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2501 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279). 
(c) MEMBERSHIP
OF COMMITTEE.—The Committee 
shall be composed of the following: 
(1) Three members appointed by the Secretary. 
(2) Two members appointed by the chairman of 
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For-
estry of the Senate, in consultation with the ranking 
member of the Committee. 
(3) Two members appointed by the chairman of 
the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Rep-
resentatives, in consultation with the ranking member 
of the Committee. 
(4) A civil rights professional. 
(5) A socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher. 
(6) Such other persons or professionals as deter-
mined by the Secretary to be appropriate. 
SEC. 11210. COORDINATOR FOR CHRONICALLY UNDER-
SERVED RURAL AREAS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Agriculture 
shall establish a Coordinator for Chronically Underserved 
Rural Areas (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Coordi-
nator’’), to be located in the Office of Outreach of the De-
partment of Agriculture. 
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(b) MISSION.—The mission of the Coordinator shall be 
to direct Department of Agriculture resources to high need, 
high poverty rural areas. 
(c) DUTIES.—The Coordinator shall consult with other 
offices in directing technical assistance, strategic regional 
planning, at the State and local level, for developing rural 
economic development that leverages the resources of State 
and local governments and non-profit and community de-
velopment organizations. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums 
as necessary to carry out this section for fiscal years 2008 
through 2012. 
Subtitle D—Other Miscellaneous 
Provisions 
SEC. 11301. DESIGNATION OF SEPARATE COTTON-PRO-
DUCING STATES UNDER COTTON RESEARCH 
AND PROMOTION ACT. 
Section 17(f) of the Cotton Research and Promotion 
Act (7 U.S.C. 2116(f)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new sentence: ‘‘Notwithstanding the preceding 
sentence, effective beginning with the 2008 crop of cotton, 
the States of Kansas, Virginia, and Florida shall each be 
deemed to be a separate cotton-producing State for the pur-
poses of this Act.’’. 
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SEC. 11302. COTTON CLASSIFICATION SERVICES. 
(a) EXTENSION.—The first sentence of section 3a of the 
Act of March 3, 1927 (commonly known as the Cotton Sta-
tistics and Estimates Act; 7 U.S.C. 473a), is amended by 
striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2012’’. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICES.—The second sen-
tence of section 3a of the Act of March 3, 1927, is amended 
in the proviso— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of clause (6); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of clause (7) 
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
clause: ‘‘(8) the Secretary may enter into long-term 
lease agreements that exceed five years or may take 
title to property, including through purchase agree-
ments, for the purposes of obtaining offices to be used 
for the classification of cotton in accordance with this 
Act if the Secretary determines such action would best 
effectuate the purposes of this Act.’’. 
SEC. 11303. AVAILABILITY OF EXCESS AND SURPLUS COM-
PUTERS IN RURAL AREAS. 
The Secretary of Agriculture may make available to 
any city or town located in a rural area (as defined in 
section 343(a)(13)(A) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act) excess or surplus computers or other tech-
nical equipment of the Department of Agriculture. 
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SEC. 11304. PERMANENT DEBARMENT FROM PARTICIPA-
TION IN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
PROGRAMS FOR FRAUD. 
The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby granted the au-
thority to permanently debar an individual, organization, 
corporation, or other entity convicted of knowingly defraud-
ing the United States in connection with any program ad-
ministered by the Department of Agriculture from any sub-
sequent participation in Department of Agriculture pro-
grams. 
SEC. 11305. NO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST USE OF REG-
ISTERED PESTICIDE PRODUCTS OR CLASSES 
OF PESTICIDE PRODUCTS. 
In establishing priorities and evaluation criteria for 
the approval of plans, contracts, and agreements under title 
II, the Secretary of Agriculture shall not discriminate 
against the use of specific registered pesticide products or 
classes of pesticide products. 
SEC. 11306. PROHIBITION ON CLOSURE OR RELOCATION OF 
COUNTY OFFICES FOR THE FARM SERVICE 
AGENCY, 
RURAL 
DEVELOPMENT 
AGENCY, 
AND NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION 
SERVICE. 
Until the date that is one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may not 
close or relocate a county or field office of the Farm Service 
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Agency, Rural Development Agency, or Natural Resources 
Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture. 
SEC. 11308. REGULATION OF EXPORTS OF PLANTS, PLANT 
PRODUCTS, 
BIOLOGICAL 
CONTROL 
ORGA-
NISMS, AND NOXIOUS WEEDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title IV of the Agricul-
tural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq. 
is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 420. REGULATION OF EXPORTS OF PLANTS, PLANT 
PRODUCTS, 
BIOLOGICAL 
CONTROL 
ORGA-
NISMS, AND NOXIOUS WEEDS. 
‘‘(a) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may regulate 
plants, plant products, biological control organisms, and 
noxious weeds for export purposes. 
‘‘(b) DUTIES.—The Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) coordinate fruit and vegetable market anal-
yses with the private sector and the Administrator of 
Foreign Agricultural Service; and 
‘‘(2) make publicly available on an Internet 
website— 
‘‘(A) the status of all export petitions; 
‘‘(B) to the greatest extent possible, an ex-
planation of the sanitary or phytosanitary issues 
associated with teach pending export petition; 
and 
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‘‘(C) to the greatest extent possible, informa-
tion on the import requirements of foreign coun-
tries for fruits and vegetables. 
‘‘(c) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary may issue regula-
tions to implement this section.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents in 
section 1(b) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 note) is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 419 the fol-
lowing new item: 
‘‘Sec. 420. Regulation of exports of plants, plant products, biological control orga-
nisms, and noxious weeds.’’. 
SEC. 
11309. 
GRANTS 
TO 
REDUCE 
PRODUCTION 
OF 
METHAMPHETAMINES FROM ANHYDROUS AM-
MONIA. 
(a) GRANT AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Agriculture 
may make a grant to an eligible entity to enable the entity 
to obtain and add to an anhydrous ammonia fertilizer 
nurse tank a substance which will reduce the amount of 
methamphetamine which can be produced from any anhy-
drous ammonia removed from the tank. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible enti-
ty’’ means— 
(A) a producer of agricultural commodities; 
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(B) a cooperative association a majority of 
the members of which produce or process agricul-
tural commodities, and 
(C) a person in the trade or business of— 
(i) selling an agricultural product, in-
cluding an agricultural chemical, at retail, 
predominantly to farmers and ranchers; or 
(ii) aerial and ground application of 
an agricultural chemical. 
(2) NURSE TANK.—The term ‘‘nurse tank’’ shall 
have the meaning set forth in section 173.315(m) of 
title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect as 
of the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(c) GRANT AMOUNT.—The amount of a grant made 
under this section to an entity shall be not less than $40 
and not more than $60, multiplied by the number of fer-
tilizer nurse tanks of the entity. 
(d) LIMITATIONS ON AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—For grants under this section, there are authorized 
to be appropriated to the Secretary a total of not more than 
$15,000,000 for fiscal years 2008 through 2012. 
SEC. 11310. USDA GRADUATE SCHOOL. 
(a) Section 921 of the Federal Agriculture Improve-
ment and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 2279b) is amended 
by striking subsections (a) through (k) and inserting the 
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following: ‘‘The Department of Agriculture shall not estab-
lish, maintain, or otherwise operate a nonappropriated 
fund instrumentality of the United States to develop, ad-
minister, or provide educational training and professional 
development activities, including educational activities for 
Federal agencies, Federal employees, nonprofit organiza-
tions, other entities, and members of the general public.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made in sub-
section (a) apply beginning October 1, 2008. 
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