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shall not exceed 5 percent of the funds made available for
rental payments (FDA) to or from this account.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE
PAYMENTS TO THE FARM CREDIT SYSTEM FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE CORPORATION
For necessary payments to the Farm Credit System
Financial Assistance Corporation by the Secretary of the
Treasury, as authorized by section 6.28(c) of the Farm
Credit Act of 1971, as amended, for reimbursement of in-
terest expenses incurred by the Financial Assistance Cor-
poration on obligations issued through 1994, as author-
ized $10,290,000.
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (7 U.S.C.
1 et seq.), including the purchase and hire of passenger
motor vehicles; the rental of space (to include multiple
year leases) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and
not to exceed $25,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C.
3109; Ω110æ$55,101,000 $56,601,000, including not to ex-
ceed $1,000 for official reception and representation ex-
penses: Provided, That the Commission is authorized to
charge reasonable fees to attendees of Commission spon-
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sored educational events and symposia to cover the Com-
mission’s costs of providing those events and symposia,
and notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, said fees shall be
credited to this account, to be available without further
appropriation.
Ω111æFARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
Not to exceed $37,478,000 (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.
TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law,
appropriations and authorizations made for the Depart-
ment of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1997 under this
Act shall be available for the purchase, in addition to those
specifically provided for, of not to exceed 667 passenger
motor vehicles, of which 643 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).
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SEC. 703. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropria-
tions of the Department of Agriculture in this Act for re-
search and service work authorized by the Acts of August
14, 1946, and July 28, 1954 (7 U.S.C. 427, 1621–1629),
and by chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code, shall
be available for contracting in accordance with said Acts
and chapter.
SEC. 704. The cumulative total of transfers to the
Working Capital Fund for the purpose of accumulating
growth capital for data services and National Finance
Center operations shall not exceed $2,000,000: Provided,
That no funds in this Act appropriated to an agency of
the Department shall be transferred to the Working Cap-
ital Fund without the approval of the agency adminis-
trator.
SEC. 705. New obligational authority provided for the
following appropriation items in this Act shall remain
available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service, the contingency fund to
meet emergency conditions, fruit fly program, and inte-
grated systems acquisition project; Farm Service Agency,
salaries and expenses funds made available to county com-
mittees; and Foreign Agricultural Service, middle-income
country training program.
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New obligational authority for the boll weevil pro-
gram; up to 10 percent of the screwworm program of the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Ω112æFood
Safety and Inspection Service, field automation and infor-
mation management project; funds appropriated for rental
payments; funds for the Native American institutions en-
dowment fund in the Cooperative State Research, Edu-
cation, and Extension Service, and funds for the competi-
tive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), shall remain avail-
able 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
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
between the two parties. This does not preclude appro-
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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 1996 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-
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.
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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. With the exception of grants awarded
under the Small Business Innovation Development Act of
1982, Public Law 97–219, as amended (15 U.S.C. 638),
none of the funds in this Act shall be available to pay
indirect costs on research grants awarded competitively by
the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension
Service that exceed 14 percent of total Federal funds pro-
vided 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 1997 shall remain available until
expended to cover obligations made in fiscal year 1997 for
the following accounts: the rural development loan fund
program account; the Rural Telephone Bank program ac-
count; the rural electrification and telecommunications
loans program account; and the rural economic develop-
ment loans program account.
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SEC. 715. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 1997 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 716. (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
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.
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(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
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. 717. Notwithstanding the Federal Grant and
Cooperative Agreement Act, marketing services of the Ag-
ricultural Marketing Service and the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service may use cooperative agreements
to reflect a relationship between Agricultural Marketing
Service or the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
and a State or Cooperator to carry out agricultural mar-
keting programs or to carry out programs to protect the
Nation’s animal and plant resources.
SEC. 718. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to retire more than 5% of the Class A stock of the Rural
Telephone Bank or to maintain any account or subaccount
within the accounting records of the Rural Telephone
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Bank the creation of which has not specifically been au-
thorized by statute Ω113æ: Provided, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated
or otherwise made available in this Act may be used to
transfer to the Treasury or to the Federal Financing Bank
any unobligated balance of the Rural Telephone Bank tele-
phone liquidating account which is in excess of current re-
quirements and such balance shall receive interest as set
forth for financial accounts in section 505(c) of the Federal
Credit Reform Act of 1990.
SEC. 719. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to provide
food stamp benefits to households whose benefits are cal-
culated using a standard deduction greater than the
standard deduction in effect for fiscal year 1995.
SEC. 720. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to provide assistance to, or to pay the
salaries of personnel who carry out a market promotion/
market access program pursuant to section 203 of the Ag-
ricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5623) that pro-
vides assistance to the U.S. Mink Export Development
Council or any mink industry trade association.
Ω114æSEC. 721. None of the funds appropriated or
otherwise made available by this Act shall be used to enroll
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in excess of 130,000 acres in the fiscal year 1997 wetlands
reserve program, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837.
SEC. 721. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act, or made available through the
commodity Credit Corporation, shall be used to enroll in
excess of 130,000 acres in the fiscal year 1997 wetlands re-
serve program, as authorized by section 3837 of title 16,
United States Code: Provided, That additional acreage may
be enrolled in the program to the extent that non-Federal
funds available to the Secretary are used to fully com-
pensate for the cost of additional enrollments: Provided fur-
ther, That the condition on enrollments provided in section
1237(b)(2)(B) of the Food Security Act of 1985, as amended
(16 U.S.C. 3837(b)(2)(B)) shall be deemed met upon the
enrollment of 43,333 acres through the use of temporary
easements: Provided further That the Secretary shall not en-
roll acres in the wetlands reserve program through the use
of new permanent easements in fiscal year 1998 until the
Secretary has enrolled at least 31,667 acres in the program
through the use of temporary easements.
SEC. 722. Of the funds made available by this Act,
not more than $1,000,000 shall be used to cover necessary
expenses of activities related to all advisory committees,
panels, commissions, and task forces of the Department
of Agriculture except for panels used to comply with nego-
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tiated rule makings Ω115æ and panels used to evaluate
competitively awarded grants.
SEC. 723. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out an export
enhancement program if the aggregate amount of funds
and/or 
commodities 
under 
such 
program 
exceeds
$100,000,000.
Ω116æSEC. 724. None of the funds appropriated or
otherwise made available by this Act shall be used to pay
the salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out a
farmland protection program in excess of $2,000,000 au-
thorized by section 388 of Public Law 104–127.
Ω117æSEC. 725. None of the funds appropriated or
otherwise made available by this Act shall be used to pay
the salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out a
wildlife habitat incentives program authorized by section
387 of Public Law 104–127.
Ω118æSEC. 726. None of the funds appropriated or
otherwise made available by this Act shall be used to pay
the salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out a
conservation farm option program in excess of $2,000,000
authorized by section 335 of Public Law 104–127.
SEC. 727. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to pay the salaries of employees of the
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Department of Agriculture who make payments pursuant
to a production flexibility contract entered into under sec-
tion 111 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Re-
form Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–127; 7 U.S.C. 7211)
when it is made known to the Federal official having au-
thority to obligate or expend such funds that the land cov-
ered by that production flexibility contract is not being
Ω119æused for the production of an agricultural commod-
ity or is not devoted to a conserving use, unless it is also
made known to that Federal official that the lack of agri-
cultural production or the lack of a conserving use is a
consequence of drought, flood, or other natural disaster
used for an agricultural or related activity, including con-
serving use, as determined by the Secretary.
SEC. 728. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to extend
any existing or expiring contract in the Conservation Re-
serve Program authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3831–3845.
Ω120æSEC. 729. None of the funds made available
in this Act may be used to maintain the price of raw cane
sugar (as reported for an appropriate preceding month for
applicable sugar futures contracts of the Coffee, Sugar,
and Cocoa Exchange, New York) at more than 1171⁄2 per-
cent of the statutory loan rate under section 158 of the