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SEC. 735. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to enroll in 
excess of 175,000 acres in the calendar year 2005 wet-
lands reserve program as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837. 
SEC. 736. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel who carry 
out an environmental quality incentives program author-
ized 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 $1,010,000,000. 
SEC. 737. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized 
to permit employees of the United States Department of 
Agriculture to carry and use firearms for personal protec-
tion while conducting field work in remote locations in the 
performance of their official duties. 
SEC. 738. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to expend 
the $23,000,000 made available by section 9006(f) of the 
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 
U.S.C. 8106(f)). 
SEC. 739. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used
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to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
a Broadband Program as authorized by 601(j)(A) of 7 
U.S.C. 950bb(j)(1)(A). $40,000,000 of the funds available 
under such section are hereby cancelled. 
SEC. 740. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
a Value-added grant program as authorized by 231(b)(4) 
of 7 U.S.C. 1621 note. $80,000,000 of the funds available 
under such section are hereby cancelled. 
SEC. 741. Notwithstanding subsections (c) and (e)(2) 
of section 313A of the Rural Electrification Act (7 U.S.C. 
940c(c) and (e)(2)) in implementing section 313A of that 
Act, the Secretary shall, with the consent of the lender, 
structure the schedule for payment of the annual fee, not 
to exceed an average of 30 basis points per year for the 
term of the loan, to ensure that sufficient funds are avail-
able to pay the subsidy costs for note guarantees under 
that section. 
SEC. 742. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
a Conservation Security Program authorized by 16 U.S.C. 
3838, et seq., in excess of $194,411,000.
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SEC. 743. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
a wildlife habitat incentives program authorized under sec-
tion 2502 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002, in excess of $60,000,000. 
SEC. 744. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
section 2503 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002, in excess of 
$112,044,000. 
SEC. 745. The Secretary of Agriculture shall use 
$1,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration, to remain available until expended, to com-
pensate commercial citrus and lime growers in the State 
of Florida for tree replacement and for lost production 
with respect to trees removed to control citrus canker, and 
with respect to certified citrus nursery stocks within the 
citrus canker quarantine areas, as determined by the Sec-
retary. For a grower to receive assistance for a tree under 
this section, the tree must have been removed after Sep-
tember 30, 2001. 
SEC. 746. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this, or any other Act, may be used
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to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
Subtitle H (the Rural Business Investment Program) of 
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as 
amended by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act 
of 2002 (Public Law 107–171). 
SEC. 747. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this Act shall be expended to violate 
Public Law 105–264. 
SEC. 748. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to issue a final rule in furtherance of, 
or otherwise implement, the proposed rule on cost-sharing 
for animal and plant health emergency programs of the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service published on 
July 8, 2003 (Docket No. 02–062–1; 68 Fed. Reg. 
40541). 
SEC. 749. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to study, complete a study of, or enter 
into a contract with a private party to carry out, without 
specific authorization in a subsequent Act of Congress, a 
competitive sourcing activity of the Secretary of Agri-
culture, including support personnel of the Department of 
Agriculture, relating to rural development or farm loan 
programs. 
SEC. 750. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary of Agriculture may use appropriations