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tion Technology Investment Review Board: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
Act may be transferred to the Office of the Chief Informa-
tion Officer without the prior approval of the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
SEC. 719. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 
or provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies 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 which: (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) reorga-
nizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out 
or privatizes any functions or activities presently per-
formed by Federal employees; unless the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are notified 
15 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds. 
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or pro-
vided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies
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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 
for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogram-
ming of funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, 
projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding 
for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers 
of personnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 
(3) results from any general savings from a reduction in 
personnel which would result in a change in existing pro-
grams, activities, or projects as approved by Congress; un-
less the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such re-
programming of funds. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission shall notify the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress be-
fore implementing a program or activity not carried out 
during the previous fiscal year unless the program or ac-
tivity is funded by this Act or specifically funded by any 
other Act.
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SEC. 720. With the exception of funds needed to ad-
minister and conduct oversight of grants awarded and ob-
ligations incurred in prior fiscal years, none of the funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any 
other Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses 
of personnel to carry out the provisions of section 401 of 
Public Law 105–185, the Initiative for Future Agriculture 
and Food Systems (7 U.S.C. 7621). 
SEC. 721. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and 
expenses of personnel who prepare or submit appropria-
tions language as part of the President’s Budget submis-
sion to the Congress of the United States for programs 
under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommit-
tees on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies that assumes reve-
nues 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 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 2005 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 722. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used to close or relocate a
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state Rural Development office unless or until cost effec-
tiveness and enhancement of program delivery have been 
determined. 
SEC. 723. In addition to amounts otherwise appro-
priated or made available by this Act, $3,000,000 is ap-
propriated for the purpose of providing Bill Emerson and 
Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships, as authorized by sec-
tion 4404 of Public Law 107–171 (2 U.S.C. 1161). 
SEC. 724. Notwithstanding section 412 of the Agri-
cultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 
(7 U.S.C. 1736f), any balances available to carry out title 
III of such Act as of the date of enactment of this Act, 
and any recoveries and reimbursements that become avail-
able to carry out title III of such Act, may be used to 
carry out title II of such Act. 
SEC. 725. Section 375(e)(6)(B) of the Consolidated 
Farm 
and 
Rural 
Development 
Act 
(7 
U.S.C. 
2008j(e)(6)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘$26,499,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$26,998,000’’. 
SEC. 726. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Natural Resources Conservation Service may pro-
vide financial and technical assistance through the Water-
shed and Flood Prevention Operations program for the 
Ditch 26 project in Arkansas.
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SEC. 727. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary shall consider the County of Lawrence, 
Ohio; the City of Havelock, North Carolina; the City of 
Portsmouth, Ohio; the City of Atascadero, California; the 
City of Binghamton, New York; the Town of Vestal, New 
York; the City of Ithaca, New York; the City of Casa 
Grande, Arizona; and the City of Clarksdale, Mississippi, 
as meeting the eligibility requirements for loans and 
grants programs in the Rural Development mission area. 
SEC. 728. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Natural Resources Conservation Service shall pro-
vide financial and technical assistance to the DuPage 
County, Illinois, Kress Creek Watershed Plan, from funds 
available for the Watershed and Flood Prevention Oper-
ations program, not to exceed $1,600,000 and Rockhouse 
Creek Watershed, Leslie County, Kentucky, not to exceed 
$1,000,000. 
SEC. 729. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 
SEC. 730. Agencies and offices of the Department of 
Agriculture may utilize any unobligated salaries and ex-
penses funds to reimburse the Office of the General Coun-
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sel for salaries and expenses of personnel, and for other 
related expenses, incurred in representing such agencies 
and offices in the resolution of complaints by employees 
or applicants for employment, and in cases and other mat-
ters pending before the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, or 
the Merit Systems Protection Board with the prior ap-
proval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress. 
SEC. 731. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries and 
expenses of personnel to carry out section 14(h)(1) of the 
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 
U.S.C. 1012(h)(1)). 
SEC. 732. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this Act, or any other Act, may be used to 
pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
the Rural Strategic Investment Program authorized by 
subtitle I of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop-
ment Act (7 U.S.C. 2009dd through dd–7) in excess of 
$2,000,000. 
SEC. 733. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries and 
expenses of personnel to carry out the Rural Firefighters
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and Emergency Personnel Grant Program authorized by 
section 6405 of Public Law 107–171 (7 U.S.C. 2655). 
SEC. 734. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the 
salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out the provi-
sions of sections 7404(a)(1) and 7404(c)(1) of Public Law 
107–171. 
SEC. 735. The Agricultural Marketing Service and 
the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administra-
tion, that have statutory authority to purchase interest 
bearing investments outside of the Treasury, are not re-
quired to establish obligations and outlays for those invest-
ments, provided those investments are insured by the Fed-
eral Deposit Insurance Corporation or are collateralized 
at the Federal Reserve with securities approved by the 
Federal Reserve, operating under the guidelines of the 
United States Department of the Treasury. 
SEC. 736. Of the funds made available under section 
27(a) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et 
seq.), the Secretary may use up to $10,000,000 for costs 
associated with the distribution of commodities. 
SEC. 737. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the 
salaries and expenses of personnel to enroll in excess of
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200,000 acres in the calendar year 2004 wetlands reserve 
program as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837. 
SEC. 738. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the 
salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out an envi-
ronmental quality incentives program authorized by chap-
ter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act 
of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) in excess of 
$975,000,000. 
SEC. 739. The Administrator of the Agricultural Re-
search Service may make available by outlease agreements 
with other Federal agencies or non-Federal public or pri-
vate entities any unused or underused portion or interest 
of or interest in any agency real and related personal prop-
erty, and may retain and use the proceeds of such agree-
ments in carrying out the programs of the agency. Prop-
erty proposed for outlease must not be property otherwise 
required to be reported excess under the Federal Property 
and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. 
Outleases shall be made competitively, and be based on 
the fair market value of the property. 
SEC. 740. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the 
salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out section
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9006 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002. 
SEC. 741. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
section 6103 of Public Law 107–171. 
SEC. 742. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
section 6401 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002. 
SEC. 743. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used for the imple-
mentation of Country of Origin Labeling for meat or meat 
products. 
SEC. 744. Any unobligated balances in the Alter-
native Agricultural Research and Commercialization Re-
volving Fund are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 745. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to carry out 
a Conservation Security Program authorized in section 
1241(a)(3) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3841(a)(3)). 
SEC. 746. Section 726 of division A of Public Law 
108–7 is amended by striking ‘‘, as authorized by section
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4404 of Public Law 107–171 (2 U.S.C. 1161)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘through the Congressional Hunger Center’’. 
SEC. 747. (a) ASSISTANCE FOR COMMERCIAL TREE 
LOSSES.—The 
Secretary 
of 
Agriculture 
shall 
use 
$5,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration to provide assistance under the Tree Assistance 
Program, subtitle C of title X of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8201 et seq.), 
to tree-fruit growers located in a federally declared dis-
aster area in the State of New York who suffered tree 
losses in 2003 as a result of an April 4–6, 2003, icestorm. 
(b) OFFSET.—The amount appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘RURAL COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT 
PROGRAM’’ is hereby reduced by $5,000,000. 
SEC. 748. Section 204(a)(3) of the Agricultural 
Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 
1724(a)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘and Committee’’ and 
inserting ‘‘, the Committee on Appropriations, and the 
Committee’’. 
SEC. 749. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act for the Food and Drug 
Administration may be used under section 801 of the Fed-
eral Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prevent an indi-
vidual not in the business of importing a prescription drug 
within the meaning of section 801(g) of such Act, whole-
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salers, or pharmacists from importing a prescription drug 
which complies with sections 501, 502, and 505. 
SEC. 750. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this Act shall be expended to violate 
Public Law 105–264. 
SEC. 751. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to issue a 
final rule in Docket No. 02–06201 ‘‘Cost-Sharing for Ani-
mal and Plant Health Emergency Programs’’, 68 Fed. 
Reg. 40541–40553 (July 8, 2003). 
SEC. 752. No funds appropriated or made available 
by this Act may be used to identify by photograph on a 
department’s or agency’s website any Member of the 
House of Representatives or the Senate within 60 days 
before a Federal general election. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 14, 2003. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.
Calendar No. 224
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2673
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2004, and for other purposes. 
JULY 24 (legislative day, JULY 21), 2003
Read twice and placed on the calendar
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DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For Departmental Administration, $38,592,000 (in-
creased by $2,005,000), to provide for necessary expenses 
for management support services to offices of the Depart-
ment and for general administration, security, repairs and 
alterations, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses 
not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical 
and efficient work of the Department: Provided, That this 
appropriation shall be reimbursed from applicable appro-
priations in this Act for travel expenses incident to the 
holding of hearings as required by 5 U.S.C. 551–558. 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR 
CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations to 
carry out the programs funded by this Act, including pro-
grams involving intergovernmental affairs and liaison 
within the executive branch, $3,796,000: Provided, That 
these funds may be transferred to agencies of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture funded by this Act to maintain per-
sonnel at the agency level: Provided further, That no funds 
made available by this appropriation may be obligated 
after 30 days from the date of enactment of this Act, un-
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less the Secretary has notified the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress on the allocation of 
these funds by USDA agency: Provided further, That no 
other funds appropriated to the Department by this Act 
shall be available to the Department for support of activi-
ties of congressional relations. 
OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS 
For necessary expenses to carry out services relating 
to the coordination of programs involving public affairs, 
for the dissemination of agricultural information, and the 
coordination of information, work, and programs author-
ized by Congress in the Department, $9,245,000: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $2,000,000 may be used for 
farmers’ bulletins. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
General, including employment pursuant to the Inspector 
General
Act
of
1978,
$77,314,000
(increased
by 
$800,000), 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 In-
spector General Act of 1978, and including not to exceed 
$125,000 for certain confidential operational expenses as 
well as the payment of informants, to be expended under
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the direction of the Inspector General pursuant 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, $34,700,000. 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH, 
EDUCATION, AND ECONOMICS 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Eco-
nomics to administer the laws enacted by the Congress 
for the Economic Research Service, the National Agricul-
tural Statistics Service, the Agricultural Research Service, 
and the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Ex-
tension Service, $597,000. 
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research 
Service in conducting economic research and analysis, as 
authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 
U.S.C. 1621–1627) and other laws, $71,402,000. 
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural 
Statistics Service in conducting statistical reporting and 
service work, including crop and livestock estimates, sta-
tistical coordination and improvements, marketing sur-
veys, and the Census of Agriculture, as authorized by 7
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U.S.C.
1621–1627
and
2204g,
and
other
laws, 
$129,800,000, of which up to $25,279,000 shall be avail-
able until expended for the Census of Agriculture. 
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Re-
search Service to perform agricultural research and dem-
onstration relating to production, utilization, marketing, 
and distribution (not otherwise provided for); home eco-
nomics or nutrition and consumer use including the acqui-
sition, preservation, and dissemination of agricultural in-
formation; and for acquisition of lands by donation, ex-
change, 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, $1,014,000,000: Provided, That ap-
propriations hereunder shall be available for the operation 
and maintenance of aircraft 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 pro-
vided, the cost of constructing any one building shall not
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exceed $375,000, except for headhouses or greenhouses 
which shall each be limited to $1,200,000, and except for 
10 buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not 
to exceed $750,000 each, and the cost of altering any one 
building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent 
of the current replacement value of the building or 
$375,000, whichever is greater: Provided further, That the 
limitations on alterations contained in this Act shall not 
apply to modernization or replacement of existing facilities 
at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, That appropria-
tions 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 
funds may be received from any State, other political sub-
division, organization, or individual for the purpose of es-
tablishing or operating any research facility or research 
project of the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized 
by law. 
None of the funds appropriated under this heading 
shall be available to carry out research related to the pro-
duction, processing, or marketing of tobacco or tobacco 
products.
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BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improve-
ment, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equip-
ment or facilities as necessary to carry out the agricultural 
research programs of the Department of Agriculture, 
where not otherwise provided, $35,900,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND 
EXTENSION SERVICE 
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES 
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for 
cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and 
for other expenses, $594,772,000 (increased by $600,000) 
(increased by $2,000,000), as follows: to carry out the pro-
visions of the Hatch Act of 1887 (7 U.S.C. 361a–i), 
$180,148,000; for grants for cooperative forestry research 
(16 U.S.C. 582a through a–7), $21,884,000; for payments 
to the 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee Uni-
versity and West Virginia State College (7 U.S.C. 3222), 
$36,000,000, of which $1,507,496 shall be made available 
only for the purpose of ensuring that each institution shall 
receive no less than $1,000,000; for special grants for ag-
ricultural research (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $101,241,000; for 
special grants for agricultural research on improved pest 
control (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $15,194,000; for competitive
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research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), $149,248,000; for the 
support of animal health and disease programs (7 U.S.C. 
3195), $5,065,000; for supplemental and alternative crops 
and products (7 U.S.C. 3319d), $1,188,000; for the 1994 
research grants program for 1994 institutions pursuant 
to section 536 of Public Law 103–382 (7 U.S.C. 301 
note), $998,000, to remain available until expended; for 
rangeland research grants (7 U.S.C. 3333), $1,000,000; 
for higher education graduate fellowship grants (7 U.S.C. 
3152(b)(6)), $3,222,000, to remain available until ex-
pended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for higher education challenge 
grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(1)), $4,888,000; for a higher 
education
multicultural
scholars
program
(7
U.S.C. 
3152(b)(5)), $992,000, to remain available until ex-
pended; for an education grants program for Hispanic-
serving Institutions (7 U.S.C. 3241), $4,073,000 (in-
creased by $600,000); for noncompetitive grants for the 
purpose of carrying out all provisions of 7 U.S.C. 3242 
(section 759 of Public Law 106–78) to individual eligible 
institutions or consortia of eligible institutions in Alaska 
and in Hawaii, with funds awarded equally to each of the 
States of Alaska and Hawaii, $2,997,000; for a secondary 
agriculture education program and 2-year post-secondary 
education (7 U.S.C. 3152(j)), $994,000; for aquaculture 
grants (7 U.S.C. 3322), $3,996,000; for sustainable agri-