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for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogram-
ming of funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, which- 
ever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, 
projects, or activities; (2) reduces 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 pro-
grams, activities, or projects as approved by Congress; un-
less the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such re-
programming of funds. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission shall notify the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress be-
fore implementing a program or activity not carried out 
during the previous fiscal year unless the program or ac-
tivity is funded by this Act or specifically funded by any 
other Act. 
SEC. 714. None of the funds appropriated by this 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 
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jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies that assumes revenues or re-
flects a reduction from the previous year due to user fees 
proposals that have not been enacted into law prior to the 
submission of the Budget unless such Budget submission 
identifies 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 con-
ference for the fiscal year 2009 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 715. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to close or relocate a Rural 
Development office unless or until the Secretary of Agri-
culture determines the cost effectiveness and enhancement 
of program delivery: Provided, That not later than 120 
days before the date of the proposed closure or relocation, 
the Secretary notifies the Committees on Appropriation of 
the House and Senate, and the members of Congress from 
the State in which the office is located of the proposed 
closure or relocation and provides a report that describes 
in detail the justifications for such closures and reloca-
tions. 
SEC. 716. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, of the funds made available in this Act for competitive 
research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), the Secretary may use 
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up to 22 percent of the amount provided to carry out a 
competitive grants program under the same terms and 
conditions as those provided in section 401 of the Agricul-
tural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 
1998 (7 U.S.C. 7621). 
SEC. 717. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel who carry 
out an environmental quality incentives program author-
ized by chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food 
Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) in excess 
of $1,017,000,000. 
SEC. 718. None of the funds made available in fiscal 
year 2008 or preceding fiscal years for programs author-
ized under the Agricultural Trade Development and As-
sistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) in excess 
of $20,000,000 shall be used to reimburse the Commodity 
Credit Corporation for the release of eligible commodities 
under section 302(f)(2)(A) of the Bill Emerson Humani-
tarian 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. 
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SEC. 719. No funds shall be used to pay salaries and 
expenses of the Department of Agriculture to carry out 
or administer the program authorized by section 14(h)(1) 
of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 
U.S.C. 1012(h)(1)). 
SEC. 720. Of the funds derived from interest on the 
cushion of credit payments, as authorized by section 313 
of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, $34,000,000 
shall not be obligated and $34,000,000 are rescinded. 
SEC. 721. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to issue a final rule in furtherance of, 
or otherwise implement, the proposed rule on cost-sharing 
for animal and plant health emergency programs of the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service published on 
July 8, 2003 (Docket No. 02–062–1; 68 Fed. Reg. 
40541). 
SEC. 722. Funds made available under section 1240I 
and section 1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 in 
the current fiscal year shall remain available until ex-
pended to disburse obligations made in the current fiscal 
year, and are not available for new obligations. Funds 
made available under section 524(b) of the Federal Crop 
Insurance Act, 7 U.S.C. 1524(b), in fiscal years 2004, 
2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 shall remain available until 
expended to disburse obligations made in fiscal years 
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2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 respectively, and ex-
cept for fiscal year 2008 funds, are not available for new 
obligations. 
SEC. 723. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be used for salaries and expenses to draft or implement 
any regulation or rule insofar as it would require recertifi-
cation of rural status for each electric and telecommuni-
cations borrower for the Rural Electrification and Tele-
communication Loans program. 
SEC. 724. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 
law, none of the funds provided in this Act, may be used 
by an executive branch agency to produce any pre-
packaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution 
in the United States unless the story includes a clear noti-
fication within the text or audio of the prepackaged news 
story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or 
funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 725. In addition to other amounts appropriated 
or otherwise made available by this Act, there is hereby 
appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture $10,000,000, 
of which not to exceed 5 percent may be available for ad-
ministrative expenses, to remain available until expended, 
to make specialty crop block grants under section 101 of 
the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (Public 
Law 108–465; 7 U.S.C. 1621 note). 
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