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INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), in-
cluding the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
and the rental of space (to include multiple year leases) 
in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $93,327,000, 
including not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses. 
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $42,900,000 (from assessments col-
lected from farm credit institutions and from the Federal 
Agricultural Mortgage Corporation) shall be obligated 
during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses 
as authorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, That this 
limitation shall not apply to expenses associated with re-
ceiverships. 
TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, 
appropriations and authorizations made for the Depart-
ment of Agriculture for the current fiscal year under this 
Act shall be available for the purchase, in addition to those 
specifically provided for, of not to exceed 388 passenger
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motor vehicles, of which 388 shall be for replacement only, 
and for the hire of such vehicles. 
SEC. 702. Funds in this Act available to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture shall be available for uniforms or al-
lowances therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901– 
5902). 
SEC. 703. Funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available for employment pursuant to the second sentence 
of section 706(a) of the Department of Agriculture Or-
ganic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225) and 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
SEC. 704. New obligational authority provided for the 
following appropriation items in this Act shall remain 
available until expended: Animal and Plant Health Inspec-
tion Service, the contingency fund to meet emergency con-
ditions, information technology infrastructure, fruit fly 
program, emerging plant pests, boll weevil program, up 
to $12,000,000 in the low pathogen avian influenza pro-
gram for indemnities, up to $33,197,000 in animal health 
monitoring and surveillance for the animal identification 
system, up to $3,000,000 in the emergency management 
systems program for the vaccine bank, and up to 25 per-
cent of the screwworm program; Food Safety and Inspec-
tion Service, field automation and information manage-
ment project; Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
Extension Service, funds for competitive research grants
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(7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), funds for the Research, Education, 
and Economics Information System (REEIS), and funds 
for the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund; 
Farm Service Agency, salaries and expenses funds made 
available to county committees; Foreign Agricultural Serv-
ice, middle-income country training program, and up to 
$2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricultural Service appropria-
tion solely for the purpose of offsetting fluctuations in 
international currency exchange rates, subject to docu-
mentation by the Foreign Agricultural Service. 
SEC. 705. 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. 706. 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 section 606C of the Act 
of August 28, 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1766b). 
SEC. 707. No funds appropriated by this Act may be 
used to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative 
agreements or similar arrangements between the United 
States Department of Agriculture and nonprofit institu-
tions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost of 
the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative ar-
rangements is to carry out programs of mutual interest
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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. 708. 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. 709. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to pay indirect costs charged against competitive agri-
cultural research, education, or extension grant awards 
issued by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
Extension Service that exceed 25 percent of total Federal 
funds provided under each award: Provided, That notwith-
standing section 1462 of the National Agricultural Re-
search, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3310), funds provided by this Act for grants 
awarded competitively by the Cooperative State Research, 
Education, and Extension Service shall be available to pay 
full allowable indirect costs for each grant awarded under 
section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638).