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(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARD-
ING NOTICE.—
(1) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or
product that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving the assistance should, in ex-
pending the assistance, purchase only American-
made equipment and products.
(2) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—
In providing financial assistance using funds made
available in this Act, the head of each Federal agen-
cy shall provide to each recipient of the assistance
a notice describing the statement made in paragraph
(1) by the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS
FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bear-
ing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription
with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped
to the United States that is not made in the United
States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any con-
tract or subcontract made with funds made available in
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this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineli-
gibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 717. Notwithstanding the Federal Grant and
Cooperative Agreement Act, marketing services of the Ag-
ricultural Marketing Service may use cooperative agree-
ments to reflect a relationship between Agricultural Mar-
keting Service and a State or Cooperator to carry out agri-
cultural marketing programs.
SEC. 718. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR
HONEY PAYMENTS OR LOAN FORFEITURES.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of this Act, none of the funds
appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act shall
be used by the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for a
total amount of payments and/or total amount of loan for-
feitures to a person to support the price of honey under
section 207 of the Agriculture Agricultural Act of 1949
(7 U.S.C. 1446h) and section 405A of such Act (7 U.S.C.
1425a) in excess of zero dollars in the 1994, 1995, and
1996 crop years.
SEC. 719. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to retire more than 5 percent of the Class A stock of the
Rural Telephone Bank.
SEC. 720. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to provide
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benefits to households whose benefits are calculated using
a standard deduction greater than the standard deduction
in effect for fiscal year 1995.
SEC. 721. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official
to which the funds are made available that the program,
project, or activity is not in compliance with any applicable
Federal law relating to risk assessment, the protection of
private property rights, or unfunded mandates.
SEC. 722. None of the funds made available in this
Act shall be used to increase, from the fiscal year 1995
level, the level of Full Time Equivalency Positions (wheth-
er through new hires or by transferring full time eqivalents
from other offices) in any of the following Food and Drug
Administration offices: Office of the Commissioner, Office
of Policy, Office of External Affairs (Immediate Office,
as well as Office of Health Affairs, Office of Legislative
Affairs, Office of Consumer Affairs, and Office of Public
Affairs), and the Office of Management and Systems (Im-
mediate Office, as well as Office of Planning and Evalua-
tion and Office of Management).
SEC. 723. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to provide assistance to, or to pay the
salaries of personnel who carry out a market promotion
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program pursuant to section 203 of the Agricultural
Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5623) that provides assist-
ance to, the U.S. Mink Export Development Council or
any mink industry trade association.
SEC. 724. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act shall be used to enroll in excess
of 100,000 acres in the fiscal year 1996 wetlands reserve
program, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837.
SEC. 725. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries
of personnel who carry out an export enhancement program
(estimated to be $1,000,000,000 in the President’s fiscal
year 1996 Budget (H. Doc. 104–4)) if the aggregate amount
of funds and/or commodities under such program exceeds
$800,000,000.
SEC. 726. None of the funds made available in this
Act shall be used to pay the salaries of personnel to provide
assistance to livestock producers under provisions of title
VI of the Agricultural Act of 1949 if crop insurance protec-
tion or noninsured crop disaster assistance for the loss of
feed produced on the farm is available to the producer under
the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended.
SEC. 727. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act shall be used to enroll additional
acres in the Conservation Reserve Program authorized by
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16 U.S.C. 3831–3845: Provided, That 1,579,000 new acres
shall be enrolled in the program in the year beginning Jan-
uary 1, 1997.
SEC. 728. DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR INSECT DAM-
AGE TO 1995 COTTON CROP.—(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, such sums as may be
necessary, not to exceed $41,000,000, of funds of the Com-
modity Credit Corporation shall be available, through April
15, 1996, to producers of the 1995 crop of cotton that was
adversely affected by insect damage under terms and condi-
tions determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.
(b) ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE.—Any assistance pro-
vided under subsection (a) shall be in addition to any as-
sistance provided under Public Law 103–354 or any other
provision of law.
SEC. 729. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act may be used to develop compli-
ance guidelines, implement or enforce a regulation promul-
gated by the Food Safety and Inspection Service on August
25, 1995 (60 Fed. Reg. 44396): Provided, That this regula-
tion shall take effect only if legislation is enacted into law
which directs the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate
such regulation, or the House Committee on Agriculture
and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and
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Forestry receive and approve a proposed revised regulation
submitted by the Secretary of Agriculture.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 21, 1995.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.
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