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SEC. 716. There is hereby appropriated $499,000 for any author-
ized Rural Development program purpose, in communities suffering 
from extreme outmigration and situated in areas that were des-
ignated as part of an Empowerment Zone pursuant to section 111 
of the Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000 (as contained 
in appendix G of Public Law 106–554). 
SEC. 717. None of the funds made available in fiscal year 
2010 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 Commodity Credit Corporation for 
the release of eligible commodities under section 302(f)(2)(A) of 
the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f–1): Pro-
vided, 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. 718. There is hereby appropriated $3,497,000, to remain 
available until expended, for a grant to the National Center for 
Natural Products Research for construction or renovation to carry 
out the research objectives of the natural products research grant 
issued by the Food and Drug Administration. 
SEC. 719. Funds made available under section 1240I and section 
1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 and section 524(b) of 
the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)) in the current 
fiscal year shall remain available until expended to disburse obliga-
tions made in the current fiscal year. 
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 pre-
packaged news story that the prepackaged news story was prepared 
or funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 721. 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) An Environmental Quality Incentives Program as 
authorized by sections 1241–240H of the Food Security Act 
of 1985, as amended (16 U.S.C. 3839aa–3839aa(8)), in excess 
of $1,180,000,000; 
(2) a program authorized by section 14(h)(1) of the Water-
shed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1012(h)(1)); 
and 
(3) a program under subsection (b)(2)(A)(ii) of section 14222 
of Public Law 110–246 in excess of $1,123,000,000: 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)(C) of the Richard B. Russell National School 
Lunch Act as amended by section 4304 of Public Law 110– 
246 in excess of $25,000,000, including the transfer of funds 
under subsection (c) of section 14222 of Public Law 110–246, 
until October 1, 2010: Provided further, That $76,000,000 made 
available on October 1, 2010, to carry out section 19(i)(1)(C) 
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 
subsection 
(b)(2)(A)(iii) of section 14222 of Public Law 110–246: Provided 
further, That all unobligated balances under section 32 of the
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Act of August 24, 1935, available as of September 30, 2009, 
are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 722. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
former RUS borrower that has repaid or prepaid an insured, direct 
or guaranteed loan under the Rural Electrification Act, 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. 723. There is hereby appropriated $2,600,000, to remain 
available until expended, for the construction, interim operations, 
and necessary demolition needs for establishment of an agricultural 
pest facility in the State of Hawaii. 
SEC. 724. There is hereby appropriated $4,000,000 to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture to award grant(s) to develop and field test 
new food products designed to improve the nutritional delivery 
of humanitarian food assistance provided through the McGovern- 
Dole (section 3107 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1)) and the Food for Peace title II 
(7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) programs: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall use the authorities provided under the Research, Education, 
and Economics mission area of the Department in awarding such 
grant(s), with priority given to proposals that demonstrate 
partnering with and in-kind support from the private sector. 
SEC. 725. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Agriculture in this Act may be used to implement the risk- 
based inspection program in the 30 prototype locations announced 
on February 22, 2007, by the Under Secretary for Food Safety, 
or at any other locations, until the USDA Office of Inspector General 
has provided its findings to the Food Safety and Inspection Service 
and the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate on the data used in support of the development 
and design of the risk-based inspection program and FSIS has 
addressed and resolved issues identified by OIG. 
SEC. 726. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
until receipt of the decennial census for the year 2010, the Secretary 
of Agriculture— 
(1) shall consider— 
(A) the unincorporated area of Los Osos, California, 
the city of Imperial, California, and the Harrisville Fire 
District, Rhode Island, to be rural areas for the purposes 
of eligibility for Rural Utilities Service water and waste 
disposal loans and grants; 
(B) the incorporated community of Thermalito in Butte 
County, California, (including individuals and entities with 
projects within the community) eligible for loans and grants 
funded under the housing programs of the Rural Housing 
Service; 
(C) the city of Lumberton, North Carolina, and the 
city of Sanford, North Carolina (including individuals and 
entities with projects within the city) eligible for loans 
and grants funded through the Rural Community Facilities 
Program Account; and 
(D) the city of Nogales, Arizona (including individuals 
and entities with projects within the city) eligible for loans 
and grants funded through the housing programs of the 
Rural Housing Service; and
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(2) may fund Rural Community Facility Program projects 
of the Rural Housing Service and Water and Waste Disposal 
Program projects of the Rural Utilities Service for communities 
and municipal districts and areas in Connecticut, Massachu-
setts, and Rhode Island that filed applications for such projects 
with the appropriate Rural Development field office of the 
Department of Agriculture prior to August 1, 2009, and that 
such projects were determined by the field office to be eligible 
for funding. 
SEC. 727. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000 for section 
4404 of Public Law 107–171. 
SEC. 728. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there 
is hereby appropriated: 
(1) $3,000,000 of which $2,000,000 shall be for a grant 
to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Con-
sumer Protection, and $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to the 
Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Foods, and Markets, as author-
ized by section 6402 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note); 
(2) $350,000 for a grant to the Wisconsin Department of 
Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection; 
(3) $1,000,000 shall be for development of a prototype for 
a national carbon inventory and accounting system for forestry 
and agriculture; 
(4) $1,000,000 for the International Food Protection 
Training Institute; and 
(5) $200,000 for the Center for Foodborne Illness Research 
and Prevention. 
SEC. 729. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide financial and 
technical assistance through the Watershed and Flood Prevention 
Operations program to carry out— 
(1) the Alameda Creek Watershed Project in Alameda 
County, California; 
(2) the Hurricane Katrina-Related Watershed Restoration 
project in Jackson County, Mississippi; 
(3) the Pidcock-Mill Creeks Watershed project in Bucks 
County, Pennsylvania; 
(4) the Farmington River Restoration project in Litchfield 
County, Connecticut; 
(5) the Lake Oscawana Management and Restoration 
project in Putnam County, New York; 
(6) the Richland Creek Reservoir in Paulding County, 
Georgia; 
(7) the Pocasset River Floodplain Management Project in 
the State of Rhode Island; 
(8) the East Locust Creek Watershed Plan Revision in 
Missouri, including up to 100 percent of the engineering assist-
ance and 75 percent cost share for construction cost of site 
RW1; 
(9) the Little Otter Creek Watershed project in Missouri. 
The sponsoring local organization may obtain land rights by 
perpetual easements; 
(10) the DuPage County Watershed project in the State 
of Illinois; 
(11) the Dunloup Creek Watershed Project in Fayette and 
Raleigh Counties, West Virginia;
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(12) the Dry Creek Watershed project in the State of Cali-
fornia; and 
(13) the Upper Clark Fork Watershed project in the State 
of Montana. 
SEC. 730. Section 17(r)(5) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766(r)(5)) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘the District of Columbia and’’ after the 
first instance of ‘‘institutions located in’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘ten’’ and inserting ‘‘thirteen’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘eight’’ and inserting ‘‘eleven’’; and 
(4) by inserting ‘‘Connecticut, Nevada, Wisconsin,’’ after 
the first instance of ‘‘States shall be’’. 
SEC. 731. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 
purposes of a grant under section 412 of the Agricultural Research, 
Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998, none of the funds 
in this or any other Act may be used to prohibit the provision 
of in-kind support from non-Federal sources under section 412(e)(3) 
in the form of unrecovered indirect costs not otherwise charged 
against the grant, consistent with the indirect rate of cost approved 
for a recipient. 
SEC. 732. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, 
unobligated balances remaining available at the end of the fiscal 
year from appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
in this Act for the Farm Service Agency and the Rural Development 
mission area, shall remain available through September 30, 2011, 
for information technology expenses. 
SEC. 733. 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 participants. 
SEC. 734. (a) CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS.—Section 9(b) of 
the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
1758(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(14) COMBAT PAY.— 
‘‘(A) DEFINITION OF COMBAT PAY.—In this paragraph, 
the term ‘combat pay’ means any additional payment under 
chapter 5 of title 37, United States Code, or otherwise 
designated by the Secretary to be appropriate for exclusion 
under this paragraph, that is received by or from a member 
of the United States Armed Forces deployed to a designated 
combat zone, if the additional pay— 
‘‘(i) is the result of deployment to or service in 
a combat zone; and 
‘‘(ii) was not received immediately prior to serving 
in a combat zone. 
‘‘(B) EXCLUSION.—Combat pay shall not be considered 
to be income for the purpose of determining the eligibility 
for free or reduced price meals of a child who is a member 
of the household of a member of the United States Armed 
Forces.’’. 
(b) SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, 
INFANTS, AND CHILDREN.—Section 17(d)(2) of the Child Nutrition 
Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(d)(2)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph 
(D); and 
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following: