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the City of Casa Grande, Arizona; the City of Creedmoor, 
North Carolina; the City of Eureka, California; the City 
of Clarksdale, Mississippi; the City of Vicksburg, Mis-
sissippi; the City of Wewahitchka, Florida; the Town of 
Horseshoe Beach, Florida; and the City of Carbondale, Il-
linois, as meeting the eligibility requirements for loan and 
grant programs in the Rural Development mission area. 
SEC. 726. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Natural Resources Conservation Service shall pro-
vide financial and technical assistance to the DuPage 
County, Illinois, Kress Creek Water Quality Enhancement 
Project, from funds available for the Watershed and Flood 
Prevention Operations program, not to exceed $1,360,000 
and Rockhouse Creek Watershed, Leslie County, Ken-
tucky, not to exceed $1,000,000. 
SEC. 727. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this or any other appropriation Act. 
SEC. 728. 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 20 percent of the amount provided to carry out a 
competitive grants program under the same terms and
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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. 729. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to pay 
the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out section 
14(h)(1) of the Watershed Protection and Flood Preven-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 1012(h)(1)). 
SEC. 730. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to pay 
the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out subtitle 
I of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
(7 U.S.C. 2009dd through dd–7). 
SEC. 731. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to pay 
the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out section 
6405 of Public Law 107–171 (7 U.S.C. 2655). 
SEC. 732. The Agricultural Marketing Service and 
the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administra-
tion, that have statutory authority to purchase interest 
bearing investments outside of the Treasury, are not re-
quired to establish obligations and outlays for those invest-
ments, provided those investments are insured by the Fed-
eral Deposit Insurance Corporation or are collateralized 
at the Federal Reserve with securities approved by the
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Federal Reserve, operating under the guidelines of the 
United States Department of the Treasury. 
SEC. 733. Of the funds made available under section 
27(a) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et 
seq.), the Secretary may use up to $10,000,000 for costs 
associated with the distribution of commodities. 
SEC. 734. 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 enroll in 
excess of 175,000 acres in the calendar year 2005 wet-
lands reserve program as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837. 
SEC. 735. 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 $1,010,000,000. 
SEC. 736. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized 
to permit employees of the United States Department of 
Agriculture to carry and use firearms for personal protec-
tion while conducting field work in remote locations in the 
performance of their official duties. 
SEC. 737. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used