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Eating Fish, From the Environmental Protection Agency 
and Food and Drug Administration; Revised Fish Advice; 
Availability’’ (82 Fed. Reg. 6571 (January 19, 2017)), in 
a manner that is consistent with nutrition science recog-
nized by the Food and Drug Administration on the net 
effects of seafood consumption. 
SEC. 765. In administering the pilot program estab-
lished by section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Ap-
propriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141), the Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall— 
(1) ensure that applicants that are determined 
to be ineligible for the pilot program have a means 
of appealing or otherwise challenging that deter-
mination in a timely fashion; and 
(2) in determining whether an entity may over-
build or duplicate broadband expansion efforts made 
by any entity that has received a broadband loan 
from the Rural Utilities Service, not consider loans 
that were rescinded or defaulted on, or loans the 
terms and conditions of which were not met, if the 
entity under consideration has not previously de-
faulted on, or failed to meet the terms and condi-
tions of, a Rural Utilities Service loan or had a 
Rural Utilities Service loan rescinded. 
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1890 LAND-GRANT COLLEGES, INCLUDING TUSKEGEE 
UNIVERSITY 
SEC. 767. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of this Act, the amounts made available by this Act to 
carry out sections 1444 and 1445, respectively, of the Na-
tional Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3221, 3222) shall each be 
increased by $3,000,000. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
the amount made available under the heading ‘‘(INCLUD-
ING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)’’ under the heading ‘‘AGRI-
CULTURE BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES’’ under the heading 
‘‘AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS’’ in title I shall be de-
creased by $6,000,000. 
SEC. 768. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be used to enforce the requirement in the final 
rule entitled ‘‘Food Labeling: Revision of the Nutrition 
and Supplement Facts Labels’’, published in the Federal 
Register on May 27, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 33742), that any 
single ingredient sugar, honey, agave, or syrup (including 
maple syrup) that is packaged and offered for sale as a 
single ingredient food bear the declaration ‘‘Includes ‘X’g 
Added Sugars’’. 
SEC. 769. The explanatory statement regarding divi-
sion C of H.R. 21, printed in the Congressional Record 
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on January 3, 2019, and submitted by the Chair of the 
Committee on Appropriations, shall have the same effect 
with respect to allocation of funds and implementation of 
this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a 
committee of conference. 
SEC. 770. (a) Employees furloughed as a result of 
any lapse in appropriations beginning on or about Decem-
ber 22, 2018 and ending on the date of enactment of this 
Act shall be compensated at their standard rate of com-
pensation, for the period of such lapse in appropriations, 
as soon as practicable after such lapse in appropriations 
ends. 
(b) For purposes of this section, ‘‘employees’’ means 
any Federal employees whose salaries and expenses are 
provided in this Act. 
(c) All obligations incurred in anticipation of the ap-
propriations made and authority granted by this Act for 
the purposes of maintaining the essential level of activity 
to protect life and property and bringing about orderly ter-
mination of Government functions, and for purposes as 
otherwise authorized by law, are hereby ratified and ap-
proved if otherwise in accord with the provisions of this 
Act. 
SEC. 771. (a) If a State (or another Federal grantee) 
used State funds (or the grantee’s non-Federal funds) to 
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continue carrying out a Federal program or furloughed 
State employees (or the grantee’s employees) whose com-
pensation is advanced or reimbursed in whole or in part 
by the Federal Government— 
(1) such furloughed employees shall be com-
pensated at their standard rate of compensation for 
such period; 
(2) the State (or such other grantee) shall be 
reimbursed for expenses that would have been paid 
by the Federal Government during such period had 
appropriations been available, including the cost of 
compensating such furloughed employees, together 
with interest thereon calculated under section 
6503(d) of title 31, United States Code; and 
(3) the State (or such other grantee) may use 
funds available to the State (or the grantee) under 
such Federal program to reimburse such State (or 
the grantee), together with interest thereon cal-
culated under section 6503(d) of title 31, United 
States Code. 
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘State’’ 
and the term ‘‘grantee,’’ including United States terri-
tories and possessions, shall have the meaning given such 
terms under the applicable Federal program under sub-
section (a). In addition, ‘‘to continue carrying out a Fed-
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eral program’’ means the continued performance by a 
State or other Federal grantee, during the period of a 
lapse in appropriations, of a Federal program that the 
State or such other grantee had been carrying out prior 
to the period of the lapse in appropriations. 
(c) The authority under this section applies with re-
spect to any period in fiscal year 2019 (not limited to peri-
ods beginning or ending after the date of the enactment 
of this Act) during which there occurs a lapse in appro-
priations with respect to any department or agency of the 
Federal Government receiving funding in this Act which, 
but for such lapse in appropriations, would have paid, or 
made reimbursement relating to, any of the expenses re-
ferred to in this section with respect to the program in-
volved. Payments and reimbursements under this author-
ity shall be made only to the extent and in amounts pro-
vided in advance in appropriations Acts. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives January 10, 
2019. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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