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SEC. 710. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, all loan levels provided in this Act shall be consid-
ered estimates, not limitations. 
SEC. 711. Appropriations to the Department of Agri-
culture for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made 
available in the current fiscal year shall remain available 
until expended to cover obligations made in the current 
fiscal year for the following accounts: the Rural Develop-
ment Loan Fund program account, the Rural Telephone 
Bank program account, the Rural Electrification and 
Telecommunication Loans program account, and the 
Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account. 
SEC. 712. 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 or to maintain any account or sub-
account within the accounting records of the Rural Tele-
phone Bank the creation of which has not specifically been 
authorized by statute: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or 
otherwise made available in this Act may be used to trans-
fer to the Treasury or to the Federal Financing Bank any 
unobligated balance of the Rural Telephone Bank tele-
phone liquidating account which is in excess of current 
requirements and such balance shall receive interest as set
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forth for financial accounts in section 505(c) of the Fed-
eral Credit Reform Act of 1990. 
SEC. 713. Of the funds made available by this Act, 
not more than $1,800,000 shall be used to cover necessary 
expenses of activities related to all advisory committees, 
panels, commissions, and task forces of the Department 
of Agriculture, except for panels used to comply with nego-
tiated rule makings and panels used to evaluate competi-
tively awarded grants. 
SEC. 714. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used to carry out section 410 of the Federal Meat 
Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 679a) or section 30 of the Poul-
try Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 471). 
SEC. 715. No employee of the Department of Agri-
culture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or 
office funded by this Act to any other agency or office 
of the Department for more than 30 days unless the indi-
vidual’s employing agency or office is fully reimbursed by 
the receiving agency or office for the salary and expenses 
of the employee for the period of assignment. 
SEC. 716. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of Agriculture 
shall be used to transmit or otherwise make available to 
any non-Department of Agriculture employee questions or
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responses to questions that are a result of information re-
quested for the appropriations hearing process. 
SEC. 717. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, none of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 
by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded 
by this Act that remain available for obligation or expendi-
ture in the current fiscal year, or provided from any ac-
counts in the Treasury of the United States derived by 
the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by 
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new 
programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any 
project or activity for which funds have been denied or 
restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorga-
nizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out 
or privatizes any functions or activities presently per-
formed by Federal employees. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by previous 
Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act 
that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the 
current fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the 
Treasury of the United States derived by the collection 
of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall
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be available for obligation or expenditure for activities, 
programs, or projects through a reprogramming of funds 
in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, 
that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or activi-
ties; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any existing 
program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 
10 percent as approved by Congress; or (3) results from 
any general savings from a reduction in personnel which 
would result in a change in existing programs, activities, 
or projects as approved by Congress. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission shall notify the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress be-
fore implementing a program or activity not carried out 
during the previous fiscal year unless the program or ac-
tivity is funded by this Act or specifically funded by any 
other Act. 
SEC. 718. With the exception of funds needed to ad-
minister and conduct oversight of grants awarded and ob-
ligations incurred in prior fiscal years, none of the funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any 
other Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses 
of personnel to carry out the provisions of section 401 of 
Public Law 105–185, the Initiative for Future Agriculture