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expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding section 6 of such Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1305), agreements entered into with funds provided 
under this section shall not be renewed: Provided further, That, 
in utilizing funds provided under this section, the Secretary of 
Agriculture may waive the percentage limitation in the last sentence 
of section 11 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1310) to ensure efficient adminis-
tration of the program authorized by such Act: Provided further, 
That flooded agricultural lands, as determined by the Secretary, 
shall be eligible to be enrolled in the program. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural Develop-
ment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2012’’. 
DIVISION B—COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND 
RELATED AGENCIES 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for international trade activities of 
the Department of Commerce provided for by law, and for engaging 
in trade promotional activities abroad, including expenses of grants 
and cooperative agreements for the purpose of promoting exports 
of United States firms, without regard to 44 U.S.C. 3702 and 
3703; full medical coverage for dependent members of immediate 
families of employees stationed overseas and employees temporarily 
posted overseas; travel and transportation of employees of the Inter-
national Trade Administration between two points abroad, without 
regard to 49 U.S.C. 40118; employment of Americans and aliens 
by contract for services; rental of space abroad for periods not 
exceeding 10 years, and expenses of alteration, repair, or improve-
ment; purchase or construction of temporary demountable exhibition 
structures for use abroad; payment of tort claims, in the manner 
authorized in the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such 
claims arise in foreign countries; not to exceed $294,300 for official 
representation expenses abroad; purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles for official use abroad, not to exceed $45,000 per vehicle; 
obtaining insurance on official motor vehicles; and rental of tie 
lines, $465,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2013, 
of which $9,439,000 is to be derived from fees to be retained 
and used by the International Trade Administration, notwith-
standing 31 U.S.C. 3302: Provided, That not less than $48,854,000 
shall be for Manufacturing and Services; not less than $42,623,000 
shall be for Market Access and Compliance; not less than 
$67,358,000 shall be for the Import Administration; not less than 
$269,804,000 shall be for trade promotion and the United States 
and Foreign Commercial Service; and not less than $26,922,000 
shall be for Executive Direction and Administration: Provided fur-
ther, That not less than $7,000,000 shall be for the Office of China 
Compliance, and not less than $4,400,000 shall be for the China 
Countervailing Duty Group: Provided further, That the provisions 
of the first sentence of section 105(f) and all of section 108(c) 
of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961
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(22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying out these 
activities without regard to section 5412 of the Omnibus Trade 
and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4912); and that for 
the purpose of this Act, contributions under the provisions of the 
Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 shall 
include payment for assessments for services provided as part of 
these activities. 
BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY 
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for export administration and national 
security activities of the Department of Commerce, including costs 
associated with the performance of export administration field 
activities both domestically and abroad; full medical coverage for 
dependent members of immediate families of employees stationed 
overseas; employment of Americans and aliens by contract for serv-
ices abroad; payment of tort claims, in the manner authorized 
in the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such claims arise 
in foreign countries; not to exceed $13,500 for official representation 
expenses abroad; awards of compensation to informers under the 
Export Administration Act of 1979, and as authorized by 22 U.S.C. 
401(b); and purchase of passenger motor vehicles for official use 
and motor vehicles for law enforcement use with special require-
ment vehicles eligible for purchase without regard to any price 
limitation otherwise established by law, $101,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the provisions of the first 
sentence of section 105(f) and all of section 108(c) of the Mutual 
Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) 
and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying out these activities: Provided 
further, That payments and contributions collected and accepted 
for materials or services provided as part of such activities may 
be retained for use in covering the cost of such activities, and 
for providing information to the public with respect to the export 
administration and national security activities of the Department 
of Commerce and other export control programs of the United 
States and other governments. 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 
For grants for economic development assistance as provided 
by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, for 
trade adjustment assistance, for the cost of loan guarantees author-
ized by section 26 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation 
Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3721), and for grants and loan guarantees 
authorized by section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology 
Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722), $220,000,000, to remain 
available until expended; of which $5,000,000 shall be for projects 
to facilitate the relocation, to the United States, of a source of 
employment located outside the United States; of which up to 
$5,000,000 shall be for loan guarantees under section 26; and of 
which up to $5,000,000 shall be for loan guarantees and grants 
under section 27: Provided, That the costs for loan guarantees, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided
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further, That these funds for loan guarantees under such sections 
26 and 27 combined are available to subsidize total loan principal, 
any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $70,000,000. 
Pursuant to section 703 of the Public Works and Economic 
Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3233), for an additional amount for 
‘‘Economic Development Assistance Programs’’ for necessary 
expenses related to disaster relief, long-term recovery, and restora-
tion of infrastructure in areas that received a major disaster des-
ignation in 2011 pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), 
$200,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
such amount is designated by Congress as being for disaster relief 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of administering the economic develop-
ment assistance programs as provided for by law, $37,500,000: 
Provided, That these funds may be used to monitor projects 
approved pursuant to title I of the Public Works Employment 
Act of 1976, title II of the Trade Act of 1974, and the Community 
Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1977. 
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY 
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Department of Commerce in 
fostering, promoting, and developing minority business enterprise, 
including expenses of grants, contracts, and other agreements with 
public or private organizations, $30,339,000. 
ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of economic 
and statistical analysis programs of the Department of Commerce, 
$96,000,000. 
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for collecting, compiling, analyzing, pre-
paring, and publishing statistics, provided for by law, $253,336,000: 
Provided, That from amounts provided herein, funds may be used 
for promotion, outreach, and marketing activities. 
PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS 
For necessary expenses to collect and publish statistics for 
periodic censuses and programs provided for by law, $690,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2013: Provided, That 
$635,000,000 is appropriated from the general fund and $55,000,000 
is derived from available unobligated balances from the Census 
Working Capital Fund: Provided further, That from amounts pro-
vided herein, funds may be used for promotion, outreach, and
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marketing activities: Provided further, That within the amounts 
appropriated, $1,000,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of 
Inspector General’’ account for activities associated with carrying 
out investigations and audits related to the Bureau of the Census. 
NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION 
ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of the National 
Telecommunications 
and 
Information 
Administration 
(NTIA), 
$45,568,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1535(d), 
the Secretary of Commerce shall charge Federal agencies for costs 
incurred in spectrum management, analysis, operations, and related 
services, and such fees shall be retained and used as offsetting 
collections for costs of such spectrum services, to remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That the Secretary of Commerce 
is authorized to retain and use as offsetting collections all funds 
transferred, or previously transferred, from other Government agen-
cies for all costs incurred in telecommunications research, 
engineering, and related activities by the Institute for Telecommuni-
cation Sciences of NTIA, in furtherance of its assigned functions 
under this paragraph, and such funds received from other Govern-
ment agencies shall remain available until expended. 
PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, PLANNING AND 
CONSTRUCTION 
For the administration of prior-year grants, recoveries and 
unobligated balances of funds previously appropriated are available 
for the administration of all open grants until their expiration. 
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the United States Patent and Trade-
mark Office (USPTO) provided for by law, including defense of 
suits instituted against the Under Secretary of Commerce for 
Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, $2,706,313,000 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the sum herein 
appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced as offsetting 
collections of fees and surcharges assessed and collected by the 
USPTO under any law are received during fiscal year 2012, so 
as to result in a fiscal year 2012 appropriation from the general 
fund estimated at $0: Provided further, That during fiscal year 
2012, should the total amount of such offsetting collections be 
less than $2,706,313,000 this amount shall be reduced accordingly: 
Provided further, That any amount received in excess of 
$2,706,313,000 in fiscal year 2012 and deposited in the Patent 
and Trademark Fee Reserve Fund shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That the Director of USPTO shall 
submit a spending plan to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate for any amounts 
made available by the preceding proviso and such spending plan