tion and Telecommunication Loans program account, and 
the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account. 
SEC. 707. 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. 708. 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. 709. 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. 710. 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. 711. 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. 712. (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 or the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall notify the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress before im-
plementing a program or activity not carried out during 
the previous fiscal year unless the program or activity is 
funded by this Act or specifically funded by any other Act. 
SEC. 713. 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 2011 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 714. 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/or enhance-
ment of program delivery: Provided, That not later than 
120 days before the date of the proposed closure or reloca-
tion, the Secretary notifies the Committees on Appropria-
tion of the House and Senate, and the members of Con-
gress from the State in which the office is located of the 
proposed closure or relocation and provides a report that 
describes the justifications for such closures and reloca-
tions. 
SEC. 715. None of the funds made available to the 
Food and Drug Administration by this Act shall be used 
to close or relocate, or to plan to close or relocate, the 
Food and Drug Administration Division of Pharma-
ceutical Analysis in St. Louis, Missouri, outside the city 
or county limits of St. Louis, Missouri. 
SEC. 716. 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 
an environmental quality incentives program authorized 
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 
$1,180,000,000. 
SEC. 717. None of the funds made available in fiscal 
year 2009 or preceding fiscal years for programs author-
ized under the Food for Peace Act (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 Emer-
son Humanitarian Trust Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f–1): Pro-
vided, That any such funds made available to reimburse 
the Commodity Credit Corporation shall only be used pur-
suant to section 302(b)(2)(B)(i) of the Bill Emerson Hu-
manitarian Trust Act. 
SEC. 718. 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. 719. Funds made available under section 1240I 
and section 1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 and 
section 524(b) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
U.S.C. 1524(b)) in the current fiscal year shall remain
available until expended to disburse obligations made in 
the current fiscal year. 
SEC. 720. 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. 721. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, any former RUS borrower that has repaid or prepaid 
an insured, direct or guaranteed loan under the Rural 
Electrification Act, or any not-for-profit utility that is eli-
gible to receive an insured or direct loan under such Act, 
shall be eligible for assistance under section 313(b)(2)(B) 
of such Act in the same manner as a borrower under such 
Act. 
SEC. 722. Of the unobligated balances under section 
32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, $52,000,000 are hereby 
rescinded. 
SEC. 723. 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. 724. 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. 725. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, and until receipt of the decennial Census in the year 
2010, the Secretary of Agriculture shall consider— 
(1) the city of Lumberton, North Carolina, and 
the city of Sanford, North Carolina (including indi-
viduals and entities with projects within the city), el-
igible for loans and grants funded through the Rural 
Community Facilities Program account; 
(2) the unincorporated area of Los Osos, Cali-
fornia (including individuals and entities with 
projects within the cities), eligible for loans and 
grants funded through the Rural Water and Waste 
Disposal Program account; and
(3) the city of Nogales, Arizona (including indi-
viduals and entities with projects within the city), el-
igible for loans and grants funded under the housing 
programs of the Rural Housing Service. 
SEC. 726. There is hereby appropriated $2,500,000 
for section 4404 of Public Law 107–171. 
SEC. 727. There is hereby appropriated: 
(1) $1,408,000 shall be for a grant to the Wis-
consin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Con-
sumer Protection, as authorized by section 6402 of 
the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
2002 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note); 
(2) $1,000,000 shall be for development of a 
prototype for a national carbon inventory and ac-
counting system for forestry and agriculture, to be 
awarded under full and open competition; 
(3) $1,000,000 for the International Food Pro-
tection Training Institute; and 
(4) $200,000 for the Center for Foodborne Ill-
ness Research and Prevention. 
SEC. 728. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Natural Resources Conservation Service shall pro-
vide financial and technical assistance through the Water-
shed and Flood Prevention Operations program to carry 
out—
(1) the Alameda Creek Watershed Project in 
Alameda County, California; 
(2) the Hurricane Katrina-Related Watershed 
Restoration project in Jackson County, Mississippi; 
(3) the Pidcock-Mill Creeks Watershed project 
in Bucks County, Pennsylvania; 
(4) the Farmington River Restoration project in 
Litchfield County, Connecticut; 
(5) the Lake Oscawana Management and Res-
toration project in Putnam County, New York; and 
(6) the Richland Creek Reservoir in Paulding 
County, Georgia. 
SEC. 729. Section 17(r)(5) of the Richard B. Russell 
National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766(r)(5)) is 
amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘the District of Columbia and’’ 
after the first instance of ‘‘institutions located in’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘ten’’ and inserting ‘‘eleven’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘eight’’ and inserting ‘‘nine’’; 
and 
(4) by inserting ‘‘Connecticut,’’ after the first 
instance of ‘‘States shall be’’. 
SEC. 730. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, for the purposes of a grant under section 412 of the 
Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform
Act of 1998, none of the funds in this or any other Act 
may be used to prohibit the provision of in-kind support 
from non-Federal sources under section 412(e)(3) in the 
form of unrecovered indirect costs not otherwise charged 
against the grant, consistent with the indirect rate of cost 
approved for a recipient. 
SEC. 731. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
sonnel to— 
(1) inspect horses under section 3 of the Fed-
eral Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
(2) inspect horses under section 903 of the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
1996 (7 U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or 
(3) implement or enforce section 352.19 of title 
9, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 732. The Secretary of Agriculture may author-
ize a State agency to use funds provided in this Act to 
exceed the maximum amount of reconstituted liquid con-
centrate infant formula specified in 7 CFR 246.10 when 
issuing liquid concentrate infant formula to participants. 
SEC. 733. Of the unobligated balances provided pur-
suant to section 16(h)(1)(A) of the Food and Nutrition 
Act of 2008, $11,000,000 is hereby rescinded.
SEC. 734. Of the prior year unobligated balances pro-
vided for the purpose of section 306D of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act, $25,008,000 is hereby 
rescinded. 
SEC. 735. There is appropriated, for the grant pro-
gram for the purpose of obtaining and adding to an anhy-
drous ammonia fertilizer nurse tank a substance to reduce 
the amount of methamphetamine that can be produced 
from any anhydrous ammonia removed from the nurse 
tank as authorized by section 14203 of the Food, Con-
servation, and Energy Act of 2008 (21 U.S.C. 864a), 
hereby derived from the amount provided in this Act for 
‘‘Rural Development Salaries and Expenses’’, $2,000,000. 
SEC. 736. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for first-class 
travel by the employees of agencies funded by this Act in 
contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 
of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 9, 2009. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2997 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2010, and for other pur-
poses.