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TITLE VI
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION AND
RELATED AGENCIES
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; and for miscella-
neous and emergency expenses of enforcement activities,
authorized and approved by the Secretary and to be ac-
counted for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not to ex-
ceed $25,000; $1,218,384,000, of which not to exceed
$145,434,000 in prescription drug user fees authorized by
21 U.S.C. 379(h) may be credited to this appropriation
and remain available until expended: Provided, That no
more than $100,180,000 shall be for payments to the Gen-
eral Services Administration for rent and related costs.
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In addition, mammography user fees authorized by
42 U.S.C. 263(b) may be credited to this account, to re-
main 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.
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, $31,750,000, to remain
available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b).
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;
the rental of space (to include multiple year leases) in the
District of Columbia and elsewhere; and not to exceed
$25,000 
for 
employment 
under 
U.S.C. 
3109,
$65,000,000, including not to exceed $2,000 for official
reception and representation expenses: Provided, That the
Commission is authorized to charge reasonable fees to
attendees of Commission sponsored educational events and
symposia to cover the Commission’s costs of providing
those events and symposia, and notwithstanding 31 U.S.C.
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3302, said fees shall be credited to this account, to be
available without further appropriation.
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
Not to exceed $35,800,000 (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
SEC. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law,
appropriations and authorizations made for the Depart-
ment of Agriculture for the fiscal year 2000 under this
Act shall be available for the purchase, in addition to those
specifically provided for, of not to exceed 365 passenger
motor vehicles, of which 361 shall be for replacement only,
and for the hire of such vehicles.
SEC. 702. Funds in this Act available to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture shall be available for uniforms or al-
lowances therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–
5902).
SEC. 703. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropria-
tions of the Department of Agriculture in this Act for re-
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search and service work authorized by the Acts of August
14, 1946, and July 28, 1954 (7 U.S.C. 427 and 1621–
1629), and by chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code,
shall be available for contracting in accordance with said
Acts and chapter.
SEC. 704. The cumulative total of transfers to the
Working Capital Fund for the purpose of accumulating
growth capital for data services and National Finance
Center operations shall not exceed $2,000,000: Provided,
That no funds in this Act appropriated to an agency of
the Department shall be transferred to the Working Cap-
ital Fund without the approval of the agency adminis-
trator.
SEC. 705. New obligational authority provided for the
following appropriation items in this Act shall remain
available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service, the contingency fund to
meet emergency conditions, fruit fly program, integrated
systems acquisition project, boll weevil program, up to 10
percent of the screwworm program, and up to $2,000,000
for costs associated with collocating regional offices; Farm
Service Agency, salaries and expenses funds made avail-
able to county committees; and Foreign Agricultural Serv-
ice, middle-income country training program.
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New obligational authority for the Food Safety and
Inspection Service, field automation and information man-
agement project; funds appropriated for rental payments;
funds for the Native American Institutions Endowment
Fund in the Cooperative State Research, Education, and
Extension Service; and funds for the competitive research
grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), shall remain available until ex-
pended.
SEC. 706. 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. 707. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropria-
tions available to the Department of Agriculture in this
Act shall be available to provide appropriate orientation
and language training pursuant to Public Law 94–449.
SEC. 708. 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-
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puted on a similar basis for all agencies for which appro-
priations are provided in this Act.
SEC. 709. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, commodities acquired by the Department in con-
nection with Commodity Credit Corporation and section
32 price support operations may be used, as authorized
by law (15 U.S.C. 714c and 7 U.S.C. 612c), to provide
commodities to individuals in cases of hardship as deter-
mined by the Secretary of Agriculture.
SEC. 710. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit
Corporation to lease space for its own use or to lease space
on behalf of other agencies of the Department of Agri-
culture when such space will be jointly occupied.
SEC. 711. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to pay indirect costs charged against agricultural re-
search, education, or extension grant awards issued by the
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension
Service that exceed 19 percent of total Federal funds pro-
vided under each award: Provided, That notwithstanding
section 1462 of the National Agricultural Research, Ex-
tension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3310),
funds provided by this Act for grants awarded competi-
tively by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and
Extension Service shall be available to pay full allowable
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Commodity Credit Corporation funds obligated for such
purposes shall not exceed the level obligated by the Com-
modity Credit Corporation for such purposes in fiscal year
1998.
SEC. 718. 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
forth for financial accounts in section 505(c) of the Fed-
eral Credit Reform Act of 1990.
SEC. 719. 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: Provided, That interagency funding
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is authorized to carry out the purposes of the National
Drought Policy Commission.
SEC. 720. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to carry out the provisions of section 918
of Public Law 104–127, the Federal Agriculture Improve-
ment and Reform Act.
SEC. 721. 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. 722. 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
responses to questions that are a result of information re-
quested for the appropriations hearing process.
SEC. 723. 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-
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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 Committee
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
SEC. 724. (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 fiscal year 2000, 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) reorga-
nizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out
or privatizes any functions or activities presently per-
formed by Federal employees; unless the Committee on
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are notified
fifteen 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
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funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or
expenditure in fiscal year 2000, 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
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 Committee on Appropriations of both Houses of
Congress are notified fifteen days in advance of such re-
programming of funds.
SEC. 725. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act or any other Act may be
used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry
out the Fund for Rural America Program, authorized by
section 793 of Public Law 104–127, with the exception
of funds made available under that section on January 1,
1997.
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SEC. 726. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out an envi-
ronmental quality incentives program authorized by sec-
tions 334–341 of Public Law 104–127 in excess of
$174,000,000.
SEC. 727. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise available to the Department of Agriculture may be
used to administer the provision of contract payments to
a producer under the Agricultural Market Transition Act
(7 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.) for contract acreage on which wild
rice is planted unless the contract payment is reduced by
an acre for each contract acre planted to wild rice.
SEC. 728. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel to enroll in excess of
120,000 acres in the fiscal year 2000 wetlands reserve
program as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837.
SEC. 729. 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 to carry out
the provisions of section 401 of Public Law 105–185, the
Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems.
SEC. 730. Notwithstanding section 381A of the Con-
solidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C.
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2009), the definitions of rural areas for certain business
programs administered by the Rural Business-Cooperative
Service and the community facilities programs adminis-
tered by the Rural Housing Service shall be those provided
for in statute and regulations prior to the enactment of
Public Law 104–127.
SEC. 731. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to carry out
any commodity purchase program that would prohibit eli-
gibility or participation by farmer-owned cooperatives.
SEC. 732. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out a conserva-
tion farm option program, as authorized by section 335
of Public Law 104–127.
SEC. 733. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and
expenses of personnel who prepare or submit appropria-
tions language as part of the President’s Budget submis-
sion to the Congress of the United States for programs
under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommit-
tees on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related
Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction
from the previous year due to user fees proposals that
have not been enacted into law prior to the submission
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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 conference for
the fiscal year 2001 appropriations Act.
SEC. 734. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to establish
an Office of Community Food Security or any similar of-
fice within the United States Department of Agriculture
without the prior approval of the Committee on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress.
SEC. 735. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used
to carry out the provisions of section 612 of Public Law
105–185, the National Swine Research Center.
SEC. 736. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act shall be used to pay the
salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out the emer-
gency food assistance program authorized by section 27(a)
of the Food Stamp Act (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)) if such pro-
gram exceeds $99,000,000.
(b) In addition to amounts otherwise appropriated or
made available by this Act, $1,000,000 is appropriated for
the purpose of providing Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland
Hunger Fellowships through the Congressional Hunger
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Center, which is an organization described in subsection
(c)(3) of section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
and is exempt from taxation under subsection (a) of such
section.
SEC. 737. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
shall be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, de-
crees, or orders for the purpose of implementation, or in
preparation for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol
which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto,
Japan.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000’’.
Union Calendar No. 87
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1906
[Report No. 106–157]
A BILL
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and
Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2000, and for other pur-
poses.
MAY 21, 1999
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on
the State of the Union and ordered to be printed