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administrative, and information technology services of primary ben-
efit to the agencies of the Department of Agriculture: 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
pursuant to this section shall be available for obligation without
the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both
Houses of Congress.
SEC. 706. 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. 707. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriations available
to the Department of Agriculture in this Act shall be available
to provide appropriate orientation and language training pursuant
to section 606C of the Act of August 28, 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1766b).
SEC. 708. 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 institutions in excess of 10 percent
of the total direct cost of the agreement when the purpose of
such cooperative arrangements is to carry out programs of mutual
interest between the two parties. This does not preclude appropriate
payment of indirect costs on grants and contracts with such institu-
tions when such indirect costs are computed on a similar basis
for all agencies for which appropriations are provided in this Act.
SEC. 709. None of the funds in this Act shall be available
to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to
lease space for its own use or to lease space on behalf of other
agencies of the Department of Agriculture when such space will
be jointly occupied.
SEC. 710. None of the funds in this Act shall be available
to pay indirect costs charged against competitive agricultural
research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service that
exceed 20 percent of total Federal funds provided under each award:
Provided, That notwithstanding section 1462 of the National Agri-
cultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7
U.S.C. 3310), funds provided by this Act for grants awarded
competitively by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and
Extension Service shall be available to pay full allowable indirect
costs for each grant awarded under section 9 of the Small Business
Act (15 U.S.C. 638).
SEC. 711. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
all loan levels provided in this Act shall be considered estimates,
not limitations.
SEC. 712. Appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for
the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made available in the
current fiscal year shall remain available until expended to cover
obligations made in the current fiscal year for the following
accounts: the Rural Development Loan Fund program account, the
Rural Telephone Bank program account, the Rural Electrification
and Telecommunication Loans program account, and the Rural
Housing Insurance Fund program account.
SEC. 713. None of the funds in this Act may be used to retire
more than 5 percent of the Class A stock of the Rural Telephone
Bank or to maintain any account or subaccount within the