SEC. 728. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to procure processed poultry products 
imported into the United States from the People’s Repub-
lic 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 Pro-
gram 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 nat-
ural disaster, as determined by the Secretary, including 
drought or severe weather, the Secretary may provide po-
table water through the Emergency Community Water As-
sistance Grant Program for an additional period of time 
not to exceed 120 days beyond the established period pro-
vided 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 Ini-
tiative 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 require-
ments in laws in effect on the date before the date of en-
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actment of such section: Provided, That the requirements 
of 7 U.S.C. 450i(b)(9) shall continue to apply. 
SEC. 731. (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 es-
tablished under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 
U.S.C. 1771 et seq.) and final regulations published by 
the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on 
January 26, 2012 (77 Fed. Reg. 4088 et seq.), the Sec-
retary 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 
component or standard with respect to the school lunch 
or school breakfast program that was in effect prior to 
July 1, 2014. 
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(b) 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 Nu-
trition 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 reduction in the quan-
tity of sodium contained in federally reimbursed meals, 
foods, and snacks sold in schools below Target 1 (as de-
scribed in section 220.8(f)(3) of title 7, Code of Federal 
Regulations (or successor regulations)) until the latest sci-
entific research establishes the reduction is beneficial for 
children. 
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 fis-
cal year 2017, prepared in coordination with the Research, 
Education, and Economics mission area of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, and a period of 30 days beginning 
on the date of the submission of the plan expires to permit 
Congressional review of the plan. 
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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 eligible 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 prod-
uct subject to section 503(b)(1) of the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 353(b)(1)), to be dis-
tributed to such professional electronically (in lieu of in 
paper form) unless and until a Federal law is enacted to 
allow or require such distribution. 
SEC. 735. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
final rule entitled ‘‘Food Labeling; Nutrition Labeling of 
Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail 
Food Establishments’’ published by the Food and Drug 
Administration in the Federal Register on December 1, 
2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 71156 et seq.) until the later of— 
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(1) December 1, 2016; or 
(2) the date that is one year after the date on 
which the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
publishes Level 1 guidance with respect to nutrition 
labeling of standard menu items in restaurants and 
similar retail food establishments in accordance with 
paragraphs (g)(1)(i), (g)(1)(ii), (g)(1)(iii), and 
(g)(1)(iv) of section 10.115 of title 21, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations. 
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 inves-
tigational 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 
include a heritable genetic modification. Any such submis-
sion shall be deemed to have not been received by the Sec-
retary, 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 implement or enforce 
any provision of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act 
(Public Law 111–353), including the amendments made 
thereby, with respect to the regulation of the distribution, 
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sale, or receipt of dried spent grain byproducts of the alco-
holic beverage production process, irrespective of whether 
such byproducts are solely intended for use as animal feed. 
SEC. 738. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall— 
(1) within 4 months of the date of enactment 
of this Act, establish a prioritization process for 
APHIS to conduct audits or reviews of countries or 
regions that have received animal health status rec-
ognitions by APHIS and provide a description of 
this process to the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House, Committee on Appropriations of the Sen-
ate, Committee on Agriculture of the House, and 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 
of the Senate; 
(2) 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; 
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(F) diagnostic laboratory capabilities; and 
(G) emergency preparedness and response. 
(3) promptly make publicly available the final 
reports of any audits or reviews conducted pursuant 
to subsection (2); and 
(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 re-
newal 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 intro-
duced or delivered for introduction into interstate com-
merce 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-
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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 connec-
tion with such lenders’ participation in loan guarantee 
programs 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 Sala-
ries and Expense Account and shall remain available until 
expended for obligation and expenditure by the Secretary 
for administrative expenses of the Rural Housing Service 
Loan Guarantee Program in addition to other available 
funds: Provided 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 
network 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 
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Health Inspection Service—Buildings and Facilities’’, 
there is appropriated $30,000,000, 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, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, a household 
certified to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program is required to report in a manner pre-
scribed 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 in fiscal year 2016 for the special supple-
mental nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of 
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), 
$100,000,000 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. 
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(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, rein-
forced 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 des-
ignee of the Secretary finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-
sistent 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 pro-
duced in the United States will increase the cost of 
the overall 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 des-
ignee shall make available to the public on an informal 
basis a copy of the request and information available to 
the Secretary 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 
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request. The Secretary or the designee shall make the re-
quest and accompanying information available by elec-
tronic means, including on the official public Internet Web 
site of the Department. 
(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 re-
quirements 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 recog-
nized Indian tribe. 
SEC. 747. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used by the Food 
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and Drug Administration to finalize or implement the rule 
entitled ‘‘Supplemental Applications Proposing Labeling 
Changes for Approved Drugs and Biological Products’’ 
published November 13, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 67985) un-
less the final version of such rule requires that the Food 
and Drug Administration approve in advance via prior ap-
proval supplement on a timely basis any change to— 
(1) the safety information in the labeling of a 
drug that is marketed pursuant to an abbreviated 
new drug application under section 505(j) of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
355(j)); and 
(2) the safety information in the labeling of the 
listed drug (as such term is used in section 505(j) 
of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 
U.S.C. 355(j)) and any other drug that is marketed 
pursuant to an abbreviated new drug application 
under such section 505(j) citing the same listed 
drug. 
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. 
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SEC. 749. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force the proposed rule with the regulation identifier num-
ber 0910–AG38 published by the Food and Drug Admin-
istration in the Federal Register on April 25, 2014 (79 
Fed. Reg. 23142) if such rule would apply to traditional 
large and premium cigars. For the purposes of this sec-
tion, the term traditional large and premium cigar 
means— 
(1) any roll of tobacco that is wrapped in 100 
percent leaf tobacco, bunched with 100 percent to-
bacco filler, contains no filter, tip or non-tobacco 
mouthpiece, weighs at least 6 pounds per 1,000 
count, and— 
(A) has a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder 
and is hand rolled; 
(B) has a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder 
and is made using human hands to lay the leaf 
tobacco wrapper or binder onto only one ma-
chine that bunches, wraps, and caps each indi-
vidual cigar; or 
(C) has a homogenized tobacco leaf binder 
and is made in the United States using human 
hands to lay the 100 percent leaf tobacco wrap-
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per onto only one machine that bunches, wraps, 
and caps each individual cigar; and 
(2) is not a cigarette or a little cigar (as such 
terms are defined in paragraphs (3) and (11), re-
spectively, of section 900 of the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act). 
SEC. 750. Of the total amounts made available by 
this Act for direct loans in the second paragraph under 
the heading ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing In-
surance Fund Program Account’’ and, respectively, for 
‘‘Rural Housing Service—Mutual and Self-Help Housing 
Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Assist-
ance Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Commu-
nity Facilities Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Coop-
erative Service—Rural Business Program 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 Utilities Serv-
ice—Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans 
Program Account’’; and ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Dis-
tance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program’’, 
at least 10 percent of each total amount shall be allocated 
for assistance in persistent poverty counties: Provided, 
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That for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘persistent 
poverty counties’’ means any county that has had 20 per-
cent or more of its population living in poverty over the 
past 30 years, as measured by the 1990, 2000, and 2010 
decennial censuses. 
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 the Ebola virus domestically 
and internationally and to develop necessary medical coun-
termeasures 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. 
SEC. 753. There is hereby appropriated for the 
‘‘Emergency Watershed Protection Program’’ $5,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, for emergencies not 
declared as a major disaster or emergency under the Rob-
ert 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 
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