In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
May 3, 2017. 
Resolved, That the House agree to the amendments 
numbered 2 and 3 of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 244) enti-
tled ‘‘An Act to encourage effective, voluntary investments to 
recruit, employ, and retain men and women who have served 
in the United States military with annual Federal awards to 
employers recognizing such efforts, and for other purposes.’’, 
and be it further 
Resolved, That the House agree to the amendment num-
bered 1 of the Senate to the aforementioned bill, with the fol-
lowing 
HOUSE AMENDMENT TO SENATE AMENDMENT: 
In lieu of the matter proposed to be stricken by Sen-
ate amendment numbered 1, insert the following: 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Consolidated Appropria-
tions Act, 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. References. 
Sec. 4. Explanatory statement. 
Sec. 5. Statement of appropriations. 
Sec. 6. Availability of funds. 
Sec. 7. Technical allowance for estimating differences.
Sec. 8. Correction. 
DIVISION A—AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND 
DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIA-
TIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Agricultural Programs 
Title II—Conservation Programs 
Title III—Rural Development Programs 
Title IV—Domestic Food Programs 
Title V—Foreign Assistance and Related Programs 
Title VI—Related Agency and Food and Drug Administration 
Title VII—General Provisions 
DIVISION B—COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED 
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Department of Commerce 
Title II—Department of Justice 
Title III—Science 
Title IV—Related Agencies 
Title V—General Provisions 
DIVISION C—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
2017 
Title I—Military Personnel 
Title II—Operation and Maintenance 
Title III—Procurement 
Title IV—Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
Title V—Revolving and Management Funds 
Title VI—Other Department of Defense Programs 
Title VII—Related Agencies 
Title VIII—General Provisions 
Title IX—Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism 
Title X—Department of Defense—Additional Appropriations 
DIVISION D—ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED 
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Corps of Engineers—Civil 
Title II—Department of the Interior 
Title III—Department of Energy 
Title IV—Independent Agencies 
Title V—General Provisions 
DIVISION E—FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Department of the Treasury 
Title II—Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the Presi-
dent 
Title III—The Judiciary 
Title IV—District of Columbia 
Title V—Independent Agencies 
Title VI—General Provisions—This Act 
Title VII—General Provisions—Government-wide
Title VIII—General Provisions—District of Columbia 
Title IX—SOAR Reauthorization 
DIVISION F—DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Departmental Management, Operations, Intelligence, and Oversight 
Title II—Security, Enforcement, and Investigations 
Title III—Protection, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery 
Title IV—Research, Development, Training, and Services 
Title V—General Provisions 
Title VI—Department of Homeland Security—Additional Appropriations 
DIVISION G—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND 
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Department of the Interior 
Title II—Environmental Protection Agency 
Title III—Related Agencies 
Title IV—General Provisions 
DIVISION H—DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO-
PRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Department of Labor 
Title II—Department of Health and Human Services 
Title III—Department of Education 
Title IV—Related Agencies 
Title V—General Provisions 
DIVISION I—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Legislative Branch 
Title II—General Provisions 
DIVISION J—DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND 
RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Department of State and Related Agency 
Title II—United States Agency for International Development 
Title III—Bilateral Economic Assistance 
Title IV—International Security Assistance 
Title V—Multilateral Assistance 
Title VI—Export and Investment Assistance 
Title VII—General Provisions 
Title VIII—Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism 
DIVISION K—TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOP-
MENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Department of Transportation 
Title II—Department of Housing and Urban Development 
Title III—Related Agencies 
Title IV—General Provisions—This Act
DIVISION L—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS— 
ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
Title I—Overseas Contingency Operations 
Title II—Department of Veterans Affairs 
Title III—General Provision—This Division 
DIVISION M—OTHER MATTERS 
Title I—Health Benefits for Miners Act of 2017 
Title II—Puerto Rico Section 1108(g) Amendment of 2017 
Title III—General Provision 
DIVISION N—HONORING INVESTMENTS IN RECRUITING AND 
EMPLOYING AMERICAN MILITARY VETERANS ACT OF 2017 
SEC. 3. REFERENCES. 
Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference 
to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in any division of this Act shall 
be treated as referring only to the provisions of that divi-
sion. 
SEC. 4. EXPLANATORY STATEMENT. 
The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed 
in the House section of the Congressional Record on or 
about May 2, 2017, and submitted by the Chairman of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House, shall have the 
same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and im-
plementation of divisions A through L of this Act as if it 
were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of con-
ference. 
SEC. 5. STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
The following sums in this Act are appropriated, out 
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017.
SEC. 6. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. 
(a) Each amount designated in this Act by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be available (or rescinded, 
if applicable) only if the President subsequently so des-
ignates all such amounts and transmits such designations 
to the Congress. 
(b) Each amount designated in this Act by the Con-
gress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on 
Terrorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
shall be available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the 
President subsequently so designates all such amounts and 
transmits such designations to the Congress. 
SEC. 7. TECHNICAL ALLOWANCE FOR ESTIMATING DIF-
FERENCES. 
If, for fiscal year 2017, new budget authority provided 
in appropriations Acts exceeds the discretionary spending 
limit for any category set forth in section 251(c) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
due to estimating differences with the Congressional Budget 
Office, an adjustment to the discretionary spending limit 
in such category for fiscal year 2017 shall be made by the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the 
amount of the excess but the total of all such adjustments
shall not exceed 0.2 percent of the sum of the adjusted dis-
cretionary spending limits for all categories for that fiscal 
year. 
SEC. 8. CORRECTION. 
The Further Continuing and Security Assistance Ap-
propriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 114–254) is amended 
by changing the long title so as to read: ‘‘Making further 
continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2017, and for other purposes.’’. 
DIVISION A—AGRICULTURE, RURAL DE-
VELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMIN-
ISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
TITLE I 
AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS 
PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND MARKETING 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 
$44,555,000, of which not to exceed $5,051,000 shall be 
available for the immediate Office of the Secretary; not to 
exceed $502,000 shall be available for the Office of Tribal 
Relations; not to exceed $1,496,000 shall be available for 
the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Coordina-
tion; not to exceed $1,209,000 shall be available for the Of-
fice of Advocacy and Outreach; not to exceed $24,928,000 
shall be available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Administration, of which $24,124,000 shall be available 
for Departmental Administration to provide for necessary 
expenses for management support services to offices of the 
Department and for general administration, security, re-
pairs and alterations, and other miscellaneous supplies and 
expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the 
practical and efficient work of the Department; not to ex-
ceed $3,869,000 shall be available for the Office of Assistant 
Secretary for Congressional Relations to carry out the pro-
grams funded by this Act, including programs involving 
intergovernmental affairs and liaison within the executive 
branch; and not to exceed $7,500,000 shall be available for 
the Office of Communications: Provided, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture is authorized to transfer funds appropriated 
for any office of the Office of the Secretary to any other 
office of the Office of the Secretary: Provided further, That 
no appropriation for any office shall be increased or de-
creased by more than 5 percent: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $11,000 of the amount made available under this 
paragraph for the immediate Office of the Secretary shall 
be available for official reception and representation ex-
penses, not otherwise provided for, as determined by the
Secretary: Provided further, That the amount made avail-
able under this heading for Departmental Administration 
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: Provided further, That 
funds made available under this heading for the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations may be 
transferred to agencies of the Department of Agriculture 
funded by this Act to maintain personnel at the agency 
level: Provided further, That no funds made available under 
this heading for the Office of Assistant Secretary for Con-
gressional Relations may be obligated after 30 days from 
the date of enactment of this Act, unless the Secretary has 
notified the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress on the allocation of these funds by USDA agen-
cy. 
EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS 
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ECONOMIST 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Econo-
mist, $18,917,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be for grants 
or cooperative agreements for policy research under 7 
U.S.C. 3155; and of which $2,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2018, shall be available for policy re-
search and related activities in support of the forthcoming 
Farm Bill.
OFFICE OF HEARINGS AND APPEALS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Hearings and 
Appeals, $13,399,000. 
OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Pro-
gram Analysis, $9,525,000. 
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Infor-
mation Officer, $49,538,000, of which not less than 
$33,000,000 is for cybersecurity requirements of the Depart-
ment. 
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Finan-
cial Officer, $8,028,000. 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CIVIL 
RIGHTS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Civil Rights, $901,000. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 
$24,206,000. 
AGRICULTURE BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For payment of space rental and related costs pursu-
ant to Public Law 92–313, including authorities pursuant
to the 1984 delegation of authority from the Administrator 
of General Services to the Department of Agriculture under 
40 U.S.C. 121, for programs and activities of the Depart-
ment which are included in this Act, and for alterations 
and other actions needed for the Department and its agen-
cies to consolidate unneeded space into configurations suit-
able for release to the Administrator of General Services, 
and for the operation, maintenance, improvement, and re-
pair of Agriculture buildings and facilities, and for related 
costs, $84,189,000, to remain available until expended. 
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.), $3,633,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That appropriations and 
funds available herein to the Department for Hazardous 
Materials Management may be transferred to any agency 
of the Department for its use in meeting all requirements 
pursuant to the above Acts on Federal and non-Federal 
lands.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral, including employment pursuant to the Inspector Gen-
eral Act of 1978, $98,208,000, including such sums as may 
be necessary for contracting and other arrangements 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 confidential operational 
expenses, including the payment of informants, to be ex-
pended under the direction of the Inspector General pursu-
ant 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, $44,697,000. 
OFFICE OF ETHICS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Ethics, 
$4,136,000. 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH, 
EDUCATION, AND ECONOMICS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Research, Education, and Economics, $893,000. 
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Serv-
ice, $86,757,000.
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural 
Statistics Service, $171,239,000, of which up to $42,177,000 
shall be available until expended for the Census of Agri-
culture: Provided, That amounts made available for the 
Census of Agriculture may be used to conduct Current In-
dustrial Report surveys subject to 7 U.S.C. 2204g(d) and 
(f). 
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Research 
Service and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, 
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 of the total value 
of the land or interests transferred out of Federal ownership, 
$1,170,235,000: Provided, That appropriations hereunder 
shall be available for the operation and maintenance of air-
craft and the purchase 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 otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any one 
building shall not exceed $500,000, except for headhouses
or greenhouses which shall each be limited to $1,800,000, 
except for 10 buildings to be constructed or improved at 
a cost not to exceed $1,100,000 each, and except for two 
buildings to be constructed at a cost not to exceed 
$3,000,000 each, and the cost of altering any one building 
during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the cur-
rent replacement value of the building or $500,000, which-
ever is greater: Provided further, That appropriations here-
under shall be available for entering into lease agreements 
at any Agricultural Research Service location for the con-
struction of a research facility by a non-Federal entity for 
use by the Agricultural Research Service and a condition 
of the lease shall be that any facility shall be owned, oper-
ated, and maintained by the non-Federal entity and shall 
be removed upon the expiration or termination of the lease 
agreement: Provided further, That the limitations on alter-
ations contained in this Act shall not apply to moderniza-
tion or replacement of existing facilities at Beltsville, Mary-
land: 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, That appropriations here-
under shall be available for granting easements at any Ag-
ricultural Research Service location for the construction of 
a research facility by a non-Federal entity for use by, and 
acceptable to, the Agricultural Research Service and a con-
dition of the easements shall be that upon completion the 
facility shall be accepted by the Secretary, subject to the 
availability of funds herein, if the Secretary finds that ac-
ceptance of the facility is in the interest of the United 
States: Provided further, That funds may be received from 
any State, other political subdivision, organization, or in-
dividual for the purpose of establishing or operating any 
research facility or research project of the Agricultural Re-
search Service, as authorized by law. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For the acquisition of land, construction, repair, im-
provement, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed 
equipment or facilities as necessary to carry out the agricul-
tural research programs of the Department of Agriculture, 
where not otherwise provided, $99,600,000 to remain avail-
able until expended. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES 
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for 
cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and 
for other expenses, $849,518,000, which shall be for the pur-
poses, and in the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘Na-
tional Institute of Food and Agriculture, Research and 
Education Activities’’ in the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of 
this consolidated Act): Provided, That funds for research 
grants for 1994 institutions, education grants for 1890 in-
stitutions, capacity building for non-land-grant colleges of 
agriculture, the agriculture and food research initiative, 
veterinary medicine loan repayment, multicultural schol-
ars, graduate fellowship and institution challenge grants, 
and grants management systems shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That each institution eli-
gible to receive funds under the Evans-Allen program re-
ceives no less than $1,000,000: Provided further, That funds 
for education grants for Alaska Native and Native Hawai-
ian-serving institutions be made available to individual eli-
gible institutions or consortia of eligible institutions with 
funds awarded equally to each of the States of Alaska and 
Hawaii: Provided further, That funds for education grants 
for 1890 institutions shall be made available to institutions 
eligible to receive funds under 7 U.S.C. 3221 and 3222: Pro-
vided further, That not more than 5 percent of the amounts 
made available by this or any other Act to carry out the 
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative under 7 U.S.C. 
450i(b) may be retained by the Secretary of Agriculture to
pay administrative costs incurred by the Secretary in car-
rying out that authority. 
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, the 
Northern Marianas, and American Samoa, $477,391,000, 
which shall be for the purposes, and in the amounts, speci-
fied in the table titled ‘‘National Institute of Food and Agri-
culture, Extension Activities’’ in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A 
of this consolidated Act): Provided, That funds for facility 
improvements at 1890 institutions shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That institutions eligible 
to receive funds under 7 U.S.C. 3221 for cooperative exten-
sion receive no less than $1,000,000: Provided further, That 
funds for cooperative extension under sections 3(b) and (c) 
of the Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343(b) and (c)) and sec-
tion 208(c) of Public Law 93–471 shall be available for re-
tirement and employees’ compensation costs for extension 
agents.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES 
For the integrated research, education, and extension 
grants programs, including necessary administrative ex-
penses, $36,000,000, which shall be for the purposes, and 
in the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘National Insti-
tute of Food and Agriculture, Integrated Activities’’ in the 
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided, 
That funds for the Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative 
shall remain available until September 30, 2018: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
indirect costs shall not be charged against any Extension 
Implementation Program Area grant awarded under the 
Crop Protection/Pest Management Program (7 U.S.C. 
7626). 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR MARKETING AND 
REGULATORY PROGRAMS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, $901,000. 
ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service, including up to $30,000 for rep-
resentation allowances and for expenses pursuant to the
Foreign 
Service 
Act 
of 
1980 
(22 
U.S.C. 
4085), 
$946,212,000, of which $477,000, to remain available until 
expended, shall be available for the control of outbreaks of 
insects, plant diseases, animal diseases and for control of 
pest animals and birds (‘‘contingency fund’’) to the extent 
necessary to meet emergency conditions; of which 
$11,520,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
used for the cotton pests program for cost share purposes 
or for debt retirement for active eradication zones; of which 
$37,857,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
for Animal Health Technical Services; of which $697,000 
shall be for activities under the authority of the Horse Pro-
tection Act of 1970, as amended (15 U.S.C. 1831); of which 
$55,340,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
used to support avian health; of which $4,251,000, to re-
main available until expended, shall be for information 
technology infrastructure; of which $166,500,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be for specialty crop pests; 
of which, $8,826,000, to remain available until expended, 
shall be for field crop and rangeland ecosystem pests; of 
which $16,523,000, to remain available until expended, 
shall be for zoonotic disease management; of which 
$40,966,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
for emergency preparedness and response; of which 
$54,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be
for tree and wood pests; of which $5,723,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be for the National Veteri-
nary Stockpile; of which up to $1,500,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, shall be for the scrapie program for 
indemnities; of which $2,500,000, to remain available until 
expended, shall be for the wildlife damage management pro-
gram for aviation safety: Provided, That of amounts avail-
able under this heading for wildlife services methods devel-
opment, $1,000,000 shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That of amounts available under this 
heading for the screwworm program, $4,990,000 shall re-
main available until expended; of which $3,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, shall be for National Bio 
and Agro-Defense human capital development: Provided 
further, That no funds shall be used to formulate or admin-
ister a brucellosis eradication program for the current fiscal 
year that does not require minimum matching by the States 
of at least 40 percent: Provided further, That this appro-
priation shall be available for the operation and mainte-
nance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed five, 
of which two shall be for replacement only: Provided fur-
ther, That in addition, in emergencies which threaten any 
segment of the agricultural production industry of this 
country, the Secretary may transfer from other appropria-
tions or funds available to the agencies or corporations of
the Department such sums as may be deemed necessary, to 
be available only in such emergencies for the arrest and 
eradication of contagious or infectious disease or pests of 
animals, poultry, or plants, and for expenses in accordance 
with sections 10411 and 10417 of the Animal Health Pro-
tection Act (7 U.S.C. 8310 and 8316) and sections 431 and 
442 of the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7751 and 7772), 
and any unexpended balances of funds transferred for such 
emergency purposes in the preceding fiscal year shall be 
merged with such transferred amounts: Provided further, 
That appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant 
to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the repair and alteration of 
leased buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise 
provided the cost of altering any one building during the 
fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replace-
ment value of the building. 
In fiscal year 2017, the agency is authorized to collect 
fees to cover the total costs of providing technical assistance, 
goods, or services requested by States, other political sub-
divisions, domestic and international organizations, foreign 
governments, or individuals, provided that such fees are 
structured such that any entity’s liability for such fees is 
reasonably based on the technical assistance, goods, or serv-
ices provided to the entity by the agency, and such fees shall 
be reimbursed to this account, to remain available until ex-
pended, without further appropriation, for providing such 
assistance, goods, or services. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For plans, construction, repair, preventive mainte-
nance, environmental support, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities, as 
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2250, and acquisition of land as 
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 428a, $3,175,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE 
MARKETING SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Marketing 
Service, $84,933,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be available 
for the purposes of section 12306 of Public Law 113–79: 
Provided, That of the funds provided herein, $1,000,000 
shall be used for the transportation services division: Pro-
vided further, That of the amounts made available under 
this heading, no more than $1,000,000 shall be used for the 
purpose of Public Law 114–216: Provided further, That this 
appropriation shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 
2250) for the alteration and repair of buildings and im-
provements, but the cost of altering any one building during 
the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current 
replacement value of the building.
Fees may be collected for the cost of standardization 
activities, as established by regulation pursuant to law (31 
U.S.C. 9701). 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $61,227,000 (from fees collected) shall be 
obligated during the current fiscal year for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That if crop size is understated and/ 
or other uncontrollable events occur, the agency may exceed 
this limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
FUNDS FOR STRENGTHENING MARKETS, INCOME, AND 
SUPPLY (SECTION 32) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
Funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 
24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), shall be used only for commodity 
program expenses as authorized therein, and other related 
operating expenses, except for: (1) transfers to the Depart-
ment of Commerce as authorized by the Fish and Wildlife 
Act of August 8, 1956; (2) transfers otherwise provided in 
this Act; and (3) not more than $20,705,000 for formulation 
and administration of marketing agreements and orders 
pursuant to the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 
1937 and the Agricultural Act of 1961.
PAYMENTS TO STATES AND POSSESSIONS 
For payments to departments of agriculture, bureaus 
and departments of markets, and similar agencies for mar-
keting activities under section 204(b) of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623(b)), $1,235,000. 
GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS 
ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Grain Inspection, Pack-
ers and Stockyards Administration, $43,482,000: Provided, 
That this appropriation shall be available pursuant to law 
(7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair of buildings 
and improvements, but the cost of altering any one building 
during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the cur-
rent replacement value of the building. 
LIMITATION ON INSPECTION AND WEIGHING SERVICES 
EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $55,000,000 (from fees collected) shall be 
obligated during the current fiscal year for inspection and 
weighing services: Provided, That if grain export activities 
require additional supervision and oversight, or other un-
controllable factors occur, this limitation may be exceeded 
by up to 10 percent with notification to the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD SAFETY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Food Safety, $819,000. 
FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE 
For necessary expenses to carry out services authorized 
by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products 
Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, in-
cluding not to exceed $50,000 for representation allowances 
and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved 
August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), $1,032,062,000; and in 
addition, $1,000,000 may be credited to this account from 
fees collected for the cost of laboratory accreditation as au-
thorized by section 1327 of the Food, Agriculture, Conserva-
tion and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 138f): Provided, That 
funds provided for the Public Health Data Communication 
Infrastructure system shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided further, That no fewer than 148 full-time 
equivalent positions shall be employed during fiscal year 
2017 for purposes dedicated solely to inspections and en-
forcement related to the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act: 
Provided further, That the Food Safety and Inspection 
Service shall continue implementation of section 11016 of 
Public Law 110–246 as further clarified by the amendments 
made in section 12106 of Public Law 113–79: Provided fur-
ther, That this appropriation shall be available pursuant
to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair of 
buildings and improvements, but the cost of altering any 
one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per-
cent of the current replacement value of the building. 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FARM AND 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, 
$901,000. 
FARM SERVICE AGENCY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Farm Service Agency, 
$1,206,110,000: Provided, That not more than 50 percent 
of the $100,851,000 made available under this heading for 
information technology related to farm program delivery, 
including the Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of Agri-
cultural Systems and other farm program delivery systems, 
may be obligated until the Secretary submits to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress, and 
receives written or electronic notification of receipt from 
such Committees of, a plan for expenditure that (1) identi-
fies for each project/investment over $25,000 (a) the func-
tional and performance capabilities to be delivered and the 
mission benefits to be realized, (b) the estimated lifecycle
cost, including estimates for development as well as mainte-
nance and operations, and (c) key milestones to be met; (2) 
demonstrates that each project/investment is (a) consistent 
with the Farm Service Agency Information Technology 
Roadmap, (b) being managed in accordance with applicable 
lifecycle management policies and guidance, and (c) subject 
to the applicable Department’s capital planning and invest-
ment control requirements; and (3) has been reviewed by 
the Government Accountability Office and approved by the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: 
Provided further, That the agency shall submit a report by 
the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017 to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Government Account-
ability Office, that identifies for each project/investment 
that is operational (a) current performance against key in-
dicators of customer satisfaction, (b) current performance 
of service level agreements or other technical metrics, (c) 
current performance against a pre-established cost baseline, 
(d) a detailed breakdown of current and planned spending 
on operational enhancements or upgrades, and (e) an as-
sessment of whether the investment continues to meet busi-
ness needs as intended as well as alternatives to the invest-
ment: Provided further, That the Secretary is authorized 
to use the services, facilities, and authorities (but not the 
funds) of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make pro-
gram payments for all programs administered by the Agen-
cy: Provided further, That other funds made available to 
the Agency for authorized activities may be advanced to and 
merged with this account: Provided further, That funds 
made available to county committees shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That none of the funds 
available to the Farm Service Agency shall be used to close 
Farm Service Agency county offices: Provided further, That 
none of the funds available to the Farm Service Agency 
shall be used to permanently relocate county based employ-
ees that would result in an office with two or fewer employ-
ees without prior notification and approval of the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
STATE MEDIATION GRANTS 
For grants pursuant to section 502(b) of the Agricul-
tural Credit Act of 1987, as amended (7 U.S.C. 5101–5106), 
$3,904,000. 
GRASSROOTS SOURCE WATER PROTECTION PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out wellhead or 
groundwater protection activities under section 1240O of 
the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb–2), 
$6,500,000, to remain available until expended.
DAIRY INDEMNITY PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity 
payments to dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy 
products under a dairy indemnity program, such sums as 
may be necessary, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That such program is carried out by the Secretary 
in the same manner as the dairy indemnity program de-
scribed in the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–387, 114 Stat. 1549A– 
12). 
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-
rect and guaranteed farm ownership (7 U.S.C. 1922 et seq.) 
and operating (7 U.S.C. 1941 et seq.) loans, emergency 
loans (7 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.), Indian tribe land acquisition 
loans (25 U.S.C. 488), boll weevil loans (7 U.S.C. 1989), 
guaranteed conservation loans (7 U.S.C. 1924 et seq.), and 
Indian highly fractionated land loans (25 U.S.C. 488) to 
be available from funds in the Agricultural Credit Insur-
ance Fund, as follows: $2,750,000,000 for guaranteed farm 
ownership loans and $1,500,000,000 for farm ownership di-
rect loans; $1,960,000,000 for unsubsidized guaranteed op-
erating loans and $1,530,000,000 for direct operating loans; 
emergency loans, $22,576,000; Indian tribe land acquisi-
tion loans, $20,000,000; guaranteed conservation loans, 
$150,000,000; Indian highly fractionated land loans, 
$10,000,000; and for boll weevil eradication program loans, 
$60,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary shall deem the 
pink bollworm to be a boll weevil for the purpose of boll 
weevil eradication program loans. 
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans and grants, 
including the cost of modifying loans as defined in section 
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: 
farm operating loans, $65,178,000 for direct operating 
loans, $20,972,000 for unsubsidized guaranteed operating 
loans, emergency loans, $1,262,000, to remain available 
until expended; and $2,550,000 for Indian highly 
fractionated land loans. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 
$317,068,000, of which $306,998,000 shall be transferred to 
and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Farm Service 
Agency, Salaries and Expenses’’. 
Funds appropriated by this Act to the Agricultural 
Credit Insurance Program Account for farm ownership, op-
erating and conservation direct loans and guaranteed loans
may be transferred among these programs: Provided, That 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress are notified at least 15 days in advance of any trans-
fer. 
RISK MANAGEMENT AGENCY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Risk Management Agen-
cy, $74,829,000: Provided, That not to exceed $1,000 shall 
be available for official reception and representation ex-
penses, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1506(i). 
CORPORATIONS 
The following corporations and agencies are hereby au-
thorized to make expenditures, within the limits of funds 
and borrowing authority available to each such corporation 
or agency and in accord with law, and to make contracts 
and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations 
as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation 
Control Act as may be necessary in carrying out the pro-
grams set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for 
such corporation or agency, except as hereinafter provided. 
FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION FUND 
For payments as authorized by section 516 of the Fed-
eral Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1516), such sums as may 
be necessary, to remain available until expended.
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUND 
REIMBURSEMENT FOR NET REALIZED LOSSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For the current fiscal year, such sums as may be nec-
essary to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for 
net realized losses sustained, but not previously reimbursed, 
pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 17, 1961 (15 
U.S.C. 713a–11): Provided, That of the funds available to 
the Commodity Credit Corporation under section 11 of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 
714i) for the conduct of its business with the Foreign Agri-
cultural Service, up to $5,000,000 may be transferred to 
and used by the Foreign Agricultural Service for informa-
tion resource management activities of the Foreign Agricul-
tural Service that are not related to Commodity Credit Cor-
poration business. 
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT 
(LIMITATION ON EXPENSES) 
For the current fiscal year, the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration shall not expend more than $5,000,000 for site in-
vestigation and cleanup expenses, and operations and 
maintenance expenses to comply with the requirement of 
section 107(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C.
9607(g)), and section 6001 of the Resource Conservation 
and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 6961). 
TITLE II 
CONSERVATION PROGRAMS 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL 
RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Natural Resources and Environment, $901,000. 
NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE 
CONSERVATION OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions 
of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a–f), including 
preparation of conservation plans and establishment of 
measures to conserve soil and water (including farm irriga-
tion and land drainage and such special measures for soil 
and water management as may be necessary to prevent 
floods and the siltation of reservoirs and to control agricul-
tural related pollutants); operation of conservation plant 
materials centers; classification and mapping of soil; dis-
semination of information; acquisition of lands, water, and 
interests therein for use in the plant materials program by 
donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to 
exceed $100 pursuant to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 
428a); purchase and erection or alteration or improvement 
of permanent and temporary buildings; and operation and
maintenance of aircraft, $864,474,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2018: Provided, That appropriations 
hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for 
construction and improvement of buildings and public im-
provements at plant materials centers, except that the cost 
of alterations and improvements to other buildings and 
other public improvements shall not exceed $250,000: Pro-
vided further, That when buildings or other structures are 
erected on non-Federal land, that the right to use such land 
is obtained as provided in 7 U.S.C. 2250a: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amounts made available under this head-
ing, $5,600,000, shall remain available until expended for 
the authorities under 16 U.S.C. 1001–1005 and 1007–1009 
for authorized ongoing watershed projects with a primary 
purpose of providing water to rural communities. 
WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses to carry out preventive meas-
ures, including but not limited to surveys and investiga-
tions, engineering operations, works of improvement, and 
changes in use of land, in accordance with the Watershed 
Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1001–1005 
and 1007–1009) and in accordance with the provisions of 
laws relating to the activities of the Department, 
$150,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That of the amounts made available under this head-
ing, $50,000,000 shall be allocated to projects and activities 
that can commence promptly following enactment; that ad-
dress regional priorities for flood prevention, agricultural 
water management, inefficient irrigation systems, fish and 
wildlife habitat, or watershed protection; or that address 
authorized ongoing projects under the authorities of section 
13 of the Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944 (Public 
Law 78–534) with a primary purpose of watershed protec-
tion by preventing floodwater damage and stabilizing 
stream channels, tributaries, and banks to reduce erosion 
and sediment transport. 
WATERSHED REHABILITATION PROGRAM 
Under the authorities of section 14 of the Watershed 
Protection and Flood Prevention Act, $12,000,000 is pro-
vided. 
TITLE III 
RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RURAL 
DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Rural Development, $896,000.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for carrying out the adminis-
tration and implementation of programs in the Rural De-
velopment mission area, including activities with institu-
tions concerning the development and operation of agricul-
tural cooperatives; and for cooperative agreements; 
$225,835,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, funds appropriated under this heading 
may be used for advertising and promotional activities that 
support the Rural Development mission area: Provided fur-
ther, That any balances available from prior years for the 
Rural Utilities Service, Rural Housing Service, and the 
Rural Business—Cooperative Service salaries and expenses 
accounts shall be transferred to and merged with this appro-
priation. 
RURAL HOUSING SERVICE 
RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-
rect and guaranteed loans as authorized by title V of the 
Housing Act of 1949, to be available from funds in the rural 
housing insurance fund, as follows: $1,000,000,000 shall be 
for direct loans and $24,000,000,000 shall be for unsub-
sidized guaranteed loans; $26,278,000 for section 504 hous-
ing repair loans; $35,000,000 for section 515 rental hous-
ing; $230,000,000 for section 538 guaranteed multi-family 
housing loans; $10,000,000 for credit sales of single family 
housing acquired property; $5,000,000 for section 523 self- 
help housing land development loans; and $5,000,000 for 
section 524 site development loans. 
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including 
the cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: section 
502 loans, $67,700,000 shall be for direct loans; section 504 
housing repair loans, $3,663,000; section 523 self-help hous-
ing land development loans, $417,000; section 524 site de-
velopment loans, $111,000; and repair, rehabilitation, and 
new 
construction 
of 
section 
515 
rental 
housing, 
$10,360,000: Provided, That to support the loan program 
level for section 538 guaranteed loans made available under 
this heading the Secretary may charge or adjust any fees 
to cover the projected cost of such loan guarantees pursuant 
to the provisions of the Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 
661 et seq.), and the interest on such loans may not be sub-
sidized: Provided further, That applicants in communities 
that have a current rural area waiver under section 541 
of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490q) shall be treat-
ed as living in a rural area for purposes of section 502
guaranteed loans provided under this heading: Provided 
further, That of the amounts available under this para-
graph for section 502 direct loans, no less than $5,000,000 
shall be available for direct loans for individuals whose 
homes will be built pursuant to a program funded with a 
mutual and self-help housing grant authorized by section 
523 of the Housing Act of 1949 until June 1, 2017: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary shall implement provi-
sions to provide incentives to nonprofit organizations and 
public housing authorities to facilitate the acquisition of 
Rural Housing Service (RHS) multifamily housing prop-
erties by such nonprofit organizations and public housing 
authorities that commit to keep such properties in the RHS 
multifamily housing program for a period of time as deter-
mined by the Secretary, with such incentives to include, but 
not be limited to, the following: allow such nonprofit entities 
and public housing authorities to earn a Return on Invest-
ment (ROI) on their own resources to include proceeds from 
low income housing tax credit syndication, own contribu-
tions, grants, and developer loans at favorable rates and 
terms, invested in a deal; and allow reimbursement of orga-
nizational costs associated with owner’s oversight of asset 
referred to as ‘‘Asset Management Fee’’ (AMF) of up to 
$7,500 per property.
In addition, for the cost of direct loans, grants, and 
contracts, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1484 and 1486, 
$15,387,000, to remain available until expended, for direct 
farm labor housing loans and domestic farm labor housing 
grants and contracts: Provided, That any balances avail-
able for the Farm Labor Program Account shall be trans-
ferred to and merged with this account. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 
$412,254,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriation for ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Ex-
penses’’. 
RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
For rental assistance agreements entered into or re-
newed pursuant to the authority under section 521(a)(2) 
or agreements entered into in lieu of debt forgiveness or 
payments for eligible households as authorized by section 
502(c)(5)(D) of the Housing Act of 1949, $1,405,033,000, 
of which $40,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 
2018; and in addition such sums as may be necessary, as 
authorized by section 521(c) of the Act, to liquidate debt 
incurred prior to fiscal year 1992 to carry out the rental 
assistance program under section 521(a)(2) of the Act: Pro-
vided, That rental assistance agreements entered into or re-
newed during the current fiscal year shall be funded for
a one-year period: Provided further, That any unexpended 
balances remaining at the end of such one-year agreements 
may be transferred and used for purposes of any debt reduc-
tion; maintenance, repair, or rehabilitation of any existing 
projects; preservation; and rental assistance activities au-
thorized under title V of the Act: Provided further, That 
rental assistance provided under agreements entered into 
prior to fiscal year 2017 for a farm labor multi-family 
housing project financed under section 514 or 516 of the 
Act may not be recaptured for use in another project until 
such assistance has remained unused for a period of 12 con-
secutive months, if such project has a waiting list of tenants 
seeking such assistance or the project has rental assistance 
eligible tenants who are not receiving such assistance: Pro-
vided further, That such recaptured rental assistance shall, 
to the extent practicable, be applied to another farm labor 
multi-family housing project financed under section 514 or 
516 of the Act: Provided further, That except as provided 
in the third proviso under this heading and notwith-
standing any other provision of the Act, the Secretary may 
recapture rental assistance provided under agreements en-
tered into prior to fiscal year 2017 for a project that the 
Secretary determines no longer needs rental assistance and 
use such recaptured funds for current needs.
MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING REVITALIZATION PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
For the rural housing voucher program as authorized 
under section 542 of the Housing Act of 1949, but notwith-
standing subsection (b) of such section, and for additional 
costs to conduct a demonstration program for the preserva-
tion and revitalization of multi-family rental housing prop-
erties described in this paragraph, $41,400,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the funds made 
available under this heading, $19,400,000, shall be avail-
able for rural housing vouchers to any low-income household 
(including those not receiving rental assistance) residing in 
a property financed with a section 515 loan which has been 
prepaid after September 30, 2005: Provided further, That 
the amount of such voucher shall be the difference between 
comparable market rent for the section 515 unit and the 
tenant paid rent for such unit: Provided further, That funds 
made available for such vouchers shall be subject to the 
availability of annual appropriations: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, administer such vouchers with current regulations 
and administrative guidance applicable to section 8 hous-
ing vouchers administered by the Secretary of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development: Provided fur-
ther, That if the Secretary determines that the amount
made available for vouchers in this or any other Act is not 
needed for vouchers, the Secretary may use such funds for 
the demonstration program for the preservation and revital-
ization of multi-family rental housing properties described 
in this paragraph: Provided further, That of the funds made 
available under this heading, $22,000,000 shall be available 
for a demonstration program for the preservation and revi-
talization of the sections 514, 515, and 516 multi-family 
rental housing properties to restructure existing USDA 
multi-family housing loans, as the Secretary deems appro-
priate, expressly for the purposes of ensuring the project has 
sufficient resources to preserve the project for the purpose 
of providing safe and affordable housing for low-income 
residents and farm laborers including reducing or elimi-
nating interest; deferring loan payments, subordinating, re-
ducing or reamortizing loan debt; and other financial as-
sistance including advances, payments and incentives (in-
cluding the ability of owners to obtain reasonable returns 
on investment) required by the Secretary: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall as part of the preservation and 
revitalization agreement obtain a restrictive use agreement 
consistent with the terms of the restructuring: Provided fur-
ther, That if the Secretary determines that additional funds 
for vouchers described in this paragraph are needed, funds 
for the preservation and revitalization demonstration pro-
gram may be used for such vouchers: Provided further, That 
if Congress enacts legislation to permanently authorize a 
multi-family rental housing loan restructuring program 
similar to the demonstration program described herein, the 
Secretary may use funds made available for the demonstra-
tion program under this heading to carry out such legisla-
tion with the prior approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress: Provided further, That 
in addition to any other available funds, the Secretary may 
expend not more than $1,000,000 total, from the program 
funds made available under this heading, for administra-
tive expenses for activities funded under this heading. 
MUTUAL AND SELF-HELP HOUSING GRANTS 
For grants and contracts pursuant to section 
523(b)(1)(A) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490c), 
$30,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For grants for very low-income housing repair and 
rural housing preservation made by the Rural Housing 
Service, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1474, and 1490m, 
$33,701,000, to remain available until expended. 
RURAL COMMUNITY FACILITIES PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For gross obligations for the principal amount of di-
rect and guaranteed loans as authorized by section 306 and
described in section 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated Farm 
and Rural Development Act, $2,600,000,000 for direct loans 
and $148,305,000 for guaranteed loans. 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, including the cost of 
modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, $3,322,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
For the cost of grants for rural community facilities 
programs as authorized by section 306 and described in sec-
tion 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Devel-
opment Act, $43,778,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That $4,000,000 of the amount appro-
priated under this heading shall be available for a Rural 
Community Development Initiative: Provided further, That 
such funds shall be used solely to develop the capacity and 
ability of private, nonprofit community-based housing and 
community development organizations, low-income rural 
communities, and Federally Recognized Native American 
Tribes to undertake projects to improve housing, community 
facilities, community and economic development projects in 
rural areas: Provided further, That such funds shall be 
made available to qualified private, nonprofit and public 
intermediary organizations proposing to carry out a pro-
gram of financial and technical assistance: Provided fur-
ther, That such intermediary organizations shall provide
matching funds from other sources, including Federal funds 
for related activities, in an amount not less than funds pro-
vided: Provided further, That $5,778,000 of the amount ap-
propriated under this heading shall be to provide grants 
for facilities in rural communities with extreme unemploy-
ment and severe economic depression (Public Law 106– 
387), with up to 5 percent for administration and capacity 
building in the State rural development offices: Provided 
further, That $4,000,000 of the amount appropriated under 
this heading shall be available for community facilities 
grants to tribal colleges, as authorized by section 306(a)(19) 
of such Act: Provided further, That sections 381E–H and 
381N of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
are not applicable to the funds made available under this 
heading. 
RURAL BUSINESS—COOPERATIVE SERVICE 
RURAL BUSINESS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of loan guarantees and grants, for the 
rural business development programs authorized by section 
310B and described in subsections (a), (c), (f) and (g) of 
section 310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-
ment Act, $65,319,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That of the amount appropriated under this 
heading, not to exceed $500,000 shall be made available for
one grant to a qualified national organization to provide 
technical assistance for rural transportation in order to 
promote economic development and $6,000,000 shall be for 
grants to the Delta Regional Authority (7 U.S.C. 2009aa 
et seq.) and the Appalachian Regional Commission (40 
U.S.C. 14101 et seq.) for any Rural Community Advance-
ment Program purpose as described in section 381E(d) of 
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, of 
which not more than 5 percent may be used for administra-
tive expenses: Provided further, That $4,000,000 of the 
amount appropriated under this heading shall be for busi-
ness grants to benefit Federally Recognized Native Amer-
ican Tribes, including $250,000 for a grant to a qualified 
national organization to provide technical assistance for 
rural transportation in order to promote economic develop-
ment: Provided further, That sections 381E–H and 381N 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act are 
not applicable to funds made available under this heading. 
INTERMEDIARY RELENDING PROGRAM FUND ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized 
by the Intermediary Relending Program Fund Account (7 
U.S.C. 1936b), $18,889,000. 
For the cost of direct loans, $5,476,000, as authorized 
by the Intermediary Relending Program Fund Account (7
U.S.C. 1936b), of which $557,000 shall be available through 
June 30, 2017, for Federally Recognized Native American 
Tribes; and of which $1,072,000 shall be available through 
June 30, 2017, for Mississippi Delta Region counties (as 
determined in accordance with Public Law 100–460): Pro-
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying such 
loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct loan programs, $4,468,000 shall be transferred 
to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Rural Develop-
ment, Salaries and Expenses’’. 
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized 
under section 313 of the Rural Electrification Act, for the 
purpose of promoting rural economic development and job 
creation projects, $42,213,000. 
Of the funds derived from interest on the cushion of 
credit payments, as authorized by section 313 of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936, $132,000,000 shall not be obli-
gated and $132,000,000 are rescinded. 
The cost of grants authorized under section 313 of the 
Rural Electrification Act, for the purpose of promoting
rural economic development and job creation projects shall 
not exceed $10,000,000. 
RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 
For rural cooperative development grants authorized 
under section 310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932), $26,550,000, of which 
$2,750,000 shall be for cooperative agreements for the ap-
propriate technology transfer for rural areas program: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $3,000,000 shall be for grants for 
cooperative development centers, individual cooperatives, or 
groups of cooperatives that serve socially disadvantaged 
groups and a majority of the boards of directors or gov-
erning boards of which are comprised of individuals who 
are members of socially disadvantaged groups; and of which 
$15,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
for value-added agricultural product market development 
grants, as authorized by section 231 of the Agricultural 
Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 1632a). 
RURAL ENERGY FOR AMERICA PROGRAM 
For the cost of a program of loan guarantees, under 
the same terms and conditions as authorized by section 
9007 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107), $352,000: Provided, That the cost 
of loan guarantees, including the cost of modifying such
loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974. 
RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE 
RURAL WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, and 
grants for the rural water, waste water, waste disposal, and 
solid waste management programs authorized by sections 
306, 306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B and described in 
sections 306C(a)(2), 306D, 306E, and 381E(d)(2) of the 
Consolidated 
Farm 
and 
Rural 
Development 
Act, 
$571,190,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for the rural util-
ities program described in section 306(a)(2)(B) of such Act, 
and of which not to exceed $993,000 shall be available for 
the rural utilities program described in section 306E of 
such Act: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000,000 of the 
amount appropriated under this heading shall be for grants 
authorized by section 306A(i)(2) of the Consolidated Farm 
and Rural Development Act in addition to funding author-
ized by section 306A(i)(1) of such Act: Provided further, 
That $64,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this 
heading shall be for loans and grants including water and 
waste disposal systems grants authorized by section 
306C(a)(2)(B) and section 306D of the Consolidated Farm
and Rural Development Act, and Federally Recognized Na-
tive American Tribes authorized by 306C(a)(1) of such Act: 
Provided further, That funding provided for section 306D 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act may 
be provided to a consortium formed pursuant to section 325 
of Public Law 105–83: Provided further, That not more 
than 2 percent of the funding provided for section 306D 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act may 
be used by the State of Alaska for training and technical 
assistance programs and not more than 2 percent of the 
funding provided for section 306D of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act may be used by a consor-
tium formed pursuant to section 325 of Public Law 105– 
83 for training and technical assistance programs: Pro-
vided further, That not to exceed $20,000,000 of the amount 
appropriated under this heading shall be for technical as-
sistance grants for rural water and waste systems pursuant 
to section 306(a)(14) of such Act, unless the Secretary 
makes a determination of extreme need, of which $6,500,000 
shall be made available for a grant to a qualified nonprofit 
multi-State regional technical assistance organization, with 
experience in working with small communities on water 
and waste water problems, the principal purpose of such 
grant shall be to assist rural communities with populations 
of 3,300 or less, in improving the planning, financing, de-
velopment, operation, and management of water and waste 
water systems, and of which not less than $800,000 shall 
be for a qualified national Native American organization 
to provide technical assistance for rural water systems for 
tribal communities: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$16,897,000 of the amount appropriated under this heading 
shall be for contracting with qualified national organiza-
tions for a circuit rider program to provide technical assist-
ance for rural water systems: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $4,000,000 shall be for solid waste management 
grants: Provided further, That $10,000,000 of the amount 
appropriated under this heading shall be transferred to, and 
merged with, the Rural Utilities Service, High Energy Cost 
Grants Account to provide grants authorized under section 
19 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 918a): 
Provided further, That any prior year balances for high- 
energy cost grants authorized by section 19 of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 918a) shall be trans-
ferred to and merged with the Rural Utilities Service, High 
Energy Cost Grants Account: Provided further, That sec-
tions 381E–H and 381N of the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act are not applicable to the funds 
made available under this heading.
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
The principal amount of direct and guaranteed loans 
as authorized by sections 305 and 306 of the Rural Elec-
trification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935 and 936) shall be 
made as follows: loans made pursuant to section 306 of that 
Act, rural electric, $5,500,000,000; guaranteed under-
writing loans pursuant to section 313A, $750,000,000; 5 
percent rural telecommunications loans, cost of money rural 
telecommunications loans, and for loans made pursuant to 
section 306 of that Act, rural telecommunications loans, 
$690,000,000: Provided, That up to $2,000,000,000 shall be 
used for the construction, acquisition, or improvement of 
fossil-fueled electric generating plants (whether new or ex-
isting) that utilize carbon sequestration systems. 
For the cost of direct loans as authorized by section 
305 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935), 
including the cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, cost of money 
rural telecommunications loans, $3,071,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 
carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 
$33,270,000, which shall be transferred to and merged with
the appropriation for ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and 
Expenses’’. 
DISTANCE LEARNING, TELEMEDICINE, AND BROADBAND 
PROGRAM 
For the principal amount of broadband telecommuni-
cation loans, $27,043,000. 
For grants for telemedicine and distance learning serv-
ices in rural areas, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa et 
seq., $26,600,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That $3,000,000 shall be made available for grants 
authorized by 379G of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act: Provided further, That funding provided 
under this heading for grants under 379G of the Consoli-
dated Farm and Rural Development Act may only be pro-
vided to entities that meet all of the eligibility criteria for 
a consortium as established by this section. 
For the cost of broadband loans, as authorized by sec-
tion 601 of the Rural Electrification Act, $4,500,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That the cost of 
direct loans shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974. 
In addition, $34,500,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, for a grant program to finance broadband trans-
mission in rural areas eligible for Distance Learning and
Telemedicine Program benefits authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
950aaa. 
TITLE IV 
DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD, 
NUTRITION, AND CONSUMER SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, 
$814,000. 
FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE 
CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), 
except section 21, and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 
U.S.C. 1771 et seq.), except sections 17 and 21; 
$22,793,982,000 to remain available through September 30, 
2018, of which such sums as are made available under sec-
tion 14222(b)(1) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
of 2008 (Public Law 110–246), as amended by this Act, 
shall be merged with and available for the same time period 
and purposes as provided herein: Provided, That of the total 
amount available, $17,004,000 shall be available to carry 
out section 19 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1771 et seq.): Provided further, That of the total amount
available, $25,000,000 shall be available to provide competi-
tive grants to State agencies for subgrants to local edu-
cational agencies and schools to purchase the equipment 
needed to serve healthier meals, improve food safety, and 
to help support the establishment, maintenance, or expan-
sion of the school breakfast program: Provided further, That 
of the total amount available, $23,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended to carry out section 749(g) of the 
Agriculture Appropriations Act of 2010 (Public Law 111– 
80): Provided further, That section 26(d) of the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769g(d)) 
is amended in the first sentence by striking ‘‘2010 through 
2016’’ and inserting ‘‘2010 through 2017’’: Provided fur-
ther, That section 9(h)(3) of the Richard B. Russell Na-
tional School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(h)(3)) is amended 
in the first sentence by striking ‘‘for each of fiscal years 
2011 through 2015’’ and inserting ‘‘for fiscal year 2017’’: 
Provided further, That section 9(h)(4) of the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(h)(4)) 
is amended in the first sentence by striking ‘‘for each of 
fiscal years 2011 through 2015’’ and inserting ‘‘for fiscal 
year 2017’’.
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR 
WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the special supple-
mental nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of 
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), 
$6,350,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 
2018: Provided, That notwithstanding section 17(h)(10) of 
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(h)(10)), 
not less than $60,000,000 shall be used for breastfeeding 
peer 
counselors 
and 
other 
related 
activities, 
and 
$13,600,000 shall be used for infrastructure: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds provided in this account shall 
be available for the purchase of infant formula except in 
accordance with the cost containment and competitive bid-
ding requirements specified in section 17 of such Act: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds provided shall be 
available for activities that are not fully reimbursed by 
other Federal Government departments or agencies unless 
authorized by section 17 of such Act: Provided further, That 
upon termination of a federally mandated vendor morato-
rium and subject to terms and conditions established by the 
Secretary, the Secretary may waive the requirement at 7 
CFR 246.12(g)(6) at the request of a State agency.
SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Food and Nu-
trition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), $78,480,694,000, 
of which $3,000,000,000, to remain available through De-
cember 31, 2018, shall be placed in reserve for use only in 
such amounts and at such times as may become necessary 
to carry out program operations: Provided, That funds pro-
vided herein shall be expended in accordance with section 
16 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008: Provided further, 
That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$998,000 may be used to provide nutrition education serv-
ices to State agencies and Federally Recognized Tribes par-
ticipating in the Food Distribution Program on Indian 
Reservations: Provided further, That this appropriation 
shall be subject to any work registration or workfare re-
quirements as may be required by law: Provided further, 
That funds made available for Employment and Training 
under this heading shall remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2018: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able under this heading for section 28(d)(1), section 4(b), 
and section 27(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
shall remain available through September 30, 2018: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds made available under 
this heading may be obligated or expended in contravention 
of section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(8 U.S.C. 1183A): Provided further, That funds made avail-
able under this heading may be used to enter into contracts 
and employ staff to conduct studies, evaluations, or to con-
duct activities related to program integrity provided that 
such activities are authorized by the Food and Nutrition 
Act of 2008. 
COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out disaster assistance 
and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program as au-
thorized by section 4(a) of the Agriculture and Consumer 
Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c note); the Emergency 
Food Assistance Act of 1983; special assistance for the nu-
clear affected islands, as authorized by section 103(f)(2) of 
the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 
(Public Law 108–188); and the Farmers’ Market Nutrition 
Program, as authorized by section 17(m) of the Child Nutri-
tion Act of 1966, $315,139,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2018: Provided, That none of these funds 
shall be available to reimburse the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration for commodities donated to the program: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
effective with funds made available in fiscal year 2017 to 
support the Seniors Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program, 
as authorized by section 4402 of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002, such funds shall remain
available through September 30, 2018: Provided further, 
That of the funds made available under section 27(a) of 
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)), 
the Secretary may use up to 10 percent for costs associated 
with the distribution of commodities. 
NUTRITION PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary administrative expenses of the Food and 
Nutrition Service for carrying out any domestic nutrition 
assistance program, $170,716,000: Provided, That of the 
funds provided herein, $17,700,000 shall be available until 
expended for relocation expenses and for the alteration and 
repair of buildings and improvements pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 
2250: Provided further, That of the funds provided herein, 
$2,000,000 shall be used for the purposes of section 4404 
of Public Law 107–171, as amended by section 4401 of Pub-
lic Law 110–246: Provided further, That of the funds pro-
vided herein, $1,000,000 shall be used to contract for an 
independent study to identify the best means of consoli-
dating and coordinating reporting requirements under 
Child Nutrition Programs to eliminate redundancy, in-
crease efficiency, and reduce the reporting burden on school 
food authorities and State agencies.
TITLE V 
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural 
Service, including not to exceed $250,000 for representation 
allowances and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the 
Act 
approved 
August 
3, 
1956 
(7 
U.S.C. 
1766), 
$196,571,000: Provided, That the Service may utilize ad-
vances of funds, or reimburse this appropriation for expend-
itures made on behalf of Federal agencies, public and pri-
vate organizations and institutions under agreements exe-
cuted pursuant to the agricultural food production assist-
ance programs (7 U.S.C. 1737) and the foreign assistance 
programs of the United States Agency for International De-
velopment: Provided further, That funds made available for 
middle-income country training programs, funds made 
available for the Borlaug International Agricultural 
Science and Technology Fellowship program, and up to 
$2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricultural Service appropria-
tion solely for the purpose of offsetting fluctuations in inter-
national currency exchange rates, subject to documentation 
by the Foreign Agricultural Service, shall remain available 
until expended.
FOOD FOR PEACE TITLE I DIRECT CREDIT AND FOOD FOR 
PROGRESS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For administrative expenses to carry out the credit 
program of title I, Food for Peace Act (Public Law 83– 
480) and the Food for Progress Act of 1985, $149,000, shall 
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
‘‘Farm Service Agency, Salaries and Expenses’’. 
FOOD FOR PEACE TITLE II GRANTS 
For expenses during the current fiscal year, not other-
wise recoverable, and unrecovered prior years’ costs, includ-
ing interest thereon, under the Food for Peace Act (Public 
Law 83–480), for commodities supplied in connection with 
dispositions 
abroad 
under 
title 
II 
of 
said 
Act, 
$1,466,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development shall in each instance notify 
in writing the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress, the Committee on Agriculture of the 
House, and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
Forestry of the Senate and make publicly available online 
the amount and use of authority in section 202(a) of the 
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1722(a)) to notwithstand the 
minimum level of nonemergency assistance required by sec-
tion 412(e)(2) of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C.
1736f(e)(2)) not later than 15 days after the date of such 
action. 
MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION 
AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM GRANTS 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
section 3107 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1), $201,626,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the Commodity 
Credit Corporation is authorized to provide the services, fa-
cilities, and authorities for the purpose of implementing 
such section, subject to reimbursement from amounts pro-
vided herein: Provided further, That of the amount made 
available under this heading, $5,000,000, shall remain 
available until expended for necessary expenses to carry out 
the provisions of section 3207 of the Agricultural Act of 
2014 (7 U.S.C. 1726c). 
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION EXPORT (LOANS) 
CREDIT GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For administrative expenses to carry out the Com-
modity Credit Corporation’s Export Guarantee Program, 
GSM 102 and GSM 103, $8,537,000; to cover common over-
head expenses as permitted by section 11 of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation Charter Act and in conformity with the 
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, of which $6,074,000
shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation 
for ‘‘Foreign Agricultural Service, Salaries and Expenses’’, 
and of which $2,463,000 shall be transferred to and merged 
with the appropriation for ‘‘Farm Service Agency, Salaries 
and Expenses’’. 
TITLE VI 
RELATED AGENCY AND FOOD AND DRUG 
ADMINISTRATION 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, including hire and purchase of passenger motor ve-
hicles; for payment of space rental and related costs pursu-
ant to Public Law 92–313 for programs and activities of 
the Food and Drug Administration which are included in 
this Act; for rental of special purpose space in the District 
of Columbia or elsewhere; for miscellaneous and emergency 
expenses of enforcement activities, authorized and approved 
by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely on the Sec-
retary’s certificate, not to exceed $25,000; and notwith-
standing 
section 
521 
of 
Public 
Law 
107–188; 
$4,655,089,000: Provided, That of the amount provided 
under this heading, $754,524,000 shall be derived from pre-
scription drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379h, and
shall be credited to this account and remain available until 
expended; $126,083,000 shall be derived from medical device 
user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j, and shall be credited 
to this account and remain available until expended; 
$323,011,000 shall be derived from human generic drug 
user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–42, and shall be 
credited to this account and remain available until ex-
pended; $22,079,000 shall be derived from biosimilar bio-
logical product user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–52, 
and shall be credited to this account and remain available 
until expended; $23,673,000 shall be derived from animal 
drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–12, and shall 
be credited to this account and remain available until ex-
pended; $11,341,000 shall be derived from animal generic 
drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–21, and shall 
be credited to this account and remain available until ex-
pended; $635,000,000 shall be derived from tobacco product 
user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 387s, and shall be credited 
to this account and remain available until expended: Pro-
vided further, That in addition to and notwithstanding any 
other provision under this heading, amounts collected for 
prescription drug user fees, medical device user fees, human 
generic drug user fees, biosimilar biological product user 
fees, animal drug user fees, and animal generic drug user 
fees that exceed the respective fiscal year 2017 limitations
are appropriated and shall be credited to this account and 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
fees derived from prescription drug, medical device, human 
generic drug, biosimilar biological product, animal drug, 
and animal generic drug assessments for fiscal year 2017, 
including any such fees collected prior to fiscal year 2017 
but credited for fiscal year 2017, shall be subject to the fiscal 
year 2017 limitations: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may accept payment during fiscal year 2017 of user fees 
specified under this heading and authorized for fiscal year 
2018, prior to the due date for such fees, and that amounts 
of such fees assessed for fiscal year 2018 for which the Sec-
retary accepts payment in fiscal year 2017 shall not be in-
cluded in amounts under this heading: Provided further, 
That none of these funds shall be used to develop, establish, 
or operate any program of user fees authorized by 31 U.S.C. 
9701: Provided further, That of the total amount appro-
priated: (1) $1,025,503,000 shall be for the Center for Food 
Safety and Applied Nutrition and related field activities 
in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (2) $1,329,328,000 shall 
be for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and 
related field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; 
(3) $339,618,000 shall be for the Center for Biologics Eval-
uation and Research and for related field activities in the 
Office of Regulatory Affairs; (4) $194,252,000 shall be for
the Center for Veterinary Medicine and for related field ac-
tivities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (5) $427,928,000 
shall be for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health 
and for related field activities in the Office of Regulatory 
Affairs; (6) $63,331,000 shall be for the National Center for 
Toxicological Research; (7) $596,338,000 shall be for the 
Center for Tobacco Products and for related field activities 
in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (8) not to exceed 
$163,507,000 shall be for Rent and Related activities, of 
which $46,856,000 is for White Oak Consolidation, other 
than the amounts paid to the General Services Administra-
tion for rent; (9) not to exceed $231,293,000 shall be for 
payments to the General Services Administration for rent; 
and (10) $283,991,000 shall be for other activities, includ-
ing the Office of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, the 
Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine, the Office of Med-
ical and Tobacco Products, the Office of Global and Regu-
latory Policy, the Office of Operations, the Office of the 
Chief Scientist, and central services for these offices: Pro-
vided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of this amount 
shall be for official reception and representation expenses, 
not otherwise provided for, as determined by the Commis-
sioner: Provided further, That any transfer of funds pursu-
ant to section 770(n) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos-
metic Act (21 U.S.C. 379dd(n)) shall only be from amounts
made available under this heading for other activities: Pro-
vided further, That of the amounts that are made available 
under this heading for ‘‘other activities’’, and that are not 
derived from user fees, $1,500,000 shall be transferred to 
and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Department of 
Health and Human Services—Office of Inspector General’’ 
for oversight of the programs and operations of the Food 
and Drug Administration and shall be in addition to funds 
otherwise made available for oversight of the Food and Drug 
Administration: Provided further, That of the total amount 
made available under this heading, $3,000,000 shall be used 
by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, in coordination 
with the Secretary of Agriculture, for consumer outreach 
and education regarding agricultural biotechnology and 
biotechnology-derived food products and animal feed, in-
cluding through publication and distribution of science- 
based educational information on the environmental, nutri-
tional, food safety, economic, and humanitarian impacts of 
such biotechnology, food products, and feed: Provided fur-
ther, That funds may be transferred from one specified ac-
tivity to another with the prior approval of the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 42 
U.S.C. 263b, export certification user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 381, priority review user fees authorized by 21
U.S.C. 360n and 360ff, food and feed recall fees, food rein-
spection fees, and voluntary qualified importer program 
fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–31, outsourcing facility 
fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–62, prescription drug 
wholesale distributor licensing and inspection fees author-
ized by 21 U.S.C. 353(e)(3), third-party logistics provider 
licensing and inspection fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
360eee–3(c)(1), third-party auditor fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 384d(c)(8), and medical countermeasure priority re-
view voucher user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 360bbb–4a, 
shall be credited to this account, to remain available until 
expended. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For plans, construction, repair, improvement, exten-
sion, alteration, demolition, and purchase of fixed equip-
ment or facilities of or used by the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, where not otherwise provided, $11,788,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
INDEPENDENT AGENCY 
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $68,600,000 (from assessments collected 
from farm credit institutions, including the Federal Agri-
cultural Mortgage Corporation) shall be obligated during 
the current fiscal year for administrative expenses as au-
thorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, That this limita-
tion shall not apply to expenses associated with receiver-
ships: Provided further, That the agency may exceed this 
limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS AND TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, 
appropriations and authorizations made for the Depart-
ment of Agriculture for the current fiscal year under this 
Act shall be available for the purchase, in addition to those 
specifically provided for, of not to exceed 52 passenger 
motor vehicles of which 52 shall be for replacement only, 
and for the hire of such vehicles: Provided, That notwith-
standing this section, the only purchase of new passenger 
vehicles shall be for those determined by the Secretary to 
be necessary for transportation safety, to reduce operational 
costs, and for the protection of life, property, and public 
safety. 
SEC. 702. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobligated 
balances of discretionary funds appropriated by this Act 
or any other available unobligated discretionary balances 
that are remaining available of the Department of Agri-
culture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition of 
plant and capital equipment necessary for the delivery of 
financial, administrative, and information technology serv-
ices of primary benefit to the agencies of the Department 
of Agriculture, such transferred funds to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That none of the funds made 
available by this Act or any other Act shall be transferred 
to the Working Capital Fund without the prior approval 
of the agency administrator: Provided further, That none 
of the funds transferred to the Working Capital Fund pur-
suant to this section shall be available for obligation with-
out written notification to and the prior approval of the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by 
this Act or made available to the Department’s Working 
Capital Fund shall be available for obligation or expendi-
ture to make any changes to the Department’s National Fi-
nance Center without written notification to and prior ap-
proval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress as required by section 717 of this Act: Provided 
further, That of annual income amounts in the Working 
Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture allocated 
for the National Finance Center, the Secretary may reserve 
not more than 4 percent for the replacement or acquisition 
of capital equipment, including equipment for the improve-
ment and implementation of a financial management plan, 
information technology, and other systems of the National 
Finance Center or to pay any unforeseen, extraordinary 
cost of the National Finance Center: Provided further, That 
none of the amounts reserved shall be available for obliga-
tion unless the Secretary submits written notification of the 
obligation to the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress: Provided further, That in addition to 
the funds appropriated or made available in this Act for 
the National Finance Center the Secretary shall make 
available $8,608,000 from unobligated balances of the Work-
ing Capital Fund and unobligated balances and reserves 
of the National Finance Center for travel, information tech-
nology, financial management systems, and related ex-
penses incurred as a result of a February 2017 tornado: 
Provided further, That the limitations on the obligation of 
funds pending notification to Congressional Committees 
shall not apply to any obligation that, as determined by 
the Secretary, is necessary to respond to a declared state 
of emergency that significantly impacts the operations of 
the National Finance Center; or to evacuate employees of 
the National Finance Center to a safe haven to continue 
operations of the National Finance Center.
SEC. 703. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 704. No funds appropriated by this Act may be 
used to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative 
agreements or similar arrangements between the United 
States Department of Agriculture and nonprofit institu-
tions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost of the 
agreement when the purpose of such cooperative arrange-
ments is to carry out programs of mutual interest between 
the two parties. This does not preclude appropriate pay-
ment of indirect costs on grants and contracts with such 
institutions when such indirect costs are computed on a 
similar basis for all agencies for which appropriations are 
provided in this Act. 
SEC. 705. Appropriations to the Department of Agri-
culture for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made 
available in the current fiscal year shall remain available 
until expended to disburse obligations made in the current 
fiscal year for the following accounts: the Rural Develop-
ment Loan Fund program account, the Rural Electrifica-
tion and Telecommunication Loans program account, and 
the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account. 
SEC. 706. None of the funds made available to the De-
partment of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire
new information technology systems or significant up-
grades, as determined by the Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, without the approval of the Chief Information Offi-
cer and the concurrence of the Executive Information Tech-
nology Investment Review Board: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, none of the funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be 
transferred to the Office of the Chief Information Officer 
without written notification to and the prior approval of 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 
11319 of title 40, United States Code, none of the funds 
available to the Department of Agriculture for information 
technology shall be obligated for projects, contracts, or other 
agreements over $25,000 prior to receipt of written ap-
proval by the Chief Information Officer: Provided further, 
That the Chief Information Officer may authorize an agen-
cy to obligate funds without written approval from the 
Chief Information Officer for projects, contracts, or other 
agreements up to $250,000 based upon the performance of 
an agency measured against the performance plan require-
ments described in the explanatory statement accom-
panying Public Law 113–235. 
SEC. 707. Funds made available under section 524(b) 
of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)) in
the current fiscal year shall remain available until ex-
pended to disburse obligations made in the current fiscal 
year. 
SEC. 708. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
any former RUS borrower that has repaid or prepaid an 
insured, direct or guaranteed loan under the Rural Elec-
trification Act of 1936, or any not-for-profit utility that 
is eligible to receive an insured or direct loan under such 
Act, shall be eligible for assistance under section 
313(b)(2)(B) of such Act in the same manner as a borrower 
under such Act. 
SEC. 709. Except as otherwise specifically provided by 
law, not more than $20,000,000 in unobligated balances 
from appropriations made available for salaries and ex-
penses in this Act for the Farm Service Agency shall remain 
available through September 30, 2018, for information tech-
nology expenses: Provided, That except as otherwise specifi-
cally provided by law, unobligated balances from appro-
priations made available for salaries and expenses in this 
Act for the Rural Development mission area shall remain 
available through September 30, 2018, for information tech-
nology expenses. 
SEC. 710. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used for first-class travel 
by the employees of agencies funded by this Act in con-
travention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of 
title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 711. In the case of each program established or 
amended by the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113– 
79), other than by title I or subtitle A of title III of such 
Act, or programs for which indefinite amounts were pro-
vided in that Act, that is authorized or required to be car-
ried out using funds of the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion— 
(1) such funds shall be available for salaries and 
related administrative expenses, including technical 
assistance, associated with the implementation of the 
program, without regard to the limitation on the total 
amount of allotments and fund transfers contained in 
section 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714i); and 
(2) the use of such funds for such purpose shall 
not be considered to be a fund transfer or allotment 
for purposes of applying the limitation on the total 
amount of allotments and fund transfers contained in 
such section. 
SEC. 712. Of the funds made available by this Act, not 
more than $2,000,000 shall be used to cover necessary ex-
penses of activities related to all advisory committees, pan-
els, commissions, and task forces of the Department of Agri-
culture, except for panels used to comply with negotiated 
rule makings and panels used to evaluate competitively 
awarded grants. 
SEC. 713. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to pay indirect costs charged against any agricultural 
research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the 
National Institute of Food and Agriculture that exceed 30 
percent of total Federal funds provided under each award: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 1462 of the Na-
tional Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Pol-
icy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3310), funds provided by this 
Act for grants awarded competitively by the National Insti-
tute of Food and Agriculture shall be available to pay full 
allowable indirect costs for each grant awarded under sec-
tion 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638). 
SEC. 714. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this or any other Act shall be used to 
pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out the 
following: 
(1) The Watershed Rehabilitation program au-
thorized by section 14(h)(1) of the Watershed Protec-
tion and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1012(h)(1)) 
in excess of $9,000,000; 
(2) The Environmental Quality Incentives Pro-
gram as authorized by sections 1240-1240H of the
Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa– 
3839aa–8) in excess of $1,357,000,000: Provided, 
That this limitation shall apply only to funds pro-
vided by section 1241(a)(5)(D) of the Food Security 
Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841(a)(5)(D)); 
(3) The Biomass Crop Assistance Program au-
thorized by section 9011 of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8111) in ex-
cess of $3,000,000 in new obligational authority; 
(4) The Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical and 
Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance program 
as authorized by section 9003 of the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8103) in 
excess of $151,000,000 of the funding made available 
by subsection (g)(1)(A) of that section for all fiscal 
years; and 
(5) A program authorized by section 524(b) of 
the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended (7 
U.S.C. 1524(b)) in excess of $7,000,000 for fiscal year 
2017: 
Provided, 
That 
notwithstanding 
section 
524(b)(4)(C)(i) and 524(b)(4)(C)(iii) this limitation 
shall not apply to funds provided by section 
524(b)(4)(C)(ii). 
SEC. 715. Notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 
14222 of Public Law 110–246 (7 U.S.C. 612c–6; in this
section referred to as ‘‘section 14222’’), none of the funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any 
other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
personnel to carry out a program under section 32 of the 
Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c; in this section re-
ferred to as ‘‘section 32’’) in excess of $886,000,000 (exclu-
sive of carryover appropriations from prior fiscal years), 
as follows: Child Nutrition Programs Entitlement Commod-
ities—$465,000,000; State Option Contracts— $5,000,000; 
Removal of Defective Commodities—$2,500,000; Adminis-
tration of Section 32 Commodity Purchases—$35,440,000: 
Provided, That of the total funds made available in the mat-
ter preceding this proviso that remain unobligated on Octo-
ber 1, 2017, such unobligated balances shall carryover into 
the next fiscal year and shall remain available until ex-
pended for any of the three stated purposes of section 32, 
except that any such carryover funds used in accordance 
with clause (3) of section 32 may not exceed $75,000,000 
and may not be obligated until the Secretary of Agriculture 
provides written notification of the expenditures to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 
at least two weeks in advance: Provided further, That none 
of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act 
shall be used for salaries and expenses to carry out in this 
fiscal year sub-section (i)(1)(E) of section 19 of the Richard
B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769a), 
except in an amount that excludes the transfer of 
$125,000,000 of the funds to be transferred under subsection 
(c) of section 14222, until October 1, 2017: Provided fur-
ther, That $125,000,000 made available on October 1, 2017, 
to carry out such section 19 shall be excluded from the limi-
tation described in subsection (b)(2)(A)(x) of section 14222: 
Provided further, That, with the exception of any available 
carryover funds authorized in the first proviso of this sec-
tion to be used for the purposes of clause (3) of section 32, 
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
by this or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries 
or expenses of any employee of the Department of Agri-
culture or officer of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
carry out clause (3) of section 32, or for any surplus re-
moval activities or price support activities under section 
5 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 
U.S.C. 714c): Provided further, That the available unobli-
gated balances under (b)(2)(A)(ix) of section 14222 in ex-
cess of the limitation set forth in this section, excluding the 
carryover amounts authorized in the first proviso of this 
section for section 32 and the amounts to be transferred 
pursuant to the second proviso of this section, are hereby 
permanently rescinded.
SEC. 716. None of the funds appropriated by this or 
any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses 
of personnel who prepare or submit appropriations lan-
guage as part of the President’s budget submission to the 
Congress for programs under the jurisdiction of the Appro-
priations Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural Develop-
ment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agen-
cies that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction from the 
previous year due to user fees proposals that have not been 
enacted into law prior to the submission of the budget unless 
such budget submission identifies which additional spend-
ing reductions should occur in the event the user fees pro-
posals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening 
of a committee of conference for the fiscal year 2018 appro-
priations Act. 
SEC. 717. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 
or provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies 
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 
expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 
available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be avail-
able for obligation or expenditure through a reprogram-
ming, transfer of funds, or reimbursements as authorized 
by the Economy Act, or in the case of the Department of 
Agriculture, through use of the authority provided by sec-
tion 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act 
of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) or section 8 of Public Law 89– 
106 (7 U.S.C. 2263), that— 
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 
for any project or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted; 
(4) relocates an office or employees; 
(5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or 
(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services (as the case may be) notifies 
in writing and receives approval from the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days 
in advance of the reprogramming of such funds or the use 
of such authority. 
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 
by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by 
this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure 
in the current fiscal year, or provided from any accounts 
in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available 
to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for 
obligation or expenditure for activities, programs, or
projects through a reprogramming or use of the authorities 
referred to in subsection (a) involving funds in excess of 
$500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that— 
(1) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities; 
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 
(3) results from any general savings from a re-
duction in personnel which would result in a change 
in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-
proved by Congress; unless the Secretary of Agri-
culture or the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices (as the case may be) notifies in writing and re-
ceives approval from the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in 
advance of the reprogramming or transfer of such 
funds or the use of such authority. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall notify in writing and 
receive approval from the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress before implementing any program 
or activity not carried out during the previous fiscal year 
unless the program or activity is funded by this Act or spe-
cifically funded by any other Act.
(d) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 
by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by 
this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure 
in the current fiscal year, or provided from any accounts 
in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available 
to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for— 
(1) modifying major capital investments funding 
levels, including information technology systems, that 
involves increasing or decreasing funds in the current 
fiscal year for the individual investment in excess of 
$500,000 or 10 percent of the total cost, whichever is 
less; 
(2) realigning or reorganizing new, current, or 
vacant positions or agency activities or functions to 
establish a center, office, branch, or similar entity 
with five or more personnel; or 
(3) carrying out activities or functions that were 
not described in the budget request; unless the agencies 
funded by this Act notify, in writing, the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 
30 days in advance of using the funds for these pur-
poses. 
(e) As described in this section, no funds may be used 
for any activities unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services receives from the
Committee on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 
written or electronic mail confirmation of receipt of the no-
tification as required in this section. 
SEC. 718. Notwithstanding section 310B(g)(5) of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
1932(g)(5)), the Secretary may assess a one-time fee for any 
guaranteed business and industry loan in an amount that 
does not exceed 3 percent of the guaranteed principal por-
tion of the loan. 
SEC. 719. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the Department of Agriculture, the Food 
and Drug Administration, or the Farm Credit Administra-
tion shall be used to transmit or otherwise make available 
reports, questions, or responses to questions that are a result 
of information requested for the appropriations hearing 
process to any non-Department of Agriculture, non-Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services, or non-Farm Credit 
Administration employee. 
SEC. 720. Unless otherwise authorized by existing law, 
none of the funds provided in this Act, may be used by an 
executive branch agency to produce any prepackaged news 
story intended for broadcast or distribution in the United 
States unless the story includes a clear notification within 
the text or audio of the prepackaged news story that the
prepackaged news story was prepared or funded by that ex-
ecutive branch agency. 
SEC. 721. No employee of the Department of Agri-
culture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or office 
funded by this Act or any other Act to any other agency 
or office of the Department for more than 60 days in a 
fiscal year unless the individual’s employing agency or of-
fice is fully reimbursed by the receiving agency or office 
for the salary and expenses of the employee for the period 
of assignment. 
SEC. 722. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available by this Act and notwithstanding the last sentence 
of 16 U.S.C. 1310, there is appropriated $4,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, to implement non-renewable 
agreements on eligible lands, including flooded agricultural 
lands, as determined by the Secretary, under the Water 
Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301–1311). 
SEC. 723. Not later than 30 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Com-
missioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and the 
Chairman of the Farm Credit Administration shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress a detailed spending plan by program, project, and ac-
tivity for all the funds made available under this Act in-
cluding appropriated user fees, as defined in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
SEC. 724. 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 Secretary, 
are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is received 
by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by food short-
ages and not diverted for unauthorized or inappropriate 
purposes. 
SEC. 725. The Secretary shall establish an inter-
mediary loan packaging program based on the pilot pro-
gram in effect for fiscal year 2013 for packaging and re-
viewing section 502 single family direct loans. The Sec-
retary shall enter into agreements with current inter-
mediary organizations and with additional qualified inter-
mediary organizations. The Secretary shall work with these 
organizations to increase effectiveness of the section 502 sin-
gle family direct loan program in rural communities and 
shall set aside and make available from the national reserve 
section 502 loans an amount necessary to support the work 
of such intermediaries and provide a priority for review 
of such loans. 
SEC. 726. For loans and loan guarantees that do not 
require budget authority and the program level has been
established in this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may 
increase the program level for such loans and loan guaran-
tees by not more than 25 percent: Provided, That prior to 
the Secretary implementing such an increase, the Secretary 
notifies, in writing, the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress at least 15 days in advance. 
SEC. 727. None of the credit card refunds or rebates 
transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to sec-
tion 729 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2002 (7 U.S.C. 2235a; Public Law 107–76) shall 
be available for obligation without written notification to, 
and the prior approval of, the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress: Provided, That the refunds 
or rebates so transferred shall be available for obligation 
only for the acquisition of plant and capital equipment nec-
essary for the delivery of financial, administrative, and in-
formation technology services of primary benefit to the 
agencies of the Department of Agriculture. 
SEC. 728. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to procure processed poultry products im-
ported 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. 729. In response to an eligible community where 
the drinking water supplies are inadequate due to a natural 
disaster, as determined by the Secretary, including drought 
or severe weather, the Secretary may provide potable water 
through the Emergency Community Water Assistance 
Grant Program for an additional period of time not to ex-
ceed 120 days beyond the established period provided under 
the Program in order to protect public health. 
SEC. 730. Funds provided by this or any prior Appro-
priations Act for the Agriculture and Food Research Initia-
tive under 7 U.S.C. 450i(b) shall be made available without 
regard to section 7128 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 
U.S.C. 3371 note), under the matching requirements in 
laws in effect on the date before the date of enactment of 
such section: Provided, That the requirements of 7 U.S.C. 
450i(b)(9) shall continue to apply. 
SEC. 731. There is hereby appropriated $1,996,000 to 
carry out section 1621 of Public Law 110–246. 
SEC. 732. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, acting 
through the Food and Nutrition Service, to commence any
new research and evaluation projects until the Secretary 
submits to the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress a research and evaluation plan for fiscal 
year 2017, prepared in coordination with the Research, 
Education, and Economics mission area of the Department 
of Agriculture, and a period of 30 days beginning on the 
date of the submission of the plan expires to permit Con-
gressional review of the plan. 
SEC. 733. In carrying out subsection (h) of section 502 
of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472), the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall have the same authority with respect 
to loans guaranteed under such section and eligible lenders 
for such loans as the Secretary has under subsections (h) 
and (j) of section 538 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1490p–2) with 
respect to loans guaranteed under such section 538 and eli-
gible lenders for such loans. 
SEC. 734. 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 product 
subject to section 503(b)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 353(b)(1)), to be distributed to 
such professional electronically (in lieu of in paper form)
unless and until a Federal law is enacted to allow or re-
quire such distribution. 
SEC. 735. Any amounts transferred pursuant to sec-
tion 149 of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (divi-
sion C of Public Law 114–223), as amended by the Further 
Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 
2017 (Public Law 114–254), that the Secretary of Agri-
culture determines are not necessary for the cost of direct 
telecommunications loans authorized by section 305 of the 
Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935) shall be 
transferred back to the accounts to which they were origi-
nally appropriated and shall be available for the same pur-
poses as originally appropriated. 
SEC. 736. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowl-
edge receipt of a submission for an exemption for investiga-
tional use of a drug or biological product under section 
505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 
U.S.C. 355(i)) or section 351(a)(3) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)) in research in which a 
human embryo is intentionally created or modified to in-
clude a heritable genetic modification. Any such submission 
shall be deemed to have not been received by the Secretary, 
and the exemption may not go into effect.
SEC. 737. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to carry out the final rule 
promulgated by the Food and Drug Administration and 
put into effect November 16, 2015, in regards to the hazard 
analysis and risk-based preventive control requirements of 
the current good manufacturing practice, hazard analysis, 
and risk-based preventive controls for food for animals rule 
with respect to the regulation of the production, distribu-
tion, sale, or receipt of dried spent grain byproducts of the 
alcoholic beverage production process. 
SEC. 738. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall— 
(1) conduct audits in a manner that evaluates 
the following factors in the country or region being 
audited, as applicable— 
(A) veterinary control and oversight; 
(B) disease history and vaccination prac-
tices; 
(C) livestock demographics and traceability; 
(D) epidemiological separation from poten-
tial sources of infection; 
(E) surveillance practices; 
(F) diagnostic laboratory capabilities; and 
(G) emergency preparedness and response; 
and
(2) promptly make publicly available the final 
reports of any audits or reviews conducted pursuant 
to subsection (1). 
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under its inter-
national trade agreements. 
SEC. 739. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out any activities or incur any 
expense related to the issuance of licenses under section 3 
of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 2133), or the renewal 
of such licenses, to class B dealers who sell dogs and cats 
for use in research, experiments, teaching, or testing. 
SEC. 740. No partially hydrogenated oils as defined 
in the order published by the Food and Drug Administra-
tion in the Federal Register on June 17, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 
34650 et seq.) shall be deemed unsafe within the meaning 
of section 409(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act (21 U.S.C. 348(a)) and no food that is introduced or 
delivered for introduction into interstate commerce that 
bears or contains a partially hydrogenated oil shall be 
deemed 
adulterated 
under 
sections 
402(a)(1) 
or 
402(a)(2)(C)(i) of this Act by virtue of bearing or con-
taining a partially hydrogenated oil until the compliance 
date as specified in such order (June 18, 2018).
SEC. 741. The Secretary may charge a fee for lenders 
to access Department loan guarantee systems in connection 
with such lenders’ participation in loan guarantee pro-
grams of the Rural Housing Service: Provided, That the 
funds collected from such fees shall be made available to 
the Secretary without further appropriation and such funds 
shall be deposited into the Rural Development Salaries and 
Expense Account and shall remain available until expended 
for obligation and expenditure by the Secretary for admin-
istrative expenses of the Rural Housing Service Loan Guar-
antee Program in addition to other available funds: Pro-
vided further, That such fees collected shall not exceed $50 
per loan. 
SEC. 742. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer net-
work unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, 
and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 743. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service—Buildings and Facilities’’,
there is appropriated $47,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, for fruit fly rearing facilities. 
SEC. 744. Beginning on the date of enactment of this 
Act, in fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year hereafter, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, a household cer-
tified to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assist-
ance Program is required to report in a manner prescribed 
by the Secretary if the household no longer resides in the 
State in which it is certified. 
SEC. 745. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 
made available for the special supplemental nutrition pro-
gram as authorized by section 17 of the Child Nutrition 
Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), $850,000,000 are rescinded. 
SEC. 746. (a)(1) No Federal funds made available for 
this fiscal year for the rural water, waste water, waste dis-
posal, and solid waste management programs authorized by 
sections 306, 306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
1926 et seq.) shall be used for a project for the construction, 
alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public water or 
wastewater system unless all of the iron and steel products 
used in the project are produced in the United States. 
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ 
means the following products made primarily of iron or 
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe 
clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, reinforced 
precast concrete, and construction materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory of cases in which the Secretary of Agriculture (in this 
section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee of 
the Secretary finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent 
with the public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-
able quantities or of a satisfactory quality; or 
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced 
in the United States will increase the cost of the over-
all project by more than 25 percent. 
(c) If the Secretary or the designee receives a request 
for a waiver under this section, the Secretary or the designee 
shall make available to the public on an informal basis a 
copy of the request and information available to the Sec-
retary or the designee concerning the request, and shall 
allow for informal public input on the request for at least 
15 days prior to making a finding based on the request. 
The Secretary or the designee shall make the request and 
accompanying information available by electronic means,
including on the official public Internet Web site of the De-
partment. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under international 
agreements. 
(e) The Secretary may retain up to 0.25 percent of 
the funds appropriated in this Act for ‘‘Rural Utilities 
Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Ac-
count’’ for carrying out the provisions described in sub-
section (a)(1) for management and oversight of the require-
ments of this section. 
(f) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 
project for which the engineering plans and specifications 
include use of iron and steel products otherwise prohibited 
by such subsection if the plans and specifications have re-
ceived required approvals from State agencies prior to the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(g) For purposes of this section, the terms ‘‘United 
States’’ and ‘‘State’’ shall include each of the several States, 
the District of Columbia, and each federally recognized In-
dian tribe. 
SEC. 747. (a) For the period beginning on the date 
of enactment of this Act through school year 2017–2018, 
with respect to the school lunch program established under 
the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42
U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) or the school breakfast program estab-
lished under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1771 et seq.) and final regulations published by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in the Federal Register on January 26, 
2012 (77 Fed. Reg. 4088 et seq.), the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall allow States to grant an exemption from the 
whole grain requirements that took effect on or after July 
1, 2014, and the States shall establish a process for evalu-
ating and responding, in a reasonable amount of time, to 
requests for an exemption: Provided, That school food au-
thorities demonstrate hardship, including financial hard-
ship, in procuring specific whole grain products which are 
acceptable to the students and compliant with the whole 
grain-rich requirements: Provided further, That school food 
authorities shall comply with the applicable grain compo-
nent or standard with respect to the school lunch or school 
breakfast program that was in effect prior to July 1, 2014. 
(b) For the period beginning on the date of enactment 
of this Act through school year 2017–2018, none of the funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any 
other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
personnel to implement any regulations under the Richard 
B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et 
seq.), the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et 
seq.), the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public
Law 111–296), or any other law that would require a re-
duction in the quantity of sodium contained in federally 
reimbursed meals, foods, and snacks sold in schools below 
Target 1 (as described in section 220.8(f)(3) of title 7, Code 
of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)). 
(c) For the period beginning on the date of enactment 
of this Act through school year 2017-2018, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the Secretary shall allow States 
to grant special exemptions for the service of flavored, low- 
fat fluid milk in the school lunch program established under 
the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 
U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and the school breakfast program estab-
lished under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1771 et seq.), and as a competitive food available on cam-
pus during the school day, to schools which demonstrate a 
reduction in student milk consumption or an increase in 
school milk waste. 
SEC. 748. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available under this Act to carry out section 27(a)(1) of 
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)(1)) 
for fiscal year 2017, there is appropriated $19,000,000 to 
carry out such section. 
SEC. 749. (a) Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary 
of Agriculture may conduct a pilot program in accordance 
with 
this 
section 
that 
authorizes 
not 
more 
than
$600,000,000 in funds from rural electrification loans made 
by the Federal Financing Bank that are guaranteed under 
section 306 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to be 
used for refinancing debt pursuant to section 306C of such 
Act (including any associated prepayment penalties and 
prepayment or refinance premium), notwithstanding sub-
sections (b) and (c)(4) of section 306C of such Act. 
(b) The Secretary of Agriculture may not provide an 
authorization under subsection (a) to a borrower unless the 
Secretary determines that the refinancing involved will ben-
efit the ratepayers of the borrower. 
(c) The Federal Financing Bank shall make a new 
loan to each borrower refinancing a loan pursuant to this 
section and section 306 of the Rural Electrification Act of 
1936, for the purpose of providing funds for the refinancing, 
which loan shall be obligated from amounts made available 
for rural electrification loans, and the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall guarantee the new loan pursuant to section 
306 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. 
(d) For the cost of refinancing a loan pursuant to this 
section for any borrower identified by the Federal Financ-
ing Bank as having opted since origination of the loan to 
pay an interest rate premium for the eligibility to prepay 
at par, including a borrower paying an interest rate pre-
mium in the near-term for the right to prepay at par start-
ing in 2020, $13,800,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That these funds shall also be available 
for refinancing a loan pursuant to any extension or expan-
sion of this pilot program that is enacted subsequent to this 
Act for those same borrowers. 
(e) The authority for the pilot program provided by 
this section shall remain in effect through September 30, 
2019. 
SEC. 750. Of the total amounts made available by this 
Act for direct loans and grants in the following headings: 
‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insurance Fund 
Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Mutual and 
Self-Help Housing Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service— 
Rural Housing Assistance Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Serv-
ice—Rural Community Facilities Program Account’’; 
‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Business Pro-
gram Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service— 
Rural Economic Development Loans Program Account’’; 
‘‘Rural Business- Cooperative Service—Rural Cooperative 
Development Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural 
Water and Waste Disposal Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Util-
ities Service—Rural Electrification and Telecommuni-
cations Loans Program Account’’; and ‘‘Rural Utilities 
Service—Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband 
Program’’, to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 per-
100 
cent of the new unobligated balances remaining upon enact-
ment shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty 
counties under this section: Provided, That for purposes of 
this section, the term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means 
any county that has had 20 percent or more of its popu-
lation living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured 
by the 1980, 1990, and 2000 decennial censuses, and 2007– 
2011 American Community Survey 5-year average: Pro-
vided further, That with respect to specific activities for 
which program levels have been made available by this Act 
that are not supported by budget authority, the require-
ments of this section shall be applied to such program level. 
SEC. 751. For the purposes of determining eligibility 
or level of program assistance for Rural Development mis-
sion area programs the Secretary shall not include incar-
cerated prison populations. 
SEC. 752. For an additional amount for ‘‘Food and 
Drug Administration—Salaries and Expenses’’ to prevent, 
prepare for, and respond to emerging health threats, includ-
ing the Ebola and Zika viruses, domestically and inter-
nationally and to develop necessary medical counter-
measures and vaccines, including the review, regulation, 
and post market surveillance of vaccines and therapies, and 
for related administrative activities, $10,000,000, to remain 
available until expended.
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SEC. 753. There is hereby appropriated for the ‘‘Emer-
gency Conservation Program’’, $28,651,000, to remain 
available until expended for emergencies not declared as a 
major disaster or emergency under the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5121 et seq.). 
SEC. 754. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 
congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 
matters pending before Congress, other than to commu-
nicate to Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 
1913. 
SEC. 755. In addition to funds appropriated in this 
Act, there is hereby appropriated $134,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, under the heading ‘‘Food for 
Peace Title II Grants’’: Provided, That the funds made 
available under this section shall be used for the purposes 
set forth in the Food for Peace Act for both emergency and 
non-emergency purposes. 
SEC. 756. The Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, 
shall issue final regulations revising the Federal drug regu-
lations (as defined in section 1112(c) of such Act (21 U.S.C. 
360dd note)) with respect to medical gases not later than 
July 15, 2017.
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SEC. 757. For an additional amount for ‘‘Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service—Salaries and Expenses’’, 
$5,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018, 
for one-time control and management and associated activi-
ties directly related to the multiple-agency response to citrus 
greening. 
SEC. 758. The following unobligated balances identi-
fied by the following Treasury Appropriation Fund Sym-
bols are hereby rescinded: 12X1951, $632,928.89; 12X1953, 
$2,420,129.91; 
12X1902, 
$352,323.31; 
12X1900, 
$16,452.44; and 12X1232, $529,310.95: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency or disaster relief 
requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the 
budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985. 
SEC. 759. The unobligated balances resulting from off-
setting collections identified by Treasury Appropriation 
Fund Symbols 12X1951, 12X2002, 12X2006, 12X1902, 
12X1900, 12X1232, and 12X1980, respectively, are hereby 
rescinded: Provided, that no amounts may be rescinded 
from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an 
emergency or disaster relief requirement pursuant to a con-
current resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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SEC. 760. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2018, for a pilot pro-
gram for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for programs 
and services to establish and enhance farming and ranching 
opportunities for military veterans. 
SEC. 761. During fiscal year 2017, the Food and Drug 
Administration (FDA) shall not allow the introduction or 
delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any 
food that contains genetically engineered salmon until FDA 
publishes final labeling guidelines for informing consumers 
of such content. 
SEC. 762. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay the salary or expenses of per-
sonnel— 
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the Fed-
eral Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
(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. 763. The Secretary shall set aside for Rural Eco-
nomic Area Partnership (REAP) Zones, until August 15,
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2017, an amount of funds made available in title III under 
the headings of Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program 
Account, Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants, Rural 
Housing Assistance Grants, Rural Community Facilities 
Program Account, Rural Business Program Account, Rural 
Development Loan Fund Program Account, and Rural 
Water and Waste Disposal Program Account, equal to the 
amount obligated in REAP Zones with respect to funds 
provided under such headings in the most recent fiscal year 
any such funds were obligated under such headings for 
REAP Zones. 
SEC. 764. There is hereby appropriated $600,000 for 
the purposes of section 727 of division A of Public Law 
112–55. 
SEC. 765. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
‘‘variety’’ requirements of the final rule entitled ‘‘Enhanc-
ing Retailer Standards in the Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program (SNAP)’’ published by the Department 
of Agriculture in the Federal Register on December 15, 2016 
(81 Fed. Reg. 90675) until the Secretary of Agriculture 
amends the definition of the term ‘‘variety’’ as de fined in 
section 278.1(b)(1)(ii)(C) of title 7, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, and ‘‘variety’’ as applied in the definition of the term 
‘‘staple food’’ as defined in section 271.2 of title 7, Code
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of Federal Regulations, to increase the number of items that 
qualify as acceptable varieties in each staple food category 
so that the total number of such items in each staple food 
category exceeds the number of such items in each staple 
food category included in the final rule as published on De-
cember 15, 2016: Provided, That until the Secretary pro-
mulgates such regulatory amendments, the Secretary shall 
apply the requirements regarding acceptable varieties and 
breadth of stock to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro-
gram retailers that were in effect on the day before the date 
of the enactment of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public 
Law 113–79). 
SEC. 766. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Food and Drug Administration to 
develop, issue, promote, or advance any regulations appli-
cable to food manufacturers for population-wide sodium re-
duction actions or to develop, issue, promote or advance 
final guidance applicable to food manufacturers for long 
term population-wide sodium reduction actions until the 
date on which a dietary reference intake report with respect 
to sodium is completed. 
SEC. 767. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2018, for the cost of 
loans and grants that is consistent with section 4206 of the 
Agricultural Act of 2014, for necessary expenses of the Sec-
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retary to support projects that provide access to healthy food 
in underserved areas, to create and preserve quality jobs, 
and to revitalize low-income communities. 
SEC. 768. In addition to funds appropriated in this 
Act, there is hereby appropriated $500,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2018, under the heading 
‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’, for develop-
ment of an implementation plan for increasing access to 
education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, 
and mathematics in rural communities through the Dis-
tance Learning and Telemedicine program. 
SEC. 769. There is hereby appropriated $8,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2018, to carry out 
section 6407 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107a). 
SEC. 770. (a) Of the unobligated balances from 
amounts made available in fiscal year 2016 for the Com-
prehensive Loan Accounting System under the heading 
‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’, $8,900,000 
are hereby rescinded. 
(b) For an additional amount for ‘‘Rural Develop-
ment, Salaries and Expenses’’, $8,900,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2018, is provided for Information 
Technology modernization activities.
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SEC. 771. The Secretary shall modify the pilot pro-
gram initiated March 1, 2017, designed to preserve afford-
able rental housing through non-profit transfer or acquisi-
tion of Section 515 properties with expiring mortgages. The 
program will study effective means to transfer Section 515 
properties exiting the program due to mortgage maturity 
to qualified nonprofit organizations to preserve the prop-
erties in the Rural Housing Service multi-family program. 
The Secretary shall— 
(1) Conduct limited research under the authority 
found at section 506(b) of the Housing Act of 1949, 
as amended (41 U.S.C. §1476(b)); 
(2) Track the results and identify ways or incen-
tives to create additional opportunities for nonprofits 
to participate in the preservation of properties; 
(3) Work collaboratively with third-parties to 
address concerns identified on the Department issued 
guidance issued September 16, 2016 titled, ‘‘March 1, 
2017, Pilot Program to Promote Non-Profit Partici-
pation in Transactions to Retain the Section 515 
Portfolio’’ to maximize research benefits and potential 
application; and 
(4) Conduct research for two years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and report the findings
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to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress: 
Provided, That there is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2018, to provide 
grants to qualified non-profit organizations and public 
housing authorities to provide technical assistance, includ-
ing financial and legal services, to RHS multi-family hous-
ing borrowers to facilitate the acquisition of RHS multi- 
family housing properties in areas where the Secretary de-
termines a risk of loss of affordable housing. 
SEC. 772. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture (referred 
to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall carry out a pilot 
program during fiscal year 2017 with respect to the 2016 
crop year for county-level agriculture risk coverage pay-
ments under section 1117(b)(1) of the Agricultural Act of 
2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017(b)(1)), that provides all or some of 
the State Farm Service Agency offices in each State the op-
portunity to provide agricultural producers in the State a 
supplemental payment described in subsection (c) based on 
the alternate calculation method described in subsection (b) 
for 1 or more counties in a State if the office for that State 
determines that the alternate calculation method is nec-
essary to ensure that, to the maximum extent practicable, 
there are not significant yield calculation disparities be-
tween comparable counties in the State.
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(b) The alternate calculation method referred to in sub-
section (a) is a method of calculating the actual yield for 
the 2016 crop year for county-level agriculture risk coverage 
payments under section 1117(b)(1) of the Agricultural Act 
of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017(b)(1)), under which— 
(1) county data of the National Agricultural 
Statistics Service (referred to in this section as 
‘‘NASS data’’) is used for the calculations; 
(2) if there is insufficient NASS data for a coun-
ty (as determined under standards of the Secretary in 
effect as of the date of enactment of this Act) or the 
available NASS data produces a substantially dis-
parate result, the calculation of the county yield is de-
termined using comparable contiguous county NASS 
data as determined by the Farm Service Agency office 
in the applicable State; and 
(3) if there is insufficient NASS data for a com-
parable contiguous county (as determined under 
standards of the Secretary in effect as of the date of 
enactment of this Act), the calculation of the county 
yield is determined using reliable yield data from 
other sources, such as Risk Management Agency data, 
National Agricultural Statistics Service district data, 
National Agricultural Statistics Service State yield
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data, or other data as determined by the Farm Serv-
ice Agency office in the applicable State. 
(c)(1) A supplemental payment made under the pilot 
program established under this section may be made to an 
agricultural producer who is subject to the alternate cal-
culation method described in subsection (b) if that agricul-
tural producer would otherwise receive a county-level agri-
culture risk coverage payment for the 2016 crop year in 
an amount that is less than the payment that the agricul-
tural producer would receive under the alternate calculation 
method. 
(2) The amount of a supplemental payment to an agri-
cultural producer under this section may not exceed the dif-
ference between— 
(A) the payment that the agricultural producer 
would have received without the alternate calculation 
method described in subsection (b); and 
(B) the payment that the agricultural producer 
would receive using the alternate calculation method. 
(d)(1) There is appropriated to the Secretary, out of 
funds of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
$5,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018, 
to carry out the pilot program described in this section.
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(2) Of the funds appropriated, the Secretary shall use 
not more than $5,000,000 to carry out the pilot program 
described in this section. 
(e)(1) To the maximum extent practicable, the Sec-
retary shall select States to participate in the pilot program 
under this section so the cost of the pilot program equals 
the amount provided under subsection (d). 
(2) To the extent that the cost of the pilot program 
exceeds the amount made available, the Secretary shall re-
duce all payments under the pilot program on a pro rata 
basis. 
(f) Nothing in this section affects the calculation of ac-
tual yield for purposes of county-level agriculture risk cov-
erage payments under section 1117(b)(1) of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017(b)(1)) other than payments 
made in accordance with the pilot program under this sec-
tion. 
(g) A calculation of actual yield made using the alter-
nate calculation method described in subsection (b) shall not 
be used as a basis for any agriculture risk coverage payment 
determinations under section 1117 of the Agricultural Act 
of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017) other than for purposes of the pilot 
program under this section. 
SEC. 773. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used—
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(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Agri-
cultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940); or 
(2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, 
sale, or use of industrial hemp that is grown or cul-
tivated in accordance with section 7606 of the Agri-
cultural Act of 2014, within or outside the State in 
which the industrial hemp is grown or cultivated. 
SEC. 774. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
for purposes of applying the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos-
metic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.), the acceptable market 
name of Lithodes aequispinus is ‘‘golden king crab.’’ 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017’’. 
DIVISION 
B—COMMERCE, 
JUSTICE, 
SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES AP-
PROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for international trade activi-
ties of the Department of Commerce provided for by law, 
and for engaging in trade promotional activities abroad, 
including expenses of grants and cooperative agreements for
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the purpose of promoting exports of United States firms, 
without regard to sections 3702 and 3703 of title 44, United 
States Code; full medical coverage for dependent members 
of immediate families of employees stationed overseas and 
employees temporarily posted overseas; travel and transpor-
tation of employees of the International Trade Administra-
tion between two points abroad, without regard to section 
40118 of title 49, United States Code; employment of citi-
zens of the United States and aliens by contract for services; 
rental of space abroad for periods not exceeding 10 years, 
and expenses of alteration, repair, or improvement; pur-
chase or construction of temporary demountable exhibition 
structures for use abroad; payment of tort claims, in the 
manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672 
of title 28, United States Code, when such claims arise in 
foreign countries; not to exceed $294,300 for official rep-
resentation expenses abroad; purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles for official use abroad, not to exceed $45,000 per 
vehicle; obtaining insurance on official motor vehicles; and 
rental of tie lines, $495,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2018, of which $12,000,000 is to be derived 
from fees to be retained and used by the International Trade 
Administration, notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, 
United States Code: Provided, That, of amounts provided 
under this heading, not less than $16,400,000 shall be for
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China antidumping and countervailing duty enforcement 
and compliance activities: Provided further, That the provi-
sions of the first sentence of section 105(f) and all of section 
108(c) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply 
in carrying out these activities; and that for the purpose 
of this Act, contributions under the provisions of the Mutual 
Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 shall in-
clude payment for assessments for services provided as part 
of these activities. 
BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY 
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for export administration and 
national security activities of the Department of Commerce, 
including costs associated with the performance of export 
administration field activities both domestically and 
abroad; full medical coverage for dependent members of im-
mediate families of employees stationed overseas; employ-
ment of citizens of the United States and aliens by contract 
for services abroad; payment of tort claims, in the manner 
authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672 of title 
28, United States Code, when such claims arise in foreign 
countries; not to exceed $13,500 for official representation 
expenses abroad; awards of compensation to informers 
under the Export Administration Act of 1979, and as au-
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thorized by section 1(b) of the Act of June 15, 1917 (40 
Stat. 223; 22 U.S.C. 401(b)); and purchase of passenger 
motor vehicles for official use and motor vehicles for law 
enforcement use with special requirement vehicles eligible 
for purchase without regard to any price limitation other-
wise established by law, $112,500,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the provisions of the first 
sentence of section 105(f) and all of section 108(c) of the 
Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying 
out these activities: Provided further, That payments and 
contributions collected and accepted for materials or serv-
ices provided as part of such activities may be retained for 
use in covering the cost of such activities, and for providing 
information to the public with respect to the export admin-
istration and national security activities of the Department 
of Commerce and other export control programs of the 
United States and other governments. 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 
For grants for economic development assistance as pro-
vided by the Public Works and Economic Development Act 
of 1965, for trade adjustment assistance, and for grants au-
thorized by section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology 
Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722), $237,000,000, to
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remain available until expended, of which $17,000,000 shall 
be for grants under such section 27. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of administering the economic 
development assistance programs as provided for by law, 
$39,000,000: Provided, That these funds may be used to 
monitor projects approved pursuant to title I of the Public 
Works Employment Act of 1976, title II of the Trade Act 
of 1974, section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology In-
novation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722), and the Community 
Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1977. 
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY 
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Department of Commerce 
in fostering, promoting, and developing minority business 
enterprise, including expenses of grants, contracts, and 
other agreements with public or private organizations, 
$34,000,000. 
ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of eco-
nomic and statistical analysis programs of the Department 
of Commerce, $107,300,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2018.
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BUREAU OF THE CENSUS 
CURRENT SURVEYS AND PROGRAMS 
For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, ana-
lyzing, preparing and publishing statistics, provided for by 
law, $270,000,000: Provided, That, from amounts provided 
herein, funds may be used for promotion, outreach, and 
marketing activities: Provided further, That the Bureau of 
the Census shall collect and analyze data for the Annual 
Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Popu-
lation Survey using the same health insurance questions in-
cluded in previous years, in addition to the revised ques-
tions implemented in the Current Population Survey begin-
ning in February 2014. 
PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, ana-
lyzing, preparing and publishing statistics for periodic cen-
suses and programs provided for by law, $1,200,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2018: Provided, 
That, from amounts provided herein, funds may be used 
for promotion, outreach, and marketing activities: Provided 
further, That within the amounts appropriated, $2,580,000 
shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ ac-
count for activities associated with carrying out investiga-
tions and audits related to the Bureau of the Census: Pro-
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vided further, That not more than 50 percent of the amounts 
made available under this heading for information tech-
nology related to 2020 census delivery, including the Census 
Enterprise Data Collection and Processing (CEDCaP) pro-
gram, may be obligated until the Secretary submits to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate a plan for expenditure that: (1) identi-
fies for each CEDCaP project/investment over $25,000: (A) 
the functional and performance capabilities to be delivered 
and the mission benefits to be realized; (B) the estimated 
lifecycle cost, including estimates for development as well 
as maintenance and operations; and (C) key milestones to 
be met; (2) details for each project/investment: (A) reasons 
for any cost and schedule variances; and (B) top risks and 
mitigation strategies; and (3) has been submitted to the 
Government Accountability Office. 
NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION 
ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of the 
National Telecommunications and Information Adminis-
tration (NTIA), $32,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2018: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 1535(d), the Secretary of Commerce shall charge 
Federal agencies for costs incurred in spectrum manage-
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ment, analysis, operations, and related services, and such 
fees shall be retained and used as offsetting collections for 
costs of such spectrum services, to remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That the Secretary of Com-
merce is authorized to retain and use as offsetting collec-
tions all funds transferred, or previously transferred, from 
other Government agencies for all costs incurred in tele-
communications research, engineering, and related activi-
ties by the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of 
NTIA, in furtherance of its assigned functions under this 
paragraph, and such funds received from other Government 
agencies shall remain available until expended. 
PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, PLANNING AND 
CONSTRUCTION 
For the administration of prior-year grants, recoveries 
and unobligated balances of funds previously appropriated 
are available for the administration of all open grants until 
their expiration. 
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office (USPTO) provided for by law, including 
defense of suits instituted against the Under Secretary of 
Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the
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USPTO, $3,230,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the sum herein appropriated from 
the general fund shall be reduced as offsetting collections 
of fees and surcharges assessed and collected by the USPTO 
under any law are received during fiscal year 2017, so as 
to result in a fiscal year 2017 appropriation from the gen-
eral fund estimated at $0: Provided further, That during 
fiscal year 2017, should the total amount of such offsetting 
collections be less than $3,230,000,000 this amount shall be 
reduced accordingly: Provided further, That any amount re-
ceived in excess of $3,230,000,000 in fiscal year 2017 and 
deposited in the Patent and Trademark Fee Reserve Fund 
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That the Director of USPTO shall submit a spending plan 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate for any amounts made available 
by the preceding proviso and such spending plan shall be 
treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this Act 
and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure ex-
cept in compliance with the procedures set forth in that sec-
tion: Provided further, That any amounts reprogrammed 
in accordance with the preceding proviso shall be trans-
ferred to the United States Patent and Trademark Office 
‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account: Provided further, That 
from amounts provided herein, not to exceed $900 shall be
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made available in fiscal year 2017 for official reception and 
representation expenses: Provided further, That in fiscal 
year 2017 from the amounts made available for ‘‘Salaries 
and Expenses’’ for the USPTO, the amounts necessary to 
pay (1) the difference between the percentage of basic pay 
contributed by the USPTO and employees under section 
8334(a) of title 5, United States Code, and the normal cost 
percentage (as defined by section 8331(17) of that title) as 
provided by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for 
USPTO’s specific use, of basic pay, of employees subject to 
subchapter III of chapter 83 of that title, and (2) the present 
value of the otherwise unfunded accruing costs, as deter-
mined by OPM for USPTO’s specific use of post-retirement 
life insurance and post-retirement health benefits coverage 
for all USPTO employees who are enrolled in Federal Em-
ployees Health Benefits (FEHB) and Federal Employees 
Group Life Insurance (FEGLI), shall be transferred to the 
Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, the FEGLI 
Fund, and the FEHB Fund, as appropriate, and shall be 
available for the authorized purposes of those accounts: Pro-
vided further, That any differences between the present 
value factors published in OPM’s yearly 300 series benefit 
letters and the factors that OPM provides for USPTO’s spe-
cific use shall be recognized as an imputed cost on USPTO’s 
financial statements, where applicable: Provided further,
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That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fees 
and surcharges assessed and collected by USPTO are avail-
able for USPTO only pursuant to section 42(c) of title 35, 
United States Code, as amended by section 22 of the Leahy- 
Smith America Invents Act (Public Law 112–29): Provided 
further, That within the amounts appropriated, $2,000,000 
shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ ac-
count for activities associated with carrying out investiga-
tions and audits related to the USPTO. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY 
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology (NIST), $690,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$9,000,000 may be transferred to the ‘‘Working Capital 
Fund’’: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 shall be for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses: Provided fur-
ther, That NIST may provide local transportation for sum-
mer undergraduate research fellowship program partici-
pants. 
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES 
For necessary expenses for industrial technology serv-
ices, $155,000,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $130,000,000 shall be for the Hollings Manufacturing
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Extension Partnership, and of which $25,000,000 shall be 
for the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation: 
Provided, That of the amount provided under this heading, 
$2,000,000 shall be derived from recoveries of prior year 
obligations. 
CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES 
For construction of new research facilities, including 
architectural and engineering design, and for renovation 
and maintenance of existing facilities, not otherwise pro-
vided for the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology, as authorized by sections 13 through 15 of the Na-
tional Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 
U.S.C. 278c–278e), $109,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce shall 
include in the budget justification materials that the Sec-
retary submits to Congress in support of the Department 
of Commerce budget (as submitted with the budget of the 
President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
Code) an estimate for each National Institute of Standards 
and Technology construction project having a total multi- 
year program cost of more than $5,000,000, and simulta-
neously the budget justification materials shall include an 
estimate of the budgetary requirements for each such project 
for each of the 5 subsequent fiscal years.
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NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of activities authorized by law 
for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
including maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft and 
vessels; grants, contracts, or other payments to nonprofit 
organizations for the purposes of conducting activities pur-
suant to cooperative agreements; and relocation of facilities, 
$3,367,875,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2018, except that funds provided for cooperative enforce-
ment shall remain available until September 30, 2019: Pro-
vided, That fees and donations received by the National 
Ocean Service for the management of national marine sanc-
tuaries may be retained and used for the salaries and ex-
penses associated with those activities, notwithstanding sec-
tion 3302 of title 31, United States Code: Provided further, 
That in addition, $130,164,000 shall be derived by transfer 
from the fund entitled ‘‘Promote and Develop Fishery Prod-
ucts and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries’’, 
which shall only be used for fishery activities related to the 
Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program, Cooperative Research, 
Annual Stock Assessments, Survey and Monitoring 
Projects, Interjurisdictional Fisheries Grants, and Fish In-
formation Networks: Provided further, That of the
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$3,515,539,000 provided for in direct obligations under this 
heading, $3,367,875,000 is appropriated from the general 
fund, $130,164,000 is provided by transfer and $17,500,000 
is derived from recoveries of prior year obligations: Pro-
vided further, That the total amount available for National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration corporate services 
administrative support costs shall not exceed $228,440,000: 
Provided further, That any deviation from the amounts des-
ignated for specific activities in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A 
of this consolidated Act), or any use of deobligated balances 
of funds provided under this heading in previous years, 
shall be subject to the procedures set forth in section 505 
of this Act: Provided further, That in addition, for nec-
essary retired pay expenses under the Retired Serviceman’s 
Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plan, and for 
payments for the medical care of retired personnel and their 
dependents under the Dependents’ Medical Care Act (10 
U.S.C. ch. 55), such sums as may be necessary. 
PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For procurement, acquisition and construction of cap-
ital assets, including alteration and modification costs, of 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
$2,242,610,000, to remain available until September 30,
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2019, except that funds provided for acquisition and con-
struction of vessels and construction of facilities shall re-
main available until expended: Provided, That of the 
$2,255,610,000 provided for in direct obligations under this 
heading, $2,242,610,000 is appropriated from the general 
fund and $13,000,000 is provided from recoveries of prior 
year obligations: Provided further, That any deviation from 
the amounts designated for specific activities in the explan-
atory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act), or any use of 
deobligated balances of funds provided under this heading 
in previous years, shall be subject to the procedures set forth 
in section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary of Commerce shall include in budget justification 
materials that the Secretary submits to Congress in support 
of the Department of Commerce budget (as submitted with 
the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 
31, United States Code) an estimate for each National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Administration procurement, acqui-
sition or construction project having a total of more than 
$5,000,000 and simultaneously the budget justification 
shall include an estimate of the budgetary requirements for 
each such project for each of the 5 subsequent fiscal years: 
Provided further, That, within the amounts appropriated, 
$1,302,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector
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General’’ account for activities associated with carrying out 
investigations and audits related to satellite procurement, 
acquisition and construction. 
PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY 
For necessary expenses associated with the restoration 
of Pacific salmon populations, $65,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2018: Provided, That, of the 
funds provided herein, the Secretary of Commerce may 
issue grants to the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, 
Nevada, California, and Alaska, and to the Federally recog-
nized tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast (in-
cluding Alaska), for projects necessary for conservation of 
salmon and steelhead populations that are listed as threat-
ened or endangered, or that are identified by a State as 
at-risk to be so listed, for maintaining populations nec-
essary for exercise of tribal treaty fishing rights or native 
subsistence fishing, or for conservation of Pacific coastal 
salmon and steelhead habitat, based on guidelines to be de-
veloped by the Secretary of Commerce: Provided further, 
That all funds shall be allocated based on scientific and 
other merit principles and shall not be available for mar-
keting activities: Provided further, That funds disbursed to 
States shall be subject to a matching requirement of funds 
or documented in-kind contributions of at least 33 percent 
of the Federal funds.
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FISHERMEN’S CONTINGENCY FUND 
For carrying out the provisions of title IV of Public 
Law 95–372, not to exceed $350,000, to be derived from re-
ceipts collected pursuant to that Act, to remain available 
until expended. 
FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974, during fiscal year 2017, obligations of direct loans 
may not exceed $24,000,000 for Individual Fishing Quota 
loans and not to exceed $100,000,000 for traditional direct 
loans as authorized by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the management of the De-
partment of Commerce provided for by law, including not 
to exceed $4,500 for official reception and representation, 
$58,000,000: Provided, That within amounts provided, the 
Secretary of Commerce may use up to $2,500,000 to engage 
in activities to provide businesses and communities with 
information about and referrals to relevant Federal, State, 
and local government programs. 
RENOVATION AND MODERNIZATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for the renovation and mod-
ernization of the Herbert C. Hoover Building, including se-
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curity-related costs, $4,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce may 
transfer up to $8,224,000 to this account from funds avail-
able to the Department of Commerce: Provided further, That 
the transfer authority provided in the first proviso is in 
addition to any other transfer authority contained in this 
Act: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to the 
authority provided under this heading shall be treated as 
a reprogramming under section 505 of this Act and shall 
not be available for obligation or expenditure except in com-
pliance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), $32,744,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. During the current fiscal year, applicable 
appropriations and funds made available to the Depart-
ment of Commerce by this Act shall be available for the 
activities specified in the Act of October 26, 1949 (15 U.S.C. 
1514), to the extent and in the manner prescribed by the 
Act, and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3324, may be used for 
advanced payments not otherwise authorized only upon the
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certification of officials designated by the Secretary of Com-
merce that such payments are in the public interest. 
SEC. 102. During the current fiscal year, appropria-
tions made available to the Department of Commerce by 
this Act for salaries and expenses shall be available for hire 
of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 
and 1344; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and uni-
forms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902). 
SEC. 103. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation 
made available for the current fiscal year for the Depart-
ment of Commerce in this Act may be transferred between 
such appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be in-
creased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Pro-
vided, That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be 
treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of 
this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expendi-
ture except in compliance with the procedures set forth in 
that section: Provided further, That the Secretary of Com-
merce shall notify the Committees on Appropriations at 
least 15 days in advance of the acquisition or disposal of 
any capital asset (including land, structures, and equip-
ment) not specifically provided for in this Act or any other 
law appropriating funds for the Department of Commerce.
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SEC. 104. The requirements set forth by section 105 
of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55), as amend-
ed by section 105 of title I of division B of Public Law 
113–6, are hereby adopted by reference and made applicable 
with respect to fiscal year 2017: Provided, That the life 
cycle cost for the Joint Polar Satellite System is 
$11,322,125,000 and the life cycle cost for the Geostationary 
Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series Program is 
$10,828,059,000. 
SEC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary may furnish services (including but not lim-
ited to utilities, telecommunications, and security services) 
necessary to support the operation, maintenance, and im-
provement of space that persons, firms, or organizations are 
authorized, pursuant to the Public Buildings Cooperative 
Use Act of 1976 or other authority, to use or occupy in 
the Herbert C. Hoover Building, Washington, DC, or other 
buildings, the maintenance, operation, and protection of 
which has been delegated to the Secretary from the Adminis-
trator of General Services pursuant to the Federal Property 
and Administrative Services Act of 1949 on a reimbursable 
or non-reimbursable basis. Amounts received as reimburse-
ment for services provided under this section or the author-
ity under which the use or occupancy of the space is author-
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ized, up to $200,000, shall be credited to the appropriation 
or fund which initially bears the costs of such services. 
SEC. 106. Nothing in this title shall be construed to 
prevent a grant recipient from deterring child pornography, 
copyright infringement, or any other unlawful activity over 
its networks. 
SEC. 107. The Administrator of the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration is authorized to use, with 
their consent, with reimbursement and subject to the limits 
of available appropriations, the land, services, equipment, 
personnel, and facilities of any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States, or of any State, local 
government, Indian tribal government, Territory, or posses-
sion, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of any for-
eign government or international organization, for purposes 
related to carrying out the responsibilities of any statute 
administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration. 
SEC. 108. The National Technical Information Service 
shall not charge any customer for a copy of any report or 
document generated by the Legislative Branch unless the 
Service has provided information to the customer on how 
an electronic copy of such report or document may be 
accessed and downloaded for free online. Should a customer 
still require the Service to provide a printed or digital copy
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of the report or document, the charge shall be limited to 
recovering the Service’s cost of processing, reproducing, and 
delivering such report or document. 
SEC. 109. The Secretary of Commerce may waive the 
requirement for bonds under 40 U.S.C. 3131 with respect 
to contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of ves-
sels, regardless of the terms of the contracts as to payment 
or title, when the contract is made under the Coast and 
Geodetic Survey Act of 1947 (33 U.S.C. 883a et seq.). 
SEC. 110. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this or any other Act, with respect to 
any fiscal year, may be used in contravention of section 
110 of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114–113). 
SEC. 111. To carry out the responsibilities of the Na-
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
the Administrator of NOAA is authorized to: (1) enter into 
grants and cooperative agreements with; (2) use on a non- 
reimbursable basis land, services, equipment, personnel, and 
facilities provided by; and (3) receive and expend funds 
made available on a consensual basis from: a Federal agen-
cy, State or subdivision thereof, local government, tribal 
government, territory, or possession or any subdivisions 
thereof: Provided, That funds received for permitting and 
related regulatory activities pursuant to this section shall
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be deposited under the heading ‘‘National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration—Operations, Research, and Fa-
cilities’’ and shall remain available until September 30, 
2019, for such purposes: Provided further, That all funds 
within this section and their corresponding uses are subject 
to section 505 of this Act. 
SEC. 112. Amounts provided by this Act or by any 
prior appropriations Act that remain available for obliga-
tion, for necessary expenses of the programs of the Econom-
ics and Statistics Administration of the Department of 
Commerce, including amounts provided for programs of the 
Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau, 
shall be available for expenses of cooperative agreements 
with appropriate entities, including any Federal, State, or 
local governmental unit, or institution of higher education, 
to aid and promote statistical, research, and methodology 
activities which further the purposes for which such 
amounts have been made available. 
SEC. 113. For fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, no person shall conduct any research, explo-
ration, salvage, or other activity that would physically alter 
or disturb the wreck or wreck site of the RMS Titanic unless 
authorized by the Secretary of Commerce per the provisions 
of the Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel RMS 
Titanic. The Secretary of Commerce shall take appropriate
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actions to carry out this section consistent with the Agree-
ment. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Com-
merce Appropriations Act, 2017’’. 
TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the administration of the 
Department of Justice, $114,124,000, of which not to exceed 
$4,000,000 for security and construction of Department of 
Justice facilities shall remain available until expended. 
JUSTICE INFORMATION SHARING TECHNOLOGY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for information sharing tech-
nology, including planning, development, deployment and 
departmental direction, $31,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the Attorney General may 
transfer up to $35,400,000 to this account, from funds 
available to the Department of Justice for information tech-
nology, to remain available until expended, for enterprise- 
wide information technology initiatives: Provided further, 
That the transfer authority in the preceding proviso is in 
addition to any other transfer authority contained in this 
Act: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to the
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first proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming under sec-
tion 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set 
forth in that section. 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the administration of immi-
gration-related activities of the Executive Office for Immi-
gration Review, $440,000,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be 
derived by transfer from the Executive Office for Immigra-
tion Review fees deposited in the ‘‘Immigration Examina-
tions Fee’’ account: Provided, That not to exceed 
$15,000,000 of the total amount made available under this 
heading shall remain available until expended: Provided 
further, That any unobligated balances available from funds 
appropriated for the Executive Office for Immigration Re-
view under the heading ‘‘General Administration, Adminis-
trative Review and Appeals’’ shall be transferred to and 
merged with the appropriation under this heading. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral, $95,583,000, including not to exceed $10,000 to meet 
unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character.
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UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Parole 
Commission as authorized, $13,308,000: Provided, That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the expi-
ration of a term of office of a Commissioner, the Commis-
sioner may continue to act until a successor has been ap-
pointed. 
LEGAL ACTIVITIES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES 
For expenses necessary for the legal activities of the 
Department of Justice, not otherwise provided for, includ-
ing not to exceed $20,000 for expenses of collecting evidence, 
to be expended under the direction of, and to be accounted 
for solely under the certificate of, the Attorney General; the 
administration of pardon and clemency petitions; and rent 
of private or Government-owned space in the District of Co-
lumbia, $897,500,000, of which not to exceed $20,000,000 
for litigation support contracts shall remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the amount provided for 
INTERPOL Washington dues payments, not to exceed 
$685,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided 
further, That of the total amount appropriated, not to ex-
ceed $9,000 shall be available to INTERPOL Washington 
for official reception and representation expenses: Provided
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further, That notwithstanding section 205 of this Act, upon 
a determination by the Attorney General that emergent cir-
cumstances require additional funding for litigation activi-
ties of the Civil Division, the Attorney General may trans-
fer such amounts to ‘‘Salaries and Expenses, General Legal 
Activities’’ from available appropriations for the current 
fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as may be nec-
essary to respond to such circumstances: Provided further, 
That any transfer pursuant to the preceding proviso shall 
be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this 
Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure 
except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that 
section: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated, 
such sums as may be necessary shall be available to the 
Civil Rights Division for salaries and expenses associated 
with the election monitoring program under section 8 of 
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10305) and to 
reimburse the Office of Personnel Management for such sal-
aries and expenses: Provided further, That of the amounts 
provided under this heading for the election monitoring 
program, $3,390,000 shall remain available until expended. 
In addition, for reimbursement of expenses of the De-
partment of Justice associated with processing cases under 
the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, not to
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exceed $10,000,000, to be appropriated from the Vaccine In-
jury Compensation Trust Fund. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ANTITRUST DIVISION 
For expenses necessary for the enforcement of antitrust 
and kindred laws, $164,977,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, fees collected for premerger notification filings 
under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act 
of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), regardless of the year of collection 
(and estimated to be $125,000,000 in fiscal year 2017), 
shall be retained and used for necessary expenses in this 
appropriation, and shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from 
the general fund shall be reduced as such offsetting collec-
tions are received during fiscal year 2017, so as to result 
in a final fiscal year 2017 appropriation from the general 
fund estimated at $39,977,000. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS 
For necessary expenses of the Offices of the United 
States Attorneys, including inter-governmental and cooper-
ative agreements, $2,035,000,000: Provided, That of the 
total amount appropriated, not to exceed $7,200 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $25,000,000 shall re-
main available until expended: Provided further, That each
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United States Attorney shall establish or participate in a 
task force on human trafficking. 
UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND 
For necessary expenses of the United States Trustee 
Program, as authorized, $225,908,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, deposits to the United States Trustee Sys-
tem Fund and amounts herein appropriated shall be avail-
able in such amounts as may be necessary to pay refunds 
due depositors: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, fees collected pursuant to section 
589a(b) of title 28, United States Code, shall be retained 
and used for necessary expenses in this appropriation and 
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That to the extent that fees collected in fiscal year 2017, 
net of amounts necessary to pay refunds due depositors, ex-
ceed $225,908,000, those excess amounts shall be available 
in future fiscal years only to the extent provided in advance 
in appropriations Acts: Provided further, That the sum 
herein appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced 
(1) as such fees are received during fiscal year 2017, net 
of amounts necessary to pay refunds due depositors, (esti-
mated at $163,000,000) and (2) to the extent that any re-
maining general fund appropriations can be derived from 
amounts deposited in the Fund in previous fiscal years that
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are not otherwise appropriated, so as to result in a final 
fiscal year 2017 appropriation from the general fund esti-
mated at $62,908,000. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT 
COMMISSION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of 
the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, including serv-
ices as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, $2,374,000. 
FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES 
For fees and expenses of witnesses, for expenses of con-
tracts for the procurement and supervision of expert wit-
nesses, for private counsel expenses, including advances, 
and for expenses of foreign counsel, $270,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which not to exceed $16,000,000 
is for construction of buildings for protected witness 
safesites; not to exceed $3,000,000 is for the purchase and 
maintenance of armored and other vehicles for witness secu-
rity caravans; and not to exceed $13,000,000 is for the pur-
chase, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of secure 
telecommunications equipment and a secure automated in-
formation network to store and retrieve the identities and 
locations of protected witnesses: Provided, That amounts 
made available under this heading may not be transferred 
pursuant to section 205 of this Act.
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES, COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Community Relations 
Service, $15,500,000: Provided, That notwithstanding sec-
tion 205 of this Act, upon a determination by the Attorney 
General that emergent circumstances require additional 
funding for conflict resolution and violence prevention ac-
tivities of the Community Relations Service, the Attorney 
General may transfer such amounts to the Community Re-
lations Service, from available appropriations for the cur-
rent fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as may be 
necessary to respond to such circumstances: Provided fur-
ther, That any transfer pursuant to the preceding proviso 
shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of 
this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expendi-
ture except in compliance with the procedures set forth in 
that section. 
ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND 
For expenses authorized by subparagraphs (B), (F), 
and (G) of section 524(c)(1) of title 28, United States Code, 
$20,514,000, to be derived from the Department of Justice 
Assets Forfeiture Fund.
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UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Marshals 
Service, $1,249,040,000, of which not to exceed $6,000 shall 
be available for official reception and representation ex-
penses, and not to exceed $15,000,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction in space controlled, occupied or uti-
lized by the United States Marshals Service for prisoner 
holding and related support, $10,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
FEDERAL PRISONER DETENTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses related to United States pris-
oners in the custody of the United States Marshals Service 
as authorized by section 4013 of title 18, United States 
Code, $1,454,414,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That not to exceed $20,000,000 shall be considered 
‘‘funds appropriated for State and local law enforcement 
assistance’’ pursuant to section 4013(b) of title 18, United 
States Code: Provided further, That the United States Mar-
shals Service shall be responsible for managing the Justice 
Prisoner and Alien Transportation System: Provided fur-
ther, That any unobligated balances available from funds
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appropriated under the heading ‘‘General Administration, 
Detention Trustee’’ shall be transferred to and merged with 
the appropriation under this heading. 
NATIONAL SECURITY DIVISION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of 
the National Security Division, $96,000,000, of which not 
to exceed $5,000,000 for information technology systems 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That not-
withstanding section 205 of this Act, upon a determination 
by the Attorney General that emergent circumstances re-
quire additional funding for the activities of the National 
Security Division, the Attorney General may transfer such 
amounts to this heading from available appropriations for 
the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as 
may be necessary to respond to such circumstances: Pro-
vided further, That any transfer pursuant to the preceding 
proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 
505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set 
forth in that section.
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INTERAGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT 
INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT 
For necessary expenses for the identification, inves-
tigation, and prosecution of individuals associated with the 
most 
significant 
drug 
trafficking 
organizations, 
transnational organized crime, and money laundering or-
ganizations not otherwise provided for, to include inter-gov-
ernmental agreements with State and local law enforcement 
agencies engaged in the investigation and prosecution of in-
dividuals involved in transnational organized crime and 
drug trafficking, $517,000,000, of which $50,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended: Provided, That any 
amounts obligated from appropriations under this heading 
may be used under authorities available to the organiza-
tions reimbursed from this appropriation. 
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation for detection, investigation, and prosecution of 
crimes against the United States, $8,767,201,000, of which 
not to exceed $285,882,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That not to exceed $184,500 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses: 
Provided further, That in addition to other funds provided 
for Construction projects, the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
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tion may use up to $68,982,000 under this heading for all 
costs related to construction, conversion, modification and 
extension of federally owned and leased space; preliminary 
planning and design of projects; and operation and mainte-
nance of secure work environment facilities and secure net-
working capabilities. 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses, to include the cost of equip-
ment, furniture, and information technology requirements, 
related to construction or acquisition of buildings, facilities 
and sites by purchase, or as otherwise authorized by law; 
conversion, modification and extension of federally owned 
buildings; preliminary planning and design of projects; and 
operation and maintenance of secure work environment fa-
cilities and secure networking capabilities; $420,178,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $181,000,000 
shall be derived by transfer from the Department of Jus-
tice’s Working Capital Fund: Provided, That $323,000,000 
shall be for the new Federal Bureau of Investigation consoli-
dated headquarters facility in the National Capital Region. 
DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration, including not to exceed $70,000 to meet un-
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foreseen emergencies of a confidential character pursuant 
to section 530C of title 28, United States Code; and expenses 
for conducting drug education and training programs, in-
cluding travel and related expenses for participants in such 
programs and the distribution of items of token value that 
promote the goals of such programs, $2,102,976,000, of 
which not to exceed $75,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended and not to exceed $90,000 shall be available 
for official reception and representation expenses. 
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND 
EXPLOSIVES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco, Firearms and Explosives, for training of State and 
local law enforcement agencies with or without reimburse-
ment, including training in connection with the training 
and acquisition of canines for explosives and fire 
accelerants detection; and for provision of laboratory assist-
ance to State and local law enforcement agencies, with or 
without reimbursement, $1,258,600,000, of which not to ex-
ceed $36,000 shall be for official reception and representa-
tion expenses, not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available 
for the payment of attorneys’ fees as provided by section 
924(d)(2) of title 18, United States Code, and not to exceed 
$20,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Pro-
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vided, That none of the funds appropriated herein shall be 
available to investigate or act upon applications for relief 
from Federal firearms disabilities under section 925(c) of 
title 18, United States Code: Provided further, That such 
funds shall be available to investigate and act upon appli-
cations filed by corporations for relief from Federal fire-
arms disabilities under section 925(c) of title 18, United 
States Code: Provided further, That no funds made avail-
able by this or any other Act may be used to transfer the 
functions, missions, or activities of the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to other agencies or De-
partments. 
FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Prison System 
for the administration, operation, and maintenance of Fed-
eral penal and correctional institutions, and for the provi-
sion of technical assistance and advice on corrections re-
lated issues to foreign governments, $7,008,800,000: Pro-
vided, That the Attorney General may transfer to the De-
partment of Health and Human Services such amounts as 
may be necessary for direct expenditures by that Depart-
ment for medical relief for inmates of Federal penal and 
correctional institutions: Provided further, That the Direc-
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tor of the Federal Prison System, where necessary, may 
enter into contracts with a fiscal agent or fiscal inter-
mediary claims processor to determine the amounts payable 
to persons who, on behalf of the Federal Prison System, fur-
nish health services to individuals committed to the custody 
of the Federal Prison System: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $5,400 shall be available for official reception and 
representation expenses: Provided further, That not to ex-
ceed $50,000,000 shall remain available for necessary oper-
ations until September 30, 2018: Provided further, That, 
of the amounts provided for contract confinement, not to 
exceed $20,000,000 shall remain available until expended 
to make payments in advance for grants, contracts and re-
imbursable agreements, and other expenses: Provided fur-
ther, That the Director of the Federal Prison System may 
accept donated property and services relating to the oper-
ation of the prison card program from a not-for-profit enti-
ty which has operated such program in the past, notwith-
standing the fact that such not-for-profit entity furnishes 
services under contracts to the Federal Prison System relat-
ing to the operation of pre-release services, halfway houses, 
or other custodial facilities. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For planning, acquisition of sites and construction of 
new facilities; purchase and acquisition of facilities and re-
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modeling, and equipping of such facilities for penal and 
correctional use, including all necessary expenses incident 
thereto, by contract or force account; and constructing, re-
modeling, and equipping necessary buildings and facilities 
at existing penal and correctional institutions, including 
all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or force 
account, $130,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which $50,000,000 shall be available only for costs related 
to construction of new facilities: Provided, That labor of 
United States prisoners may be used for work performed 
under this appropriation. 
FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED 
The Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, is hereby 
authorized to make such expenditures within the limits of 
funds and borrowing authority available, and in accord 
with the law, and to make such contracts and commitments 
without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by sec-
tion 9104 of title 31, United States Code, as may be nec-
essary in carrying out the program set forth in the budget 
for the current fiscal year for such corporation. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL 
PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED 
Not to exceed $2,700,000 of the funds of the Federal 
Prison Industries, Incorporated, shall be available for its 
administrative expenses, and for services as authorized by