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(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities 
presently performed by Federal employees; unless the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are notified 
15 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds. 
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by 
previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act 
that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current 
fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 
United States derived by the collection of fees available to the 
agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or 
expenditure for activities, programs, or projects through a re-
programming 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 pro-
gram, 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 programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress are notified 15 days in advance of such reprogramming of 
funds. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services shall notify the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress before implementing a program or 
activity not carried out during the previous fiscal year unless the 
program or activity is funded by this Act or specifically funded 
by any other Act. 
SEC. 713. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses 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 jurisdiction of the Appropriations Sub-
committees on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies that assumes revenues or 
reflects 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 addi-
tional 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 conference for the fiscal year 2010 appropriations 
Act. 
SEC. 714. 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 Agriculture determines the 
cost effectiveness and/or enhancement of program delivery: Pro-
vided, 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 Con-
gress from the State in which the office is located of the proposed 
closure or relocation and provides a report that describes the jus-
tifications for such closures and relocations. 
SEC. 715. None of the funds made available to the Food and 
Drug Administration by this Act shall be used to close or relocate, 
or to plan to close or relocate, the Food and Drug Administration 
Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis in St. Louis, Missouri, outside 
the city or county limits of St. Louis, Missouri.
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SEC. 716. There is hereby appropriated $434,000, to remain 
available until expended, for the Denali Commission to address 
deficiencies in solid waste disposal sites which threaten to contami-
nate rural drinking water supplies. 
SEC. 717. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries 
and expenses of personnel to carry out an environmental quality 
incentives program authorized 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 $1,067,000,000. 
SEC. 718. None of the funds made available in fiscal year 
2009 or preceding fiscal years for programs authorized under the 
Food for Peace Act (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 Humanitarian Trust Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f–1): Pro-
vided, That any such funds made available to reimburse the Com-
modity Credit Corporation shall only be used pursuant to section 
302(b)(2)(B)(i) of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act. 
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. Funds made available under section 1240I and section 
1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 and section 524(b) of 
the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)) in the current 
fiscal year shall remain available until expended to disburse obliga-
tions made in the current fiscal year. 
SEC. 721. 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 prepackaged news story intended 
for broadcast or distribution in the United States unless the story 
includes a clear notification within the text or audio of the pre-
packaged news story that the prepackaged news story was prepared 
or funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 722. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
former RUS borrower that has repaid or prepaid an insured, direct 
or guaranteed loan under the Rural Electrification Act, or any 
not-for-profit utility that is eligible to receive an insured or direct 
loan under such Act, shall be eligible for assistance under section 
313(b)(2)(B) of such Act in the same manner as a borrower under 
such Act. 
SEC. 723. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries 
and expenses of personnel to carry out a program under subsection 
(b)(2)(A)(i) of section 14222 of Public Law 110–246 in excess of 
$1,071,530,000: Provided, That none of the funds made available 
in this Act or any other Act shall be used for salaries and expenses 
to carry out section 19(i)(1)(B) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act as amended by section 4304 of Public Law 110– 
246 in excess of $16,000,000 until October 1, 2009: Provided further, 
of the unobligated balances under section 32 of the Act of August 
24, 1935, $293,530,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 724. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make funding and other 
assistance available through the emergency watershed protection 
program under section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978
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(16 U.S.C. 2203) to repair and prevent damage to non-Federal 
land in watersheds that have been impaired by fires initiated by 
the Federal Government and shall waive cost sharing requirements 
for the funding and assistance. 
SEC. 725. There is hereby appropriated $3,497,000, to remain 
available until expended, for a grant to the National Center for 
Natural Products Research for construction or renovation to carry 
out the research objectives of the natural products research grant 
issued by the Food and Drug Administration. 
SEC. 726. There is hereby appropriated $469,000, to remain 
available until expended, for the planning and design of construction 
of an agriculture pest facility in the State of Hawaii. 
SEC. 727. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to establish or implement a rule allowing poultry products 
to be imported into the United States from the People’s Republic 
of China. 
SEC. 728. There is hereby appropriated $794,000 to the Farm 
Service Agency to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate the 
use of new technologies that increase the rate of growth of re- 
forested hardwood trees on private non-industrial forests lands, 
enrolling lands on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico that were damaged 
by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 
SEC. 729. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Agriculture in this Act may be used to implement the risk- 
based inspection program in the 30 prototype locations announced 
on February 22, 2007, by the Under Secretary for Food Safety, 
or at any other locations, until the USDA Office of Inspector General 
has provided its findings to the Food Safety and Inspection Service 
and the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate on the data used in support of the development 
and design of the risk-based inspection program and FSIS has 
addressed and resolved issues identified by OIG. 
SEC. 730. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
until receipt of the decennial Census in the year 2010, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall consider— 
(1) the City of Palmview, Texas; the City of Pharr, Texas; 
the City of Hidalgo, Texas; the City of Alton, Texas; the City 
of La Joya, Texas; the City of Penitas, Texas; the City of 
Schertz, Texas; the City of Converse, Texas; the City of Cibolo, 
Texas; and the Township of Bern, Pennsylvania (including 
individuals and entities with projects within the cities), eligible 
for loans and grants funded through the Rural Business Pro-
gram account; 
(2) the County of Nueces, Texas (including individuals and 
entities with projects within the county), eligible under the 
Business and Industry Loan Guarantee Program for the pur-
poses of financing a beef processing facility; 
(3) the City of Asheboro, North Carolina (including individ-
uals and entities with projects within the city), eligible for 
loans and grants funded through the Rural Community Facili-
ties Program account; 
(4) the City of Healdsburg, California; the City of Imperial, 
California; the City of Havelock, North Carolina; and the City 
of Newton, North Carolina (including individuals and entities 
with projects within the cities), eligible for loans and grants 
funded through the Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program 
account; and