expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from 
any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of 
fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
available for— 
(1) modifying major capital investments fund-
ing levels, including information technology systems, 
that involves increasing or decreasing funds in the 
current fiscal year for the individual investment in 
excess of $500,000 or 10 percent of the total cost, 
whichever is less; 
(2) realigning or reorganizing new, current, or 
vacant positions or agency activities or functions to 
establish a center, office, branch, or similar entity 
with five or more personnel; or 
(3) carrying out activities or functions that 
were not described in the budget request; unless the 
agencies funded by this Act notify, in writing, the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress at least 30 days in advance of using the 
funds for these purposes. 
(e) As described in this section, no funds may be used 
for any activities unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the 
Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commis-
sion, or the Secretary of Health and Human Services re-
ceives from the Committee on Appropriations of both 
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Houses of Congress written or electronic mail confirma-
tion of receipt of the notification as required in this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 718. Notwithstanding section 310B(g)(5) of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
1932(g)(5)), the Secretary may assess a one-time fee for 
any guaranteed business and industry loan in an amount 
that does not exceed 3 percent of the guaranteed principal 
portion of the loan. 
SEC. 719. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of Agriculture, the 
Food and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission, or the Farm Credit Administration 
shall be used to transmit or otherwise make available re-
ports, questions, or responses to questions that are a re-
sult of information requested for the appropriations hear-
ing process to any non-Department of Agriculture, non- 
Department of Health and Human Services, non-Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission, or non-Farm Credit 
Administration employee. 
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-
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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. No employee of the Department of Agri-
culture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or 
office funded by this Act or any other Act to any other 
agency or office of the Department for more than 60 days 
in a fiscal year unless the individual’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. (a) Unless the Secretary of Agriculture no-
tifies the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress at least 3 full business days in advance, none 
of the funds made available in this Act may be used to— 
(1) make a grant allocation of discretionary 
grant award totaling $1,000,000 or more; 
(2) make a discretionary contract award total-
ing $1,000,000 or more; 
(3) issue a letter of intent to make an allocation 
or award in excess of the limits in subparagraph (1) 
or (2); or 
(4) announce publicly the intention to make an 
allocation or award in excess of the limits in sub-
paragraph (1) or (2). 
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(b) The Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 
within 15 days of the conclusion of each quarter a report 
detailing each grant allocation or discretionary grant 
award totaling less than $1,000,000 provided during the 
previous quarter. 
(c) The notification required by paragraph (a) and 
the report required by paragraph (b) shall include the re-
cipient of the award, the amount of the award, the fiscal 
year for which the funds for the award were appropriated, 
the account and program, project, or activity from which 
the funds are being drawn, the title of the award, and 
a brief description of the activity for which the award is 
made. 
SEC. 723. Not later than 30 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the 
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, the 
Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commis-
sion, and the Chairman of the Farm Credit Administra-
tion shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress a detailed spending plan by pro-
gram, project, and activity for all the funds made available 
under this Act including appropriated user fees, as defined 
in the report accompanying this Act. 
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SEC. 724. Funds made available under title II of the 
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be 
used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate 
monitoring and controls, as determined by the Adminis-
trator, are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is 
received by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by 
food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inap-
propriate purposes. 
SEC. 725. The Secretary shall establish an inter-
mediary loan packaging program based on the pilot pro-
gram in effect for fiscal year 2013 for packaging and re-
viewing section 502 single family direct loans. The Sec-
retary shall enter into agreements with current inter-
mediary organizations and with additional qualified inter-
mediary organizations. The Secretary shall work with 
these organizations to increase effectiveness of the section 
502 single family direct loan program in rural commu-
nities and shall set aside and make available from the na-
tional reserve section 502 loans an amount necessary to 
support the work of such intermediaries and provide a pri-
ority for review of such loans. 
SEC. 726. For loans and loan guarantees that do not 
require budget authority and the program level has been 
established in this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may 
increase the program level for such loans and loan guaran-
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