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coverage payments under section 1117(b)(1) of the Agri-
cultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017(b)(1)) other than 
payments made in accordance with the pilot program 
under this section. 
(g) A calculation of actual yield made using the alter-
nate calculation method described in subsection (b) shall 
not be used as a basis for any agriculture risk coverage 
payment determinations under section 1117 of the Agri-
cultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017) other than for pur-
poses of the pilot program under this section. 
SEC. 752. The Secretary of Agriculture and the Sec-
retary’s designees are hereby granted the same access to 
information and subject to the same requirements applica-
ble to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
as provided in section 453 of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 653) and section 6103(1)(7)(D)(ix) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 1603(1)(7)(D)(ix)) to 
verify the income for individuals participating in sections 
502, 504, 521, and 542 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 
U.S.C. 1472, 1474, 1490a, and 1490r), notwithstanding 
section 453(l)(1) of the Social Security Act. 
SEC. 753. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to procure raw or processed poultry prod-
ucts imported into the United States from the People’s 
Republic of China for use in the school lunch program 
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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 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. 754. 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. 755. Of the total amounts made available by 
this Act for direct loans and grants in the following head-
ings: ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insurance 
Fund Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Mu-
tual and Self-Help Housing Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing 
Service—Rural Housing Assistance Grants’’; ‘‘Rural 
Housing Service—Rural Community Facilities Program 
Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural 
Business Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Coopera-
tive Service—Rural Economic Development Loans Pro-
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gram Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service— 
Rural Cooperative Development Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities 
Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Ac-
count’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Electrification 
and Telecommunications Loans Program Account’’; and 
‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Distance Learning, Telemedi-
cine, and Broadband Program’’, to the maximum extent 
feasible, at least 10 percent of the funds shall be allocated 
for assistance in persistent poverty counties under this 
section, including, notwithstanding any other provision re-
garding population limits, any county seat of such a per-
sistent 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 pov-
erty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1980, 
1990, and 2000 decennial censuses, and 2007–2011 
American Community Survey 5-year average: 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. 756. (a) No funds shall be used to finalize the 
proposed rule entitled ‘‘Eligibility of the People’s Republic 
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of China (PRC) to Export to the United States Poultry 
Products from Birds Slaughtered in the PRC’’ published 
in the Federal Register by the Department of Agriculture 
on June 16, 2017 (82 Fed. Reg. 27625), unless the Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall— 
(1) ensure that the poultry slaughter inspection 
system for the PRC is equivalent to that of the 
United States; 
(2) ensure that, before any poultry products 
can enter the United States from any such poultry 
plant, such poultry products comply with all other 
applicable requirements for poultry products in 
interstate commerce in the United States; 
(3) conduct periodic verification reviews and au-
dits of any such plants in the PRC intending to ex-
port into the United States processed poultry prod-
ucts; 
(4) conduct re-inspection of such poultry prod-
ucts at United States ports-of-entry to check the 
general condition of such products, for the proper 
certification and labeling of such products, and for 
any damage to such products that may have oc-
curred during transportation; and 
(5) ensure that shipments of any such poultry 
products selected to enter the United States are sub-
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ject to additional re-inspection procedures at appro-
priate levels to verify that the products comply with 
relevant Federal regulations or standards, including 
examinations for product defects and laboratory 
analyses to detect harmful chemical residues or 
pathogen testing appropriate for the products in-
volved. 
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with obligations of the United States under any 
trade agreement to which the United States is a party. 
SEC. 757. In addition to any other funds made avail-
able in this Act or any other Act, there is appropriated 
$5,000,000 to carry out section 18(g)(8) of the Richard 
B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
1769(g)), to remain available until expended. 
SEC. 758. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Food and Drug Administration 
to develop, issue, promote, or advance any regulations ap-
plicable to food manufacturers for population-wide sodium 
reduction actions or to develop, issue, promote or advance 
final guidance applicable to food manufacturers for long 
term population-wide sodium reduction actions until the 
date on which a dietary reference intake report with re-
spect to sodium is completed. 
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SEC. 759. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2020, for the cost 
of loans and grants that is consistent with section 4206 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014, for necessary expenses 
of the Secretary to support projects that provide access 
to healthy food in underserved areas, to create and pre-
serve quality jobs, and to revitalize low-income commu-
nities. 
SEC. 760. For an additional amount for ‘‘Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service—Salaries and Expenses’’, 
$8,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2020, 
for one-time control and management and associated ac-
tivities directly related to the multiple-agency response to 
citrus greening. 
SEC. 761. 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 enti-
tled ‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, 
and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption,’’ and 
published on November 27, 2015, with respect to the regu-
lation of the production, distribution, sale, or receipt of 
grape varietals that are grown, harvested and used solely 
for wine and receive commercial processing that ade-
quately reduces the presence of microorganisms of public 
health significance. 
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SEC. 762. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to revoke an exception made— 
(1) pursuant to the final rule of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture entitled ‘‘Exceptions to Geo-
graphic Areas for Official Agencies Under the 
USGSA’’ (68 Fed. Reg. 19137 (April 18, 2003)); 
and 
(2) on a date before April 14, 2017. 
SEC. 763. For school year 2019–2020, only a school 
food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit 
school food service account as of December 31, 2018, shall 
be required to establish a price for paid lunches in accord-
ance with Section 12(p) of the Richard B. Russell Na-
tional School Lunch Act, 42 U.S.C. 1760(p). 
SEC. 764. There is hereby appropriated $16,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, for an additional 
amount for telemedicine and distance learning services in 
rural areas, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa et seq., to 
help address the opioid epidemic in rural America. 
SEC. 765. (a) There is hereby appropriated 
$125,000,000, to remain available until expended, for an 
additional amount for Sec. 779 of Public Law 115–141. 
(b) Section 313 of the Rural Electrification Act of 
1936, as amended (7 U.S.C. 940c), shall be applied for 
fiscal year 2019 as if the following were inserted after the 
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final period in subsection (b)(2)(B): ‘‘In addition, the Sec-
retary shall use $425,000,000 of funds available in fiscal 
year 2019 for an additional amount for the same purpose 
as funds appropriated by Sec. 779 of Public Law 115– 
141.’’: Provided, That any use of such funds shall be treat-
ed as a reprogramming of funds under section 717 of this 
Act. 
SEC. 766. For an additional amount for the cost of 
direct loans and grants made under the ‘‘Rural Water and 
Waste Disposal Program Account’’, $75,000,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
SEC. 767. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2020, for a pilot 
program for the National Institute of Food and Agri-
culture to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for 
programs and services to establish and enhance farming 
and ranching opportunities for military veterans. 
SEC. 768. Not later than September 30, 2019, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall finalize the 
draft guidance for industry entitled ‘‘Bacterial Risk Con-
trol Strategies for Blood Collection Establishments and 
Transfusion Services to Enhance the Safety and Avail-
ability of Platelets for Transfusion’’ issued by the Food 
and Drug Administration in March of 2016. 
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SEC. 769. Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this section, the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress that includes a summary of 
the process used in establishing the 2020-2025 Dietary 
Guidelines for Americans published pursuant to section 
301 of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Re-
search Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5341) and an explanation 
with respect to the decision to incorporate or exclude in 
such Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommendations 
from the report by the National Academies of Science, En-
gineering, and Medicine entitled ‘‘Redesigning the Process 
for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans’’ 
and issued September, 2017. 
SEC. 770. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
requirement in the final rule entitled ‘‘Food Labeling: Re-
vision of the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels’’, 
published in the Federal Register on May 27, 2016 (81 
Fed. Reg. 33742), that any single ingredient sugar, honey, 
agave, or syrup (including maple syrup) that is packaged 
and offered for sale as a single ingredient food bear the 
declaration ‘‘Includes ‘X’g Added Sugars’’. 
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SEC. 771. Paragraph (4) of section 1444(a) of the 
National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3221 (a)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘No more than’’ and inserting 
the following: ‘‘For fiscal years ending on or before 
September 30, 2018, no more than’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘by an institution’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘by an eligible institution under this section’’; 
and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence: ‘‘For fiscal years beginning on or after Octo-
ber 1, 2018, the limitation specified in the preceding 
sentence shall not apply and 100 percent of such 
funds may be carried forward to the succeeding fis-
cal year.’’ 
SEC. 772. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement or enforce the matter fol-
lowing the first comma in the second sentence of footnote 
(c) of section 220.8(c) of title 7, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, with respect to the substitution of vegetables for 
fruits under the school breakfast program established 
under section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 
U.S.C. 1773). 
SEC. 773. The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide 
to any State or county impacted by a volcanic eruption 
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covered by a major disaster declared by the President in 
calendar year 2018 in accordance with section 401 of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170) technical assistance— 
(1) to assess damage to agricultural production 
and rural infrastructure; and 
(2) to develop recovery plans for impacted 
farmers, ranchers, and rural communities. 
SEC. 774. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture, in coordi-
nation with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, shall establish a working 
group (referred to in this section as the ‘‘working 
group’’)— 
(1) to study how mangroves, kelp forests, tidal 
marshes, and seagrass meadows could help deacidify 
the oceans; 
(2) to study emerging ocean farming practices 
that use kelp and seagrass to deacidify the oceans 
while providing feedstock for agriculture and other 
commercial and industrial inputs; and 
(3) to coordinate and conduct research to de-
velop and enhance pilot-scale research for farming of 
kelp and seagrass in order— 
(A) to deacidify ocean environments; 
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(B) to produce a feedstock for agriculture; 
and 
(C) to develop other scalable commercial 
applications for kelp, seagrass, or products de-
rived from kelp or seagrass. 
(b) The working group shall include— 
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture; 
(2) the Administrator of the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration; 
(3) representatives of any relevant offices with-
in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration; and 
(4) the Assistant Secretary of Energy for En-
ergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 
(c) Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the working group shall submit to Congress 
a report that includes— 
(1) the findings of the research described in 
subsection (a); 
(2) the results of the pilot-scale research de-
scribed in subsection (a)(3); and 
(3) any policy recommendations based on those 
findings and results. 
SEC. 775. Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
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submit to Congress a report describing the ways in which 
conservation programs administered by the Natural Re-
sources Conservation Service may be better used for the 
conservation of ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) and any ac-
tion taken by the Chief of the Natural Resources Con-
servation Service relating to the conservation of ocelots. 
SEC. 776. Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Rural Housing Service of the 
Department of Agriculture shall submit to Congress a re-
port including— 
(1) a description of— 
(A) the number of properties assisted 
under title V of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 
U.S.C. 1471 et seq.) that are reaching the end 
of their loan term; 
(B) the location of each property described 
in subparagraph (A); 
(C) the number of units in each property 
described in subparagraph (A); and 
(D) the date on which each the loan for 
each property described in subparagraph (A) is 
expected to reach maturity; 
(2) the strategy of the Rural Housing Service 
to preserve the long-term affordability of the prop-
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erties described in paragraph (1)(A) when the loan 
matures; and 
(3) a description of the resources and tools that 
the Rural Housing Service needs from Congress in 
order to preserve the long-term affordability of the 
properties described in paragraph (1) (A). 
SEC. 777. Out of amounts appropriated to the Food 
and Drug Administration under title VI, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, acting through the Commis-
sioner of Food and Drugs, shall, not later than July 1, 
2019, and following the review required under Executive 
Order 12866 (5 U.S.C. 601 note; relating to regulatory 
planning and review), issue advice revising the advice pro-
vided in the notice of availability entitled ‘‘Advice About 
Eating Fish, From the Environmental Protection Agency 
and Food and Drug Administration; Revised Fish Advice; 
Availability’’ (82 Fed. Reg. 6571 (January 19, 2017)), in 
a manner that is consistent with nutrition science recog-
nized by the Food and Drug Administration on the net 
effects of seafood consumption. 
SEC. 778. In addition to any funds made available 
in this Act or any other Act, there is hereby appropriated 
$5,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2020, 
for grants from the National Institute of Food and Agri-
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culture to the 1890 Institutions to support the Centers 
of Excellence. 
SEC. 779. Section 6(e)(1)(B) of the Richard B. Rus-
sell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1755(e)(1)(B)) 
is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2020’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘September 30, 2018’’. 
SEC. 780. During fiscal year 2019, the Food and 
Drug Administration shall not allow the introduction or 
delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any 
food that contains genetically engineered salmon until the 
FDA publishes final labeling guidelines for informing con-
sumers of such content. 
SEC. 781. In addition to funds appropriated in this 
Act, there is hereby appropriated $216,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, under the heading ‘‘Food for 
Peace Title II Grants’’: Provided, That the funds made 
available under this section shall be used for the purposes 
set forth in the Food for Peace Act for both emergency 
and non-emergency purposes. 
SEC. 782. Title III of the Department of Agriculture 
Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301 et. seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following— ‘‘SEC. 310. 
CONVERSION AUTHORITY. Notwithstanding Title 5, 
United States Code, a student, who is a U.S. Citizen and 
who participates in a scholarship program carried out by 
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the Department may be noncompetitively converted to an 
appointment in the competitive service by an agency or 
office within the Department, provided the student meets 
the requirements for such conversion, as determined by 
the Secretary’’. 
SEC. 783. There is appropriated to the ‘‘Farm Serv-
ice Agency’’ $9,000,000 for purposes of making payments 
to producers impacted by an oriental fruit fly quarantine 
as referenced in H.Rpt.115-232 to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the unobligated balances 
available under Treasury symbol code 128/90600, 
$5,000,000 are rescinded. 
SEC. 784. In administering the pilot program estab-
lished by section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Ap-
propriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141), the Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall— 
(1) ensure that applicants that are determined 
to be ineligible for the pilot program have a means 
of appealing or otherwise challenging that deter-
mination in a timely fashion; and 
(2) in determining whether an entity may over-
build or duplicate broadband expansion efforts made 
by any entity that has received a broadband loan 
from the Rural Utilities Service, not consider loans 
that were rescinded or defaulted on, or loans the 
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