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drought or severe weather, the Secretary may provide po-
table water through the Emergency Community Water As-
sistance Grant Program for an additional period of time 
not to exceed 120 days beyond the established period pro-
vided under the Program in order to protect public health. 
SEC. 752. There is hereby appropriated $10,000,000 
to remain available until September 30, 2023, to carry out 
section 4206 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 753. Funds made available under title II of the 
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be 
used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate 
monitoring and controls, as determined by the Adminis-
trator, are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is 
received by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by 
food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inap-
propriate purposes. 
SEC. 754. In this fiscal year and thereafter, and not-
withstanding any other provision of law, ARS facilities as 
described in the ‘‘Memorandum of Understanding Be-
tween the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service 
(ARS) Concerning Laboratory Animal Welfare’’ (16– 
6100–0103–MU Revision 16–1) shall be inspected by 
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APHIS for compliance with the Animal Welfare Act and 
its regulations and standards. 
SEC. 755. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to procure raw or processed poultry prod-
ucts imported into the United States from the People’s 
Republic of China for use in the school lunch program 
under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), the Child and Adult Care Food 
Program under section 17 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1766), 
the Summer Food Service Program for Children under 
section 13 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761), or the school 
breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 
(42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.). 
SEC. 756. For school year 2022–2023, only a school 
food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit 
school food service account as of December 31, 2021, shall 
be required to establish a price for paid lunches in accord-
ance with section 12(p) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760(p)). 
SEC. 757. In addition to any funds made available 
in this Act or any other Act, there is hereby appropriated 
$10,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2023, for grants from the National Institute of Food and 
Agriculture to the 1890 Institutions to support the Cen-
ters of Excellence. 
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SEC. 758. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, for the Secretary of 
Agriculture to carry out a pilot program that assists rural 
hospitals to improve long-term operations and financial 
health by providing technical assistance through analysis 
of current hospital management practices. 
SEC. 759. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act, there is hereby appro-
priated $5,000,000, to remain available until expended, to 
the Secretary for a pilot program to provide grants to a 
regional consortium to fund technical assistance and con-
struction of regional wastewater systems for historically 
impoverished communities that have had difficulty in in-
stalling traditional wastewater treatment systems due to 
soil conditions. 
SEC. 760. There is hereby appropriated $10,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2023, to carry out 
section 23 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1793), of which $2,000,000 shall be for grants under such 
section to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United 
States Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. 
SEC. 761. Any funds made available by this or any 
other Act that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section 
1668(g)(2) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
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Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5921(g)(2)), as amended, 
shall be available for grants for biotechnology risk assess-
ment research: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer 
such funds among appropriations of the Department of 
Agriculture for purposes of making such grants. 
SEC. 762. Section 313(b) of the Rural Electrification 
Act of 1936, as amended (7 U.S.C. 940c(b)), shall be ap-
plied for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter 
until the specified funding has been expended as if the 
following were inserted after the final period in subsection 
(b)(2): ‘‘In addition, the Secretary shall use $425,000,000 
of funds available in this subaccount in fiscal year 2019 
for an additional amount for the same purpose and under 
the same terms and conditions as funds appropriated by 
section 779 of Public Law 115–141, shall use 
$255,000,000 of funds available in this subaccount in fis-
cal year 2020 for an additional amount for the same pur-
pose and under the same terms and conditions as funds 
appropriated by section 779 of Public Law 115–141, shall 
use $104,000,000 of funds available in this subaccount in 
fiscal year 2021 for an additional amount for the same 
purpose and under the same terms and conditions as 
funds appropriated by section 779 of Public Law 115– 
141, and shall use $50,000,000 of funds available in this 
subaccount in fiscal year 2022 for an additional amount 
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for the same purpose and under the same terms and condi-
tions as funds appropriated by section 779 of Public Law 
115-141.’’: Provided, That any use of such funds shall be 
treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 716 
of this Act. 
SEC. 763. There is hereby appropriated $400,000 to 
carry out section 1672(g)(4)(B) of the Food, Agriculture, 
Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
5925(g)(4(B)) as amended by section 7209 of Public Law 
115–334. 
SEC. 764. For an additional amount for ‘‘National 
Institute of Food and Agriculture—Research and Edu-
cation Activities’’, $2,000,000, to develop a public-private 
cooperative framework based on open data standards for 
neutral data repository solutions to preserve and share the 
big data generated by technological advancements in the 
agriculture industry and for the preservation and curation 
of data in collaboration with land-grant universities. 
SEC. 765. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no funds available to the Department of Agriculture 
may be used to move any staff office or any agency from 
the mission area in which it was located on August 1, 
2018, to any other mission area or office within the De-
partment in the absence of the enactment of specific legis-
lation affirming such move. 
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SEC. 766. Section 7605(b) of the Agriculture Im-
provement Act of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 5940 note; Public Law 
115–334) is amended by striking ‘‘January 1, 2022’’ and 
inserting ‘‘January 1, 2023’’. 
SEC. 767. The Secretary, acting through the Chief 
of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, may use 
funds appropriated under this Act or any other Act for 
the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program 
and the Watershed Rehabilitation Program carried out 
pursuant to the Watershed Protection and Flood Preven-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), and for the Emergency 
Watershed Protection Program carried out pursuant to 
section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 
U.S.C. 2203) to provide technical services for such pro-
grams pursuant to section 1252(a)(1) of the Food Secu-
rity Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3851(a)(1)), notwithstanding 
subsection (c) of such section. 
SEC. 768. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other act may be used to restrict the offering of 
low-fat (1% fat) flavored milk in the National School 
Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program, as long as 
such milk is not inconsistent with the most recent Dietary 
Guidelines for Americans published under section 301 of 
the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research 
Act of 1990. 
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SEC. 769. 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 may, for purposes of determining en-
tities eligible to receive assistance, consider those commu-
nities which are ‘‘Areas Rural in Character’’: Provided, 
That not more than 10 percent of the funds made avail-
able under the heading ‘‘Distance Learning, Telemedicine, 
and Broadband Program’’ for the purposes of the pilot 
program established by section 779 of Public Law 115- 
141 may be used for this purpose. 
SEC. 770. There is hereby appropriated $24,525,000 
for the Goodfellow Federal facility, to remain available 
until expended, of which $12,000,000 shall be transferred 
to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Office of the 
Chief Information Officer’’, and of which $12,525,000 
shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation 
for ‘‘Food Safety and Inspection Service’’. 
SEC. 771. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
sonnel— 
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the 
Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
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(2) to inspect horses under section 903 of the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
1996 (7 U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or 
(3) to implement or enforce section 352.19 of 
title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor 
regulation). 
SEC. 772. For an additional amount for ‘‘National 
Institute of Food and Agriculture—Research and Edu-
cation Activities’’, $300,000, for the Under Secretary for 
Research, Education, and Economics to convene a blue- 
ribbon panel for the purpose of evaluating the overall 
structure of research and education through the public 
and land-grant universities, including 1890 Institutions, 
to define a new architecture that can better integrate, co-
ordinate, and assess economic impact of the collective 
work of these institutions. 
SEC. 773. For an additional amount for ‘‘National 
Institute of Food and Agriculture—Research and Edu-
cation Activities’’, $6,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2023, for a competitive grant to an institu-
tion in the land-grant university system to establish a 
Farm of the Future testbed and demonstration site. 
SEC. 774. Section 788 of the Further Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) is amend-
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ed by amending subsections (b)(1), (b)(2) and (b)(3) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(1) all final Animal Welfare Act inspection re-
ports, including all reports documenting all Animal 
Welfare Act violations and non-compliances observed 
by USDA officials and all animal inventories for the 
current year and preceding three years; 
‘‘(2) all final Animal Welfare Act and Horse 
Protection Act enforcement records for the current 
year and the preceding three years; 
‘‘(3) all reports or other materials documenting 
any violations and non-compliances observed by 
USDA officials for the current year and preceding 
three years; and’’. 
SEC. 775. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to propose, promulgate, or implement 
any rule, or take any other action with respect to, allowing 
or requiring information intended for a prescribing health 
care professional, in the case of a drug or biological prod-
uct subject to section 503(b)(1) of the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 353(b)(1)), to be dis-
tributed to such professional electronically (in lieu of in 
paper form) unless and until a Federal law is enacted to 
allow or require such distribution. 
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SEC. 776. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture, acting 
through the Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspec-
tion Service, shall— 
(1) revoke any line speed waivers issued to a 
processor subject to the Federal Meat Inspection Act 
(21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) or the Poultry Products In-
spection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) during the pe-
riod beginning on or after the first day of the 
COVID-19 emergency period and ending on the date 
of the enactment of this Act; and 
(2) subject to subsection (b), not issue any such 
waivers on or after such date of enactment, for the 
duration of the COVID-19 emergency period. 
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary 
may issue a line speed waiver to a processor referred to 
in such subsection, if such processor— 
(1) agrees to an inspection for such purpose 
conducted by the Assistant Secretary of Labor for 
Occupational Safety and Health; and 
(2) the Assistant Secretary certifies to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture that any increases in line speed 
at such processor’s facilities would not have an ad-
verse impact on worker safety. 
(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘COVID- 
19 emergency period’’ has the meaning given the term 
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Union Calendar No. 57 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 4356 
[Report No. 117–82] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2022, and for other pur-
poses. 
JULY 2, 2021 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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