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cy and the Rural Development mission area, shall remain 
available through September 30, 2013, for information tech-
nology expenses. 
SEC. 712. The Secretary of Agriculture may authorize 
a State agency to use funds provided in this Act to exceed 
the maximum amount of liquid infant formula specified in 
7 C.F.R. 246.10 when issuing liquid infant formula to par-
ticipants. 
SEC. 713. 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 30 days unless 
the individual’s employing agency or office is fully reim-
bursed by the receiving agency or office for the salary and 
expenses of the employee for the period of assignment. 
SEC. 714. In the case of each program established or 
amended by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
2008 (Public Law 110–246), other than by title I or subtitle 
A of title III of such Act, or programs for which indefinite 
amounts were provided in that Act that is authorized or 
required to be carried out using funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation— 
(1) such funds shall be available for salaries and 
related administrative expenses, including technical 
assistance, associated with the implementation of the
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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. 715. Funds provided by this Act may be used 
notwithstanding the requirements of 7 U.S.C. 1736f(e)(1). 
SEC. 716. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to close or relocate a Rural 
Development office unless or until the Secretary of Agri-
culture determines the cost effectiveness and/or enhancement 
of program delivery: Provided, That not later than 120 days 
before the date of the proposed closure or relocation, the Sec-
retary notifies in writing the Committees on Appropriation 
of the House and Senate, and the members of Congress from 
the State in which the office is located of the proposed clo-
sure or relocation and provides a report that describes the 
justifications for such closures and relocations. 
SEC. 717. Appropriations to the Department of Agri-
culture made available in fiscal years 2005, 2006, and 2007 
to carry out section 601 of the Rural Electrification Act
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of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950bb) for the cost of direct loans shall 
remain available until expended to disburse valid obliga-
tions. 
SEC. 718. None of the funds made available in fiscal 
year 2012 or preceding fiscal years for programs authorized 
under the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) in 
excess of $20,000,000 shall be used to reimburse the Com-
modity Credit Corporation for the release of eligible com-
modities under section 302(f)(2)(A) of the Bill Emerson 
Humanitarian Trust Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f–1): Provided, 
That any such funds made available to reimburse the Com-
modity Credit Corporation shall only be used pursuant to 
section 302(b)(2)(B)(i) of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian 
Trust Act. 
SEC. 719. Of the funds made available by this Act, not 
more than $1,800,000 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. 720. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
school food authorities which received a grant for equipment 
assistance under the grant program carried out pursuant 
to the heading ‘‘Food and Nutrition Service Child Nutrition
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Programs’’ in title I of division A of the American Recovery 
and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5) shall 
be eligible to receive a grant under section 749 (j) of the 
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 
(Public Law 111–80). 
SEC. 721. There is hereby appropriated $1,996,000 to 
carry out section 1621 of Public Law 110–246. 
SEC. 722. There is hereby appropriated $600,000 to 
the Farm Service Agency to carry out a pilot program to 
demonstrate the use of new technologies that increase the 
rate of growth of re-forested hardwood trees on private non- 
industrial forests lands, enrolling lands on the coast of the 
Gulf of Mexico that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina 
in 2005. 
SEC. 723. (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 of the United States derived by 
the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this 
Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through 
a reprogramming of funds, 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
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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) no-
tifies, in writing, the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in ad-
vance 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 of the United States derived by the collec-
tion of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, 
shall be available for obligation or expenditure for activi-
ties, programs, or projects through a reprogramming or use
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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, the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress at least 30 days in advance of the reprogram-
ming 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 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 specifically funded by any 
other Act.
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(d) 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 in writ-
ing from the Committee on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress confirmation of receipt of the notification re-
quired in this section. 
SEC. 724. 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 of the United States for programs under the juris-
diction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects 
a reduction from the previous year due to user fees pro-
posals that have not been enacted into law prior to the sub-
mission of the Budget unless such Budget submission identi-
fies which additional spending reductions should occur in 
the event the user fees proposals are not enacted prior to 
the date of the convening of a committee of conference for 
the fiscal year 2013 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 725. The Secretary may reserve, through April 
1, 2012, up to 5 percent of the funding available for the 
following items for projects in areas that are engaged in 
strategic regional development planning as defined by the
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Secretary: business and industry guaranteed loans; rural 
development loan fund; rural business enterprise grants; 
rural business opportunity grants; rural economic develop-
ment program; rural microenterprise program; biorefinery 
assistance program; rural energy for America program; 
value-added producer grants; broadband program; water 
and waste program; and rural community facilities pro-
gram 
SEC. 726. 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 Conservation Stewardship Program au-
thorized by sections 1238D–1238G of the Food Secu-
rity of Act 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3838d–3838g) in excess 
of $809,000,000; 
(2) The Watershed Rehabilitation program au-
thorized by section 14(h) of the Watershed Protection 
and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1012(h)); 
(3) 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 $1,400,000,000: Provided, 
That up to $20,000,000 of the funds made available 
for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program as
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authorized by sections 1240–1240H of the Food Secu-
rity Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa–3839aa(8)) may 
be transferred to a program as authorized by 16 
U.S.C. 1301–1311 to enroll agricultural lands that 
experienced significant flooding, as determined by the 
Secretary, in calendar year 2011: Provided further, 
That no more than $10,000,000 may be used for 
agreements entered into with owners or operators in 
any one State; 
(4) The Farmland Protection Program as au-
thorized by section 1238I of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3838i) in excess of $150,000,000; 
(5) The Grassland Reserve Program as author-
ized by sections 1238O–1238Q of the Food Security 
Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3838o–3838q) in excess of 
140,907 acres in fiscal year 2012; 
(6) The Wetlands Reserve Program authorized by 
sections 1237–1237F of the Food Security Act of 1985 
(16 U.S.C. 3837–3837f) to enroll in excess of 185,800 
acres in fiscal year 2012; 
(7) The Wildlife Habitat Incentives Act author-
ized by section 1240N of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb–1)) in excess of $50,000,000;
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(8) The Voluntary Public Access and Habitat In-
centives Program authorized by section 1240R of the 
Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb–5); 
(9) The Bioenergy Program for Advanced 
Biofuels authorized by section 9005 of the Farm Secu-
rity and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 
8105) in excess of $75,000,000; 
(10) The Rural Energy for America Program 
authorized by section 9007 of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107) in ex-
cess of $34,000,000; 
(11) Section 508(d)(3) of the Federal Crop In-
surance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(d)(3)) to provide a per-
formance-based premium discount in the crop insur-
ance program; 
(12) Agricultural Management Assistance Pro-
gram as authorized by section 524 of the Federal 
Crop Insurance Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1524) in 
excess of $2,500,000 for the Natural Resources Con-
servation Service; and 
(13) A program under subsection (b)(2)(A)(iv) of 
section 14222 of Public Law 110–246 in excess of 
$948,000,000, as follows: Child Nutrition Programs 
Entitlement Commodities—$465,000,000; State Op-
tion Contracts—$5,000,000; Removal of Defective
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Commodities—$2,500,000: Provided, That none of the 
funds made available in this Act or any other Act 
shall be used for salaries and expenses to carry out 
section 19(i)(1)(E) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act as amended by section 4304 of Pub-
lic Law 110–246 in excess of $20,000,000, including 
the transfer of funds under subsection (c) of section 
14222 of Public Law 110–246, until October 1, 2012: 
Provided further, That $133,000,000 made available 
on October 1, 2012, to carry out section 19(i)(1)(E) 
of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
as amended by section 4304 of Public Law 110–246 
shall be excluded from the limitation described in sub-
section (b)(2)(A)(v) of section 14222 of Public Law 
110–246: Provided further, That none of the funds ap-
propriated 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 Agriculture or 
officer of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry 
out clause 3 of section 32 of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1935 (Public Law 74–320, 7 U.S.C. 612c, 
as amended), or for any surplus removal activities or 
price support activities under section 5 of the Com-
modity Credit Corporation Charter Act: Provided fur-
ther, That of the available unobligated balances under
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(b)(2)(A)(iv) of section 14222 of Public Law 110–246, 
$150,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 
727. 
Hereafter, 
notwithstanding 
section 
310B(g)(5) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-
ment 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 portion of the loan. 
SEC. 728. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the Department of Agriculture or the 
Food and Drug Administration shall be used to transmit 
or otherwise make available to any non-Department of Ag-
riculture or non-Department of Health and Human Serv-
ices employee questions or responses to questions that are 
a result of information requested for the appropriations 
hearing process. 
SEC. 729. (a) Clause (ii) of section 524(b)(4)(B) of the 
Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)(4)(B)) is 
amended— 
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘fiscal years 2008 
through 2012’’ and inserting ‘‘certain fiscal years’’; 
and 
(2) in the text, by striking ‘‘2012’’ and inserting 
‘‘2014’’.