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lection agencies to collect delinquent payments from
Farmers Home Administration borrowers.
SEC. 717. None of the funds in this Act, or otherwise
made available by this Act, shall be used to sell loans made
by the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund. Further,
Rural Development Insurance Fund loans offered for sale
in fiscal year 1994 shall be first offered to the borrowers
for prepayment.
SEC. 718. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to establish any new office, organization, or center for
which funds have not been provided in advance in Appro-
priations Acts, except the Department may carry out plan-
ning activities.
SEC. 719. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to pay indirect costs on research grants awarded com-
petitively by the Cooperative State Research Service that
exceed 14 per centum of total Federal funds provided
under each award.
SEC. 720. Appropriations to the Department of Agri-
culture for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made
available in fiscal years 1992, 1993, and 1994 shall re-
main available until expended to cover obligations made
in fiscal years 1992, 1993, and 1994 for the following ac-
counts: Rural Development Insurance Fund Program Ac-
count; the Rural Telephone Bank Program Account; the
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Rural Electrification and Telephone Loans Program Ac-
count; and the Rural Economic Development Loans Pro-
gram Account.
SEC. 721. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
this Act, all loan levels provided in this Act shall be consid-
ered estimates, not limitations.
SEC. 722. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, none of the funds in this Act may be used to
operate the seven regional offices of the Rural Develop-
ment Administration after April 1, 1994.
SEC. 723. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries of personnel who carry out a Market Promotion
Program pursuant to section 203 (7 U.S.C. 5623) of the
Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, with respect to tobacco
or if the aggregate amount of funds and/or commodities
under such program exceeds $127,734,000.
SEC. 724. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to enroll
in excess of 50,000 acres in the fiscal year 1994 Wetlands
Reserve Program, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837.
SEC. 725. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to enroll
additional acres in the Conservation Reserve Program au-
thorized by 16 U.S.C. 3831–3845.
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SEC. 726. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 1994 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 726. (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.—
It 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.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994’’.
Passed the House of Representatives June 29, 1993.
Attest:
Clerk.
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