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production or the lack of a conserving use is a consequence
of drought, flood, or other natural disaster.
SEC. 728. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to extend
any existing or expiring contract in the Conservation Re-
serve Program authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3831–3845.
SEC. 729. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to maintain the price of raw cane sugar
(as reported for an appropriate preceding month for appli-
cable sugar futures contracts of the Coffee, Sugar, and
Cocoa Exchange, New York) at more than 1171⁄2 percent
of the statutory loan rate under section 158 of the Federal
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act (title 1 of Pub-
lic Law 104–127).
SEC. 730. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to carry out the provisions of section 918
of Public Law 104–127, the Federal Agriculture Improve-
ment and Reform Act.
SEC. 731. (a) IN GENERAL.—Any owner on the date
of enactment of this Act of the right to market a non-
steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that—
(1) contains a patented active agent;
(2) has been reviewed by the Federal Food and
Drug Administration for a period of more than 96
months as a new drug application; and
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(3) was approved as safe and effective by the
Federal Food and Drug Administration on January
31, 1991, shall be entitled, for the 2-year period be-
ginning on February 28, 1997, to exclude others
from making, using, offering for sale, selling, or im-
porting into the United States such active agent, in
accordance with section 154(a)(1) of title 35, United
States Code.
(b) INFRINGEMENT.—Section 271 of title 35, United
States Code shall apply to the infringement of the entitle-
ment provide under subsection (a).
(c) NOTIFICATION.—Not later than 30 days after the
date of the enactment of this section, any owner granted
an entitlement under subsection (a) shall notify the Com-
missioner of Patents and Trademarks and the Secretary
for Health and Human Services of such entitlement. Not
later than 7 days after the receipt of such notice, the Com-
mission and the Secretary shall publish an appropriate no-
tice of the receipt of such notice.
SEC. 732. Funds appropriated to the Department of
Agriculture may be used for incidental expenses such as
transportation, uniforms, lodging, and subsistence for vol-
unteers serving under the authority of 7 U.S.C. 2272,
when such volunteers are engaged in the work of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture; and for promotional items of
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nominal value relating to the U.S. Department of Agri-
culture Volunteer Programs.
SEC. 733. It is the sense of Congress that, not later
than the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
of Agriculture should—
(1) release a detailed plan for compensating
wheat farmers and handlers adversely affected by
the karnal bunt quarantine in Riverside and Impe-
rial Counties of California, which should include—
(A) an explanation of the factors to be
used to determine the compensation amount for
wheat farmers and handlers, including how con-
tract and spot market prices will be handled;
and
(B) compensation for farmers who have
crops positive for karnal bunt and compensation
for farmers who have crops which are negative
for karnal bunt, but which cannot go to market
due to the lack of Department action on match-
ing restrictions on the negative wheat with the
latest risk assessments; and
(2) review the risk assessments developed by
the University of California at Riverside and submit
a report to Congress describing how these risk as-
sessments will impact the Department of Agriculture
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policy on the quarantine area for the 1997 wheat
crop.
Passed the House of Representatives June 12, 1996.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.