COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION EXPORT LOANS 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For administrative expenses to carry out the Com-
modity Credit Corporation’s export guarantee program, 
GSM 102 and GSM 103, $5,338,000; to cover common 
overhead expenses as permitted by section 11 of the Com-
modity Credit Corporation Charter Act and in conformity 
with the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, of which 
$4,985,000 may be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriation for ‘‘Foreign Agricultural Service, Salaries 
and Expenses’’, and of which $353,000 may be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Farm 
Service Agency, Salaries and Expenses’’. 
MC GOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION 
AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM GRANTS 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of section 3107 of the Farm Security and Rural Invest-
ment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1), $100,000,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That the Com-
modity Credit Corporation is authorized to provide the 
services, facilities, and authorities for the purpose of im-
plementing such section, subject to reimbursement from 
amounts provided herein.
TITLE VI 
RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG 
ADMINISTRATION 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration, including hire and purchase of passenger 
motor vehicles; for payment of space rental and related 
costs pursuant to Public Law 92–313 for programs and 
activities of the Food and Drug Administration which are 
included in this Act; for rental of special purpose space 
in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; for miscellaneous 
and emergency expenses of enforcement activities, author-
ized and approved by the Secretary and to be accounted 
for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not to exceed 
$25,000; and notwithstanding section 521 of Public Law 
107–188; $1,683,405,000: Provided, That of the amount 
provided under this heading, $13,696,000 shall be derived 
from animal drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j, 
and shall be credited to this account and remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That fees derived from 
animal drug assessments received during fiscal year 2008, 
including any such fees assessed prior to the current fiscal
year but credited during the current year, shall be subject 
to the fiscal year 2008 limitation: Provided further, That 
none of these funds shall be used to develop, establish, 
or operate any program of user fees authorized by 31 
U.S.C. 9701: Provided further, That of the total amount 
appropriated: (1) $475,726,000 shall be for the Center for 
Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and related field activi-
ties in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (2) $348,438,000 
shall be for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research 
and related field activities in the Office of Regulatory Af-
fairs; (3) $155,073,000 shall be for the Center for Bio-
logics Evaluation and Research and for related field activi-
ties in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (4) $94,809,000 
shall be for the Center for Veterinary Medicine and for 
related field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; 
(5) $240,122,000 shall be for the Center for Devices and 
Radiological Health and for related field activities in the 
Office of Regulatory Affairs; (6) $36,455,000 shall be for 
the National Center for Toxicological Research; (7) 
$97,976,000 shall be for Rent and Related activities, of 
which $38,808,000 is for White Oak Consolidation, other 
than the amounts paid to the General Services Adminis-
tration for rent; (8) $131,533,000 shall be for payments 
to the General Services Administration for rent; and (9) 
$89,577,000 shall be for other activities, including the Of-
fice of the Commissioner; the Office of Management; the 
Office of External Relations; the Office of Policy and 
Planning; and central services for these offices: Provided 
further, That funds may be transferred from one specified 
activity to another with the prior approval of the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 
42 U.S.C. 263b may be credited to this account, to remain 
available until expended. 
In addition, export certification user fees authorized 
by 21 U.S.C. 381 may be credited to this account, to re-
main available until expended. 
In addition, $28,000,000 shall be for the Center for 
Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, to remain available 
from July 1, 2008, through September 30, 2009. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For plans, construction, repair, improvement, exten-
sion, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facili-
ties of or used by the Food and Drug Administration, 
where not otherwise provided, $4,950,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), in-
cluding the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles,
and the rental of space (to include multiple year leases) 
in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $102,550,000, 
including not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses. 
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $46,000,000 (from assessments col-
lected from farm credit institutions and from the Federal 
Agricultural Mortgage Corporation) shall be obligated 
during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses 
as authorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, That this 
limitation shall not apply to expenses associated with re-
ceiverships. 
TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS AND TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, 
appropriations and authorizations made for the Depart-
ment of Agriculture for the current fiscal year under this 
Act shall be available for the purchase, in addition to those 
specifically provided for, of not to exceed 182 passenger 
motor vehicles, of which 142 shall be for replacement only, 
and for the hire of such vehicles. 
SEC. 702. New obligational authority provided for the 
following appropriation items in this Act shall remain
available until expended: Animal and Plant Health Inspec-
tion Service, the contingency fund to meet emergency con-
ditions, information technology infrastructure, fruit fly 
program, emerging plant pests, cotton pests program, 
avian influenza programs, up to $4,505,000 in the pest 
and disease management program to control grasshoppers 
and Mormon cricket, up to $1,500,000 in the scrapie pro-
gram for indemnities, up to $3,000,000 in the emergency 
management systems program for the vaccine bank, up 
to $1,000,000 for wildlife services methods development, 
up to $1,000,000 of the wildlife services operations pro-
gram for aviation safety, and up to 25 percent of the 
screwworm program; Food Safety and Inspection Service, 
Public Health Data Communication Infrastructure Sys-
tem; Cooperative State Research, Education, and Exten-
sion Service, funds for competitive research grants (7 
U.S.C. 450i(b)), funds for the Research, Education, and 
Economics Information System, and funds for the Native 
American Institutions Endowment Fund; Farm Service 
Agency, salaries and expenses funds made available to 
county committees; Foreign Agricultural Service, middle- 
income country training program, and up to $2,000,000 
of the Foreign Agricultural Service appropriation solely 
for the purpose of offsetting fluctuations in international
currency exchange rates, subject to documentation by the 
Foreign Agricultural Service. 
SEC. 703. The Secretary of Agriculture may transfer 
unobligated balances of discretionary funds appropriated 
by this Act or other available unobligated discretionary 
balances of the Department of Agriculture to the Working 
Capital Fund for the acquisition of plant and capital 
equipment necessary for the delivery of financial, financial 
management modernization initiative, administrative, and 
information technology services of primary benefit to the 
agencies of the Department of Agriculture: Provided, That 
none of the funds made available by this Act or any other 
Act shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund 
without the prior approval of the agency administrator: 
Provided further, That none of the funds transferred to 
the Working Capital Fund pursuant to this section shall 
be available for obligation without the prior approval of 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress. 
SEC. 704. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 705. No funds appropriated by this Act may be 
used to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative 
agreements or similar arrangements between the United
States Department of Agriculture and nonprofit institu-
tions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost of 
the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative ar-
rangements is to carry out programs of mutual interest 
between the two parties. This does not preclude appro-
priate payment of indirect costs on grants and contracts 
with such institutions when such indirect costs are com-
puted on a similar basis for all agencies for which appro-
priations are provided in this Act. 
SEC. 706. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to pay indirect costs charged against competitive agri-
cultural research, education, or extension grant awards 
issued by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
Extension Service that exceed 20 percent of total Federal 
funds provided under each award: Provided, That notwith-
standing section 1462 of the National Agricultural Re-
search, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3310), funds provided by this Act for grants 
awarded competitively by the Cooperative State Research, 
Education, and Extension Service shall be available to pay 
full allowable indirect costs for each grant awarded under 
section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638). 
SEC. 707. 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 Electrifica-
tion and Telecommunication Loans program account, and 
the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account. 
SEC. 708. 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. 709. 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. 710. 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. 711. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of Agriculture or
the Food and Drug Administration shall be used to trans-
mit or otherwise make available to any non-Department 
of Agriculture or non-Department of Health and Human 
Services employee questions or responses to questions that 
are a result of information requested for the appropria-
tions hearing process. 
SEC. 712. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Agriculture by this Act may be used to ac-
quire new information technology systems or significant 
upgrades, as determined by the Office of the Chief Infor-
mation Officer, without the approval of the Chief Informa-
tion Officer and the concurrence of the Executive Informa-
tion Technology Investment Review Board: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
Act may be transferred to the Office of the Chief Informa-
tion Officer without the prior approval of the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: Provided 
further, That none of the funds available to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture for information technology shall be 
obligated for projects over $25,000 prior to receipt of writ-
ten approval by the Chief Information Officer. 
SEC. 713. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 
or provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies 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 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) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; 
or 
(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in advance 
of such reprogramming of funds. 
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or pro-
vided 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 be available for obligation or expenditure
for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogram-
ming of funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, which- 
ever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, 
projects, or activities; (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 pro-
grams, activities, or projects as approved by Congress; un-
less the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such re-
programming of funds. 
(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. 714. None of the funds appropriated by this or 
any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and ex-
penses of personnel who prepare or submit appropriations 
language as part of the President’s Budget submission to 
the Congress of the United States for programs under the
jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies that assumes revenues or re-
flects a reduction from the previous year due to user fees 
proposals that have not been enacted into law prior to the 
submission of the Budget unless such Budget submission 
identifies which additional spending reductions should 
occur in the event the user fees proposals are not enacted 
prior to the date of the convening of a committee of con-
ference for the fiscal year 2009 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 715. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to close or relocate a Rural 
Development office unless or until the Secretary of Agri-
culture determines the cost effectiveness and enhancement 
of program delivery: Provided, That not later than 120 
days before the date of the proposed closure or relocation, 
the Secretary notifies the Committees on Appropriation of 
the House and Senate, and the members of Congress from 
the State in which the office is located of the proposed 
closure or relocation and provides a report that describes 
in detail the justifications for such closures and reloca-
tions. 
SEC. 716. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, of the funds made available in this Act for competitive 
research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), the Secretary may use
up to 22 percent of the amount provided to carry out a 
competitive grants program under the same terms and 
conditions as those provided in section 401 of the Agricul-
tural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 
1998 (7 U.S.C. 7621). 
SEC. 717. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel who carry 
out an environmental quality incentives program author-
ized by chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food 
Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) in excess 
of $1,017,000,000. 
SEC. 718. None of the funds made available in fiscal 
year 2008 or preceding fiscal years for programs author-
ized under the Agricultural Trade Development and As-
sistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) in excess 
of $20,000,000 shall be used to reimburse the Commodity 
Credit Corporation for the release of eligible commodities 
under section 302(f)(2)(A) of the Bill Emerson Humani-
tarian Trust Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f–1): Provided, That any 
such funds made available to reimburse the Commodity 
Credit Corporation shall only be used pursuant to section 
302(b)(2)(B)(i) of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust 
Act.
SEC. 719. No funds shall be used to pay salaries and 
expenses of the Department of Agriculture to carry out 
or administer the program authorized by section 14(h)(1) 
of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 
U.S.C. 1012(h)(1)). 
SEC. 720. Of the funds derived from interest on the 
cushion of credit payments, as authorized by section 313 
of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, $34,000,000 
shall not be obligated and $34,000,000 are rescinded. 
SEC. 721. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to issue a final rule in furtherance of, 
or otherwise implement, the proposed rule on cost-sharing 
for animal and plant health emergency programs of the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service published on 
July 8, 2003 (Docket No. 02–062–1; 68 Fed. Reg. 
40541). 
SEC. 722. Funds made available under section 1240I 
and section 1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 in 
the current fiscal year shall remain available until ex-
pended to disburse obligations made in the current fiscal 
year, and are not available for new obligations. Funds 
made available under section 524(b) of the Federal Crop 
Insurance Act, 7 U.S.C. 1524(b), in fiscal years 2004, 
2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 shall remain available until 
expended to disburse obligations made in fiscal years
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 respectively, and ex-
cept for fiscal year 2008 funds, are not available for new 
obligations. 
SEC. 723. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be used for salaries and expenses to draft or implement 
any regulation or rule insofar as it would require recertifi-
cation of rural status for each electric and telecommuni-
cations borrower for the Rural Electrification and Tele-
communication Loans program. 
SEC. 724. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 
law, none of the funds provided in this Act, may be used 
by an executive branch agency to produce any pre-
packaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution 
in the United States unless the story includes a clear noti-
fication within the text or audio of the prepackaged news 
story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or 
funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 725. In addition to other amounts appropriated 
or otherwise made available by this Act, there is hereby 
appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture $10,000,000, 
of which not to exceed 5 percent may be available for ad-
ministrative expenses, to remain available until expended, 
to make specialty crop block grants under section 101 of 
the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (Public 
Law 108–465; 7 U.S.C. 1621 note).
SEC. 726. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act for the Food and Drug 
Administration may be used under section 801 of the Fed-
eral Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prevent an indi-
vidual not in the business of importing a prescription drug 
within the meaning of section 801(g) of such Act, whole-
salers, or pharmacists from importing a prescription drug 
(as defined in section 804(a)(3) of such Act) which com-
plies with sections 501, 502, and 505 of such Act. 
SEC. 727. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to study, complete a study of, or enter 
into a contract with a private party to carry out, without 
specific authorization in a subsequent Act of Congress, a 
competitive sourcing activity of the Secretary of Agri-
culture, including support personnel of the Department of 
Agriculture, relating to rural development or farm loan 
programs. 
SEC. 728. Of the amount available for Estimated Fu-
ture Needs under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 
1935, $63,361,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That 
in addition, of the unobligated balances under section 32 
of the Act of August 24, 1935, $147,000,000 are hereby 
rescinded. 
SEC. 729. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to—
(1) grant a waiver of a financial conflict of in-
terest requirement pursuant to section 505(n)(4) of 
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 
U.S.C. 355(n)(4)) for any voting member of an advi-
sory committee or panel of the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration; or 
(2) make a certification under section 208(b)(3) 
of title 18, United States Code, for any such voting 
member. 
SEC. 730. Of the appropriations available for pay-
ments for the nutrition and family education program for 
low-income areas under section 3(d) of the Smith-Lever 
Act (7 U.S.C. 343(d)), if the payment allocation pursuant 
to section 1425(c) of the National Agricultural Research, 
Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
3175(c)) would be less than $100,000 for any institution 
eligible under section 3(d)(2) of the Smith-Lever Act, the 
Secretary shall adjust payment allocations under section 
1425(c) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, 
and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to ensure that each insti-
tution receives a payment of not less than $100,000. 
SEC. 731. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to establish or implement a rule allowing 
poultry products to be imported into the United States 
from the People’s Republic of China.
SEC. 732. Of the unobligated balances available in 
the High Energy Cost Grants account, $25,740,000 is 
hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 733. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Agriculture in this Act may be used to im-
plement the risk-based inspection program in the 30 pro-
totype locations announced on February 22, 2007, by the 
Under Secretary for Food Safety, or at any other loca-
tions, until the USDA Office of Inspector General has pro-
vided its findings to the Food Safety and Inspection Serv-
ice and the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate on the data used in sup-
port of the development and design of the risk-based in-
spection program and FSIS has addressed and resolved 
issues identified by OIG. 
SEC. 734. Not more than $11,166,000 of the funds 
made available under section 522(e) of the Federal Crop 
Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1522(e)) may be used for pro-
gram compliance and integrity purposes, including the 
data mining project, and for the Common Information 
Management System. 
SEC. 735. The Secretary of Agriculture shall continue 
the Water and Waste Systems Direct Loan Program 
under the authority and conditions (including the fees, 
borrower interest rate, and the President’s economic as-