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meter natural color digital ortho-imagery of the entire state 
of Utah. 
SEC. 772. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
for eligibility to participate in the Environmental Quality 
Incentives Program (EQIP), a producer is deemed to have 
an interest in a farming or ranching operation whether the 
source of income for that operation is derived from crops 
or livestock owned by that producer, or owned by another 
and raised by that producer. 
SEC. 773. 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, except in the event of liquidation 
or dissolution of the telephone bank during fiscal year 2006, 
pursuant to section 411 of the Rural Electrification Act of 
1936, as amended, 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
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for financial accounts in section 505(c) of the Federal Cred-
it Reform Act of 1990. 
SEC. 774. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000 to 
carry out Section 120 of Public Law 108–265 in Utah and 
Wisconsin. 
SEC. 775. There is hereby appropriated $700,000 to 
provide administrative support for a world food hunger or-
ganization: Provided, That none of the funds may be used 
for a monetary award to an individual. 
SEC. 776. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of Agriculture may consider the Municipality 
of Carolina, Puerto Rico, as meeting the eligibility require-
ments for loans and grants programs in the Rural Develop-
ment mission area. 
SEC. 777. It is the sense of the Senate that the United 
States Government should not permit the importation into 
the United States of beef from Japan until the Government 
of Japan takes appropriate actions to permit the importa-
tion into Japan of beef from the United States. 
SEC. 778. None of the funds made available under this 
Act shall be used by the Secretary of Agriculture for the 
purpose of developing a final rule relating to the proposed 
rule entitled ‘‘Importation of Whole Cuts of Boneless Beef 
from Japan’’, dated August 18, 2005 (70 Fed. Reg. 48494), 
to allow the importation of beef from Japan, unless the
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President certifies to Congress that Japan has granted open 
access to Japanese markets for beef and beef products pro-
duced in the United States. 
SEC. 779. (a) Section 8c(5) of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c(5)), reenacted with amendments 
by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(M) MINIMUM
MILK
PRICES
FOR
HAN-
DLERS.— 
‘‘(i) APPLICATION OF MINIMUM PRICE 
REQUIREMENTS.—Notwithstanding 
any 
other provision of this section, a milk han-
dler described in clause (ii) shall be subject 
to all of the minimum and uniform price 
requirements of a Federal milk marketing 
order issued pursuant to this section appli-
cable to the county in which the plant of the 
handler is located, at Federal order class 
prices, if the handler has packaged fluid 
milk product route dispositions, or sales of 
packaged fluid milk products to other 
plants, in a marketing area located in a 
State that requires handlers to pay min-
imum prices for raw milk purchases.
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‘‘(ii) COVERED MILK HANDLERS.—Ex-
cept as provided in clause (iv), clause (i) 
applies to a handler of Class I milk prod-
ucts (including a producer-handler or pro-
ducer operating as a handler) that— 
‘‘(I) operates a plant that is lo-
cated within the boundaries of a Fed-
eral order milk marketing area (as 
those boundaries are in effect on the 
date of enactment of this subpara-
graph); 
‘‘(II) has packaged fluid milk 
product route dispositions, or sales of 
packaged fluid milk products to other 
plants, in a milk marketing area lo-
cated in a State that requires handlers 
to pay minimum prices for raw milk 
purchases; and 
‘‘(III) is not otherwise obligated 
by a Federal milk marketing order, or 
a regulated milk pricing plan operated 
by a State, to pay minimum class 
prices for the raw milk that is used for 
the milk dispositions or sales.
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‘‘(iii) OBLIGATION
TO
PAY
MINIMUM 
CLASS PRICES.—For the purpose of clause 
(ii)(III), the Secretary may not consider a 
handler of Class I milk products to be obli-
gated by a Federal milk marketing order to 
pay minimum class prices for raw milk un-
less the handler operates the plant as a fully 
regulated fluid milk distributing plant 
under a Federal milk marketing order. 
‘‘(iv) CERTAIN
HANDLERS
EXEMPT-
ED.—Clause (i) does not apply to— 
‘‘(I) a handler (otherwise de-
scribed in clause (ii)) that operates a 
nonpool plant (as defined in section 
1000.8(e) of title 7, Code of Federal 
Regulations (as in effect on the date of 
enactment of this subparagraph)); 
‘‘(II) a producer-handler (other-
wise described in clause (ii)) for any 
month during which the producer-han-
dler has route dispositions, and sales to 
other plants, of packaged fluid milk 
products equaling less than 3,000,000 
pounds of milk; or