cies 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
through a reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new
programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity;
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any
project or activity for which funds have been denied or
restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorga-
nizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out
or privatizes any functions or activities presently per-
formed by Federal employees; unless the Committees 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 pro-
vided 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 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.
SEC. 724. With the exception of funds needed to ad-
minister and conduct oversight of grants awarded and ob-
ligations incurred prior to enactment of this Act, none of
the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this
or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries and ex-
penses of personnel to carry out section 793 of Public Law
104–127, the Fund for Rural America (7 U.S.C. 2204f).
SEC. 725. 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 envi-
ronmental quality incentives program authorized by chap-
ter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act
of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) in excess of
$174,000,000.
SEC. 726. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise available to the Department of Agriculture in the cur-
rent fiscal year or thereafter may be used to administer
the provision of contract payments to a producer under
the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7201
et seq.) for contract acreage on which wild rice is planted
unless the contract payment is reduced by an acre for each
contract acre planted to wild rice.
SEC. 727. With the exception of funds needed to ad-
minister and conduct oversight of grants awarded and ob-
ligations incurred prior to enactment of this Act, none of
the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this
or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries and ex-
penses of personnel to carry out the provisions of section
401 of Public Law 105–185, the Initiative for Future Ag-
riculture and Food Systems (7 U.S.C. 7621).
SEC. 728. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to carry out
any commodity purchase program that would prohibit eli-
gibility or participation by farmer-owned cooperatives.
SEC. 729. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out a conserva-
tion farm option program, as authorized by section 1240M
of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb).
SEC. 730. None of the funds made available by this
Act or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used to
carry out section 203(h) of the Agricultural Marketing Act
of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622(h)) unless the Secretary of Agri-
culture inspects and certifies agricultural processing
equipment, and imposes a fee for the inspection and cer-
tification, in a manner that is similar to the inspection
and certification of agricultural products under that sec-
tion, as determined by the Secretary: Provided, That this
provision shall not affect the authority of the Secretary
to carry out the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C.
601 et seq.), the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21
U.S.C. 451 et seq.), or the Egg Products Inspection Act
(21 U.S.C. 1031 et seq.).
SEC. 731. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and
expenses of personnel who prepare or submit appropria-
tions language as part of the President’s Budget submis-
sion to the Congress of the United States for programs
under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommit-
tees on Agriculture, Rural Development, 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 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 conference for
the fiscal year 2002 appropriations Act.
SEC. 732. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to carry out
a Community Food Security program or any similar activ-
ity within the United States Department of Agriculture
without the prior approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress.
SEC. 733. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used
to carry out provision of section 612 of Public Law 105–
185.
SEC. 734. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
shall be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, de-
crees, or orders for the purpose of implementation, or in
preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol
which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto,
Japan, at the Third Conference of the Parties to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for
advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article II,
section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and
which has not entered into force pursuant to article 25
of the Protocol: Provided, That the limitation established
in this section shall not apply to any activity otherwise
authorized by law.
SEC. 735. After taking any action involving the sei-
zure, quarantine, treatment, destruction, or disposal of
wheat infested with karnal bunt, the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall compensate the producers and handlers for
economic losses incurred as the result of the action not
later than 45 days after receipt of a claim that includes
all appropriate paperwork.
SEC. 736. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Town of Lloyd, New York and the Town of
Thompson, New York shall be eligible for loans and grants
provided through the Rural Community Advancement
Program.
SEC. 
737. 
Hereafter, 
notwithstanding 
section
502(h)(7) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C.
1472(h)(7)), the fee collected by the Secretary of Agri-
culture with respect to a guaranteed loan under such sec-
tion 502(h) at the time of the issuance of such guarantee
may be in an amount equal to not more than 2 percent
of the principal obligation of the loan.
SEC. 738. The Secretary of Agriculture may use
funds available under this and subsequent appropriation
Acts to employ individuals to perform services outside the
United States as determined by the agencies to be nec-
essary or appropriate for carrying out programs and ac-
tivities abroad; and such employment actions, hereafter re-
ferred to as Personal Service Agreements (PSA), are au-
thorized to be negotiated, the terms of the PSA to be pre-
scribed and work to be performed, where necessary, with-
out regard to such statutory provisions as related to the
negotiation, making and performance of contracts and
performance of work in the United States. Individuals em-
ployed under a PSA to perform such services outside the
United States shall not by virtue of such employment be
considered employees of the United States Government for
purposes of any law administered by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management. Such individuals may be considered
employees within the meaning of the Federal Employee
Compensation Act, 5 U.S.C. 8101 et seq. Further, that
Government service credit shall be accrued for the time
employed under a PSA should the individual later be hired
into a permanent United States Government position
within FAS or another United States Government agency
if their authorities so permit.
SEC. 739. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 141 of the Ag-
ricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7251) is
amended—
(1) in subsection (b)(4), by striking ‘‘and
2000’’; and inserting ‘‘through 2001’’; and
(2) in subsection (h), by striking ‘‘2000’’ each
place it appears and inserting ‘‘2001’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 142(e) of
the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C.
7252(e)) is amended by striking ‘‘2001’’ and inserting
‘‘2002’’.
SEC. 740. In addition to amounts otherwise appro-
priated or made available by this Act, $4,000,000 is ap-
propriated for the purpose of providing Bill Emerson and
Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships through the Congres-
sional Hunger Center.
SEC. 741. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to include
a flood plain determination in any environmental impact
study conducted by or at the request of the Farm Service
Agency for financial obligations or guarantees to aqua-
culture facilities pending the completion by the Secretary
of Agriculture and submission to Congress of a study re-
garding the environmental impact of aquaculture activities
in flood plains in Arkansas.
SEC. 742. Notwithstanding any other provision of law
or regulation, hereafter Friends of the National Arbo-
retum, an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax-
ation under section 501(a) of such Code incorporated in
the District of Columbia, shall not be considered a prohib-
ited source with respect to the United States National Ar-
boretum and its employees for any reason, including for
the purposes relating to gifts, compensation, or any other
donations of any size or kind, so long as Friends of the
National Arboretum remains an organization described
under section 501(c)(3) of such Code and continues to
conduct its operations exclusively for the benefit of the
United States National Arboretum.
SEC. 743. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary shall include the value of lost produc-
tion when determining the amount of compensation to be
paid to owners, as provided in Public Law 106–113, ap-
pendix E, title II, section 204, for the cost of tree replace-
ment for commercial trees destroyed as part of the Citrus
Canker Eradication Program in Florida.
SEC. 744. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall issue
regulations requiring, for each child nutrition program,
that—
(1) alternate protein products which are used to
resemble and substitute, in part, for meat, poultry,
or seafood shall meet the nutritional specifications
for vegetable protein products set forth in section
2(e)(3) of the matter relating to vegetable protein
products in appendix A to part 210 of title 7, Code
of Federal Regulations, as in effect on April 9,
2000; and
(2) if alternate protein products comprise 30
percent or more of a meat, poultry, or seafood prod-
uct, that fact shall be disclosed at the point of serv-
ice.
(b) The Secretary shall require that the regulations
issued pursuant to subsection (a) shall be implemented by
each program participant not later than January 1, 2001,
and thereafter.
SEC. 745. Effective 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act and continuing for the remainder
of fiscal year 2001 and each subsequent fiscal year, estab-
lishments in the United States that slaughter or process
birds of the order Ratitae, such as ostriches, emus and
rheas, and squab, for distribution in commerce as human
food shall be subject to the ante mortem and post mortem
inspection, reinspection, and sanitation requirements of
the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et
seq.) rather than the voluntary poultry inspection program
of the Department of Agriculture under section 203 of the
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622).
SEC. 746. In using funds made available under sec-
tion 801(a) of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106–78; 113 Stat. 1175),
or under the heading ‘‘Crop loss assistance’’ under ‘‘Com-
modity Credit Corporation Fund’’ of H.R. 3425 of the
106th Congress (as contained in appendix E of Public
Law 106–113 (113 Stat. 1501A–289)), to compensate
nursery stock producers for nursery stock losses caused
by Hurricane Irene on October 16 and 17, 1999, the Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall treat the losses as losses to the
1999 nursery stock crop.
SEC. 747. Any regulation issued pursuant to any plan
to eliminate Salmonella Enteritidis illnesses due to eggs
(including the Action Plan to Eliminate Salmonella
Enteritidis Illnesses Due to Eggs, published on December
10, 1999) which establishes requirements for producers or
packers of shell eggs to conduct tests for Salmonella
Enteritidis shall contain provisions to defray or reimburse
the costs of such tests to producers or packers. Any re-
quirements pursuant to any such plan to divert eggs into
pasteurization shall be imposed only as a consequence of
positive test results from end product testing. The number
of environmental tests required pursuant to any such plan
shall, to the extent practicable, not exceed the number of
such tests required pursuant to existing national quality
assurance programs for shell eggs.
SEC. 748. Section 321(b) of the Consolidated Farm
and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961(b)) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3) LOANS TO POULTRY FARMERS.—
‘‘(A) INABILITY TO OBTAIN INSURANCE.—
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding
any other provision of this subtitle, the
Secretary may make a loan to a poultry
farmer under this subtitle to cover the loss
of a chicken house for which the farmer
did not have hazard insurance at the time
of the loss, if the farmer—
‘‘(I) applied for, but was unable,
to obtain hazard insurance for the
chicken house;
‘‘(II) uses the loan to rebuild the
chicken house in accordance with in-
dustry standards in effect on the date
the farmer submits an application for
the loan (referred to in this paragraph
as ‘current industry standards’);
‘‘(III) obtains, for the term of
the loan, hazard insurance for the full
market value of the chicken house;
and
‘‘(IV) meets the other require-
ments for the loan under this subtitle,
other than (if the Secretary finds that
the applicant’s farming operations
have been substantially affected by a
major disaster or emergency des-
ignated by the President under the
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief
and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.)) the requirement
that an applicant not be able to obtain
sufficient credit elsewhere.
‘‘(ii) AMOUNT.—The amount of a loan
made to a poultry farmer under clause (i)
shall be an amount that will allow the
farmer to rebuild the chicken house in ac-
cordance with current industry standards.
‘‘(B) LOANS TO COMPLY WITH CURRENT
INDUSTRY STANDARDS.—
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding
any other provision of this subtitle, the
Secretary may make a loan to a poultry
farmer under this subtitle to cover the loss
of a chicken house for which the farmer
had hazard insurance at the time of the
loss, if—
‘‘(I) the amount of the hazard in-
surance is less than the cost of re-
building the chicken house in accord-
ance with current industry standards;
‘‘(II) the farmer uses the loan to
rebuild the chicken house in accord-
ance with current industry standards;
‘‘(III) the farmer obtains, for the
term of the loan, hazard insurance for
the full market value of the chicken
house; and
‘‘(IV) the farmer meets the other
requirements for the loan under this
subtitle, other than (if the Secretary
finds that the applicant’s farming op-
erations have been substantially af-
fected by a major disaster or emer-
gency designated by the President
under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.)) the require-
ment that an applicant not be able to
obtain sufficient credit elsewhere.
‘‘(ii) AMOUNT.—The amount of a loan
made to a poultry farmer under clause (i)
shall be the difference between—
‘‘(I) the amount of the hazard in-
surance obtained by the farmer; and
‘‘(II) the cost of rebuilding the
chicken house in accordance with cur-
rent industry standards.’’.
SEC. 749. Public Law 105–277, division A, title XI,
section 1121 (112 Stat. 2681–44, 2681–45) is amended
by—
(1) striking ‘‘not later than January 1, 2000’’
and inserting ‘‘not later than January 1, 2001’’; and
(2) adding the following new subsection at the
end thereof—
‘‘(d) ADDITIONAL DISBURSEMENT.—
‘‘(1) COTTON STORED IN GEORGIA.—The State
of Georgia shall use funds remaining in the indem-
nity fund established in accordance with this section
to compensate cotton producers in other States who
stored cotton in the State of Georgia and incurred
losses in 1998 or 1999 as the result of the events
described in subsection (a).
‘‘(2) GINNERS
AND
OTHERS.—The State of
Georgia may also use funds remaining in the indem-
nity fund established in accordance with this section
to compensate cotton ginners and others in the busi-
ness of producing, ginning, warehousing, buying, or
selling cotton for losses they incurred in 1998 or
1999 as the result of the events described in sub-
section (a), if—
‘‘(A) as of March 1, 2000, the indemnity
fund has not been exhausted;
‘‘(B) the State of Georgia provides cotton
producers (including cotton producers described
in paragraph (1)) an additional time period
prior to May 1, 2000, in which to establish eli-
gibility for compensation under this section;
‘‘(C) the State of Georgia determines dur-
ing calendar year 2000 that all cotton pro-
ducers in that State and cotton producers in
other States as described in paragraph (1) have
been appropriately compensated for losses in-
curred in 1998 or 1999 as described in sub-
section (a); and
‘‘(D) such additional compensation is not
made available until May 1, 2000.’’.
APPLE MARKET LOSS ASSISTANCE AND QUALITY LOSS
PAYMENTS FOR APPLES AND POTATOES
SEC. 750. (a) APPLE MARKET LOSS ASSISTANCE.—
In order to provide relief for loss of markets for apples,
the Secretary of Agriculture shall use $100,000,000 to
make payments to apple producers. Payments shall be
made on a per pound basis on each qualifying producer’s
1999 production of apples, subject to such terms and con-
ditions on such payments as may be established by the
Secretary. Payments under this subsection, however, shall
not be made with respect to that part of a farm’s 1999
apple production that is in excess of 1.6 million pounds.
(b) QUALITY LOSS PAYMENTS FOR APPLES AND PO-
TATOES.—In 
addition, 
the 
Secretary 
shall 
use
$15,000,000 to provide compensation to producers of po-
tatoes and to producers of apples who suffered quality
losses to their 1999 production of those crops due to, or
related to, a 1999 hurricane.
(c) NON-DUPLICATION
OF
PAYMENTS.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of this section, the payments
made under this section shall be designed to avoid, taken
into account other Federal compensation programs as may
apply, a duplication of payments for the same loss. Pay-
ments made under Federal crop insurance programs shall
not, however, be considered to be duplicate payments.
(d) FUNDING.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall
use the funds, facilities, and authorities of the Commodity
Credit Corporation to carry out this section.
(e) EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.—The entire amount
necessary to carry out this section shall be available only
to the extent that an official budget request for the entire
amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of
the request as an emergency requirement as defined in
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to
the Congress: Provided, That the entire amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
SEC. 751. None of the funds made available in this
Act or in any other Act may be used to recover part or
all of any payment erroneously made to any oyster fisher-
man in the State of Connecticut for oyster losses under
the program established under section 1102(b) of the Ag-
riculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as
contained in section 101(a) of division A of the Omnibus
Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Approprations
Act, 1999 (Public Law 105–277)), and the regulations
issued pursuant to such section 1102(b).
SEC. 752. Within available funds, the Secretary of
Agriculture is urged to use ethanol, biodiesel, and other
alternative fuels to the maximum extent practicable in
meeting the fuel needs of the Department of Agriculture.