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OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General,
including employment pursuant to the Inspector General Act of
1978, $78,289,000, including such sums as may be necessary for
contracting and other arrangements with public agencies and pri-
vate persons pursuant to section 6(a)(9) of the Inspector General
Act of 1978, and including not to exceed $125,000 for certain con-
fidential operational expenses, including the payment of informants,
to be expended under the direction of the Inspector General pursu-
ant to Public Law 95–452 and section 1337 of Public Law 97–
98.
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General Counsel,
$35,861,000.
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND
ECONOMICS
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under
Secretary for Research, Education and Economics to administer
the laws enacted by the Congress for the Economic Research
Service, the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the Agricul-
tural Research Service, and the Cooperative State Research, Edu-
cation, and Extension Service, $592,000.
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in
conducting economic research and analysis, as authorized by the
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627) and other
laws, $74,768,000.
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Statistics
Service in conducting statistical reporting and service work,
including crop and livestock estimates, statistical coordination and
improvements, marketing surveys, and the Census of Agriculture,
as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1621–1627 and 2204g, and other laws,
$129,480,000, of which up to $22,405,000 shall be available until
expended for the Census of Agriculture.
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Research
Service to perform agricultural research and demonstration relating
to production, utilization, marketing, and distribution (not otherwise
provided for); home economics or nutrition and consumer use
including the acquisition, preservation, and dissemination of agri-
cultural information; and for acquisition of lands by donation,
exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, and
for land exchanges where the lands exchanged shall be of equal
value or shall be equalized by a payment of money to the grantor
which shall not exceed 25 percent of the total value of the land
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or interests transferred out of Federal ownership, $1,110,887,000:
Provided, That appropriations hereunder shall be available for the
operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not
to exceed one for replacement only: Provided further, That appro-
priations hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250
for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improve-
ments, but unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any
one building shall not exceed $375,000, except for headhouses or
greenhouses which shall each be limited to $1,200,000, and except
for 10 buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to
exceed $750,000 each, and the cost of altering any one building
during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current
replacement value of the building or $375,000, whichever is greater:
Provided further, That the limitations on alterations contained in
this Act shall not apply to modernization or replacement of existing
facilities at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, That appropria-
tions hereunder shall be available for granting easements at the
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Provided further, That the
foregoing limitations shall not apply to replacement of buildings
needed to carry out the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a):
Provided further, That funds may be received from any State,
other political subdivision, organization, or individual for the pur-
pose of establishing or operating any research facility or research
project of the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized by law:
Provided further, That all rights and title of the United States
in the 1.0664-acre parcel of land including improvements, as
recorded at Book 1320, Page 253, records of Larimer County, State
of Colorado, shall be conveyed to the Board of Governors of the
Colorado State University for the benefit of Colorado State Univer-
sity.
None of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be
available to carry out research related to the production, processing,
or marketing of tobacco or tobacco products.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improvement,
extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities
as necessary to carry out the agricultural research programs of
the Department of Agriculture, where not otherwise provided,
$187,838,000, to remain available until expended.
COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION
SERVICE
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for coopera-
tive forestry and other research, for facilities, and for other
expenses, $660,781,000, as follows: to carry out the provisions of
the Hatch Act of 1887 (7 U.S.C. 361a–i), $180,148,000; for grants
for cooperative forestry research (16 U.S.C. 582a through a–7),
$22,384,000; for payments to the 1890 land-grant colleges, including
Tuskegee University and West Virginia State University (7 U.S.C.
3222), $37,000,000, of which $1,507,496 shall be made available
only for the purpose of ensuring that each institution shall receive
no less than $1,000,000; for special grants for agricultural research
(7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $121,284,000; for special grants for agricultural