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‘‘(B) DELEGATION TO COMMITTEE.—The Secretary may dele-
gate the authority to carry out subparagraph (A) to any com-
mittee that is responsible for administering an order covering
cranberries.
‘‘(C) CONFIDENTIALITY.—Paragraph (2) shall apply to
information provided under this paragraph.
‘‘(D) VIOLATIONS.—Any person who violates this paragraph
shall be subject to the penalties provided under section 8c(14).’’.
SEC. 758. Beginning in fiscal year 2001 and thereafter, the
Food Stamp Act (Public Law 95–113, section 16(a)) is amended
by inserting after the phrase ‘‘Indian reservation under section
11(d) of this Act’’ the following new phrase: ‘‘or in a Native village
within the State of Alaska identified in section 11(b) of Public
Law 92–203, as amended.’’.
SEC. 759. EDUCATION GRANTS
TO ALASKA NATIVE SERVING
INSTITUTIONS
AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN SERVING INSTITUTIONS. (a)
EDUCATION
GRANTS
PROGRAM
FOR
ALASKA
NATIVE
SERVING
INSTITUTIONS.—
(1) GRANT AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Agriculture may
make competitive grants (or grants without regard to any
requirement for competition) to Alaska Native serving institu-
tions for the purpose of promoting and strengthening the ability
of Alaska Native serving institutions to carry out education,
applied research, and related community development pro-
grams.
(2) USE OF GRANT FUNDS.—Grants made under this section
shall be used—
(A) to support the activities of consortia of Alaska
Native serving institutions to enhance educational equity
for under represented students;
(B) to strengthen institutional educational capacities,
including 
libraries, 
curriculum, 
faculty, 
scientific
instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student
recruitment and retention, in order to respond to identified
State, regional, national, or international educational needs
in the food and agriculture sciences;
(C) to attract and support undergraduate and graduate
students from under represented groups in order to prepare
them for careers related to the food, agricultural, and nat-
ural resource systems of the United States, beginning with
the mentoring of students at the high school level including
by village elders and continuing with the provision of finan-
cial support for students through their attainment of a
doctoral degree; and
(D) to facilitate cooperative initiatives between two
or more Alaska Native serving institutions, or between
Alaska Native serving institutions and units of State
government or the private sector, to maximize the develop-
ment and use of resources, such as faculty, facilities, and
equipment, to improve food and agricultural sciences
teaching programs.
(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are author-
ized to be appropriated to make grants under this subsection
$10,000,000 in fiscal years 2001 through 2006.
(b) EDUCATION
GRANTS
PROGRAM
FOR
NATIVE
HAWAIIAN
SERVING INSTITUTIONS.—
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(1) GRANT AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Agriculture may
make competitive grants (or grants without regard to any
requirement for competition) to Native Hawaiian serving
institutions for the purpose of promoting and strengthening
the ability of Native Hawaiian serving institutions to carry
out education, applied research, and related community
development programs.
(2) USE OF GRANT FUNDS.—Grants made under this section
shall be used—
(A) to support the activities of consortia of Native
Hawaiian serving institutions to enhance educational
equity for under represented students;
(B) to strengthen institutional educational capacities,
including 
libraries, 
curriculum, 
faculty, 
scientific
instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student
recruitment and retention, in order to respond to identified
State, regional, national, or international educational needs
in the food and agriculture sciences;
(C) to attract and support undergraduate and graduate
students from under represented groups in order to prepare
them for careers related to the food, agricultural, and nat-
ural resource systems of the United States, beginning with
the mentoring of students at the high school level and
continuing with the provision of financial support for stu-
dents through their attainment of a doctoral degree; and
(D) to facilitate cooperative initiatives between two
or more Native Hawaiian serving institutions, or between
Native Hawaiian serving institutions and units of State
government or the private sector, to maximize the develop-
ment and use of resources, such as faculty, facilities, and
equipment, to improve food and agricultural sciences
teaching programs.
(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are author-
ized to be appropriated to make grants under this subsection
$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2006.
SEC. 760. Effective October 1, 1999, section 8c(11) of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c(11)), reenacted with amend-
ments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is
amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘The price of milk
paid by a handler at a plant operating in Clark County, Nevada
shall not be subject to any order issued under this section.’’.
SEC. 761. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
City of Olean, New York, shall be eligible for grants and loans
administered by the Rural Utilities Service.
SEC. 762. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico shall be eligible for grants
and loans administered by the Rural Utilities Service.
SEC. 763. Section 1232(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985
(16 U.S.C. 3832(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (9), by adding ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon
at the end;
(2) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting
a period; and
(3) by striking paragraph (11).
SEC. 764. None of the funds made available by this or any
other Act shall be used to implement Notice CRP–338, issued by
the Farm Service Agency on March 10, 1999, nor shall funds be
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used to implement any related administrative action including
implementation of such procedures published in Farm Service
Agency program manuals: Provided, That rental payments for any
lands enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program under this
section shall be reduced by an amount equal to the Federal cost
of any remaining value of a federally cost-shared conservation prac-
tice as determined by the Secretary.
SEC. 765. None of the funds made available by this or any
other Act shall be used to implement Notice CRP–327, issued by
the Farm Service Agency on October 26, 1998, nor shall funds
be used to implement any related administrative action including
implementation of such procedures published in Farm Service
Agency program manuals: Provided, That this section shall not
apply to any lands for which there is not full compliance with
the conservation practices required under terms of the CRP con-
tract.
SEC. 766. The Federal facility located in Riverside, California,
and known as the ‘‘U.S. Salinity Laboratory’’, shall be known and
designated as the ‘‘George E. Brown, Jr., Salinity Laboratory’’:
Provided, That any reference in any law, map, regulation, document,
paper, or other record of the United States to such Federal facility
shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘George E. Brown, Jr.,
Salinity Laboratory’’.
SEC. 767. Sections 657, 658, 1006, and 1014 of title 18, United
States Code, are amended by—
(1) inserting ‘‘or successor agency’’ after ‘‘Farmers Home
Administration’’ each place it appears; and
(2) inserting ‘‘or successor agency’’ after ‘‘Rural Develop-
ment Administration’’ each place it appears.
SEC. 768. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
maximum income limits established for single family housing for
families and individuals in the high cost areas of Alaska shall
be 150 percent of the State metropolitan income level for Alaska.
SEC. 769. Section 1232(a)(7) of the Food Security Act of 1985
is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘except that the Secretary may permit har-
vesting’’ and inserting ‘‘except that the Secretary—
‘‘(A) may permit—
‘‘(i) harvesting’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘emergency, and the Secretary may permit
limited’’ and inserting ‘‘emergency; and
‘‘(ii) limited’’;
(3) by inserting ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the end; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(B) shall approve not more than six projects, no more
than one of which may be in any State, under which
land subject to the contract may be harvested for recovery
of biomass used in energy production if—
‘‘(i) no acreage subject to the contract is harvested
more than once every other year;
‘‘(ii) not more than 25 percent of the total acreage
enrolled in the program under this subchapter in any
crop reporting district (as designated by the Secretary),
is harvested in any 1 year;
‘‘(iii) no portion of the crop is used for any commer-
cial purpose other than energy production from bio-
mass;
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‘‘(iv) no wetland, or acreage of any type enrolled
in a partial field conservation practice (including
riparian forest buffers, filter strips, and buffer strips),
is harvested;
‘‘(v) the owner or operator agrees to a payment
reduction under this section in an amount determined
by the Secretary.
‘‘(C) the total acres for all of the projects shall not
exceed 250,000 acres.’’.
TITLE 
VIII—EMERGENCY 
AND 
DIS-
ASTER ASSISTANCE FOR PRODUCERS
Subtitle A—Crop and Market Loss
Assistance
SEC. 801. CROP LOSS ASSISTANCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture (referred to
in this title as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall use $1,200,000,000 of funds
of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make emergency financial
assistance available to producers on a farm that have incurred
losses in a 1999 crop due to a disaster, as determined by the
Secretary.
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary shall make assistance
available under this section in the same manner as provided under
section 1102 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (7
U.S.C. 1421 note; Public Law 105–277), including using the same
loss thresholds as were used in administering that section.
(c) QUALIFYING LOSSES.—Assistance under this section may
be made for losses associated with crops that are, as determined
by the Secretary—
(1) quantity losses;
(2) quality losses; or
(3) severe economic losses due to damaging weather or
related condition.
(d) CROPS COVERED.—Assistance under this section shall be
applicable to losses for all crops (including losses of trees from
which a crop is harvested, livestock, and fisheries), as determined
by the Secretary, due to disasters.
(e) CROP INSURANCE.—In carrying out this section, the Sec-
retary shall not discriminate against or penalize producers on a
farm that have purchased crop insurance under the Federal Crop
Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.).
(f ) RICE LOAN DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS.—In the case of producers
of the 1999 crop of rice that harvested such rice on or before
August 4, 1999, the Secretary may use funds made available under
this section to—
(1) make loan deficiency payments to producers that
received, or that were eligible to receive, such payments under
section 135 of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C.
7235) in a manner that results in the same total payment
that would have been made if the payment had been requested
by the producers on August 5, 1999; and