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to the Secretary without further appropriation for the purpose 
of funding all costs associated with FSIS inspections. 
SEC. 730. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall—
(1) 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 practices; 
(C) livestock demographics and traceability; 
(D) epidemiological separation from potential sources 
of infection; 
(E) surveillance practices; 
(F) diagnostic laboratory capabilities; and 
(G) emergency preparedness and response; and 
(2) promptly make publicly available the final reports of 
any audits or reviews conducted pursuant to paragraph (1). 
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with 
United States obligations under its international trade agreements. 
SEC. 731. (a)(1) No Federal funds made available for this fiscal 
year for the rural water, waste water, waste disposal, 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. 
(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, reinforced precast concrete, and construc-
tion materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or category 
of cases in which the Secretary of Agriculture (in this section 
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee of the Secretary 
finds that—
(1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent with the 
public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in the United 
States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities or of 
a satisfactory quality; or 
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced 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 designee 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 request. The Secretary or the designee shall make 
the request and accompanying information available by electronic 
means, including on the official public Internet Web site of the 
Department. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent 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
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and Waste Disposal Program Account’’ for carrying out the provi-
sions described in subsection (a)(1) for management and oversight 
of the requirements 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 received 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 recognized Indian Tribe. 
SEC. 732. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional 
action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before 
Congress, other than to communicate to Members of Congress as 
described in 18 U.S.C. 1913. 
SEC. 733. Of the total amounts made available by this Act 
for direct loans and grants under the following headings: ‘‘Rural 
Housing 
Service—Rural 
Housing 
Insurance 
Fund 
Program 
Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Mutual and Self-Help Housing 
Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Assistance 
Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Community Facilities Pro-
gram Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business—Cooperative Service—Rural Busi-
ness Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business—Cooperative Service—
Rural Economic Development Loans Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural 
Business—Cooperative Service—Rural Cooperative Development 
Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Business—Cooperative Service—Rural Microentre-
preneur Assistance Program’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water 
and Waste Disposal Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—
Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans Program 
Account’’; and ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Distance Learning, Tele-
medicine, and Broadband Program’’, to the maximum extent fea-
sible, at least 10 percent of the funds shall be allocated for assist-
ance in persistent poverty counties under this section, including, 
notwithstanding any other provision regarding population limits, 
any county seat of such a persistent poverty county that has a 
population that does not exceed the authorized population limit 
by more than 10 percent: Provided, That for purposes of this section, 
the term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any county that has 
had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over 
the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial 
censuses, and 2007–2011 American Community Survey 5-year aver-
age, or any territory or possession of the United States: Provided 
further, That with respect to specific activities for which program 
levels have been made available by this Act that are not supported 
by budget authority, the requirements of this section shall be 
applied to such program level. 
SEC. 734. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowledge receipt of 
a submission for an exemption for investigational 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 submission shall be 
deemed to have not been received by the Secretary, and the exemp-
tion may not go into effect.
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SEC. 735. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used to enforce the final rule promulgated by 
the Food and Drug Administration entitled ‘‘Standards for the 
Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human 
Consumption’’, and published on November 27, 2015, and the pro-
posed rule issued by the Food and Drug Administration pending 
at the Office of Management and Budget entitled ‘‘Standards for 
the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding Produce for Human 
Consumption Related to Agricultural Water’’ (86 Fed. Reg. 69120 
and 87 Fed. Reg. 42973), with respect to the regulation of entities 
that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine grapes, hops, pulse crops, 
or almonds. 
SEC. 736. For school years 2025–2026 and 2026–2027, none 
of the funds made available by this Act may be used to restrict 
or limit the substitution of any vegetable subgroup for fruits under 
the school breakfast program established under section 4 of the 
Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773). 
SEC. 737. None of the funds made available by this Act or 
any other Act may be used—
(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940), subtitle G of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1946, or section 10114 of the Agriculture 
Improvement Act of 2018; or 
(2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, sale, or use 
of hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is grown or cultivated 
in accordance with section 7606 of the Agricultural Act of 
2014 or subtitle G of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, 
within or outside the State in which the hemp is grown or 
cultivated. 
SEC. 738. The Secretary of Agriculture may waive the matching 
funds requirement under section 412(g) of the Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 
7632(g)). 
SEC. 739. The Secretary of Agriculture shall be included as 
a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United 
States (CFIUS) on a case by case basis pursuant to the authorities 
in section 721(k)(2)(J) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 
U.S.C. 4565(k)(2)(J)) with respect to each covered transaction (as 
defined in section 721(a)(4) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 
(50 U.S.C. 4565(a)(4))) involving agricultural land, agriculture bio-
technology, or the agriculture industry (including agricultural 
transportation, agricultural storage, and agricultural processing), 
as determined by the CFIUS Chairperson in coordination with 
the Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary of Agriculture shall, 
to the maximum extent practicable, notify CFIUS of any agricul-
tural land transaction that the Secretary of Agriculture has reason 
to believe, based on information from or in cooperation with the 
Intelligence Community, is a covered transaction (A) that may 
pose a risk to the national security of the United States, with 
particular emphasis on covered transactions of an interest in agri-
cultural land by foreign governments or entities of concern, as 
defined in 42 U.S.C. 19221(a), including the People’s Republic of 
China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Russian 
Federation, and the Islamic Republic of Iran; and (B) with respect 
to which a person is required to submit a report to the Secretary 
of Agriculture under section 2(a) of the Agricultural Foreign Invest-
ment Disclosure Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 3501(a)).
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SEC. 740. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, for a pilot program for the Secretary 
to provide grants to qualified non-profit organizations and public 
housing authorities to provide technical assistance, including finan-
cial and legal services, to RHS multi-family housing borrowers 
to facilitate property preservation through the acquisition of RHS 
multi-family housing properties in areas where the Secretary deter-
mines a risk of loss of affordable housing, by non-profit housing 
organizations and public housing authorities as authorized by law 
that commit to keep such properties in the RHS multi-family 
housing program for a period of time as determined by the Sec-
retary: Provided, That such funds may also be used for technical 
assistance for non-profit organizations, public housing authorities, 
and private owners for the decoupling of rental assistance. 
SEC. 741. Funds made available under title II of the Food 
for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be used to provide 
assistance to recipient nations if adequate monitoring and controls, 
as determined by the Administrator, are in place to ensure that 
emergency food aid is received by the intended beneficiaries in 
areas affected by food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized 
or inappropriate purposes. 
SEC. 742. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to procure raw or processed poultry products or seafood 
imported into the United States from the People’s Republic 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 Program under section 17 of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1766), the Summer Food Service Program for Chil-
dren 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. 743. For school year 2026–2027, only a school food 
authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit school food 
service account as of June 30, 2025, shall be required to establish 
a price for paid lunches in accordance with section 12(p) of the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760(p)). 
SEC. 744. Any funds made available by this or any other Act 
that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section 1668(g)(2) of the 
Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
5921(g)(2)), as amended, shall be available for grants for bio-
technology risk assessment research: Provided, That the Secretary 
may transfer such funds among appropriations of the Department 
of Agriculture for purposes of making such grants. 
SEC. 745. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Department of Agriculture may be used to move 
any staff office or any agency from the mission area in which 
it was located on August 1, 2018, to any other mission area or 
office within the Department in the absence of the enactment of 
specific legislation affirming such move. 
SEC. 746. The Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Nat-
ural Resources Conservation Service, may use funds appropriated 
under this Act or any other Act for the Watershed and Flood 
Prevention Operations Program and the Watershed Rehabilitation 
Program carried out pursuant to the Watershed Protection and 
Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), and for the Emer-
gency Watershed Protection Program carried out pursuant to section 
403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203) to