c), to provide
commodities to individuals in cases of hardship as deter-
mined by the Secretary of Agriculture.
SEC. 710. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to reimburse the General Services Administration for
payment of space rental and related costs in excess of the
amounts specified in this Act; nor shall this or any other
provision of law require a reduction in the level of rental
space or services below that of fiscal year 1994 or prohibit
an expansion of rental space or services with the use of
funds otherwise appropriated in this Act. Further, no
agency of the Department of Agriculture, from funds oth-
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erwise available, shall reimburse the General Services Ad-
ministration for payment of space rental and related costs
provided to such agency at a percentage rate which is
greater than is available in the case of funds appropriated
in this Act.
SEC. 711. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit
Corporation to lease space for its own use or to lease space
on behalf of other agencies of the Department of Agri-
culture when such space will be jointly occupied.
SEC. 712. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to pay indirect costs on research grants awarded com-
petitively by the Cooperative State Research Service that
exceed 14 per centum of total Federal funds provided
under each award.
SEC. 713. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
this Act, all loan levels provided in this Act shall be consid-
ered estimates, not limitations.
SEC. 714. Appropriations to the Department of Agri-
culture for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made
available in fiscal year 1995 shall remain available until
expended to cover obligations made in fiscal year 1995 for
the following accounts: Rural Development Insurance
Fund Program Account; Rural Development Loan Fund
Program Account; the Rural Telephone Bank Program
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Account; the Rural Electrification and Telephone Loans
Program Account; and the REA Economic Development
Loans Program Account.
SEC. 715. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries of personnel who carry out a Market Promotion
Program pursuant to section 203 (7 U.S.C. 5623) of the
Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, with respect to tobacco
or if the aggregate amount of funds and/or commodities
under such program exceeds $90,000,000.
SEC. 716. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to enroll
in excess of 100,000 acres in the fiscal year 1995 Wet-
lands Reserve Program, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837.
SEC. 717. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to enroll
additional acres in the Conservation Reserve Program au-
thorized by 16 U.S.C. 3831–3845.
SEC. 718. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 1995 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 719. (a) COMPLIANCE WITH BUY AMERICAN
ACT.—None of the funds made available in this Act may
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in
expending the funds the entity will comply with sections
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2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–
10c; popularly known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARD-
ING NOTICE.—
(1) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or
product that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving the assistance should, in ex-
pending the assistance, purchase only American-
made equipment and products.
(2) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—
In providing financial assistance using funds made
available in this Act, the head of each Federal agen-
cy shall provide to each recipient of the assistance
a notice describing the statement made in paragraph
(1) by the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS
FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bear-
ing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription
with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped
to the United States that is not made in the United
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States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any con-
tract or subcontract made with funds made available in
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineli-
gibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 720. Notwithstanding the Federal Grant and
Cooperative Agreement Act, marketing services of the Ag-
ricultural Marketing Service may use cooperative agree-
ments to reflect a relationship between Agricultural Mar-
keting Service and a State or Cooperator to carry out agri-
cultural marketing programs.
SEC. 721. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries of personnel who carry out an export enhancement
program (estimated to be $1,000,000,000 in the Presi-
dent’s fiscal year 1995 Budget Request (H. Doc. 103–
179)) if the aggregate amount of funds and/or commod-
ities under such program exceeds $850,000,000.
SEC. 722. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries of personnel who carry out a sunflower and cot-
tonseed oil export program authorized by section 1541 of
Public Law 101–624 if the aggregate amount of funds
and/or 
commodities 
under 
such 
program 
exceeds
$27,000,000.
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sion, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended (7
U.S.C. 3152(b)(1)), including administrative expenses.
SEC. 725. None of the funds made available in this
Act for the Food Stamp Program may be used in violation
of 7 U.S.C. sec. 2015(f) or of any applicable Federal law
or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 726. None of the funds made available in this
Act for the Conservation Reserve Program may be used
in violation of 7 CFR 1498.4(a) or of any applicable Fed-
eral law or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 727. None of the funds made available in this
Act for the Wetlands Reserve Program may be used in
violation of 7 CFR 1498.4(a) or of any applicable Federal
law or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 728. None of the funds made available in this
Act for the Agricultural Water Quality Protection Pro-
gram may be used in violation of 7 CFR 1498.4(a) or of
any applicable Federal law or regulation of the United
States.
SEC. 729. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Integrated Farm Management Program Option
may be used in violation of 7 CFR 1498.4(a) or of any
applicable Federal law or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 730. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Farm Labor Housing Grants (section 516) may
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be used in violation of 7 CFR 1944.9(c) or of any applica-
ble Federal law or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 731. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Rural Housing Loans (section 502) may be used
in violation of 7 CFR 1944.9(c) or of any applicable Fed-
eral law or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 732. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Rural Rental Housing Loans (section 515) may
be used in violation of 7 CFR 1944.9(c) or of any applica-
ble Federal law or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 733. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Rural Rental Assistance Payments (section 521)
may be used in violation of 7 CFR 1944.9(c) or of any
applicable Federal law or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 734. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Rural Housing Self-Help Technical Assistance
Grants may be used in violation of 7 CFR 1944.9(c) or
of any applicable Federal law or regulation of the United
States.
SEC. 735. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Rural Housing Site Loans (sections 523 and 524)
may be used in violation of 7 CFR 1944.9(c) or of any
applicable Federal law or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 736. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Farm Labor Housing Loans and Grants may be
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used in violation of 7 CFR 1944.9(c) or of any applicable
Federal law or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 737. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Rural Rental Housing Loans may be used in viola-
tion of 7 CFR 1944.9(c) or of any applicable Federal law
or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 738. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Farm Ownership Loans may be used in violation
of 7 CFR 1943.12(a)(1) or of any applicable Federal law
or regulation of the United States.
SEC. 739. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Emergency Loans may be used in violation of 7
CFR 1945.162(b)(1) or of any applicable Federal law or
regulation of the United States.
SEC. 740. None of the funds made available in this
Act for Farm Operating Loans may be used in violation
of 7 CFR 1941.12(a)(1) or of any applicable Federal law
or regulation of the United States.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agricultural, Rural
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Relat-
ed Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995’’.
Passed the House of Representatives June 17, 1994.
Attest:
DONNALD K. ANDERSON,
Clerk.
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