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HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Department of Agri-
culture, to comply with the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 
9601 et seq.) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery 
Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), $12,020,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That appropriations 
and funds available herein to the Department for Haz-
ardous Materials Management may be transferred to any 
agency of the Department for its use in meeting all re-
quirements pursuant to the above Acts on Federal and 
non-Federal lands. 
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For Departmental Administration, $24,114,000, to 
provide for necessary expenses for management support 
services to offices of the Department and for general ad-
ministration, security, repairs and alterations, and other 
miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise pro-
vided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work 
of the Department: Provided, That this appropriation shall 
be reimbursed from applicable appropriations in this Act 
for travel expenses incident to the holding of hearings as 
required by 5 U.S.C. 551–558. 
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OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR 
CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations to 
carry out the programs funded by this Act, including pro-
grams involving intergovernmental affairs and liaison 
within the executive branch, $3,940,000: Provided, That 
these funds may be transferred to agencies of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture funded by this Act to maintain per-
sonnel at the agency level: Provided further, That no funds 
made available by this appropriation may be obligated 
after 30 days from the date of enactment of this Act, un-
less the Secretary has notified the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress on the allocation of 
these funds by USDA agency: Provided further, That no 
other funds appropriated to the Department by this Act 
shall be available to the Department for support of activi-
ties of congressional relations. 
OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS 
For necessary expenses to carry out services relating 
to the coordination of programs involving public affairs, 
for the dissemination of agricultural information, and the 
coordination of information, work, and programs author-
ized by Congress in the Department, $9,695,000: Pro-
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vided, That not to exceed $2,000,000 may be used for 
farmers’ bulletins. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
General, including employment pursuant to the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, $82,493,000, including such sums 
as may be necessary for contracting and other arrange-
ments with public agencies and private persons pursuant 
to section 6(a)(9) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
and including not to exceed $125,000 for certain confiden-
tial operational expenses, including the payment of inform-
ants, to be expended under the direction of the Inspector 
General pursuant to Public Law 95–452 and section 1337 
of Public Law 97–98. 
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General 
Counsel, $40,455,000. 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH, 
EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Eco-
nomics to administer the laws enacted by the Congress 
for the Economic Research Service, the National Agricul-
tural Statistics Service, the Agricultural Research Service, 
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and the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Ex-
tension Service, $651,000. 
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research 
Service in conducting economic research and analysis, 
$80,963,000. 
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural 
Statistics Service in conducting statistical reporting and 
service work, $148,719,000, of which up to $36,582,000 
shall be available until expended for the Census of Agri-
culture. 
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Re-
search Service to perform agricultural research and dem-
onstration relating to production, utilization, marketing, 
and distribution (not otherwise provided for); home eco-
nomics or nutrition and consumer use including the acqui-
sition, preservation, and dissemination of agricultural in-
formation; and for acquisition of lands by donation, ex-
change, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, 
and for land exchanges where the lands exchanged shall 
be of equal value or shall be equalized by a payment of 
money to the grantor which shall not exceed 25 percent 
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of the total value of the land or interests transferred out 
of 
Federal 
ownership, 
$1,057,603,000, 
of 
which 
$2,350,000 shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That appropriations hereunder shall be available for 
the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the pur-
chase of not to exceed one for replacement only: Provided 
further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available 
pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, alteration, 
and repair of buildings and improvements, but unless oth-
erwise provided, the cost of constructing any one building 
shall not exceed $375,000, except for headhouses or green-
houses which shall each be limited to $1,200,000, and ex-
cept for 10 buildings to be constructed or improved at a 
cost not to exceed $750,000 each, and the cost of altering 
any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 
10 percent of the current replacement value of the build-
ing or $375,000, whichever is greater: Provided further, 
That the limitations on alterations contained in this Act 
shall not apply to modernization or replacement of existing 
facilities at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, That 
appropriations hereunder shall be available for granting 
easements at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: 
Provided further, That the foregoing limitations shall not 
apply to replacement of buildings needed to carry out the 
Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, 
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That the foregoing limitations shall not apply to the pur-
chase of land at Florence, South Carolina: Provided fur-
ther, That funds may be received from any State, other 
political subdivision, organization, or individual for the 
purpose of establishing or operating any research facility 
or research project of the Agricultural Research Service, 
as authorized by law: Provided further, That the Secretary, 
through the Agricultural Research Service, or successor, 
is authorized to lease approximately 40 acres of land at 
the Central Plains Experiment Station, Nunn, Colorado, 
to the Board of Governors of the Colorado State Univer-
sity System, for its Shortgrass Steppe Biological Field 
Station, on such terms and conditions as the Secretary 
deems in the public interest: Provided further, That the 
Secretary understands that it is the intent of the Univer-
sity to construct research and educational buildings on the 
subject acreage and to conduct agricultural research and 
educational activities in these buildings: Provided further, 
That as consideration for a lease, the Secretary may ac-
cept the benefits of mutual cooperative research to be con-
ducted by the Colorado State University and the Govern-
ment at the Shortgrass Steppe Biological Field Station: 
Provided further, That the term of any lease shall be for 
no more than 20 years, but a lease may be renewed at 
the option of the Secretary on such terms and conditions 
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as the Secretary deems in the public interest: Provided 
further, That the Agricultural Research Service may con-
vey all rights and title of the United States, to a parcel 
of land comprising 19 acres, more or less, located in Sec-
tion 2, Township 18 North, Range 14 East in Oktibbeha 
County, Mississippi, originally conveyed by the Board of 
Trustees of the Institution of Higher Learning of the 
State of Mississippi, and described in instruments re-
corded in Deed Book 306 at pages 553–554, Deed Book 
319 at page 219, and Deed Book 33 at page 115, of the 
public land records of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, in-
cluding facilities, and fixed equipment, to the Mississippi 
State University, Starkville, Mississippi, in their ‘‘as is’’ 
condition, when vacated by the Agricultural Research 
Service: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be available to carry out 
research related to the production, processing, or mar-
keting of tobacco or tobacco products. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improve-
ment, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equip-
ment or facilities as necessary to carry out the agricultural 
research programs of the Department of Agriculture, 
where not otherwise provided, $140,000,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
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COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND 
EXTENSION SERVICE 
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES 
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for 
cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and 
for other expenses, $651,606,000, as follows: to carry out 
the provisions of the Hatch Act of 1887 (7 U.S.C. 361a– 
i), $183,275,000; for grants for cooperative forestry re-
search (16 U.S.C. 582a through a–7), $22,668,000; for 
payments to the 1890 land-grant colleges, including 
Tuskegee University and West Virginia State University 
(7 U.S.C. 3222), $38,331,000, of which $1,507,496 shall 
be made available only for the purpose of ensuring that 
each institution shall receive no less than $1,000,000; for 
special grants for agricultural research (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), 
$103,471,000; for special grants for agricultural research 
on improved pest control (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $14,952,000; 
for competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), 
$190,000,000; for the support of animal health and dis-
ease programs (7 U.S.C. 3195), $5,006,000; for supple-
mental and alternative crops and products (7 U.S.C. 
3319d), $1,175,000; for grants for research pursuant to 
the Critical Agricultural Materials Act (7 U.S.C. 178 et 
seq.), $1,091,000, to remain available until expended; for 
the 1994 research grants program for 1994 institutions 
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pursuant to section 536 of Public Law 103–382 (7 U.S.C. 
301 note), $1,250,000, to remain available until expended; 
for 
rangeland 
research 
grants 
(7 
U.S.C. 
3333), 
$1,000,000; for higher education graduate fellowship 
grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(6)), $4,455,000, to remain 
available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for higher edu-
cation 
challenge 
grants 
(7 
U.S.C. 
3152(b)(1)), 
$5,445,000; for a higher education multicultural scholars 
program (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(5)), $988,000 to remain avail-
able until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for an education 
grants program for Hispanic-serving Institutions (7 
U.S.C. 3241), $5,940,000; for a secondary agriculture 
education program and 2-year post-secondary education 
(7 U.S.C. 3152(j)), $990,000; for aquaculture grants (7 
U.S.C. 3322), $3,956,000; for sustainable agriculture re-
search and education (7 U.S.C. 5811), $12,196,000; for 
a program of capacity building grants (7 U.S.C. 
3152(b)(4)) to colleges eligible to receive funds under the 
Act of August 30, 1890 (7 U.S.C. 321–326 and 328), in-
cluding Tuskegee University and West Virginia State Uni-
versity, $12,375,000, to remain available until expended 
(7 U.S.C. 2209b); for payments to the 1994 Institutions 
pursuant to section 534(a)(1) of Public Law 103–382, 
$3,000,000; for resident instruction grants for insular 
areas under section 1491 of the National Agricultural Re-
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search, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3363), $500,000; and for necessary expenses of 
Research and Education Activities, $39,542,000, of which 
$2,723,000 for the Research, Education, and Economics 
Information System and $2,151,000 for the Electronic 
Grants Information System, are to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated 
under this heading shall be available to carry out research 
related to the production, processing, or marketing of to-
bacco or tobacco products: Provided further, That this 
paragraph shall not apply to research on the medical, bio-
technological, food, and industrial uses of tobacco. 
NATIVE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS ENDOWMENT FUND 
For the Native American Institutions Endowment 
Fund authorized by Public Law 103–382 (7 U.S.C. 301 
note), $11,880,000, to remain available until expended. 
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES 
For payments to States, the District of Columbia, 
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, 
Northern Marianas, and American Samoa, $457,042,000, 
as follows: payments for cooperative extension work under 
the Smith-Lever Act, to be distributed under sections 3(b) 
and 3(c) of said Act, and under section 208(c) of Public 
Law 93–471, for retirement and employees’ compensation 
costs for extension agents, $281,429,000; payments for 
extension work at the 1994 Institutions under the Smith- 
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Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343(b)(3)), $3,273,000; payments for 
the nutrition and family education program for low-income 
areas under section 3(d) of the Act, $62,634,000; pay-
ments for the pest management program under section 
3(d) of the Act, $10,152,000; payments for the farm safe-
ty program under section 3(d) of the Act, $4,517,000; 
payments for New Technologies for Ag Extension under 
Section 3(d) of the Act, $1,985,000; payments to upgrade 
research, extension, and teaching facilities at the 1890 
land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University and 
West Virginia State University, as authorized by section 
1447 of Public Law 95–113 (7 U.S.C. 3222b), 
$16,777,000, to remain available until expended; pay-
ments for youth-at-risk programs under section 3(d) of the 
Smith-Lever Act, $8,396,000; for youth farm safety edu-
cation and certification extension grants, to be awarded 
competitively under section 3(d) of the Act, $494,000; 
payments for carrying out the provisions of the Renewable 
Resources Extension Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 1671 et 
seq.), $4,052,000; payments for federally-recognized 
Tribes Extension Program under section 3(d) of the 
Smith-Lever Act, $3,000,000; payments for sustainable 
agriculture programs under section 3(d) of the Act, 
$4,067,000; payments for rural health and safety edu-
cation as authorized by section 502(i) of Public Law 92– 
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